Hey so I’ll make this short and sweet: I really can’t find a good, comfortable sensitivity, and I’ve been trying new things for over a year. I have a very small mouse pad, and I’ve figured I need a larger sens. in order to move more. I can do two 360 degree turns and another 180 dragging my mouse from left to right. I know sensitivity is all personal preference, but I’m really stuck. Currently, I have 1600 mouse DPI with 12 in game sens. I can get a larger mouse pad if needed, but I’m not sure if it is a necessity. Help?
Unless your mouse pad is 7cm long it should not be that high. Your effective DPI is 19200. Thats why you’re doing dual 360+180 no scopes. You should lower it. The easy way is just lower the sensitivity until moving left to right is one 360. If you want to be precise, take measurements of your mouse pad. Take note of your display resolution as well. Search in your browser for “Overwatch dpi tool” This helped me with my settings.
I played around with it until it matches the size of my mouse pad as close as possible. In my case mine is 31.5cm long so my effective DPI has to be 4400. I set my mouse to 1200 DPI and in game is 3.66 sensitivity. It’s a balance between my cursor not flying around the screen while not in game and smooth movement while aiming in game.
I used to be the same so try 8 sens with the same dpi and see how that goes. Even with a bigger mousepad now I still use the same as I play mercy (not too aim intensive), Sym (I’m used to my base sens) and widow (relies on scoped more often than not)
OK yeah if you can do this you can lower your sens, by a lot.
Your EDPI is like 20000 (The ratio between your in game sens and DPI. Sens x DPI = EDPI)
The average EDPI from pros is like 4000 i believe. so essentially like 1/5 the speed of your sens configuration.
You can do two 360s and one 180. You should only be able to do a 360 at most. I would highly recommend you change your ingame sensitivity to 6, this way you should be able to do just over 1 360 turn.
Yes, your sensitivity is your preference, but a higher sensitivity is a handicap. The faster your mouse is the harder it is to land on a specific point. People say that yeah you know im good with this sens, No, you arent. Like say you are playing widowmaker trying to hit that tracer. Lets say you can only headshot her in 2-3 similar positions on your mousepad, if your sens is high then you will have a lot of trouble finding that exact point(s) compared to someone with a low sens.
Lower your sens, your preference should only be thought of when you are between the recommended sensitivity range.
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(Copied from my post in the EU forums)
So I’ve been learning this myself and have watched far too many videos on the topic. Essentially we use a figure called eDPI (effective dots per inch). We get this figure by multiplying the DPI of the mouse with the sensitivity in the game.
Most players play with somewhere between 4000 and 8000 eDPI. Most pro players play with somewhere between 4000 and 6000. The larger your mouse mat is, the lower you can afford to have your eDPI because you can just move it more to compensate. Pro players use their arm, wrist and fingers to aim in different situations, and a low eDPI allows the fine aiming with wrist and fingers whilst having such large mousemats allows you to lock your wrist and move your arm crazy distances.
Now, many of us don’t have massive mousemats and might not be used to aiming like this, and some of us genuinely play better at higher eDPI. It is of note that within pro players, the more DPS roles a player fills, the closer to 4000 (or even 3000!), and the more Tank and Support roles, the closer to 5000 or 6000. If aim isn’t as important but being able to turn around and swing your hammer/mace is or being able to 180 and speedboost/guardian angel away is, maybe consider this.
So if the lower eDPI is better, why do mice allow such high settings? The answer in Overwatch is screen tearing, although in RTS games you really do want crazy high DPI. Now I’m not a techie guy, but for some reason having a high DPI and a low sensitivity results in less screen tearing than a low DPI and a high sensitivity. Although the eDPI works out the same, your aim will be better if you can circumvent the screen tearing.
If you don’t know what the best eDPI is for you, I recommend a technique I found online. Without warming up, set your in game sensitivity to 10, your mouse DPI to 500 (giving you an eDPI of 5000)* and in the training range, strafe while trying to keep your crosshair on the head of a static training bot at a variety of ranges, but focus on the most effective ranges of your main characters. Then change sensitivity to 15, repeat, and again at 5 sensitivity. Which one felt better, 5 or 15? If it was 5, try again at 2.5 and 7.5, or 12.5 and 17.5 if 15 was better. Keep doing this until you find a sweetspot where every change is worse than what you had.
Congrats! You’ve found your perfect eDPI! Now, if you’re tired or on caffeine at the time it might be different so try and repeat this test without warming up and when you’re at a baseline state. But yeah, there you have it. Lets say your sweet spot works out at 4750 eDPI like mine was, do what I did and set your mouse to that exact figure, then change in game sensitivity to 1. Problem with this is the mouse will be wicked fast in menus but I use a DPI switch to change to 2000 so I can manoeuvre the menus.
I hope this helps, I’d played with a controller my whole life and just got a decent mouse and mousemat and this has helped perfectly.
*I got these pro figures from a Jayne Q&A, and if you don’t know he’s the coach for Dallas Fuel and team Canada. A great streamer and full of advice for scrubs like me. The techniques I got from a personal coach named Love, and after getting a new mousemat my ideal settings have changed. If you only have a small mousemat, rather than starting at 5000 eDPI, try and find the setting whereby moving from as far left as you can to as far right performs a 360, and start from there, going 50% up and down of that figure and narrowing it down as such. You don’t want a perfect eDPI that doesn’t allow you to turn around without lifting the mouse.
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