there is no “best DPI”. it is relative to the individuals. I myself use 400 DPI and 9.5 ingame sens.
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Correct.
Theres an exception though, if your mouse can use 800 or 1600, you should use any of the 2. Avoid using “custom” DPI, it will destroy your muscle memory.
You can scale up and down easy with the regular sensitivity parameter ingame, but messing up with the DPI creates a very specific problem : Outside OW, you will move and “aim” differently. Be consistent.
800 DPI seems the more stable value between different mouse brands and games
First, stop calling them DPI, because the correct term is CPI (Count per Inch) >
Second, the best CPI value is the value are you comfortable with.
For example, i still play with an IntelliMouse 3.0 (400 CPI) with 9.92 and i find it comfortable.
Third, depends by your playstyle: higher CPI value is better if you use a lot wrist, low CPI is better if you use a lot arm or you snipe.
If i should give a value: i reccomend something between 400 and 2000, something higher than these values are usually obtained by interpolation and they will make you aim wonky.
800 isnt the best its just medium and a safe bet.
Some like 1600 and some 400 dpi, anything lower or higher than those is stupid.
I don’t get those who play on 3200 dpi with 20 sens, doesn’t matter if you can play with that its objectively not good.
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Dude, these guys play on a higher sens than I do and I play main tank. I play lower than them, and yet I cannot out-duel them in a widow battle. You don’t need low sens to be a decent hitscan player. It doesn’t work for everyone. Why are we still talking in circles? As I keep saying: arm aiming is generally best for accuracy, but there are people who do better with wrist aiming. It’s all about what works best for the individual.
They are more accurate than you simply because they have practiced more and they adressed other aspects of accuracy other than sensitivity, I never said sensitivity is the only thing you need to tweak, I never said the same exact number will work on everyone, I said that there are general trends that help a lot of people that are worth mentioning and im criticizing the overly simple and common suggestion of “do what feels comfy” that falls short of being anything remotely useful advice to improve accuracy, given bad aim is usually the result of several bad habits there are so many more things to it that people almost never talks about and I have no idea why
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I personally use 12,000 DPI and 1 sens. Just whatever your prefer.
Dont you think they feel comfy with their sensitivity? According to the point you’re trying to make they should lower their sens even though their current eDPI works for them. Do you see how this doesn’t make sense?
Please, everybody else who is reading this, if you find an eDPI that seems to work really well for you, do not feel the need to change it for the sake of trying to have the lowest sens possible. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
After many hours of practice and other accomodations not just instantaneously right from the sensitivity configuration menu, which the suggestions here seem to imply.
Please for anyone reading that be wary of advice from a player that never worked in his accuracy, your aim may be broken already without you realizing it.
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LOL! Im a grandmaster dude! You don’t think I’ve spent literally thousands of hours working on my accuracy??? I’ve adjusted/lowered my sensitivity probably 4 or 5 times since I started playing Overwatch before I got it to a place that I felt it was good.
No, the higher your dpi the more pixels you skip. 800 is better than 1600 in that regard.
I mean… look at your mains. OP wants to get good with Genji and McCree, not a tank or other hero that doesn’t need much aim. You saying you’re a “grandmaster” doesn’t mean much when you play the heroes you do (in this context).
I have alt accounts where I play only aim intensive heroes that have been gm.
To be honest if you did you wouldnt be playing tanks, dont get me wrong I respect tank gameplay a lot but to be a hitscan in grandmaster is a whole other can of woms
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LOL! Yeah it’s SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much harder to point and click.
Thats quite an understatement, the hard part of hitscan and aiming its not to just point and click the hard part is how to master timing and how to keep it consistent across many games, I really dont think youd be saying that if you actually squeezed into gm playing hitscan dps (in which case youd be much better than me) but I dont want to derail this thread doubting you so Im gonna leave it at that
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Can someone please explain what DPI even is? I see it mentioned a lot and I’m clueless. I did try to see if I can mess with my own DPI and there aren’t any options to do so, probably because of a crappy mouse?
The acronym DPI stands for dots per inch, which is a common way computers and their related devices measure resolution. In the case of a mouse, it’s a way to express how motion on your desktop translates to your pointer moving on the screen. If your mouse is set for 150 dpi, for example, moving it an inch on your desktop should move it 150 pixels on your screen. If you crank that up to 300 dpi, or 1,000 dpi, moving your mouse that same inch would move it much, much further across the screen. In real life, mouse dpi doesn’t translate directly to screen resolution, because your operating system usually multiplies the dpi to make your mouse work properly on a large, modern high-resolution monitor. The basic idea holds true, though. The higher your resolution, the further your pointer moves on each motion of the mouse.
If you dont know the Dpi of your mouse chances are you cant change it and its forever locked in the factory setting (you gotta research what that value is) , most gaming mice nowaday offer dpi switches or offer the capability of customizing the mouse dpi via software, its highly recommended for a fist person shooter to have a mouse with an optical sensor and a dpi configuration capability.
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Lol I have, but whatever you say, Colt. You’re a really smart guy.
Im sorry if I came across as an azz, It just triggers me when people say “just play with what youre comfy” because that never helped me at all to improve my accuracy, I realized I had a lot of bad habits that were holding me back and once I started adressing them and forcing changes that felt uncomfortable at first my aim got considerably better over time and I managed to climb from platinum into high masters playing hitscan.
Im really comfortable now aiming at 1600 dpi and 3 ingame sens and my hitscan is very consistent across multiple games so Im happy overall with the progress I made using all kinds of information around the Internet and observing what helped the professional players to improve as well (if anything helps them chances are itll help me too as well), thing is at the beggining I was very comfortable playing at 4,000 dpi and something like 8 OW sensitivity and changing it any lower felt like hell everytime but only for a couple weeks until I noticed my stats were improving and I had less issues tracking targets thats when I realized you cant even trust your senses when it comes to self improvement and the importance of meassuring things and researching/discussing different solutions.
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