MrShooter01
Storm Wind Strikeforce
Caldari State
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Posted - 2014.10.21 15:54:00 -
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TL;DR I am a PC gamer and former dust mouse user, now I exclusively use the DS3 controller because I play better with it due to crap mouse precision and DS3 aim assist
I used to use KB/M since it was first added to dust 514, at the time I had very little experience with playing any kind of FPS with a controller, I'd just pop in every weekend during the beta to try it out. I was absolute **** at the ds3. Killing someone using an AR? Not happening. The only weapons I stood a chance with were dumbfire swarms (that was totally a thing), forge gun splash, and the shotgun.
When KB/M was finally implemented I went from AR fodder to AR fodder that might kill you if you fumble your controller. Still got my ass kicked plenty, but I at least felt like I stood a chance in <20 meter fights, and if all else failed at least I could snipe. Note that I did not instantly turn into a PC Master Race hellknight slaying all I directed my baleful gaze towards with my "perfectly accurate" mouse, despite that I'd like to think I'm pretty decent at PC FPS games. I might survive a CQC fight if the enemy started with their back turned and had a worse suit. You could generously call me a mediocre player in dust.
When they added Aim Assist back in, I was screwed. Suddenly I was dropping when someone sneezed at me, I had no chance of winning any kind of fight where the enemy fired back because most of their bullets would hit me while I was still putting most of my magazine into the walls on either side of him trying to follow his strafing with my mouse. I soldiered on resigning myself to being a logi, sniper, or forgegunner, pretty much the only roles I could do anything with.
A few weeks after Grand Theft Auto 5 came out, I finally decided to give the controller a try in dust since being forced to use it for a week made me more comfortable with it. Difference was like night and day.
Oh my god, my SMG is practically FOLLOWING that guy! I can strafe and still hit people! Hipfire shots actually work! WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL ME THE CR WAS THIS GOOD? And the scrambler rifle. Sweet Amarrian Empress the scrambler rifle. I cannot adequately describe how much more effective it is with a controller.
"But shooter, that's ridiculous! Obviously a precision weapon like the scrambler rifle would be better with a mouse! Hurr durr point n click"
No. Shut up. With the mouse, I've got that "pixel skipping" thing to deal with, resulting in my charged shots grazing off your nose and my scrambler overheating, then you turn and shoot me in the face. With a controller, I charge up the scrambler rifle, aim it at you, AND FOR A FRACTION OF A SECOND THE RETICLE LOCKS ON AND I AM VIRTUALLY GUARANTEED TO HIT YOU. No more missing by one degree. No more ineffective charged shots.
Overall, my performance has massively improved since I gave up on my mouse and accepted the aim assist demon into my heart. Over time, I have adapted to using all weapons with the controller, even non aim assist weapons like the forge gun and sniper rifle, and perform as well or better than I ever did with a mouse.
So when I see some idiot cry about a "mouse user" killing him or having an unfair advantage through some nonsense like "ADAD super strafing", I know he's a hopeless scrub that almost certainly got killed by another DS3 user that can simply strafe and shoot better than him
If he actually got killed by a mouse user despite their crippling disadvantage in cqc, even funnier |