suck at multiplayer-any advice?

ShakeNBake said:
plug in controller, don't use wireless.
plug console into router with ethernet cable, don't use wireless.
use a PC monitor with low input lag, rather than HDTV which may have input lag issues.

everything else is practice :)
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i honestly don't see how plugging in a controller and using ethernet would make you any better at a fps game. in fact i'm sure in some games if you have a crap internet connection you gain an advantage. the xb1 controller uses proprietary wi-fi connection iirc so it shouldn't be bad. some ps4's however have dodgy bluetooth controllers and the bluetooth chip in them is crap. plugging in a controller will do nothing to help that as it still uses bluetooth when wired. i've posted about it before. in fact i bought a new ps4 a few weeks ago (new chassis) because my old ps4 has had multiple issues with bluetooth.

decent HDTV's with game mode and pc mode enabled have so little input lag i doubt anyone could tell. i game on a monitor only because i don't want screen burn on my plasma. samsung's 2015 range of tv's for example have around 15-30ms of input lag. there are 1000 miliseconds in a second just to put into context how little the lag is. i have very good eyesight tested at better than 20/20 and i fail to see any difference in lag between my monitor (u2414h has practically no lag iirc) and tv which has around 26 ms of lag. turn game mode off however then i can notice it. so lag is an issue only if you have a crap tv so you don't need a gaming monitor a decent tv is just as good. so people should really look up how much lag there tv has before rushing out to buy a monitor. hdtvtest and avforums has all the info you need. if either of them don't have a review for your tv chances are you have a crap tv and should look into gaming monitors.

if you want to pick up some tips then youtube videos or streamers can show you some things which will help. at the end of the day though it is based on reaction times and skill. making the right decisions quicker than your opponent and having the accuracy to outgun them. swat mode in halo is purely skill based as you cannot make mistakes and have to have very good accuracy it's probably the best way to see what your skill level is in fps. if your getting outgunned a lot in swat mode then your reaction times and accuracy are off as it's purely based on those 2 as well as some luck (not getting shot in the back for instance).

i went flawless in trials yesterday with 2 team mates who knew about 5 words in english (they were randoms who i played against and beat). in a game mode where people think communication is very very important. player skill matters a lot more and that proves it.

i have 2 guys on my friends list (one a fellow scot, the other an american) who seem to be able to decipher a situation, analyse everything and communicate what to do whilst others are still trying to figure out what just happened. stuff like that you cannot really learn it's built in instinct which has been honed and refined early on you can get better at it with practice but you will never reach the same level if the potential wasn't there in the first place. that is what makes them better than most, the speed they process information within the game is lightning quick.

some people are just better at different things. some guys are just beast at everything though. practice will help but some people even with 10 years of practice will still suck at fps.

imo the best practice would be playing swat in halo, it's all about reaction times and accuracy. preferably the handgun maps
 
I want to say keep playing, but having played online FPS games in the past so much, improvements depended on the game and even then it wasn't anything too noticeable. Some games I'd sink 100s of hours into and I'd be **** as the day I started. It doesn't help that Star Wars Battlefront isn't exactly a great game, a lot of the time you'll die to no fault of your own as spawn right near an enemy. I've never played Titanfall but it sounds like the generic FPS. Biggest obvious tip to give is to keep moving, choose a route through the map with ammo and pick-ups (depending on the game). A fast target is harder to hit. If you are playing on console then so long, FPS is a bit more accurate on KB+M, controllers tend to have a bit of auto-aim which doesn't always help.

Games with a proper skill curve (difficult to start but you get used to it) that I'd recommend are Tribes Ascend (probably the one of the most unique FPS out there) and Planetside 2, both of which are decent free-to-play FPS. Both are on PC and PS2 is also on PS4. Both of these are actually more difficult in some respects since they actually have projectile speed and bullet drop, the weapons simply aren't hit-scan. But in PS2, one of the factions have virtually no bullet drop on their weapons (it's balanced fairly well, don't worry). After playing months of PS2 and thinking I was just as bad as I was at the start, I started a new character and thought a faction was OP and then realised that it was simply that I'd gotten better at the game.
 
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Practice. Stay alert. Look ahead. Use the right guns, don't use something big and bulky if you run around all the time. If you camp, then you could.. Use smaller guns if you move around a lot
 
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