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Sargon
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I used to play star control 2 melee alot as a kid.
Maybe I am exagerating, but I remember setting battles of me having 1 arilu ship against the hardest computer with all the ships.
Today, years later, the toughest computer is too hard to me.
I didnt play much due to the fact that I dont have a gamepad and the keyboard isnt really suitable, the keys don't respond too often. Maybe I will buy a gamepad and start playing again.
Anyway, my question is, if someone won't touch the game for several years, how much of his skill capabilities will be reduced?
Is it possible as I got older I got worse at games in general? (I sometimes get this kind of fealing)
Maybe to be good at a game you need to invest a lot of time, and I didnt, so that may be the reason?
Any other thoughts?
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Death 999
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We did. You did. Yes we can. No.
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If the keys aren't responsive, there's something wrong. They should be.
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waywardoctagon
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It's like any skill; if you don't use it for a while, you start to lose it. Novus mentions the purely mental aspects (and you can get better at strategy and logic, thinking in general, through other things, and hence be better after a long pause), but sheer reflexes and timing play a part, too, as does familiarity with the ships--having an actual sense of turning speeds, weapon ranges and speeds, etc., instead of just sort of knowing about them.
You probably have gotten worse at games in general1 if you've stopped playing them.
If this were about ping-pong or playing an instrument or something, there'd be no question.
1I'm going to assume you're talking about games that require reflexes, and not, say, chess.
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Tiger_salad
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I've found that if I stop playing a game and go back to it a year or two later I'm much better at it, because I start over and relearn what I used to know.
But trying to get the hang of melee after not playing a proper keyboard game in more then ten years? That was a royal pain.
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DavidPartay
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The Key Jammer was in the SC2 directory, I'm positive.
Of course, I could be positively wrong  But I'm sure I'm not.
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Valaggar
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The Key Jammer was in the SC2 directory, I'm positive. The keyjam utility was included in the SC1 package and was absent from the SC2 installation.
To clarify, I also get better at reflexes after a long break. Maybe you push yourself beyond the limits and require some rest?
I get that a lot; I come back to a game I found difficult years ago and easily find a strategy that solves the problems I was having back then. Because while you are playing something, your brain learns new tactics and ways of winning, but also grows used to the old, not-as-good way of playing. The tactics you learned are forgotten much harder than the habits, so when you return after a time you are no longer tied to your old views and methods, but still possess the theoretical tactics and easily transform them into a habit.
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A keyboard really needs to be able to deal with multiple keys being pressed at once, at least three (since there are three-key commands) and preferably more. If it can't, it doesn't work properly. Are you sure it's the keyboard and not the computer? Can you connect it to another computer and see if it does the same thing?
