Which Peripherals do you use for Competitive Play?

[FROST1]

I’m using a Roccat Kone+, wich is, besides her scroll wheel issues, the best mouse I had so far.

[H0RSE]

back in my “prime,” when I played regularly and competitively, I used these:

PC Concepts SK-6000 keyboard

Kensington Expert Mouse

My keyboard layout was:

up = forward
down = back
left = strafe left
right = strafe right
shift = crouch
ctrl = jump
enter= sprint
delete = prone
/ = previous weapon
\ = next weapon
numpad 0 = reload
numpad 1 = zoom
numpad 5 = tool 1
numpad 3 = tool 2
numpad 3 = tool 3
lmb = fire
rmb = use/interact

• weapons remained bound to 1, 2, 3, 4
• many of the letter keys were hotkeys for vsays

That was over 10 years ago, and I have yet to find a better layout for me personally. I find the WASD layout and the surrounding keys to be far inferior and clunky, and I don’t think I will ever get used to it, at least enough to get back to a competitive level of play. I still own the keyboard, I just don’t use it anymore.

I currently have a Saitek Eclipse II keyboard, and I still use the same trackball (will never go back to mice.) The tackball has 4 mouse buttons, a middle mouse, and a scroll wheel.

[Apoc]

Didnt realise anyone used trackerballs in gaming :eek:

[Smooth]

Filco keyboard and g400 mouse, binds i use RDFG for movement S jump space crouch awetyh weapons.

I use a Filco (cherry mx brown) and a G400 too. I approve of your excellent taste!

[Hyperg]

Same as Inf3rno here, also a G400 user and pretty limited to the side buttons on the mouse (one is for interact, the other is for Push-to-Talk in w/e voicecomms i have - no, i don’t like self-activated microphone breathing…).

The keyboard is a Microsoft Sidewinder X4 but haven’t really used macro keys in FPS games (actually even GuildWars2 has like 2 of them used for chat switches xD). I rebind my guns around the EDSF (my WSAD is shifted to right one slot so i can have A free for stuff).

Like pretty much everyone here I use various utility scripts if the game allows their presence, most notably class changing and spawn / map scripts. I had those actions bound to the NUMPAD keys, as I could structure them visually and reaching for them wasn’t really required while moving.

And ofc, if the spawntime sync becomes adamant, the almighty /kill is also within reach

[rookie1]

Im not comp but FYI
Im using 2 KB (saitek <–for Vsay only) and Steelseries)
and a Logitech G300 that im working on it coz its my new mouse
For now my binding:

[DarkangelUK]

I’ve not comped in many many years but yeah, Logitech G15 and G500 mouse (ive more than likely got the tool numbers wrong).

ERTF movement
G tool 1 (revive paddles/pliers)
D tool 2 (C4, med packs).
4 tool 3 (turret/mines)
Space jump
Z crouch
right alt quick knife
M reload

Mouse1 fire
Mouse2 ADS
Mouse3 main weapon
mwheelup pistol
mwheeldn grenade
mouse4 sprint
mouse5 use/quick action

[Rex]

Mouse: Steelseries Sensei
Keyboard: Logitech G19

I do use the thumb buttons on my mouse, but I can’t say the final bindings yet because some are still bugged for me.

[Dormamu]

Competitive noob/pub player :D. skill = low--
Mouse Razer Deathadder 1800
On beta i will use (now M3/4/5 are offline :D):
M1: Shoot; M2: IS/altf; M3: /kill; M4: Health Pack; M5: Shock Paddle
Keyboard: A4Tech G300 - cheap, water proof (tested :D), on W:ET 20~30 keys mapped, TA ~ 12 keys, depends on the game and how much i like it
Mouse Pad: icemat 2nd ed

[negatiive17]

Razer Deathadder & Microsoft Sidewinder x6

[Volcano]

logitech G11
Mx518

The binds I had on my mouse was mouse4 was altfire for rnade and mouse5 was arty script and mouse3 I think was PTT for vent

[woll3]

Mouse: Deathadder 3G Internals inside a Kinzu Shell + Omron d2f-01f for the Main buttons
Keyboard: Steelseries 6Gv2
Pad: Roccat Taito Kingsize

Mouse 1: Shoot
Mouse 2: Jump
Mouse 3: ADS

[Ca9ine]

Razer all the way: Lachesis, Lycosa, Sphex and Piranha.

[Ca9ine]

[QUOTE=H0RSE;416520]back in my “prime,” when I played regularly and competitively, I used these:

PC Concepts SK-6000 keyboard
Kensington Expert Mouse

My keyboard layout was:

up = forward
down = back
left = strafe left
right = strafe right
shift = sprint
ctrl = jump
enter= crouch
delete = prone
/ = previous weapon
\ = next weapon
numpad 0 = reload
numpad 1 = zoom
numpad 5 = tool 1
numpad 3 = tool 2
numpad 3 = tool 3
lmb = fire
rmb = use/interact

• weapons remained bound to 1, 2, 3, 4
• many of the letter keys were hotkeys for vsays
  [/QUOTE]

That is some old school setup right there.

[Violator]

Not comped for over 10 years but currently looking for a new mouse as my trusty MX518 died a couple of months ago so am using a crappy Dell one (M-UAV-DEL8 apparently :)) which sucks now I’ve started playing DB. Keyboard - ancient Cherry £4 job.

My bindings always amuse (it goes back to the BBC Micro days when movement was ZX for L/R & ’ + / for U/D).

Fire - LMB
Forward - RMB
Left - A
Right - S
Back - Z
Zoom - Space
Crouch - C
Jump - Ctrl
Reload - D
Sprint - CAPS

Rest are default

I personally found the mouse side-buttons a bit fiddly on the mx so didn’t use them, hoping to get something a bit better this time round.

[iwound]

i’ve just bought my first gaming mouse.a radon 5k.

two thumb buttons are a little fiddly but useful, set to quick knife and reload.
it has a sensitivity toggle switch just behind the mouse wheel also awkward, but useful for slowing movement down on iron sight.
ive now also got a script for mouse wheel button to drop a mine or medipack etc then return to weapon 1. return to what i was using would be better.

[Violator]

After a lot of recommendations my G500 arrived this morning and its great so far. The sens buttons are easy to get to as they’re right by the left button. Thumb buttons are nice but will take a bit of getting used to - was thinking weapon1 + knife.

[Ashog]

don’t forget to setup the tilt wheel shortcuts in setpoint

[Humate]

After a lot of recommendations my G500 arrived this morning and its great so far. The sens buttons are easy to get to as they’re right by the left button. Thumb buttons are nice but will take a bit of getting used to - was thinking weapon1 + knife.

I have bought 2 of them.
Both of them busted

I will say though the dpi buttons are in a nice position.
Great for games that dont have nades on a weapon bank.

[Scrupus]

I bought myself the first gaming mouse as well this xmas - or should I rather say, a gaming rat! More precisely, a Cyborg R.A.T 7:

Yeah I know it’s totally overpriced and it won’t fix my horrible aim anyway (it’s unfixable), but the sexy mechanical “Terminator” look totally sold me

It got some buttons that I haven’t figured out how to program for something useful (in DB/FPS) yet - forward/backward buttons, and a second scroll wheel (for the thumb). It’s possible to program it for both key and mouse stroke actions, so if anyone have good ideas on how to best utilize that thumbwheel for example, let me know.

For the rest I have a rather traditional setup, the only thing I’ve changed from the default DB setup is swapping 1 and 3 - never gotten used to have primary on 1.