stop worrying about settings and aim and whatnot. When I played vs you, aim was the least of your problems.

well i dont remember playing u but my rl is bad

doesn't matter, your rl could be godlike and I would still have beaten you. Your practice is flawed, because your attitude is flawed. You play pub duels to win and when that win seems impossible, you forfeit (or at least, you did vs me). By practicing like that, you do not learn anything. Instead, when you're playing better players, focus only on staying alive as long as possible. Not giving up meaningless frags (aka deaths that you gain nothing from) is the basis of a good duel game. Also, asking people what you should do does not instantly make you better. Good advice can help, but you still need to practice (aka not mindlessly rushing and then forfeiting when you're 8 frags behind after three minutes).

my motivation ends quickly and i ragequit i its true :(

Well to start off with, you aim at something, then you fire, keep crosshair on the target or you will miss

HA HA HA

i suggest you play tdmpickup. lots of fights against people who are good at combat. you'll learn faster )

And prepare for the hate. ))

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From teammates, lel.

as if someone will be so kind and only bash you in front of your team not everyone. yeah..

first off u need a crosshair and movement keys

pacmanpl best friend.

okay, heres what you do: use your movement keys to trick your enemy into thinking you'll go one way then you dodge another, and with your crosshair you predict where your enemy is going and hit him!!

never works for me im rocket magnet

so l2p???????? :D

Just put more focus on your movement, you're probably being too predictable. Don't just mash WASD keys like there's no tomorrow, pay attention to how you move and where you're going.

For settings, I don't think you should change anything in your setup, I agree with takesix on #20, RL aim is not really setup dependant. The only thing I think you should probably mess around with a lil bit is the crosshair you're using for RL, at least for me, some of them works better than others. Use one that you can clearly get a hold of it's horizontal axis, if that makes sense to you.

cg_fov makes big different for RL.

I know, but I don't higher fov helps that much, even it does, I don't think it's worth increasing it if you're used to 90ish.

Try yoga

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pacmanpl u the most useless guy here dont reply more just elave pls.

U can not into rockets and it's me who is useless? D:
Play more, focus more, brain more, improve more!

pacman, pls elave ffs

Ffs im serious just pls elave

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DjTanner says:

aim ahead.
use crane style instead of tiger :D

crane?tiger?

You have to learn how to make the enemy move to where you want them to with your dodge.

I'll shoot a rocket far left or right of the enemy. They see it's not near them so they don't worry about it.
I then dodge in a way that forces them to walk right into the rocket :D while they're concentrating on doing damage.
In essence i'm controlling the enemies movement.

It's timing for the most part and understanding how far ahead you have to aim based on distance.
Some of it's map knowledge and knowing what the enemies options are at that given time and where they can go
all the way down to split second movements.

something like thatlol

you need to concentrate on ABC game , just timing , position and that"s it

cooller said that to demon :D

Think about where the enemy will be and click there.

It should be noted that RL aim is less setup dependant that hitscan aim, i good rockets even back when i had retardedly high sens.

Here's how:

Exactly like this.

Or you can wait the update, then you will be able to aim at that lamp next to the door and deliver the same amount of damage into your adversary :--DD

update???

the only thing you can do is practice your prediction, unless you want to sacrifice rg/lg accuracy by adding accel and putting a higher fov

Or you can just move your arm.

I find a good way to practice air rockets is to ...

-Get the Q3 map endifacid (remake of qw endif)

It's linked on the 13th comment of this thread

http://www.esreality.com/index.php?a=post&id=881548

-I use edawn mod w/ cpm ruleset but you can probably do this in quakelive

-up z knockback
-up rocket launcher knockback
-set rl splashdamage to 0

-Load a bot that can't do any damage to you , pop him up in the air in various directions/speeds and practice your air rockets.

I feel like the less I think about the aim the better I can aim (as in its more intuitive for me than it is something I'd put my brain power into... such as timing or positioning). When I start to dodge to hit or think about opponents dodge or other factors is when I over-think and miss. continuing to play on a regular basis also helps.

I feel when I don't play for a while, it results in either 2 scenarios...

-I come back and start missing everything
OR
-I start hitting better than I ever have

and the first one is easily understood but the 2nd I could never quite grasp why it happens but it has happened to me quite often which Is why I try to take breaks in between playing (which is kind of automatic for me anyway since I go to school)

QL rockets are so fast that at far-close range you barely have to predict, just aim for their ankles.

i'll write down some tips i learned during these years, some of the last ones are a bit lame and not super consistent. This will regard mostly face 2 face fight with or against rockets:

1) first and foremost, don't go for the direct right away, go for the splash damage.
That will hinder their dodging possibilities, it's easier to hit more consistently, and you might bounce them in a very predictable way and lock them in a rain of rockets.

2) almost as important: sometimes it's good to delay your rocket for half a second to see how they'll dodge the rocket. Then bounce em into a lot of rockets.

3) dodging again rockets, jumping is almost always the last thing you want to do. Jumping against rockets is for experienced players who can do it properly and very timely, both timing the opponent health (you want to do it when the guy is low to minimize his last or so rocket) and the projectile flying at your feet.

4) Learn to lock and bounce your opponents after the first rocket.

5) do loads of fakes to dodge rockets, and dodge in 3 dimensions, not only one. But be aware of the fact that you can get predictable.

6) loads of ppl just love to strafeaim, shooting a rocket in one direction and then dodging in that same direction might often result in a face rocket. This is expecially true while RJing or while travellying at high speed.

7) if you have low imput lag and ping, you can judge where ppl will shoot their rocket (expecially ppl with a bit of a lower sensitivity) with a fraction of a second by watching their model\weapon. Sometime it gets very easy to trick ppl faking to run in their crosshair.
If you keep yourself in a reactive stance (for example a continuos random dodging made of small dodges) it will help your dodging reactions.

8) Rockets are at their best to deny angles while retreating, so if you are running away throug a door, most likely the chaser will try to create an angle to shoot you as long as possible. That's an easy prediction, and if he doesn't react fast enough one of the easiest full rockets to shoot.

9) Learn to pick the spots where to use rockets. Corridors, small rooms or an opponent close to a wall\corner it's the best (it gets really easy to hit 80 dmg even if they get bounced). Also, while having a height advantage, raining down rockets pratically blindly is a fight with upside only for the most part.

10) sometimes is good to randomly shoot your opponent directly or in the most obvious way, so they'll be forced to dodge, and even if they can do it easily, that will force them to aim a bit worse or lose the angle so it won't be that devastating for you.

this is what comes to my mind without any pondering and so on. Hope it helped you in some way.

This basically sums it up well, I like to define ranges where I can go for reactive directs or not but that's a bit aim/reaction heavy.

also there are some times where going for the midair rocket is better then waiting for the opponent to land for the easier rocket\bounce.. Depending on how high is the jump, how easy is the shots and where will the rocket push them. Also i never took in consideration rocket to lg combos

yep

10) is important, not lame :)
it's the thing most people with bad rl aim should try first. do the trivial shot, then watch what happens and act accordingly. much, much easier than trying to predict someone better at dodging.

i said some of them :p, one of the lamest i didn't take into consideration, in ca, some opponents try to rj off you or off the ground next to you to make themselves harder to hit from the rockets (even if super super exposed against lg)

watch demo of good players doing eyetoeye 1on1 with rl, and do it urself with someone slightly more experienced at least, and yeah tdmpickups are great for getting good with sg/rl imo

http://www.qlranks.com/duel/compare/n00ne/Pill_

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