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What natural abilities help aid a person's FPS skills?

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Comp625

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Hrmm I've been thinking lately about what makes me tick as a First Person Shooting Gamer. I'm very skilled (especially at realism games where the bullets are instant hits). I get accused of cheating frequently. I do not cheat online - never have, never will. Perhaps I was born with better eye hand coordination than the average person? Looking at myself, I'm 16. I've been playing computer games and using a computer since I was 6. First game I ever played was Wolfenstein. Maybe experience has something to do with it?

Anyways...looking for a more scientific and natural explaination. I have been needing to wear glasses since I was 12 or so. My vision has been in the 40/40 range for both eyes. I recently experiemented playing my favorite game with glasses. Note: I do not find the text blurry on a monitor at 1024x768. My head is about 1 1/2 or 2 feet away from the monitor. Anyways, the game seemed a bit sharper with glasses. Everything flowed more vibrantly (eg: when player models running across the screen)...kinda hard to explain. Anyways, after a while it gave me a headache. Regularly without glasses, I can play a game for hours and hours and get fatigued but not get a headache (while alot of people complain about headaches after 2 or 3 hours or so). Perhaps my blurred 40/40 vision blurred the motion created on my monitor allowing me to overcome the obstacles created by perfect vision. That's my theory anyways.

Hehe k my late night rambling is over. 🙂
 
I'm no master at FPS games, or any type of gaming at that (unless I play against my sisters.... sigh....), but i developed into a pretty average counter-strike player after a couple days of nonstop playing. I even got to the point where someone was convinced I was cheating after I started 8-0 or something, then promptly went into a slump where i couldn't hit water falling out of a boat and everyone pointed and laughed at me...

Anyways, I think there are people that just have what it takes to be a FPS player, then there are people who shouldn't be playing FPS games but are for some reason, or are playing on the wrong servers, such like my sisters boyfriend. He's a year older then me and is excellent in sports games, but when it comes to FPS he can't quite seem to understand that jumping HELPS you and that holding down the mouse button while firing the ak in cs ISN'T the way to kill someone...
 
if natural abilities = instincts, there are none for FPS. people sometimes say a person plays the piano well because of natural abilities. but how natural is it if they have practice to get good. therefore, only practice can boost FPS skills.
 
I don't there are really any natural abilities that help. It has alot to do with practice and your ability to control the mouse.
 


<< for CS, reflexes. It may apply to other FPS games too, but reflexes/reaction time are crucial. >>


Agreed.. I second that.. proper and timely responses to the action are the key..

Edit: Diazepam helps a little too 😛
 
<<It helps to be a miget with extra short arms so brain to hand time is reduced. >>

OMFG, you did not just say that!! 😀
 
techique and stradegy are the key. Especially in games like CS where many people play and many people are pretty good. Some of the server I play everyone has more or less maxed out on the skill, low pings, fast computers. So what I end up doing is second guessing, seeing who's gonna be where before they know it. All Jedi like and stuff. 😎
 


<< All Jedi like and stuff. >>


A jedi knight would make the players shoot themselves with handguns to death.
A jedi master would make the players smoke grenade themselves and stab themselves to death.
 
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