A depressing thought

[Potassium]

Earlier this week I was playing on Sham's Little Pony with Ballast, Poptart and a couple other people I know. The map was Darkfort if I remember correctly. I was doing reasonably well and wasn't lagging terribly, until a guy named Potato joined. Almost immediately he began to wreck our team, advancing through the water and capping intels. He didn't bob around like most good players do; he just made headshots. He'd hit me when I was falling, as soon as I'd spawn, even when I was waiting for him to break the fogline. Many people tried to votekick him for hacking, but homps watched him for a little and said he checked out. I will be the first to admit I thought--if only for the sake of my ego--that he was cheating. I was genuinely at a loss, and asked him how long he'd been playing. 3 days. This guy had been playing for 3 days, and was already one of the best shots I've seen in AoS.
I asked for the size of his monitor, and he said 30 inches diagonally, corner to corner.

This raises a couple of depressing questions. How much is the 'skill' of a player dependant upon the computer they're using? How much of it is simply monitor size an processing speed? My home monitor is 19 inches corner to corner. What's yours?

[hompy]

06-15-12 08:38 [MI]Potato Shams Little Pony Cheating 2 Weeks

Sorry.

[Potassium]

Oh. Well this is awkward :P

[TheSifodias]

It shouldn't really matter. If anything, if you get to big of a monitor it should make it worse, since the game is meant to usually run at 800 x 600 resolution. But then again, I've never had a big monitor, so I wouldn't know.

[Benton]

You know, AoS is not the only FPS for PC out there. Some people can play this for the first time, and totally PWN, and just because they play other FPS's on the PC. But yeah he was hacking so...

[FaZe]

You know, AoS is not the only FPS for PC out there. Some people can play this for the first time, and totally PWN, and just because they play other FPS's on the PC. But yeah he was hacking so...

Yep. There's no learning curve going from other FPSs to AoS. WHO'S MAD?!
And really? 30 inches? I have a 13 inch laptop. I find it too hard to sweep my eyes across a monitor like that.

[OnkelDolan]

Honestly, I bet he is simply good, He might be so alert all the time that he goes super hero mode. He probably goes to bed at 21:00 everynight.

[Benton]

Ahaha 2100 on the dot.