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Fox Gaden Immortal Guides Learning Alliance 6175	Posted - 2015.04.08 13:40:00 - [1] - Quote Hand/Eye coordination cannot be taught. It comes from practice. But there are tricks for making practice more effective, as well as some techniques for making aiming faster and more efficient. Practice: You can learn to shoot better from constantly doing it in battle, but often when you are fighting for your life you use shortcuts and bad habits in a desperate attempt to survive the engagement, which may result in you just getting better at doing it wrong. A better approach is to practice when you are not in combat. Pick a target such as an Objective on your HUD, a friendly playerGÇÖs chevron, a light, or a rock and just try to center your cross-hairs on it. Try swinging your cross-hair close in Hip Fire mode and then switch to Aim Down Sight (ADS) just as you get close for more refined aiming (and in battle for decreased dispersion). Once you have your cross-hairs lined up, drop out of ADS and pick a new target. This will train your hand/eye coordination to aim the right way, so that when the brown stuff hits the rotary air impeller you instinctively aim rather than spraying and praying. Do this when you are standing around defending a quiet point, or just patrolling around. If you are not sprinting and not fighting you could be practicing your aim. Make yourself do this and your aim will improve rapidly. Preparation: Try to always be prepared to fire. This means keeping your weapon level. When you walk or sprint be sure to keep looking ahead of you. New players often tend to look down at the ground or look up when sprinting, but if you keep your weapon leveled you can aim much more quickly if an enemy appears. Not to mention the fact that if your are looking at the ground or the sky, you may not even see an enemy stepping out ahead of you. Pre-aim: If you know there is an enemy around a corner, or hiding beyond the lip of a building rooftop, anticipate where your target will be when they reappear and aim for that spot. If you guess right you will not even have to move you cross-hires. You only have to pull the trigger when they appear. Advanced Method (Swipe Aiming): The DS3 controller does not allow the same fine adjustments that you can do with a mouse. The best players have taught themselves to aim in a completely different manner. They use the Swipe method. The Swipe method is to swing your cross-hairs toward your target like you were swinging a sword, and then let go of the thumb stick and fire the exact moment your cross-hairs are on the target. You do not make any fine adjustments, slow down, or worry about over correcting. You simply steering your cross-hairs so that they crosses the target and just time the trigger for the precise moment your cross-hire is lined up. To see this in action, watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjmiWsLnYhQ When you encounter a player from one of the top PC Corps and they kill you before you even get a shot off, they are probably using the swipe method. It is by far the quickest method for aiming, and will give you a huge advantage if you can master it, but it is not exactly easy. I have been playing for over 2 years and I only occasionally pull off a swipe aim, but when I do they are among my most satisfying kills. Hand/Eye coordination cannot be taught. For everything else there is the Learning Coalition.
Fox Gaden Immortal Guides Learning Alliance 6175	Posted - 2015.04.08 13:41:00 - [2] - Quote Reserved Hand/Eye coordination cannot be taught. For everything else there is the Learning Coalition.
Fox Gaden Immortal Guides Learning Alliance 6175	Posted - 2015.04.08 13:42:00 - [3] - Quote Other Immortal Guides publications: Fox Guide: Getting Started, Your First Steps in DUST Fox Guide: DUST Economics 101, Not going Broke Fox Guide: Frontline, A Medium Frame Infantry Users Manual Fox Guide: Sniping, The Role of the Sniper Fox Guide: Marksman, Taking Sniper to the next level Fox Guide: Swarm Launcher, Unleashing the Swarm Fox Guide: SMG, Unlocking Versatility Fox Guide: Remote Explosives, Unleash the Mad Bomber Fox Guide: Battlefield Roles (A Glossary of terms) Fox Guide: Squad Lead, Stepping up to Command Fox Guide: HMG Heavy, The Mighty Minmatar Minigun & the Titans That Carry Them Fox Guide: Rail Tankers Tactical Handbook Rookie Training Grounds Guide Compilation The Guide Compilation (A one-stop-shop for all your guide needs) Hand/Eye coordination cannot be taught. For everything else there is the Learning Coalition.
Fox Gaden Immortal Guides Learning Alliance 6207	Posted - 2015.04.10 13:01:00 - [4] - Quote Added a section on strafe aiming. Hand/Eye coordination cannot be taught. For everything else there is the Learning Coalition.
Fox Gaden Immortal Guides Learning Alliance 6264	Posted - 2015.04.15 19:13:00 - [5] - Quote XxBlazikenxX wrote: Awesome guide! +1 However I would like to make a comment on your Pre-aim section. You say we should anticipate the enemy from where they will come, however I like to use this method. When I know an enemy is behind the corner, I automatically run to the corner, but not turn the corner, then I throw a grenade estimated to land behind the enemy, this forces them to either stay where they are and get damaged by a grenade, or run out where you are already prepared for them. You have done that to me before you bastard! It's a good tip. I might add that to my Frontline Infantry guide. Hand/Eye coordination cannot be taught. For everything else there is the Learning Coalition.
Fox Gaden Immortal Guides Learning Alliance 6298	Posted - 2015.04.20 12:41:00 - [6] - Quote Megaman Trigger wrote: Fox Gaden wrote: XxBlazikenxX wrote: Awesome guide! +1 However I would like to make a comment on your Pre-aim section. You say we should anticipate the enemy from where they will come, however I like to use this method. When I know an enemy is behind the corner, I automatically run to the corner, but not turn the corner, then I throw a grenade estimated to land behind the enemy, this forces them to either stay where they are and get damaged by a grenade, or run out where you are already prepared for them. You have done that to me before you bastard! It's a good tip. I might add that to my Frontline Infantry guide. It also works if you bluff; you can throw a AV grenade and, since the indicator doesn't tell you what grenade it is, most of the time they'll fall for it and move out of cover. People have done that to me too, then I notice that the grenade is long and shinny. Hand/Eye coordination cannot be taught. For everything else there is the Learning Coalition.

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