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- M570 – yes, a trackball – for my mouse. Mumble PTT key is mapped to M4, full GW2 map to M5. Left click is starting to break down – a common issue with the M570 – but I just need to open the case and coat the contact pad with crazy glue to fix it. In the meantime, I’ve been practicing with mouse emulation mode on the G13 – not ideal, but serviceable.
That’s funny, I thought I was the only one that used the M570 Trackball in this game! I have a legitimate reason thought, the machine I play on also doubles as an AutoCAD machine, and that mouse is perfect for long AutoCAD sessions.
I have moderate to severe Essential Tremors, so my accuracy on a “traditional” mouse is… let’s just say “lacking”. Between the inherent accuracy of the trackball, plus a couple decades of training, I’m to the point that I’m more accurate on a trackball in twitch reflex scenarios than most “hardcore” gamers are using traditionals. But of course, since it’s a trackball, it’s immediately “lol nope”, as the previous poster so eloquently put it, in the eyes of most gamers. If more people would actually TRY a trackball and get used to it, they’d see it has its own merits over a “crap I just overran my mousepad / the laser just hit a flaw and rocketed my cursor across the screen” traditional. But meh, to each their own
LOL. Ive been using whatever crap laser mouse happens to be plugged in for ohhhhhh 10 years now, havent used a mouse pad in at least 6-7, and the number of times the mouse cursor has stopped responding or jumped across the screen is ZERO. To my best recollection it has never happened I have played a boat load of online games, worn out the buttons on 2 or 3 cheap mice, and never once.
Occasionally a bit of lint or more likely one of my dogs hair will get stuk in the little laser hole and that screws it up.
I remember crap like that with the ball mice, remember having to clean it all the time, all the time, just seemed to be the nature of using a rolling ball and physical sensors.
I have also used a good quality track ball and they are nice, but too try too say that you use a your trackball essentially because a regular mouse is jumping all over the screen and cutting out regularly is crap.
I use a softwood table, pinewood, it has marks, dents, scrapes and scars all over it, it is battle scarred. So it is, I have to reason, about as uneven a surface as you can probably get aside from using pavement, and I don’t even notice.
Dont be dissin on my cheap mouses homie, you know they rocksolid.