The experiment continues…
When I got home a few weeks after I ended my regular Kovaaks training, and I switched over to the our new office/gaming PC that we’d bought so Juliane could more easily work from home, and for me to do gaming and game development.
What happened when I had a 24 inch screen running at 144hz?
I FELT LIKE A GOD
I’d put in all that training on the 15 inch 60hz screen, and it was like doing a month of marathon training wearing scuba diving gear.
Free of crappy equipment and with a proper setup, I did the same tests with the same scenarios. Here are my best 10 test averages from a month with my laptop vs two days with my gaming PC (60hz vs 144hz):
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1wall6targets TE - 95 vs 115 … up 21%
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Headglitch 180 (recoil) - 1310 vs 1825 … up 39%
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1wall 6targets small - 561 vs 716 … up 27%
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PUBG Heavy Recoil - 3365 vs 6006 … up 78%
A possible conclusion to this is that upgrading from 60hz laptop screen to a 144hz gaming monitor brings a similar level of aim improvement as a month of regular practice.
But for this experiment there wasn’t a control group. I put in a month of training, and at the end of that process I installed Kovaaks on a PC connected to a better monitor.
Also I went from running PUBG on a MacBook Pro that could only output to the monitor at 60fps maximum (but often only 50fps) to a PC with a Vega 64 video card that runs PUBG at 130 to 144fps.
Of course my PUBG gaming took a huge step up in terms of successful gunfights, but there’s no way to separate the training from the new equipment, because both happened at the same time.
Either way, I’m really happy I did the training. I’ve not tried Kovaacs since April or May, and I’m sure my skills have dropped off. Maybe I’ll give it a go some time this month and report back.
Conclusion
Training will improve your aim, but so will appropriate equipment, and buying new equipment is easier than training, but train anyway for a double improvement.