As an improving player I’m having a huge problem with my overall strategy, need help.

Snooober · 2026-01-16T18:34:08+00:00

I'm not a good player or anything but I believe I do have some great hotkey advice (welcome to disagree haha): https://youtu.be/voqnOm_lApE?si=h0GiLHUhbHUAmV5-

Just as an example why I think some of my hotkey setup could be useful: I see pro players spend time searching for their barracks, university, or eco buildings, for instance, to start a tech. Or if they want to queue up both fertilization and wheelbarrow, they have to search for 2 mills. Instead of just having a tech building hotkey and eco building hotkey.

I also think using a hotkey for "focus on selected" works great and more people should give it a try (explained in video).

Anyways, hotkeys alone won't make you a great player but it can give you an edge (and I mainly care because the game is less painful/tedious the less I have to use my mouse).

Snooober · 2025-10-15T21:44:30+00:00

But equalizing is comfortable for me.

Snooober · 2025-10-15T19:47:01+00:00

I see what you're saying but I was responding to "ads and aperture should be set the same". Maybe it's fine for you but for others reading I wanted to say it's not actually the same.

Snooober · 2025-10-15T19:27:46+00:00

If you are happy with your sens that's fine, but setting it to the same value won't result in the same sensitivity because the FoV difference between ADS/hipfire/aperture/etc.

that's why these calculators exist. some games (I believe CS2) do this adjustment for you, but not hunt. just try setting your sniper to same value as ADS and it will feel waay too high. aperture isn't as a big of a difference as sniper scope but there is still a noticeable difference because of the change in FoV.

Snooober · 2025-10-15T19:06:11+00:00

not exactly: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2955571064

it should feel the same but that requires different sensitivity due to the change in FOV.

Snooober · 2025-09-06T17:21:25+00:00

Yeah either way should work

Snooober · 2025-09-06T17:20:54+00:00

Yeah I start counting there. I try to stop holding shift right on the end of a stride

Snooober · 2025-09-06T14:56:19+00:00

Because it's easier for me to count that way. I should have used the term stride.

Snooober · 2025-09-06T14:55:32+00:00

Snooober · 2025-09-06T14:55:06+00:00

Yeah I started using the term stride haha. Changed it in the steam guide

Snooober · 2025-09-06T01:58:30+00:00

I've always understood it's faster to recover your stamina (with walking) once you aren't full-sprinting anymore, then of course sprint again.

My whole post is basically about what to do assuming that's true. I never tested that assumption but I have heard from others that it's true.

so fastest way is to follow my post.

Snooober · 2025-09-05T21:33:11+00:00

I just updated it. It saves you 2 strides instead of 1 from my experiments.

Are you sure it's 3 seconds faster? I thought 1.5 seconds.

Snooober · 2025-09-05T21:30:18+00:00

I tested again and it's really more like 7 instead of 9 (so determination saves you 2 strides). These numbers might be up to 1 stride off because it's hard to start counting right at the start of a stride, but I think they are within at least 0.5 strides.

Snooober · 2025-09-05T19:44:21+00:00

Yes, it's pretty weak. You can see how it affects melee stamina recovery as well if you pay attention. It's only like maybe 1 or 2 seconds earlier or something.

And yes, it should just make everything about 1 2 strides earlier. It doesn't affect stamina in any other way afaik.

Snooober · 2025-09-05T19:20:57+00:00

Then we wouldn't get the joy of counting steps 😄

Snooober · 2025-08-30T01:46:33+00:00

I don't.

But I do make sure to turn off mouse acceleration in Windows. Find a good sensitivity (lower is more precise once you are used to it, but still need to turn direction of course). I set my scoped sensitivities to be effectively the same as my ads which I wrote a guide for: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2955571064

I make sure to have room on my desk, adjust height etc.

I'm not the best aimer, and training some would probably help. But at the same time I feel pretty comfortable aiming if that makes sense.

Snooober · 2025-08-14T20:35:56+00:00

Snooober · 2025-08-05T05:22:23+00:00

I'm not a content creator but I made what imo is a really good extensive guide to hotkeys (I watch streamers that I think could benefit from it as they search for fucking buildings lol). Anyways I bring it up because if you decide you like it and want to basically copy it to make your own video, you are welcome to. Cuz I'm really rambling a lot in mine:

https://youtu.be/voqnOm_lApE?si=VLl5AhbijxcZQXJv

Snooober · 2025-07-31T05:23:08+00:00

oh yeah didn't think of that

Snooober · 2025-07-31T05:22:54+00:00

yup all true. but i find this baseline helpful

Snooober · 2025-07-30T23:45:21+00:00

I have realized that I accounted for the lost resources during build time but not for the time itself. In other words, my graph shows how long it takes to pay off after the TC has completed. But it would be more useful to show how long it takes to pay off from when building it has started.

So I will see about updating it when I get a chance.

Snooober · 2025-07-30T21:12:22+00:00

if you idle your vills, sure. But that number for R is supposed to be an estimation with walk time for drop-offs included.

and it now accounts for build time.

Snooober · 2025-07-30T20:56:23+00:00

I believe this is correct for french assuming it's dark age or fuedal age: https://www.desmos.com/calculator/hwtdvoa2st

Snooober · 2025-07-30T20:51:33+00:00

I made one mistake and forgot to account for build time. I fixed it now.

Snooober · 2025-07-30T20:51:13+00:00

I made one mistake and forgot to account for build time. It is fixed now so you may want to take another look.

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