I've had the new hero sensor version of the MX518 for a few months now. It's great, LOD is just about perfect for me. I really didn't like the ultra low LOD of alot of other mice and was glad that while this is lower than the G400/G400s was it's still a bit more forgiving if you barely lift your mouse as you click, also avoids the awkward "pixel walk"/stutter of a lot of ultra low LOD mice can have.

1 major caveat is that the tracking on the mouse can be a bit weird in color transitions. If you have a mousepad that has a lot of variation in brightness on it you may have issues. I had some issues with tracking on a mousepad that had red and white transitions and it would consistently have a weird stutter behavior when going over it. I strongly believe this is tied to how Hero mice calibrate LOD if they detect major differences in mouse surface, easily reproduced by trying a hard white mouse pad and then quickly switching over to a black cloth pad mouse will not be able to track well for roughly 0.5s. No issues with solid color mousepads, didn't notice any issues with going over even a Corsair MM300 so most mousepads are probably fine.

The Nixeus is hot garbage. They changed the shape enough to make it bad for basically every grip style. Technically it's better for a fingertip grip than the original shell style but who wants a ~95g fingertip mouse?

The latency increase iirc was something like ~160 microseconds i.e. 0.16ms nothing that big at all and you went from a max tracking speed of about ~3.5m/s to ~4.4m/s as well in going from G400 -> G400s (done with self testing on a QCK)

The G402 was a shitty conglomeration of materials and design with 1 good idea. Take the G100s sensor shove it in something that vaguely resembles the MX500 shape and add an "accelerometer" to it so it can track up to 10m/s but the point that accelerometer would kick in was something like 3.0m/s and during that transition mouse latency would increase suddenly and decrease suddenly once you were back under that tracking speed. Granted we're talking about +/- 0.5ms at any given point around 3.0m/s it was just awkward. To make it worse it was entirely unnecessary the PMW3366 that was put in the G502 was far better overall and could easily do 6.5m/s +

I count the accelormeter as a good thing but its implementation should've been used for lower budget gaming mice.

To me it seems like a waste of system resources just to change the color of a tracer before it hits, why run the extra extrapolation just to change something from yellow to red? It's a pretty small detail that can and probably does have a pretty big frame rate impact. Especially if there's a chance the server won't accept the hit as an actual hit.

It's also pretty dumb how easy it is to exploit certain glitches.

some dumb ones
alias +fastweaponswitch "+weaponcycle; +duck"
alias -fastweaponswitch "-weaponcycle; -duck"
alias +peacekeeper "+attack; +reload; +fastweaponswitch"
alias -peacekeeper "-attack; -reload; -fastweaponswitch"

bind +fastweaponswitch and +peacekeeper and exploiting the ultra fast fire is now easy af requiring 2 button presses.

alias +betterbhop "+jump; +melee"
alias -betterbhop "-jump; -melee"

just hold crouch and have +betterbhop bound to scroll, apparently helps preserve more momentum gain from crouch sliding and jumping + really helpful for just before you land on a long fall. sidenote if you actually punch someone during this you lose all momentum

really hope they fix the peacekeeper bullshit

^this

Not to mention the untold legions of player who're literally crashing constantly. Just having discord open not using it causes me to crash at least once per hour, using it with a full squad of 3 with any fps cap that's more than 100 or entirely uncapped is literally every game I don't die within the first couple minutes of landing.

I've tried literally everything their community troubleshooting guide has in it at this point issue still occurs though a lot less if you have absolutely nothing open in the background, fps_max 75, no cpu/ram/gpu overclocks, etc etc etc.

I can't remember a single game were at least 4 people didn't crash/dc before anyone even left the dropship.

Edit
I know I used the word literally a lot but I do want emphasize that I do actually mean LITERALLY

Other quirks for this game

https://clips.twitch.tv/KathishIntelligentMoosePhilosoraptor
https://i.imgur.com/GLddTGj.png the last frame.
The last peacekeeper shot of mine, in the very last frame before I died it shows my peacekeeper having gone down to 0 ammo from 1. Show my projectiles hitting the lifeline and the blood mist starting to form around the lifeline.
server has me as dead before my shot fired.
^solid evidence that the client renders projectiles and even hits before they even exist on the server

Also if you slow down clips/vods of gameplay with a lot of SMGs/ARs you'll notice that the client will render some tracers as red and some as yellow. Nearly all projectiles that will count as a hit will have a red tracer even if the bullet hasn't necessarily hit the model yet.

