It's a commonly-known fact that in Killing Floor, many weapons are just as accurate -- or at least pretty close -- when hipfired as they are when aiming down the sight. The reason you aim down the sight is because there's no crosshair.
But sometimes, it's very useful to be able to hipfire accurately so you can pop a few zeds while moving, especially while kiting. And for a Berserker, you can't aim down the sight at all, so learning to "hipfire" the melee weapons accurately is essential to take advantage of headshot bonuses.
Through experience, you can get a feel for about where the shots are going to land when you hipfire them, a feel for about where the center of the screen is. For me, I think it's an instinctive understanding of where the zed's head should be on my screen to hipfire headshot it at a given distance.
But if you can't do that, or you want even more precision, there's a neat workaround: simply aim down your sights with something that has good iron sights (say, the Lever-Action Rifle), and use the sights for aligning when putting a small piece of tape on your screen. Presto-blammo, you now have a crosshair!
If you have the same trouble I did and can't get a piece small enough to serve as a good crosshair, just take a sharpie and add a dot on top of the tape, so that the ink doesn't harm your screen.
I tested it out tonight and it works like a charm! I was popping Crawlers and Gorefasts from the hip all over the place.
Like I said, it's also excellent for Berserkers who don't have the experience to land headshots instinctively yet, especially when those Gorefasts, Sirens, Bloats, Husks, and Scrakes mean you're pretty dependent on landing melee headshots.
And I know what you're thinking; "but Captain Howel, isn't this cheating?"
Well I've got just the answer for you: PROBABLY NOT!
See, cheating is somewhat subjective, but basically it's defined as breaking the rules to give yourself an advantage over competitors. That's not what you're doing here though -- you're using an external resource to give yourself a useful skill that competitors got through practice, and which you can still gain through practice, but without the trial and error of the past!
And sure, veteran players may call you a scrub if they find out you're using this, but at least they won't be calling you a scrub for missing a vital headshot and enraging the Fleshpound or Scrake causing it to wipe your whole team!
But sometimes, it's very useful to be able to hipfire accurately so you can pop a few zeds while moving, especially while kiting. And for a Berserker, you can't aim down the sight at all, so learning to "hipfire" the melee weapons accurately is essential to take advantage of headshot bonuses.
Through experience, you can get a feel for about where the shots are going to land when you hipfire them, a feel for about where the center of the screen is. For me, I think it's an instinctive understanding of where the zed's head should be on my screen to hipfire headshot it at a given distance.
But if you can't do that, or you want even more precision, there's a neat workaround: simply aim down your sights with something that has good iron sights (say, the Lever-Action Rifle), and use the sights for aligning when putting a small piece of tape on your screen. Presto-blammo, you now have a crosshair!
If you have the same trouble I did and can't get a piece small enough to serve as a good crosshair, just take a sharpie and add a dot on top of the tape, so that the ink doesn't harm your screen.
I tested it out tonight and it works like a charm! I was popping Crawlers and Gorefasts from the hip all over the place.
Like I said, it's also excellent for Berserkers who don't have the experience to land headshots instinctively yet, especially when those Gorefasts, Sirens, Bloats, Husks, and Scrakes mean you're pretty dependent on landing melee headshots.
And I know what you're thinking; "but Captain Howel, isn't this cheating?"
Well I've got just the answer for you: PROBABLY NOT!
See, cheating is somewhat subjective, but basically it's defined as breaking the rules to give yourself an advantage over competitors. That's not what you're doing here though -- you're using an external resource to give yourself a useful skill that competitors got through practice, and which you can still gain through practice, but without the trial and error of the past!
And sure, veteran players may call you a scrub if they find out you're using this, but at least they won't be calling you a scrub for missing a vital headshot and enraging the Fleshpound or Scrake causing it to wipe your whole team!
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