The Weirdest Peripherals In Esports History
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- čas přidán 6. 05. 2022
- In esports, peripherals are everything.
From mice to keyboards, monitors and even mousepads, gamers will go out of their way to customize practically any part of their setup, in hopes that it might give them some sort of advantage over their opponents.
But not everyone cares to use the newest and shiniest, custom peripherals out there.
Hell, some of us enjoy living in the past.
But very few players have managed to compete, and even win, on esports’ biggest stages while using peripherals that are, well… out of the ordinary.
And when they do manage to make it work, it’s often quite spectacular.
So on this week’s episode of Cracked we’re taking a look at some of the weirdest peripherals ever used in esports. Are some of them actually viable or were they only used as a joke?
Written by: Niall McCrossan (@niallmccrossan)
Hosted by: Dimitri Pascaluta (@DPascaluta) & Colten Gowan (@TheOnlyZoltan)
Edited by: Patrick Weiers
Produced by: Keith Capstick (@KeithCapstick) & Niall McCrossan (@niallmccrossan)
Thumbnail by: Bennett Grainger
Production Assistance by: Josh Bury
Music used under license from Associated Production Music LLC (”APM”).
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Thank you so much for including me in this video!
What an awesome display of unique gamers!
Yay Demitri is here!
Good people
Ew
I think it's dimitri not demitri
Can’t even get the name right 😂
Fun fact: eyyou from dota 2 used an office mouse to beat OG at Ti6 and also help won his team 500k in a big tournament
The Mouse is A4Tech branded, its actually one of the most common mice you can find in Computer shops in the Philippines, very lightweight, sturdy and reliable as heck and I think its 1000 dpi out of the box
Plus its like 150-200 Php (around 3-5 dollars)
would love to see you guys do a video entirely on fighting game controllers. stuff like pads, arcade sticks with different buttons, gates, and levers, hitbox, crossup, and a bunch of other stuff.
Also musical keyboards
Dan Rosen has entered the chat
You guys should do an entire video on mice and mouse mods. You can cover things like aftermarket mouse feet, mouse weight reduction/switch replacements with experts like beardedb0b, and the 3d printed mice market with people like piranha mouse mods and cryomods
^^^ please do this
They just made it hahahahaha
Love seeing Angelus mentioned in here! This was a really interesting video, nicely done!
I'm surprised they didn't include the body pillow fight stick
The what now?
Wtf?
There is footage somewhere(can't remember where) but it's a body pillow with a waifu that you have to hug in order to optimally use the stick
People can be really weird but there is always a method to their madness and its always awesome to see them work it out so well, even beyond expectations when they smoke someone with what is supposedly the best META in that field.
Thank you for crediting my clip! Great job, this was a fun watch!
3:30 LoL Luca kaneshiro in the backgroud POG
pog.
I played CPL Winter 2001 with a MS Natural Keyboard - it had the professional tilted angle party built in there..
I had fatality sign it after he won the AvP Championship (the 1st price was a pimped out AvP Ford Focus)
good times
edit: I also cut into the side of my MS "laser" mouse the have better grip for lifting it and taped two mouse pads together.. since "giant" mouse pads weren't a thing yet back then ;)
holy shit.... a massive respect for u
@@unoyoon1112 thank you for your nice comment :)
@@anFy81 thank you for your cool af story
I had my day off today and the first thing i see is a Cracked ep with Vlad and Colt. So nice to see Lucy join the ep as well...
Vtuber of the week:
Luca Kaneshiro
The Niji EN boys definitely deserved some love.
ew
@@madsiesss y
HELL YEAH MY BOY ANGELUS MADE IT! We play the same way from FFXI to FFXIV, dude has been a great influence in PvP and Deep Dungeon love the guy!
from his split keyboard and wrist wrest configuration, i can tell that moth is a man of culture and sophistication
The glorious Ina poster is back! And this time he's watching Luca LOL
Always looked forward to the guy who actually knows what he’s talking about to find out which vtuber would be featured and today I’m not disappointed. It’s the Pog man himself.
My first thought was Initial T and I’m so fucking happy he was the first person shown
while u were talking about the 14 player I was like "yeah this dude played 11" lol
my dad plays cross hand but hes right handed, he just always did
moth's mousepads foreshadowed his 2 owl trophies, great work by the scriptwriters
Angelus ain't joking about how little the mouse was utilitized in FF11. Heck, that game is so keyboard focused, you must set up keyboard macros to maximize basic leveling.
Another one to note are people who use regular peripherals in unusual ways. Rapha, a Quake and OW player puts his keyboard on his lap, turns his chair a little bit and with the monitor angled differently too.
parallel shawn deserves some credit. he trickshots using fishing rod, dance dance revolution matte, and a wii controller.
