hi everybody this is tic tactic I'm here to give
you some tips and tricks on how to be a better gun fighter just some basic knowledge as well
as we're going to go through the settings some of the ability cards and then uh some of the guns
and everything as well so let's get started we're going to go right into settings here and just
keep in mind a couple of things I'm going to break this down in the chapters and then another
one is is that if I'm on Xbox but please know that when you're on Playstation as well the settings
should be just the same PC players on the other hand might be a little bit different let's get
right into it here first we're gonna go right under controls we're gonna go right underneath
to targeting and weapons and what you should have this set up as as you can see I have mine on
free aiming that and sometimes I like to do free aim but you should have this under wide if you're
gonna use the lock on mode you should always put it on wide what this does is it gives you a wider
range of NPC players and and whatever else you're gonna lock onto and shoot normally it's on like
normal and that's just a smaller window and then there's even a smaller window than the normal and
like I said everybody runs this on wide it's just a better way to run uh the lock-on mode and like I
said this is where you can switch over to free aim as well aim assist strength you want to crank that
all the way up to help you out with the auto lock mode same thing with the mountain Vehicles we got
that on wide Crank It Up we go under third person I keep it standard look sensitivity as you can see
I crank all my sensitivities up this is uh it just works out really well for me for you painted black
layers you may want to adjust this and actually switch this around a little bit why I bring this
up is when you mark a player you're going for their head shot right so you're gonna you auto
lock on the player's body and then you want to scroll your targeting system up so you can get
their head and what your your goal is is always to hit that head as quick as you can you want to mark
it and shoot the head and you may want to actually adjust this slower and the reason why that is
don't shoot above their head all the time a lot of people just like to flick that joystick and
they'll get that instant headshot now of course it matters on the Range and where you're at and that
but I know a lot of players they practice this and actually adjust this like I said we crank all this
up look in dead zone we actually turn that all the way down that's just gonna slow things down when
you're shooting you don't want that we want speed that's what we're going for speed so you could be
a better gun fighter keep going first person same thing same stuff crank it all the way up get rid
of the Dead Zone I have mine set to toggle run Tempest is to hold there is another way of running
I've tried it before I feel like it's more like a Call of Duty kind of way if you prefer that kind
of style you may want to adjust your running modes and try different types out but I just uh I run
it as a toggle run and hold here and then just a good tip to know for fishing instead of using the
joystick to reel in you can actually switch this to a button just by turning this on so really
good to know you're going to win a lot more uh some of the free roam fishing events and stuff
like that just like I said just it'll help a lot of you fishermen and Fisher women and just fishy
people so in general so all right so now we got to the controls let's get into the display and
right now we're under brightness of calibration I create my brightness calibration all the way up
uh at least for my monitor and everything even on my monitor I turn it up a little bit this game
just gets extremely dark at night time and it's just it's it's best to be able to see so I highly
recommend just turning up a little bit of course like I said this is different for everybody I
play at a monitor everybody other people that play on uh TVs it's just gonna be different it's
just you should really adjust your brightness and calibration then we're going to go under HUD and
presets and utter status icon this is really good as you can see I have mine set to static I think
normally it's like Dynamic but we want it static if you look at the bottom left corner you're going
to see my health my stamina and my dead eye so let me bring up my compass here see how it's right
above my radar now they're all highlighted filled up and everything I keep that on all the time I
love to see where I'm at for my health my stamina Dead Eye like when I'm fighting in that it helps
me know that if I need to take a Time helps me know if I need to pull back to take a tonic or if
I can just keep pushing forward because I'm full of Health let's keep going I kind of the rest
of this is kind of just pick and choose I keep my subtitles off stuff like that some of this is
dynamic I just like that kind of stuff let's get down to the weapon reticle the weapon radical is
about to bloom your accuracy Bloom around the DOT show here it's probably best to show it with the
shotgun so we're gonna pretend this tree over here is a player see I have that bloom I'm gonna do
it again see it kind of just around my small dot there that's that's what this is so we could turn
that off we could turn that on I personally like to have that on and it's always set as default
