How do you target enemy players and stay focused on them?

Bam_Bam

Apart from "git gud", how do YOU =target enemy players and stay focused on them?

Mad skillz? An in-game feature? Or some technological addon wizardry?

Taylor_MB

1) Tab targeting
It's not an auto hit feature, but it does give them a nice white outline, slightly bigger target box and is a base game feature.

2) Bunny hopping
People (especially ranged builds) do it for a reason. Gives you line of sight over opponents heads giving you a better angle on the player you are trying to hit.

raasdal

Mad Skillz

On a more serious note;

For melee i just use my skills.

For ranged i really like Tab Targeting.

Brutusmax1mus

If you're having an issue with targeting you're probably on console, and the only fix is positioning. It's one of the things that makes getting up so much safer.

Good reticle control will onlygo so far on console.

Thogard

The Target Focus addon will tell you whenever you have the tab-targeted target targeted.

Say that five times fast.

Toast_STS

Tab or click the right stick if on console.

SugaComa

On console I have it set to square ... I hold it and thenpalyer get highlighted ... I now has a soft auto aim ... In that I can track them visually and some skills if set off won't be intercepted by random players crossing line of site ... But other will still get dragged off

I think it defuakts to R3 or L3 but I prefer my R3 as jump so my X is only for interacting

the_broo11

Try to keep your camera constant facing them. Imagine crosshairs on your screen (like in a FPS). When trying to focus an enemy, keep these crosshairs constantly centered on their chest. Moving left/right/front/back may change the direction your character is facing, but it becomes really easy to realign when you can keep them at the center of your camera.

You can try the old trick I used to calibrate for quick scoping in MW2 days. Take a very small piece of clear tape, and put it at the center of your screen. Then take a marker and draw a dot on the tape so you can see it when looking at the screen. Whenever you're a trying to focus someone, always try to keep their character and the dot on top of eachother. Just make sure to use low adhesive tape (normal scotch tape is fine) so you don't mess up your screen when you take it off.

Once you have a good grasp, you'll begin to gain an intuition on both how people tend to move their characters and how you should move your character to be difficult for them to focus. Note that this is only applicable to 3rd person view, and ideal using the furthest zoom option. The most zoomed out setting will give you the largest field of view, and also the most room for error if an enemy is really fast at strafing.

Waffennacht

Just left over skill from my FPS days

The tab doesn't really help much on Xbox

SugaComa

the_broo11 wrote: »

Try to keep your camera constant facing them. Imagine crosshairs on your screen (like in a FPS). When trying to focus an enemy, keep these crosshairs constantly centered on their chest. Moving left/right/front/back may change the direction your character is facing, but it becomes really easy to realign when you can keep them at the center of your camera.

You can try the old trick I used to calibrate for quick scoping in MW2 days. Take a very small piece of clear tape, and put it at the center of your screen. Then take a marker and draw a dot on the tape so you can see it when looking at the screen. Whenever you're a trying to focus someone, always try to keep their character and the dot on top of eachother. Just make sure to use low adhesive tape (normal scotch tape is fine) so you don't mess up your screen when you take it off.

Once you have a good grasp, you'll begin to gain an intuition on both how people tend to move their characters and how you should move your character to be difficult for them to focus. Note that this is only applicable to 3rd person view, and ideal using the furthest zoom option. The most zoomed out setting will give you the largest field of view, and also the most room for error if an enemy is really fast at strafing.

You know the game has cross hairs sonno drawing dots required ... Soft locks on an enemy makes that enemy glow so you can track them better ...

Bam_Bam

Looking at gameplay vids, I've noticed that there are some big differences in the way players fight depending whether they are on PC or console.
What I mean is that when the fighting starts, console players seem to be quite rigid in their characters movements - lots of strafing either side to side or backwards/forwards then a turn.
With PC players, the charcter and camera seems to be all over the place. It can look really awesome or it can be really all over the place (I fall into this latter bracket. I stagger all over the place "like the drunken village idiot in a turn-of-the-century, romantic Irish novel"). There seems to be a little bit more room for eroor on consoles than PC. I guess it could be either a good thing or bad thing, depending on your point of view.

One of the main things I've done that helps my targetting, is to remove mouse in/out for the camera zoom. I NEED to be able to see as much of the surrounding environment as possible. Before I disabled the cmaera zoom, I found myselfaccidentally gradually zooming all the way in until BAM - first person view. LOL. Very disconcerting.

Zama666

PVP - I find myself throwing caltrops everywhere but where the enemy is.

In close combat I am swinging my mace wildly at no one. If seems like my opponents move so fast for me go get them in front of me.

My light attacks are just a drunk dance. That's three beauty of jabs.

I use an Xbox controller in my PC.

Help me aim Talos!!!!

Turtle_Bot

Tab-targeting is a big part of it. You can see that outline through walls/obstacles and at a fairly long range too, very helpful for seeing when ball groups are going to turn and attempt to burn giving you a better chance at avoiding it. It disappears if they go into stealth/invis though, so be aware of that.

Another part is to know when to switch targets, sometimes a target just won't go down, so its best to switch it up and keep the pressure up on the group of enemies as a whole (this also helps you to identify the weakest link in a group too).

edward_frigidhands

Turtle_Bot wrote: »

Tab-targeting is a big part of it. You can see that outline through walls/obstacles and at a fairly long range too, very helpful for seeing when ball groups are going to turn and attempt to burn giving you a better chance at avoiding it. It disappears if they go into stealth/invis though, so be aware of that.

Another part is to know when to switch targets, sometimes a target just won't go down, so its best to switch it up and keep the pressure up on the group of enemies as a whole (this also helps you to identify the weakest link in a group too).

These right here are possibly the best tips for the issue.

LittlePinkDot

Taylor_MB wrote: »

1) Tab targeting
It's not an auto hit feature, but it does give them a nice white outline, slightly bigger target box and is a base game feature.

2) Bunny hopping
People (especially ranged builds) do it for a reason. Gives you line of sight over opponents heads giving you a better angle on the player you are trying to hit.

What's Tab targeting on console?

LittlePinkDot

Zama666 wrote: »

PVP - I find myself throwing caltrops everywhere but where the enemy is.

In close combat I am swinging my mace wildly at no one. If seems like my opponents move so fast for me go get them in front of me.

My light attacks are just a drunk dance. That's three beauty of jabs.

I use an Xbox controller in my PC.

Help me aim Talos!!!!

I pretty much never land light attacks on players. I just try to hit them with a skill first. Preferably a stun so they stay still long enough.
Whirling blades skill is good because it hits everyone in a 360 degree circle around you. So it doesn't matter if you're not directly facing the enemy.

Udrath

I usually just try to constantly get behind whoever I’m attacking by tapping sprint. Usually helps me target them better and stay on them

Piojo

LittlePinkDot wrote: »

Taylor_MB wrote: »

1) Tab targeting
It's not an auto hit feature, but it does give them a nice white outline, slightly bigger target box and is a base game feature.

2) Bunny hopping
People (especially ranged builds) do it for a reason. Gives you line of sight over opponents heads giving you a better angle on the player you are trying to hit.

What's Tab targeting on console?

R3 on PS.

gariondavey

Necro thread lol