Source was always pretty easy to aim in especially with it's boxy hotboxes. I got back into it a couple of years ago and found an always filled office server.Mine's inconsistent but then it always has been.
I find I tend to play better if I'm in a good place emotionally, and, of course, have practised a bit!
CS:Source seems, IMO, to reward better reaction timing than actual crisp, neat accuracy.
If you take too long to sight up an opponent, it's usually game over or you'll come off quite badly injured.
High DPI (and low sensitivity) is better. High DPI is more accurate because it’s the number of times the mouse takes a sample. Eg if you swipe your mouse (in real terms) 6 inches across your mousemat, low DPI will sample say 20 times. High DPI will sample 200 times and be more accurate. There’s a good YT video somewhere I’ll find when I’m on my computer.
The high DPI/low sens thing has actually been debunked* a few times. It was true in the Days of Olde where it caused drastic pixel skipping, but these days there's nothing worth worrying about.
Well I wouldn’t recommend that. Unfortunately mouse manufacturers don’t help themselves by advertising silly DPIs up to 5000 or whatever. I run my Razer Viper Mini at 1000 I think, which is around native. It goes up to silly numbers.
The part I remember specific to CS was if you zoom in with an AWP and try to slowly move the mouse horizontally, the guy was showing that you can see very small skips at low DPIs like 400. He was debunking the claim that a lot of people in CS think 400 is the “best” because all of the pros use it. Use something more like 1000+ and you don’t see that skipping. Try it yourself.
Servers are also getting worse. It's all cloud hosted gaming and worst of all the delay in hit reg. You can be taking damage before you can react to the screen as it's all delayed. Desync. That's not an age thing.
40 here.
My days of counter strike and playing Unreal Tournament on 175% speed are long gone. And so are the days when i could spend 12 hours + playing them. Its just part of the process, we get older, slightly slower and have less time. Sure there are the occasional "OMFG i just one tapped him mid air 420 no scope", but its very rare now........................................... actually, its really bloody rare.
That’s a fair point. I just checked and my Razer is actually set to 3200 and I did that because it was a standard number. Having picked up a few other games now (whilst I don’t play CS often enough to enjoy it), it does mean that sensitivities are too high. I just started Metro 2033 and even with the sensitivity on its lowest, it’s way too high for me. Although I do play CS with a very low sensitivity (almost two swipes to 180).
I tried both combinations and as an awper there's honestly no real difference between the two. There's a very slight "smoothness" to the higher DPI which to me just feels like artificial smoothing and a bit gross - but that's just down to preference and what I'm used to. Not enough to affect aim or be worth messing my DPI for though.
please don't ask me why
400 DPI 1.25, I use one of the pound land Scorpion mouse mats (The big one).I tried both combinations and as an awper there's honestly no real difference between the two. There's a very slight "smoothness" to the higher DPI which to me just feels like artificial smoothing and a bit gross - but that's just down to preference and what I'm used to. Not enough to affect aim or be worth messing my DPI for though.
I agree lowering your DPI doesn't instantly help at all, in fact quite a few of the newer CS Pros use "high" sensitivity. Mine is abnormally low... 400 DPI and 1.0
I don't think that's particularly low, probably fairly common in CSGO even? Most noobs wonder why they're not accurate in shooters when they flick their wrist and do a 180Mine is abnormally low... 400 DPI and 1.0
Most pros probably need a swipe or two with their whole arm to 180. Generally you should move with your arm, and do the first part of aiming with it, then you get the accuracy with your hand. That's why pro gamers use such big mousemats.Check the games to see if you can turn on raw mouse input. You can in CSGO and it's critical because it means it ignores your Windows mouse setting. As a sidenote I've been playing Metro 2033 and need to find out how to make the sensitivity lower!I always find it a right pain to get every game feeling the same with my mouse DPI these days. Take OW2 for example, drastically different mouse options and feel than COD MW. I just wish I could set my mouse DPI and not have to worry about game settings
What do you get from, this? same to others in the thread.
Human Benchmark
humanbenchmark.com
I'm around 154 - 167ms most of the time. Sometimes 175 if I'm not concentrating on it.
I don't think that's particularly low, probably fairly common in CSGO even? Most noobs wonder why they're not accurate in shooters when they flick their wrist and do a 180
Check the games to see if you can turn on raw mouse input. You can in CSGO and it's critical because it means it ignores your Windows mouse setting. As a sidenote I've been playing Metro 2033 and need to find out how to make the sensitivity lower!
These were the videos I was trying to find about high versus low DPI;
Short and sweet; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrF_e5vKqPk
This guy reviews mice very in-depth but essentially saying the same thing (not just for CSGO); https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jss9Zo37MCQ&t=4s
