Okay, I think its time I give out my pro gamer tips. I wouldn’t say LEET gamer tips because I’m not that great at games..just pretty good IMHO.
First of all there are three rules that every gamer ought to abide by and know when playing any first person shooter style game:
- Never TK (Talk-Kill: thats when you kill somebody when you can tell they’re chatting.)
- Try not to KS (Kill-Steal: thats when you finish off somebody else’s hard earned kill.)
- Never BS (Bull-S!!t: thats when you just sit and say stupid crap to be noticed-i.e. spamming.)
When you play online games you can go with the flow and talk just like any other dork, or you can set a mature example and try and show some respect and not say dumb words like “p3nis, vag1na, f#ck” etc. These are obscene screen wasters that don’t prove anything about you except that you have nothing good to say or that you couldn’t even if you wanted to. Show some respect – somebody’s 4 year old might be playing even though it may be a mature game thats rated 17+. For real, you know its true.
Speaking of younger folks playing mature games, I was buying Counter-Strike (the first one) at Walmart a while back and had a 16 year old with me. I was buying the game for myself and yet they told me that he needed to show id of being at least 18 or older in order for me to buy the game for ME. That was pretty retarded and I called them on it. They don’t need to be putting their nose into my business like that. They did that when I was buying two copies of DOOM (1, and 2) as well.
So on your road to gamer enlightenment you may discover the following about mousing…or maybe not.
- The more sensitive you set your mouse in-game, the more choppy it becomes and seems to jump around more and more.
- Using Mouse-Acceleration can be useful sometimes.
- Using Mouse-Smoothing can also be useful sometimes.
- Best bet: Set the sensitivity as low as you can while still being able to maintain an easy aim. Try setting it just slightly lower than you would like, and then adjust the Acceleration to somewhere around half and the smoothing to around half (if you have that option available). Then adjust those in small steps to achieve the perfect mouse setting for yourself.
- The more you play with your mouse settings the more you’ll learn about how they help and worsen your gaming experience. I spent about 2 hours adjusting my mouse last night and I finally discovered what those settings all do. I’m still half-way stupid about those little settings like Acceleration and Smoothing…oh well.
These are some simple and basic tips for you gamers, but I find that these are valuable even to the veteran if you don’t have all of them down. I may post some more at some point.
Have fun and keep on rockin’.
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