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Mouse & Keyboard
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Start as a Noob:
- Start with laptop in 2021
- Holding the wrist and arm in fixed place and rest fingers far from WASD and top numbers on keyboard to click Shift and Ctrl easily, but it's a wrong habit
- Using W with just a point finger then ASD with thumb finger
- Frames, ping, packet loss and response time didn't matter and was a casual player
- Though how to use WASD with three fingers and got lots of keyboard controls. In the beginning it was very difficult and I was like a cripple. After one week (playing Far Cry 3), it has become my true habit. Because I wanted to start Live Stream
- Bought a Gaming PC in 11jan 2022
- Frames and response time did matter and I wanted to be a pro instead of casual
- Seeing others' game setting and being a parrot; also see the others' chair and table position, keyboard and mouse grips
- I decided to be myself with my situation and eye issue instead of seeing others
- After being myself, I realized that the CPU was not strong enough to become a pro player
- Leaned both lower and upper back on the chair and relaxed my body to the most comfortable position
- Starts hybrid aming; use both wrist and arm for bigger movements, perfect tracks and shots
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Being a Pro:
- Make my mouse grip in my best comfortable situation; not using death grip
- Decided to push and fully rest my arm and abit wrist instead of floating on air cuz of wrist and arm fatigue. It's happened after 2 years (like dinner seat posture)
- Ignoring the arm friction with an arm sleeve. Because the place of Examid lives is very hot and humid and the arm moves very hardly
- Pre-Lock enemies with centering and not reseting the mouse when focusing on enemies
- Aim goes like a pro with lowering the tension
- Starts using dynamic grip, so there are four parts which I can explain this mixing grip and use all of them in different situations:
A: Doing fingertip grip as a default, I mean there is a little space between mouse and wrist; the palm is hovering over the mouse. This grip is suitable for web browsering, MOBA and RTS style games and in-game menus
B: Doing palm grip; from exactly where I hold the mouse with my fingers, I push the metacarpal head towards the mouse a bit. This grip is suitable for most of games with more stability and less movement with applied some frictions
C: Doing claw grip; from exactly where I hold the mouse with my fingers, I curl my fingers; now the lower part of the metacarpal touches the mouse a bit. This grip is my choice and it's suitable for balancing between high agility or movement and precision for shooter style games
D: My pinky, ring and thumb fingers are NOT only positioned nearly parallel to the mousepad, they're dynamic in positioning. I also DON'T push my wrist or palm into the mouse (maybe abit touch), I just USING and PUSHING my fingertips down exactly like using controller or touch screen. By pushing your palm and wrist, your hand and wrist get fatigue faster over time and there's also a lot of friction, which can even cause the mouse skates and feet to wear out much faster which in turn will greatly reduce your aiming accuracy. BTW, I just use my fingertips (the end of the finger, slightly above the nail) to control the mouse
- I raised the height of the table (or I lowered the height of the seat), then I opened my armpits because I didn't want to raise my shoulders anymore. As a result, I played with the best speed and freedom of action and less arm friction while aming
- Finally, I was aiming like I was in a hurry and wanted always doing fast flicks. But I was wrong. These two fators reaction and smoothness are very important. Then I tried hard to learn these factors and my aim became very fast and smooth like other pro players. There is no such thing as flick sphot; in fact, switching on the target in a short time is what people call flick and it's achieve by training
- Congratulations, Examid is now going to be a Pro Player at mouse and keyboard
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Controller
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Start as a Noob:
- Bought just a PS5 controller (not console) in 11jan 2022
- Using four fingers for handling games and always saw my hand and fingers. Two thumb fingers for the L/R sticks and front buttons, and the other two index fingers for L/R buttons and triggers
- I always paid attention to the controller instead of the game
- Though how to use claw grip with four fingers and got lots of controls. It was very difficult at first and I was like a cripple. Then practice this grip in Far Cry 3 game exactly like my KBM journey
