Title kinda says it all. I’m interested on improving my mechanical skills mainly accuracy. Besides actively trying to move my arm instead of my wrist is there anything I could do to quicken the mussel memory and or actually know I’m moving my arm when not focusing on it?
Play lots of DM and make sure your sensitivity isn’t too high.
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You don’t have to use arm aim, it’s personal prefrence.
As long as your sensitivity is reasonable everything goes.
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Most people use their wrist because they started playing on PC with a way too high sensitivity and it always feel awkward to reduce it. Some people can do very well with wrist aiming and high sensitivty but the vast majority are better off primarily using their arm and only use the wrist for tiny adjustments.
There’s several other positive factors of using the arm rather then wrist to primarily move your mouse around like health aspects. It’s inevitable that you’ll end up with ligament injuries to your hand and wrist if you use your wrist to move around your mouse over time and it’s less uncomfortable to learn how to play the game using your arm with lower sense which probably will improve your aim as well once you get used to it than it is having your hand feeling it’s on fire once you get older after using a mouse for more than two minutes.
Get a XL mousepad and lower your sen
I recently went through all of this myself. So, at the risk of just giving you details you didn’t ask for…
Get about an 18" mouse pad (or bigger).
Look at some pro sensitivity settings. I think around 4000 edpi is a good place to start. Supposedly what TAIMOU uses.
You figure that out by looking at your Mouse DPI, and multiplying it by your in-game sensitivity.
800 dpi mouse is in-game sensitivity 5. (4000 edpi)
1600 dpi mouse is 2.5 (still 4000 edpi)
Turn off any kind of Windows mouse acceleration! Otherwise Windows is changing your sensitivity on the fly.
And just play! Get used it it. It will feel very strange at first, and you will HAVE to move your full arm to make 180 turns. And you might even adjust your positioning in the game so you don’t find yourself surrounded. I have a different sensitivity set for tanks. Play around, see what works. Just stick to something LOW.
I think it’s worth it.
After a while, raising the sensitivity is what feels weird actually.
It’s ideal to use both aiming styles, arm aim for the up close and personal fights, wrist for the finesse shooting
There is no reason to change. Play the way you feel more comfortable.
I use the hy rid way, meaning its 90% wrist and arm is used when I need to rotate 180 degree (My edpi is 3100, not high). because using wrist only I can rotate only 90 degrees.
Thanks for the advice guys. To the people saying either way is fine I’m changing to not have issues later in life and hoping to eventually reach a higher skill cap.
Figured using the aiming method of the pros was a good start.
I played with high sensitivity for a loooong time, so transitioning to arm movement when I finally lowered it was difficult.
Spent a lot of time just practicing 180s (standing between the first 2 bots at practice range). Played Tracer exclusively as she makes a lot of quick, dramatic turns. If your sens isn’t low enough you can still be lazy and only move your wrist, so you do want to focus on moving your arm to use your full range.
I also recommend looking up some wrist exercises and stretches, if you play a lot your forearm will be doing a lot of work it isn’t used to. 1-HP .org has some good ones along with other tips for general gaming health.
In addition to what has already been said, consider lowering your regular desktop mouse sensitivity. I don’t know how much you do on your computer besides gaming, but in any case setting a low sens for daily activity will make it natural to use arm movements.
It’s really a lot about paying attention. Keep your wrist and your mouse straight (micro-corrections with wrist movement shouldn’t take either significantly far from straight). Don’t let your palm drag on the table. Use the target range if it’s too much to pay attention to while playing.
If you fonf it easyer to aim with wrist just do that then. Why would you switch only so you can restart with getting good?
Aiming with arm isnt higher skill cap actually.
true but I’d get better control over my aim
Find a sensitivity that you’re comfortable with and start playing.
Do not change the sens under any circumstances.
In about a week you’ll start getting comfortable with arm aiming