What Is The PERFECT Crosshair?
Вставка
- Опубліковано 4 чер 2021
- It’s no secret that first-person shooter enthusiasts are constantly changing their configs.
Whether it’s your sensitivity, aspect ratio, resolution, video settings or your view model, it often feels as if our settings are in a constant state of flux. As if screwing up a single frag is enough to overhaul our entire preferential infrastructure from the ground up.
But there’s nothing that gets subjected to as many endless tweaks as our crosshairs.
Big. Small. Thick. Thin. Large gap. Tiny gap. Dynamic. Transparent. Outlined. Or just an absolute monstrosity. Reticles mark the one aspect of our config where there aren’t only an inexhaustible variety of options but quite literally too many combinations to count.
The question, of course, is what makes for the perfect crosshair? Also, does it even exist?
Written & Hosted by: Dimitri Pascaluta (@DPascaluta)
Edited by: Colten Gowan (@TheOnlyZoltan)
Produced by: Keith Capstick (@KeithCapstick)
Thumbnail by: Brandon Mistele
All footage courtesy: pastebin.com/Sw3J0Nrm
Music used under license from Associated Production Music LLC (”APM”).
Follow us on Twitch: / thescoreesports
Follow us on Twitter: / thescoreesports
Follow us on Facebook: / thescoreesports
Follow us on TikTok: / thescoreesports
Follow us on Instagram: / thescoreesports - Ігри
i want this kind of teacher in my high school
Yea she hot af wtf
@@scent2504 fr
fr
Fr
We all do bruh
Maybe The perfect crosshair is the friends we made along the way
this gets better the more i think about it
Can someone explain this joke to me? I have a feeling that this is a really funny comment
@@neerajpatel1280 imagine using your friends as a crosshair
This sounds somthing like a esports anime character would say
@@neerajpatel1280 i thought it funny as an antijoke, bcs friends we made along the way is a a well known phrase
Crosshairs? I just turn it off and put a marker stain in the middle of my monitor so every shot I hit is a no-scope
And if I miss my shot, I'll just blame my lack of crosshair B)
I just don’t even use one, none of that marker shit I do not use one
Ayyy old cs 1.6 scout trick haha. Works so well. 200iq
lmao
This is gold
That's what my friend did when no scoping but he has a crosshair lol
CS players having all these options
Siege is just happy to have colors finally XD
you don't really need crosshairs in siege tho because in most cases you ads to shoot
@@iglookim u use a crosshair when u ads ._.
Don 5k that’s a reticle, crosshair is only when hip firing
@@donrwclips3416 a reticle is when you ads, crosshair is when you hip fire
i never played siege but cheaters should be fixed before all these config options xD
Dmitri in a nutshell
"Look, It's no secret that *Inset thing* "
Insert (pause) "well" (pause) before the thing
Me, often: “I... I didn’t know that.” 😦
After q while you shouldn't be hard looking at the crosshair everytime you gotta be looking at targets as a whole in order to reduce alot of reaction time say during an enemy peek if you focus on the crosshair you'll miss the micro adjustments needed to hit the shot.
@ModCatLive I'm not sure pentameter means what you think it does. If these videos were scripted in iambic or non-iambic pentameter, that would be really impressive lmao
Dmitri is such a poser man. He’s always trying so hard to say what he thinks a “hardcore gamer” would. Once you notice it you can’t unnotice it, he always says at least one thing per video that makes me think “dude, stop. You don’t have to try this hard, we’re not actually like that”. We don’t say things like “consoles are for filthy casuals” and shit like that.
And the way he always says things like “if you didn’t know x, then you must have just crawled out from under a rock”. Like bro I can tell you didn’t know half this shit before looking it up, you don’t have to act like you’re one of the cool kids and know everything already.
Every time Colten shows up, I just cant get my eyes off of his godly mustache
I know right, that man has a baller ass moustache
@@nep8998 fr
Everyone working with him should feel ashamed to have one with him around.