I was able to use a steam controller with motion controls to get to rank one in a battle royale on PC called super Mecha championship. But I’ve done that on mobile as well because I wanted to master every input a gamer can use
Would love to c that if there is a video on it
@@dv-fn8yr on PC or mobile? I didn't have controller overlay but I have lots of random shadowplay recordings
@@DelbyDank whatever honestly
this brings off meta to another level
As a child, in Mexico, I saw literally every single person playing the arcades using the "cross hand method"
LUKA KENSHIRO IN THE BACK GROUND POGG
Pog.
I bought an Azeron Compact which is a weird keyboard alternative. I like it but my old self can't fully get used to it so it sits in a drawer for a few months till I want to try it again then use it for a week and then back to classic MnK.
I think you should’ve had Kariyu getting diamond Valorant, and sweating on Fortnite with a drawing tablet. it wasn’t pro play level, but it was cool to see if all you we’re going for were weird peripherals.
osu! moment
Im so glad dimitri is back
When you talked about speedrunning, I was expecting you to talk about some of the wacky ways people have done stuff like use multiple N64 controllers.
I feel like there was a missed opportunity to call these peripherals off-meta instead of weird.
When I was a kid playing cs 1.6, I controlled movement with the arrow keys, jump was my right mouse button, and voice, and grenades we're on my mouse's side buttons. Took awhile, but I eventually changed to the standard wasd controls many years later lol
when i first played cs 1.6 i was like 9 years old and it was on my cousin's laptop, I also used the arrow buttons for movement with my left hand, and I used my right hand on the trackpad, it was super fun even though I only played bots since we didn't have easy internet access back then
I started with arrows too, didn’t know wasd exist back then
I see the luca kaneshiro stream back there.
I don't use weird peripherals but I run a unique control setup for games.
Instead of the normal KBM setup, where left click is shoot, space is jump, and you hold the right mouse button to aim.
I have space set to shoot, left click set to jump, and right mouse for toggled aim.
Yo same i have e for primary, q for secondary and then scroll down for my knife, abilities on my mouse is especially helpful for jett dash and fast reactions lol
In all the shooters have played, i dont use 1 and 2 in combat, ex csgo/valorant where 3 is pistol, mb3 or b is knife, q is primary and bomb is 2
I actually used my steering wheel playing valorant, normally I do racing sims, friends gave me the idea and I made it work, odin spray make this possible 😂
Wow this is an interesting video I wonder if it's possible to take certain aspects of a mouse on m&keyboard and certain aspects of a controller and combine them together
Both hands on keyboard, old Doom players are not surprised at all.
Editor-kun supporting the bros
Always
Dr. Robotnik is a Takodachi?
I had a hand injury a while ago and beat Half Life Opposing Force without dying using mouse with controller in left hand. I had a big awkward base I made to keep it from sliding around.
I like this episode! Nice! Keep it up!
Are we really not gonna talk about Luca in the background? Okay....
Competitive games weird controllers: still mouse and keyboard just lighter or smaller
Fighting games weird controllers: Tofu delivery is my second job
Shoutout to the time my muscle memory forgot my computer password and so did I
Id love to see a vid on gran turismo's esports, world tour
I have been part of extremely impassioned argument about M&K vs Gamepad vs HOTAS vs Twinstick in mech games
I see this guy is part of the mafia as well, Nice to see boss appreciated
My man Luca is a king.
@@TheOnlyZoltan ong
Nyx back when he played on Darkzero used a weird glove keyboard thing that had a joystick on the thumb that he used for leaning.
9:28 I want that, got the exact same fingertip grip D:
I remember seeing a post where they showed TNC beating out OG in TI6 using $3 mice
Always had X for weapon swap between my last used weapons on any game i play because i feel its the easiest way to swich weapons, And in league (and any game that has abilities) i use my ult by pressing the mouse button. The reason being that i found it really frustrating early on when i played league from the start, to use my ulti and accidentaly move my mouse a bit before to miss a skillshot etc. So it made sense to me that presing a button on my mouse will make it more accurate. People say its the stupidest shit they ever heard. XD But its great to find even one or two keybinds that just "make sense" to you personally.
That’s funny demitri said that about his cs go key binds. I use e for primary q for pistol and b for knife
When I first started on kbm 123 were hard for me to hit in a hurry to switch weapons
YO!!! Where's Basically Homeless? He played Siege with a pair of AirPods, a Wii remote, Donkey Bongos, and a fucking pineapple, yeah, a fucking pineapple
3:10 Left handed gamers can multi task like a champ. Cross armed and smoking a cigarette? Nuts lol.
