for all you gamers... how do you play HL/CS???

now i use "wasd" on the keyboard and a mouse....

if anybody has had good experience with a particular pad or joystick let me know... i pretty comfortable with the keyboard, but i wanna know if a pad would be better...

also has anyone used this:

 

kinda seems like overkill...id just stick to the regular keyboard/mouse

 

none of these gimicks are worth it, all the best players use just the mouse and keyboard, the best investment you can make is a set of headphones.

i use a logitech mx500 with the brass weight removed, and no mousepad, just a lot of table, and a rum of the mill keyboard, i have some mid line plantronics headphones that have served me well, it has a mic, but i rarely use it now that i no longer play competitively.

also lower your sensitivity, and get all 100 of those fps

 

another good accessory:

func industries 1030 competition gaming mouse pad.
the pad has two surfaces and is set on a rubber base. it's also thin

 

i got the new logitec laser mouse... feels really comfortable... 80bucks though...

20X more accurate than optical mice

 

check out the new ailenware headphones i hear they were in the 3K range...

 

found it....

http://alienware.com/GearShop_Pages/...x?ItemId=13011

 

thats fuckin crazy...

 

i am more comfoatable with the mouse and keyboard with any first person shooter game

 

esdf, high-quality logitech mouse on my Everglide Giganta.

 

that thing at the top....

i won that thing at a local CS tournament, and i sold it to some retard that wanted it....

keyboard/mouse is def. the best combo....

i use a microsoft limited edition black keyboard, and a logitech MX300

 

oh....and sennheiser PC-150 headphones

and a func black surface 1030.....great mousepad

 

You sir have been SOLD on marketing.

It' still an optical mouse, it's just ILLUMINATED with a laser.

And NO it's not better than an optical mouse. THey used a laser because it draws less current than the LED's to light up the surface.


Want a better mouse, go here... (and it's cheaper)
1ms response time (which blows the wireless away) and it's 1600DPI. (twice the resolution)
http://www.razerzone.com/diamondback.html

 

Just get the logitech MX-series.....cheap and efficient

MX310 and MX510 usually

 

They are good mice, won't disagree to that... but if you want the best look at my link above. It's $59.

 

Before optical mice were any good i used a Boomslang. Awesome mouse. I still have it, actually, anyone wanna buy it?

 

just a little overpriced

 

i got two 2000 series...anyone want them?

the razer boomslang, the mouse with the killer instinct...

 

Whats funny is laser mice were out long ago... they needed special mouse pads to work though. I'm talking 14 years ago. They had mouse pads that looked holographic.

However the new laser mouse isn't laser accurate. It's just using the laser to light up the suface for the optical sensor to read

Differences between MX1000 and MX510:
wireless vs wired (i.e. worse for gaming)
laser illuminated vs. led illuminated.

$50

 

It's still better than the MX510 or the MX1000

 

I use the default controls, and just learned thje short cut keys when buying, works well.

 

at teh defaultz


go d/l a config from a cpl player, see what you are missing....

 

uhh

i use default too....

went to WCG in irvine, CA for the USA finals....

lots of people there use default....

 

are you saying wired mice is worse for gaming?

 

No wireless is.

 

hes saying the buying configs that let you use 1 touch buy macros...i think

perfect for nade spamming

whats wcg, i wanna play when im in socal!

 

no, nade spamming is no more, im surprised that so many people are still using the default setup...

 

WCG = World Cyber Games

it's a tournament equivelant to CPL, but requires qualification.

There's a Pre-qual, and then the qual (USA semi final, local area)

Then the USA finals is usually in So. Cal.

Then grand finals in Korea....compete for quite a big prize.

www.worldcybergames.org i think....

 

Not necessarily....the MX700 registers just as fast as a wired mouse.

There are some wireless mouses like taht, that can compete at par with wired mice....just that they aren't as common.

 

thats the perfect waste of time for me!!!! awesome

 

my ping at the dorms for counter-strike suck ass, half the time okay, the other half 400-700+ ping

 

i have the same problem, the school has only allotted a small ammount of bandwidth for gaming, and some dumbass is running a quake server...

 

I was gonna be a referee at WCG world finals in San Fran, but i couldn't afford to take the time off work. I was also going to the US qualifier for Need For Speed: Underground, but couldn't afford the time off then, either.

 

btw...mips blows ass

 

i have the hand control listed at the top. i use that and the mouse for playing halo.

though its a pain in the ass to have to switch from that to the keyboard if you want to type something in.

 

i'm in a privately owned dorm, 4 T1's hooked up into this building,

problem is, couple weeks ago-- had a huge virus infection, i'm betting 80% of the building has tons of viruses, i was getting about 30 virus blockings at 1:30am every night for about a week-- they had to find the sources of the problem, and toss it,

but now, they've limited bandwith on certain ports., or so it seems--
they've cut off certain ports completely--
we used to be able to use Itunes to listen to each other's music on the network- now we can't...
i also hear that the network won't let you host an xbox game on the network

blah.

 

oh we have no prob using myTunes or ourTunes, and xbox is allgood, ours is fast as fawgawk except for gaming where they have a limit on the bandwidth....

we all have symantec coorprate and are encouraged to use firefox. so viruses havent been too bad

 

didn't know the mouse pad made that big of diifference

 

for optical, the darker the better...i had a white desk at home and my mouse wouldnt register...likely being blinded by the reflection and the friction of the mouse sliding is comfortable for some people

 

meh, university virus protection is shitty

we used to be able to use Itunes,(oh well, i downloaded all the other people's good stuff anyways)-- and i'm not sure about the xbox, someone was telling me something about the network blah something not working, i didnt want to pay attention so i assumed that it just wasnt working with xbox (i dont care, i have ps2 and no network adapter anyway)

normal downloads are fine anywhere from 80kb/s-150kb/s for usual constant, i mean not as good as when i was at home when i'd get 300kb/s+ easily, but oh well. just wish gaming was better.. but that's probably better for classes anyways :P