240Hz + blur reduction is pretty awful due to strobe crosstalk, you minimize it a little bit but not much at 1080p with current Display bandwidth specs, not sure if their will be any additional headroom for 1440p 240Hz either.

I kinda sorta hacked my way into getting the BenQ XL2540 to do the G-Sync compatibility with Blur Reduction on and it was amongst the worst things I've seen on a monitor if you're consistently bouncing around 180-240 fps. The strobe-crosstalk will constantly shift until it disappears and suddenly reappears. * The blur reduction would also frequently disable if you did pretty much anything with your monitor or display settings.

1440p + IPS + 240Hz is still a bit off, and honestly I'd recommend waiting even if it means buying a stop-gap monitor you're not 100% content with if you're truly chasing what many would consider a perfect monitor.

Monitors that're closest to what you're asking for right now.

Acer XB271HU - 27in, 165Hz, 1440p, IPS, native support for G-Sync (this passed the QC testing for compatibility)
Aorus AD27QD - 27in, 144Hz, 1440p, IPS, supports G-Sync/Freesync with appropriate drivers
MSI MAG27CQ - 27in, 144Hz, 1440p, VA, supports G-Sync/Freesync with appropriate drivers
Asus MG279Q - 27in, 144Hz, 1440p, IPS, supports G-Sync/Freesync with appropriate drivers
Asus PG279Q - 27in, 165Hz, 1440p, IPS, actual G-Sync hardware

I purposefully left out several monitors with known issues with freesync/g-sync compatibility

I played the tutorial, if you didn't notice that massive body of text didn't involve the actual raw gameplay what-so-ever.

Just because a game is currently good doesn't mean it can't be ruined. Battlefront 1&2 at a base level were decent games same with FIFA (I've never played FIFA but everything I hear about the actual game itself people seem to enjoy) and both of them could be/could have been significantly better experiences if EA didn't bog them down just to suck every last $ from a player.

I still highly recommend people to just flatout not pay for unlocking characters, it's a feature that shouldn't exist end of story.

Got to play for just over an hour yesterday. Game is really good, definitely worth a try even for people who're not fans of battle royale games.

TTK seems to be much higher than alot of other battle royale games. I'm saying "seems" largely because the only weapons that I'm aware of that can 1 hit kill I haven't even seen used. The shotguns have a fairly large spread and the commonly found shotguns do 90-150dmg maximum on headshot (assuming no helmet), you're not likely to see the Fortnite meta of 1-pumping people. All weapons in the game have bullet travel time so the slow firing sniper rifles can be extremely brutal if you miss.

If you play around with your squad it doesn't matter much if you're picked off at range by a sniper as your teammates can revive you fairly quickly and getting to cover even when knocked down is not that bad. It's really hard to eliminate a player that's knocked down (especially if they have a knockdown shield) without knocking down the entire squad unless you use a close range "finisher" move that leaves you really vulnerable for 3-5s.

Oh and there's no fall damage!

Haven't got to play in a setting where everyone is using voice chat yet, but this game really does reward players for sticking together and playing as a team. Definitely the most fun I've had in any BR game.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/376068959
hip-fire assault rifle = bad, hip-fire smg at medium range = bad, grenade arch is nice, you can see the knockdown shield when I revive a teammate at the end.

Does the issue occur if you don't use XMP and No manual ram overclocking at all. i.e. default motherboard settings?

What about the other RAM that you tried installing?

Were you / are you currently using XMP profiles for your RAM?

My cynicism may come across as a bit overboard to most, but literally everything that EA has touched in the last few years that's remotely multiplayer focused ends up being a micro-transaction hell. EA deserves every single bit of cynicism that I have and then some.

I really hope this game doesn't go that route, I even have a tweet out that just so happened to basically ask for what Apex Legends is the day it was released (which I didn't know at the time). The only things about this game that scares me is the paid heros and being tied to EA.

