Become an Overwatch Tracking Star
In the high-stakes environment of Overwatch 2, where team synergy and individual mechanics collide, mastering the art of extended tracking is a pivotal skill for players aiming to stand out as damage dealers and dominate the server. Just as you’ve familiarized yourself with the fundamentals of target acquisition and tracking, it’s time to delve deeper into the individual aspects of extended tracking.
Simply put, extended tracking is about keeping your crosshair on an opponent; however, looking deeper into it, it’s about anticipation, reactivity, and focus. It requires you to maintain consistent aim on a moving target over an extended period, often amidst the chaos of ongoing skirmishes. This subset of tracking is critical in Overwatch 2, where dealing with varying hitboxes and erratic movements is inevitable.
Overwatch 2’s dynamic maps are filled with characters zipping through the air, blinking, or darting around corners, demanding more than just quick flicks or short bursts of lining up your crosshair. Here, extended tracking becomes your best friend, enabling you to deal sustained damage to highly mobile heroes. Heroes like Tracer, Genji, or Echo, are known for their elusive movements and require more than just a momentary lock-on. Extended tracking ensures you maintain continuous damage output, a crucial aspect of higher time to kill games like Overwatch, especially with the plethora of healing abilities that exist in the game, you need to eliminate your enemies before they get a window to heal back up.
The attached task, rA Strafetrack Easy, will work on your ability to accurately track moving targets across extended periods, while focusing both reactivity and precision. It’s a reactive tracking scenario which challenges you to track a target that is moving evasively, on the horizontal plane. Practice your reactive tracking, working to keep your crosshair as accurate as possible on the target as it attempts to evade your shots.