I bring this up only because a lot of players like to turn this off especially painted black
players and that's just a good tip so especially when you're using painted black you don't need it
because you're at a 100 accuracy so it's just less distraction on your screen so you might as well
turn it off but personally for me I like to keep it on so I'll just got to keep it on SIMPLE you
can actually turn it all off too if you really want to get into more of a hardcore mode but I
just like to keep it simple but like I said paint it black layers you might want to just switch
this to Dot and then I've tried it before and done it's not bad and then reticled uh dot size
that's what we're just talking about that's the dot in the middle here of the uh Circle we could
just make that small I think the fault is what everybody has it normally is and this just makes
it a lot smaller on your screen like I said just more stuff you could see it's just better what
most players actually play with it just not small I highly recommend it alright so now let's talk
about the radar I always play my my radar expanded I'm going to show you we can actually adjust this
at any time actually on the screen here as you can see I have my radar expanded this is the regular
radar as you can see it's super small it's just it's not that good so pre on Xbox and I'm sure
it's the same on Playstation you can just press d-pad down and that's on you could bring that up
and it really does it hinders you if you're not using the expanded radar you can just see a lot
more you can see the range of the players that are in your NPCs that you're fighting that are
coming at you and another tip and then let me see if I can bring this to a spot if you press d-pad
down again you can actually extend radar even a little bit more so sometimes when I just can't
see that player and I don't know where he is but I think I'm getting close I'll just tap this d-pad
just to see little bit more and I do it constantly another thing about the radar is I know a lot of
people they like to put waypoints down or these little markers these red markers this wouldn't be
so bad if the markers weren't red you know it's just it's problem is is it's on your radar now and
if you're playing you know if you're fighting fpcs or players that are red and that it's just that
it gets in the way and the less distractions on your radar the better so honestly you should be
taking these off as well as my settings I'm on Xbox I like to use the Xbox wireless control
Series 2 I just love this controller there's probably no way I could play without this right
now because I just love having those paddles on the back uh my controller's name is hand of God
it's a reference to a western movie uh it was an outlaw if anybody knows the western movie that
I'm talking about put it in the comments I'd love to see if anybody actually gets that reference
so let's go in here I just wanted to show real quick what my button placements are just the two
buttons mainly that I was gonna say on the back of the paddle here I keep it uh my left bumper
down here it comes in handy especially because that's that's your weapon wheel I just need to
bring that up really quick and I don't have to take my fingers off uh the triggers a joystick
as well as the a button down here too then I can run around and and I can Gallop on the horse and
everything one-handed it's I'll be sitting here like chasing people and I can lean over and grab
something to drink while I'm doing it because it's on a paddle here so I could do it one-handed all
right so let's get into the more important tips for gunfighting is you should always be running a
short range a medium range weapons and long range weapons always at the same time so as you can
see shotguns are usually your short range weapons highly recommend it it's much better than having
like some kind of pistols I know stuff people like that for the short range but honestly the shotguns
are always okay medium range weapons are going to be your revolvers pistols and repeaters and of
course the law long-range weapons are going to be your sniper rifles the Carcano the Rolling
Block as well as the Springfield and the bolt action rifles that could be uh your long range
he could even could probably consider like the bow and arrow somewhere between there the reason
why I bring this up is because you really do need your uh short range long-range weapons if you'll
see in a lot of my videos when I'm fighting and that like just the shotgun when you get up close
it not only stuns players in that but I just I just put them down instantly but it only has
a certain radius so then you need your medium range weapon and then of course once you get
farther back you're going to need your longer so that's just a big basic to have to know another
one is and let's go down here we're gonna go it's all the way in the bottom right corner it says
assign quick select and that's with the x button on the Xbox and what that allows you to do is it
allows you to pick whatever weapon you want to choose so that way when you have your weapons away
and you need to quickly uh bring out a weapon boom you could just tap the left bumper or whatever
bumper or that button is on your uh device and it'll bring out your favorite weapon so that's
all it is is we're setting our favorite weapon so we always have it set and you should be using
