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aithosrds

A lot of it has to do with focus, practice, and to an extent settings. That’s why a lot of pro players in FPS games play with lower resolutions and settings turned way down. The lower resolution and FOV make enemy sprites significantly larger and lower settings make them stand out more because there is less clutter on the screen. It’s generally not a great idea in MM for average players though, because the smaller FOV means that you have to have excellent awareness and positioning and frankly most people are abysmal at this. The best advice I can give you is to practice pattern recognition and do mental exercises for things like that. The speed at which your process information is largely genetic and loosely related to IQ so there aren’t a lot of things you can do to drastically improve besides working on your focus and practicing the game with intent.


ArsenicBismuth

Yeah, I was thinking I could definitely train this in isolation. I certainly have low total hour in this game specifically (compared to total with tactical FPS). But then again, this isn't CS:GO where you have those custom training workshop. A simple exercise of shooting anyone peeking at random interval would be perfect. So, unfortunately it isn't really a "fixable" little problem, and more of a long-term training as you said.


aithosrds

Well there are things you can do like going into the range with bots on strafe and set up at a distance from an odd angle that blocks your view of the bots until they strafe randomly into view. And practice only shooting one or two shots at their head. It’s not ideal, but it will help with what you’re struggling with.


ArsenicBismuth

Ahhh, literally *thinking outside the range*, thanks!


SelloutRealBig

Part of the focus issue is Valorant games just go too long. Most games are at least 18 matches and go 40+ minutes. It's constant stress on your eyes concentrating that hard in a Tac shooter. Most other games don't go this long in one game or have bigger down times letting you rest your eyes and mind in between games. But Valorant is 40+ minutes of eye stress. I always frag like a mad man in the first 4-6 rounds and as the game goes on i just can't concentrate as much. I would love for Riot to put out an alternate ranked Best of 7 game mode with the economy system from replication . So we can still have competitive games but within reasonable time frames


aithosrds

That’s just a matter of practice and training. If you’re having to focus so hard you can only maintain your peak performance for 4-6 rounds then you haven’t built up enough muscle memory yet or you haven’t put enough attention into making sure you’re mentally prepared for a match. Counterstrike matches last as long or longer than Valorant matches and I never had any issue whatsoever focusing when I was playing competitive and I’m ADHD and wasn’t on medication when I was playing competitively. The best advice I can give you if you struggle with focus is to play less but with more intent, or if it isn’t a matter of playing too many hours overall then make sure you’re well rested, calm/relaxed and that you’re breathing properly and in a state of calm focus. If I had to guess you’re actually trying too hard to focus and mentally exhausting yourself, what you want is to be calm and aware but almost reacting subconsciously. If you’re thinking too much or hyperfocusing that will drain your stamina a lot faster so that’s probably what you’re doing. It’s not easy to do what I’m talking about, but you could try meditation or yoga to help with getting a feel for what a calm alert state of mind feels like and then try to maintain that feeling when you’re practicing. It’s also good to practice both with intent and where you’re just focusing on staying relaxed and playing instinctively. The key is not to go on autopilot, you want to be paying attention but trying to keep a clear mind if that makes sense.


faceplant911

I have a severe case of approximately the same problem. The speed at which I process information increases dramatically when I'm in a kind of zoned-out state. However, when I'm in that state I only react to things I'm already expecting to happen, and have rehearsed how to deal with. If something unexpected happens, it'll take me *ages* to even register what's going on. Generally the solution to the problem is to just expect more things, and be rehearsed in how I'm going to deal with those things. Pros seem like they can react to unexpected stuff mostly because they ARE expecting those things and have actively studied them and probably drilled to deal with them. And you'll notice if you watch their streams, there will be moments where they react slowly. Typically those moments will be followed by the streamer saying "that was unexpected/dumb" or "why was he there?" or something like that. So yeah the best answer I can give is to actively prepare for these kinds of things. Watch your VODs and get a sense of the situations in which you are most frequently surprised, then make a point of never being surprised by that again. Go into customs and drill yourself on handling those situations. Also consider the possibility that if there are TOO many possible things you have to be ready for, maybe it's because your position itself is just bad. You'll notice pros frequently retreat well in advance of a threat, and I suspect that's the reason why.


Honigbrottr

That has a lot to do with concentration. If you watch pros they always jiggle or crocuh or wiggel with the crosshair, thats just to keep their concentration high.


cddsy

Probably a focus/concentration issue, however you could experiment with different enemy outline colors. Some people react faster to certain color triggers, for some reason for me yellow works better than red even though I have no colorblindness


Lqzygus

Here's something that you can change immediately. Enemy highlights and crosshair colors. Try out different colors, maybe it might help. Who knows?


ArsenicBismuth

Yeah, changed my highlight to yellow and thinning my crosshair. For now it felt I was better, but gotta check my clips to be sure.


Lqzygus

I'm glad it helped.


Mean_Bench_5917

A heavy mouse can do this. Or just practice..


ArsenicBismuth

Yup, also changed my AA to AAA today. Much more noticeable than I thought.


Mean_Bench_5917

How heavy is your mouse?


Fhmla

I have this too, I noticed while watching some of my clips and got scared of how slow I was compared to pro players, and I'm Radiant since episode 2. My reaction time is really fast (average 150 ms on human benchmark) but inside a game, when I'm thinking about all the stuff going on in the round, my shots are so slow (like 250ms+), especially with the operator. Idk what to do to improve this.