Am bad-to-average FPS gamer, looking to improve. Saw an OSU! gamer flinging its "shots" left and right and tried my best to mimick the experience in an FPS. And it worked significantly -- all of my shots felt more "secure", even with my aiming being rusty beyond belief.

And the "trick" to do this is simply leaving your "aiming hand" to aim (ONLY) while leaving your "non-aiming hand" to shoot and everything else. That's it.

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[–] coltorl@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

GustavoM your name sounds familiar, did you play Planetside? I was (technically still am) in one of the leetfits and we would have some of the aim gods try to share their knowledge and it boiled down to something similar. Don’t tense your hand (click to fire naturally tenses your hand so you have to learn to reduce that), prioritize a relaxed posture, and learn your mouse grip (try them all out!). I’ve heard OSU is very good for those that want to improve their hand eye coordination (and get comfortable with their mouse). I’ve also heard of using spacebar to shoot but only when you want to isolate aim from shooting. But you should train both together as well.

[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yep. And I still play from time to time, despise getting my arse served by most players. And I've got to admit that hand tension is exactly -THE- "main" problem for me, despise trying to be as relaxed as possible with drinks and the like. I do have lots of "Why my crosshair isn't moving to where I want it to go?" moments due to it.

...and I... (kind of) given up, honestly. I'm about to be a 40 year old geezer, so eh.