*insert completeOperatorroster.jpg* Ahh, did it. I started playing in August doing most of the challenges for renown when I could. Siege is basically all I've played since then.
I'm on PC. I lowered my sensitivity recently, but have always been a fingertip grip and now I'm just lifting my mouse more. The further I have to flick the more my wrist bends. Getting intentional mechanical movements down hasn't been that important to me in the past because I didn't play multiplayer shooters until now. I just did what felt good and the games didn't punish me for that. Should I try learning arm aiming perhaps? Palm grip? Has anyone retrained themselves like this?
I rebuilt my FPS mouse technique in the last year or so and I've been playing FPS since Wolf3d... well chances are I played that with a keyboard now that I think about it... but Doom shareware was definitely mouse... But yes I pretty much went from wrist to arm and while I don't know that it has done that much for my Siege game, it has helped a lot in PUBG where engagement distances are much longer and you need extra precision to make your shots.
I'm at around a 21 inch 360 right now. I don't think I measured where I was before, but I would guess something like 9 inches max.
For a while I was doing something like an 18 inch 360 on hip, but then my ADS was set to half... but I finally undid that and am trying to unify all my game settings to the 21 inches, with the various ADS settings being equivalent amount of pixels. Unfortunately Siege doesn't really let you normalize your ADS for 1x and ACOG at the same time. My understanding is 50 ADSsens for ACOG and 75 or 1x. And then 83 if you want your 1x to match number of degrees. I might try splitting the difference and seeing how that feels. Right now I can definitely feel that my ACOG moves too fast.
I've been more successful with Battlefield and PUBG since those have uniform aiming along with separate sliders for each zoom if you decide you need them.
Anyway I did have to change my gear a bit to support the transition as well. Mouse bungee and huge oversized mousepads, I went with Glorious PC Gaming Race XXL size I think. The bungee is important too as with more mouse travel an errant cable is going to mess you up more. It never was that much of an issue with wrist mousing.
I didn't really change my grip though, I think I qualify as palm either way.
I definitely play less 'twitchy' now though, I'm not sure if that's necessarily a good or bad thing. I'm probably less likely to get a lucky snap 180 degree kill in a pinch. But general aim has clearly improved.
I'm looking to get a lighter mouse, even though my G403 is already pretty light. I'll probably buy whatever finalmouse puts out next.
But yeah you can redo your technique at any point. "I've been doing it this way for X years" doesn't cut it as an excuse. That's just complacency and comfort. Switching to low sens arm moving feels really really bad as you do it though. At least it did for me. But I stuck with it and I don't think I'd ever go back.