this because it's a heck of a lot quicker than going into the weapon wheel and choosing and I
know this sounds pretty basic with the quickest select button but I see a lot of people don't
play area use this use this as advantage and we're just shaving off just a little bit of time
and the reason why I bring this up is this is the biggest tip honestly this is what helps me out the
most when I'm gunfighting so I have the shotgun right now and then if I tap left bumper boom back
to my Navy's my medium range weapon but if I tap it again it brings out my short range weapon my
shotgun this comes in handy a lot and I don't have to go through the weapon wheel to prep you know to
pick what I want as an example let's use this tree as it's going to be an enemy I know that I'm gonna
push this enemy and I'm probably gonna get up close to him so what I normally do is I'll grab my
short-range weapon right away but then I'll switch back over to my navies so now I have my Navy's and
I'm into my medium range so I'm in my medium range I'm in my medium range and then boom I tap left
bumper and I got my shotgun just like that same thing with the long range I'm going to have my
long range weapon out and if I think it's going to be a long range fight I'll switch back over to
my medium range and then I'm sitting here and I'm targeting targeting and then long range notice how
I didn't go into the weapon wheel notice it was just shaves off a couple of seconds here just to
make things easier and another big tip is weapon placement I always keep my car Cana on the bottom
I always keep my shotgun to the left doesn't matter which weapons you put in these spots keep
your weapons in the same spots I always know my left or my shotguns here on the left I always know
my car Canal it's just muscle memory so that way when I'm running around and I am fighting players
in that I never have to think where my weapon is on the weapon wheel I could just quickly get
to it so those are some simple basic tips but like I said already it really is it's basic but
we're just cutting time off and we're just making it easier for you to concentrate on the fight
and less about your just your weapon placement stuff on the radar that distracts you like I said
even that bloom that some people may not like in that that might be another distraction it's just
these are just simple basic things that really do add up typically I think everybody knows that you
press the right bumper or whatever bumper it is or whatever button it is to get into the cover system
I don't use this very often I'm usually just kind of holding the corner like this and using whatever
is in front of me here as to defend me and that's a big thing is always keep stuff in between you
and the player that you're uh attacking or the MTC just it's just a really good thing I see a lot
of players just kind of run out here in the middle of nowhere and that so and they just got
nothing and of course they're Easy Pickins while the other players you know maybe behind that tree
or something like that but if I was going to push this player behind the tree I mean you got these
hay bales they'll block some but even like this small little Bush now this bush actually might
not be able to break the system but like this bush right here this will actually if he Auto
locks onto me like if he was just locked onto me if I got behind this bush this and got into
it a little bit it actually breaks the auto lock just as Guelph is diving out of the way I mean
like so I mean like but if I was in the middle of here I would be diving diving diving and then
you'll see I'll try and get behind this bush and then he can't lock him now he can still of course
shoot me through the bush but he won't be able to auto lock onto me uh some pibs can get through
like if he was a painted black player uh he might be able to mark me through this sometimes he can
sometimes he can't like look at this thick brush right over here I'm mean this is definitely a
really good spot you'll see a lot of players they'll fight in the brush here especially pit
players because they know they can't get marked they're just holding back so this is just a really
good way to hold your cover and like I said just use anything and everything you can and you know
as protection while you're pushing that player or you know if you got to get behind you know you're
trying to get away and you got to pop that tonic and then let's talk about tonics by the way I
typically use the potent Miracle tonic the most it covers uh it's just it's a quick tonic that
gets everything topped off for me there is a and it's a level two by the way there is a level three
uh Miracle tonic it's called the special Miracle tonic even though it says it's a level two it's
Peru and then it's a level three even uh I didn't believe it at first and we were testing it out it
takes maybe an extra bullet I think somebody was shooting you you might be able to take an extra
shot or dude it's really not that much more uh Stronger Than A potent Miracle tonic so that's
why you'll see me run the potent ones only because they're cheaper and easier I don't even have to I
mean you can craft these but I just go right into the catalog seven dollars a pop I buy them 40 at a
time for 280 bucks and just fill up my post office I fill up the post office and my lock box here
at my camp with these same thing I'll just like I'll top everything off I usually like even the
