Xim3 - anything for ps3?

Zensuji said:
The Xim3/2 is completely different. It actually works.


And OP beta testers for the XIM3 have said the cross battle adaptor works fine with cod for the xim3. This board generally thinks they are cheating a lot of boards dont. I personally wouldn't use one as I feel they are unfair. but there's the info. Most of the ex-pc players on my friends list are desperate to get hold of a XIM3 when they come out. And as they are going to be "retail" I'd imagine it will be a lot more popular then the xim2.
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Well thats what I'm thinking, all my real friends are on console now. So I bought the consoles to play with them mainly and to play some decent exclusives on ps3.

Now I'm questioning why I spend so much on PC hardware to play with geeks on the internet that I don't know. £150 for an xbox job done, until it explodes. The KB/M adapter should last me ages and will hopefully work when ever the new xbox comes out, but thats not for a few more years anyway?
 
Or you could just learn to use a controler?
Sorry if i sound bitter going on, but its madness.
I have used an XIM-2 on Black Ops, having not played any PC FPS games for about 3 years, and was able to get attack dogs every game, without fail, and really insane Kill/Death Ratios.
All you have to do is quickly move in the players general direction and the game snaps your aim onto them.

This device cannot be fair =/

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Im actually strongly thinking about selling my brand new 360 and Kinect + about 80 games and moving over to the PS3 just for this reason alone, theres a good chunk of XIM-2 players on Reach and Black ops now (1 every 2 games or so) and its infuriating.
 
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That's not really the issue mate, the fact of the matter remains, you join a lobby with 20 guys in it, you have the XIM3 along side 3 of your mates. You would own that lobby in a single round, not because of skill, but because of the snap look from a mouse. It is so unfair and will not earn you a shed of respect online. Ultimately making your experience bad as well.

I looked into the XIM stuff when I moved from PC to xbox, but honestly, 6 months of casual gaming and I am on par with most decent console people in terms of pad usage.

So stick with it.

Plus, who knows, 1 year down the line you might have that 50" plasma, nice leather lazy boy relaxing with your pad rather than a keyboard and a mouse, hunched over a desk like a... Well, like we all are, a geek.

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Thats the thing really, the auto snap.
Using XIM doesn't feel like playing with PC input.
Using XIM feels like playing with Aim-bot installed.

And im not even exaggerating.

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See this pic, this is a guy from the XIM forum who i actually play with online sometimes.
He is no PC gamer, hell hes not even a console gamer! He just sucks completely.
That was from MW2 the first day he used the XIM-2.
Before this, he would regularly have twice or three times as many deaths as kills.
And this is supposed to be fair?
Seems to me like pretty soon everyone is going to have to blow £140 just to be able to compete.
 
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I did play BC2 with you freshage (think your still on my friends) I did get better over time but still no way near the aiming I can do on PC (I'm average on PC) hhmmm I didn't think of the auto aiming, I wouldn't care what people think of me using it but it may not be very fun if I don't even have to aim.

I guess it would be similar to using an aimbot on pc.
 
Kinda.
Its a special adapter which comes soldiered into a standard 360 controller.
This has two USB ports for a keyboard / mouse.
The adapter also 'artificially' over-rides the 360 controllers sensitivity cap, otherwise you would hit a brick-wall when you move the mouse around and end up waiting for the ingame motion to catch up.
Without this 'modification' it would have little to no advantage over a controller, but with it, allowing stupid high sensitivity (Like wrist flicking to move crosshairs completely from one side to the other) and the 'snap' aiming that console games have..
Its impossible not to dominate, the most useless of gamers can continually win round after round.
 
Alpherah said:
Considering MS wont give them a license for the product, im hoping once they go 'retail' that MS will ban them like they did with the third party memory cards.

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I wouldnt mind so much if the games were designed with it in mind. But with the snap aim found in console games, adding a Mouse to that and any old noob can dominate with ease because they dont even have to aim accurately with the mouse - just point it in the general direction.
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I dont know if you mean go after the company and ban sale. But they are undetectable. The xbox just sees the official controller plugged in.
 
Alpherah said:
Kinda.
Its a special adapter which comes soldiered into a standard 360 controller.
This has two USB ports for a keyboard / mouse.
The adapter also 'artificially' over-rides the 360 controllers sensitivity cap, otherwise you would hit a brick-wall when you move the mouse around and end up waiting for the ingame motion to catch up.
Without this 'modification' it would have little to no advantage over a controller, but with it, allowing stupid high sensitivity (Like wrist flicking to move crosshairs completely from one side to the other) and the 'snap' aiming that console games have..
Its impossible not to dominate, the most useless of gamers can continually win round after round.
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Yeah that's the XIM2. the XIM3 is a stand alone unit with a built in display, smart translators, and a cheaper price tag to be in line with current adaptors.

