On May 27 2013 23:59 unkkz wrote: Think i've ran like 400 dpi for all my life, like 30cm/360 in like every game ever. Come from an FPS background however and accuracy is just so much better with a very low sens.
I actually surprisingly come from a FPS background, I played a bit of CS 1.6 at the equivalent of a PC bang when I was younger and most of my gaming was spent on Quake 3 Arena, only very occasionally did I get to play Red Alert 2 at my friends house! :D
I chose 4K dpi because I was under the impression quicker is better.
Edit: lol Red Alert 2 not 3, 3 wasn't anywhere near out yet.
It's really weird how that works out, some people have the impression that faster is better, others that slower is better. On consoles, it's almost always agreed that the higher sensitivity you can deal with, the better, since you limit yourself by using a low sens (because you can't do anything other than jam the joystick when you want to turn), but among my peers during CS 1.5 etc, everyone agreed that you were supposed to go as low as you could deal with (and most CS pros who released their console settings had very low sens). The sweet spot was basically to be able to turn 180 in one big swoop of the mouse, but the sensitivity should be so low that extremely precise movement could be done very fast to be able to twitchshoot with the AWP (and by that I don't mean some form of quake running around corners shooting, I'm talking about scoping over a semi-large area and be able to shoot targets extremely fast regardless of their entrypoint in your field of view). Later though, I've heard of a lot of people who played CS around the same time and used far higher sensitivity.
Obviously, one will always be biased by having good players around them who advocate one or the other... but I personally always felt like I improved more steadily by lowering the sensitivity than raising it.
On May 27 2013 23:59 unkkz wrote: Think i've ran like 400 dpi for all my life, like 30cm/360 in like every game ever. Come from an FPS background however and accuracy is just so much better with a very low sens.
I actually surprisingly come from a FPS background, I played a bit of CS 1.6 at the equivalent of a PC bang when I was younger and most of my gaming was spent on Quake 3 Arena, only very occasionally did I get to play Red Alert 2 at my friends house! :D
I chose 4K dpi because I was under the impression quicker is better.
Edit: lol Red Alert 2 not 3, 3 wasn't anywhere near out yet.
It's really weird how that works out, some people have the impression that faster is better, others that slower is better. On consoles, it's almost always agreed that the higher sensitivity you can deal with, the better, since you limit yourself by using a low sens (because you can't do anything other than jam the joystick when you want to turn), but among my peers during CS 1.5 etc, everyone agreed that you were supposed to go as low as you could deal with (and most CS pros who released their console settings had very low sens). The sweet spot was basically to be able to turn 180 in one big swoop of the mouse, but the sensitivity should be so low that extremely precise movement could be done very fast to be able to twitchshoot with the AWP (and by that I don't mean some form of quake running around corners shooting, I'm talking about scoping over a semi-large area and be able to shoot targets extremely fast regardless of their entrypoint in your field of view). Later though, I've heard of a lot of people who played CS around the same time and used far higher sensitivity.
Obviously, one will always be biased by having good players around them who advocate one or the other... but I personally always felt like I improved more steadily by lowering the sensitivity than raising it.
I was actually surprisingly good at twitch AWP at 4k, I could beat most people I knew in a 1v2 or sometimes 1v3 situation if I had AWP, I did have sensitivty on 3 though in game.
Here's some 720dpi ponies if you still doubt screen snapping;
I messed up the ending though D:
I think you should really play osu or something, it helps a lot with getting used to a different sens and actually provides a way to compare and see improvements
On May 25 2013 21:13 Targe wrote: Ok, this blog is especially for you Cyro, well, kind of. From today (The 25th of May) I will be attempting to change my mouse DPI from 4K, to 1625 (closest increment to 1600 I have). The aim is to play a little every day and write up a blog detailing how I'm progressing every couple days or so (hopefully If I can be bothered with a battle report or something).
The reason for this change was suprisingly not to do with Starcraft 2 but to do with Dota 2:
I noticed I would occasionally miss the specific creep I wanted when last hitting or when things were getting heated I would miss ever so slightly with Clockwerk hook (actually screw that, I'm god damn terrible with Clockwerk's hook), because when I play Dota I absolutely hate letting my team down so I always felt terrible when things went wrong, even if what happened wasn't entirely my fault and the team played badly as a whole.
I really hope my hands adjust fast to the new DPI, I've clocked about 4 years of experience running at 4K so I understand it may take a while for muscle memory to adapt, but here's hoping!
So far: I've been using it for a couple hours and it feels really slow, I'm so used to being able to whip my cursor across the screen in a second so it's kind of odd to not have that, I'm guessing this feeling will go away in a bit with practice and time.
Hooray!
Targe out for now.
I used to play at 3k dpi and I'd never be super accurate but I thought it was okay until I switched down to 1.8ish then I realised how much more accurate I got
I think you should really play osu or something, it helps a lot with getting used to a different sens and actually provides a way to compare and see improvements
Well my mouse control is nothing like that, no where near. I'll try out osu then later today and I'll see how it goes.
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