How to prepare for Solo FNCS

Your next practice block

1. 1

   Pick one primary and one fallback

   Use the map to inspect a landing you can describe precisely. Name the roof, doorway or ground target, then choose nearby cover you can reach if that target is lost. A POI name alone is not an opening plan.

2. 2

   Write the first 90 seconds

   Record your first weapon check, the next position with cover and the point where you stop looting. Treat this as a plan to test in game. Do not turn an archived movement line into an assumed chest route.

3. 3

   Choose one practice focus

   For the next three games, work on landing, your opening path or leaving on time. Record whether the drop was clean, contested or missed, and whether you left ready, late or blocked.

4. 4

   Review the first broken decision

   Return to the earliest moment the plan stopped working. Was the target lost in the air, was there a repeated backtrack, or did you stay for an extra search? Write one change, then repeat the block.

How to use a drop heat map

Read the sample before reading the colour. ELITE's Override pressure map groups recorded landings around named map anchors. Players per game describes that corpus, including empty games; it is not a forecast of how many opponents you will meet.

The published layer is from Performance Evaluation duos in EU and NAC. A busy anchor is a useful place to rehearse a contested landing, but switching to solos changes the number of independent teams and how they split. Inspect the full table, then validate the target in your own solo practice.

A fast landing still needs a useful opening

The shortest recorded time in the air is not automatically the best drop. Bus angle, landing height, first cover, access to a weapon and the cost of losing the target all affect whether the opening is usable.

When a supported calculator drill exists, use its cut and pull cues as an estimate to rehearse. Keep the map and patch attached to the plan. If the target, terrain or game mode differs from the supported model, do not carry its timing across without checking it.

What to write on your practice card

Keep it short enough to remember on the bus: “Land at [exact target]. If someone gets there first, take [fallback]. Move through [first cover] and [second cover]. Leave when [condition].” These are your choices, not measured route recommendations.

After the game, add one sentence: “I lost time at [decision], so next game I will [change].” Use the practice log to keep the map, patch and focus with that game. A single placement can be noisy; look for repeated problems in the opening before rewriting the whole plan.

Common questions