+StanMachineBG I appreciate you AGREEING with me :) Did you misread my comment? I couldn't believe that some people don't think muscle memory isn't a real thing. I know how it works, but thanks anyways...look a little closer next time my friend.
Elf Monster Yes your brain controls your muscles... But it remembers frequents actions with specific muscles....Muscle memory. I don't know why you would think any of us believe that our muscles somehow remember things on their own. You are taking the term too literally.
+Reverend Wartooth I never knew people didn't believe in muscle memory, I know I suffer it for sure. I used to yo-yo as a kid, I picked up my yo-yo the other day and could yo-yo almost just as well.
+SLO70 But honestly anyone on the planet who has ever entered a phone number many times. Played literally any videogame for more than a week. Driven a car! Rode a bicycle! Eating for christ's sake. Muscle memory is in everything we do, it helps us adapt to new tasks
For everybody who doesn't know what "muscle memory" is, it isn't your muscles who remember it but a recognizeable action you will learn with practice. If you game a lot you will know this. I see it is another nice video Jack! It is always nice to hear you speak freely. Have a good night!
I agree with all the points Jackfrags made. Great video. My advice for players striving to be better at all FPS games is.... honestly, play CS:GO for tuning accurate aim, play the new unreal tournament to master twitchy aiming, and play Tribes Ascend to get better at calculating bullet velocity with player movement. If you can do above average in all three of those games... you will without a doubt be an unstoppable force in any AAA casual FPS game.
This is a great video! Level cap actually suggested using a ruler to set all games to being 4.5 inches equals 360 degrees in game and that works well for me. That deathadder is a great mouse but if you're ever feeling like it's too cramped or small for your hand, I recommend the new mamba te. Don't let the sensor scare you. I loved the deathadder but since moving to the mamba, I would really hate going back. Finally, please do more Dirty Bomb videos. I'm obsessed with this game! I even uninstalled BF4 because I don't touch that anymore.
this is so important! I measure actual travel distance for a 180 in inches. I use low sensitivity so 180 is one swipe. I find any strait line to stand over so I know exactly where 180 is and adjust in game sensitivity until it takes 6 inches of travel on the mouse pad. You can measure 360 distance if you have higher sensitivity. This is a bit more precise than just 2 and a half swipes :P but Jack is around 5 times better than me so who am I to judge!
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The quake acceleration isn't hardware/windows accel. It's a very special software acceleration that is capped and can be fine-tuned by the user, enabling him to only accelerate when doing quick flicks to turn around. You can look for a video made by KovaaK called "Mouse Acceleration in First Person Shooters - the good kind".
I use the Logitech G402 with a SteelSeries QcK+. In CS:GO I started with 2.5@400 and then worked my way down to about 1.89@400. For other games I just use what I feel most comfortable with.
I'm literally the same way jack, i pick a corner in whatever game and line up my crosshair, and keep playing with the sensitivity until i do a full 360 within 12 inches of movement on my mouse pad. Thats my perfect sensitivity in every single game i play.
CS was the first fps game I ever played, so what I used in CS kind of set the standard for me in terms of sensitivity. I use the Microsoft Intellimouse 3.0 (almost always have been) with 400 dpi, and 2.0 sensitivity in-game. Kind of funny we use the same sens and dpi, considering we both come from CS.
The thing about Dirty Bomb is that you do a lot better with low sensitivity, especially sniping. However I'm still trying to find the right sensitivity because I like my sensitivity a bit higher when I'm not sniping to turn around fast in a close range fight.
I use the Roccat Kone XTD. I heard xfactor talk about it and how big it was (that's what she said). But seriously I love this thing. I have bigger hands and I use a palm grip and it fits me perfectly. I use a 3 sensitivity in CS:GO and a DPI of 400 on the mouse. The as far as other games, it's just whatever feels right.
I use the Logitech G502 Proteus Core and it's a fantastic mouse. I think it's one of best out in the market. I play BF4 with a 1050 dpi an 20% in the game, and I also play CSGO with a 400 dpi. Pretty good video.
Minox Naos, kinda the same as you Jack but mainly off feel. I like the response to feel the same across the board, low DPI like you use 400ish + big mouse pad. I am using a metal mouse pad but I am thinking of going to a cloth one. BFBC2 quick scoping got me into the metal mouse pad, so SMOOOOOOOOTH.
I like to grab a 30cm ruler, commonly found around the house, jump in game and line the centre of my crosshair up with a visual line (ie: corner of a wall) and while on that corner, line the centre of my mouse mouse with 0cm on the ruler, do a full 360 (keeping the mouse parallel with rule). If I land above or below 30cm on the ruler, I adjust the mouse settings accordingly and try again until I zeroed in on 30cm for a clean 360. I did that and I managed to go from a kdr of 1:20 to 1:18.
I use that mouse sensitivity calculator to make all my games have a hip fire sensitivity equal to 20cm/360 because that is the lowest sensitivity that still allows me to do a 180 with a single flick of the wrist.
For majority of the games you won't need to change the DPI on your mouse to get the control your used to, but some automatically reduces the speed of your mouse which is frustrating and causes people to change their DPI to get it to where they like.
My settings and setup for CS:GO are 1.5 sens, 800dpi. Steelseries Rival(looking for replacement) Steelseries QcK+(pretty much the same compared to Heavy, just not so thick) 6/11 Windows sens.
I use a tape measure, my 360 is 17.65" or roughly 45cm. To do it quick though I know that from the center of my qck heavy to the edge should be a 180 + about 5 degrees.
