u/StepKitchen2409

Mouse: Mchose L7 Pro
Mousepad: Artisan Zero Soft XXL

So I got my first proper mousepad and mouse earlier this year after always using generic pads and whatever Logitech labeled as gaming for a mouse.

It was a huge upgrade. My mousepad came with Artisan Mizugumo skates. When I ordered my mouse I ordered some Tiger Ice full sized skates as I didn’t know the Artisan would come with some.

I took off the stock Mchose skates and put the dots on and the feel was amazing. They got faster and smoother the more they wore in. I have like 300+ hours in aim trainers with these alone - best my aim has ever been amongst hundreds of hours in actual games.

Yesterday, out of pure curiosity for what the full sized Tiger Ice skates would feel like I decided to rip the dots off and swap to full size.

My mouse feels like it’s glued to the pad, it has way too much friction to what I was used to. Couldn’t hit anything to my normal standards in aim training and in my games my aim felt really lazy and sloppy.

Before I jump to any conclusions, will these skates feel better as they wear in? I was under the impression these were on the faster end in the skate spectrum? They are probably 80% slower than my dots so for me it’s a huge change.

Should I stick to them and give them a proper go? Or get some more dots on order to go back to what I know?

I have approx 400 hours in the game since launch and get to play a few sessions with some buddies a few times a week. So I feel like I understand the game so far.

This post is purely about the gun play.

I am not someone who has been very critical of BF6 because whilst the game has some teething issues - it was mostly good fun. Any negativity I had towards it was far outweighed by the positives - for me anyway.

This update has left me feeling sad because the game feels so ‘off’ and a bit ruined for me.

The TTK has been increased overall and I am a fan of that.

It feels more rewarding to get a kill and the skill ceiling has increased. I am all for this.

What I absolutely despise is the time to death.

It’s exactly the same as it was before. Except now I have to work harder to get a kill - but I’ll die instantly.

I think if you’re going to increase the TTK you have to increase the time to die, surely? Am I crazy? The game gives you the feeling that you’re working your ass off to get the kill/s but your opponent has 200% damage.

I rarely ever rage at video games - I am too old for it.

Today after 1 hour of playing TDM and Conquest I had to just turn the game off. Out of pure resentment.

I had so many critical damages, so many hit markers, leaving my opponent at 4hp very frequently and I’d be insta killed. 80% of my deaths today had me questioning all reality of what this game has become!?

Let me know what you think, am I alone with these thoughts?

I love challenging fast paced aiming heavy games

I played Doom 2016 on release and it was a blast - is this game still alive?

I recently played Quake Live for the first time and it was a blast and lots of fun.

I played every Halo back in the day and I haven’t played Infinite for years - is this still viable?

I’m looking to add some new Arena based games to my library.

Any recommendations welcome please - preferably with a player base that is still somewhat around!

Today I downloaded, out of curiosity, Quake Champions and I played for about 2 hours.

It was so refreshing, fun and actually really exciting to play. Started picking things up quickly - I love how challenging it is on your aim because I’m really into my aim training.

A question though, where are all the players?

I had a look at the stats something like just a few hundred play per day. That’s really sad. I remember Quake content being unavoidable amongst the FPS community.

What games are Quake players playing now?

I would LOVE to find a well populated game similar to Quake, is there such a thing?

My wife bought me an Mchose L7 pro as a surprise about 6 months ago. It’s my first ‘proper’ mouse since 2017.

Since the 6 months I’ve found I’m now permanent claw grip - and I love it.

I want to try some other mice of different shapes.

I’m looking for high/higher tiered/well regarded mice of various shapes.

For example, I’m curious to try the Superlight 2 because the shape is so different from the L7 pro - and I may just like it more. I don’t think I’m after anything ‘ergo’ orientated.

I’ve been using EloShapes comparing a lot to my current.

Another on my radar is the Op1 8k because it’s slightly narrower. But I’m not sure if this an upgrade or a side-grade. Ideally I’d like an upgrade but I understand if not entirely applicable.

So basically recommend me a mouse based on various shapes, please!

Rereading this through it’s quite jumbled up because it’s sections of my journal collated into new text for this post - hopefully it still helps somebody

I’ve recently entered the Advanced VT benchmarks working my way to GM

I work in investments/trading for a living so I am incredibly data driven and believe in journaling everything I do work related. So when I started aim training - I applied the same approach.

There are a couple of things I think I overlooked when I first started aim training so I wanted to collate some of my sensitivity related points from my journal to potentially either help someone or spark some thought into their training.

I was a fast sensitivity player for years - I’ve always opted for sub 25cm. It’s really down to laziness, I didn’t want to move my arm and I wanted my wrist to control everything.

I was just fine with this for a long time, even aim training. I managed to achieve Diamond in VT alone just sticking with this range of sens and being stubborn.

But I was stuck…bottlenecked and more training didn’t yield me the results I used to get - my somewhat linear progression had tapered off to a flat curve.

