EPTWhat are your thoughts ? Share your views and try to justify them.
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tomsOn
Pro and cons of acceleration
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tomson
Poland641 Posts
What are your thoughts ? Share your views and try to justify them. __ tomsOn | ||
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smartcat
Russian Federation172 Posts
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AutumnLight
Ukraine2488 Posts
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tomson
Poland641 Posts
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bi11y
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mensrea
Canada5062 Posts
I prefer acceleration on for all the reasons you stated. I heard that HeMan (the War3 champion who's now playing in Korea) lost one of his recent matches partly because he couldn't turn off the acceleration under Korean XP prior to the game. If this is true, it suggests that he prefers to play without acceleration. In fact, it suggests that he finds acceleration bothersome enough to seriously affect his game play. Not sure about the reasons tho. I'll ask. Or maybe he can comment on this himself... | ||
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Ymar
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Jar_Ly
Cuba133 Posts
I think that the best combination is no acceleration with a medium+ pointer speed. I think that blizzard should put in the game options something like what ID Software did to Quake 3: a mouse speed measured in numbers and Windows independent, not the Windows confusing bar. Everytime i reinstall windows i have to spend several minutes tunning up my mouse speed again cause i never remember were in the goddam bar i putted it last time!  | ||
Bill307
Canada9103 Posts
On the other hand, I suppose that eventually, given enough practice, your brain will start to remember how far to move the mouse in order to move the cursor x distance on the screen anyway, so once you "get used" to acceleration you should have few problems with it. The benefits of acceleration seem trivial to me, though. I mean, how hard is it really to move the cursor quickly from one gateway to another without acceleration (given that your speed isn't too low, of course)? Similarly, is it really that hard to move your mouse just a tiny bit to move the cursor only a tad in any direction? I have to admit that I don't know whether my mouse uses acceleration or not (probably some low accel.), and I don't have a setting for it, either  . But I can't see how this (imperceptible because it's exponential, mind you) variability of speed/accuracy would give you any real advantage, since these mouse movements aren't exactly physically demanding tasks (please correct me if I'm wrong, though). If anything, it increases the extent to which speed and accuracy are mutually exclusive.In short, we have some possible benefits that don't actually seem to be beneficial at all, at the expense of being able to calculate mentally how far to move your mouse in order to move your cursor a desired distance (without knowing from a great deal of experience and trial+error). Given that all of this is sound, I just don't see how acceleration would be a good idea =/. | ||
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Casper...
Liberia4948 Posts
noaccel is thx. some players do use accel and dominate with it. q3 pro cooller is the guy that immediately comes to mind. | ||
XaI)CyRiC
United States4471 Posts
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Liquid`Nazgul
22427 Posts
On September 12 2003 22:51 mensrea wrote: Interesting post tomson. I prefer acceleration on for all the reasons you stated. I heard that HeMan (the War3 champion who's now playing in Korea) lost one of his recent matches partly because he couldn't turn off the acceleration under Korean XP prior to the game. If this is true, it suggests that he prefers to play without acceleration. In fact, it suggests that he finds acceleration bothersome enough to seriously affect his game play. Not sure about the reasons tho. I'll ask. Or maybe he can comment on this himself... it merely means you can't just switch from no-accel to accel like that | ||
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tomson
Poland641 Posts
No matter how trivial it might look, a benefit is a benefit. And of course there's no problem in clicking on gateways, yet it would be helpful if you could increase the speed and precision of doing such things. It's the small things that count. __ tomsOn | ||
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BlackJack
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Iron[NM]
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hmmm
China299 Posts
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Roman
United States2595 Posts
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Nevera
Finland677 Posts
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China925 Posts
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Mynock
4492 Posts
On September 12 2003 23:54 tomson wrote: Bill307, this is the kind of post I was looking forward to. I've also heard that argument about linear relationships, but I don't think it's something you can't overcome. After a few weeks all moves should be done on a subliminal level. There might be more to it thought, like some boundaries coded in us which we are uncapable to surmount. However it is also worth pointing out that, afaik acceleration is quite common among FPP players (i'm pretty sure fatal1ty used it), where precision is crucial. No matter how trivial it might look, a benefit is a benefit. And of course there's no problem in clicking on gateways, yet it would be helpful if you could increase the speed and precision of doing such things. It's the small things that count. __ tomsOn I'm no good at either (FPS/RTS) but even I use acc. in Q3, whereas ofcourse none in BW. Exactly coz of the obvious benefits I think. -Mynock | ||
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