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Who all is out there, setting different sensitivities for X and Y on their mouse settings? Does anybody actually do this? (lemmynsfw.com)
submitted 1 year ago by ChillDude69@lemmynsfw.com to c/games@lemmy.world
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I've never met anyone who does this. I've never HEARD of anyone who does this. I cannot think of any possible reason WHY anyone would want to do this.

So why is it an option in so many games?

Why do so many games not even offer the option to change the X and Y sensitivity together? For a LOT of games, you have to set both X and Y independently, and make sure that you set them to the same value.

When you can just type in a number, or you can click increase/decrease buttons to advance the numbers, that's fine. But there are some games where it's just sliders, and you have to oh-so-carefully drag each slider, until the readout (which often goes to three digits after the zero) is where you want it.

It's not a huge problem, but I'm just asking: is there even anybody out there, who really wants to have different sensitivities, on each axis?

I'm not judging. I'm just really, really curious.

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[โ€“] purinrin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you're asking why the games' options are like that, it could be so the console and PC versions can be as similar as possible. As people have mentioned, it makes more sense on a controller, with a thumbstick, to set both axes to different sensitivities. PC / mouse version probably just mirrors these config options.

Also I have to say I can't think of a game that does this off the top of my head, but when it comes to shooters I've mainly played older PC games, before the PS3 era. I think only setting sensitivity as a single value is common in those games.

[โ€“] ChillDude69@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 year ago

As I've said to a couple of people, I definitely have seen people set different X and Y settings on joysticks/thumbsticks/tilt-controls. I'm specifically talking about the mouse version, which I've never actually encountered anybody using, up until the testimony of these people, in this thread.

And yeah, my experience is the same as yours. It's only been in the last six or seven years that I've really started to see games include options to set individual axis controls for the mouse.

In those most current years, though, it has been a very common option. The majority of medium-to-AAA budgeted games include the option. I did figure that meant some people were using it. I just wondered how common it really was. I'd never considered trying it myself, deliberately, until now.