How To Get Better At Fortnite PS4 Aim | 7 Advanced Tips To Aim Better

in this article today we're gonna be going over some more advanced aim tips for console Fortnite players. That means you won't see me saying things like "Oh if you want better aim just practice or if you want better aim find a sensitivity you're comfortable with ". Even though those more basic tips are no doubt incredibly important, I'm sure you guys have already heard them a million times already. What we're gonna focus on in this article is more situational and especially focused towards console players since aiming on 60 FPS and below can be really challenging at times. 

So, without further ado, let's get right into it. The first thing I wanna quickly mention is the value of using a low deadzone if you play on exponential or linear which everybody does so yeah. That tip itself is basic but I have a feeling not many of you guys know why it's so important. So here's a short section of a clip that blew up maybe a month or 2 ago that kind of showcases it. So basically, if you use a low enough deadzone to where you get a very slight amount of stick drift, the game will basically track for you at point-blank range even if you aren't moving your thumbstick. 

It isn't as OP as a lot of people think because it's rare that an enemy gets in front of your crosshair without you actively trying to track him, but here's an example of it in action from the controller pro CRR. He probably couldn't see that guy at all because his entire screen was covered by an explosion, but because he's using a low deadzone the game basically followed the jumping player for him. The next advanced aim tip I wanna discuss is something that helped me improve my aim early in my Fortnite career, and that's focusing on placing the enemy in the middle of your screen instead of inside your crosshair. This is a tip that I actually first heard when playing another shooter game, what players would do in that game to try to improve their aim was turn off their crosshair. 

And the reasoning behind it was that it would force you to always position enemies in the dead center of the screen to where you wouldn't even need a crosshair to hit shots. Now, I probably wouldn't recommend that for Fortnite because with things like bloom and first shot accuracy you almost need to see your crosshair to be successful, and honestly, I don't even know if Fortnite lets you disable it even if you wanted to, but the same principle still applies here. With pretty much every weapon in the game having a different crosshair size, bloom, and bullet spread, your crosshair can actually kinda mislead you at times. However, if you're able to put any enemy you see in the middle of your screen especially in close range fights, you're gonna hit most of your shots. 

By focusing on the placement of the enemy on your screen instead of the placement of the crosshair on the enemy it kinda simplifies aim a bit, which I think is something that's going to help a lot of players in the long run. And the good news is if you practice and focus on this enough eventually it'll become second nature like it probably is for most pros. The next advanced aiming tip/technique that I want to discuss is something I call left stick aiming. And that probably doesn't make very much sense to you because obviously aiming is normally done with the right stick but don't worry I'll explain. So now that the majority of controller players are playing on linear and on top of that also likely using a low look dampening time, one aspect of aiming that's become kinda difficult is very slight crosshair adjustments.

 Maybe not so much at absolute point-blank range because you get that insane stickiness we've talked about many times before, but if you're say...3-5 meters away, the aim assist you get won't be anywhere near as strong even though you're definitely still in a close-range situation. So what a lot of players will struggle with is when their crosshair is just off of their enemy's body, not by a lot but still to where if they shoot they're gonna miss the majority of their shots or pellets of it's a shotgun. But then when they try to flick it ever so slightly towards the direction of the enemy, since they're using such a low look dampening time there's no aim acceleration whatsoever, and therefore they end up moving the crosshair past the enemy and they have the same problem they started the fight with. 

One of the ways that you can counter this is by adjusting your crosshair not with only the right thumbstick but by mainly moving your left thumbstick to make your character move. As you'll see in this clip, even though my crosshair starts just off the sentry's body I'm able to hit shots by strafing with my left stick and not even touching my right stick. However that's a bit of an extreme example, most of the time even when you're moving with your left stick you still wanna be adjusting your right stick ever slightly. It's definitely a very situational tip that mostly applies to 50/50 spray SMG fights when you're either strafing or jumping. But the main advantage of incorporating left stick aiming is that it puts less pressure on you to track entirely with your right stick because your left stick is doing some of the work for you. In general, it's gonna make your aim less flicky and more tracky which is very ideal for controller and console. 

The next aiming tip on our list is the importance of tracking and predicting enemy movement even if you aren't currently shooting at them. I would say the most common example of this happens during box fighting situations, and it's so frustrating to see people make this mistake. What will happen is they'll force the enemy into a 1x1 and they'll just kinda be looking at the front wall. Maybe they're about to try phasing through or breaking and replacing the wall but at the moment they still have their weapon out. What the player should be doing/thinking in this situation is basically as long as I have my weapon out, I should be following the enemy with my crosshair through the wall. 

That's the good thing about materials being transparent when they're first built, you can see through them, and you'll even be able to mostly see-through fully built wood. The reason why this is so important is because if it's a good player inside that 1x1, here's what he's is going to do in that situation if he sees you just kinda lollygagging around is make an edit on the wall, and now you need to do some crazy shotgun flick shot to try to deal some damage. Here's just a quick little clip of me showcasing the proper way to do this. So in that example, I was caught in kinda this weird situation where I wasn't really sure what to do. My teammate was down so I didn't wanna disengage, and even though you couldn't hear it in that clip I was asking my teammate whether he was weak or not because if he was I was gonna try to phase, and if he wasn't I was gonna go for a break and replace. 

But that entire time when I prevented myself from being a sitting duck by tracking the enemy even though there wasn't an immediate opportunity to shoot him. Because of that, when he tried to make an offensive play by opening his wall with an edit, I was totally prepared, and it resulted in me hitting an absolute layup high damage shotgun shot before he even had a chance to react. Now that's just 1 specific example, but similar situations will happen multiple times a game. If you're constantly tracking your enemy it's gonna set you up for really easy shots, and if you choose not to, you better be a flick shotting god or else you're gonna miss a ton of shots that you shouldn't. 

However, speaking of predicting enemy movement while tracking, the final aiming tip I wanna discuss is not making the mistake of rushing your shot. Even though this is a problem that a lot of people have and it may sound kinda advanced, it can actually be boiled down to something as simple as this: Unless you're spraying a guy to where you don't really care if you miss a few times, don't fire a shot until you see your crosshair on the enemy. A lot of players will start to line up their shot while moving their crosshair, and they'll frequently shoot right before their crosshair touches the enemy because I guess they're scared he's gonna move or something, and they don't wanna miss their opportunity. That's an example of over predicting that can really hurt your aim and make you miss more shots.