For those wondering why I was switching pads/mice so much at the event:
I have a slow Artisan Raiden and a fast Artisan Raiden, as well as slow skates GPX and fast skates GPX.
I switched based on feel and the amount of force I was feeling I needed to exert each run.
As of right now, for a moment, I am the
#1
player in Voltaic KovaaK's, Voltaic Aimlab, Revosect Aimlab, and Aimbeast Official Ranked leaderboards.
From this day forth, this achievement shall be known as the "Aim Training Quadruple Slam."
How disappointing it is that Shroud of all people made this take. Mouse skates and mousepad combination is critical to aiming, and you should feel free to swap. I fear that players who look up to Shroud will believe him now and refuse to experiment with their combinations.
Can’t thank everyone in the aim community enough. All of you are amazing, and I hope that I inspire all other dot clickers to believe in themselves and push to the top. Thank you all.
Overwatch community, I’d like to know why you guys are the most rejecting of aim trainers out of FPS esports.
What makes you believe that what I do is a complete waste of time, regardless of the heaps of empirical evidence supporting it and your game being rather aim-intensive?
@Demon1___
Hey man, it's awesome to see pros joining Aimlab, but you're really missing out on the massive value offered by more challenging tasks with smaller targets that focus more on precision.
Reach out and I can introduce you to better tasks and help you open new doors to improvement.
Unfortunately for those who wanted me to, I will no longer be streaming my VALORANT journey.
It's way too tactical for me, and I'm not making use of the aiming skills that I train the most these days (tracking). There's no point for me to continue playing this game.
Turning 21 today. Yet I still act, sound, and feel like a young, dumb 16 year old.
Only difference is that I know how to move a mouse well, and I know a thing or two about programming.
Tension management is one of the keys to aim improvement, especially in tracking.
While there are a host of good ways to discourage gripping the mouse too tightly, it also comes down to our experience in aiming situations and our confidence in reading and reacting to motion.
Hey
@DojaCat
, aim training is the perfect place to develop such skills. I would be very glad to set you up in Aimlabs so you will never lose in Fortnite again.
#AmpUp
FORTNITE WOULDN'T BE SO FUCKING EMBARRASSING IF THEY MADE LOBBIES WHERE PEOPLE WITH ACTUAL AIM SKILLS AND FPS EXPERIENCE DIDN'T DEAL WITH LOSERS USING FUCKING WATER BENDING AND CHAINS OF HADES. *
This upcoming winter, I am releasing a video series that walks through aim training as a new player from a purely strategic standpoint.
This will be the real deal. No fluff, no extra aim theory.
I will simply show how to play scenarios and make the most out of aim training.
Late to this discussion, but I'd rather not delve into it at all. Aim assist does not belong in aim trainers. You will not change my mind, and I sincerely hope Aimlab changes something regarding this.
Improving smoothness and working on calm aiming are two things that aim training truly accelerates, especially when you apply the right conditions and consciously work toward them. Also criminally underrated skills these days.
Aim training is not a place where we flex scores or try to inflate ourselves in being better than the pros. My goal, OUR goal, is always to foster improvement and encourage others bring out the best in themselves as FPS players. This entire scene is committed to that cause.
While we welcome fresh eyes on Aim Training, we feel the scene as a whole has been misrepresented today by an unhinged aim training player.
We will continue to show the benefits of Aim Training. Pros seeking to learn, can find an open door at Voltaic.
See yall MFs in Dallas!
Share experiences that suggest you’re FAR too gone in this aim training thing. I’ll go first
- let a spider crawl up my leg without flinching to save a good run
- turned a girl down to go and rank up in benchmarks
- had food in front of me for 1hr but didn’t eat because aiming
Crazy we are flaming people for their mouse preference in 2024. Listen guys, the GPX is my main and likely will always be my main due to my comfort with its shape. I would not prefer a mouse completely different from, even if it was 20g, 10khz polling, or picosecond button lag.
Fellow aimers, please beware of coaches who claim to have the absolute solutions to problems. Aim coaching does not work through cookie-cutter approaches. The acquisition of many aim skills often cannot be broken down into a step-by-step process or distinct method.
I guarantee you, people making takes like this have not logged even 5 hours on an aim trainer. If they tell you they have, then they likely just booted up Aimlab, loaded Gridshot or XY Track, tasks with huge targets, and were like, “yeah this doesn’t work. 🫠”
Anyone else feeling really bitter about competitive games at the moment? Like, I am unable to have fun or fulfillment in any other game besides aim training.
- OW is an empty shell.
- CS/VAL/R6 take too much brain power (I'm bad)
- Apex's main mode is BR
What else do I have?
Very few people understand aiming like
@cartoonFPS
,
@minigodcs
, and
@cloverISL
. Even with my countless hours in the aim trainer, I don’t have the same wisdom that they possess.
To anyone who doubts them, wake up because you are severely missing out on greatness.
Weird take but aim training needs something that works like Typeracer.
Load a bunch of people at random into a lobby and make them all start a run at the same time. Whoever gets highest score wins. Can be up to 4-5 players.
Would be a fun addition to Aimlab or Kovaaks.
For those trying to learn how to improve with aim training, beware of people who claim to have the absolute answers to things.
Even as an aim coach, I do not have all the answers. They also change the more I learn. Aim training is still young- so too are the theories behind it.
As aim trainers, we need to actively fight against aim assist players. Aim assist goes against everything we stand for and ruins the fun of games like Apex Legends. Don’t take the aiming out of FPS games.
