Siege Advice

Like I've prefaced to a lot of these tonight, I'm not an R6 veteran. I literally joined this Discord tonight looking to get some advice for myself. But what I do have is experience playing other games and even real life sports at an extremely high level, and topics like this can often be applied to anything.

The first thing you need to do is to figure out what the root of the issue is, and it will usually be one of three things:

A: You're in a "slump", you're not playing at a level you know you can, and it (usually) will seem to be getting worse. This is a psychological barrier, and one you will run into fairly frequently. The best thing to do when you're in one? Stop. Don't try to grunt through it, you'll just screw with your confidence. Take a break. Relax. Even if you have to step away for a few days or a week, you'll come back with a fresher mind set. Playing into this downwards spiral is almost always going to end up causing more damage than a tiny bit of short term skill atrophy from a break.





B: You're not advancing even though you feel like you should be. This one is rarer. It's can be a whole mix of things, but working through things usually starts at the same place. Go to the basics. I mean the absolutely beginner steps, and make sure you're foundation is solid. I can't tell you how many times that I've spent weeks trying to solve an issue, only to take a step back and realize that I was doing something utterly basic wrong. Don't try to laser focus on individual aspects of your play, doing so often blinds you to easily fixable issues elsewhere. If you can, record and watch back your gameplay. Look for bad habits or missteps on a large scale not a microscopic one. You'll never have pixel perfect aim, but you might be able to improve the way you set up your aim duels on a broader scale.

C: External factors. This is always an issue that exists in addition to one of the previous ones. To say it another way, don't even think about calling these the issue until you've exhausted the options above. However, these are usually things you can work on along the way. The number one thing on this list in terms of video games in general is to play with solid teammates. There are dozens of ways to find teammates, and you're doing yourself a disservice if you only solo queue. Another side to this fits into the same option, communication. You need to be comfortable talking, and find people comfortable talking to you. (and I'm out of characters)





The last part of this will sound weird, but it's vital. Focus on yourself out of the game. Get your sleep, eat well, exercise a bit. It really makes a difference.





If you've found a specific factor of your game that you think is weak, then you've made a good first step there. But remember what I said about laser focusing. Make sure you haven't created a scapegoat, there's never just one thing that can be improved. By all means, work on that, but don't lose touch with your game as a whole




One thing I mentioned to someone earlier is to acknowledge what you did wrong. When I used to compete across a few different things I had a little trick that I used to keep in touch with what I was doing wrong. Every time I messed up, in games it's usually when I die. I would stop, and say out lound "I just died because I did x"





You have to be careful doing that, because you can start to beat yourself up over it, but there is always something you can do better, and identifying what you did wrong in a given situation can help with that.





The logical opposite step works as well. If you win a fight, tell yourself "I just won because I did x", it's a nice pairing of motivation to it's slightly more disheartening inverse.