Expensive headphones give unfair advantage?

[mallethead]

And I don't use headphone to know my enemies movement....I just depend on my "6th sense" and cunning ways of tricking other innocent players. I admit that I played too much till I achieved that stage.

[Naka]

And I don't use headphone to know my enemies movement....I just depend on my "6th sense" and cunning ways of tricking other innocent players. I admit that I played too much till I achieved that stage.

OH SHI-

[Felix]

That's just knowing how people will behave and anticipating it though
I love a good feint movement in FPS games. Duck around a corner to appear that you're taking an escape route, then double back and flank em
Edit: SOOO good as scout in TF2!

[ihasmario]

In the FPS games I play you can usually tell where the people are by the sound their pickups make, or the environmental sounds.

I can do it with 100% accuracy in Rankin on UT2k4.

[dingostolemyipod]

A lot of the advantage of good heaphones in fps games, really just exploits poor game design.

my 2c

[sakurafice]

the sound in bad company 2 is amazing...

on a related note, if you don't ahve sound in that game, you're at a pretty big disadvantage

[Byron]

the sound in bad company 2 is amazing...

on a related note, if you don't ahve sound in that game, you're at a pretty big disadvantage

Not if you are ranked 50 and Grandmaster Of Trickery:p

Enemies always repeat their mistake over and over again. But I agree that if you are new to the game, sound is very important.

In COD4, you can listen to your enemies real-time chatting......muahahahahahaxD

[dingostolemyipod]

In COD4, you can listen to your enemies real-time chatting......muahahahahahaxD

not if they're using vent or ts

[grevillea]

I still think CounterStrike was bloody annoying, even when they had Punkbuster running on the server. I defy anyone, regardless of how well trained they are, to be able to hit a human being from more than 25 metres away with a pistol. I've never seen a 'Desert Eagle', but handguns simply dont have the muzzle length to project a round over any distance accurately - I know its just a game, but being taken out by someone with a 'deagle' when you were at least a hundred yards away was just annoying.

[Riverback]

You should see the ones that use the pistol crosshair then just quickly swaps to an AWP rifle and kills you with it

[dingostolemyipod]

I still think CounterStrike was bloody annoying, even when they had Punkbuster running on the server. I defy anyone, regardless of how well trained they are, to be able to hit a human being from more than 25 metres away with a pistol. I've never seen a 'Desert Eagle', but handguns simply dont have the muzzle length to project a round over any distance accurately - I know its just a game, but being taken out by someone with a 'deagle' when you were at least a hundred yards away was just annoying.

There's competitive pistol shooting events in the states that shoot targets at 200 yards, but they do use big pistols for that.

[sakurafice]

the sound in bad company 2 is amazing...

on a related note, if you don't ahve sound in that game, you're at a pretty big disadvantage

Not if you are ranked 50 and Grandmaster Of Trickery:p

Enemies always repeat their mistake over and over again. But I agree that if you are new to the game, sound is very important.

In COD4, you can listen to your enemies real-time chatting......muahahahahahaxD

mistakes? i'm lost >.>


but um, sometimes what i do is, i c4 a building that i suspect has alot of people camping on the second roof
throw a grenade up the stairs.
if i hear them shout "grenade", i run and collapse the whole building ^^

[Byron]

Had the same scenario as you.....but I didn't throw the nade at them, instead I drove their tank that just pop-out in their base and cannon their sorry ass xD. 3 sniper bodies and 1 assault body flew from the impact.



Bad company 2 is soooooooo much fun.

[sakurafice]

lol, that's good as well.

on another note, i got 200 points from a marksman headshot

sniping is unbelievably rewarding in this game
not that that's all i do as recon class ^_^;

[dc]

I used to play CS competitive, and each time I upgraded my headphones I thought my skill level improved and then over time it dropped back - not sure if placebo enhances gaming performance?

At really top level gaming even small advantages can make all the difference