What do you all have your sensitivities at. Like to know what you more experienced players journey to a solid sensitivity was. Did it take a while to find something that fit you or is there a meta sensitivity that most all veteran players use?
As a new player I’m curious because I’m having difficulty finding the right sensitivity for myself.
can’t remember the exact value but it’s low. It takes about 20 cm on my mousepad to do 180 
Sensitivity is a bad measurement, because everyone has different mice/sensors/DPI/mousepads/yougetmypoint. In/360 or cm/360 is the unit you are looking for. This is how far a player has to move their mouse left or right to spin in a full circle (360 degrees).
This website will let you calculate your distance/360 and even let you get settings to have the same in other games.
I play with a Razer Abyssus Mirror at 3500 DPI with an in-game sensitivity of 20. This about a 1" 360.
Do not do this. This is a terrible habit I have that I really should fix. Do as I say, not as I do.
The general recommendation for sensitivity is to have your 360 be your mousepad’s width - your mouses width. This leaves enough space either side to make a 180 and shoot someone behind you. I generally advise a 6" 360 as the highest sensitivity. I’d suggest starting at 8" or 10", more if you have the desk room. It will be awkward at first, but your play will probably improve.
If you want a more detailed explanation, and I’d advise you to read more than just the paragraph above, this guide goes into quite a bit of detail on sensitivity, and methods of finding what is right for you.
I’d say 360 in a 40cm mouse pad is the base line. The best player I know is 180 in 40. In general, you’ll prefer control over the ability to turn around quickly since experienced players rarely get surprised.
I play at roughly 46.25cm for a 360º, 400DPI and 9 in game sens. I say just try out higher, lower and moderate sensitivities until you find the one you’re most comfortable with, then tweak it gradually if necessary and eventually just stick with it for a long time so you start feeling familiar and know by instinct how much to move.
honestly i have a basic wireless pc and mouse and keyboard . just dont put smoothing on unless your aim is terrible.
what does smoothing do? …so if my aim is really bad I should turn that on you say? not that my aim is super terrible, but I want every advantage I can get.
what does smoothing do? …so if my aim is really bad I should turn that on you say? not that my aim is super terrible, but I want every advantage I can get.
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From section 2c. of that guide I linked (It’s pretty good, that’s why I linked it.):
Mouse smoothing is handled different depending on the engine, but it’s always bad! In Dirty Bomb it is turned off by default, so feel free to skip this section.
What smoothing does is that after you’ve stopped moving your mouse, it’ll keep moving the crosshair/mouse for a few frames to make it look more fluent. Problem is that this makes your movement less accurate, and it adds latency.
Unreal Engine is the worst offender when it comes to mouse smoothing, because it will tie your sensitivity to your frame rate. Meaning that when you get frame drops you’ll suddenly have double sensitivity and fuck your aim. Mouse Smoothing is on by default in Unreal Engine, and therefore most Unreal Engine games. If the game does not have an option to turn it off, you can force it off by changing the value “bMouseSmoothing = true” to false in “%user%\Documents\My Games%Game%\Input.ini”.
Smoothing is basically Mouse Deceleration. It gives moving your crosshair “momentum,” meaning it has to slow when you stop moving your mouse. Which is bad. There is a reason it defaults to off in DB.
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The general recommendation for sensitivity is to have your 360 be your mousepad’s width - your mouses width. This leaves enough space either side to make a 180 and shoot someone behind you. [/quote]
my mousepad is 900x360 mm :I
i just started lowering my sensitivity until i noticed my aim getting worse instead of better. i started at 6, on 1k DPI, then i got a new mouse that could go to 10k DPI, so i went to 0.5 sens. a friend of mine pushed me to lower my DPI. so from there i went to 5k DPI and 1 sens ingame, and now im on 0.25 sens ingame and 1800DPI.
i switched to 5 from 6 because the sens i used in CS was 0.1 higher than a CS pro, without me knowing. so i started using the sens of the CS pro. this allows me to do (around) a 70 degree turn with a flick of my wrist.
Are you sure you bought a mousepad and not a doormat?
I kid, I kid, that’s just a specialized full-desk pad made for people who know their stuff.
I’ve lived the small desk life, it’s part of the reason I play on high sensitivity. My current mousepad is about 8"x10" (~200mm x 250mm), which is a typical mousepad size, at least in the States of 'Murrka. I assume most people use something close to that. People asking for sensitivity advice generally don’t have a setup for FPS.
Maybe it’s just me, but I just play at whatever default i’s usually unless it doesn’t move fast enough for my liking which is rare. For DB I just have the default, whatever it is. I just get used to the sensitivity game to game.
Mousepad huh, dont have one for already a good while.
Im really amazed how far you guys must move your mouse for a 360° but maybe its just me not caring about all that tweaking for the reason of not playing this game too serious.
I only need to move my hand to make a 360° without moving my arm at all. 
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The general recommendation for sensitivity is to have your 360 be your mousepad’s width - your mouses width. This leaves enough space either side to make a 180 and shoot someone behind you. [/quote]
my mousepad is 900x360 mm :I
i just started lowering my sensitivity until i noticed my aim getting worse instead of better. i started at 6, on 1k DPI, then i got a new mouse that could go to 10k DPI, so i went to 0.5 sens. a friend of mine pushed me to lower my DPI. so from there i went to 5k DPI and 1 sens ingame, and now im on 0.25 sens ingame and 1800DPI.
i switched to 5 from 6 because the sens i used in CS was 0.1 higher than a CS pro, without me knowing. so i started using the sens of the CS pro. this allows me to do (around) a 70 degree turn with a flick of my wrist. [/quote]
Gawd damn i didnt understand a single bit of that as i have a normal potato dell mouse that goes by windows sensitivity, which for me is max and in game 9.5
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my mousepad is 900x360 mm :I
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Are you sure you bought a mousepad and not a doormat?
I kid, I kid, that’s just a specialized full-desk pad made for people who know their stuff.
I’ve lived the small desk life, it’s part of the reason I play on high sensitivity. My current mousepad is about 8"x10" (~200mm x 250mm), which is a typical mousepad size, at least in the States of 'Murrka. I assume most people use something close to that. People asking for sensitivity advice generally don’t have a setup for FPS.[/quote]
My desk life is the old desk life, I saw a old family video from 14 years ago and this computer desk was there.
Who knows maybe my desk goes and plays Squash when im not there
I play with what I’m told is a really high sensitivity, 7.5cm or 3in per 360. That’s 10 sensitivity in game and 2200 DPI