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ELDoRo wrote:However, I think I'm usually better on console games

ELDoRo wrote:It was almost like it was snapping to coordinates where I couldnt put the cursor right on certain points.

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go ahead, add them ;P

consol fps usually has slight autoaim.
also, the other players are using controllers too, so it's easier.

I just hooked up my 360 controller through my play&charge kit. Vista recognizes it, and I can find it in the device manager, but I don't seem to be able to do anything else with it :s

When you hit the guide button, does a little XBox Logo pop up, and is your Guide Button illuminated as though it were hooked up to slot 1 of a 360?

Ehm, nope >_<

Try manually downloading the drivers, I've never used Vista to do it, I downloaded a separate 360 Controller task manager from Microsofts website.

I used 360 controller for flying once and I liked it.

[R-MOD]dunehunter wrote:I just hooked up my 360 controller through my play&charge kit. Vista recognizes it, and I can find it in the device manager, but I don't seem to be able to do anything else with it :s

Windows update -> Check for updates

The XBOX360 controller should come up in the optional updates.

ELDoRo wrote:First off I know everyone says the keyboard and mouse are more accurate than a console controller could ever be. However, I think I'm usually better on console games and was just wondering if anyone uses a 360 controller while playing BF2/PR?

If you're better on a console, then you have a long, long way to go on the PC. A mouse allows for not only more precise movement, but much more rapid rate of movement, which is essential. You're just going to have to learn to use it. If you're not being fast and accurate, then you're not doing anyone but the enemy any good.

A key to using the mouse in an FPS is to have the sensitivity turned up high enough to have a full range of motion without too much hand movement. This allows you to rapidly aim at any point - even behind you. This is the difference, conceptually, between hitting an arrow button to move something (at a set speed) and simply grabbing it yourself and moving it at will. Skilled mouse users will simply jerk their wrist slightly, and the aiming point will simply be where it needs to be almost instantly.

Also, of course, you get the benefit of having a stable platform (hands resting on desk/table, not holding up a controller), etc., and all the other console vs WASD+mouse stuff.

boltcatch wrote:If you're better on a console, then you have a long, long way to go on the PC. A mouse allows for not only more precise movement, but much more rapid rate of movement, which is essential. You're just going to have to learn to use it. If you're not being fast and accurate, then you're not doing anyone but the enemy any good.

A key to using the mouse in an FPS is to have the sensitivity turned up high enough to have a full range of motion without too much hand movement. This allows you to rapidly aim at any point - even behind you. This is the difference, conceptually, between hitting an arrow button to move something (at a set speed) and simply grabbing it yourself and moving it at will. Skilled mouse users will simply jerk their wrist slightly, and the aiming point will simply be where it needs to be almost instantly.

Also, of course, you get the benefit of having a stable platform (hands resting on desk/table, not holding up a controller), etc., and all the other console vs WASD+mouse stuff.

Keyboard and mouse are superior for land combat, no one can possibly disagree with that statement for the reasons you have provided. In the air however, the lack of variable output (on a keyboard it's either all or nothing) takes away far too much control. There is no flight game that I have ever played, whether it be made as a simulator or action type game, has ever without exception been better using Keyboard and Mouse compared to a Joystick, or the poor mans joystick, the console controller.

I play FSX with my 360 controller LOL

Well, I've got to give this a shot . Thanks for the idea.