News - The Fastest Way To Warm Up Warzone
This is the fastest way to warm up your aim. We're going to do all of this in the firing range because I'm not going to shoot bots in a custom game because it takes way too long to set up, and I'm also not going to load into a real game because Call of Duty uses engagement-optimized matchmaking, which means your first game is usually one of the easiest lobbies that you'll get all day, so we don't want to waste it warming up now on the range.
I like to set the bots to three plates, and I personally turn the assist off. This is a bit more advanced, so if that's too hard for you, you can definitely keep it on. Okay, let's start the warm-up. For the first 15 seconds, I simply rotate my thumb around in circles in both directions. I'm just trying to loosen up my thumb and go through the full range of motion of the analog stick.
I also move it up and down and side to side as well to help get warmed. Up and then for the next 30 seconds. I pick one of the dummies as a target and I simply strafe back and forth while trying to keep my Crosshair centered on the target, this helps me warm up the fine motor skills in my thumb, and gets me used to making small adjustments as I move around Crosshair placement and centering your aim in Call of Duty is extremely important because the time to kill is really low and it can often be the difference between winning and losing gunfights in the game so being able to make small adjustments to your Crosshair as you're moving around the map is really important, and this helps me get warmed up for that.
Now this next exercise is probably the hardest in the warmup, and what I do is just move my crosshair back and forth between two different dummies. In a real game, you're oftentimes going to find yourself in situations where you know an opponent is near you but don't know where they're going to challenge you.
For instance, if you're looking at a building, they might challenge you from the doorway or from the window, and you want to be able to accurately put your crosshair in each one of those locations, anticipating that they might be there. This can be rather difficult because you won't have any aim assists when there's no one there, so this drill helps me get warmed up for situations like that.
Now If you look at this line in the firing range, as soon as you cross it, the dummies start to move, so for this next exercise. I like to warm up my tracking by pointing at the first dummy, then walking past the line, and then tracking the dummy as he moves back and forth. Doing this over and over again for about a minute helps me smooth out my aim as I move my analog stick left and right.
It's really important to have smooth aim in an FPS game because you always want to be in complete control. If you have a lot of jerky motions in your aim, you won't be able to make those fine micro-adjustments needed in gunfights. This was something I struggled with a lot when I first started trying to improve my aim in Call of Duty because when you're playing with aim assists, it oftentimes covers up a lot of the inaccuracies that you have in your thumb, and if you never work on smoothing out your aim, you'll never reach your maximum potential.
This is a big reason why I like to train with aim assist in a lot of cases, because it really helps me develop the fine motor skills in my thumb to help me aim at a very high level. Not to mention, when you finally turn aim assist back on, it literally feels like an aimbot because of how strong it is.
Okay, and for this next exercise, I finally start to shoot my gun, and what I like to do is grab one of my load-out guns that has a large magazine. And I simply fire the gun down range, and I just try to control the recoil the best that I can, not really aiming at any of the targets. I'm just trying to see as little movement as possible, and in the barrel of my gun, I also don't just always fire the entire magazine at once.
I often times like to shoot the gun and burst, because the recoil pattern for the first couple of seconds when you fire is going to usually be a little bit different compared to the sustained recoil fire after a couple of seconds, so I like to practice this initial burst because if I can handle the recoil for the first second or so and stay on target.
I'm usually going to hit enough shots to down my opponent. Also. I'm not sure if this is true for every gun, but it does seem like the first second or so of recoil is usually the hardest to control, and then the recoil starts to even out over time, so it kind of makes sense to practice the first part.
Recoil control is such a fundamental skill for aiming that, even though it's pretty basic, I like to spend quite a bit of time working on it every day. Okay, and for the next exercise, I switch my aim back and forth between the different dummies as fast as possible. I'm not looking to down the dummy each time; I just want to get a couple of bullets into them to make sure that I'm on target.
I practice switching between the targets while holding my ads, and also while letting go of them. I play with an ad multiplier, so depending on the situation, sometimes it's faster to let go of my ads. One of the major things that separates good players from average players in Call of Duty is the pacing and speed at which they play.
To get high-kill games, you have to be playing the game really quickly and getting into a lot of engagements, which more often than not means fighting more than one person at a time. So this drill not only helps me warm up my aim but also helps me get mentally prepared for how fast I need to play the game.
And now for this next drill. I spent a minute working on my 90° turns. Often times when you're playing the game, you're going to get surprised by someone shooting you in the side, so you have to be able to turn quickly and get on Target and then hit your shots, so for this drill I face the sidewall of variation and I turn as fast as I can and then shoot one of the dummies I like to change my position from the wall so that I'm not always turning the exact same angle to shoot the dummies which gives me a little bit of variation it makes this drill a little bit harder.
I also make sure to practice turning to the left and to the right because I want to be warmed up in both directions because I don't know where I'm going to be shot at when I get into an actual game. This warm-up drill is quite a bit harder than the previous one because I don't see my target when I start my turn, but this is where muscle memory comes into play because I've done this drill and other drills like it so many times that I know roughly what it takes to turn 90° on my thumb stick, and that's why sometimes when you shoot a good player in the side and they're still able to kill you, it's because their reflexes and muscle memory just take over and they're able to hit their shots without even thinking.