I always knew about checking the top performers of scenarios sensitivities. But I ignored them.

For example a static scenario like ww5t the mean sensitivity is circa 50cm. Some of the best runs on the leaderboards are around this figure - all higher than my sensitivity.

One thing to note about sensitivity is this:

Fast sensitivity:

Good: Speed
Bad: Accuracy

Slow sensitivity:

Good: Accuracy
Bad: Speed

After being hard stuck and willing to try anything. I changed to 50cm and I sucked for any scenario. It felt slow, as if my cursor was being dragged through thick gravy.

My first thought was, I can’t move my arm fast enough.

How do you teach yourself to move faster?

Answer: Use an even slower sensitivity and train with it with conviction - try and go as fast and accurately as you can.

After a small session of 80-90cm I was indicating I could hit a PB on a static scenario I had stuck for so long. A few days past and I hit a new PB into Masters with 80cm - original PB was at 27cm IIRC.

When I now moved to 50-55cm - my speed was phenomenal and again, new PB ensued a few sessions after. Whilst some of my perfect flicks with sub 25cm may have been technically faster, they were not as consistently fast as I eventually got with 50+cm.

One thing I did was if I was training with a new sensitivity for that session, I would apply it in my games too - just to ensure I was really embedding the feeling of using my arm.

I’ve always trained with a laddering approach to sensitivity - doing dozens of runs with the same scenarios but each time jumping up/down 5-10cm until either 5cm or 150cm was achieved. This approach has slight merits but really is not enough to teach you how to engage your arm properly. Sticking with a slower sens for some consistent time is what really gives it to you.

I play a range of FPS games from faster paced Cod/BF/apex titles to more tac approach like Val or CS. I used my sub 25cm sensitivity in all of them for a longggg time.

My biggest reason I didn’t want to go over that 40+cm range was rotation speed in games. If an enemy appeared to be behind me, I wanted that ability to turn around quickly and get to the target. So I negated the idea of using a slower sensitivity for years.

I’ve since discovered that you can be just as quick, and quicker in fact with a so called slower sensitivity. You just have to learn how to apply your arm correctly.

Another bonus for a slower sensitivity is the translation to a physical square cm on your mousepad. Small tiny wrist movements don’t really translate to much a physical movement - it’s more of a feeling kind of thing.

If you’ve ever used circa 100cm in a game with static bots you will find that a bots head can be like 2 whole centimetres of your mouse pad - that’s a huge amount of space to land your sensor on the pad quickly. Imagine the same patch of mousepad with a 20cm sensitivity - it’s microscopic. It’s entirely achievable obviously, but the consistency of getting to that same patch on your pad again and again is much more difficult. I believe it is much easier to teach yourself to land on a larger physical part of your mouse pad than it is a microscopic sized portion.

Here’s a big take away point from my journal.

It’s very easy to be fast with a fast sensitivity (duh), but it is difficult to micro adjust and target confirm quickly. With a slow sensitivity it can be longer getting the crosshairs to the target but quicker to micro adjust and target confirm.

The process of learning a fast sens and getting it accurate is entirely achievable - but it’s a a more difficult path.

IMO and my personal experience is that you will benefit much more in the long run learning to be fast with a slower sensitivity - it is already accurate.

Learning speed with slow is much more readily achieved than it is to learn accuracy with a fast sensitivity.

I’m not debating fast vs slow - they both have their merits and both are entirely viable choices. But if I had to give you a route to take it is the path of the slow sens.

I feel like your ceiling is limited with a fast sens. You can go far and do very well. But I believe your floor may be lower to start with on a slower sens but your ceiling is vastly higher.

These days I play all of fast paced & tac based games with what I considered to be a slow sens - because I am now fast with it.

Another thing in my notes is taking 1 step back to go 2 steps backwards is fine! There have been 3 significant notable points in my journey so far that I have recalled where I felt like I regressed in the moment but knew with time and application I was setting myself up to progress further than I had been.

First occasion was moving from a 100g+ mouse to a 39g mouse. Second was changing from palm to claw grip and lastly was the commitment to a slower sens. In the moment of change, I wanted to default back to what I knew best and what I was currently good at. But I knew that what I was doing was a case of 1 step back to make 2 steps forward. Positive regression is absolutely a thing and something to be aware of and embrace in the moment - overcoming discomfort in a learning process will often yield new highs.

TLDR; A slow sens is not slow - you are slow with it. Learning to acquire speed with a slower sens is much more viable long term than learning accuracy with a fast sens. Higher ceiling with slow sens and lower floor initially until adapted.

So I’m Mid Master rank in VT for statics and for the life of me, I can’t complete.

What helped improve your static aiming the most?

A scenario?

A sensitivity?

A playlist?

A small advice or tip?

Any advice is welcome I’m open to anything - thank you in advance

I have an Mchose L7 pro that I’ve had a few months. I love the mouse - is there any mouse of similar shape/weight but with a taller hump?

