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I tried to get good at fpses back in the day but never did.

I was however making decent progress at learning an instrument at the time (the French horn, if you must know) and thought there should be some sort of tool to learn the fundamentals of first-person video game shooting using time honored music practice techniques.

The key to getting really killer music technique is to go as smoothly and calmly as possible, over and over again, even if that means going at a fraction of the target speed.

I would have liked to see an fps trainer that lets you practice shots at anywhere from 1/5th to 1x game speed, so you could master it at very slow speeds and gradually up the "tempo".

(There are some very good trainer programs now in AD 2024, but none that I know of that let you manipulate speed like that.)

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I‘d say I‘m very proficient with FPS games. I also got to Global Elite in CS:GO. My take is that you mainly need two things, map awareness and aim. The first can only be acquired by playing A LOT. The latter too but the time it takes by playing gamemodes line Free For All Deathmatch where you get to practice the shooting aspect very frequently.

If taken seriously I‘m confident a player can get proficient within 500-800 hours of playtime. That sounds like a lot but with daily practice/playing ofr 1-2 hours its not that big of a deal.

And talent. CS is one of the first times in my life I saw people try very hard at getting better. But it just didn't work. Like some people put in a fourth of their effort and they would still run circles around them.

it's actually trait openness/ cognitive flexibility: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/366388355_Cognitive....

Yeah FPS never clicked for me. I put 500 hours or so into CSGO and came out just as bad as I went in.

I choked all the time.. feels like my brain isn't designed for that sub second decision making

> proficient within 500-800 hours of playtime

Depends on the definition of proficient.

It would take someone of great natural talent to get to global in 500 hours.

Yep, doing something over and over again is how you get good at it for sure

Slow is smooth and smooth is fast

This is available in some of the current FPS trainers, they often have a time scaling feature which will slow the target down.

Wow, never knew about it! Can you please give a few examples?

Kovaaks has this. On the right hand side of the UI, where the scenario is described. You can adjust the time scale.

Kovacs was the one I was thinking of but couldn't remember the name

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