Are you hip?

I m already suffering from the hips, it sucks

Zero serious replies. This was not an unexpected outcome.

This is a game skill, in my opinion one of the final missing pieces for me. It is a trust skill - trust yourself and your cursor placement. With Wraith, and power canceling (the true differentiator), you can wreck a mook spawn with any kit. 4 shots and a power, it does not get more efficient unless Cobra. In solo environments, this can be the difference between gelling when a surprise spawn tries the surprise buttsex, and losing a bar of health and moving on with your life.

Noticed this a lot on a recent UUG that I opened a lobby for but no one joined. Ended up rolling Old Reactor Reapers with DemoGrill. Hip shots saved my ass multiple times, in my typical aggressive DG play style (5 grabs (at least), more than 25 melee kills, 5WS, 10HS medal never ADS) - had surprise spawns and with one Wraith + one Arc, I could kill them all, or the crucial ones to have an escape path to new cover.

Power Canceling, at a high level, is the penultimate skill. More powerful than simple reload canceling, but useless without the final game skill, that very few (and definitely not me) have -

Calm intrepidity.

The calm intrepidity has to be the most important one, or everyone is a cheater and I am the best of the best.

So, the post tone was not serious. The question is. We've only been playing for 10 years, game is still brand new.

This is nightmare fuel

This is valuable input. Thanks in particular for your response.

In CP2077, ADS was pointless with my playstyle (when I even considered using a gun).

When I came back to our game, the behavior stuck. Undid 10yrs of muscle memory in one game, in a good way overall.

I did hipfire my sniper a couple times the other day, but was able to "correct" that behavior. Against that level of shields, the hipfire penalty is meaningless if you hit the target. Smart move, will try to emulate situationally.

What I think is my case:

The panic of the Gold zerg rush made me panic. I also felt that the "right" way to play was to aim for the head. I was right, but I didn't understand that ADS wasn't as necessary as I believed it to be. Add panic to a player that doesn't trust their aim to begin with and is OCD about getting the shot - explains a lot of deaths, too focused down the sights to see all the beauty there is in the world... And the Marauder behind me.

If you want to bum rush the enemy, you don't really have time for being fancy. Living and killing is better than dying trying to kill in style. I'm hip to it now.

When I start to play again more, I revert to old bad habits. Seems my lessons only stick when I play other games for a bit.

It is because I am a scorewhore/speedwhore. I do want to score high, but the real motivation is to kill the enemy as fast as possible. I don't want to wait for them. This mode works great with an experienced player or two on the team, but can be disastrous with a group of noobs where you thought the accounts were alts but they were in fact brand new.

It isn't easy being hip.

Hip shooters are show offs! Snort!

Yes. can't allow nothing to get in the way pr reduce the most important sight. Also because i couldn't be bothered with a proper fox fix, so me mouse movemebt gets reallll slow if ads with fov active... *shrug*

yeah its in the toohard basket for me. but it's allright. i have console enabled for fov which is fine. hipfire on everything in custom fov games and the original fov for when ads is required. also allows me to keep the opriginal coalesced for the themed challenges (when i do)

Explosive ammo. just give it a try.