(Part 2) Top products from r/truetf2

There's no way you can be on a team without a mic.

Price an issue?

• This Clip On Mic is only 8 dollars and is pretty high quality too.
  
  
• If you can afford to go higher I can recommend a Blue Snowball for $60.
  
  
• Also, maybe a CAD U1 for $30.
  
  Even a headset will do. Make sure you enable push to talk and are using headphones.
  
  Are you afraid? Get over it. Sorry for the bluntness, but consider your team to be friends. People you'd play any game with and still have a good time. If they aren't people you can relate to, don't join their team. It's that simple. Find people you can relate to easily. Find people that won't yell at you. Find people that will crack the occasional joke and laugh at stupid/amazing plays. You will create incredible bonds with these people, and have lifelong friends. These people must be more important to you than a random lobby player, so talk to them!
  
  And to be honest... most teams don't take people who can't/won't talk. Even if you were Clockwork or Ruwin.
  
  So, get a mic.

I like this discussion, I think good stretches and warmups are important to any activity, whether it be yoga, football, or gaming.

On that note, ergonomic positioning and technique is very important to save your limbs over the long haul. Trust me, I got some serious carpal tunnel from my laptop keyboard. To help combat this, I recommend a couple of products to make gaming for comfortable:

• Gaming Keypads: The linked one is my current keyboard, although I got it for much, much cheaper. It gives you a natural palm rest and the ability to move your keyboard freely for enhanced comfort.
  
  
• Wrist cushions to keep your wrists level, and ease the strain of long sessions.
  
  
• Wrist Braces Which do a lot to keep more strain off your wrists, and pressure off of your painful median nerve.
  
  
• Comfort-conscious mice I haven't had a chance to try this one out personally, but it is important to use a mouse that is the right size for your hands.
  
  Another good practice is to make sure your chair and desk height are high enough to keep your arms level to your input devices.
  
  Products listed are items I currently use, and I am not paid for their endorsement, I have found they were economical and practical for the prices I paid

I assume by "high sensitivity" you mean high inches per 360, low sensitivity.

You should first of all have a gaming mouse and mousepad if you don't already. The higher DPI and more ergonomic mouse design helps immensely. Definitely more important is the mouse pad. Its hard, near impossible to play with a 12-inch/360 if your mousepad is only 4 inches long. I suggest the Razer Goliathus mousepad.

And yes, what you say is correct, when you have a lower sensitivity, you primarily use your wrist and forearm to move your mouse large strokes, and use your fingers to make fine adjustments. This type of aiming style is more efficient simply because you have so much more mouse control. When you're using a ridiculously high sensitivity, like 1inch/360, you can ONLY make large mouse movements. You can't make small adjustments for tracking, you can pretty much only twitch aim. And as a scout, you want to be tracking, and keeping your crosshair on them as long as you can.

I suggest you just try lowering your sensitivity to something like 8 or 10 inches per 360. You will hate it at first and you will play like complete garbage at first, but you will eventually get used to it, I promise you. You just need to practice with it.

In the long run, for hitscan classes, lower sensitivities are better, because they yield more mouse control and allow you to more easily keep your crosshair on a target.

Most people here have already said it, but a nice set of headphones and a clip-on microphone is the way to go. I have a pair of Sennheiser headphones I was able to pick up on sale at Best Buy and a clip-on mic I found at Radio Shack.

Two thoughts on your post:

• Consider buying a mouse with a side mouse button, you can simply use your thumb to enable push-to-talk
  
  
• Don't go for a "Gaming Headset", like other people have mentioned here. I've never bought one that I didn't have to return within a week.

If you get combo phones/mic, you'll be getting a worse setup than getting them individually. Gaming headsets aren't worth the extra price.

When it comes to headphones, you have to consider your purpose. For TF2, you won't want to hear outside noise and you want something you can wear for a while. That usually means cans. I couldn't imagine wearing buds for such a long time, it would irritate the heck out of my ears. I use Denon AH-D1001s myself, and I can't complain. Before I had the money for those though, I rocked Sony MDR-XD200s. They also sounded great, and were even a little looser on my head. And if you don't like them, they come with so much cord you can hang yourself >_<.

For mics, you don't really need much clarity for voice. I used the basic Logitec Desktop Mic for a decade until it blew out, then I replaced it with a Blue Snowball for podcasting. A friend that does TV editing used it professionally for years, and it's a great mic.

So if you're going cheap, you'll be way better with the MDR-XD200 and the Logitech desktop mic than with an $80 headset.

First off, MGE is the most efficient way I know to get better at scout vs scout, you can pub, and play DM, but you are less likely to encounter another scout, and when you most battles are over with very quickly and you don't really learn from it.

If you have a problem with carpal tunnel then I recommend this I use it all of the time, and it seems to have a significant improvment on how my hand feels (my mouse hand).

Next if you want to land more shots you might want to change your mindset, and ONLY fire when you think it will do a significant damage. I know that sounds intuitive, but I notice a significant improvement in shots that I land when I think like this, instead of mindlessly shooting. If it gets frustrating then thats probably when you should stop and take a break.

If there is a significant skill difference move on after the 20 kills are up, and maybe focus and trying to dodge better instead of working on aiming. If you want someone to practice against then steam message me here. And I can just work on dodging, which you can always improve.

Edit: I live in NA btw, not sure I would be much help if you didn't live in NA.

Something big and flat. The rest depends on personal preference and what type of mouse you have (my laser mouse has difficulty with reflective glossy solid white) Cardboard works, but I use one of these granted, mine was £1 from a charity shop