I play 1600dpi at 18 sensitivity and my aim is really bad, i found out that pros play at 2 sensitivity at 1600dpi, how do they play like that? I set it at that and it takes me multiple mouse flings just to turn around, there is no way. What am i missing? Pro x superlight mouse btw
I mean there is no perfect setting, even among pro’s. That said most of them have bigger pads and use their arm to do most the moving and then the smaller wrist movements for aiming.
I watch the gameplay and they turn around really fast still, i don’t get it
They are young, professionally trained, hyped up on as much caffeine and drugs they can legally get away with to the point they are reacting before you even think you need to turn around.
And as I said they use their whole arm to turn, not just their wrist on the more sensitive settings.
Edit: there is a reason most pro’s retire fairly young, Pro FPS games are a young persons game.
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Im 24 im young af too
Actually for PRo’s thats kind of old. Many start in the low Teens and retire before 25ish.
I play at 2700*1.3 (3510 edpi) and sometimes I feel like that’s too fast lol. Your edpi (28800) is extremely high and I can’t imagine being able to aim very well with it at all.
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To me it’s totally unplayable like that. I can’t turn at all but i wanna aim better
It’s ultimately down to personal preference, but I think you should probably try turning the sensitivity down in game. Doesn’t have to be as low as mine or whoever else’s, but even cutting your current sens by half would probably make it a lot easier to aim.
wrist aimers use higher sensitivites, at your dpi it would be around 3 to 4 in game. the lower you go the more you use your arm to aim
i play at 1600 2 (800 4) and i can easily do 180 turns and move around freely because ive practiced it.
their is no such thing as a perfect sens but the higher it is the harder it is to be accurate. the lower you go the more margin for error you’ll have (thus why so many of us play on lower sens’s)
some ppl do play on higher ones, particularly with certain heroes, but not everyone can play on a crazy high sens and almost no one would play on a sens as high as yours.
to be clear this is true up until a certain point.
if someone is playing rein they can play on w/e because hes largely a melee hero, but if someone wants to play a hitscan you have to lower it down to have some level of consistency.
typically its “preference” within the sane sens range.
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U need to use ur arm to aim,not only the hand
Most people will tell you that sensitivity comes down to personal preference, I disagree with that sentiment especially in a game like Overwatch where “I think” some heroes benefit more or less depending on your edpi (mouse sens * in-game sens).
I find that an edpi anywhere between 3200 - 4800 is just about perfect for most if not all heroes in Overwatch.
Don’t listen to these naysayers
Join me in the 48000 edpi club
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Mouse sens/eDPI is a very, very personal thing. Some pros have high eDPIs, others have low. If low, they tend to arm aim. Higher is typically better for heroes like Winston, Rein, Mercy, and Moira. Lower often is better for ranged hitscan DPS like Ashe, Cree, Widow, Soldier. The quality/sensor your mouse has and the surface your mouse is on also matters, along with your hand size and mouse grip style.
It really depends on how you feel and what you want out of the game, plus your hero roster. I have a higher eDPI and just drop my pinky for more precise shots, and that works for me (no mat, mouse on a wooden desk with a grain).
Hitscan aim will always be streaky or hit and miss (even for pros), but I’d say pick something that is comfortable for you and get used to it/practise a lot with it to improve consistency. IMO, the worst thing you can do is mess with your eDPI every week to try and find the perfect fit. Really, the only solution to getting better is practice, and understand that mechanical aim isn’t everything. Doesn’t matter if you can click heads if you go in by yourself all the time, never stand in the right spot, or can’t read a fight/situation to save your life.
If youre serious about wanting to aim better, outright anyone who tells you sens is a preference and yours is fine is delusional.
Yes it is preference, but there is without a shred of doubt a limit to both slowness and speed. Think of it in terms of a shower. Some people prefer cold and others hot, but regardless of preference 30 degrees F will give you hypothermia, and 150 degrees F will give you third degree burns. Youre so far out that Id consider your shower to be boiling.
Some people require higher sensitivities due to limited space to move their mouse. Id recommend doing what you can to increase desk space if you find this is an issue for you, or a larger mouse pad if you have the room but only a 30cm mousepad.
Id personally recommend going down to 3 sens in-game and just spamming QP games until you get used to it. That is a sens that among the pros and high elo in general is neither super fast or super slow. With how large of a difference youll be dealing with itll take you a hot minute to adjust. Youll play worse than you ever have before, but you HAVE to stick with it.
Give yourself about a month of good play time to get used to this new sens before looking up videos on youtube about something called “PSA Perfect Sensitivity”. The video from ioStux is perfect for Overwatch, and theres a website by the same name thatll do the confusing parts for you. The point of the PSA method is to get you a sensitivity that matches your natural hand-eye coordination, and is something you do before playing ANY game that day. The PSA method isnt a requirement by ANY means, but its purpose is to give you something thats more comfortable for you specifically. Itll be easier to acclimate to, and will require less warm up whenever you play.
Do these and youll be given the settings for success, but youll still need to learn how to aim properly. These include basic things like crosshair placement, or advanced things that take a lot of time and practice, like learning how to set yourself up in game to make aiming as easy as possible.
Finally: realize that good aim is a process and that no sens change will make you godly right off the bat. This post is a gross simplification of the process, because outright theres no way a single post can cover this topic fully, and there are many things youll just have to find out after a lot of practice and research on your own. This is just the beginning.
Large mousepad and use your entire arm to aim, and only use your wrist for fine grained movements
sheesh dva mains be wild
thats way way way to high
their edpi is 288000
i think you mean 28,800
no its 288000 because you times dpi by sense
never mind miss read thought they said 16000 dpi