I'm trying to understand the different mousing styles. I rest my palm on the mouse, with the base of my palm and thumb in contact with the mousepad, but I don't feel like I'm moving the mouse with my palm. It's my fingers that are doing the driving.
For you fingertip mousers, is that your only contact with the mouse, at your fingertips? When I try to do that it feels like it would lead to fatigue rapidly, since my hand isn't actually resting on anything.
My fingertips are on the mouse. The heel of my hand rests solidly on the mousepad/desk. I move the mouse with my fingertips without ever moving the rest of hand at all. I use a high DPI setting (2400-2800 generally) so small movements are all I need.
Ah, I play a lot of shooters, so high DPI settings are generally not great for those. You want low DPI and move your hand a decent amount to do major movements and then small movements for fine aiming. Allows you to be much more precise. So I end up palming the mouse for wider movements then using fingers with my palm rested on the mousepad for fine aiming.
The g502 has a sniper thumb button. Holding it in reduces the DPI for fine-tuning your aim... until you release the button.
That said, I can headshot people all day long at high DPI, so I don't use it.
Yeah, but then I'd have to learn how to use it. I don't have that kind of energy
I have trouble using the three main buttons on a mouse and have recently added a side button for melee. Actually using buttons to customize how the device itself is working just makes me feel too old to play with kids these days. :-)
Also I generally dislike that competitive modes in games have driven changes like that into a more mainstream gamer. The game becomes less fun and more work to keep up :-(
That's just par for course with any hobby that has a competitive or higher end version: Stuff always bleeds into more casual applications. It happens in professional sports, cooking, ballroom dance, CCGs, cars, and other stuff too.
I'm trying to understand the different mousing styles. I rest my palm on the mouse, with the base of my palm and thumb in contact with the mousepad, but I don't feel like I'm moving the mouse with my palm. It's my fingers that are doing the driving.
For you fingertip mousers, is that your only contact with the mouse, at your fingertips? When I try to do that it feels like it would lead to fatigue rapidly, since my hand isn't actually resting on anything.
My fingertips are on the mouse. The heel of my hand rests solidly on the mousepad/desk. I move the mouse with my fingertips without ever moving the rest of hand at all. I use a high DPI setting (2400-2800 generally) so small movements are all I need.
Ah, I play a lot of shooters, so high DPI settings are generally not great for those. You want low DPI and move your hand a decent amount to do major movements and then small movements for fine aiming. Allows you to be much more precise. So I end up palming the mouse for wider movements then using fingers with my palm rested on the mousepad for fine aiming.
The g502 has a sniper thumb button. Holding it in reduces the DPI for fine-tuning your aim... until you release the button.
That said, I can headshot people all day long at high DPI, so I don't use it.
Yeah, but then I'd have to learn how to use it. I don't have that kind of energy
I have trouble using the three main buttons on a mouse and have recently added a side button for melee. Actually using buttons to customize how the device itself is working just makes me feel too old to play with kids these days. :-)
Also I generally dislike that competitive modes in games have driven changes like that into a more mainstream gamer. The game becomes less fun and more work to keep up :-(
That's just par for course with any hobby that has a competitive or higher end version: Stuff always bleeds into more casual applications. It happens in professional sports, cooking, ballroom dance, CCGs, cars, and other stuff too.
Very true. Just makes it that much harder to keep up and balance it with everything else.
Oh, I definitely like the side buttons on my mouse. I don't know if I'd ever really get comfortable with more than the forward/backward, though. Who knows, maybe I would. But yeah, usually use that back mouse button for melee if the game has a dedicated melee button. Or for PUBG, I use the back and forward buttons for zeroing scopes.
I have a G502 and my thumb and pinky are used for grip. Index is left click, Ring is right click and middle for wheel.
The three side buttons are configured for middle mouse button click, Back and Forward. The two extra top button next to the left click are set to play/pause playlist and next song. Dedicating the thumb to middle mouse button instead of clicking the wheel is really nice for opening links in tabs, closing tabs, throwing grenades or melee hits.
The forward button is clearly the button that should be used for melee, as the concept of 'forward' is analogous to the motion of striking or stabbing. The back button is clearly the button for grenades, as the concept of backwards motion is analogous to the winding back of your arm before a hard throw.
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The forward button is clearly the button that should be used for melee, as the concept of 'forward' is analogous to the motion of striking or stabbing. The back button is clearly the button for grenades, as the concept of backwards motion is analogous to the winding back of your arm before a hard throw.
For me it's more that my thumb naturally rests closer to the forward button on the mouse and it's a lot safer for it to accidentally hit the melee action than it is to accidentally hit the grenade action.
Honestly I have never had a mouse where actually using the side buttons felt comfortable enough to do in frantic gameplay. Course, I generally use fairly cheap mice in general, so that may part of the issue, but at this point I don't know if I'd be able to learn.
Honestly I have never had a mouse where actually using the side buttons felt comfortable enough to do in frantic gameplay. Course, I generally use fairly cheap mice in general, so that may part of the issue, but at this point I don't know if I'd be able to learn.
I think I started using those when I had a old G9X with very good side buttons, and I was playing a healer in WoW and had a great need for extra buttons. Now I can't go back.
Honestly I have never had a mouse where actually using the side buttons felt comfortable enough to do in frantic gameplay. Course, I generally use fairly cheap mice in general, so that may part of the issue, but at this point I don't know if I'd be able to learn.
