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Three biggest things for when people are having trouble in this game:

1. Performance.
   
   • Is your framerate stable? Capping it is a good idea if it's not. It's better to stay at 40 than be jumping between 50 and 30. You seem to have done this already!
     
   • Is your framerate high? Make sure anything CPU-bound is low.
     
     Shadow Quality, Render Distance, Particle Quality, and Effect Quality definitely need to be at absolute minimum. Counterintuitively, you'll want Texture Quality at Ultra. The game downscales the texture files at lower settings and actually puts more weight on the CPU.
     
     Avoiding large fights also helps a huge amount.
     
   • Are you getting hitching or stuttering? This tends to be tied to the same problems as having low framerate in the first place. Make sure your CPU isn't too much of a bottleneck. Planetside 2 eats the CPU alive. (And ultimately, the best fix for bad performance is a better computer.)
     
2. Mouse settings
   
   • Your sensitivity is probably too high. A good way to remedy this is by slowly lowering it a few notches every session or so. The goal is to make yourself move the mouse with your entire arm instead of with just your fingers or wrists.
     
   • Make sure Mouse Smoothing/Acceleration is off. This kind of setting makes it so moving your mouse faster makes it move further. It makes it much harder to reliably aim, so you want it off.
     
   • Turn on Raw Mouse Input. This makes the game read the mouse inputs as directly as possible without it being processed by anything like the OS.
     
   • Make sure your mouse isn't too terrible. Some mice that aren't made with gaming in mind are... questionable in how they detect movement. Good gaming mice brands seem to start at ~$30 [1] [2], which is pretty affordable.
     
3. Good discipline
   
   • You're probably not burst-firing your weapon enough. Always avoid holding down the trigger for long periods of time; its accuracy goes down the longer it fires. Letting it rest after short bursts resets the weapon's cone of fire so that it stays accurate.
     
   • Don't be afraid to disengage. It's okay to miss out on a kill and let them leave if it means staying in a safe place, or retreating to heal yourself.
     
   • Always be moving. Literally avoid stopping at any cost. You want to be AD strafing, repeatedly peeking doors, etc. This includes even if you're not sure if an enemy is around.
     
     Short of that, good practice is always good. Make sure everything is set up correctly, and that you're practicing good habits-- you should get better every day.

Oh god, really any mouse pad will do a better job than your desk, but the absolute best mouse pads at the moment seem to be the artisan pads expensive as fuck, but from what i've heard well worth it.


Currently using a razer goliathus extended control myself, and I can't say i'd recommend it. Doesn't glide very well, and is just a tiny bit too short in both lengths to be comfortable for a 47cm 360.

I've been looking myself since one of my monitors went out a month or so ago. 144hz for gaming (especially FPS) is much more important than a 2k or 4k monitor. I'm not sure what screen size you want, personally I am looking for a 27".

Acer, 2k, 144hz, 27", Adaptive Sync Cheapest price I have seen for this type of monitor recently.

AOC, 144hz, 27" I don't have any experience with this brand, but this is a pretty solid deal, monitor has an adjustable stand as well as USB ports.

However, if $300 breaks the bank you will want to look specifically at 24" 144hz monitors. Generally you can get them for about 50-100$ less.

AOC, 144hz, 24", Free Sync

Oh yeah those old IBM keyboards are loud as hell. This is the keyboard I use at the moment. It's pretty basic but well made, the blue keys are quite loud though and take a little pressure to activate. I'm by no means an expert but I think black, brown and clear mx keys are supposed to be quiet/er. They all have a different feel too so I'd read up on them first. Red keys are supposed to be good for gaming apparently. I've heard good things about corsair, ducky and das keyboards but they're a little more expensive.

Haven't really seen many white mechanical keyboards sorry, you could try painting it yourself :P

> don't quite match the white/black aesthetic

The SE HD598 are black, so that should help with your aesthetics. :D Plus they come with a removable cable unlike the white-brown ones, which is always a plus.

I unfortunately don't know of any ultrawide 120/144s; neither do I know of any that would look as good as IPS. So if image quality is more important, by all means stick to that one. You can still benefit from 100+ fps anyway even without a 120/144 Hz monitor when it comes to input lag.

https://www.amazon.com/Das-Keyboard-Professional-Mechanical-DASK4MKPROSIL/dp/B00JG01QTY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1502718605&sr=8-1&keywords=das+keyboard

Been using this for years and love it. Has browns, as several other people have recommended

I mean, this is literally the only monitor I've ever used but the Asus has given me no problems. I guess I wouldn't know the differences unless I sperged out and spent nearly $700 on a ROG monitor but it's a pretty fucking awesome piece of equipment.

>I imagine in the long term future, local space colonization will be a one-way, generational endeavor. Sort of like the indentured servants of the past or the student loans of the present.

There are actually a pair of books that deal with the plausible reality of space colonies in the immediate future (that is, the next thousand years or so). The presumption made is that entities would travel based on current technologies that we could at least conceive of, thus rockets, nuclear drives, and lasers. Travel between planets is, at the shortest, a months long endeavor that is nearly impossibly expensive to manage to the point that even the richest entities lop of arms and legs to reduce their delta-v cost. Going from the inner system to the outer system takes years even with the fastest propulsion methods (nuclear). Interstellar travel is an event that takes hundreds of years of work from a single star system to manage and is so monumentally expensive that the colony founded is so deep in debt that the only way to survive is to found still more colonies in the world's worst pyramid scheme.

Also, humans are extinct and robots are the ones doing all of this because, it turns out, trying to keep apes in cans alive anywhere but on earth during a very specific period of the planet's history is borderline impossible in the long term.

If you'd like to read about former sex robots learning just how shitty inter-planetary travel is, read Saturn's Children. That one will also work if you ever cared about spaceship on android, or hotel on android sexy times, too. If you'd like to learn about how stupidly expensive interstellar travel would be and the complex monetary systems necessary to keep such a system running, check out Neptune's Brood. That one is principally about accounting and FTL scams and even includes a pretty on the nose reference to Monty Python short.

http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-PlayStation-Driving-Force-Racing-3/dp/B0015HYPOO

Since you and Manburgers like to mention it, buy it for me ;)

Aren't they the ones you can mod into the 598s by removing the foam pieces inside?

Edit: Yep, they are. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-kJ7sN16qw

Also taking this opportunity to plug the AKG K701s

http://www.amazon.com/AKG-701-Studio-Reference-Headphones/dp/B000EBBJ6Y

Stylish as fuck and they're great quality and open back, which is essential for gaming.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0040FJ27S these. have one on top and bottom, soon making a custom controller.

If you want to spend less than $300, you're going to have to choose between 120+ hz or 1440p.

This is in your budget.

My Planetside coffee comes in this. It helps.

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I found this for you

Beard Oil https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IB6IAOS/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_YgUUub0QWBZBW it'll change your life

Here is the mobile version of your link

You should be sending these out after that run