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There are a few characters that don't require that much aiming.

Reaper is pretty forgivable if you have bad aim, since his range is so short...you are basically in their face all the time. He's also not a twitch character, since he just walk slowly everywhere and then shoot you in the face.

Tracer is not as forgivable as Reaper, but she is still fairly close range, the difference is that she much more twitchy play style, so you need to adjust your aim more.

Junkrat doesn't require good aiming, he requires a lot of good map awareness on where to fire, and anticipation of where people will be.

Mei is also kind of ok for people with bad aim, her right click requires some aiming...but it's not what makes a good Mei. Good usage of her wall, and freezing people(which doesn't require much aim) is what makes an annoying Mei. For some reason, I aim well with her, can't hit shit with McCree but I do very well with her.

Zarya is also pretty good, she requires aiming but since you have a fucking laser pointing out exactly where you're shooting it helps a lot.

Winston as mentioned before is good for people with bad aim.

Roadhog is also pretty good, you need aim for the hook, but his right and left click are pretty easy to land. The hook is harder but it's not so much aim, as much as knowing exactly where to throw it...the aiming itself is fairly forgivable. With the changes recently it's easier to 1 shot people too now.

Symmetra is king of not requiring aiming, and she's a lot of fun to play but limited mostly to defense on some maps.

Mercy is a no brainer as far as aiming is concerned.

Zenyatta requires good aiming, but again for some reason I do pretty well with him like Mei. Also like her, aiming and getting kills isn't the primary thing he does...discord and support heals is...so even if you are not as good at aiming, you can still be fairly efficient.

So there is a few options for people like us with poor aim. The best way I found to improve my aim so far has been to play custom games, with headshot only, put Ana as your opponents and use McCree. Ana can't headshot so she will not kill you, and you'll need to get headshot to kill her...it worked out pretty good for me. I still suck, but I have improved quite a bit.
 
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Various pro streamers (IDDQD, Surefour, Seagull) use in the neighborhood of ~800 DPI on the mouse and 6.0-6.5 on the in-game slider. I think our local Hazo god gauze gauze uses even lower than that. The basic rule of thumb is it should take about a foot of mouse movement to turn 180.
 
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You can adjust in game sensitivity per hero. Not that you really want to since it will screw up your aiming when switching often to different heroes. It is useful for Reinhardt though as he benefits from higher sensitivity to swing his hammer around, some people use lower sensitivity on Widowmaker(also different in scope mode) then their usual sensitivity.
 
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A good evening ending with a troll, and people leaving. I got a new season high at least, getting close to platinum. :)
 
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Valderen said:
A good evening ending with a troll, and people leaving. I got a new season high at least, getting close to platinum. :)
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Hit a 9 game win streak last night and hit my season high too. FeelsGoodMan. Only @ 2600, but hoping I can grind to play also.

I've found that it's really hard for me to rank up when I play with friends. My guess is because we never attempt to play duos that work well with each other while the other team's duo is? Our hero pools are all pretty shallow, so our options are limited. Or maybe my friends are just bad. I just cannot consistently win in duos or trios and it usually tanks my rank at chunks at a time and then I have to grind it back up in solo queue.
 
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Cybsled said:
Or you can use a 17 year old mouse like me that naturally has lower DPI ;p
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That is some serious old school logic. I remember back in the 1.5 days of cs, and around quake, you get your hands on like a microsoft intel mouse.. and you was the god. I stuck with the mx510 for yeaaaars until a new one skyrocketed to like almost 200$ because discontinued. I ended up contiuning a rocking tradition with g400 until the lazer started giving out early last year. Got a g402? or some shit, their new model.. not to crazy about it..

I'd recommend going w/ a Zowie if you're hard on FPS's.

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Various pro streamers (IDDQD, Surefour, Seagull) use in the neighborhood of ~800 DPI on the mouse and 6.0-6.5 on the in-game slider. I think our local Hazo god gauze gauze uses even lower than that. The basic rule of thumb is it should take about a foot of mouse movement to turn 180.
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There is really no 'sweet' spot for overwatch, every character is a little different, and changing individual characters might actually ruin you and your aim. Example being that a lot of good genji mains, and rein mains -usually- are high dpi or mouse speed, while a lot of mccree widow mains are the opposite.. just depends on the finesse of the character. There are dps mains that also rock high dpi too.

I play at 600dpi and 1.5 in-game. I usually play csgo at 400dpi, 1.7 sens, but this game is a little weird? maybe its what someone above said w/ the no windows sens taking place. I mapped my sens to a medium range tracer dash, so that I can atleast flick that in one sweep, bout 4 sweeps for a 360, 1 to 2 for a 180 depending on where I was positioned originally.

Once I get to a PC, i'll try to find a video that helps mapping your sens.. my friend said it does wonders but it was relative to CS? idk, hes always talking to me about it and 'getting better'



Also, holy shit.. Ogrewatch devs are 10/10 in my book so far.

Fingers crossed for a possible map editor sometime down the line. I'd love to see Widow_Map or McCree_map; but i'm only thinking back to the glory days of just any kind of aim_map where the ground is "100%" equal, its just the better shot wins.
 
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CTR overwhelming positive feedback, Jeff? Every time I looked on the official forums people hated it.
 
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I think it could be fun as a mode with some tweaking to the ruleset.

They basically are allowing people to invent their own game modes with the Custom Game expansion. Some fun shit is bound to be discovered in short order.
 
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Speaking of mouse stuff, I figured out that opticals need a tiny bit of light to work. Never had any trouble in overwatch, but my mouse started cutting out in daoc and conan. Both have super dark nights.

I have a mionix and ran the surface recognition tool with my monitors super dark. 20%! This is on the big 3 foot wide steelseries soft pad. I had to ditch it and go back to the small kind of hard smooth steelseries. It gets 100% even in superdark conditions.
 
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Payload/KotH only servers? That's what I want. FUCK Hanamura/Anubis/Volskaya. Fucking the WORST in my opinion. Not design or anything, just that game type. It all comes down to hoping your team is better than the constant spawn of rezzers on stall characters at the end.
 
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That is some serious old school logic. I remember back in the 1.5 days of cs, and around quake, you get your hands on like a microsoft intel mouse.. and you was the god. I stuck with the mx510 for yeaaaars until a new one skyrocketed to like almost 200$ because discontinued. I ended up contiuning a rocking tradition with g400 until the lazer started giving out early last year. Got a g402? or some shit, their new model.. not to crazy about it..

I'd recommend going w/ a Zowie if you're hard on FPS's.
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I grabbed a zowie off Amazon, but the thing is fucking tiny. Maybe I got the wrong one? The dimensions they list on Amazon are bullshit. I'm just used to my MS intel mouse (which still works, but the left-click is starting to stick a bit. I notice it when I play Hanzo, since you have to hold down the button when you use him). That mouse fits my hand perfectly. Base of my palm fits against the end of the mouse when I'm resting my hand on it and fingers fit exactly over the buttons.
 
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