So I operate at a baseline 12 sensitivity and with that I can track beams well and all that. But for some reason I can’t play hitscan characters very well.
I tried the video about finding a perfect sensitivity but the end result ended up being worse than my usual. Playing as Phara I found it hard to catch up or aim at targets with the “perfect” sensitivity. I’ve also put in a ton of hours on hitscan but for some reason it means nothing yet I pick up anyone else and I’m good.
Anything else I can do to improve aim or this is just something I’m stuck with?
12 with what dpi? If it is 800 dpi that is quite high and will be difficult to be accurate and consistent on hitscan. Your wrist/arm may not be used to larger motions which will make it difficult to use at first. You are probably mostly using finger/wrist movements. My advice would be use something close to 5000edpi and grind with it along side some aim trainers.
its 12 with 800 dpi but it lets me aim well with phara.
Also perfect sensitivity is a myth. A sensitivity will never be perfect for all engagement ranges.
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Pharah is AoE and prediction based so this make sense.
Sensitivity is entirely about preference and familiarity. No one else knows what sensitivity you should use.
My general recommendation on PC is to go into the training range, aim at a wall somewhere near one of the bots, then try to flick your mouse and shoot the bot’s head as quickly as possible. If you moved the mouse too far, lower your sensitivity; if not far enough, increase it. Repeat until that flick feels natural to you.
(You can also use one of the little targets they provide instead of a bot if you prefer.)
Honestly your fps may be a larger bottleneck than sensitivity if it is less than 144hz.
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I can’t flick at all hence why I play heroes that don’t need it.
Completely true. But a general rule is to up your dpi before upping the in-game sens. So low/mid windows, no accel, higher dpi on-mouse, lower in-game sense. This ends up being more fast+accurate than the fast+ you get from in-game only.
The OP could achieve the same desired ‘feel’ with better results using e.g. 1600dpi and 6 in-game or w/e his equivalent is.
The general advice is pick something between 4-8 sens @800dpi where lower is better for flicks and higher is better for tracking. Ymmv.
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Yeah you would have less interpolation I suppose. Honestly I think dpi with same edpi is just placebo. 800 dpi is fine. At a certain point you are just interpolating noise and your hands shaking anyways…
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Well my hand tends to shake when I play hitscan, but with beam characters I can track just fine.
Well, once you find a sensitivity you like, you will be able to. Not perfectly, of course (it takes practice and skill to do it reliably at all), but you can get to a point where you know about how far to move the mouse to go from point A to point B, and that’s the baseline for aiming in general.
I guess so, I just saw a video about finding your perfect one and it turned out to not work at all.
Well hitscan and beam are fundamentally the same except beam is more forgiving due to beam width. This tells me your accuracy is poor due to high sens and maybe poor grip (too lose of grip if fingertip with less anchor points) or mousepad is too low friction. To stop shaking you can increase mouse weight, increase pad friction, more stable grip (claw), lower dpi, lower sens, drink less caffeine, drink water and get rest, and lots of practice. In fact in KovaaKs there are scenarios to specifically practice smoothness. I recommend that and close long strafes scenario for beginners.
Source: T20-T100 in various popular KovaaKs scenarios.
I would imagine thats because youre tense and worried too much on hitting the shot. Just relax and slow it down a little. if you keep missing shots then youll never get the muscle memory. As you get better/more confident the speed will come as well.
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Yeah good point over tension in hand can cause this, I missed that.
I tried the weight but it doesn’t change. With beams or projectiles I don’t shake, hell I can even snipe or whip around a Rein flame strike.
I can’t aim with a claw grip, it’s too uncomfortable. I don’t drink caffeine, rest isn’t a problem and I already have the practice in.
The fact remains I can’t play hitscan. Even when I relax I can’t hit shots.
How about this. Maybe it’s what you are looking at. It is said that for projectile and sniper to look at crosshair. With beam you can look at beam to place shots. With hitscan you need to look at your target and not your crosshair. Maybe this is causing you trouble?
Otherwise, you probably notice the shaking more since the hitbox is smaller for pure hitscan and therefore the margin of error to land a shot is smaller.
Why don’t you go to practice range as 76 and just stand still and try to smoothly trace bot movements without shooting. That can help.
I look at my crosshair with beams/projectiles but it still doesn’t end up with the same disaster of hitscan. I mean I can heal an aerial phara with baptiste but I can’t do the same with Ana or shoot her with 76.
I can trace bot movements just fine in practice. But the practice range doesn’t translate to the real game.