Looking for Starcraft 2 Specific Mouse - Page 2

On May 31 2013 05:17 Ben... wrote:
The Logitech G1 or G100s sound like they would fit the bill for you. I have the exact same preferences and I use a matte-finished G1. I wouldn't trade it for anything else. You can still get the glossy finished G1 for relatively cheap on eBay (though nowhere near the $18 I paid for mine a year or two back. The matte one is quite expensive now. I was lucky I got mine for $30. Now they're over $50). You should be able to find the G100s locally, depending where you are.

Edit: As others have said, try to keep DPI nice and low. High DPI just causes wrist issues and is in no way more accurate. I use 1000 DPI (that is the only setting my mouse has. It is literally perfect for me).

On May 31 2013 07:14 RyLai wrote:
1) NO, faster is NOT better than accurate! Flash has like 160-180 APM but is very accurate (might've risen to 200 by now, but he doesn't need that much APM o.o). MMA had 220-250 and where did it get him? Well he blew up his own Orbital Command. ForGG also focuses on accuracy.

On May 31 2013 08:45 semantics wrote:

Your edit doesn't make much sense. Your assumed premise is that higher dpi less arm movement and thus people will use their wrist to move the mouse around and that causes a wrist injury. Except for wrist injuries with mice are caused from poor ergonomics often people who push their wrist into a hard surface, irregardless of if they use their wrist to move the mouse or not.

Mice that are ergonomic tend to try to angle your wrist so only the bone of your wrist to only ever touch a hard surface or they try to force your not to rest your wrist on anything vs just the the center of your wrist where the veins run. If you just avoid resting your wrist on hard surfaces by either using a soft cloth wrist rest which wont impede your blood-flow or just consciously lift your wrist off the desk/mousepad you'll be fine.

RTS games don't need perfect accuracy hell even fps games don't need that people are amazing and can adapt all they need is a mouse that is consistent. Even if that means some acceleration in certain movements, as the more your play with your set up the more you adapt to it's quarks. Even if you get mice that are consider "perfect" sensors i'd note that it's mostly under ideal conditions, hard white surface to track on and the correct DPI and Polling interval if you change any of that your ideal sensor may not be ideal anymore. Which is why it's best just to get a mouse that sensor is considered at least good, only minor issues, but get a mouse that you feel comfortable using as number one.

On May 31 2013 04:40 Arisen wrote:
I find that standard mice from logitech or w/e you can buy for like 15 bucks at walmart are just as good as mice from razer, etc, unless you're after a very certain shape for your hand. Most of the high DPI stuff is not necessary at all (see korean gamers using $1 mice)

On May 31 2013 19:33 Aelfric wrote:

It was back in BW days my friend, now in sc2 engine and resolutions are totally different, no sc2 progamer use 1$ mouse anymore.

On May 31 2013 15:32 dicedicerevolution wrote:


Higher DPI = more tension required to grip the mouse to make constant AND rapid AND precise movements = higher likelihood of injury due to repetitive stress (repetitive stress injury), Using a pivot and digging into their surface doesn't have anything to do with the body parts involved for most common RSI like carpal tunnel.

Pressing down on the wrist too hard is not a complaint I've ever heard from anyone. I'm not sure what you're basing this on. If you have proper form, your wrist may get a little red from being used as a pivot, but the redness should come from constant contact with the surface and not from pressure being adversely applied there (yes, even when it's being used as a pivot). Generally speaking, ergonomic mice have a huge disadvantage of not being able to be used with a fingertip or even claw grip because it offers little to no vertical mobility. You have to pick up the mouse to move it up or down rapidly, which a properly sized ambidextrous mouse can.

RTS, FPS, and basically any game that you want to play at a highly competitive level requires you to have perfect accuracy. Consistency is part of accuracy, and most mice that aren't precise are not even consistent. Cryo loves to harp on some sensors as having a sensitivity variance of about 7%. It's consistently inconsistent, which is to say that it's not consistent at all, and definitely sub-optimal to "deal with" if your goal is to be as competitive as possible. The factors that you just glossed over are nit-picked and researched to a degree you never bothered with, and therefore have no idea of what people mean when they say, "this sensor is good, that one is bad" (assuming they know what they're talking about, or at least source someone who does). To paraphrase blueslobster from another thread, "If you're able to play passably with a sub-optimal mouse/DPI, then you're doing it in spite of it, not because of it."

Therefore, if you KNOW or have access to information and people who have actually done the research with the sensors on a variety of different surfaces, actually understand all the technical jargon, and can cut through the marketing glitter, it doesn't make any sense to say, "I'll just settle, because as long as it doesn't totally suck, they're all relatively the same anyway to me anyway."

Just to be clear, and I'm not particularly keen on calling people out, you are misinformed.