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How do you decide what sensitivity to use in-game?

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Just curious how other people "calibrate" their in-game sensitivity.

 

Personally I will raise/lower the sensitivity until a flick of my wrist does a 180 with the camera.

 

How do you do it?

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I play on a super low sensitivity because I like to use all my mouse real estate for fine aiming

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Personally I just change it until I can steadily track a moving target for around 3 seconds, at least for pvp based games.

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2 minutes ago, Hyrogenes said:

Personally I just change it until I can steadily track a moving target for around 3 seconds, at least for pvp based games.

Yeah I play zero pvp shooters so for me speed is much more important than pinpoint accuracy.

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I just move the camera for a second or two and if it feels "natural" I roll with it. Pretty boring right?

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Am I weird as I don't change sensitivity? I barely play FPS games, mainly RPGs so sensitivity isn't as important I guess.

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8 minutes ago, Shoopman said:

Yeah I play zero pvp shooters so for me speed is much more important than pinpoint accuracy.

My main games are minecraft (hypixel skyblock not pvp) and casual playing of battlefront 2 and overwatch, while also playing a little bit of gta. I just like being able to keep my cursor on anything im trying to hit which is most important in skyblock of all games since I play reinhardt in overwatch.

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I do a 180 with one full span of the mouse. 90 degrees is basically center of the mousepad to whichever side I'm turning. I'd also prefer to have it be longer than 90 degrees rather than shorter. 

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I just slowly dial it in over several hours of playing. Usually I try to get everything to feel as close as my Insurgency setup since I've perfected my controls in that after about 800 hours.

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It depends on the game.

 

As a general rule in movement-based first person shooters like Doom Eternal, the trick is to get a sensitivity that's slow enough so that I can have precise aim when aiming at things in front of me, but still enables me to instantly turn around 180 degrees when I swing my mouse across the mat.

 

Turning speed isn't really important in games like CSGO and Valorant since kill times are so short you're dead anyway if someone gets behind you + you generally know from which direction the enemy will come. So here you can either use a very low sensitivity or a little higher so you can quickly line up headshots and control the spray when you see them.

 

I don't know about MOBAs, but I guess you should use a lower sensitivity because the last thing you want is for your mouse to be swinging around when you're trying to line up a skillshot. 

 

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Feeling.

 

I have started FPS games with CS1.6 in 2003/4, and moved to Battlefield 2 in 2005. So all my binds and sensitivity settings are based on what I used in BF2 with Razer Deathadder (original) on very bad plastic mousepad.

 

I have tweaked them ofc from game to game, and mouse to mouse. Like when switching mouse last year, I had to tweak my sense in OW to get better feel. Main thing is same. I use palm grip and do rather small movements. So me moving mouse for couple of cm should swing pointer (on desktop) from center to both sides. The movement speed in pretty similar ingame.

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