So, Sensitivity....

[LarrY]

My 2cents on sensitivity:

 

i need aswell to change sens very often depending on some factors:

1. the mod i'm currently playing (not your case if you stick to jay)
2. cold/warm room
3. having a swater on
4. having a long sleeve on (like one of those used after you make a tattoo) , i have a glass desk so the forearm sticks to the glass
5. mousepad (new or worn)
6. tired or not
7. correct position on the chair

Getting older made me just more lazy so i move less my arm on the table -> sens has to go up a bit

Drivers (both mouse ones and Windows updates) can mess up the thinghy ... for some odd reason i have to enable and disable back the windows setting for the improve precision of the cursor... every now and then it gets enabled or does something to the acceleration without me doing a thing

(ps. windows mouse sensitivity goes on the 6th notch)

 

In general i keep this rules :

• i stick to 400 dpi
• first level of sens is : i want to be able to turn 360 with 2 swipes (center position -> all the way i can to the right -> repeat)
• second level of sens : i want to be able to turn 360 with 3 swipes ad a bit more for better tracking on the opponent (center position -> all the way i can to the right -> repeat -> repeat)

So considering all the 7 point above the value of the sens might change often , even once per map, but in general i do not focus much on the value of the sens itself rather i pay more attention on the effect

 

Now that i'm starting to play a bit more on Legacy mod, all the other mod are getting a review to the sens on the lower side ... like... before was 2.01 now is 1.96 

[knw]

I play with a moderately high Sensitivity at 120 fov. Think 4x 360s per 12" (3-3.2" per 360). I used to (back in my extremely competitive days) play with a very low Sensitivity. I remember having to pick the mouse up regularly. I tried to come back to ET with a low sens and low fov (90) but it just felt too slow. What I've noticed most is that I don't have to arm aim as much (less pain in elbow) and my HS is a little down but acc is up.

 

To me it always felt like low sens was great for staying locked on a target but more difficult for "reaction". I feel like high sens + high fov gives me a lot of information (more view) and the ability to jump between targets easily.

[-=HipKat=-]

On 4/3/2025 at 5:07 AM, Dink the Clown said:

I kinda feel the same way as Hip does with the sensitivity, but in some other ways I have always felt that on how well you shoot is also dependent on team too.  I have noticed that when I played religiously being on some rather crappy teams and some excellent ones, the times being on a team with a excellent player with an amazing K/D, you will also seem to shoot so much better in my opinion.  Take it from me I will admit that I am not the best shooter,  I have always chased the proverbial tail and messed with my configs and sensitivity.   Yes sometimes that does help changing sensitivity settings and config, but I also feel deeply that the way you shoot and have a better K/D also depends on how great your teammates are.    Thanks to EtPub for that mess 🙂

 

 

Opinion by. Yours truly 

 

Dinktheclown

      

The best way to improve you game; Spec a pro for 15 minutes lol

[-=HipKat=-]

21 hours ago, knw said:

I play with a moderately high Sensitivity at 120 fov. Think 4x 360s per 12" (3-3.2" per 360). I used to (back in my extremely competitive days) play with a very low Sensitivity. I remember having to pick the mouse up regularly. I tried to come back to ET with a low sens and low fov (90) but it just felt too slow. What I've noticed most is that I don't have to arm aim as much (less pain in elbow) and my HS is a little down but acc is up.

 

To me it always felt like low sens was great for staying locked on a target but more difficult for "reaction". I feel like high sens + high fov gives me a lot of information (more view) and the ability to jump between targets easily.

 

FOV 120 is a good way to "feel" like you're moving faster across the map. I use 110, mostly and 96 when I'm shooting long-distance targets

Don't even get me started on Headshots... Seems like lately I have to point at a 45 degree angle to get headshots

[Haru]

@HipKat I do have one tip for you. Not sure why I didn't think about this before, probably because I constantly change my sensitivity now... but! before I started going through this crisis I did notice some days when I wasn't playing as well that a small bump in my sensitivity would help. Instead of doing this, I started playing with a lower sens for the first 10min - first full map any time I played. It helps you warm up much faster and get arm/wrist/hand used to the full range of movement on your pad. Once you change it back, you'll have all your muscle memory from your normal sens but it won't feel too slow and you'll also be comfortable aiming on the weird spots on your pad that your normal sensitivity doesn't have your mouse moving to often. Idk, give it a shot? Worked for me for a very long time and it probable still does tbh.

 

You did inspire me to stop changing my sens as much, so thanks for that Hippy! Instead of having an unlimited amount of possible changes, I've limited myself to... 12 😅I just chose the most common sensitivities I liked off the top of my head and put them in a toggle but hey, it's a start? I'll eventually dial it in and force myself down to two or three.

