[quote]Ratchet wrote:
red04 wrote:
AngryVader wrote:
Ratchet wrote:
Bujo wrote:
My new best friends in gaming.
http://www.kontrolfreek.com/content/
This got me thinking, I have not seen it in this thread, and I am not sure how many of you are computer gamers, but if you enjoy FPS, or MMO’s you owe it to yourself to buy a Nostromo N52 speed pad… I bought one 2 years ago and love it still… Without a doubt the best purchase I have ever made… It takes about 2 to 3 hours to get used to…
But, once you do you can do all your movement with your left thumb, which allows you to use your other four fingers to do a myrid of other things… The software it comes with lets you set up each button to do anything for a single button macro (1, 2, 3, and so on) to complex multiline macros and the software is very intuitive… I personally have the thumb pad set to forward, back, and strafe left / right…
I cant imaging gameing without this things anymore, and wish I had had it back in my CS days…
I have tried the logitech and saitech and hated them both, saitech was a piece of crap and logitech software sucked and was overly complicated.
The new version is pretty slick looking. I wish they’d release controllers like this for the consoles.
http://www.amazon.com/Belkin-n52te-Tournament-Edition-SpeedPad/dp/B000WMEHYG/ref=dp_ob_image_ce
I still need to get a pair of those FPS Freeks.
A gamepad will never ever be superior to a mouse for FPS play, and most MMOs require a lot more binds than there are buttons on a pad to play at a “high level”(insert joke about no skill in MMOs). It’s probably awesome for games like flight sims, or playing emulators, and definitely would be sick for consoles since the kb/mouse options blow.
I dont think ya got it… the pad is for your left hand, you still use the mouse in the right… And I use this for MMO’s all the time… It has 4 to 5 sets of 14 binds you can make… honestly though, in most MMO’s you only need numbers 1 - 0 and you can just click the rest with the mouse as you may only use them ever 5 to 15 minutes.
Also, if you have ever tried doing pvp in an mmo like WoW as a healer its near impossable to run, jump, spin in the air while casting using a keyboard + mouse combo… add in trying to talk and the speed pad in an invaluable asset if for nothing else it makes your movement controled by your left hand thumb which usually only is used for jumping.
This leaves your fingers, which would usually be used for forward / back and strafe left / right to cast spells, talk, jump, and what not…
Until you have tried it you just dont understand…
-ratchet-
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The best players in the world use kb/mouse. The situation you talked about only applies to instacast spells or hunters, and even then the whole reason you jump/spin is because that lets you free your fingers of strafe keys to press whatever hotkey is needed. It’d be different if the game had air control and you needed to still hold your strafe in midair, but you don’t because the momentum is carried.
That’s also why you chose your hotkeys properly so the spells you need in those situations are right there in the immediate area, q/e/s/r/f work really well(yes I didn’t have backpedal bound at all). Using the mouselook function(default right click) to assist movement helps alleviate any issues that might come up as well.
But whatever, assuming your last line is about me not having tried the speedpad and not some sort of implication of my knowledge/experience in the game(s) then hey, it works for you, more power to you. I’m not giving it a bad review I just never personally felt a need for anything beyond what I had.
