Oldman Renegade
Recruit
Hello everyone. I'm hoping this is the right place to post this, as I have a problem.
At 49 years old, I have always been a Desktop pc gamer. Keyboard and mouse everytime for me please I have played everything and enjoyed my 3years playing Medal of Honor Allied Assault on Clan Planet and then the 1st ever Call of Duty.
Fast forward to 2016 and in March, I caved in to my 2 sons and bought myself an XBox One. They wanted me to play Black Ops 3 with them and because of the no cross platform issue, it was the only way to join in with them.
At 6ft 6, I have hands like shovels and the switch from keyboard and mouse to teeny, tiny controller, has been a major struggle for me. Even now, almost 9 months later, I suck bad haha.
I have Kontrol Freeks on my controller, which do help a little and grips. You only have to see my k/d to realise I'm a poor to just below average player and there's the problem.
My 2 sons, ages 26 and 17 both play and my eldest has started to play MW remastered (which is more my kind of gameplay style) and keeps telling me to play it. I've watched every YouTube video going on how to improve and simply can not, but I refuse to believe I can't get better at the game.
I have lucky games where I can get 20-30 kills, but on average, I hover around the 8-15 kills and like others, sometimes play with my eyes closed, only way to explain the 3 kills a game now and then and Scorestreaks!! forget them, I only just manage to get to care package, HCXD and UAV, I know, that's sad and bad.
I look at gaming with my sons, as a way to strengthen our father/son bond and hope when they become fathers, they remember these days and interact with their own children, the way I do.
Am I too old, (refuse to believe this)?
Why can't I seem to gain any kind of consistency?
adrenaline or panicking is also a cause for concern, because I hate to let down my team mates. Sensitivity is another issue. I seem to twitch a lot which makes aiming a nightmare and currently have sensitivity at 3, which does seem to help. My favourite weapon is the Dingo, but it seems that's a 'noobs gun' and altho I have slaved my way to levelling other weapons, currently working on the VMP, boy oh boy, you want a laugh? watch me trying to aim and shoot with that thing haha and resort to using a Blackcell to boost my score, by shooting down anything I can see in the sky.
I just want to be a better CoD player, so I feel more relaxed when playing besides my sons and not worrying about letting my team mates down, especially, when I see a 5-20-2 on the scoreboard at the end. <--- example...
Any advice is helpful and yeah, go back to pc is not an option, although I'd like to.
Stop playing is not an option, because as I said, gaming for me, is a way to keep in touch with my sons and bond with them.. I swear more than them playing haha
anyway, enough from me. Feel free to message, email or chat in game/party.
Oldman Renegade aka Mark (UK)
Thank you
At 49 years old, I have always been a Desktop pc gamer. Keyboard and mouse everytime for me please I have played everything and enjoyed my 3years playing Medal of Honor Allied Assault on Clan Planet and then the 1st ever Call of Duty.
Fast forward to 2016 and in March, I caved in to my 2 sons and bought myself an XBox One. They wanted me to play Black Ops 3 with them and because of the no cross platform issue, it was the only way to join in with them.
At 6ft 6, I have hands like shovels and the switch from keyboard and mouse to teeny, tiny controller, has been a major struggle for me. Even now, almost 9 months later, I suck bad haha.
I have Kontrol Freeks on my controller, which do help a little and grips. You only have to see my k/d to realise I'm a poor to just below average player and there's the problem.
My 2 sons, ages 26 and 17 both play and my eldest has started to play MW remastered (which is more my kind of gameplay style) and keeps telling me to play it. I've watched every YouTube video going on how to improve and simply can not, but I refuse to believe I can't get better at the game.
I have lucky games where I can get 20-30 kills, but on average, I hover around the 8-15 kills and like others, sometimes play with my eyes closed, only way to explain the 3 kills a game now and then and Scorestreaks!! forget them, I only just manage to get to care package, HCXD and UAV, I know, that's sad and bad.
I look at gaming with my sons, as a way to strengthen our father/son bond and hope when they become fathers, they remember these days and interact with their own children, the way I do.
Am I too old, (refuse to believe this)?
Why can't I seem to gain any kind of consistency?
adrenaline or panicking is also a cause for concern, because I hate to let down my team mates. Sensitivity is another issue. I seem to twitch a lot which makes aiming a nightmare and currently have sensitivity at 3, which does seem to help. My favourite weapon is the Dingo, but it seems that's a 'noobs gun' and altho I have slaved my way to levelling other weapons, currently working on the VMP, boy oh boy, you want a laugh? watch me trying to aim and shoot with that thing haha and resort to using a Blackcell to boost my score, by shooting down anything I can see in the sky.
I just want to be a better CoD player, so I feel more relaxed when playing besides my sons and not worrying about letting my team mates down, especially, when I see a 5-20-2 on the scoreboard at the end. <--- example...
Any advice is helpful and yeah, go back to pc is not an option, although I'd like to.
Stop playing is not an option, because as I said, gaming for me, is a way to keep in touch with my sons and bond with them.. I swear more than them playing haha
anyway, enough from me. Feel free to message, email or chat in game/party.
Oldman Renegade aka Mark (UK)
Thank you