Macros legit? Right click for para is sweet!
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Join Date: 2013-04-07 Member: 184678Members
Join Date: 2013-04-07 Member: 184678Members
Ok so i got bored a few days ago and played around with my G9x mouse setting up multiple gaming profiles...
First, I created a macro that hits number2->click->number1 with .02 second delay between everything for a total of .1 seconds for the macro to execute....
--The result an instant parasite, mind you this is to fast for the pistol but the parasite has no delays associated with it...
Second, I created a second profile on my mouse and bound the macro to my right click... and on the original profile i bound it to my thumb
--The result for the first 0-8 minutes of aliens when im skulking but without leap/gorge/fade my left mouse bites and my right mouse parasites... I love it, it is consistent and after 1 week i have yet for it to fail (my aim as a skulk could use improvement while wall jumping)... but early game i can put out a para without hesitation or delay with a simple right click...
Other fun things, i set up the 2 profiles with different LED colors on my mouse so i know which im on, and with a touch of a button on my mouse i can switch back and forth....
Now im sure people will call this lame or even cheating, as i am not that fast but Im still curious to see where people weigh in on hardware assisted gameplay.... (I dont complain about my 30-50 FPS over peoples 100+ FPS)
First, I created a macro that hits number2->click->number1 with .02 second delay between everything for a total of .1 seconds for the macro to execute....
--The result an instant parasite, mind you this is to fast for the pistol but the parasite has no delays associated with it...
Second, I created a second profile on my mouse and bound the macro to my right click... and on the original profile i bound it to my thumb
--The result for the first 0-8 minutes of aliens when im skulking but without leap/gorge/fade my left mouse bites and my right mouse parasites... I love it, it is consistent and after 1 week i have yet for it to fail (my aim as a skulk could use improvement while wall jumping)... but early game i can put out a para without hesitation or delay with a simple right click...
Other fun things, i set up the 2 profiles with different LED colors on my mouse so i know which im on, and with a touch of a button on my mouse i can switch back and forth....
Now im sure people will call this lame or even cheating, as i am not that fast but Im still curious to see where people weigh in on hardware assisted gameplay.... (I dont complain about my 30-50 FPS over peoples 100+ FPS)
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Instant parasite inbetween two bites, dead A0 marine.
And yeah, I would consider it cheating. A third party program is inputting keypresses for you.
Is it bad that I tore off a piece of a sticky note and put it on my screen (who needs the server to allow custom dot crosshairs when mine is stuck to the monitor)
But the other side of the coin (one which i'm only arguing to play devil's advocate) is that UWE's already streamlined other abilities by adding rightclick and shift (thus allowing a similar sort of "one button press->instant use of ability" thing), instead of for example, clicking 3 to leap, then mouseclick, then 1 to bite, then mouseclick, then 3 to leap then mouseclick etc (and likewise with shift and charge, right-click and blink etc).
During the days of no right-click in ns1, people made similar macros. I guess it was probably still technically cheating at the time, but it seems that the move away from the annoying "press 3, click mouse, press 1, click mouse, press 3, click mouse" style for abilities in quick succession to a more streamlined approach was probably intended from the start, but just hadn't had the opportunity to develop in (although who knows). It wouldn't be a massive jump in reasoning to suggest that perhaps a similar streamlined approach may be favoured for parasiting too, however, dev resources and lack of a more customizable bind system may be holding this up. That's a huge assumption though, one that's probably not true, but all I'm saying is that it isn't beyond the stretch of imagination.
As I said though, just playin' devils advocate, so take that with a grain of salt. It's still a macro that does key presses for you and circumvents the current game design which would have you do it yourself. Whether it's cheating or not, personally I prefer to earn my mid-bite parasites or parasite kills more by doing it the old fashioned way, rather than making it easy mode.
Its not scripting or cheating, move on.
Hot key is f7
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If such a thing is possible then perhaps the core problem is the lack of a cooldown between bite and parasite (as you would with just bite->bite).
Well you don't need the script to do it. It's completely possible to do it naturally this is just a convenience. I don't see the problem here... This isn't console gaming is it?
When you say "at the same time", do you mean the bite and the parasite is a mere instance apart? Or is it far enough apart that it's at least almost achievable at that speed without a script?
It has nothing to do with how fast you are. Its more a element of timing. If you are the type of skulk that spams bite when fighting then the natural way and this script are completely worthless to you. All this script does is remove 2 keystrokes from the equation. You can probably do the same thing in your mouse drivers with a macro.
When I say "at the same time" I mean at the same time. With or without the script. I always do this in the start of games to ninja kill some marines. You see if you parasite someone from a distance then you give away your position. Using this technique you can 2 bite kill marines. Its most effective while combined with sneak attacks. If done right a marine will have about 250 ms to react before they are dead. You kill marines so fast this way that a lot of times the marine that died will claim you 1 bit killed him at full health. That is what you get with 30 tick servers so yeah. Most of the time I don't even use the script. I just made it because I saw this thread and figured people would like to do it too. So if you don't know how to do it then use the script. To do it without the script all you do is select parasite and then +attack and bite at the same time. If making simple scripts like this is considered cheating then I guess ive been cheating for many years.
Zerg defending the macro hatch scripts with injects. Same thing.