As I have openly admitted and explained and taught others in BnG, I use my thumb to re-aim my shots then slightly adjust if the angle was wrong, or just try to get the pwoer right if I was off a little.
Some players, like myself and Mablak for example, can re-aim floorbanks by looking at the cracks or lines in the texture underneath, but you can't do this in the sky.
Personally I find it genius, and some players have also adapted to this style.
Johnny seems to think this is notching, I laughed my ass off for about half an hour while he tried to tell me moving the cursor by 1 pixel is notching.
I will explain what notching is, but not the specifics because notching like this is heavily frowened upon:
Notching is the name of a method given by counting the angle of your shots in BnG by moving the cursor pixel by pixel, but is NOT the name for moving the angle just 1 pixel, this is done by using certain resolutions and knowing that every pixel you move the angle will go "x" distance.
It varies from resolution to resolution, for example a 4 second grenade with full pwoer, aimed right up it will land on you, moving the aim right or left by 1 pixel will make it go slightly in front the way you are facing, if you move it 2 pixels forward from vertical, it will go double the distance it went with 1 pixel, and so on.
Now, that is obvious what I have said so far, you don't need to know how to notch to know how far the distance 1 pixel of angle extra or 1 pixel of angle less will travel, this is something you learn with experience, and doesn't take long.
It is only considered notching if you slowly count out a distant angle by moving it pixel by pixel or 2-3 pixels at a time to get to for example 10 pixels, and someone does this practically every turn, even if you know the calculations for various shots or not it is still considered notching by aiming distant angles like this.
So in summary, if I throw a 3s grenade, it misses, but I know that by aiming 1 pixel further, with the same pwoer, it will hit, that isn't notching, that's obvious from experience of the game and is something that can't be ignored, so I put my thumb over the cursor, re-aim back to exactly where it was, so I know I just need to adjust from the previous shot.
Sometimes I don't even need to adjust the angle, as the shot missed because I missed the right pwoer needed to make a successful hit, so I just re-aim using my thumb back to where it was, and try again.
True, some people feel that this is an advantage, however I don't feel it's an advantage as I am not using any programs or hacks or even calculations, anyone can do it it's not cheating, why would I want to risk missing even further by just guessing where my aim was, and giving that I never repeat shots against anyone unless they do it 1st and I normally hit 1st attempt usually anyway it doesn't give me a big advantage because most of BnG for me is getting the pwoer right and that's something you just can't cheat with, I hope.
Everyone is entitled to debate on this, however any post that gets angry and starts insulting anyone or goes off-topic will be deleted immediately.
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