Before 2022, I was a nobody. I barely had any cool achievements or skills in my gaming career, and I felt like I was headed nowhere. In a little over one year, I have climbed to the very top of aim training, won competitions such as the TKL, and gained 3000 Youtube subscribers.
People need to stop trying to control what other people want to do with their lives.
Why make it such a problem that people genuinely enjoy something and find self-improvement in it? Shut up and let people live.
Throughout my time aim training, I’ve come to believe that a score is a score. I genuinely do not think that sens cheesing is that big of a deal. If you bring benchmarks and requirements into the discussion, a scenario that can be “cheesed” like this is a poorly designed one.
Hot take:
any score that was set with 70+cm or even 52+cm is not impressive at all ESPECIALLY if its a smoothness/precision or micro scen it is just cringe cheesemaxxing and defeats the ENTIRE purpose of the scenario (unless its static)
Reminder that my aim secrets series is meant to highlight the players who originally showcased the techniques and methods that came to define aim training today.
It feels necessary for me to honor the people who came first. We all stand on the shoulders of giants.
Why do I find that out of every competitive FPS community, the Overwatch community is the MOST hostile towards aim training and aim trainer players?
This makes no sense since OW is one of the games where aim training will undoubtedly help you the most.
Aim coaching works well to help players stop worrying about their aim and focus on the game.
Worry more about technique in the aim trainer, on scenarios that translate well to your main game. Have confidence that those techniques become automatic in your real fights.
Current (and probably endgame) Arsenal:
Pink GPX1 w/ Corepads
Black GPX1 w/ Jade Dots
White GPX2 w/ Obsidian Pro Dots
Feeling great. Might add another GPX2 if I can find it in red, but idk what skates to put on it.
@awkwardOW
Hmm, instead of playing exclusively tasks with targets a quarter-size of your screen moving at a snail’s pace, try playing VT Orb Click. Then come back, tell us your accuracy, and then rethink how accurate your statement is.
The long-awaited Season 3. I really hope you guys enjoy these tasks, as I worked closely in their development. This is the innovation we were imagining long ago.
You guys are wild.
PLEASE DO NOT THROW AWAY YOUR EDUCATION FOR VOLTAIC JADE COMPLETE.
I'm pursuing my master's degree in software development while I do daily aim grinds. Stay in school kids. You've got time to pb. I promise.
Share experiences that suggest you’re FAR too gone in this aim training thing. I’ll go first
- let a spider crawl up my leg without flinching to save a good run
- turned a girl down to go and rank up in benchmarks
- had food in front of me for 1hr but didn’t eat because aiming
Today marks the 1 year anniversary of my Voltaic membership. I'm more than grateful for the opportunities that aim training and this amazing community have given me. I'm ready for hopefully many more years of this. Let's take aim training to the moon!
Introducing
@parsinvita1
, known for his world class Dynamic Aiming skills. Matty holds many world records in today's Dynamic Aim Training scenarios, and ranked Celestial in our Season 3 Benchmarks.
#AmpUp
⚡
I’ve reached a point where, looking inwardly at our own community, we need to somehow shut down the old Gridshot/Tile Frenzy narrative and start some kind of new one. Someone get
@TenZOfficial
to play angleshot or something more dynamic. That might change how Aimlab is perceived.
Here’s my piece- why do such blatantly intolerant people get so popular and go trending?
Often not worth discourse, just let them rot in their own hatred.
Just because you disagree with someone doesn’t ever mean they don’t exist or that they aren’t still deserving of respect.
Elaborating on what I mean when I say muscle memory is a myth:
Muscle memory is a misnomer in aiming commonly used to explain higher consistency playing on a specific sens. Truth is that you won't just forget how to aim if you change sens/setup. You can change. You can adapt.
You claim to be an experienced aim coach, but you cannot identify the lack of proper technique with this player and how the score shown does not correlate.
I did not originally want to comment on this situation, but I guess the delusion is reaching new heights.
Flight has been delayed quite a bit- also feeling a bit sick, so Wednesday stream may or may not be on. Either way, was the best trip of my life and 1000 times worth it to get sick over.
I really hope that I left a mark on at least one person's life doing what I do in gaming. I don't care who it is, but if I somehow altered their life in a positive way, where they see things differently because of what I've accomplished, that's enough for me.
You know sometimes I treat this aim training thing as pure competition, but then I remember I used to just use it as an escape from real life problems. Nothing kills time and worries like clicking some spheres.
Played S9, initial thoughts:
- Soldier feels stronger, more hits
- Soj rail charges easier but seems less impactful due to more HP
- lots of one shots are gone (Ana combo, Genji ult combo, Junkrat mine combo) haha cry
- people do need to aim more, but aiming is easier now
Buffs for select DPS heroes coming in
#Overwatch2
📈
Aaron Keller teased some light buffs for Junkrat, Echo, and Hanzo in the mid-season patch, which will be released on May 14. More details will be revealed at a later date.
First thing someone needs to do when I die is go to my Youtube channel and save every video. Reupload those VODs and educational videos to no end. You guys better not let my name in aim training fade away.
Right now making my resume and it's kind of scaring me. I've done very little within my field. No shot tech companies would care about my dot clicking experiences right?
I will stage a decade-long plot to learn game design, apply for a job at Blizzard, get established as one of their main developers for Overwatch, all just to get access to the source code, so I can delete every trace of Hanzo from the game.