Anyone who wants to excel in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare needs either natural talent or practice. Fortunately, skill can be trained – and quite easily, too.
What kind of training is this? With the training we present to you today, you will fundamentally improve your gameplay. You can use it to become better or simply to warm up before matches. You will train:
- better aiming
- correct reactions
- handling weapons
To do this, you will build your own “training course” that you can complete repeatedly. The YouTuber TheXclusiveAce has shown this in detail in a video. According to him, even professionals should train using this or a similar method.
Training for better aiming in CoD Modern Warfare
How to set up the training: To set your own training mode, you first need to open a private game in multiplayer. Here, you have a lot of freedom to customize the game. Select the popular map Shoot House and choose the mode “Free for All”.
Next, you need to make some adjustments in the game rules. Change the following options:
- Game
- Time limit: Unlimited (unless you want to play for a limited time)
- Score limit: Unlimited
- Game countdown: 5 seconds
- Skip Infiltration: Enabled
- Team
- Kill cam: Disabled
- Weapon pings on the overview map: Disabled
- Weapon pings on the compass: Disabled
- Enemy on the compass: Disabled
- Gameplay
- Magazines at entry: Max.
- Score streaks: Disabled
Then, set up 11 bots with the difficulty “Recruit” as opponents in the bot setup.
These weapons you should use: For this training, you can use any weapon, but submachine guns and assault rifles are best. They have large magazines without endless reload time. Some builds and setups of the M4A1 are suitable here. You can also choose one of the best weapons from each weapon category or try out a secret weapon.
Set up your weapon and build via the Gunsmith as follows:
- Magazine: As large as possible (min. 60 rounds, the PP-19 Bizon offers 84)
- Perk: Sleight of Hand
- Blue Perk (Build): Looting
You should leave everything else as untouched as possible or adjust it to your liking. After all, it’s about training your aim. You should stay away from attachments that improve your aiming ability.
Training against “dumb” bots
That’s why the settings are important: With this training setup, you will face bots that essentially serve as mere targets. They should not resist much, but help you practice your aiming.
That’s why you will play against eleven easy bots (less if it becomes too much for you; more isn’t possible). Shoot House, due to its quite straightforward layout, is an ideal map for aim training, and the settings ensure that you waste as little time as possible.
The setup of the weapon and the builds is also designed for training. This way, you ensure that you can focus solely on aiming without losing your “flow” or getting distracted.
Tips for the right aim training
This is how to train properly: Once you have made the right settings, you can start. While playing, your aim should be to focus on aiming and become faster step by step. Here are some tips:
- always aim at body height, don’t look at the ground or the sky
- don’t use “prefire”, but react and shoot only when you see an enemy
- aim for the chest – the recoil will naturally pull you up towards the head
- focus on being accurate – the goal is to achieve the lowest TTK possible
For the actual training, you can either run around the map hunting bots or wait at a spot with many spawns until the bots come to you.
TheXclusiveAce even recommends playing without sound. This way, you get used to reacting solely to what you see.
What you should avoid: Even though you should become faster and faster during the training, never lose sight of accuracy. If you notice that you are neglecting precise aiming for the sake of faster shooting, take a step back.
Then focus on becoming accurate again. After that, you can gradually increase your speed again.
Objective of the training
What you should achieve: By the end of the training, you should reach the following objectives or get closer to them:
- A sense of how quickly an enemy falls (estimate TTK)
- Precise and quick reaction when an enemy appears
- A sense of how a weapon behaves and how to play efficiently with it
As you repeat these things, they should imprint into your muscle memory and become almost subconscious. This way, you can also access reflexes that you trained while practicing in multiplayer modes.