Just saying people need to proceed with extreme caution, gambling addiction is real and EA really likes getting people caught into a rng lootbox/cardpack system and will do almost anything to get them started.

https://kotaku.com/the-collapse-of-viscerals-ambitious-star-wars-game-1819916152

context Hennig was the lead director at Visceral on Project "Ragtag" which was an Linear-Story Singleplayer Star Wars with a lot of Uncharted elements (Hennig was also the lead director for Uncharted)

early game footage
https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/eiwg3zz6hyrpucpou879.mp4

Visceral ended up being shutdown in 2017 the same year that game was cancelled.

Basically devs who don't give EA what they want get shutdown.

I implore everyone reading this thread to really consider that this is a game Published by EA.

This is basically a guarantee that this game is going to be a micro-transaction heavy game where alot of the content is locked by additional paywalls and some of that content WILL give a team an advantage over a team that hasn't paid for it or spend the near eternity to grind for it.

Battlefront 1 &2
It used to take 40 hours of gameplay to unlock Darth Vader OR Luke Skywalker in Battlefront 2.
https://www.vg247.com/2017/11/13/it-takes-40-hours-to-unlock-darth-vader-and-other-heroes-in-star-wars-battlefront-2/

But EA also sold them, along with a slurry of other things that gave a major upper hand to people who paid early on and whenever new content dropped.

Battlefield
Battlefield 1, you want all the possible weapons and attachments to have the best loadout possible? Get short cut kits for only $10 for each infantry class or $30 for all 3 (A $10 SAVINGS!!!) and a $15 vehicle kit short cut OR get all of them for $40 (A $25 SAVINGS!!!) . Also 3 large content updates that cost $15 each some of which contain a really powerful new class and or vehicle that will totally give the other team the upper hand IF YOU DON'T HAVE IT. Oh and don't forget to get the premium pass so you have preference for getting into servers!

BF1 at this point costs about $160 just to have all the "base" content.

BFV is shaping up to be the same way.

Don't get me started about FIFA ultimate teams, the fact there's a competitive league for this and is setup like this blows my fucking mind.

Apex Legends is already proving it's going to follow the EA trend of micro-transactions with hero's that cost ~$7.50 each. Otherwise you're going to have to grind to get it, and better hope the new hero isn't OP at launch if you're not going to pay. This is going to end up worse than Quake Champions on acquiring the new characters...

a few highlights from the Mentality vs AyyyyLmao Terror Squad match

Paddie
https://clips.twitch.tv/AssiduousRenownedPresidentThisIsSparta

Lights
https://clips.twitch.tv/DrabConcernedMousePanicVis

Alec
https://clips.twitch.tv/ObeseCleanGoldfishTwitchRaid

Mirrorman
https://clips.twitch.tv/PiercingDeliciousElephantWutFace

wish we got the Alfa 3k on sniper pushing 2nd, but it happens :/

I mean how interesting would it be to watch a 6s grandfinal where it was a bo3 where both teams took a map 1-0 and the last map was also 1-0 and every map took an hour?

also "it's not a new thing"

Everyone of the top 5 lowest scoring superbowl games prior to this one were from over 40 years ago.

1. Super Bowl LIII: New England Patriots 13, Los Angeles Rams 3
2. Super Bowl VII: Miami Dolphins 14, Washington Redskins 7
3. Super Bowl IX: Pittsburgh Steelers 16, Minnesota Vikings 6
4. Super Bowl III: New York Jets 16, Baltimore Colts 7
5. Super Bowl VI: Dallas Cowboys 24, Miami Dolphins 3
6. Super Bowl V: Baltimore Colts 16, Dallas Cowboys 13
7. Super Bowl IV: Kansas City Chiefs 23, Minnesota Vikings 7

wtf?

Dude is 26 and was just shy of 14 when his Visa expired. His parents broke the law he didn't (in the case of overstaying the visa). He's been in the states basically as long as he was in the UK, and while he had a rocky childhood he seems to have put an honest effort into helping kids in the Atlanta area, by honest effort here I mean he didn't just give money to kids he actually setup and participated in campaigns to improve kids lives. At this point he might as well be allowed to stay imo.