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Feel like you're slowing down yet? If so we can start over from the top while you catch up.



Being "good" at it won't save you, sorry.



But hey you can compensate somewhat.



Even more good news...



Come to think of it I've standardized my keybinds across different classes and MMOs so there's less thinking involved and I can respond quicker...



Feel free to share thoughts, hints and tips. We're all in this together and willing to wait while you work through the mental lag.

The authors seem to suggest you'll slow down even if you don't play Starcraft 2, but they still need more money to study that and make sure it's true (TBH I think they just wanted to be paid to play Starcraft though). Be sure to check back, you might not be out of the woods yet.

Edited, Apr 15th 2014 10:20am by someproteinguy

Same, I don't play any competitive RTS nor Smash Bros Melee or any other game where actions per minute are as ridiculously high so it's not like I'd notice.

Brain lag is still lag.

I haven't noticed if I'm slowing down because I don't play many competitive games. About the only thing I ever play is TF2 and then I usually go medic so that's not an accurate indicator of anything. Also, I play on pub servers full of monkeys.

There's also the "I don't spend 12 hours a day playing this" factor; not that I doubt the possibility of some cognitive slow down but I don't have an accurate way to self-judge when playing against some kid with nothing else to do than hit the games all day.

I quit playing RTS's yeeears ago. I quit playing FPS's because I couldn't see the 2 pixels that should have told me there was a sniper in that damned window.

I do play World of Tanks because tanks are HUEG LIEK XBOX and I can see those.

You must not realize just how BLIND Bijou is.

Aging makes you suck more at Starcraft 2.

Pretty much this. I've played them with friends and whatnot for fun, but playing online against folks who spend waaaaaaaaaay too much of their lives on those games? What's the point. I've never been a big fan of "twitch" games to begin with, and playing online more or less ends out being "guy who does this all day, every day, and has optimized his build, memorized the maps, has custom macros, programmable input mouse/joystick/whatever, and whatever else gives one an edge in such things wins", while I'm just some shmuck running "stock". Kinda not fun. And not much point really.

That and I need to periodically take my hands off the controls so as to take a drink of my alcoholic beverage.

/em waves cane

Edited, Apr 16th 2014 5:58pm by gbaji

Well, yeah. No amount of cool toys can fully compensate for just plain sucking.



Never played Starcraft online though (other than say lan/wan with friends). Cause I've heard nightmare stories about it from folks who have (or have attempted to anyway). Ironically, one of the most fun multi-player-deathmatch type games I've played ended out being Descent2. Combination of 3d maps, full directional movement, and folks exploding into a cloud of goodies made it great fun.

I never could get into Starcraft or Warcraft.

Well, I enjoyed the sound clips from the games, but not really the games themselves.