PlanetSide 2 - Analyze This: Scope Selection and Sensitivity

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Published on April 16, 2013 7:18:10 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTFHEFy86Q4

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PlanetSide 2 (2012)

Duration: 10:46

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The "Analyze This" series of videos typically includes detailed commentary while exploring various avenues of theorycrafting to min/max gameplay. It's everything from meticulously analyzing settings, sensitivities, and keybinds, to digging deep into what a game has to offer in order to utilize advanced decision-making techniques through unorthodox methods of analysis. You can essentially look at this as the homework and research that I often do when not actively gunning down my enemies, and be sure to note that it all goes a long way toward improving your overall success as a gamer.

In this particular video I go over scope selection in PlanetSide 2 and how the different scopes (as well as hip fire and iron sights) interact with the mouse and scoped mouse sensitivity settings that you will find ingame. It's not nearly as cut and dry as it appears at first glance, and I wanted to take some time to both explain some of the methods of analysis that I use for this sort of thing, as well as exactly what you're getting when you choose to use a specific scope and a certain sensitivity setting. I really recommend watching the video in its entirety from start to finish, as both the scope selection and sensitivity settings directly relate to one another, but I added in annotations that link to the parts of the video where I begin speaking about each for people who wish to jump to a particular section.

More info on my settings:

I play at very low sensitivity, as it has always been my preference for more than a decade now. That is not to say it is the only way to be successful, as I know many great FPS gamers who play on relatively high sensitivity as well.

Windows Pointer Speed: 6/11, that is, it is on the 6th of 11 available settings. This is the ideal setting for raw mouse input to keep a 1:1 ratio in mouse movements.

DPI: 800 under most circumstances (gunplay, etc.), using Razer mouse software. 1000hz Polling Rate, Acceleration off. Note that I have buttons bound to quickly alter my DPI if I find myself in a MAX or vehicle and want higher on-demand sensitivity.

Mouse Sensitivity (ingame PS2): 0.01. As I said above, I play on extremely low sensitivity and this is what I like to use for hipfire/irons/1X scopes. If SOE allows us to change more sensitivities independent of one another in the future, I would fine tune mine to have different, more precise settings for hipfire and 1X ADS (generally I prefer my hipfire to be exactly twice as sensitive as my ADS).

Scoped Mouse Sensitivity (ingame PS2): 0.12. As I mention in the video, for me this only impacts my Bolt Action Sniper Rifle sensitivity, as I never use any scopes above 2X magnification in any other situation, so I simply found a setting I liked for Sniping and stuck with it.

Keep an eye out for more videos in this series, as well as other series to come in the very near future. Thanks for all of your support and feedback. Also, please check out my daily live stream at http://twitch.tv/itzmurda_tv.

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