Hardware and ET (/gaming)
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7 Mar 2009, 18:43
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So we're once again arriving on the verge of new lan. CC5 was a pretty big surprise for many, not only when looking at winner, but on behalf of those clans who placed behind the winners. I was just now wondering, when looking the online achievements of such clans as FiFg or even Impact that how much does hardware and/or the place where you sit etc. affect on your gaming.
Some thoughts: We have three players, who all have this "aiming percent", let me clarify.
Clown 60% / dav1d 80% / mAus 100% (this is nothing personal, so sorry clown <3)
So if they all go to lans, where they have TFTs, unformtable chairs etc. Do their skills drop down sth like Clown 50% / dav1d 65% / mAus 75% so the guy with the best aim taking the biggest drop of skill, since he's the most affected by the surroundings and hardware, cause at home he's found the perfect balance. This leads to the one fact that mAus underperforms, dav1d does ok and clown pretty well considering his online skills. Yes, we all know mAus has owned @ lans, but if looking to CC5, he was way worse than online. So is this the reason why such clans as FiFg do well offline but not THAT well online and has ET aswell as gaming overall become hardware oriented?
Some thoughts: We have three players, who all have this "aiming percent", let me clarify.
Clown 60% / dav1d 80% / mAus 100% (this is nothing personal, so sorry clown <3)
So if they all go to lans, where they have TFTs, unformtable chairs etc. Do their skills drop down sth like Clown 50% / dav1d 65% / mAus 75% so the guy with the best aim taking the biggest drop of skill, since he's the most affected by the surroundings and hardware, cause at home he's found the perfect balance. This leads to the one fact that mAus underperforms, dav1d does ok and clown pretty well considering his online skills. Yes, we all know mAus has owned @ lans, but if looking to CC5, he was way worse than online. So is this the reason why such clans as FiFg do well offline but not THAT well online and has ET aswell as gaming overall become hardware oriented?
My oppinion since I was able to enjoy both situations, playing with 30fps with the old Compaq Pressario and now playing with 125 at a highend comp.
I laughed about the : Chairs ... do you really think this is the problem?.
Imo the reason is that many guys were standing behind them and tey were nervous.
It was an other "feeling".
+ I struggle to get 76 fps.
i think players dont do so well at lans because the heights of the chair/table are semigood and so they cant find the right "place" to play as good as at home
also some places were kind of bad to play when theres a lot of ppl walking and hitting your back while doing that.
but i think most of really good players have also played really good at lan so I dont see its so hardware based after all, home setup is the best anyway :D
but NO :DDD
here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rQblP5i47w
i already found it myseslf ;((
gg lazY !!!
If u are used to some really special circumstances, playing on the LAN might be hard. But I don't think we can draw a gerenal conclusion here. In you experience the numbers could easily be like 20% clown, 35% david and 99% maus. Whereas the first 2 would suffer a lot and maus wouldn't nearly at all.
And for someone the home conditions might not be the best, so someone can actually play better at LAN (eg. if his home PC sucks compared to the LAN PC)
If u want to practise really for the LAN, u should make your home setup look close to the LAN setup and get used to that !
wasnt there this quake3 pro that was setting up his seat + pc at lan exactly the way (in mm digits) to get exactly the feeling that he has at home? :D
they might need to change that a bit if they cant raise above others in that department while the guy who loves to backrape can play more like home :P
and i think its easier to adapt to lan if ur a wrist aimer while the guy who aims with whole hand likes to have his chair at certain height etc