More importantly than that, I'd recommend just trying to use a higher DPI setting on your mouse. For doing a 180, I don't know if the field of view might be smaller than it should but you could always look into that and see if it's at a recommended setting.
When I was learning FPS games on a controller it felt super weird to me, you're just going to end up putting enough time for it to not feel weird anymore. My advice is stick with it, maybe turn the game down to an easier level till you get used to it. I stuck with it though and saw benefits eventually. Every time it was like learning to ride a bike from the beginning. I started playing fighting games on a controller, then went to an arcade stick, then to this weird thing called a hitbox. That said, with time and practice such a kid could easily double his words per minute on keyboard compared to on a phone screen.
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Don't underestimate muscle memory! Imagine if you (like a bunch of kids these days I suppose) grew up learning how to type on a smartphone screen but as a high schooler had to suddenly learn how to type on a keyboard. Naturally trying to do something for the first time is going to feel real weird, it's like learning to write for the first time. However, thing is with some time and practice you DO feel some improvement, it just doesn't immediately pay off. To this day FPS games on controller feel weird, like I'm controlling a tank. I mostly grew up playing RTS games on mouse and keyboard and most of the shooters I did play were on mouse and keyboard. Fun fact: If the OP grew up on mouse and keyboard, learning to play a FPS on controller would feel super weird. What's wrong here? Is it me? Is it the game? Do I just have to force myself to play M+K until I get used to it? I'm bummed because I hear how "FPS are meant to be played on What I would say as someone who has put time learning a number of different control methods for different games, is that all control methods are actually a lot less intuitive than we tend to think of them, especially if we're learning a new method and grew up with a different method. The minute I switch to the controller I feel right at home and being to enjoy the game again. Using the M+K makes the game less enjoyable. Either I end up with the DPI too high or too low and then find myself spending more time tweaking the DPI then playing the game. I've done the research into DPI, polling rates, in game sensitivity, etc. I assumed that I would be able to play comfortably which just moving my wrist, but it seems that it's more labor intensive than that. With problem #2 I find that I have to physically move my arm, instead of my wrist to do a 180 or 360, and then I find myself all the way at the edge of my mouse pad and I have have to lift up my mouse a re-center it to the middle of the pad. Spin around and kill all the enemies running towards me. The biggest problem for me is that I feel it takes a lot of effort to 1. Truth be told I've found myself very uncomfortable with the M+K.
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I picked up a Razar Mamba and Doom and was excited to dip my feet into the PC FPS experience. I've grown up on the controller my whole life. Hey everybody I wanted your take on something. I think my brain is thinking that I only have to move the mouse a little bit and the camera will continue to rotate until I let off of it. Obviously that doesn't work on the mouse because when the mouse stops moving the camera stops moving. I think also an issue is that on a controller I just push and hold the thumbstick and the camera continues to rotate until I let off the stick. So I've been question what's the typical way to play FPS with the M+K. I could lower the DPI but then it would require me to use my arm to move the mouse to keep turning. At that point it made me question if my mouse movement technique. Obviously to counter this I turned up the DPI, unfortunately it made made looking and aiming erratic (much like when turning thumbstick sensitivity up on a controller). I found that moving my wrist to as far as I comfortably could yielded minimal turning at low DPI. I realized quickly though that 360 movement is tied to how far I could move my wrist. That advice was exactly what I was looking for because I naturally assumed that it should all come from my wrist. One of the comments discussed not needing to use the enite mouse pad area and trying to restrict mouse movements to only the wrist. I've have found some really helpful stuff! Being new to the M+K I've been trying to find a good starting place, dpi wise, in game sensitivity, and mouse movement. First off I am overwhelmed by the support and advice from you all.