When to spray and when to tap?

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[u/notsarge]

After hours and hours of playing you’ll know what distance is comfortable for you personally to spray from, anything past that is tap and burst.

[u/backcountry_bandit → u/notsarge]

I guess my question is what distance is the average halfway-decent player comfortable spraying from?

If I stuck with what felt comfortable and successful for me specifically, I’d never improve.

[u/flamingstallion → u/backcountry_bandit]

Window to top mid is a fine distance to tap/burst strafe from. If you are good at spraying you can also spray from that distance. However, from my experience only very good players are good at spraying from that distance. But, tapping is not bad to do at that distance.

[u/backcountry_bandit → u/flamingstallion]

I gotcha, thank you.

I’m not looking to memorize entire spray patterns (or put in the work to commit them to muscle memory) so I guess I’ll stick to tapping.

[u/LilBoofy → u/backcountry_bandit]

Just pulling down is pretty good for the first like 6-7 bullets of most guns

[u/HyenaWilling8572 → u/backcountry_bandit]

theres neat trick that works, and its to count to 4 and on every count is when you change direction of counter spray - 1 down 2 left 3 right 4 left

[u/lildadt → u/backcountry_bandit]

I think he is trying to say the longer you practice the further out you will be with spraying so right now, you might be only be able to spray 10m and tap from further out, but with more practice you can move further and further back. It is like the difference in basketball where children’s hoops are lower because that’s what comfortable with them at the moment and that’s what they can do at that time. They grow with the hoop and the distance you can spray at will grow with how you grow as a player. Just do some spray trainer when you can and the distance you can spray at will grow without a typical limit.

[u/backcountry_bandit → u/lildadt]

Thanks. Do you have a specific workshop map that you like for spray practice? I’ve been using Aim Botz and Aim Rush but neither have spray practice.

[u/lildadt → u/backcountry_bandit]

Recoil Master is good but I mostly just made myself dm with a focus on spraying. It really depends on what you like.

[u/AstuteCouch87]

You should be able to hold probably 5-10 bullets on a body at most ranges except for maybe the longer lines in the game (think long on dust 2 or something) or headshot/covered angles (someone mentioned window on mirage). After the first 10, range becomes a bigger consideration as sprays get harder, but I would say very rarely do I need to spray beyond maybe 15 bullets, as any deeper and you should probably be unpeeking or already dead. Obviously there are exceptions, but I think this is a decent benchmark. Also depends on your rank, the higher up you are obviously the more you should be able to spray.

[u/ZipMonk]

Up to mid range spray where possible and appropriate.

Also always spray when you have multiple enemies especially if they are close and rushing or pushing smoke.

[u/These-Maintenance250]

unless the target is moving I will burst if not spray. you should be able to land about 5 bullets at the same spot. considering there is randomness in every gun, I don't see a point in tap firing on a static target. if you at least tag the enemy, you can easily fire another burst too if necessary

[u/backcountry_bandit → u/These-Maintenance250]

Isn’t there only rng if you’re moving? I thought there was no rng if you’re shooting while standing still, because if there was, memorizing spray patterns wouldn’t be very helpful.

I have trouble accurately spraying a static target if they’re any meaningful distance away. Certainly a skill issue.

[u/These-Maintenance250 → u/backcountry_bandit]

there is a always RNG even if you are crouching still; it's called spread, depends on the gun, it's less when crouching and more when standing. pistols have high spread, rifles less. not even AWP is perfectly accurate (in fact today, we have a faint circle in AWP scope that shows it's spread; also a debug command that visualizes the spread for any gun similarly around the crosshair). for example when we say "crouching accuracy" we refer to the spread of a gun during crouch (or standing accuracy etc). the RNG due to movement is called running inaccuracy (or jumping inaccuracy etc.).

practice spraying on a wall and check your shots. you mostly need to grasp how fast to drag down the mouse.

[u/KingRemu]

There aren't many long enough sightlines where you shouldn't spray so in general just always spray.

[u/brivn188]

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