I’ve been struggling with this question for a while.
What mouse sensitivity do I use for xenomorph?
For those unaware, the way directional assist works is if you click any tile 2-4 behind the marine in the same direction as you, then a slash is registered.
I’ve tried experimenting with different mouse settings. For now, I’ll just refer to them as low, medium, and high.
I’ve been told to find one that is comfortable for me, but I really can’t. I want the best of both advantages, which I will list below.
Low mouse sensitivty settings: The main advantage of this is landing tailstabs, as tailstabs require a spriteclick. I notice spriteclicking is a lot easier if you have low mouse settings. However, adjusting your slashes will be harder, as you have to move your mouse quite a bit.
Higher mouse sensitivity settings makes moving your mouse less of a chore for slashing, but makes landing a tailstab a lot harder from my experience.
So which mouse sensitivity level (low, medium, or high) do you use as a xenomorph player?
medium is always superior, use it for a month or two and you will do both, you use higher dpi if you dont have much space for your mouse so the larger your mouse space (or pad) the lower your dpi
The right sensitivity, as for literally every game in existence, is the mouse sensitivity that works best for you aka. the one you’re most adapted to and used to using.
My ideal mouse sensitivity isn’t going to be yours, and vice versa.
From what you’re saying, you’re mostly complaining about how high and low are too extreme. Just go with medium and sit on it for a couple weeks.
I have directional assists on but I always spriteclick, I use pretty low sensitivity.
I remember I used to use high sensitivity for quite some time and that just resulted in my cursor losing its mind every time I tried to click someone, basically I can get my cursor places really fast but when it comes to tracking targets it became impossible keep my cursor on target.
Same situation when I played rust a long while back, learning the recoil patterns was INCREDIBLY more easier on low sensitivtiy compared to higher sensitivity.
I’ve got a pretty small mousepad too, but my rule of thumb is one swipe across the mousepad should be like 1.3x your screen width, meaning that every swipe from one end to the other end of your usable mousepad moves your cursor just a bit more than screenwidth. I never really understood DPI ratios, I just this and its perfectly fine.
Should try that and I think thats the optimal for most people, when I used to play rust (before they butchered the game) with some friends, we all mostly used that rule of thumb and its entirely applicable to all games and computers.
Everyone should automatically be good at pointing and clicking in cm. Why?
Because using desktop all the time have given us all a feature no other game have. Years upon years of class A++++ usage of desktop. If you are somehow, unskilled. I would question myself how you manage to click folders/tabs/icons.
But if i play example sea of thieves after a long break, the sensitivity feel way off. I have to change it and after a while i set it exactly the same where it used to be. I do that with every game, they are different sensitivity and i hate it, because i have to teach my mind all over again.
But cm? I do not mess around on desktop.
I am a desktop warrior. I clicked reply on this page so fast, so precisely. So fearless. Because desktop is and should be our area of expertise
dude I remember seeing this tip like two weeks ago and I went and did it and it FUCKING SUCKED ASS SO HARD IT MRRGHHH HRRRRNGRRRAAAAGH and then I grit my teeth and bore the weight of it and then it’s better now.
Turn off mouse acceleration and embrace the suck and your gaming will be far better for it because your cursor never takes off on its own because you shifted one pixel too many and it turned the sensitivity up.
