I don't bind any of my mouse buttons. Mainly, because not all mice have the same buttons, and I don't want to end up playing with another mouse sometime, and not have the buttons I'm used to. Also, as some have mentioned, it would interfere with your mouse accuracy since you'd be applying pressure to a region of the mouse in order to press a button, while at the same time you are trying to guide your mouse to a different location.

Sea_Food

Finland1612 Posts

March 19 2012 17:27 GMT

#142

Mousescroll wheel trick for the win.

MaV_gGSC

Canada1345 Posts

March 19 2012 17:28 GMT

#143

Well I don't use them because when there's a LAN, you can't use mouse buttons

TheTurk

United States732 Posts

March 19 2012 17:35 GMT

#144

Not necessary.
Not pros do it.
I don't do it personally.

Bascal

United States30 Posts

March 19 2012 20:36 GMT

#145

On March 20 2012 02:28 MaV_gGSC wrote:
Well I don't use them because when there's a LAN, you can't use mouse buttons

I keep seeing comments like this but I can't find any proof that they're true. MLG and GSL let you use your mouse drivers, IEM and Dreamhack don't say anything regarding the use of mouse buttons. I'm not using macros I'm merely assigning keyboard commands (numbers 7-0, backspace and F5/F6) to mouse buttons.

If this is true, what specific LANs do not allow you to use mouse buttons?

It's not that I don't believe people it's just that I can't find any current evidence that bans mouse buttons after searching through MLG, GSL, IEM and Dreamhacks rules for their SC2 tourney's. Simply put, I'm thinking this was once a rule but has fallen out of practice in the modern day SC2 scene.

Like I said before, anybody is more than welcome to prove me wrong but after searching as best I know how, I can't find any set of rules that bans mouse buttons.

tehcaekftw

Denmark138 Posts

March 19 2012 20:45 GMT

#146

I use one of the side-buttons on my deathadder for base cam switch, and i use backspace inject trick (so its basically mouse-click inject i guess), barely have to move my hands to inject everything.

PSIDefenseUp

United States251 Posts

March 19 2012 21:25 GMT

#147

Forward is base cam for me, while back is bound for snapping to a set location.

It may not be necessary, but it sure as hell does make everything easier when you don't have to stretch your hand across a keyboard to perform certain actions.

Ktk

Korea (South)753 Posts

March 19 2012 21:31 GMT

#148

It'd be a pain to set up your mouse drivers at every computer you were assigned to at a LAN even if it was allowed wouldn't it? It's not worth it, people can play fine without it. Nothing against people who use them though. I don't care if you use mouse tricks or not, the snipe with scroll wheel trick... Didn't use ghosts vs Z anyways, I can spam click fast enough for inf. terran anyways. Way more satisfying for me anyways to click a lot of times wraghhhh swarmmm^^

Deleted User 26513

2376 Posts

March 19 2012 21:51 GMT

#149

When I play Protoss and Terran I use Mouse3 for all my Nexi/OCs for making workers and spells from them(mules, chronoboost etc.). I find it more comfortable

ilikeredheads

Canada1995 Posts

March 19 2012 22:46 GMT

#150

I remapped the back button to backspace and forward button to F1.

Bascal

United States30 Posts

March 20 2012 00:14 GMT

#151

On March 20 2012 06:31 Ktk wrote:
It'd be a pain to set up your mouse drivers at every computer you were assigned to at a LAN even if it was allowed wouldn't it? It's not worth it, people can play fine without it. Nothing against people who use them though. I don't care if you use mouse tricks or not, the snipe with scroll wheel trick... Didn't use ghosts vs Z anyways, I can spam click fast enough for inf. terran anyways. Way more satisfying for me anyways to click a lot of times wraghhhh swarmmm^^

My mouse settings are stored on board. Literally all I have to do is plug it in and the drivers auto install from my mouse onto the computer with my saved settings. The wonders of on board memory for your mouse! So... that's only really a problem if you're using an older mouse, as most high end gaming mice these days have on board memory for this reason.

The mousewheel for snipe is an interesting idea, although I can't really think of a spammable Protoss ability like that. Then again, I'd think that since you'd have to be targeting while spamming your mousewheel, having snipe as the mouse wheel would actually be counter productive.

IPS.Blue

Germany309 Posts

April 11 2012 14:58 GMT

#152

On March 19 2012 08:44 SkimGuy wrote:
Left click -> Left click
Right click -> Right click

Simple as that.

On March 17 2012 17:35 ki11z0ne wrote:
i am a hi dia, low master i have a razer naga and i use 4 5 6 9 on my mouse and it feels perfectly fine for people saying it lowers mouse accuauracy, you have no clue what your talking about... it just takes time getting used too thats all. WTF are you people saying that its gimmiky for??!?!?!? ....

If you're holding your mouse via fingertip grip you need all of your fingers to grip your mouse. If you use your fingers to press gimmicky mouse buttons other than left/right click, you loose stability and therefor precision.
Besides: your keyboard should have enough buttons, unless of course you are playing with a numpad only. In that case the Naga may be viable.

whiterabbit

2675 Posts

April 11 2012 15:19 GMT

#153

I have MX518.

Thumb button for bases.
Second additional button for 0

If I had more button (another mouse) I probably wouldn't use them because I am used to this mouse, 7 years already. :D

SecondKind

United States3 Posts

April 11 2012 15:21 GMT

#154

I use one of my thumb mouse buttons for "base switching" or what was originally the "backspace" key. Makes larva injects easier for me.

Nachtwind

Germany1130 Posts

April 11 2012 15:50 GMT

#155

thumb button = base cam (aka backspace)
middlemouse = warpgates

mahi29

United States235 Posts

April 11 2012 16:14 GMT

#156

I have a G500. I use the forward button for my main base cam. The back for my natural and the middle one for either the ramp to my main or my warp-in pylon. Ever since I've gotten used to this, makes life so much easier

Belha

Italy2850 Posts

April 11 2012 16:53 GMT

#157

I do not use it, i find it gimmicky.

Grampz

United States2147 Posts

April 11 2012 17:05 GMT

#158

mouse 5 to talk in vent, mouse 4 to talk in game ooohh yeee

Cokefreak

Finland8095 Posts

April 11 2012 17:12 GMT

#159

I tried having basecamera binded to my mouse button but couldn't get used to it so I went back to having it on spacebar.

On April 12 2012 02:05 Grampz wrote:
mouse 5 to talk in vent, mouse 4 to talk in game ooohh yeee

Never though about using it for vent, mind blown!

Aterons_toss

Romania1275 Posts

April 11 2012 17:13 GMT

#160

Coming from a wow background i tried to use my mouse buttons for certain things such as probe production hotkey or commonly used control groups but have miserably failed and more than 1 year ago came to the conclusion that the mouse is to important for your gameplay to have your mouse hand moving around it to hit buttons, unlike wow where you actually had times where keys could be used instead of mouse movement ( more comfortably i mean ) and you had A LOT of keybinding to do for stuff like arena where you had to have about 20-30 macros to cast specific things of specific guys thus the extra buttons felt more than welcome.