** blush **
when i close my eyes, i thought it was hiko lol
Never thought I'd see the famed Hunger Games actor being featured in a theScore esports video as being an example of VR sickness
am i the only one that has 1 crosshair across all games, and that crosshair has been the same for months if not years? xd
I’d say yes I’m changing my crosshair on every game at least twice weekly.
Definitely with you on that, got the same crosshair across multiple games made myself in photoshop since years at this point, white dot pink crosshair around it everything outlined by black. And in games where you can't import image files i'm recreating it to my best possibilities. Same with sensitivity, using the same sens and dpi across all games since years
@@aijena how many competetive games featuring a crosshair do you play bruh
If u dont change ur crossh twice a match ur not gaming
You are a psychopath
Quake and unreal tournament: guess we were not memorable enough
pr0zac will always be remembered
I'm like did they forget about these? Zoomer company
You right quake and Unreal tournament have different crosshair's for different weapons not hallo!!! LOL
Them: "what is the perfect crosshair"
Me: *plays with a disabled crosshair*
I think most people know that changing their crosshairs doesn’t actually do much but just switching things up creates a placebo when you start hitting shots
It's not just placebo, the mind notices and focuses on change, so for some people changing things up frequently can help maintain a high focus on the reticle and good aim habits.
1 year too late, but does this apply to skins too? When I changed my m4a1-s skin to something that I like, I was really surprised by how I was hitting some shots I wouldn't normally be able to do.
@@Robincredible one thing I know is that when im on a community server things feel more smooth when I have a knife like karambit
@@skull1161 probably tick rate
"turbo virgin", my new favourite insult besides "window licker"
I really like the new "Cracked" series, please continue it.
But its full if rubish
But it has a lot of false information
@@Flamuski can you elaborate
@@Flamuski stfu
The fact that they missed 2 major games in the late 1990's. Quake released in 1996 and its subsequent releases and Unreal Tournament released in 1999. Both title's released on the pc. Quake being the faster of the two games promoted aim and targeting. While Unreal Tournament had unique crosshairs for each of the weapons notating spread and fire mode. UT was one of the first games that allowed you to change your crosshair to either be a universal crosshair for all weapons or change it per weapon. You are not wrong Halo helped solidify a standard used in most every fps to date but they were not the first.
And more than that, the different crosshairs per weapon in UT were designed so that you would know exactly what weapon you had selected if you were playing with the view models disabled.
Giving Halo the credit for standardizing crosshairs in FPS is straight blasphemous.
Should have been titled: "The Story of the Crosshair"
hehehehahhahahaHEHEHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHAAHAHAH
Wait he’s still alive
@@veryviper9209 nah comment section was right. I'm dead
@@CherryZ
Fly high brother 🙏
"halo is the first competitive fps to feature crosshairs"
Quake III Arena: Am I a joke to you?
They are actually Not Dead center, since Resolutions are even numbers, the middle would be .5 pixels.
So my life is a lie?
Unbelieveable how this guys keeps us entretained 17 minutes talking about crosshairs. Kudos sir
We were using crosshairs in Quake 1 and Quake 2. Last I checked, they were released BEFORE Halo and Half-Life. Get your facts straight.
Maybe he was talking about a more dynamic crosshair, like the halo one , which was able to let you know if you were in range and etc.
Was about to post the same
Don't forget Quake 3, Unreal Tournament, and CS 1.6 were also released before "competitive modern era" Halo came on the scene.... NotLikeThis
The white dot/white cross in Quake2/3 is a must
Exactly, as an old school quaker i got brainfreeze when he said Halo.
Quake 3 came out in 1999? That was a competitive game with a crosshair. LMAO
My favorite set up was from Overwatch, large circle with outwards pointing + and a dot in the middle. Straight lines to line up with terrain, circle to quickly center targets in close range and the dot for precision shots.
😎 Best crosshair is taping a dot to the middle of your screen 😎
haha the good old days.