"The CLAP. Did this got him? . . .It got him"
QWER for movement, r forward, e back q/w left/right strafe, when i first started playing half-life wasd hurt my hands and once i picked it up its been my default for over 20 years
I literally knew my mouse video would be in here before I clicked LOOL
rip evh . the guitar KING
i was hoping to see that guy who plays melee holding his gamecube controller upside down.
For Csgo my knife is my middle mouse button, my main weapon and bomb are my 2 thumb buttons on my mouse, my inspect is 3, and my crouch is C and my use button is F. Ive been told this is weird but I think this is pretty norm and makes the game easier for me.
My Knife mid mouse too lol
“And in the speedrunning community”
*shows Dream, a known speedrun cheater*
Should've shown the bruh mat from Glarses
My CS binds are movement on E S D F and primary on W, pistol on R, reload on T and util on G V C X. same on valorant too lmao
So the steering wheel was basically a joke that went to far.....
Fucking Legend
I have a friend who used to kick our asses in Duck Game using a HOTAS flight stick
Cracked Gaming Chairs and Posture when???
If I have the option, I always change my reload to scroll wheel down on my mouse for fps games, can’t figure how to make that work for Valorant yet but will figure it out because personally, hate having weapon swap on mouse wheel, too fast to be precise, I either go all the way up or all the way down in Valorant lol
2b fair no one actually uses mousewheel to swap weapons
Of course egg man is the guy who knows everything. Love the new movie btw! 🤩
Am right handed but The cross Hand was always me and my lil Bro's go to position when playing FIFA or fighting games. Didnt know it was Unique until I went to my first Lan and saw people playing Tekken. It blew my mind when I was a kid and I was wondering how do they play like that.. 😂
Whats next? HOW GAMERS USE SEAT SETTINGS IN THEIR CARS TO DRIVVVEEEE, SO CRACKED.
Haha, I do FFXIV keyboard only as well. It's nice to be able to play with my laptop on the couch or wherever.
I have lean on all leaning fps’s on the mouse thumb buttons
For CS and Valorant I use RMB to walk hahaha (that's Right Mouse Button, usually reserved for ADS [aiming down sights])
Try it, trust.
Dimitri is baked
Luffy always made sense to me
Could you do a video about the weirdest cfgs in the csgo scene. I particularly have a strange cfg.
My hands hurt every time I see how s1mple uses his Keyboard and my eyes hurt every time I see how close he puts the Monitor.
I’ve gotten so much sht for having my ult on the space bar in LoL 😭
been using $5 num pads for gaming for years
Was waiting for a tablet playstyle
I Miss Granady Form Trackmania. And TM in generell.
3:40 the man is watching vtuber's mad respect
mousepad in canadian accent lmfao MOOS pad
firstly, that wasnt a tkl that was a exploded 75 percent, secondly that wasnt a 65% that was a 60%, and wow the last one you got correct! it was a 60% but you legit showed 2 keyboards the same size and called one a 75% and one a 60% lmfao just thought i would point this out.
The one about the overwatch pro isn’t uncommon at all tbh
for me it's just having different key bindings on some games :D
I’m immortal in valorant and I use a g pro wireless. You can definitely use a wireless mouse as most players do.
I’m sad they didn’t include the Smash 64 player who plays and wins using the N64 fishing rod controller
i think The weirdest way someone i know play Games was with The ps4 controller upside down
I am in NO part a competitive gaming but I wanted to talk about my unusual keyboard setup for gaming in shooters...
I had an injury on my left hand and my pinky is fked so I make a 4 in my left hand with my thumb under my palm and the thumb pushes left shift and space bar, my three reminder fingers go into Q-W-E-R-A-S-D-Tab so yeah.
oh im pretty sure thats how mumbo jumbo plays minecraft lmao
I play Valorant with knife and pistol on my mouse and rifle on T. Also my ability keys are V Q F Ctrl
Basically Homeless should have been on the thumg nail
Colten you here?
RIP Powerglove
I know a guy that has his minimap locked and on the smallest possible setting. I can’t just not judge. This should be illegal in 50 states.
I have very large hands, and when I say very large I mean it. I have a K95 keyboard and am able to cover the left side of it (with all the letters and so), except for the macro buttons and function keys, if I place my hand horizontally across it. Luckily my fingers are rather skinny so the keys don't have to be extra large. But this makes finding peripherals an absolute pain in the ass. Keyboards are usually fine, I just have to have my palm on the wrist rest instead of my wrist. But mouses are horrible. I bought a steelseries wow mouse when I was younger and that worked very well and has been the only mouse that has not caused my hand to cramp after a bit. This is probably in part because of me getting used to it over such a long time so the way I held it probably helped negate cramps. Recently however it started acting up and sadly they aren't made anymore. The best option I could find was a Corsair Scimitar. My hand does cramp up after a while even with it but it's the best one I've found.
This guys cracked