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0:03If you are a competitive FPS player in
0:052026, there has never been a better time
0:08for you to start aim training. With the
0:10growth of [music] AIM groups like
0:12Voltaic and now Raw Input, featuring
0:14profoundly skillful players that
0:15constantly produce new content and new
0:17resources surrounding aim training,
0:19there is a wealth of information that
0:21will inform you on your journey to
0:23becoming the best aimer that you can
0:24possibly be. And with Aim Labs esports
0:26now just around the corner and
0:28professional players across all the
0:29different kinds of FPS games getting
0:31better and better at their mechanics,
0:33there is a lot to gain from starting aim
0:35training today. And if you're watching
0:36this video and you're thinking that
0:38you're starting far too late, oh, I'm X
0:41years old. There's no way I'll be able
0:42to catch up to the younger generation of
0:45players who have been grinding this for
0:46almost decades. Don't fret. There is
0:49literally a 53-year-old aimer who has
0:52reached a very impressive level of skill
0:54in the Aim Labs official benchmarks.
0:55[music] If you have a working hand and
0:57you are truly dedicated to getting
0:59better aim, there is no such thing as
1:01being too late. In this video, I'm going
1:04to walk you through how to get started
1:05with aim training step by step. This is
1:07the first of a three episode miniseries
1:09[music] where I will start out by
1:10guiding you through the initial steps
1:12such as which aim trainer you should
1:14use, setting up the aim trainer, and
1:16picking the right scenarios to get
1:17moving. Then I will provide an updated
1:20version of my top five in training tips
1:22video, which is a super old video that
1:24I've released all the way back in 2021
1:26that got really popular. Those tips are
1:28kind of outdated or not really as
1:30informative [music] today. So that will
1:32be part of this series. And finally, I
1:34will be going over the common reasons
1:36why people claim aim training doesn't
1:38work and explaining why these reasons
1:39are mostly bogus or simply
1:42narrowsighted. I will start off with
1:43this video and then the others will be
1:45coming in the near future.
1:47There are three primary aim trainers
1:49available on Steam. They are Kovac FPS
1:52aim trainer, Aim Labs, and Aimbeaste. If
1:55you are just starting out, which one
1:56should you get and why?
1:59I think if you are super fresh to aim
2:01training, like in the sense that you are
2:03new to mouse and keyboard gaming, I'd
2:05argue that it's not a bad idea to start
2:07with AimLabs. It's not as difficult to
2:09discover great scenarios as it used to
2:11be in AimLabs. And the mainstream AIM
2:13group, Voltaic, has been partnered with
2:14AimLabs for a long time. So, a ton of
2:17their most current resources and
2:18routines are available there, and it's
2:21also completely free.
2:24However, in my most honest opinion, you
2:27absolutely cannot go wrong starting out
2:29with Kovac FPS aim trainer. For just the
2:32extremely cheap price of 10 USD on
2:34Steam, you can get access to the most
2:36diverse selection of scenarios and
2:38playlists available, as well as the
2:39extremely clean UI and navigation.
2:42But most importantly, the scenarios you
2:44will be playing will be more robust in
2:46the sense that they have parabolic
2:48motion. Not to get into the math, but as
2:50you level up in skill, moving through
2:52aim labs, you might notice that
2:54sometimes the targets movements become
2:56overly linear or feel directly
2:58programmed into the scenario. In Kovac
3:00scenarios, movement is more spontaneous
3:02and feels more realistic to the real FPS
3:05game. And then we have aim beast, which
3:07is the least popular of the three and
3:09also has the lowest scenario variety.
3:12Aim Beast is also a paid aim trainer
3:14with the price of only $8 on Steam. So
3:16cheaper than Coax, but with a bit less
3:19that you get access to. However,
3:21Aimbeast does have, in my opinion, the
3:23best performance out of the three and
3:25some of the most challenging scenarios
3:26available in any AIM trainer. In this
3:29video, I will be providing you with a
3:31comprehensive starter routine. I will
3:33only be building this routine in Aim
3:35Labs and Kovac. I do not have the most
3:38experience with scenarios in Aimbeast
3:39and I don't think it's the best option
3:41for you to go with if you are first
3:42starting out. However, if you do find
3:44that you are enjoying aim training and
3:46want to explore further resources or
3:48challenge yourself more, I highly
3:50encourage you to purchase Aimbeast and
3:51try it out for yourself after getting a
3:53little bit more experience. Now, let's
3:56get into a brief setup guide. All right,
3:59we're first going to start off with an
4:01Aim Lab setup guide. And this isn't
4:03going to be a really indepth walkthrough
4:05of every single setting. This is just
4:08going to be an overview of all of the
4:10default settings that I think everyone
4:12should be using if they play aim labs or
4:15aim trainer. And so we're going to start
4:18off with the sensitivity tab. For the
4:21game profile, we're going to go with
4:22Overwatch 2. That's because a lot of the
4:25settings that we'll be using, such as
4:27field of view, 103 FOV is the standard
4:31FOV that pretty much every scenario is
4:33designed around these days. So, you'll
4:36want to stick with that. You can go
4:38higher FOV than that, but I don't
4:39recommend that you go lower unless for
4:41certain situations or specific kinds of
4:44practice. And then everything else you
4:46can kind of just copy here. Sensitivity
4:49options you would want to have at
4:51advanced. And the reason for that is so
4:53that when you go to your mouse tab
4:55underneath sensitivity, you can set your
4:58360 distance. And I'm pretty sure that
5:00that is how it works. You'll need to
5:03have advanced clicked so that you can
5:05set your sensitivity in CMER 360.