Precision and thumb buttons just don't mix, so don't. I generally bind thumb buttons to stuff like Radar mode, if I use them at all.
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Where's Kalnaur with the "y'all are weird for using mice, controllers are so much better!"
That seems like it would be a lot harder to fit between butt cheeks.
Depends on ur butt.
And the size of the control stick.
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Man the writing for Yakuza 0 is just so good! I want to take a screenshot whenever there is a hilarious line, but then I'm just going to have the entire game in my screenshot folder.
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Man the writing for Yakuza 0 is just so good! I want to take a screenshot whenever there is a hilarious line, but then I'm just going to have the entire game in my screenshot folder.
I cleaned up the backlog by finishing TechnoBabylon the other day.
Damn, I haven't played an adventure game that good in years. It's kind of got me back into the genre to be honest. None of the puzzles used crazy logic or goofy item combinations. The setting is a very, very well thought out cyberpunk one.
Man the writing for Yakuza 0 is just so good! I want to take a screenshot whenever there is a hilarious line, but then I'm just going to have the entire game in my screenshot folder.
Honestly I have never had a mouse where actually using the side buttons felt comfortable enough to do in frantic gameplay. Course, I generally use fairly cheap mice in general, so that may part of the issue, but at this point I don't know if I'd be able to learn.
I'd usually just put something like reload on the back button. And then forget about it and use R anyway.
I get that, and I get that it's likely a huge majority opinion. But still. Wireless mouse suits my use case better, at least at the moment (and for the foreseeable).
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I need to stop trying to just play a quick burst of Conan Exiles. Every time, I start it up and then the next thing I'm wondering where four hours went.
I cleaned up the backlog by finishing TechnoBabylon the other day.
Damn, I haven't played an adventure game that good in years. It's kind of got me back into the genre to be honest. None of the puzzles used crazy logic or goofy item combinations. The setting is a very, very well thought out cyberpunk one.
Dang, ok I need to remember that name. My mom's been looking for more good adventure games.
I'm trying to understand the different mousing styles. I rest my palm on the mouse, with the base of my palm and thumb in contact with the mousepad, but I don't feel like I'm moving the mouse with my palm. It's my fingers that are doing the driving.
For you fingertip mousers, is that your only contact with the mouse, at your fingertips? When I try to do that it feels like it would lead to fatigue rapidly, since my hand isn't actually resting on anything.
In gaming news I'm close to maxing out the type40 and Virtuous weapons in Nier Automata. Still way off from upgrading the pods to level 3. Still haven't found Pod B though maybe it'll show up after route B.
Both pods can be found on Route A.
I actually managed to get both pod b and the type3 lance last night after a search youtube. :biggrin:
Still need to gather the materials needed to upgrade everything though
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That's just par for course with any hobby that has a competitive or higher end version: Stuff always bleeds into more casual applications. It happens in professional sports, cooking, ballroom dance, CCGs, cars, and other stuff too.
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Very true. Just makes it that much harder to keep up and balance it with everything else.
The three side buttons are configured for middle mouse button click, Back and Forward. The two extra top button next to the left click are set to play/pause playlist and next song. Dedicating the thumb to middle mouse button instead of clicking the wheel is really nice for opening links in tabs, closing tabs, throwing grenades or melee hits.
For me it's more that my thumb naturally rests closer to the forward button on the mouse and it's a lot safer for it to accidentally hit the melee action than it is to accidentally hit the grenade action.
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I think I started using those when I had a old G9X with very good side buttons, and I was playing a healer in WoW and had a great need for extra buttons. Now I can't go back.
Precision and thumb buttons just don't mix, so don't. I generally bind thumb buttons to stuff like Radar mode, if I use them at all.
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Operate the mouse by firmly clenching between the buttocks.
Flex to click. Twerk to scroll.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
These two posts are much more entertaining using the former as context for the latter.
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Are they... are they not related?
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That seems like it would be a lot harder to fit between butt cheeks.
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Depends on ur butt.
I thought it, I just hadn't posted it.
And the size of the control stick.
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It's why I don't play Diablo anymore.
Losing precise first person shooting controls is a serious pain though. You can instantly feel your efficiency just collapse through the floor.
That's called a video.
Damn, I haven't played an adventure game that good in years. It's kind of got me back into the genre to be honest. None of the puzzles used crazy logic or goofy item combinations. The setting is a very, very well thought out cyberpunk one.
And yet, I'm still playing FF14... because today is patch day.
Though @CorriganX did already ask about Overcooked! 2.
I'd usually just put something like reload on the back button. And then forget about it and use R anyway.
I get that, and I get that it's likely a huge majority opinion. But still. Wireless mouse suits my use case better, at least at the moment (and for the foreseeable).
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Dang, ok I need to remember that name. My mom's been looking for more good adventure games.
I..uh....use a trackball
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I was eyeballing it real good since it looks like its space cyberpunk which pushes many many buttons in my brain.
I actually managed to get both pod b and the type3 lance last night after a search youtube. :biggrin:
Still need to gather the materials needed to upgrade everything though
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Then I found that there's a mod that "adds physics to the female private area"...
...
No, really. This is a thing someone did...
Uh. So I have some questions.
I'm... not really sure what there is in that area that needs to have modeled physics applied to it...
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Ability to create new players into the game without the server admin's permission 8-)
Seriously, i've seen so many games with private area models, it's like a thing, computers want to become as human as possible