Turns Out Sticking A Thing On A TV Doesn’t Make You Better At Shooters

19 responses to “Turns Out Sticking A Thing On A TV Doesn’t Make You Better At Shooters”

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   neo_kaiser

   December 5, 2013 at 11:37 am

   That makes no sense. How the hell does a stationary dot make you better with guns? It’s not affected by anything like recoil, bloom, or stance. They’re not just visual to stimulate the brain in seeing something move, they represent the accuracy of your weapon if you were to fire. Your bullets don’t always go towards the center 100% of the time and the bloom reticle expands to try and fool you.

   Also, doesn’t take aim-assist, aiming down the sights and bullet magnetism into consideration.

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   1. 

      doubledizz

      December 5, 2013 at 11:48 am

      BF was a terrible example. He’s hip firing with a sniper rifle; a weapon with some of the largest hipfire penalties! He should’ve tested with a pdw with laser sight and a hipfire grip.

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         neo_kaiser

         December 5, 2013 at 11:55 am

         When I played the BF4 beta, people were using Sniper Rifles like they did in Call of Duty. Not sure how it functions now, but CoD would be a worst example as the guns aim for you.

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      2. 

         dashals

         December 5, 2013 at 12:21 pm

         Agreed, he’s not even trying. You shoot medium range from the hip red dot or no red dot the gun sprays wildly.

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   2. 

      tiberath

      December 5, 2013 at 2:13 pm

      Tribes: Ascend. Spinny shoots at the centre of your screen and you can only hip-fire it. Killing Floor is another hip-fire-is-accurate game.

      There is more than just shooting simulators in the First Person genre.

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         neo_kaiser

         December 5, 2013 at 2:21 pm

         I know that, but using it in other situations doesn’t make sense and weapons that are that accurate have their own reticle.

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   3. 

      fureien

      December 6, 2013 at 1:16 pm

      all of this aside

      i cant believe nobody has mentioned this but:

      Back in highschool during CS days before COD and Battlefield were AAA mainstream titles, i used to put bluetack in the centre of my screen

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2. 

   doubledizz

   December 5, 2013 at 11:38 am

   It is definitely a flawed design, but you also need practice your reaction control dude, ie: @2:30. That was horrible.

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3. 

   roh

   December 5, 2013 at 11:38 am

   Shoot this guy!

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4. 

   braaains

   December 5, 2013 at 11:42 am

   I thought having something stationary stuck to your TV (doesn’t have to be an LED, even something like a sticky note will do) was supposed to help prevent motion sickness that some people get from playing first person games.

   So I guess not being violently ill would probably make you a better player…

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5. 

   thatteemo

   December 5, 2013 at 11:47 am

   Battlefield was probably a bad choice to test it on.

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   1. 

      g_thompson

      December 5, 2013 at 6:00 pm

      Very bad choice, especially with the problems in BF4’s netcode and DICE’s refusal to geolock Aussie servers.. *grumbles and tries to remember my anger management breathing techniques*

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6. 

   ad

   December 5, 2013 at 12:07 pm

   Didn’t scrubs used to put a piece of blu-tac in the centre of their monitor to get this effect?

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   1. 

      je5us

      December 5, 2013 at 12:24 pm

      yep, i remember doing it for a bit, i found it helped me found the centre of the screen better after a while but that isn’t always heaps helpful

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7. 

   mattm

   December 5, 2013 at 12:23 pm

   This was perhaps valid in CoD MW2 when a hip-fire sniper rifle was almost 100% accurate, but a lot of the newer FPS games skew your sniper shot now if it’s hip fired.

   Hell, give it a shot with a scout in counter-strike source.

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8. 

   Mount Weener

   December 5, 2013 at 1:07 pm

   I disagree that putting something on the tv screen doesn’t make you better. This suction cup red dot is stupid, but Reti-Kill actually works. It stays in place every time too.

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9. 

   shadow

   December 5, 2013 at 1:34 pm

   People stuck indicators to their TV all the time in Gears of War to make hip firing with the shotgun more effective. There was no guessing where the reticule was if you had something on the TV. I wasn’t convinced because I always assumed the invisible reticule shifted based on movement and rolling.

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10. 

    funky_munky_aus

    December 5, 2013 at 5:21 pm

    If you’re really that fussed about it then go buy some clear ‘contact’, then put a dot with a texta. Costs almost zero with the same (if not better) effect.

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11. 

    rzarector

    December 5, 2013 at 8:01 pm

    I remember years ago playing counter strike, before FPS had accuracy and damage decreases for shooting from the hip, you would put some blu-tack on the screen where the reticle should be and you could perfectly use the sniper rifles without needing to scope.

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