Any aiming tips?

[Nidstang]

I am starting to get back into this game, and want to improve. Obviously practice makes it with this game, but I wanted to ask your opinion on how to improve aiming. One thing I consistently hear is that lowering sensativity will help with that.

I am currently playing with a DPI at 1800, sensativity at 1.25, yaw and pitch and 0.22. Should I try lowering this more?

Any other general tips I should be practicing to get better? Thanks.

Also, I prefer playing as DOOMGUY because, I love DOOM, and I like having the mobility double jump gives me. But is his ultimate really underpowered? Or am I just not using it right?

[ej]

Yes, not the easiest for a noob :)
Extra jumps may be confusing for enemies, thats a plus, but may distract you from learning strafejumping.
Try copying config from some of these players. https://liquipedia.net/quake/Category:Players
Generally people say that you should rotate 360 degrees by moving the mouse by 25 cm. Leave plenty of space on your table.
and, of course, framerate over 100 is a must if you want to use anything but RL and Gauntlet.

[SpaceShot]

I think low DPI and high poll rate is quite good.
You could always set the DPI to 1337 see if it helps.

Setting a low DPI doesn't mean you're not taking advantage of the sensor,
if you have an expensive sensor,
you still get good performance whatever super low settings you set.

I alternate between 800DPI 125hz slow action this is usually sufficient 95% of the time, the speed of the famous Intellimouse that has a big fanbase with gamers, for a long time it would beat most 'for gamers' mice. 1000DPI 1000hz if the action hots up.

A good quality sensor and build quality surely are much more important than DPI. imo.

Not sure on the idea of having to move my hand around. To move 25cm equates to about 200-800ms in delay compared to achieving the same within 1cm.

Not a big fan of the lack of scientific fundamentals in some industry promotions. Theres no duty for their science to be actually scientific they're free to suggest anything that makes no sense as much as they wish.

Short distances. Short keys. Short microswitches. Short cables. Always quicker. ( I'll have to try out for sure Omron non F switches, but I'd assume on face value they take up more time)
It does not matter what the industry is trying to sell you. It doesn't change the fundamental laws of physics! no matter what they say! ( and of course there is no law saying their claims must be truthful either! industry can sell garbage ideas all they like and slow gamers down to a snails pace, but it would be the gullible that become slow. )

[Akira]

Play with a sense that is comfortable for you and stick with it. I play atm with 50 cm at 360 degree but I have a big mousepad and am used to play with such low sense. Many people have a sense like 30cm at 360 degree so maybe try to lower your sense a bit.

If you have a hard time tracking enemies eg with your lg then try to change it a bit.

[SpaceShot]

Originally posted by Akira:

I play atm with 50 cm at 360 degree

Waaah what is this, I can spin around 720 within 5cm.

Perhaps this is down to disabling acceleration, I would have to move alot more without it I notice. I don't know why modern gamers turn it off. Theres definfintely a difference of game skill beliefs between modern mainstream gamer communities and the old nintendo elite. I love acceleration always on max.

Love it. With acceleration finely tuned, mouse becomes slow and accurate for sniping and speeds up for fast action. No need to use DPI acceleration buttons.

Also can spin around 720 degree's in under 5cm of mousepad.

[Akira]

Thats ok if it works for you. It is all about personal preference. Many watched me play on tournaments/lan and wondered how I could move so fast. For me eg I use it because my hands are really shaky(Some kind of illness) so I can focus more on wrist and arm movement.

[SpaceShot]

I think most gamers have minor health issues, two of my friends have health problems, myself I see colors differently in different eyes, not easy to color correct that, other issues too. Getting engrossed in a game seems to help to some extent sometimes. Definately find it relaxes and lifts my mood after an hour a day.

If you find a combination that really improves your scores. Let us know. Theres a thread on Quake best mousing. I'm trying out a few mice right now, but, no massive changes, in my scores yet.

[Mr.KPbICA]

Check this one/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTexLm9MUWV3yqpzW7mDK_Ytkh0KcJNsZSNteIwY1Bqw_XrAD2HxE-swtPpDvyCYCnunmnNqrNdKSsf/pubhtml
720/5cm lol)

[De-M-oN]

Originally posted by xXx_Energy"E-DRANK"Drink_xXx:

>"DPI at 1800000000000000000000"

There's your issue.

But he uses a low sens of 1.25 so it shouldnt be that fast.
Doesnt it make more sense anyway? regulating the sens with sens instead dpi seems to me more logical.
Why would I use 800dpi, if I could use e.g. 2000 dpi, but with a low sens?

[🎃MaximusBlastalot🎃]

Aiming can be broken down into a 5 step process:

-Center the screen on the thing you dont like.
-Press m1
-Repeat until the thing goes away
-??????
-Profit!

[SpaceShot]

if you lose centering, this seems to happen due to windows bugs about 2 x a year, no reason to lose if theres a fix, refresh back from taskmanager fixes this

[Akira]

Originally posted by De-M-oN:

Originally posted by xXx_Energy"E-DRANK"Drink_xXx:

>"DPI at 1800000000000000000000"

There's your issue.

But he uses a low sens of 1.25 so it shouldnt be that fast.
Doesnt it make more sense anyway? regulating the sens with sens instead dpi seems to me more logical.
Why would I use 800dpi, if I could use e.g. 2000 dpi, but with a low sens?

Many mice( Ok mostly more cheap ones) have problems with high dpi so they start to interpolate the movement and your aim will become weird so I would only use a dpi to some degree.

Also if you have a "low" dpi it is easier to configurate your sense ingame.

[Akira]

Originally posted by DontOMGitsBOPnotBOE:

I think most gamers have minor health issues, two of my friends have health problems, myself I see colors differently in different eyes, not easy to color correct that, other issues too. Getting engrossed in a game seems to help to some extent sometimes. Definately find it relaxes and lifts my mood after an hour a day.

If you find a combination that really improves your scores. Let us know. Theres a thread on Quake best mousing. I'm trying out a few mice right now, but, no massive changes, in my scores yet.

Till now the best mouse I ever had/have are those two: Cougar Revenger S / SteelSeries Rival 600

Especially the Cougar Revenger S is so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ good. It just feels really good.

But to be honest. You can be a world champion or a world class Quake/ut player even with a ball mouse.

[SpaceShot]

Definately I feel for Rail, setup the mouse and aimer differently than for all the other weapons. A mouse that can switch on the fly for rail shots might be good. I had configured everything so it's smooth at 8000dpi, ingame sens 0.75-1.25~, great for all other weapons, but missed non-stop with rail, too fast. But when switch for rail shots got more kills hitting the hat switch down to 2000dpi. This was on one mouse I'm trying out atm. Maybe different for a different mouse.

If you have a mouse with mode change switch on the top. Maybe configure just 2 settings. Normal shooting, and Rail shots. Too many settings you dont use surely would slow things down accidentally scrolling through them. Delete excess profiles.