If you are playing a fps game (first person shooter) the most critical aspect of triumphing is your aim. When your foe has better aim then you do it's quite difficult to win, but still possible with superior strategy and maybe some good luck.

This article is about unreal tournament 3, but most of what's in it works for all fps-games. Most of the time, the player with the better aim will play intimidating and that will cause the other player(s) to feel strain and he/they won't be able to perform at 100%. This makes it easier to win for the person with the better aim. There are a few simple ways to practise on your accuracy. But first you need to change all your settings to the most effective ones. In Ut3 this means: - Turning to weapon hand to hidden, so it doesn't block the view for part of the screen. - Setting weaponbob off, to increase the stability in aim. (weaponbob is the effect of a weapon going up and down slightly while on the move) - Turn landingshake to false, to increase aim when landing. (landingshake makes you slightly duck when you land from a jump or fall) - Set visual quality and resolution to a setting where you have at least 40+ fps in crowded areas. Now that we've done that we can concentrate on the other methods to improve aim. It is critical to get the fact that there are two types of weapons. The 1st type of weapons are weapons that instantly hit. You aim directly at the adversary and if your aim is accurate you hit when you shoot. The 2nd type of weapons are projectile based weapons.

They shoot a projectile (a shock ball for instance) and it takes some time before it hits. So you have to predict where your opponent is going to be and predict how fast the projectile hits. This makes most of these weapons only effective for short-mid distances. Accuracy can only be improved by training, there are no shortcuts. However when you train with the specific goal of improving your aim, it really speeds up things and you can become an "aim artist" fairly fast. If you only "train" with normal matches your accuracy will still increase, just not as fast. And you'll hit the dead spot sooner, where your accuracy doesn't improve anymore until you use a better training method. When you're practicing on the 1st type of weapon your accuracy for the 2nd type of weapon will also improve. And the other way around is also true. But nonetheless the training methods are fundamentally focused on one of those 2 weapons types.

To train the direct hit type weapons: First start an offline game without any bots. Now let's use a cheat code so you can concentrate entirely on your accuracy. Open the console (press the ~ button) and type "loaded", now press enter for all weapons and infinite ammunition. Choose the shock rifle and fire a shockball (secondary fire) now shoot at the shockball with a shockbeam (primary fire) to generate a shock combo where the shock ball explodes. You're going to practice shooting shock combos while moving around. fire them while running and dodging to make it tough on yourself. If you do this often your accuracy will raise pretty fast. : After a while you can make it harder. For instance use a cheat code to decrease the size of the shockball. There are a few more tricks, but this above method gives the best results for new players. Novice and skilled players still improve with this training method, but there are better methods for those players; which I won't describe here because I don't want this article to be too long. To train the trajectory type weapons: This training is actually a lot more fun, but less effective. Still way better (for increasing accuracy) then just playing a match though. Start a game with a friend (just the 2 of you). Choose a weapon that you want to train and only use that weapon to try and kill your buddy. The friend should not use any weapon and should try to steer clear of everything you shoot. This way you train that particular weapon and (s)he trains avoiding projectiles.

Switch turns during the game and change what weapon you/(s)he use(s) for some extra training and fun. With these two training methods you're bound to increase your accuracy in a short time period. For additional training you can choose one weapon and ONLY use that weapon for 7 days. More in depth aim training methods and game winning tactics can be found at my site.