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AIM
ACADEMY

The Aim Academy is Arena Zero's built-in training engine: scored drills, adaptive recommendations, and honest progress tracking. No filler dailies, no fake global leaderboards — just measured practice that transfers into live matches. Available in the pre-alpha build; playtests are announced on Discord.

Drill Categories

Every drill is a data-driven scenario with a defined spawn pattern, behavior, and scoring formula — including lower-is-better scoring for reaction-time drills. Your history, bests, averages, and trends are tracked per scenario.

Classic

Fundamental target acquisition and click-timing work. The bread and butter of building reliable aim.

Precision

Small targets, punished misses. Trains the micro-corrections that decide whether a flick lands on the head or the shoulder.

Flick

Fast, large-angle target snaps. Measures both speed and accuracy — overshooting is scored against you.

Tracking

Sustained aim on moving targets. Builds the smooth mouse control you need for sprays and strafing opponents.

The Training Loop

The Academy is built around one honest loop: an observed weakness produces one recommendation, which launches one exact drill, which produces a measured result, which refreshes your plan — then back to live play. The Home screen shows your active plan with the next drill, its rationale, and your target, so you are never menu-diving for what to do next.

01

Get a recommendation

The plan service reads your recorded stats and picks one drill with a written rationale — a recovery drill after a slump, a momentum push after strong sessions, or a first-session baseline.

02

Run the exact drill

One button launches the recommended scenario directly. Entry takes seconds; no setup archaeology.

03

Get measured

Your result is scored by the drill's formula and stored locally with your bounded session history.

04

Plan refreshes

Mastery and plan state update from the result. No fabricated progress — a bad session moves the plan too.

05

Transfer to live play

The next action after a drill can be a Duel or a Competitive match — training is only finished when it shows up in a real game.

Mastery Levels

01

Untrained

No recorded sessions yet. Your first drill establishes a baseline.

02

Calibrating

Early sessions in. The Academy is still learning where your aim actually stands.

03

Building

Measurable progress. Trends start to show which mechanics need the most work.

04

Consistent

Reliable results across sessions. Maintenance keeps you sharp; new drills push the ceiling.

05

Mastered

Top band. The plan shifts to upkeep and transferring that form into live matches.

Academy Toolkit

Scenario Browser

Browse every drill with its category, scoring formula, and your personal history — bests, averages, and trends per scenario.

Adaptive Training Plans

The Academy ranks drill candidates from your recorded stats and recommends one next drill with a rationale and a target — not a wall of generic daily tasks.

Sensitivity Converter

Bring your sensitivity from other shooters and keep your muscle memory intact.

Spray Viewer

Study weapon recoil patterns visually so your spray control is deliberate practice, not guesswork.

FOV & Target Color Tools

Tune your view and target visibility to your setup without compromising scoring integrity.

Live HUD & Results

Real-time metrics during a drill and a full result breakdown after it — every result feeds your plan and mastery state.

Honesty note

Academy scores are local device evidence — stored on your machine, not on a global service. Training results never mutate your online rating, and drill scores are not ranked truth. An account-backed sync of training progress is planned, but does not exist in the pre-alpha.

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