FPS Games are filled with fierce combat and fast action.
The battle may be clean and crisp with no casualties on your team, or both the teams might suffer heavy collateral damage.
While aiming and shooting may be an essential part of FPS Games, game sense will always be the most integral element for winning games. It is the deciding factor that differentiates between pro players and newbies.
Any FPS game requires you to master the technical aspects as well as the mechanical aspect of the game. Game Sense is the culmination of both.
Before you start popping heads and gunning down enemies, you need to first know where they are and what utilities they’re equipped with.
Game sense is nothing but a natural instinct. It is the possession of constant knowledge of how your teammates as well as your enemies are playing. Game sense allows you to make judgement calls on team comps, enemy movements and round predictions.
Basically, when broken down, game sense is nothing but the knowledge of the game progression.
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To build and implement initial game sense, follow these 4 tips:
1. Map Knowledge
Knowing and understanding the map you are playing on is very important. This applies to the 6 A-B sitemaps Valorant has to offer or the enormous city-like maps PUBG has.
Getting kills and eliminations becomes 50% easier when you are rotating through a map that you know by heart.
Map knowledge also allows you to know stronghold angles and corners to hold off or surprise enemies. This in turn also helps you understand where to assert map dominance and when.
Take your time to understand the map by exploring it first in-game or in "practice mode". You will lose a couple of games while struggling to learn the new maps, but that’s alright!
Always remember losing a fight is learning how to win it the next time.
Make sure you learn the skill of reading the map as well. This means looking at your mini-map, observing your team movements, and predicting the enemy’s next move.
Once you learn how to read the map situation-wise, you will have no trouble gaining map dominance, predicting enemy push, and exploiting superior angles.
2. Confidence is Key
Due to FPS Games being fast and lively, there is no room for uncertainty and hesitation.
Confidence is key in winning games and rounds.
You have to enter games confidently and decisively to execute your best plans and strategies.
If you hesitate or delay in executing your plan, you will be killed before you can show your skills.
Your aim should be to have a set of plans ready to execute before the game or the round begins.
Believing in yourself and trusting the plan is the first step towards victory.
However, always remember that confidence can only be built through knowledge and proficiency in game sense: do not try to cloak ignorance with fake bravado.
3. The Mentalist
To grow your game sense, you do have to act as a mentalist and read others' minds. No, we are n0t asking you to achieve an impossibility!
This just means that you have to learn the ability to think like your teammates, as well as predict your opponent's next move.
Thinking like your teammates is quite easy as you are well aware of your team’s playstyle and there is no communication barrier, but reading your enemy’s mind can prove somewhat difficult!
Reading your enemies' minds requires you to only predict your enemies' next move. You have to be in their shoes and then make decisions for your team's victory.
This skill can only be learnt by playing, or rather failing numerous games and then gradually understanding your enemies' winning mindset and your mistakes.
4. Experience Counts
Why is it terrifying to face a “Conqueror” in BGMI? Or why is it always a losing fight against an “Immortal” in Valorant?
The answer is quite simple. It is not because of their high peak ranks but because of the overpowering experience that they have gained playing the game for so long.
Any experienced player will always beat a newbie in a FPS Game, only because of their knowledge and expertise in the particular game.
Gaining experience is quite a straightforward task to accomplish. Just keep playing and grinding the game non-stop.
Once you start grinding the game perpetually, you will gain map knowledge, player awareness, gunplay mastery and game experience.
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