Every Monday in Triggernometry*, Evan writes about FPSes. Aiming is one of Counter-Strike’s central skills. Good aim can get you out of a bad situation, like a mistimed rush or a weapon disadvantage. Even if you’ve been playing CS for a decade, I’m willing to bet that, like me, you’ve got some bad aiming habits. I’ll go first: I’m awful with the AK at long range, and I struggle to get kills with the P250 on eco rounds. I’ll probably get better with those guns as I keep putting hours into CS:GO’s competitive matchmaking, but bad habits are easy to lose sight of in the middle of a match, when you’re caught up in the emotion of the situation. CS:GO also hides a ton of its nuances—especially the bullet spray patterns of its weapons. Aim maps have a way of immediately illuminating what you’ve been doing wrong. Through repetition and drilling, they can teach you a lot about your own bad (and good) aiming behaviors. These are my three favorites. How to play custom CS:GO maps locally: Subscribe to maps on Steam Workshop Launch CS:GO Click “Play > Offline with bots” Click Workshop, search for the map you subscribed to Select the training aimmap, csgoselect 2 “No bots”
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