use whatever you feel comfortable using. it is more about what you are used to, not how flashy it is. however, if you play team games a lot, i suggest you get a good headset/mic. it is absolutely horrible dealing with bad mics.

matthewfoulkes

United Kingdom246 Posts

April 22 2010 20:36 GMT

#42

On April 23 2010 00:39 bodysnatcher21 wrote:
LoL most of those "progaming equipment" made my people like Razor is trash for Starcraft. They are just trying to prey on silly consumers.

The koreans progamers favourite mouse and keyboard (logitech mini optical and samsung dt35) cost like $10 and $5 respecitvely...

if u can find these products for these prices 100% link them here cos that sounds unreal!

nemetroid

Sweden33 Posts

April 22 2010 20:55 GMT

#43

"Gamer" branded headphones such as Steelseries, Fatal1ty etc are overpriced. KOSS, Sennheiser, AKG, Denon, Audio Technica are some good makers of headphones.

Lemure

189 Posts

April 22 2010 20:57 GMT

#44

On April 23 2010 05:36 matthewfoulkes wrote:

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if u can find these products for these prices 100% link them here cos that sounds unreal!

Well I think Amazon has the logitech mouse he is talking about, $20 though.

CagedMind

United States506 Posts

April 22 2010 21:13 GMT

#45

I would drop hundreds of points in ladder just by using other gaming gear that wasn't as good.

systemA

95 Posts

April 22 2010 21:21 GMT

#46

Put in >9000 hrs into the game before asking yourself this question

Chunkybuddha

Canada347 Posts

April 22 2010 21:33 GMT

#47

Am I the only one thinking that buying expensive computer equipment creates a psuedo effect on starcraft players? :\

A mouse is a mouse is a house imo.

Diaspora

United States140 Posts

April 22 2010 21:36 GMT

#48

I think if you are going to buy anything specifically for gaming, I'd have to say buy a high quality mouse. The greater DPI + comfort + sensitivity really changes the game for me.

HeartOfTofu

United States308 Posts

April 22 2010 21:44 GMT

#49

Saying that gaming grade gear gives you an advantage is a bit like saying that pair of $250 Nike sneakers will make you a better basketball player. Sure you can make an argument about comfort, but in reality the sneakers you wear generally have little to do with your performance in the sport.

As far as headphones go, "gaming" headphones I've seen were all overpriced crap and certainly not necessary or worth it even for FPS games. There are much better headphones for the price if you look around.

Marou

Germany1371 Posts

April 22 2010 22:14 GMT

#50

I've been using my fUnc for seven years now, it's dirty, the smooth side is just dead and it doesnt really look great when you watch it....but i just love it - it is just so vintage and cool to have a good old original fUnc :D

switching mouse is just a pain because i need to re-adapt : i've been playing all the games the creator quoted (exept useless cs:cz) and i think everybody here who played FPS competitevly will agree on that.

My keyboard is an apple keyboard since i use my apple computer to play - wich is the same i use to work. it is verry thin, good looking and have 2 usb that are not suitable to wire a mouse for playing. The great thing about this keyboard is that it fits in a regular bagpack so i can have my computer + keyboard + mouse + mousepad with me when i go to LAN

The bad thing is, as every apple product, it is expansive for what it is...

Something disturbing me is that the creator didnt mentioned the one thing that could get me buying these new fancy hardwares : god dam it they're looking good and these brands are giving plenty of money for supporting esports (wich is obviously something they have to do) so let's support them also ! Since i'm an half-time working student....not gonna happen any time soon :D

Caglomera

Australia5 Posts

April 22 2010 23:23 GMT

#51

I think what alot of people are over-looking with the Gaming mice is the fact that they're programmable and put another 5-10 "hotkeys" on your mouse so you can effectively increase what your mouse hand is able to do by quite a margin.

The other thing obviously being that the Gaming mice (like razor etc) are so programmable that you can configure the mouse to do something like this:

In the middle of a battle, click mouse buton 5. This selects a unit producing building at home, makes a certain type of unit and then re-selects your army that you were controlling, all within 0.5 seconds ... now program a few of your mouse buttons to do this and you can effectively contniue to macro during fights with almost no loss in efficiency cause as you're fighting you just spam mouse buttons 5,6,7,8 intermittently ... and this is just the 1st use, there's about a dozen others I can think of (like using things like psi-storm, emp etc, bound to these mouse buttons, essentially reducing 3-4 clicks/button presses to 1)

This then leaves this issue of this being so close to cheating imo, I'm fairly certain I won't program my mouse to do stuff like this because it just feels so wrong. Obviously the gaming keyboards etc are also capable of all of these features.

Cheers
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ReachTheSky

United States3294 Posts

April 22 2010 23:27 GMT

#52

i'm loling at this attempt to promote pro gaming merch ;P

Irrelevant

United States2364 Posts

April 22 2010 23:29 GMT

#53

Of course not, still repping Logitech Mx500(so glad I bought a few of them before they were discontinued I don't care for the rest of the 5xx series, they just don't feel right) from nearly 10years ago and a $10 keyboard

Tried some of the expensive "pro gaming" products and was not impressed with any of them

joolz

United States67 Posts

April 22 2010 23:38 GMT

#54

prioritize comfort over everything else. as long as your keys/buttons aren't physically broken then the only thing that matters is how comfortable everything feels in your hands. there is no fucking way that some dpi setting or whatever is going to limit your skill cap.

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