I usually test my mouse sensitivity in games by seeing if I can do a 180 degree turn with one quick swipe of the mouse. I also play with about 1000 DPI on my mouse, which I've been told is ridiculously high but it seems to suit me just fine.
In CS:GO I use a 3.5 Sens with 400DPI. Since my mousemat is small I need to be able to turn 180 degrees from the middle of the mat to the edges of the mat. It's just preference.
The distance the pointer moves is the derivative of the speed with which the mouse is moving with Mouse Acceleration or something like that. (Differential calculus)
Good tips Jack...but "A couple of swipes for a 360" is the most vague description I've ever heard!! How many inches for that 360?? That would be a better method, surely????
I agree about consistency, but actually I don't think that you have to use exactly the same, for a simple reason, recoil. I think its more like a sensitivity range for consistency.
The way I calculate my sensitivity is, my tablet is roughly 9 inches long, if I can move my mouse from 1 side of it to the other and do an entire 360 just with that space, then that is good for me.
That's my CS sensitivity. Of course in every other shooter I'm rocking 1600 dpi. Quite a difference. But I hate brutally swiping the mouse just to turn 180s. Like let's say you're playing CoD. People are always around you in CoD, no surefire way to make sure your backs not to the enemy because they're everywhere. Games like CSGO or even Dirty Bomb here it's pretty easy to keep your enemies in front of you so low dpi works best for me there.
Finally someone who uses a high sensitivity (besides me)... 2000 DPI and 25 in game... brought it down to 1800 DPI and 20 in game. Not as high as yours xD
I use a black marker pen on my mouse pad.... 30cm for me to do a 360 in BF4 with 800 dpi = 8% in game .... I then adjust the sensitivity for other games to hit that 30cm mark .... Right now playing Black Ops 3 so sensitivity works out to be 1.12
i personally use the roccat tyon. I feel quite confortable with it, especially with my mouse-sensitivity of 2.3 in CS:GO (and the equivalent in other games) and 600 dpi.
I use the Razer deathadder. 400 horizontal dpi and 600 vertical dpi. as for finding my sensitivity I don't do anything elaborate I just see if it feels right to me lol. and Jack do you play using your wrist or you from your forearm? if that question even makes sense lol
Well tbh i had promblems for me for a year with mouse sensitivty, manily because league changing how the sensitivty and stuff works, usingwith razor for a year, not using DPI and using multiple resolutions trying to find that muscle memory that i had for 2-3 years. and tbh it was afwul worst year of my life trying to find something comfortable because i couldnt found something that was comfortble maily because i wasnt use to dpi.Was really confused why i couldnt find that muscle memory.... So i looked at what other cs:go sensitivties and that managed to help me what i was searching for and so before i couldnt kill any trooper for my life and now im getting 17 0 kills with boba fett, So personally i think looking at other people sensitivties and looking what they use works differently for others. And still dont believe there's a promblem asking what sensitivty they use etc.
I´ve tried to equalize the mouse sensitivity for all my first person games and realized, that I need a higher sensitivity in Minecraft than in Team Fortress and in Counter Strike a lower.
My issue is consistency, i`v played FPS games since early 90s, i was good in the late 90s and early 00`s but im 33 now, and im quite terrible, but i can have a day or two where i just kick as and own, but it never lasts for long. I use a razer Oreborous 2000 DPI, and latly lower sense in games, i got it on 15 in SWBF, im gona try and do the same in BF4, never tought about that actually, but good tips :D
I use to have about the same settings on my mouse, and slowing it down some really does help! I usually play with a 400dpi with 2.2-.4 sens. Tweak some things and see how it works for you. :)
I use very high sensitivity so I look like a psyco double jumping on walls with aura landing these 720° headshots with the shotgun makes me a real hard target to hit too
I have a question. In CS:GO when you're both out in the open and strafing, trying to get that headshot... is there any way to gain the advantage or land hits more consistently?
Muscule memory is a thing , for example walking is muscle memory so it's the same with your reaction time ,,,, for the time your eye spots a target in any fps, to the time your hand reakts so muscular memory is a thing
I use the same sensitivity across all games but rather than matching the distance for a 360 across all games I calculate a value which matches the sensivity on my desktop to screen movement so the distance my mouse travels is equivalent to a specific distance of movement on my screen :D Great way to practise aim with osu :D
2.0 and 400 dpi in cs go is 1 and a half swipes of a qck heavy not 2 and a half so did you mean to say you do a 360 with 1 and half swipes of your mouse mat instead?
That seems like a really low DPI... would utilising a gaming mouse's 5k-10k DPI and just turning in-game sensitivity down really low work just as well?
Mionix Castor at 1000 DPI. I don't get too "technical" with my sensitivity, I just adjust it till it feels right for me and then... well I play videogames xD
not first, not last, but first to say that your voice makes me go from 6 to midnight! Great vid man! Here's a joke: What did the cannery say to the 2 Jews? Cheap Cheap
Logitech G502 with 800 DPI and like 3.19 CSGO sens, and I'm pretty sure I'm the most inconsistent player in the world. I need to find a sensitivity that actually works for me, which I've never bothered to do.
I pick two points that i know are pretty much the same distance away is in CS:GO that i can consistently flick between, then i just flick betweent hese two points in say abttlefield untill i got my sensitivity as such that i can do so consistently
I kinda disagree. CSGO is much slower pace while Dirty Bomb has people wall jumping around, running and gunning. A slightly difference in sensitivity could benefit different gameplay.
There are some games for example : CSGO; I was a Quake player until that game died out where I decided to switch to CS:GO and in CS:GO the sensitivity scaling is so huge that even sensitivity: 3 would feel slow... How do I find the sensitivity i desire if the scaling was different, any maths required??
