Agree mostly with your aim philosophy though I would need to spectate you in a match in first person to know exactly what you mean by "movement aim reaction".
Movement aim and reaction aim are two different things.
Movement aim is when you use your movement to align your shots instead of relying on your mouse to go to your opponent. The best players in the game use this technique to get 90% of their hitscan kills, go watch frag vids and you'll see almost all movement aim shots, especially with shock taping.
Reaction aim is when you let the enemy go across your xhair and fire when they are in the middle of it or about to cross it depending on ping. It's best used when someone is dodging or using a jump pad since in 2k4 the players trajectory is really easy to predict. Instead of trying to track the player, aim where they will be and hit them when they get to that point. They can't do anything abut it and it's a guaranteed hit if you're reaction time is good enough.
I don't have many examples of what I'm talking about so these will have to do. D:
It's not a very good example like I said, but it does show a bit of how I aim and move. Notice that as soon as I start to go for ]O[ish I'm already moving with him instead of trying to simply aim for him. Notice where my xhair is when he's dead, it's still on him because I'm moving backwards to compensate for where he would be if he were still moving.
This one is really grainy and hard to see but perhaps it'll show a bit more of what I was talking about.
In the first few seconds I was using my mouse to aim because I was trying to get to the flag, obviously my mouse aim isn't the greatest so I missed but after the flak kill I used movement aim instead of aiming with my mouse. See how my mouse barely moves and my movement is carrying my aim for me? The last kill for the Ludicrous, I didn't zoom in, I just waited for the guy to cross my xhair as I jumped with his movement and there ya go, another kill.
Sorry I don't have anything actually good to show you but I never really cared for ****scan kills, I just really hate cola wars.
Also I tend to agree with Defeat's view that you should try and match your mouse DPI settings with your screen res. So with that in mind it seems the more capable the monitor you have in so far as screen resolution goes the more capable the mouse should be in taking advantage of it. So unless cost is an issue I see no reason not to take a better DPI rated mouse especially with the newer higher resolution monitors out there. Every little bit helps IMHO.
This can b a good thing or a bad thing. If you have a higher dpi mice, the more unsteady your hand is, the more you're going to see that. Just like if you have a 6mp camera and get slightly blurry pictures, with a 12 mp camera those faults in your technique will be even more visible. With a lower dpi mouse there's some give when it comes to mouse shake since the mouse won't track some of those tremors but a high end 1800 dpi mouse will pick up every shake you produce. But if you have a steady hand, a higher dpi mouse can let you do much better as long as you're already good at aiming. A person going from a 400 dpi mouse to a 4000 dpi mouse won't do them any good if they have terrible aim, they'll be just as bad with the new one.
BTW how does one "bot" one's character which I assume means for aiming purposes? How can one tell if someone is cheating like that--by asking to inspect his ini.?
lol, you don't ask a botter for their ini's, you report them to an admin of the server so they can be banned. But you'd definitely know a botter when you see one, constant view snapping and quick turns towards the nearest enemy are usually possibly signs of a botter. If you think someone is botting, just spectate them and notice how they are moving. Generally botters are terrible at the game, have horrid movement, and are completely useless with splash weapons.
Though trigger bots can be a bit harder to notice if they turn them off constantly so be careful of that. In all my 10+ years of fps gaming I've only run into two botters and they were really well known cheaters.