 

    //400 dpi
set sensT400 "vstr sens41"
set sens41 "sensitivity 1.337; set sensT400 vstr sens42; echo ^7SENSITIVITY ^11.337"
set sens42 "sensitivity 1.42; set sensT400 vstr sens43; echo ^7SENSITIVITY ^11.42"
set sens43 "sensitivity 1.51; set sensT400 vstr sens44; echo ^7SENSITIVITY ^11.51"
set sens44 "sensitivity 1.54; set sensT400 vstr sens45; echo ^7SENSITIVITY ^11.54"
set sens45 "sensitivity 1.61; set sensT400 vstr sens46; echo ^7SENSITIVITY ^11.61"
set sens46 "sensitivity 1.65; set sensT400 vstr sens47; echo ^7SENSITIVITY ^11.65"
set sens47 "sensitivity 1.69; set sensT400 vstr sens48; echo ^7SENSITIVITY ^11.69"
set sens48 "sensitivity 1.71; set sensT400 vstr sens49; echo ^7SENSITIVITY ^11.71"
set sens49 "sensitivity 1.73; set sensT400 vstr sens410; echo ^7SENSITIVITY ^11.73"
set sens410 "sensitivity 1.76; set sensT400 vstr sens411; echo ^7SENSITIVITY ^11.76"
set sens411 "sensitivity 1.78; set sensT400 vstr sens412; echo ^7SENSITIVITY ^11.78"
set sens412 "sensitivity 1.91; set sensT400 vstr sens41; echo ^7SENSITIVITY ^11.91"

 

Next, I'll also limit the amount of mice I'm allowed to use 😐

 

[LaPerraJulia]

roltz mentioned here how he uses higher sensitivity on jaymod and just kinda wanna expand on that based on personal experience.

 

i think you mostly play jaymod right? so i wanted to mention the varying distances there are on most maps in jaymod, from close combat fights to very long ones. im saying this cuz most good players if not all are very good at close combat (talking about the usual players with 50%+ acc) but if you put some on those players in capuzzo for example ive seen some of them drop to 38% acc, so what i wanted to say is that your sens might feel off depending on the map and on how you approach them, maybe you feel your sensitivity to be right in certain maps where you can force close combat fights the whole time (goldrush, bba, bremen, adler), but feel off when you have to play capuzzo, minas or river port when its tougher to pick close combat fights only or the other way around

 

for example i know im good at mid-range combat and i can get 50%+ in maps like capuzzo constantly and im worse with close combat, i know my sens is right for mid range fights but it might feel slow for tracking the players that move better in close range, but also reflexes and sound cues play a bigger role in close combat and im slow and can barely hear any steps so theres that too to consider with my poor performance in close combat

 

some of the great players can humiliate me in close combat but they are easily managable in mid-range combat so i think the map and how you approach it could impact on how you feel about your sens, maybe you should accept that there are worse maps for you and there best maps and keep your sensitivity how it is, or identify those maps and change sensitivity accordingly, or be me like me and accept that my accuracy is worse in close combat and look for mid-range fights only, from time to time i force myself to only play close combat to try and improve, or even play silent/etlegacy servers where most maps are small and i cant rely on mid-range fights

 

my last thoughts on this are when i have some days where my sens feels off i avoid changing it nowadays and just say to my self im having a bad day, at most it takes me 2 days to feel the sensitivity to be good again, and also become very conscious on how im gripping the mouse so i can be consistent with that atleast

 

hope all of this made sense considering english is not my first language

Edited April 4 by LaPerraJulia

[ELSO]

11 hours ago, LaPerraJulia said:

my last thoughts on this are when i have some days where my sens feels off i avoid changing it nowadays and just say to my self im having a bad day

 

100% Agree. Theres nothing worse than changing it all the time.

@HipKat, there is also a case of warming up. It always takes me atleast 5-10mins of playtime before I start feeling comfortable with my aim. 

[-=HipKat=-]

14 hours ago, Haru said:

Next, I'll also limit the amount of mice I'm allowed to use 😐

 

I love you man! lol

 

Now, let's talk about why I cannot get headshots on Jay 1...

 

 

1 hour ago, ELSO said:

 

100% Agree. Theres nothing worse than changing it all the time.

@HipKat, there is also a case of warming up. It always takes me atleast 5-10mins of playtime before I start feeling comfortable with my aim. 

Oh. I do this. It takes about a map before I'm back in the "groove"

I'm going away, back to Buffalo at the end of May for 2 weeks. WQhen I get back, it'll take a week to get the fee lfro the game back lol

Edited April 5 by -=HipKat=-