5:09CMER 360 is the universal measurement
5:12for sensitivity in aim trainers or in
5:15basically all FPS games and all all
5:18things aiming these days. So, if you
5:20don't know your sensitivity and you're
5:22probably using something like uh an
5:24outdated eDPI measure, uh you'll have to
5:27go to mouse-sensitivity.com
5:29to convert your sensitivity over to
5:31cmper 360 over there and bring it over
5:33into Aimlabs. This is just the easiest
5:36way to do it. You can select a specific
5:39game profile sensitivity, but I don't
5:41recommend you do that. Just adopt the
5:43universal CM for 360 setting.
5:47And then everything else here we could
5:48kind of just copy.
5:51And for a controller,
5:53no, we don't want you to be the
5:55controller.
5:56Anyways,
5:58for the crosshair, you could pretty much
6:00use any crosser that you would want. Uh
6:02you can import your crosser into the
6:04game. Don't bother using the crosshair
6:06builder. In the description, I have
6:08provided just three crossers that you
6:09will want to use. You can go off and
6:11find more if you want, but I genuinely
6:13believe that you just need these three.
6:16One is Z plus1, which is the default
6:18crosser that literally every aimer likes
6:20to use, and it looks like this.
6:24And this is usually for clicking and
6:26target switching. And another one, which
6:28we already saw here, is Snowy Sharp Dot.
6:30And this is a smaller plus light crosser
6:33that is better used for tracking
6:34scenarios. And then another one I think
6:36is snowy soft cross
6:39which is if you prefer to not have
6:41outlines and this one's mostly good for
6:43clicking scenarios.
6:46Moving on, we have the targets tab. You
6:50could pretty much set these to whatever
6:52you want. This will be mostly affected
6:53to uh the theme that you're using. For
6:56audio,
6:58I like to only have hit sounds and kill
7:01sounds on. And sometimes I I like to use
7:05the pacebased hit sound. Basically, what
7:07this means is as you continue to get
7:08hits on a target or kill targets, the
7:11pitch of the hit sound will continue to
7:13increase.
7:15And I don't really like to run spawn
7:16sounds in aimlabs.
7:18For graphics, I think you guys should
7:20just copy pretty much everything here.
7:22I'm in full screen mode right now just
7:24for the sake of helping me record
7:25better, but you should be running full
7:27screen exclusive on this. If you have
7:30stutters, then you should be running
7:32full screen windowed because some
7:34scenarios can stutter if they're not uh
7:37if they're in full screen.
7:39Everything else should line up. And all
7:42of these graphic settings, you want it
7:43all on the fastest. Turn off every
7:45single one of these things. [music] You
7:47don't want to have visual clutter or any
7:49sort of effects that are happening in
7:50your game, especially in a name trainer
7:52where all of that is supposed to be out.
7:55In the visuals tab,
7:57there's not much that you need to worry
7:59about here. Normally, this would be a
8:01very weird explanation trying to get the
8:03lighting correct, but they've since
8:04updated the UI quite a bit. And all you
8:07need to do is load one of the themes
8:08included in the description of this
8:10video using the load theme option in
8:12this tab.
8:15And everything else here should be
8:17automatically covered by that.
8:20In the game, you can pretty much copy
8:23everything here. Again, make sure that
8:25you turn off your weapon. I know some
8:27people want to make the argument that if
8:30they're new and they're trying to have
8:32the greatest translation into the game,
8:34they should have the weapon model, but I
8:36don't think it does anything for you
8:38except obscure your vision and
8:41everything else uh should be the same.
8:44So, this has just been simple setup
8:47guide for aim labs and now we're going
8:48to move on to Kovac.
