To all 'Mouse & Keyboard'-players:

[Sion]

What sensitivity do you find ideal?
(And do you use the mouse smoothing thing?)

And what mouse/keyboard mapping do you find ideal?

The default mouse sensitivity is 10, if I'm not mistaking.
I was thinking that a higher sensitivity would be good to react faster to light attacks from different directions, but personally higher sensitivity seems to ♥♥♥♥ up my stances sometimes. So maybe a lower sensitivity would actually be the better choice, because it could be 'cleaner', but I don't know yet, I still need to try it out later today. Meanwhile I posted this thread to have some advice.

So I am curious about what sensitivity you are using? Your advice would be much appreciated. Especially if you are an experienced/good player who tried out different types of sensitvity already.

Tnx in advance.

[Three-Headed-Monkey]

i like to set the sensitivity to 3 if i play a character who has a constant guard stance and to 7 for assassin classes. about the experience im currently prestige1 something, 85% duel quote.

edit: the dpi of your mouse might be also a factor, just thought of that ;)

[Doomvora]

I use the default on everything related to keyboard and mouse, but my dpi is like 2000+ depending on my "on the fly" setting for my corsair gaming mouse.

I have no issues blocking attacks in the slightest.

I play 2v2 duels and dominion with a 100% winrate in duels after 50+ matches and about 60-70% for dominion after about 150+ matches.

[Sion]

Tnx for your advice guys. So default sensitivity or even lower should be good enough to switch stance in time to block any attack. Then there's no use for me to keep the higher sensitivity on. I'll practice with a lower sensitivity this evening and see how it feels to me.

Do you change anything on the mouse smoothing?

[influ]

Guard mode sensitivity 0, mouse smooth 0. Other than that, default mouse settings.

[k9m1h742]

I play this game with a controller.
Do you think I'd be at a disadvantage like a fps game or not?
i definitly dont think i do bad my k.d is positive

[JBM]

I kept it at default 10, then, after not being able to block anything for some reason, I max'd it to 20 and I am doing better.
It messes up stances, but I am not sure as to why that would be a problem? ie, why are stances important while you are basically inactive? I am probably missing something there.

dpi is 1800

[[20thGA]Pfc.Spencer]

I'm not sure actually so it is probably still on default settings, I've been usng a track ball mouse and you can change stance really quickly

[Ydyp]

I set the mouse smoothing to 0 instantly when I found that setting, and then sensitivity depends on player to player, I lowered it from 10 default to 5 for block but thinking of increasing it back up to 7 untll I find the perfect setting that feels best toward my dpi setting of the mouse.

[Sion]

Originally posted by sathen91:

I play this game with a controller.
Do you think I'd be at a disadvantage like a fps game or not?
i definitly dont think i do bad my k.d is positive

I played this game (in alpha, closed- and open beta) with a controller too, but I noticed that I have trouble with reacting in time to counter a GB. The only times I manage to succesfully counter GB is when I know it's coming. When I'm caught off guard I rarely manage to react in time with the controller, due to the time needed to switch my thumb from the right stick to the X button. I guess my reactions just aren't that fast. I trained it for a while and improved a little, but I still fail at least 50% of the time, which is not that great.

I have a positive k/d ratio too, but I feel that I need to be able to counter GB more often in order to really progress, so I started playing with mouse and keyboard. With M&K, I can just assign the GB to one button and that's it. I tested it a little bit yesterday, and, for me, it was a lot easier to react to the GB in time.

In general, when I play the game with M&K, it feels clunkier than when I played with a controller, but I guess I just still need to adapt to it, so I'll give it some more time.

So to answer your question: I don't think playing with a controller is a disadvantage for this game, but for me personally, I feel like, on the long run, I'll progress more with M&K than with controller, especially due to my slow GB reaction time on the controller.

[abexomotron]

all sensitivity oooon max. mouse smoothing 0. logitech G402.
guard mode button = side mouse button 1
switch target = side mouse button 2

[Sion]

Originally posted by Doolio:

I kept it at default 10, then, after not being able to block anything for some reason, I max'd it to 20 and I am doing better.
It messes up stances, but I am not sure as to why that would be a problem? ie, why are stances important while you are basically inactive? I am probably missing something there.

dpi is 1800

Perhaps I formulated the 'stance' thing wrong.
What I mean is that sometimes the stance of my guard seems to kinda move from itself at high sensitivity, using M&K. It's not that important for me as I'm mostly playing assassin, a class that can't keep his stance at one particular side for a long time anyway, but I noticed that sometimes it even messed up my attacks. It would f.e. let me do a side light attack, while I meant to do a top light attack, things like that. It doesn't happen that much, but I feel like the high mouse sensitivity is less 'clean' movement-wise than f.e. when I used a controller.

I noticed a lot of people use the default mouse sensitivity or a lower one, so that's what I'll try too, to see if that feels better.

[JBM]

It messes my stance as well, as micro movement can trigger the change, but I didn't find it to be something bad, as it's a passive thing, basically - the only thing it can come out of it is that you confuse the opponent with random stance switching:)
When attacking/blocking/parrying, you flick the mouse actively and the right command should come up.

Lower sensitivity is definitely more precise, but Ihave the problem there, I "eat" desk space, especially if I have to block several same side attacks in a row. It seems that (for some actions at least), you need to "re-check" the movement on mouse, which can lead to shifting in the general position of the mouse area, little by little.

[StereoGraph]

Originally posted by JBM:

I kept it at default 10, then, after not being able to block anything for some reason, I max'd it to 20 and I am doing better.
It messes up stances, but I am not sure as to why that would be a problem? ie, why are stances important while you are basically inactive? I am probably missing something there.

dpi is 1800

If you try and do a top it can accidently be a side. I have this issue