level ones the miracle tonic level ones and then I'll just purchase and that just because if I'm
fighting NPCs you know it just gives me something I use my level three special Miracle tonics
rarely maybe King of the castle not often though it's just a has to be I I've never really found
a really good time unless I really need it then I'll switch it over to my special Miracle tonic
here as well as I always have my binti game set up here so I I rarely ever use my the other big
gaming and and you should always have this prep so then anytime I'm actually getting into a gunfight
net all I got to do is quickly flip over here and have all my stuff prepped and ready and then like
even my level ones here I typically run my level ones here for my Deadeye stamina but if I have to
I'll actually switch over to my level two tonics there you go but I like I said I rarely use my
level three especially like if you're just messing around here in Valentine taking down a posse
and then I mean like why waste the good stuff yet let's talk about weapons and what I prefer to
run for particular weapons for particular ability cards my Loadout here and let's uh let's bring
this up here oh and by the way on the bottom right corner ability Loadout I press y instead of going
to press start and then going to your ability cards right there you could just hold left bumper
and press y or whatever button is on Playstation play uh PC so I just press Y and then voila and
then I could instantly change my cards quickly and I do this often in gunfight so sometimes
I need to switch over to Slippery bastard a lot of times when I'm in slowed steady here I'll
switch my Gunslinger card to Sharpshooter because I know I'm out in the open just like where I'm at
right now I mean this is going to be a lot more open field we're not in town so I'm gonna need my
carcino a lot more and it's probably best that I to that card so like I said we run short range
medium range long range so let's talk about the ability cards that would run for slow and steady
usually run gunslinger's Choice fool me once an iron lung these two are my big defensive cards
the number one would be the iron lung that one's your main defensive card this is your second
defensive card and then gunslinger's choice and this one I actually swap out uh once in a while
if I'm sniping I'll easily just switch this over to Sharpshooter so that really comes in handy
otherwise I typically run gunslinger's choice because Navy revolvers are my medium range weapon
and I need that a you're typically fighting in medium range and it's just I highly recommend it
I feel like it's one of the weaker cards out of these three though and the reason why I bring
that up is because there is a better card out there called Peak Edition where it actually
gives you more damage for all three of your weapons my shotgun my Navy's and my cartoon the
other the only reason why I use the gunslinger's choice though is because it increases my range
and accuracy and I need that I feel like that's that outweighs that card I just barely otherwise
I would probably run that one and if I wasn't run Navy's uh maybe if I was running like the repeater
or something like that and then I would have like the sawed-offs and then I'd still have my car
Canal rifle on that but and then that would be a really good card to have back is the Peak Edition
for my slow and steady Loadout this is what I usually run is my pump shotgun and again shotguns
are actually pretty all the same I know a lot of players use the double barrel shotgun which is
probably one of the better shotguns honestly but the downfall is it's only two shells at a time
and you gotta reload as quick as you can and I personally just like having extra shells because
I miss a few of my shots plus I like the pump because I think it's got one of the farther ranges
in it and then a good tip as well is regular shotgun shells slug seems to be a little bit more
damaging but I it's not true use just regular shotgun shells so then I run the Navies for
this build another one you could run is like the volcanic pistols that's a really good medium range
uh it's actually got farther range than Navy's but they just shoot a little bit slower they have
more ammo so there's some good size of bad size but personally I just like the Navy's because they
just they could shoot a little bit quicker for me the pistols the rest of the pistols just don't
have the range for being a medium-range weapon for it what I prefer anyways again the shotguns
we already talked about and then my long range weapons are usually Carcano that I always want
maybe a rolling Block and then good tip to know is on the Rolling Block and Carcano Viper rifles
you should be running the short range the short Scopes so on my Carcano I run the short scope it
just makes it easier for when you're moving around notice it's just a lot quicker I could Target
things around here um it that's all it is is it's just quicker targeting where the long range
weapon uh scope which I actually do use I put it on my bolt action rifle let me bring that out here
uh oh I don't know why I put explosive rounds but I do have the long range scope on here but notice
and the Rolling Block is a lot slower to scroll around as you can see uh but long range weapon and
and here's another good tip is the Rolling Block uh sniper rifle is equivalent to the sniper rifles
in GTA 5.