I too was thinking of switching to PS3 but all my mates have xbox and the CBA allows people to use it on the ps3 so you'd still come up against people using it. Pretty annoying really but oh well. I dont really feel the XIM2 users hamper my enjoyment at the moment, as this is going to be far more widespread well have to wait and see.
 
Alpherah said:
I have used an XIM-2 on Black Ops, having not played any PC FPS games for about 3 years, and was able to get attack dogs every game, without fail, and really insane Kill/Death Ratios.
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Care to play 10 games of Domo with me with your Xim so I can see you do this game in game out without fail?

Better still play on the other team to me so I can see this in action?
 
or just post up the vids from theatre mode.

edit: scrap that as its just single games and proves nothing....doh LOL :D
 
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Firstly, i dont own one, if you've been reading the tone of my posts you'll know ill never buy one ;)

Secondly - i used it at an event in Birmingham. Theres quite a lot of console get-together events down here hosted by Staff of the purple shop and about 80% of the people who go bring XIM2's now :rolleyes:

Ive mellowed out a bit since this thread, but they still annoy the hell out of me :(

I've been through all of that hardcore FPS Playing years ago with CS, and to be frank, never again!

Got into console gaming to chill a bit away from the desk, but with devices like these i might as well just go back and play it on the PC? at least its balanced for all.

Using XIM on a console just ruins the game for me if i dont use it, and ruins it if i do use it because it stops being a challenge unless people on the other team have one too.
 
Alpherah said:
Theres quite a lot of console get-together events down here hosted by Staff of the purple shop and about 80% of the people who go bring XIM2's now :rolleyes:
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That's crazy as the XIM2 requires a PC to run it. Surprised that's allowed.

Decent mouse and keyboard on console has just been a matter of time. And in casual console spirit its probably best to let go and not care. Everyone I regularly play with is getting an XIM3 apart from me. None of those were even interested in the XIM2 due to set-up and and needing a PC. So I guess its going to get a lot worse very soon.

The majority of people that want one though are usually terrible with the pad and the XIM takes them to above average rather then uber. So hopefully it wont be too bad. I have seen a couple of game battles guys that were very good pad players switch over and they did become insanely good but I doubt they'll be many of them.
 
Hm, my findings are different.
In my experience it turns terrible players into matches even for the best pad players, as long as they know the map layouts.

As for it being crazy they allow it, your allowed your own peripherals, and apparently a laptop counts.
 
Zensuji said:
Decent mouse and keyboard on console has just been a matter of time. And in casual console spirit its probably best to let go and not care. Everyone I regularly play with is getting an XIM3 apart from me. None of those were even interested in the XIM2 due to set-up and and needing a PC. So I guess its going to get a lot worse very soon.
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Which is why ill just end up going back to PC gaming for FPS games if this is the case.
The only thing more boring then being on the receiving end of one of these is using one yourself and dominating the game effortlessly.
At least the PC Platform remains fair for all (Heh, who would have thought anyone would say that about a PC over a console, madness).

Although i still have hope MS actually get off their arse and do something, otherwise i will jump over to PS3
 
Alpherah said:
Which is why ill just end up going back to PC gaming for FPS games if this is the case.
The only thing more boring then being on the receiving end of one of these is using one yourself and dominating the game effortlessly.
At least the PC Platform remains fair for all (Heh, who would have thought anyone would say that about a PC over a console, madness).

Although i still have hope MS actually get off their arse and do something, otherwise i will jump over to PS3
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But what can they do? As someone has previously stated the xbox just thinks it's another pad (if this is wrong please correct me!). The company isn't trying to sell it as an official product so MS can't ban it's sale as they aren't doing anything illegal. :(
 
Alpherah said:
Hm, my findings are different.
In my experience it turns terrible players into matches even for the best pad players, as long as they know the map layouts.
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If you look at the average BC2 players stats on the XIM forums they are about average nothing special. Same with the COD stats. And that's all I'm going by. However when asked most of them say its triple what they get on a pad. Many of them sitting at a 0.5 KDR and getting to around 1.5 after the switch. In the hands of anyone competent then the advantage will seem huge.
 
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