Struggling to aim at close range

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I seem to really struggle at aim at close with characters like Sombra and soldier. Any tips or tricks anyone uses? I wrist aim with 800 dpi and 21 sensitivity.

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Damn that’s a high Sens. I have no idea how that’d feel. I’m guessing in close range you’re overcorrecting? Outside of sens adjustments probably just trying to calm yourself, take a little more time, etc. Put yourself in situations in QP or FFA where you’re doing a lot of CQC and try to just condition yourself.

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Try not to fight at close range. Close range engagements making tracking a lot harder.

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Get a bigger mouse pad.lower your sens. Swap what heroes you play.

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Practice.

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I think your mouse sensitivity is probably part of it, but honestly I don’t know how to help you.

I struggle in melee range with aiming and stuff but play characters who are easier to win with in those ranges then the mid range specialists.

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800 DPI x 21% in game sensitivy is much too fast to aim with any real precision.

I use a medium sized mouse pad (SteelSeries QcK Prism RGB), and I’m only running 1000 DPI at 6.4 in game sensitivity, 35% scope sense w/ Widow.

Personal preference disclaimers apply, but the above numbers are what I’ve found to be my set-up’s “sweet spot” for balancing speed and precision.

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Practice walking around the stationary bots in the training room and see if you can keep your crosshair on their eye? in their head as you walk around. Adjust your sensitivity until you can.

Also if you mean you lose your crosshair, just try another one size it up to the bots head from the midpoint. (the 5m line?)

oh yeah my sens is 3 @800 dpi

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I had similar overcorrecting and like panicking issues when I first started playing Tracer. My sens is 800 and 4 though. It just took conditioning really to overcome it.

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I believe it’d be equal to 16,800 DPI and 1 sens.

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ur sens is too fast to aim properly in close range

lower it till u can track properly while being able to do a 180/360 comfortably

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I’ll tell you what’s hard. Hitting a guy who doesn’t even know you’re there. Always dodging my shots while being oblivious to my presence.

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Jump your aim to 40. The lower your DPI is the higher your sensitivity should be to compensate.

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Practice with reaper

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Play Symmetra :slight_smile:

It’s true! When engaged with enemy that is trying to kill you you have a lot more information about what they might do from microsecond to microsecond…

I tell ya, this is actually what I find most annoying about Brig Bash being on such a short cooldown. Even when I have a sweet shot opportunity on her from the side, there’s a 20% chance I will miss just because she’s not there anymore.

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These comments don’t make a lot of sense. High sensitivity is what you want in close quarters, since you can turn so quickly. High sens is only really bad when you need to track something at range, then you need to make very tiny adjustments that ruin your accuracy.

OP, is your field of view maximized?

Edit: Well, lower sens is generally better for tracking aim, but, personally, I aim with similar accuracy at wide variety of sens values. You definitely can get used to anything. What is good for flicking Pharah’s rockets isn’t as good for tracking heads as Tracer, but you need to find a compromise.

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^This person has it completely down. High sensitivity is great for reacting to player movements close up, but at the cost of not being able to really track well for precise spots for the head in close range. This means you really just need to forgo trying to aim for the head and just aim for the center of the body.

Anyway, having someone directly on top of you by like 1-2 metes is dangerous because as you both turn or move you might cross each other up and lose each other. Particularly if someone might jump above you.

Maintaining distance by backing up from someone whenever possible makes it easier to accomplish keeping track of aim so that they cannot get behind you as easily.

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You need to keep calm, it’s easy to panic when you’re dueling someone at close range.

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Change it to what works for you.

I play with 50 sens at 1000 dpi

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how is your sens so high? lower it to at least 13