- Starts with six fingers and practice hard on this grip
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Being a Pro:
- Bought a Nacon Revolution 5 Pro controller with four back paddles
- Using eight and sometimes all of my ten fingers for handling games. Yeah, it's very difficult and it feels impossible at first time
- Practice in very high sensitivity (20 in Call of Duty) to make movement better and faster
- Bought a controller freek and my aim has improved alot
- Since the Nacon Revolution 5 Pro has a magnetic sticks, I tried to set the dead zone to zero for precise aiming and tracking
- Pinky and ring fingers are fully covered under the controller for best paddle clicking experience
- Controlling the sticks with the first knuckle (exactly behind the nail), it's very accurate to aim
- When using ten fingers, I kept my index and middle fingers up to prevent clicking the triggers, but I prefer to using eight fingers
- Finally, I was aiming like I was in a hurry and wanted always doing fast flicks with right stick and just strafing to shoot. But I was wrong. These two fators reaction and smoothness are very important. Then I tried hard to learn these factors and my aim became very fast and smooth like other pro players
- Congratulations, Examid is now going to be a Pro Player at controller
Caution
This gaming journey belongs only to Examid and has nothing to do with other gamers. Everyone's journey is different according to their circumstances and situations
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PC Hardwares
- Bought a normal laptop in 1nov 2015 with 1 core and 2 threads CPU, then 1GB graphic drive
- Upgraded the Hard Disk Drive (HDD) to Solid State Drive (SSD). To do that, we removed the DVD writer hardware from laptop
- Bought a Gaming PC in 11jan 2022 with Sharkoon TG4 case (see pc-specs repository to see full information)
- After two years, I decided to upgrade the CPU from AMD Ryzen 5 5600X to Intel(TM) Core-i7 14700K. Because after buying a Logitech G Pro X Superlight Wireless 100-25600 DPI gaming mouse, due to the high polling rate, the processor did not have enough power to process programs and games, and I had to set the polling rate lower. Then we assembled the GPU, CPU, PSU, RAM and CPU cooler by ourselves
- My bad, the current motherboard ASUS ROG B550-F Gaming WIFI didn't support that CPU. I had to chnage it to ASUS PRIME Z790-P WIFI
- Another bad luck is the current Read Access Memory (RAM) which is Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 2x16GB 3200MHz CL16 didn't support at ASUS PRIME Z790-P WIFI motherboard. So, I bought G.Skill Trident Z5 RGB 2x16GB 6000MHz CL36 instead. Because its type is a DDR5 and it supports the D5 motherboard socket
- I decided to upgrade my CPU cooler from Thermaltake 1x Fan | Liquid to DeepCool LS720 Black. This cooler doing great and reduced the temperature more than 2x time (75°c to 30°c)
- My bad luck is endless, because the DeepCool LS720 Black cooler did not fit in the Sharkoon TG4 case and I had to buy Deepcool CH510 Mesh Digital case
- The year 2022 to 2024 was very terrible. Due to a small mistake in the microcode 0x129, it caused the CPU voltage to reach the highest level and as a result, the CPU's life time was reduced. Therefore, programs and games would crash without any warning
- I searched alot and I also updated everything and drivers one by one but the crashes not fixed. I decided fo change the network and display settings but it not helped me. I tried my next chance, removing those drivers and programs that might be affecting the GPU and CPU as well as the RAM but the crashing still remains
- Stress took over my whole body and I thought that the graphics card or the power supply had burned out. Then, I quickly installed Windows 11 Pro and told myself that maybe everything will be fine this time. It was unbelievable, but the problem was still persistent and the softwares and games were crashing alot
- I decided to shoot the last shot in the dark. I updated the BIOS of the motherboard from 1220 (2022) to 1663 (2024) without a UPS (emergency power). This operation took ten minutes in total, but it was the most stressful day of my life. Because if the electricity in the house was cut off during the update or the current was weak, the motherboard would break
- After this perilous journey, the crashing problems were finally solved. In addition, the security and performance of the computer increased greatly (frame increased by 50+ and audio became very clear). Even the appearance and UI of windows programs and settings changed and became similar to the Android/IOS version
