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[4rcs1ne]

I recently purchased the logitech g502 proteus, and I can not recommend it enough. It has truly made a difference in gameplay.

[Vossiewulf]

I use a Logitech G700S and it's rock solid. Mousing surface is just as important, that's custom made from strips of cherry, wenge, mahogany, maple, padauk and leopardwood/lacewood. There's no point in the multiple species except for looks, wood with a clear finish provides a perfect constantly variable surface. I used some smaller hand planes to make the surfaces perfectly flat.

I filled the grain with a light epoxy coat and then enough coats of lacquer so that I could completely level the finish and sanded out to 2000 grit. Then a coat of Renaissance wax, buff it until wax coat is hard and shiny.

Result is a completely flat extremely low friction surface that the mouse reads with no errors, with just enough friction that the mouse stays exactly where it is when I want it to, but a gentle push with a finger and it will slide it four or five inches. I thought about replacing the wear surfaces on the bottom of the mouse with some thin UHMW plastic slices to reduce friction even more, but I like where it is now.

I'm set to about 2700dpi and axes sensitivity set down to .03, so about an 8 inch side movement will rotate the mech's torso about 135 degrees, so yes I actually have to pick my mouse up to go completely from one side to the other.I never have to though, since I almost always partially turn the lower body as well.

With the default mouse settings the reticle bounced all over and getting on target meant usually at least a couple swings too far. With this setup I can move my hand quickly with less effect, which means I get on target very quickly; I never lose a draw when me and another guy spot each other simultaneously. You'd think having to move your hand more would hurt tracking fast targets, but it makes it much easier (IMO). Fast lights usually decide quickly to find someone else to shoot at as I can usually track them quite well.

Edited by Vossiewulf, 29 February 2016 - 06:49 PM.

[1453 R]

Another vote for the Naga. I use a combination of (wired) Naga and Nostromo left-hand keypad, which balances controls nicely between both hands. It's a much smoother gaming set-up I use for literally every game I play that isn't on a 360 controller. Of which there are...not many remaining.

Having fifteen additional commands available under your right thumb makes for a much better time trying to keep everything where you can reach it, without the unnatural finger contortions people put themselves through to try and use an entire keyboard with one hand.

[JediPanther]

I just use a generic wired mouse for about $12. No extra buttons on it. Just two buttons and a scroll wheel.

[Macster16]

I've always stuck to Logitech as their mice just seem to fit my hands really well. Currently use a g402 which I've had for about 6 months now and it's been rock solid. The g402 is pretty cheap and great bang-for-buck. g502 would be great if you want to go more upmarket.

[Zibmo]

CreativeAnarchy, on 29 February 2016 - 02:31 PM, said:

I'm not as happy with my second Naga as I was with my first one. My first one wore out my left mouse button and I bought a new Naga last year since I liked it quite a lot. This one seems to hiccup, sometimes I can move it but it does not move the pointer or in game it will not move around when I'm trying to aim, for a second or two then comes back. Surfaces are clean so I'm not sure what it's deal is.

I do like the buttons on the side, Logitec has a mouse with plenty of side buttons, when I was looking they were more rounded where Nagas are more squared.

I've liked my Logitec's in the past but they didn't have the buttons on the side when I was looking for a replacement to one that I wore out when I bought my first Naga.

I'm happy with pairing it with the Nostromos. My Nostromos is 6/7 years old and still works just fine. Not sure if their new model is any good, I wasn't too impressed with it's looks when I saw it.

I would consider other games when choosing a mouse though. This game doesn't need every single button I have with my current mouse/game pad set and you can get away pretty easily with a mouse that only has only a few buttons even with a Nostroms game pad. Other games can make use of a lot of buttons so if you want to "future" proof, I'd find one with plenty of buttons that you can program.

Had the same problem. A little canned air did the trick. The laser and lens is not sealed, so sometimes dust gets in there - a problem with most of the Razers I've ever owned.

Mouse works like a charm. I have the two top buttons (behind the wheel) set for increasing and decreasing DPS so that I can snipe using advanced zoom without getting dizzy and still zoom out and have reasonable accuracy for brawling.

[Exilyth]

JediPanther, on 29 February 2016 - 07:08 PM, said:

I just use a generic wired mouse for about $12. No extra buttons on it. Just two buttons and a scroll wheel.

Me too.

But since my LMB is starting to eat clicks lately, I'm currently on the look out for a more ergonomic replacement.

If only wired optical mice with scrollwheel, 3+ buttons and large corpus were more common and not as costly as ************.

[Akuman]

Logitech MX518

Nuff said.

[AnTi90d]

I use a Sharkoon: Fireglider optical mouse in my right hand and a Playstation 2 controller with a custom Xpadder profile for my left hand. I love my MWO control scheme.

I have my talk button on the side of my mouse, the wheel toggles night and heat vision, the trigger button toggles maximum zoom, and I have one unused button that I guess I'll use for Teamspeak, whenever I get more into CW.

On my PS2 controller, the pad is WASD, L2 is target, L1 is fire mode 3, L1 with L2 is jumpjets, select is map, start is a macro to input my password and hit enter, R1 is the scoreboard, tapping the left thumbstick up sets throttle to max, tapping the left thumbstick down moves the throttle up by 10%, holding the left thumbstick to the right activates free-look, the triangle button toggles arm lock (for Thunderbolts and Cicadas, I lock the arms,) square toggles ECM modes and X toggles chainfire.

I love my MWO control scheme, inspired by years of MW4 and Xpadder use combined with my favorite affordable gaming mouse.

[thehiddenedge]

I use a Razer Deathadder 2013. I like it because it's really comfortable and it isn't littered with useless buttons, though it could be a bit heavier.