Settings for adjusting Mouse Sensitivity.

This most definitely needs to happen.
The game in regards to mouse sensitivity is designed COMPLETELY illogical.

You have neutral sensitivity:
Under water sensitivity: 1/2 of your normals ish.
Flintlock sensitivity: 1/5 if I had to make a guess
blunderbuss senstivity: 1/4~
Cannon sensitivity: 1/10 or more. This is absurd and makes it almost impossible to properly use.
Sniper rifle sensitivity: This one is the biggest culprit and has maybe 1/20 of your normal sensitivity which is downright absurd. I for example, have to literally move my mouse several METERS if I want to turn a few degrees.

Either way, just looking at these examples (and there is probably more), it's just all out of whack. Why does the game need 6++ different sensititivies? Especially when some of them are so low it makes the weapons unusable.

@hotel-actual said in Settings for adjusting Mouse Sensitivity.:

Mouse sensitivity is balanced for Xbox users.

I am tired of seeing this excuse, when it is obviously a design flaw, since it is a cross platform game.

Want to know how I know that? Because there is no limit on the sentivitities, it merely divides it by x amount. This essentially means you can easily script your way around it, by increaseing/decreaseing your sentivity tenfold to make up for it.

Calling it a way of balancing is also rather silly, since it's such an arbitrary thing to do. Literally making the game feel and play WORSE, to even out gameplay? How silly is that. You could've made pc players screen spam flicker, invert the colors, force them to 5 fps, whatever. It would be the same thing, except a different sensory object targeted to even out the playing field.

@hotel-actual

This is exactly why modern forums are so horrible, since it caters to the lowest common denominator. Gives people the gall to spout nonsense with no thought behind it.

Pc players have an advantage because their controls are better, sure. There is no excuse in making arbitrary "balancing" things which is murdering controls, when you could separete the playerbase instead.

Look at Rocket league for example. Imagine if they gave players using a controller only 50 boost top, to "make up" for better controls. It's the same thing.

@ONEEYEDKILLAh
If you read what I am saying, the scripting argument I made it to point out how it's not because of balancing, but rather because of a mishap.

When players have to literally move the mouse tens of meters to turn around while scoped. It's far too low. There is not arguing against that.

@Hotel-Actual Show me instead of tossing out one liners. That's far worse than not being "polite".

@ONEEYEDKILLAh Seems like they just overshot the amount of reduction. Sniper rifles or ADS in games in general usually have reduces sensitivity for some reason (which sadly is a more common trope of more modern and casual fps games), so it makes sense for them to lower it in this game as well.

The problem is when the sensitivity is so low you might as well just unplug your mouse, because let's face it. Swiping your mouse for meters on end because you want to turn around 25 degrees when scoping is silly. Especially considering how even the waves are quicker than you can turn around your crosshair.

@oneeyedkillah
Computer screens can render 144 hz + Should we also limit the fps to 24, incase people are using old tv screens? This would be "fair", wouldn't it?

Do you see where I am going here? It is the same thing. If players are so concerned that they are willing to destroy how the game is handled and played to even out gameplay differences, their priorities are wrong. Just don't make it cross platform, if it's such a big deal.

@oneeyedkillah
It is though, it essentially kills a major aspect of the game (gunplay) unless you go out of your way to abuse how the current faulty system is made.

It exists in other games, because since you are essentially "closer" to your target, a higher sensitivity would be difficult to aim with, because players moves "quicker" in relative to your screen. This is why it exists. Not to 'balance to gap between console and PC'.

So the entirety of the PC players base, which is arguably going to be higher than the XBOX crowd, is going to have downgraded controls to borderline useless controls, unless they go out of their way to abuse it to make it playable.

Sounds like a real treat. I propose we also reduce the max hz ingame to 24, to make up for all the people that cannot afford to play on anything other than an old black and white TV.

@D3ADST1CK
Ignore him. He posts pointless one liners, ignores arguments made and posts opinions as facts. This is what pollutes forums, not people being offensive, but i'll ignore poisting offensive content, since that gives you a ban here lul.

@oneeyedkillah
But it is borderline useless controls? Having 1/20 of your normal sensitivity IS worthless. Your sensitivity is so low, you cannot even account for small waves, it's the same for the cannons as well, and that is around 1/10 of your normal one, which says something.

Trying to bridge the gap by handicapping (which is exactly what it is) the controls of more than half of your playerbase is ludicrous. Playerbase agreeing or not is irrelevant, since this is not a matter of opinion, but fact.

As I mentioned earlier. There's a reason players with controllers doesn't have 50 boost in Rocket league, in comparison to the normal 100, even if they have a controller advantage. According to you though, one should literally alter gameplay mechanics, for specific parts of the playerbase, using specific equipment, because that equipment might give them an advantage. This is the same as wrecking the framerate for certain players, because someone has a better graphics card.

@oneeyedkillah

The increased and more accurate diagonal control of cars in rocket league with a controller does give them an advantage. The increased part being a glitch though.

This is an advantage, in the same way the mouse is more accurate, which according to you, makes it reasonable to even the playing field by reducing the amount of resources one part of the playerbase has. Calling one "minor" and one "major" is a complete lie as well, I might've said 30 boost difference, or 20, or 10.... The argument would still be the same, but the numbers slightly altered.

I am making a blanket statement in regards to gunplay, don't put words in my mouth and claim "controls". The cannons and rifle is unusable as it stands, and the other two are complete suffering, but can be used, but to vastly reduced, uncomfortable and annyoing effect.

They aren't giving the players the same sensitivity though(why continue lying?), otherwise you'd have to hold your stick in a direction for a good 15 seconds to turn around, which just isn't the case.

@oneeyedkillah

"For the most part using a controller does give an advantage in Rocket League but the game is programmed to put everyone on a level field."

There is no "for the most part". It literally does, both mechanically and "stats" wise.

Secondly, I could say the same thing of Sea of Thieves, you understand this right? Except you somehow deem it okey do penalize one playerbase here. Listen to yourself man.

@timswerts

This really needs to be fixed asap. Aiming cannons, spy glass, and the sniper rifle is extremely painful. 2.5 is where I have my sensitivity because I play mouse/keyboard and using those items is just painful. There needs to be a separate sensitivity for these things.

"Slowing it down a bit" is an extreme exaggeration. I barely even touch the rifle because of this. I have my sensitivity turned up to the point that it's uncomfortable in normal movement. And even then, with my 14 inch wide mousepad, if I zoom in with the rifle and swipe my mouse all the way across those 14 inches, my scope just barely moves, maybe 5-10 degrees. The same motion, from the hip, would spin my character 360 degrees multiple times. It's completely unusable.

The cannons are similar, but I end up just making any large motion with them using the WASD keys. The game very much needs a separate ADS sensitivity setting, even if it's just given a very small range to work with.