Building Better Tracking for Apex Legends
Tracking in Apex Legends involves keeping your aim focused on an enemy as they move, ensuring that your shots land consistently, ensuring maximum damage output. This skill is especially vital due to the game’s fast-paced and high TTK nature as well as the variety of movement tricks and abilities available to different legends. From Wraith’s evasive phase shifting to Pathfinder’s versatile grappling that can grant him vast verticality. Furthermore, due to the size of the maps, combined with vast open areas, you will find yourself trading shots at a variety of different distances. Your ability to maintain tracking accuracy on the plethora of moving targets and ranges in Apex is what could solidify your standing as a legend.
At shorter ranges, engagements in Apex Legends can be frantic and unpredictable. Enemies will often utilize erratic movements such as sliding, jumping, or quick strafing, to minimize the damage they take. In these scenarios, your tracking needs to be reactive and robust. This involves making large, swift mouse movements that mirror your opponent’s abrupt shifts in direction. The goal is to keep your crosshair glued to the target, compensating for their attempts to evade.
Conversely, long-range engagements in Apex Legends demand a different approach. Here, precise tracking becomes paramount. Targets appear smaller at a distance, move slower across your field of view, and require precise adjustments to your aim. Necessitating minor, controlled mouse movements that allow you to follow these targets adeptly, not to mention that recoil control becomes much more challenging at a distance, something to keep in mind.
Whether it’s the reactive, wide mouse movements needed for evasive tracking at close range or the precise, minor adjustments required for long-range precision tracking, mastering these skills is essential.
This featured task will put these skills into practice, prompting you to test your tracking skills at a variety of distances and perceived target speeds. The task will last two minutes, and prompts you to track a sphere that cycles through various ranges and movement patterns. While it may be a bit challenging at first, it makes for an ideal training task pertaining to varied tracking for Apex Legends!