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First Person Shooter Strategy Guide
Note: many of these articles reference Counter-Strike to illustrate their points, but the strategies and techniques apply to all First Person Shooter Strategy. For a more exhaustive Strategy Guide, select a game above and use the secondary navigation bar to choose between Strategy Guide, Tweaks and Downloads for that game.
First Person Shooter Fundamentals
- Key Binding Setup, ESDF not WASD
- How to improve your reaction time
- Being one with the Shadows
- The element of surprise
- “The secret rule” to headshots
- How to improve focus and concentration in gaming
- Pulling out of Slumps
- Efficient Reloading and Timing
- Destroying Bad Habits
- Don’t forget about the radar
- 3 coffee-break tips to becoming a better player
Advanced Tactics
- How to Use the Scoreboard Effectively
- How to leverage sound (VIDEO)
- Can you dodge a bullet?
- Stop missing your flickshots
- Introduction to Angles
- How to deke a pro
- How to juggle a girlfriend and gaming
Weapon Handling
- How to control your recoil
- Basic intro to flash-bangs
- Sniper 101 (The Basics)
- How to beat Sniper
- Grenade Tactics
- A quick guide to smoke grenades
Competitive Match Tactics
- Freezetime Checklist
- Use spawns to your advantage
- How to be “clutch”
- How to win the pistol round
- How to defend
Public Server Gaming
PC Game Tweaks
- Reducing Choke, Optimize your network settings
- Got a CRT? Use Refreshlock!
- Don’t modify your Windows Sensitivity
- Running Steam in Low CPU Priority
- Optimizing your USB Mouse polling-rate
- A very in depth system tweak guide
- Disabling mouse acceleration in Windows
- TweakUI A gamer’s optimization tool
- Scan and cleanup your registry
- Tune up Windows
- LCD Refresh Rate Issue
- Minimizing to Desktop Randomly While Gaming?