TIA

Paid or free - open to both

Want something fast/fun/casual and arcade style that will test my aim pls

I recently learnt that I play my games on:

HFOV: 103
VFOV: 71

I have 500 hours aim training on:

HFOV: 131
VFOV: 103

I had no idea until recently.

Should I change my FOV in my aimtraining to match my game?

Thanks in advance

Happens after 5-10 minutes of turning the PC on completely intermittent - no pattern.

Black screen, fans go 100%

Turn off at plug and it restarts

Any ideas?

VT Master (verging on complete)

Never used mouse accel until yesterday and all of today

Played with linear and curves - found a real gel with linear but there were minor inconsistencies obviously as I wasn’t used to it

I play with a fairly slow sens, and sometimes struggle to do 180 or near 180 in fast accurate pace needed in fast paced FPS games - I don’t really like fast sens so I’ve just sucked it up in game when I die because I didn’t rotate quick enough

Today I used 2 sensitivity’s in game and it changed my life. I have all the control of slow and the ridiculous rotation speed needed to 180 in a couple of frames

RAW ACCEL SETTINGS:

Jump
Gain - Off
Smooth: 0
Input: 30
Output: 2

You can adjust the input higher if you want a more speed required for the fast sens to kick in. If the fast sens kicks in when target switching then bump input higher. If the fast sens is too fast try 1.5.

Linear settings give you so many variables to aim with - I enjoyed it as a novelty but for consistency and locking in - no. With this there’s no training of linear - it’s your normal sens and your sens multiplied by whatever output you’ve selected - 2 sens to train (I won’t train the fast one as I just use it for rotating in game)

This allows me to have my normal aim, snap and mouse control for every engagement AND I can 90/180/180+ with a brisk flick of the mouse.

Honestly I implore you to try it out if you’ve never experimented with accel and don’t want inconsistency but still want to rotate in game fast.

Only posting as I had never tried mouse accel and I know a lot of others haven’t.

But this version of mouse accel, how can you not want the speed & control of a slow sens with the frame skip rotation speed of a fast sens? By

Wanted to post brief feedback today experimenting with mouse accel for the first time. I also have some questions.

I’m VT Master and have never once considered mouse accel.

Fiddled with some settings - ended up with:

RAW ACCEL SETTINGS
Linear
Accel: 0.01
Cap output: 2
Input offset: 0(5 also felt good)

At the moment, I’m not playing CS, Val or Apex - I don’t have the time for ranked play right now so I’m just hopping on BF6 when I have the time after some aim training.

I play 40cm/360 in game and in majority of my VT benchmarks @ 103FOV. I played with 10-15cm for a very very long time before that.

One of my personal biggest hindrances is being able to do large flicks very fast. It’s always been a work in progress but I usually under flick by some way, especially in game that very fast rotation can be needed. Or it’s accurate but slower than I’d like.

First time thoughts:

Holy shit. My crosshair lands EXACTY where I’ve always wanted it too in large flicks. I still have the control it feels like for smaller targets requiring fine motor controls and I have ridiculous speed in my snap and rotation, and the crosshair just lands on target.

What amazed me 1w6ts/sixshot, not even joking, matched my PB on my 2nd ever go…tracking scenarios felt intuitive especially with speed increases/decreases.

IN GAME - Ridiculous, I felt stupidly fast yet incredibly stable. Long range engagements - sweet. CQB, I can snap to you in a heartbeat. Multi target engagements snap snap snap dead dead dead - insane!

I was so so so reluctant to try mouse accel. I feel absolutely on crack with how it feels.

My only questions:

do many of you use mouse accel in your training & games?

Can using mouse accel be detrimental to aim training progress?

Am I limiting my skill ceiling by raising my floor, or visa versa?

What other settings inputs should I look at? It’s literally my first time using it for a couple of hours and I honestly found it life changing

Usually happens after I turn the PC on first time around.

There’s no pattern, just randomly - black screen & fans send it 100%. Power off at wall and restart.

Max I’ve had it is 2x in a days use. Avg 1x per day/session.

The PC is still viable but what is causing this? I’d like to fix it pls

TIA

I need help/advice

I’ve been too stubborn to move to the elite benchmarks and start my masters training (that sounds cool) until I actually finalise and complete intermediate and complete diamond

Curveswitch is hardstuck for months on Emerald, and my biggest issue is I actually can’t find a way to possibly go faster

All my other switching and clicking completed Diamond without much of a hitch, so I feel like the skill is there (or maybe not because I can’t get the score lol)

I’ve watched everybody on the leaderboard above me, they are ALL using 70 FOV - I’m using 103 FOV, always have

It seems to me that this is the only alternative I have to finishing this scenario is to just cheese it with 70 FOV?

There becomes a point in chasing training progress vs chasing rank and with this topic, I want the progress, I want to be good enough to do it.

Months of grinding this damn scenario has lead to no avail so I’m in a mental battle in my mind to cheese it or just suck it up and grind it out.

Advice pls?