handcannon sniper is for upper tier players. I myself have been trying to improve with snipers and im decent in my opinion. But if you put on gnawing hunger you will play better i promise.

Hey! The main tip I can give to you is to just play more. Don’t get discouraged. Don’t get salty about all the people using meta weapons in control. Just play to have fun! Even if you lose every gunfight you take, you’re still getting practice. Maybe one day you’ll miss all your hand cannon shots. The next day maybe you’ll hit one each gunfight. As you learn to control the recoil of your gun more, you’ll land more consistent shots. And, as you learn to hit a consistent headshot with a hand cannon, eventually you’ll be able to do that with a snipe. What I will say, is if you’re looking for tracking, try trace rifles. They help an awful lot.

Try Last Perdition pulse rifle. It’s pretty good.

First you need to know: 1. Favorite Perks 2. What weapons have those Perks 3. Grind

Go into private matches to learn names of map locations (name is on the left side of screen), good for callouts when you play in a team. That can help with map knowledge and then you can also practice jumps and how to travel around the map.     Playing in the mornings can be easier than in the evenings. My favorite is weekend mornings.     Using meta weapons and a strong offensive super definitely helps. Use what works, use want Bungie gives you that is strong and don't mind what people say about "cheap" weapons. Take what's yours!     If you cant find good people in LFG to play with, its probably because their skill level is better than yours (no offense meant), I also run into this issue. I have an approximate 1.2 KD and 1.7 KDA. I try to use solo matchmaking help me find friends. If you play some matches and you like one or two people you played with, send them a "GG" good game, and ask if they would like to party up and play together. Why I think this is a good idea, Bungie matched you up with them, they probably have a similar skill level and are in a similar spot in grinding glory.     Use bonus points to your advantage. If you play 3 games a week, you can get a 120 glory bonus. If you play all 12 weeks, that’s 1440 free points. You only need 660 points to get to fabled.     Practice in Rumble or QP new weapons and supers     Practice in Rumble your one on one skills. If you cant kill one person by yourself, it will be much harder for you to help out your team.  Maybe invite other people you see struggling in PvP and invite them to play private matches and work on one on one skills or 4 vs 4 or whatever. Grow together.   Probably common knowledge, If you are the only one with a super, that can be a great time to use yours. No one around to counter you easily with a super of their own. Also you start generating orbs for your team mates so they can get their supers going.     Watch Youtube strategy videos from Coolguy, True Vanguard, CammyCakes, Aztecross Gaming. Some of these guys even have their own Discord channels where you can LFG with their fans. I had good success with Coolguys.     Some videos to improve game play.     https://youtu.be/74e3mByi0d0     https://youtu.be/sHqiawMXHtI https://youtu.be/3lkQ5ovg4t4     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3RXO22ct2w     https://youtu.be/hRrLSbizeKk     https://youtu.be/oEqrWYQMoAM     Super Mods, weapon scavenger perks, targeting Mods, Reload Mods, Dexterity and resilience Mods. Masterwork armor for more defense while in super form.     On console, I use jumper controls. It allows me to punch and jump without having to take my thumb off of the look stick (practice new controls in pve, try doing a jumping punch (or shotgun) on someone's head). I also use an Elite controller, it allows me to put a button on the bottom of the controller so I can crouch or slide without taking my thumbs off the sticks. I recently started putting a button under the controller for the action button so I can shoot while I revive or disactivate a bomb and not be a sitting duck. The elite controller allows me to play other games and make the button layout identical to destiny so my buttons don't get mixed up in my head.

Hey man, I don’t really have the time to type up a list of tips BUT hit me up on PSN: iKaji-_- and I’ll gladly give you tips and recommendations in game :p

Predict where your opponents are going to come from Always have your reticle aimed at their head level before their character pops up on screen Turn down your sensitivity if you keep overshooting your aim Put Traction on your leg armor Put targeting mods on your helmet and gun Don’t go out looking for a fight, play it defensively and let the opponents come to you

I'm not entirely certain on how to help with aim other than to suggest that you practice. I will say something that makes sense but isn't necessarily mentioned all that often is crosshair placement. Always try to keep your crosshair where you know your opponent's head will be, so you have less repositioning to do once they do eventually appear. For positioning, I can give more advice. Always, always, always give yourself an escape route. If you need to run for literally any reason, you always want to be able to break line of site as soon as is possible, and if you're being chased, as often as is possible. If you disengage weak and your opponent is still alive, don't just hang around the corner, you gotta go. They might have a grenade, and you don't want to just give them a free kill. Always keep in mind how many angles you're exposed to, and what your radar tells you is a populated area. Goodluck out there my man

Play with something else. Seriously. You're clearly trying to build a playstyle on weapons that are considered "cool"....but they are clearly not playing into your strengths as a player. While I'm good with hand cannons, I've always sucked at being a sniper. I also don't like the relatively passive play style that goes along with being a sniper. I perfer a more mobile play style, where I find myself fighting at mid-range. That requires me to have to come up with a way of dealing with shotgunners and snipers. So I tend to carry a shotgun on smaller maps, and fusion rifles on larger maps to counter. As for improving your gun skill. ALWAYS GO FOR HEAD SHOTS. PVE play will generally allow you to get away with a high percentage of body shots or misses. PVP won't. PVP is a DPS race...and he who lands the most headshots with the greatest reliability wins. Hand cannons and Snipers are VERY unforgiving of misses. So if you're somone who is struggingly with PRECISION...then those are not the weapons you want to be using. You just handicap yourself trying to uphold an imag.e Positioning is play style dependant. But for starters you want to learn the traffic patterns on a map...and then decide if you want to play "inside out" or "outside in". By "inside out", that means you largely position yourself in the middle of the map and shoot at enemies out towards the edges. Many of the Y2 D2 maps almost FORCE you to play this way, because the central areas of the map are so powerful and have so few avenues of approach. By outside in, that means you work around the edges of the map, and shoot at enemies towards the middle. I tend to play this way... especially on maps where the middle is very crowded and have lots of chokepoints and blind corners where you can get either team shot or ambushed with shotguns. In my experience more aggressive players tend to play outside-in. Passive snipers will also tend to play outside in. But passive shotgunners tend to play inside-out (corner crouchers).