@@TheMurtnaT Now the displays have it built-in. I wouldnt run it, but its there I guess
@@a3sir1100 usually all the games nowadays have the option for a dot crosshair which is cool too
@@TheMurtnaT that doesnt help when using an awp xD
@@a3sir1100 the ones that come with my monitor are trash haha
There was a crosshair in goldeneye, you just had to press a specific button to enable it
Yep said the same thing. This video was a SERIOUS fail for them.
Yeah, yesterday I saw a player with a full screen + crosshair that extended out of the screen, like it literally looks like a x-y plane
Thats a bug in csgo
Changing your crosshair can hurt you
Laddiff: Hold my crosshairs
I just have a green dot, yes I cant see it when aiming at white surfaces, no I wont change
ScreaM had a green dot in csgo
@@juanvazquez5836 it was dark blue for a long time as well which is unusual
Same
I just realized that dimitri also speaks with his hands
What a nice guy, talking for the deaf in sign language as well
I wish games just added a crosshair that inverts whatever color is behind it. Then you could see behind it and it would stand out.
Just activate outline if its available in the game settings
turned off my reticle one time in a valorant deathmatch and started slaying. I noticed i was having a much easier time tracking targets because i wasnt looking at my crosshair but instead my bullet pattern and my target more. was very eye opening into how i was playing before.
Interesting
When you recognize the outline of that EliGE pic instantly....
I made a custom crosshair once, in like 2015, and I bound some buy commands to the number block at the same time. I haven’t changed that config ever since.
It’s a dynamic crosshair, too, and people look at me like I’m a maniac whenever they see it. But I’m just used to it. Six years with the same crosshair will make any crosshair work.
I tried many kind of crosshair but at the end of the day, I have easier time to spray and tap on a dots crosshair with medium gap (basically the smallest value of crosshair length with slight gap). Granted it's not as good as dot or small crosshair in a long range shooting, but on medium range is super easy to heashot.
Are you serious? did you just ignore quake? Are these people even for real saying Halo revolutionized with a crosshair? this is just sad
I just wrote this lol
Same
Uh, there were crosshairs in the Quake games thooo, starting from the second one if i'm correct, which was launched in 1997
I feel if I don't change it for a while it just starts to blend in with the game. So making a small adjustment, like 0.5 length or thickness can help it stand out a bit more.
Changing your cross hair constantly actually gives you better aim because you focus on it more
That's what I have been doing in Valorant, it really helps
Gamer science is getting worse than gym bro science
This.
Changing crosshair or changing sens by a bit forces your brain out of auto pilot and makes you focus more because the brain isn't in its comfort zone anymore. Tenz has said that he has changed his sens in-between games in bo3 series to help him focus more. Shroud and many other pro players have said similar things about crosshairs. Some people like ropz and elige can focus even without those helpers, but for most people, you could instantly feel the positive difference of changing your crosshair and going back and forth between your two favorite crosshairs.
@@RestTarRr Auto-pilot isn't necassarily bad though. Auto pilot is a good thing with muscle memory and aiming for example.
No... guys.. no...
Quakeworld (Quake 1 multiplayer) had a number of adjustments to be made to the crosshair and it was on by default.
Duke Nukem 3D had a bloody crosshair but little to no real adjustments.
Both Quake 1 and Quake 2 had lively competitive gaming scenes, being the original games in CPL (Cyberathlete Professionals League)
Yeah, terribly researched intro for this video.
Nothing can beat ta1yo's crosshair
ta1yo’s crosshair is the true god crosshair
1 38 30 100 100 2 0
This video made me want to adjust my crosshair again. You just reminded me that customization is an option.
Should've had something about the OG Unreal tournament too, crosshair stuff there too.
"Resembles a 3rd grader sitting down to get a school photo" lmao
Damn man, fire vid. Absolutely banger, the first 15 seconds before I commented are enough to cement that fs
shut up
@@RogueBanana no u
This video came at the perfect time for me lmao. I was hoping you'd make a video on crosshairs
Love it, great video!
