I’ve been playing for some time now and I feel like my aim isn’t as good as it could be. I’m just wondering if maybe I have my mouse speed too high. What is the optimal setting? I understand it may vary from player to player but just wondering what sort of setting to have. I don’t know what my dpi so giving me dpi as an answer won’t help unless you can also tell me how to find what mine is. What I can tell you is that I have mouse speed at top but one on pc and about 60% in iCUE app. The reason I have it this high is so that I can turn quickly enough to keep up with opponents; a habit I get from WoW and this brings me to another question: is there a trade off between accuracy of aim and ability to turn quickly and if so, does this mean one wants to change mouse speed according to how much aim is important for the character one is playing, ideally? I guess that would be too much messing around if one plays different characters and frequently changes, right?
is this a real question? there is no optimal, its completely subjective what works best for you personally.
Yes it’s a real question.
You need to figure out what works best for you, it’s personal preference. A good method is described here: Overwatch: Finding your PERFECT Sensitivity! (PSA Method) - YouTube
I use 800dpi, 4.25 sense, 1000hz polling rate…
But others tell me it is too slow for them. So yeah, it is all subjective.
And you probably want different settings for different heroes.
My settings are great for Cree… but terrible for Genji.
Yes, lower sense will increase precision aiming but higher sense will increase aiming speed, if you have a character that doesn’t require as much precision you usually see people have a higher sense.
but it can also be a playstyle choice, you could for example be really accurate with let’s say genji shurikens but that would probably kill your ability to ghost dash aka swiftstrike cancelling with another swiftstrike doing a 180° turn in the blink of an eye.
fast paced games usually you want an average of being able to turn 180° aka look behind you with the swipe of the mouse, but games like counterstrike you might only need to be able to swipe for 90° because you are usually not reacting to enemies behind you and precision to hit headshots is paramount.
however let’s take widowmaker for example, you could either try to be super precise and not be able to turn 180° to hit that genji or tracer that’s trying to jump you from behind.
however this game is so hectic that you might still want that anyways because you’re not getting that much more precision when you try to aim for heads because there’s no movement acceleration meaning that you don’t usually place your crosshair and wait for the enemy to just walk right into it, but you instead do mini flicks with extreme precision trying to predict movement in the split of a second like a camera man taking a very quick snapshot of a specific moment.
in general, the faster the game is, the higher sense you’re probably gonna want in general.
and being able to do a 180° with one end to the other end of your mouse pad is standard for fast fps games, but there are ofc exceptions and there’s no one saying you can’t do whatever you like and still find success.
look at jjonak, he played zen with super low sense early on, he had to atleast swipe his mouse twice to turn 180°, but he still crushed with it.
but on the safe side, the 180° rule of thumb is good because it gives you a good reference and it doesn’t matter what mouse or mousepad you have you still want to be able to do a 180° turn with one swipe.
Ok thanks Renegade - nice reply. Thanks all. Incidentally, in case anyone’s checked my player rating and laughed, the pc I use has frequently dc’d, which has resulted in my rating not being as high as it would have been. I suspect it just needs a more powerful psu, since that hasn’t been changed for years and is like 400W or something on a machine with a 6 core processor.
i mean it does help if you don’t DC 
It wasn’t me. It was the pc 
Admittedly though I might have killed the pc when I played TERA rising many years ago and started to smell a burning smell maybe coming from the pc 
haha yeah, also i think overwatch takes a lot from the pc, whenever i run overwatch in particular the heat allways goes up to like 80°c that’s insane!
That is probably more a your PC thing.
Mine just pumps out cold air… But I have a 3080 and water cooling… OW barely used 20% of my resources.
it’s only overwatch and no other games, i can play any other game at around 40-60° celsius.
DMC5 at max quality? 60°C.
Well having tried it tonight… Warzone on max does help warm up a 3080
Mouse settings are way too subjective to ask others. You have to find what works for you personally.
This is how I usually do it in any FPS game. One entire motion with the mouse from left to right should turn my characters view around 180 degrees. So If a hero is looking to their left, when I move my mouse all the way to the right, to where I’m comfortable, I like to see my hero now having turned 180 degrees to the right, like I said, around 180d is what I’m looking for.
Now to the numbers, let’s say that 180d motion is sensitivity 5. That will work for almost all the heroes, but some, for example like Tracer, I want a little faster movement for because she moves around so fast I need to be able to quickly turn around a little faster than normal, so I might up the sensitivity for her to something like 5.5.
After messing around with it for a while, you’ll find the perfect settings which work for you. it’s just one of those things where other people’s settings seem pointless imo. It’s too personal and subjective to how you feel, not how others feel with their mice.
oh btw my setting is so that if i pull my mouse from left to right across my entire mousepad i’ll do a complete 360° turn, my mousepad is pretty big, it’s just comfortable to me that i can keep turning to face someone behind me no matter which way i turn.
i play tanks though, but i do play some more aim heavy tanks also with that sense and it’s not really an issue.
Technically it’s not all up to personal preference. For example click timing is much easier with sens like 24.5cm/360 and tracking is easier with 35.4cm/360.
Generally speaking if somebody is new to FPS they should try to learn sens like these above. But in all other scenarios sens is personal preference. I have 95 percentile on click timing scenarios with 40cm/360. Could switch to 20cm/360 anytime but currently not really caring.
In short sens is not 100% subjective.
Pretty much this.
I use a low sensitivity as I find it’s better for tracking.
imo it’s really not that hard to track slow enemies due to how generous this game is, it’s the quick ones that are a nightmare to track and i find it that having more sensitivity just makes more sense for tracking those quick ones.
Even then, if you just think about what they are doing, you can track them pretty easily.
Counting Tracer blinks and so on.
I have also found having Nvidia Reflex set to enabled & boost makes a massive difference.
if you got time to count tracer blinks then you should be allready dead.
i didn’t learn to 180° hook/accretion for nothing.