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[Doctor Fission]

Is there a good solution for reducing your mouse sensitivity when using advanced zoom? Right now I have a G502 mouse with a macro that brings up the advzoom window and reduces DPI to a lower level. But if I overheat in that state, my zoom resets to normal and leaves me with a low sensitivity.

Is there any in-game solution to this issue that I'm missing? Or perhaps a better solution than the one I'm using presently?

[Gagis]

I don't reduce sensitivity unless I really need to, so not nearly every time I use advance zoom, so I have it in a simple toggle button below the mouse wheel. Works fine considering you want your sensitivity fairly low for MWO for any range or zoom level in the first place.

[Doctor Fission]

Would you consider 2400 DPI and 30% sensitivity (in-game) for normal aiming, and 800 DPI for adv zoom unusual then?

I could maybe tweak 2400 down a bit for normal gameplay, but 800 feels right when advzoomed.

[Gagis]

Doctor Fission, on 08 April 2021 - 02:58 AM, said:

Would you consider 2400 DPI and 30% sensitivity (in-game) for normal aiming, and 800 DPI for adv zoom unusual then?

I could maybe tweak 2400 down a bit for normal gameplay, but 800 feels right when advzoomed.

Yes. I have 1000DPI and 0.1 sensitivity for normal aiming and 750 DPI for sniping. Your 30% is unusually high.

[Doctor Fission]

That may explain why my aim in this game feels so floaty and imprecise. I'll drop to 0.2 sensitivity and 2000 DPI and see how it feels.

[PocketYoda]

I find 500dpi fine for myself. 1200 i only use on light mechs

[Teenage Mutant Ninja Urbie]

well meant advice:

the BEST thing you can do around advanced zoom is to NOT use it.
srsly, spend the points somewhere else and shoot pixels at the horizon with standard-zoom.

adv.zoom costs not only points, but has a whole bunch of disadvantages hardwired into it - which all are gone THE MOMENT you learn NOT to use it

[Grus]

I have mine bound to a "sniper" button on my mouse. It has a built is dpi limiter the drops the sensitivity down my 2/3 of what I'm at currently.

[Antares102]

Doctor Fission, on 08 April 2021 - 02:38 AM, said:

Is there a good solution for reducing your mouse sensitivity when using advanced zoom? Right now I have a G502 mouse with a macro that brings up the advzoom window and reduces DPI to a lower level. But if I overheat in that state, my zoom resets to normal and leaves me with a low sensitivity.

Is there any in-game solution to this issue that I'm missing? Or perhaps a better solution than the one I'm using presently?

I used G402 with the "thumb" button to reduce mouse sensitivity but by keeping it pressed in advandced zoom.
It took some time to get used ot it but in the end worked very well.

[Ignatius Audene]

When u think your mouse speed is to slow->half it!

It is a shame,that pgi does not offer a separate speed for advanced zoom.
I run 700 dpi with 0.23 and only use advanced zoom in faction, if I can't see the target in 1700+ ranges

Edited by Ignatius Audene, 09 April 2021 - 02:19 AM.

[imhoopjones]

I had to use the following with Razer Synapse. It makes longer range advanced zoom (and even ERLL bursts and AC2s) way better.

The low DPS is "toggled" on and off with a mouse button. You need two stages to fast swap back and forth.

First, set your stage limits to TWO in Mouse -> Performance
Then, set one of those stages to mega low (like 400-500) and the other what you normally use

Then go to Mouse -> Customize -> set a mouse button to "cycle up or down sensitivity stage"

VIOLA

[Doctor Fission]

TMNU:
I used advzoom as a noob and hated it, so I played for a thousand hours or so without it. Now I'm going back to it, and it's a major force multiplier when used skillfully. It's one skill point, and lets me see mechs without leaning towards the screen and squinting, so, while I appreciate your well-meant advice not to use it, I'm afraid I won't be following your advice.

It seems that there's no in-game solution to my question, so I'll just do what others have suggested and stick to my software-based solution of combining advzoom and lower DPI when I click my mouse wheel.

One really really great thing has come out of this thread for me though, and that's the revelation that my DPI and sensitivity was WAAAAY too high. The lower I move it, the better I do. Who knew huh? I guess everyone but me.

[w4ldO]

no such thing as a zoom sense ratio

not that such a thing would be an industry standard for 20 years

[RockmachinE]

Pilot with override shutdown. It will allow you to push the heat more and you definitely don't want to be dead in the water from an automatic shutdown.

Most good players play with override on.

[Curccu]

Doctor Fission, on 08 April 2021 - 02:38 AM, said:

Is there a good solution for reducing your mouse sensitivity when using advanced zoom? Right now I have a G502 mouse with a macro that brings up the advzoom window and reduces DPI to a lower level. But if I overheat in that state, my zoom resets to normal and leaves me with a low sensitivity.

Is there any in-game solution to this issue that I'm missing? Or perhaps a better solution than the one I'm using presently?

Your mouse has sensitivity up and down buttons left side of MB1, Use them.
I have 4 times smaller sensitivity for adv zoom than I normally play with.