The Gauss

[Baneblade]

Originally Posted by Zulthus

Jackie Chan is cool, but you are retarded for making him make your faux pas for you.

Just because you can throw 3 grenades in quick succession DOES NOT mean they are necessarily spammable. Like for instance if you can only carry... 3.

[SKYeXile]

Originally Posted by Zulthus

It really isn't rare to only have the two buttons on your mouse these days. The majority still uses it, as not all of us want, can afford, or need the sleek n' sexy $80 R.A.T mouses.

expensive mouse made out of cheap parts and assembled in china? pass.

Steel series or bust i say.

MX518 has 2 side buttons and if you don't have something equal or equivalent to that then you must be using a $5 microsoft mouse, not designed for gaming.

[Coreldan]

A 5 mouse button (you can get em very cheap) is what I see as bare minimum for gaming nowadays. That 5 includes scroll wheel, btw. Well, bare minimum is maybe a wrong word. I also see anything more than 5 a bit overkill in most cases. I've yet to really see a mouse that pulls off more than 5 buttons in a very convenient way. Most buttons become too awkward to use well.

As said, MX518 is still one of the best price/performance ratio mouses for gaming out there. They arnt even expensive, but you don't really even realize what you are missing out on if you are playing any real game without side buttons Those are one of the best buttons you can even have at your disposal.

The point is, if you spend even a few hours of the week playing games, I'd get a 5 button mouse.

[SKYeXile]

Originally Posted by Coreldan

A 5 mouse button (you can get em very cheap) is what I see as bare minimum for gaming nowadays. That 5 includes scroll wheel, btw. Well, bare minimum is maybe a wrong word. I also see anything more than 5 a bit overkill in most cases. I've yet to really see a mouse that pulls off more than 5 buttons in a very convenient way. Most buttons become too awkward to use well.

As said, MX518 is still one of the best price/performance ratio mouses for gaming out there. They arnt even expensive, but you don't really even realize what you are missing out on if you are playing any real game without side buttons Those are one of the best buttons you can even have at your disposal.

The point is, if you spend even a few hours of the week playing games, I'd get a 5 button mouse.

yup, i pretty much have them defaulted now to crouch and sprint as infantry
and flight lower and descend as aircraft. and scroll wheel click to vent.

[Coreldan]

Interesting choices.

Personally for me, mouse 4 (I think, the one closer to my body anyways) is usually a VoiP button and mouse 5 is often some kind of "open door/use/activate" button. In my main game, APB, mouse 5 switches the shoulder of the weapon. It's a third person shooter, so switching the cameras (and thus the weapons) shoulder makes a huge difference and is required for any player who wants to be decent.

In WoW I had mouse 4 & 5 for abilities, though.

[Hamma]

Originally Posted by Coreldan

A 5 mouse button (you can get em very cheap) is what I see as bare minimum for gaming nowadays. That 5 includes scroll wheel, btw. Well, bare minimum is maybe a wrong word. I also see anything more than 5 a bit overkill in most cases.

Totally agreed? I love to use the extra mouse buttons for things like crouch and reload. I prefer to keep my keyboard hand as stationary as possible so I don't have to navigate around to other keys (other than the movement)

[Zulthus]

Originally Posted by SKYeXile

MX518 has 2 side buttons and if you don't have something equal or equivalent to that then you must be using a $5 microsoft mouse, not designed for gaming.

I am still using the mouse that came with my PC. It's some sort of HP mouse, 2 button w/wheel. I don't know, I've never felt that I've ever needed any more than that. I still have the ability to absolutely rape people in FPS games with it. It would feel weird for me to click a button on the side to reload instead of hitting 'R'.

[Quovatis]

I love my 13 button G700 wireless mouse. The 4 thumb buttons come in really handy for Planetside (one button for each holster). No lag in wireless. Best mouse I've owned.

[Zulthus]

13 buttons? Holy shit. I probably wouldn't be able to remember what button does what.

[Quovatis]

Originally Posted by Zulthus

13 buttons? Holy shit. I probably wouldn't be able to remember what button does what.

It's not bad. 4 thumb buttons, 3 DPI buttons, one top button, and the standard mouse buttons and tilt-wheel.

Not as bad as some: I know there is a Razer mouse that has NINE thumb buttons, geared toward RPGs. It's so confusing it comes with "training" stickers to train yourself haha.

[Coreldan]

Originally Posted by Quovatis

It's not bad. 4 thumb buttons, 3 DPI buttons, one top button, and the standard mouse buttons and tilt-wheel.

Not as bad as some: I know there is a Razer mouse that has NINE thumb buttons, geared toward RPGs. It's so confusing it comes with "training" stickers to train yourself haha.

That Naga is completely stupid though. In that case you are much better off with a "speed pad" for your left hand than cramping all those buttons under one thumb.

The n52te for example, which I use. All movement can be done with left thumb, that is usually wasted for spacebar only. It's pure win especially for MMORPGs, but I play all games with it:



Nowadays sold as the Razer Nostromo, as well.

[Quovatis]

yeah, I've looked at those, but seems too inconvenient if you actually want to quickly type a message to someone. You have to move both hands to a totally separate device on an already cluttered desktop. If they could incorporate the same features into a standard keyboard, I'd be all over it.

[Zulthus]

This is mine, been serving me well for over a year.

[Coreldan]

Originally Posted by Quovatis

yeah, I've looked at those, but seems too inconvenient if you actually want to quickly type a message to someone. You have to move both hands to a totally separate device on an already cluttered desktop. If they could incorporate the same features into a standard keyboard, I'd be all over it.

Could be easily doable, but I guess it would create quite a niche market. Then again, I'd guess it could sell way better to hardcore gamers than the speedpads alone.

Gogo Razer, combine Nostromo with a normal keyboard!

I havn't found it inconvenient at all, except when there isn't enough desk space to have both side by side. Then it gets inconvenient cos you either have you write in a very uncomfy position or keep switching their places.

I personally will probably never go back to playing on a keyboard. When this one breaks (some 3-4 years old now), I'll get the newer version Razer Nostromo.

[Quovatis]

Something like this, but more functional:


I read a review of someone who learned to type on that. Took them a month, and they still say it's bad. haha

We've gotten way off topic. Sorry.