8:51For setting up Kovac, I highly recommend
8:53that you go to my most recent setup
8:55guide for Kovac FPS aim trainer. That
8:58one is linked in the description. I will
9:00not be going setting by setting for
9:02Kovac in this video. I will, however,
9:04head over to the visuals tab. Also
9:07included in the description is genuinely
9:09the only two themes that you're going to
9:11need to start off with Kovac. Clover
9:13static for stationary target scenarios
9:15and Clover Alternate, the best theme
9:18ever made for literally anything else.
9:21For hit sounds in both aim trainers, I
9:23have included three sound files. When
9:25you import them, what you want to do is
9:27set the sounds according to how they're
9:28named. So, for example, you will use the
9:30sound named hit sound.g as a sound your
9:33game will play when you hit the target.
9:35This is what these sounds will sound
9:37like when all used together.
9:52and any other sound like miss sounds or
9:54shoot sounds should be turned off as
9:55shown previously. Also, make absolutely
9:58sure you turn off all gun displays,
10:00bullet holes, [music]
10:01or any random cosmetic feedback that
10:04might be on by default that I might have
10:05missed to ensure that you will get the
10:07most clutter-free experience possible. I
10:10strongly believe that aim trainers
10:11should just install with all of that
10:13garbage off, but it's what we've got to
10:15deal with for now. Now, for the routine
10:18and what you should be expecting to
10:19play, I will be making one for both Aim
10:22Labs and Kovac, but we will be using
10:24Kovac to showcase it. Don't worry, they
10:26will be training the exact same thing
10:28across the trainers. Each routine
10:30contains 15 scenarios split into three
10:33categories. So that means five clicking
10:36scenarios, five tracking scenarios and
10:38five switching scenarios. And
10:39importantly, the order in which each of
10:41the five scenarios are organized
10:43matters. This is the order in which you
10:46should be prioritizing them, not just
10:48the play order. You must master clicking
10:50scenario one, then clicking scenario 2,
10:52and so on. This is because the scenarios
10:55build on each other. Now, you don't need
10:58to master clicking before tracking or
11:00tracking before switching, but you
11:02should go in order for the individual
11:04category. And here's why. The playlist
11:07begins with two basic static clicking
11:09scenarios. In these scenarios, the
11:11intention is to force you to learn the
11:13Bard method, which is the fundamental
11:14click timing approach that is used in
11:16basically any flicking oriented clicking
11:18scenario, consisting of an initial flick
11:20and a microcorrection. I have a couple
11:23videos explaining the Barta's method in
11:24the description, but there will be more
11:26on this in the next episode.
11:29The reason that you want to go in order
11:30here is because you can see how as the
11:33sub routine progresses, the difficulty
11:35is not necessarily increasing, but you
11:37are easing yourself into more diverse
11:39movement scenarios. For example, the
11:41next scenario is a basic horizontal tile
11:44frenzy scenario that asks you to use the
11:46flicking technique you developed from
11:47the static scenarios. Yes, I know, Tile
11:50Frenzy, but trust me, when you play it,
11:52it's a lot harder to just spam click
11:54your way to a good run.
11:58The tracking section does the same
12:00thing, starting you off with the most
12:01easy control tracking scenarios. Some of
12:04you might be thinking, Maddie, this is
12:06too easy. I'm hitting almost 60% and I
12:08just started aim training. That's
12:10expected because the goal here is to
12:12force you to iron out those very tiny
12:14errors that are keeping you from
12:15hitting, say, 70% or 80%. You have to
12:19come to a fine balance in tension
12:21management and develop proactive reading
12:22of target strafs. We then test you on
12:25this with a smoothness scenario followed
12:27by more diverse reactive variants. Then
12:30you get to the switching section where
12:32in the exact same way we start off easy
12:34with stationary targets ints.
12:37Then we introduce x-axis movement, then
12:40full aerial movement, and finally
12:42increasing the TTK to switch the
12:43category to evasive. Here you want to be
12:46thinking about the flick to track
12:48transition and practicing using your
12:50peripheral vision to make proper target
12:52pryo decisions.
12:54And we are out of time for this first
12:56video. Catch us back here sometime in
12:58the next couple weeks for an updated aim
13:00training tips video and my personal
13:02response to how to fix your aim training
13:04approach if you feel that aim trainers
13:06aren't working for you. Until then, I
13:08hope you guys enjoy the routine. Check
13:10out my streams at twitch.tv/matty_w
13:11TV/matty_w
13:13where I will be guiding a new generation
13:15of aim training players for 2026 and
13:17beyond. As always, happy doc clicking.
13:23>> [music]

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