Ngl, sometimes in my head, I say to myself
“maybe if I had the dot on, I would’ve headshot him”
The only crosshair customization i get is enable legacy cursor and the size
i fucking love this series, keep it up
btw about ropz's crosshair, he can definitely see it pretty well. Through video compression and youtube it just looks like a spec on the screen but if you had the same crosshair in game it would most likely be very easy to see
''better spray control than the your sprinkler on your front lawn" lmao 😂💀💀💀
Colton's voice sounds like Hiko so much
Changing the crosshair now and then might help because it's something new and our brain might think "something new, better focus up"
the smile on his face when starting to talk about cs !
was I the only one knew it was elige before they revealed him due to the shape of his head?
me : Im bored
10 mins later
me : lets change the crosshair and sens!! :)
lol karrigan full running and spamming his usp at kennys planting the bomb with his back turned never gets old.
when I first started playing I just googled best crosshair settings and been sticking to it till now
When can we choose the exact pixels that our crosshair is? When will a game add that?
Im not joking thescore will make an enitre documentary off just the chickens in cs.
We did that a couple years ago
@@mileshackett4781 bruh moment
@@viper1443 lol here's the link if you're curious ua-cam.com/video/NPAXSgxxyXc/v-deo.html
@@mileshackett4781 xd thanks, you learn something new everyday.
I have a really cool TF2 crosshair that I made a while ago. It's a circle-dot crosshair with a mostly opaque magenta dot, whitish circle with ~50-60% opacity, and a pale pink, mostly transparent circular hitmarker that appears on the inside edge of the crosshair's circle. It's very visible, the circular shape is great for spread weapons, and the dot helps for precision, and at longer ranges.
I had to build the circular portion and hitmarker into my custom HUD because the in-game crosshair menu doesn't provide options for those features nor do console commands. However, it was worth it for me. it's quite unique, too ;)
Give us more Colten G!
Gotchu!
“For all those league of legends enthusiasts out there” I used to play r6 😭
Ok but whag was the point of this comment??
I took Zywoo's configs and modified the crosshair. I turned it green, made it a little bit 'thiccer' and made it dynamic. I love my crosshair and do not plan on changing any time soon!
Yay the saber mousepad using colten is back!
Here to stay >.
Single dot is the only answer. Don’t at me
Anything that's green = good crosshair
True
In rainbow six siege it’s seems like cyan green pink and red are the play
I legit needed this video....I just couldn't find any comfortable crosshair I hope this helps
I was actually looking for this kind of video regarding crosshair 😅
HELL YES THEY TALKED ABOUT HALO!!!
Hell no even Unreal Tournament had a fairly customizable crosshair.
🤖
Dimitri, how dare you mention sensitivity first lol It's literally the only thing I don't change. Res, Crosshair, viewmodel, etc.. hell yeah but I don't mess with muscle memory
Loved the vid. Get scientific with it!
dot crosshairs definitely make screen panning seem full of more "motion" while bigger ones don't. Spraying with bigger crosshairs is easier for me
The don't change sens coz muscle memory thing is snake oil. The human brain is designed to adapt to exactly that kind of thing. Children's bodies change proportions constantly and yet they're able to run (/draw, do gymnastics etc). World class racing drivers can perform with cars changing weight due to fuel, changing grip due to tyre wear etc. Plus a study showed that changing your sensitivity for practice actually resulted in better and faster improvement to aim, the theory being that the brain has to stay focused on the task rather than switching off because it's so familiar. Aim Lab even added a sensitivity randomiser to help players practice this way.
the ESL skit is amaizing, chat always laughs at it
It's a nice change of pace having a new cross hair but once I find the cross hair I like I might tweak it barely every year if I find a setting a like more
CS came out before Halo. Kind of messes up the narrative here of Halo being the first competitive game to have a crosshair.
cs... quake 2.. hl... unreal 1... wtf? This is so unbelievable bad that it ruins every credibility.
edit: only new was the color change because consoles needed aim assist. so much to competitive...pff
Whenever I change my crosshair I become cracked for like 2 weeks
After the 2 weeks ur trash again... And get a new crosshair lel xD same
Finally someone that relates to me. After 2 weeks I feel washed on my crosshairs and I change it and I feel like I hit so many more headshots
Dimitri please make your own channel your the best commentator I’ve ever heard
"And allows them to aim, direct gunfire and go... clicky clicky boom boom." I really love this method of teaching :D
When dimitri told League players what a crosshair is, all i could think of was:
Dimitri is that type of guy who thinks he understands the meaning of water more than anyone else.
