Competitive gaming

I'm into comptetitive playing Alien Arena, but I also like other FPS, especially those which are similar to Quake. I have even won a tournament once. If you are into some sort of competitive gaming, what are your preferences and thoughts about it?

What is your favourite dpi? FOV? Do you use aliases or macros? Special mouse pads? Any cool techniques, etc.? What game you are playing competitively? Clans?

For me any 400 dpi mouse does it (my greatest games ever were with the cheapest mouse ever). Mouse is set on the slowest possible @ game options. Today I'm using an awesome Logitech MX518 (it was a gift from a clan member)
I use regular FOV (90), but many of my aquintances use 130. Note that FOV above certain degrees is considered cheating in some leagues.
I never use and never will aliases and macros. I do not have assigned anything to the side buttons of the mouse or do not change dpi ingame - to keep equal opportunities (maybe I'm exaggerating). Also regular mouse pad (although a giant one is preferrable).

 

People, play ace of spades.

 

The only game I've ever really played competitively is GG2, which I've now stopped due to being sick of dealing with lag, horrible match hours, poor teamwork and pathetically small teams. Was in a few clans over time. I also partake in speedrunning and shmups, which are competitive but not real-time.

I don't know about DPI but I don't like my mouse to be overly sensitive, even when playing FPS. Have no experience change FOV so I can't comment. I change my Steam name regularly, or try to use different names for any created characters I make in games. Haven't messed with macros yet but I'd like to, if only to play amusing sound effects on cue My mouse pad is a grimy old piece of black foam with a plain blue material cover and it's still the best one I've ever found. My main technique is charging headfirst into a group of people and dying

 

My only experience with competitive gaming has been by proxy with obeece and his gears of war shenanigans. From what I understand it involves a bunch of swearing, making falsified proof videos, getting other people angry at you and mocking them both to their face and behind their back. Also generally acting better than anyone else that played.

I can only assume he was doing it right because he was top of the GB ladder for a while. Until he got permabanned from the forum.

 

I usually don't play competitive gaming, or multi-player competitive gaming at least. When I do play online I usually play in a co-op.
But when I do game competitively, I usually do it singularly, like speedruns and the likes. I can do it on my own time and there's not as much pressure. Also, I usually prefer playing single-player games more than multi-player games so... yeah!

 

. From what I understand it involves a bunch of swearing, making falsified proof videos, getting other people angry at you and mocking them both to their face and behind their back.

It is partly true, but like in real life you choose your acquaintances. Some good clans are very very sensititive on attitude, and a trainee who is not nice and a positive person won't get in regardless of skill. A good player who behaves bad can be booted just like you've mentioned in the case of Obeece... According to my mind in true competitive gaming good manners are a must. Or at least that's my opinion. Are you sure Obeece wasn't cheating? Aimbots, clienthooks... of course he could be good for real, unfortunately some really skilled players do behave bad, I know the kind.

 

Oh he was definitely a good player.. I was right there when he played. I think the only thing he had was a modded controller, but he was too prideful to use it in competitive matches unless he felt the opposition deserved it somehow.
really I think he was just as competitive about the metagame as he was about the actual playing. But enough about my family.

I have nothing to contribute......

 

I've never really played anything competitively, unless that little shmup tournament that I did mediocre in counts. Although I've always liked the idea, it's like sports for people who are bad at sports.
I felt I had gotten to the point where I could start playing competitively in this game back when I was on a Macbook and it was one of the few games I could actually run, but it had an absolute joke of a competitive community, so it never really happened. I just had fun pubstomping and getting banned by 12 year olds for "using aimbots" \:3/

I'd absolutely love to start playing my silly MOBA/ARTS games competitively, but I think I've still got a long way to go up the skill ladder before I can really do that. I've played several ranked matches via matchmaking but someone usually plays like garbage in another lane and throws the game, so that'd definitely be best with a premade team. Whiiiiiich I don't have.

 

I'm assuming competitive gaming essentially refers to e-sports?
If that's the case, there's usually less swearing than in Gears of War online.
unless it's League of Legends...

So I play a bunch of them (LoL, DotA, SC a bit) but I suck at all of them. Still have fun though, so I guess it's worth it :3

In terms of FPSs, I'm pretty crap on controllers, but I'm competent in TF2 and other Valve games. I'd say Cube 2 is my favorite semi-competitive FPS, mostly because I'm too good at it not to. I use a medium field of view, past about 120 and it gets disorienting. I play with rather low mouse sensitivity, I don't get how people can be precise with such sensitive mice.
I play everything with the graphics turned down to where I can run at 60 or more FPS. Except League of Legends, that game is so slow that I'm fine with 39 in exchange for some nice scenery.

 

So I play a bunch of them (LoL, DotA, SC a bit) but I suck at all of them. Still have fun though, so I guess it's worth it :3.

Do you play WC3 DotA or Dota 2? Beacuse I need people to play Dota 2 with.