A guide to shooting
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 | Written by don
Please see the new guide at:
http://www.urbanterrorhd.info/guidesx/shooting/
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stunning guide 5/5
Ive never been a fan of these forums. But this guide is the best yet, Well Done DON!
^’5/5′
I love this guide. It’s my favorite so far. Good job don!
“Spread for all guns, … decreased when crouching.”
O_O Have you any evidence of that?
“I use 650 DPI on my G5, and I don’t know of any good player who uses anything over 800, so you don’t need 5000 DPI or something.”
The feeling of 800dpi and 6 sensitivity is exactly the same as 3200dpi and 1,5 sensitivty, but the second config has a better accuracy because software gain is lesser (1,5 vs 6).
Don’t diss him off, he did a good job. You shouldn’t criticize unless you can do better.
Not true for me. If I put the sensitivity too high for low dpi I skip pixels for some reasons.
You’re assuming it’s just straight multiplication. Logically it should be, but who knows for sure.
I also prefer keeping a constant DPI in game and in Windows, though of course I could use a high DPI and just lower the mouse speed to achieve the same effect.:P
Honestly it’s not really a big deal, I am mainly just saying you don’t need a super high DPI mouse, because you can tell from all the good players who use low DPI, that low DPI isn’t a handicap at all.
Also, crouching most definitely decreases spread, as well as how quickly it increases when firing.
Aiming with the crosshair I disagree with.
Aiming with the middle of the screen, that I can see.
Lebbra, if you crouch you can see that your aim becomes more accurate, meaning it starts with lower spray = decaresed spray when crouching. – ofc not with sniper :p.
havnt read the hole guide yet, but i like what i read so far! 5/5
good guide.
and a note: XP (and i think vista and 7) come with mouse-acceleraiton disabled in standard installation. you can easily change it via the control panel .. so if you are not sure you can still use the registry hack to make sure its disabled :p
i like doing a 180 spin my mouse is set to do it exactly
I second that absolutely. That’s the first thing I’m doing with every 1st person game.
great guide. I was familiar with most of those concepts, however changing the crosshair based on team is an interesting idea I plan on trying.
Mee too. But actually I’m finishing keys to bind on my MacBook Pro, lol.
Don might be a grade A asshat who has got me banned from multiple servers by inhabiting the same IP subnet here on Vancouver Island, but you have got to love his UrT brain.
Quality article and massively useful. Great work Don.
Please write some more. I’d like to see some clarifying articles on “camping”, Team Survivor tactics, using cover/environment to your advantage, 1v1 technique, and other subjects too.
Well we currently share the same 3 octets, so our aliases are mixed on GUIDDB. Noticed that the other day when I was trying to figure out when I had played with a pnk| tag.:P
Also you must be playing TDM or on 1up servers if you’re running into my bans.;)
Camping, I think I covered in another article.
Articles can also be submitted by anyone. You don’t have to be a great player to write a great, insightful, and useful article.
(also this reply box fucking blows. It lags every time I try to change places with the cursor.)
Weird, I had to approve this comment before it would display.
I sent my silencer stats study to engine but apparently no-one gives a shit. I might write something else with more general appeal if I get time.
Cheers Don.
im interested to see your results you had on the silencer
Well, first of all I thought who will read this long guide but then i set in, started reading and with words of words, I started getting an enthusiasm to read further..Its pretty good that you made video for showing tapping,bursting for newbies and other stuff like that…and at last i would like to say “EXCELLENT TUTORIAL”…Among one of the best article that has been ever written on DailyNade
Very good article. I probably felt like others “wtf? shooting guide?” but it’s nevertheless interesting seeing the in-game concepts on paper. Intuitively I realized I was doing most of it automatically already, but wouldn’t have been able to describe it.
The burst mode is interesting, but it didn’t work on all maps for map; but it’s another great level of skill one can learn and use it to adjust to situations.
In other words: great guide!
The “looking at your crosshair” concept can work immediately. Tried it out last night. You just need to make it a habit
its hard to do lolllll
It would definitely depend on your experience level. Also, If you are too comfortable with your playing style then it may be too hard to make adjustments.
I can only agree with Don about the whole article. It’s the same experience I’ve also made in the last 8 years of Urbanterror.
If you aim just by looking at your opp and trying to catch him with your tiny little dot, it becomes somehow difficult to stick. There might be some easy frags who don’t even try to move, but versus good moving ones who are using walljumps, sliding and whatsoever, you might get a big problem that way.
If you aren’t used to stick with your eyes to the crosshair, it might be also of a problem. Try getting used to it.
The only little advantage imo is that you don’t fully recon your environment.
BUT: Personally, I aim a lot better and get a lot more hits by aiming this way. And the environment issue is easily solved by just sticking to the crosshair when an enemy pops up. When moving, holding a position and trying to analyze everyone’s status, pos and enemy’s as well, just play the normal way.
Great job, dondon
Nice work.
About aim I wanna add:
I may not stick with my eyes to the crosshair (white dot), but it surely leads my eyes. All that jumping made me kinda lead my shots,too. There is a delay between you see the enemy and and you can shoot anyway, so I think reaction time doesn’t really matter.
Or do you get a moment of shock during gameplay (a possible translation of reaction time: Schrecksekunde)
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nice work Don !!
low sensitivity + no mouse accel = you move like delerius. some of the best players in the world use mouse accel. its just personal preference.
Really clear explanation on how to aim. These methods pretty much summarize how I aim, which came by experience (things didn’t start clicking until only recently; started playing the beginning of this year) What helped me was using the dot crosshair, which forced me to aim with the crosshair and not aiming by looking at the target. Hopefully more URT players read this and we get better quality UrT players. Thanks for taking the time to write this article.
Hey Engine,
may you write these Script with your Crosshair colours down?
Would be very great.
Btw, nice article
It’s useful in CTF games, when defendig, to aim at legs, so the enemies won’t run with the flag. So what i do is to shoot 1 or 2 at legs then go 4 torso.
Nice site! I enjoy a couple of from the articles which were written, and especially the comments posted! I will definately be returning!
don have msn?
Thx! It is a nice guide, but something I dont understand is on your guide, you said not to change mouseaccel, on another shooting guide. it said to change mouseaccel to 0.5 (something like that). So for a mac user, should I change the mouseaccel?
Is there a command to use an alias. In some servers, I see people using ‘!alias’ to determine someones real name. How do I use an alias?
!alias is a command that admins use to find out what other names you have been playing under.
If i was in [CLAN]WARPIG, and I go into a server and use the name “lol”, I am aliasing.
derp
Some 1 please telll me!!
u use LR300 but after a few days it started shooting one bullet after the other while mouse button is cont pressed….
so i use other gun which i dnt like….some1 please please help me on that….
Thnkyou
Press n to change the guns mode, it is displayed at the lower right.
There is 3 for most weapons, auto, burst and semi (singleshot)
Bookmarked – will come back within in a few days to evaluate rest posts.
This really is great article ! I just love’d this !