well a good mouse is made of 4 factors:
1. Ergonomy, it should fit YOUR hand and YOUR play-stile else you'll suck anyway even with the best possible mouse sensor and all other factors 100% present.
2. ability to track fast movements, most gaming mouse track up to 4 meters/second, a normal mouse half or 1 meter max. without this you have got a useless mouse.
3. atleast 2000 dpi, if u are a low sens player you wont need as much dpi's as a high sens player does, but you'll need very much the "ability to track fast movements, factor 2"
and possibility to set USB polling rate to 1000hz (1ms mouse response, much faster reaction time, also smoother tracking and by consequence better accuracy)
4. eventually, extra buttons for binding important actions such switch-to-knife or grenade-hold or zoom-script or w/e, it's up to your choice actully..
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a normal mouse most likely has:
1. zero ergonomy for ambidestrous feet, most mouses look like a smoothed-rectangle.
2. no ability to track fast movements, you'll never be able to do a accurate sniper twitch, or a 180° turn in a instant.
3. 400 dpi (dots per inch), means the lowest movement they can track is 0,00635cm
when a 5000 dpi mouse tracks as low as 0,000508cm movement accurately
125hz poll rate, 8ms response ideally***
4. no extra buttons.
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so do you still think you 5dollars cheap mouse is more than enough for becoming a good player?
TIP to get used easily to a new mouse (same mouse speed feeling ingame, much higher precision for all the reasons above):
set sensitivity to oldsens / newdpi * oldmousedpi
eg. if u had a 400 dpi mouse (most likely) and a sens of 3
do: 3/2000*400 = 0.6
/sensitivity 0.6
(if it doesnt seem equal try 800dpi instead of 400dpi, those are the standard dpi of non-gaming mouses)
in AC 1.1 you can do this: set sensitivityscale to newdpi/oldmousedpi
(this way i think you'll get used easily to the new mouse)
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it's also very important to have high FPS or the strabiliant fast mouse response, will get lost between game polls, yes the game polls mouse input once per frame.
so if u have 60fps your ideal reaction time would be 16ms.
with 300fps it would be 3ms.
(with gaming-grade mouse with 1000hz polling rate)
use all this info wisely :D
hope this helps someone.
1. Ergonomy, it should fit YOUR hand and YOUR play-stile else you'll suck anyway even with the best possible mouse sensor and all other factors 100% present.
2. ability to track fast movements, most gaming mouse track up to 4 meters/second, a normal mouse half or 1 meter max. without this you have got a useless mouse.
3. atleast 2000 dpi, if u are a low sens player you wont need as much dpi's as a high sens player does, but you'll need very much the "ability to track fast movements, factor 2"
and possibility to set USB polling rate to 1000hz (1ms mouse response, much faster reaction time, also smoother tracking and by consequence better accuracy)
4. eventually, extra buttons for binding important actions such switch-to-knife or grenade-hold or zoom-script or w/e, it's up to your choice actully..
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a normal mouse most likely has:
1. zero ergonomy for ambidestrous feet, most mouses look like a smoothed-rectangle.
2. no ability to track fast movements, you'll never be able to do a accurate sniper twitch, or a 180° turn in a instant.
3. 400 dpi (dots per inch), means the lowest movement they can track is 0,00635cm
when a 5000 dpi mouse tracks as low as 0,000508cm movement accurately
125hz poll rate, 8ms response ideally***
4. no extra buttons.
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so do you still think you 5dollars cheap mouse is more than enough for becoming a good player?
TIP to get used easily to a new mouse (same mouse speed feeling ingame, much higher precision for all the reasons above):
set sensitivity to oldsens / newdpi * oldmousedpi
eg. if u had a 400 dpi mouse (most likely) and a sens of 3
do: 3/2000*400 = 0.6
/sensitivity 0.6
(if it doesnt seem equal try 800dpi instead of 400dpi, those are the standard dpi of non-gaming mouses)
in AC 1.1 you can do this: set sensitivityscale to newdpi/oldmousedpi
(this way i think you'll get used easily to the new mouse)
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it's also very important to have high FPS or the strabiliant fast mouse response, will get lost between game polls, yes the game polls mouse input once per frame.
so if u have 60fps your ideal reaction time would be 16ms.
with 300fps it would be 3ms.
(with gaming-grade mouse with 1000hz polling rate)
use all this info wisely :D
hope this helps someone.