How to be Good at Video Games

Max Schubel ’15

Staff Writer

In most games you find many lessons carry over from game to game no matter what genre or developer. In this guide, you will learn some of the basic lessons that will help you be successful in any game that you play.
1. Know your maps, knowing your maps in games is a must to be successful. Knowing where the hiding spots are, where people spawn and common routs that people take will help you be the very best player you can be.
2. Keep moving or stand still. In video games you must be decisive, if you can try to overwhelm your opponents by moving fast or if you can wait in ambush and take them when they least expect it, this works for Navy Seals so you should be fine.
3. Use the map to your advantage, if you know where people spawn and where they usually go then you can set up ambushes at key locations and even “spawn camp” where you wait for the enemy to spawn and then you get him.
4. Know your weapons, Knowing your capabilities is very important. If you have a long range weapon don’t go on a charge. If you have a short range weapon keep your enemies close. And don’t use a rocket launcher to take out someone three feet away.
5. Use mind games, through your enemy off by doing what he does not expect. If he thinks you’re going to charge, wait in ambush if he thinks you’re going to attack defend and vice versa. Never let your enemy know what you’re up to.
6. Know what your plan is and stick to it, being indecisive is a death sentence. Even if your plan is failing stick with the team and don’t try to be Rambo.
7. Use diversions, with proper teamwork you can confuse your appoints as to your true intentions and where you are to make them move away from objectives and make mistakes that you can use to win.
8. Finally, recognize the difference between cheating and exploiting. Cheating is when you use 3rd party software to hack the game for your advantage. Exploiting is using errors in coding as a weapon against your enemy’s. This is not generally considered frowned upon where cheating is.
9. Team work is important, in most games even if you have only one other teammate your capability more than doubles. For example, in battlefield two medics working in tandem can revive each other so they never die.
10. Practice, the best gamers have no life outside what they play and have minimal social interaction. They spend hundreds of hours playing away their life. If you want to be the best then you must make this sacrifice otherwise your just a casual.