Over on the official forums a lot of people talk about using various mice that allow them to change their DPI on the fly, some with mouse driver software that automatically adjusts based on one's movement. Others outright suggest that pressing a button on their mouse to overcome recoil is not cheating, because hey, "the software came with my mouse", so they say.
How do you feel about this?
Personally, I think it defeats the intended balance of the game play mechanics and as a result, it is cheating.
Have a look at my stats. I play this game using a normal Microsoft Comfort Curve 2000 keyboard, a Dell mouse from 2004 (which is
very smooth on the bottom now after all these years!), a Core2 Q8200/GTS450/8GB DDR2 RAM computer, and the world's worst "highspeed" internet (commecial 802.11g where 90ms ping is fantastic and 150ms is normal, but the packet loss and randomness is maddening, let alone the God damned deep packet inspection throttling...). I often only get 10 to 25 FPS, with frequent complete stoppages of frames (*sigh* flying is great, trying to shoot things is shoot>0 FPS>crash...) in large fights, yet I somehow manage to be beat people 1 vs. 1 and even sometimes 3 vs. 1. As a result, I can't help but feel sorry for people who feel the need to augment their lack of skill with hardware and software crutches.
So yeah, when I kill you 1 vs 1, despite your handicaps, it's because you're bad and you should feel bad.
Seriously though, without a level playing field stats and any notion of "e-sports" seem pretty meaningless. What do you think?
2013-03-02, 11:11 AM
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