The first third of this video is full of misinformation:
CS came out in 1999, 2 years before halo came out (2001)
Halo only pioneered 3D fps on console; quake, unreal and half life were years ahead of console.
Quake 2/3 (possibly quake 1) and unreal tournament both had crosshairs.... and were years older than Halo
Dmitri definitely caught a double shock from Narnia
Go old school: John Kaleta's "Illinois Cross of Death". (RIP, you absolute legend.)
Pee pee poo poo
poo poo pee pee
"Story of Halo" petition starts here:
I actually have four(4) crosshair binded to my keys so i can switch between them anytime when i feel i am not hitting my shots. Playing CSGO for 2600+ hours, i have now come to realize the importance of a good crosshair that would compliment your aim and your focus. Sometimes i would hit better shots and have more confidence with XANTARES's big fat green grosshair, sometimes with s1mple's smaller crosshair i would be spraying better because the style 5 crosshair made me concentrate more on where my shots are going. If i use a crosshair that is too distracting like a large glowing red hashtag, it obviously is much harder to hit shots, but if it is too faded or small, it's harder to concentrate on the crosshair, so there has to be a good balance in there. Like Scream once answered a guy's question in his stream: What do you focus more on? Your target or your crosshair? Scream answered "I actually focus on both." I am still trying to figure out what he meant to the fullest extent till now but one day when i do, i know i will get even better aim.
I like your cracked series
I would watch more of these if they weren't so cringe.
Can yall just get rid of dmitri entirely.
I love that he put flom's "crosshair" in there XD
Imagine fraging with a number sign. I'm in.
"Clicky Clicky Boom Boom" is now my catchphrase in CS. I'm going to make a t-shirt.
I love how maddison is practically a regular now
Funny how this happens, my friends always say something about my crosshair but I remember some time ago I was in overwatch and just said "my enemies will have purple outlines and I'll have a tiny yellow dot" and thats the most constant thing I've experienced in my life
This is true, as soon as we loose a 1v1 we all go to settings first
I change it once to a teal 50% opacity dot with 4 + shaped dots to show bloom far away from the icon
"that accursed casual infested hellscape knows as CONSOLE" FACTS
What you missed is the part placebo plays in crosshairs. sometimes, changing crosshairs up can highlight it more or just give you a feeling you did something useful, which by placebo ends up making you perform better.
Placebo helps me for sure when I change from right hand to left hand .
5 pixel neon dynamic
changing often is good for practice games it keeps the mind fresh
I use a 2x2 255,0,0 red dot with no other kinds of mods as my crosshair and it's worked 100% of the time for every FPS I've played
I think y'all missed a big aspect of crosshairs in that you didn't look at their applications in a real world setting. Reticles are commonly used to provide distance references, which in turn help accuracy WRT bullet drop and wind correction for projectile weapons. Now in the digital domain, hitscan weapons do negate some of the uses, however they can still be very much used to judge distance. And one can imagine for example a muscle memory correlation of one crosshair-length for a flick being built over time. For a shotgun it can help one to judge spread.
That said, the precision of a dot is an important factor as well. There's the old saying of "aim small miss small".
im actually using a black dot that is 2x2 pixels large in cs because i mastered movement and i want my shots connecting exactly where im aiming to. its black because most maps are very shiny so its in my opinion the perfect contrast. theres only one spot in the whole game my crosshair has a dissadvantage: connector in overpass. but thats nothing to worry about cause as i found out during an mm with my friends, after using this crosshair since late 2017, i can actually play even without a crosshair.
Halo CE, now those were the days. I remember playing that a lot, think there were custom maps at some point too.
"Simulation sickness"
Me who played Titanfall 2: goddamn right