THUMBSTICK vs GYRO vs MOUSE in Aim Lab

Let’s see how we do in Aim Lab aiming with a thumbstick, gyro, and mouse! The difference between all three is stark, but the size of the difference is going to differ depending on your experience, your settings, and what game modes you’re playing -- most games don’t work quite like this even at your most frantic moments. Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:22 Thumbstick 1:42 Thumbstick results 1:52 Gyro 3:06 Gyro results 3:20 Mouse 4:29 Mouse results 4:39 Try it yourself I’m Jibb Smart, a programmer trying to make games play better. It’s not as hard as you might think! Aim Lab is free on Steam: JoyShockMapper is free and open source: Learn how to get started with it here: After much tweaking, the thumbstick settings that worked best for me were: 45 degrees per second, with a very fast acceleration to 90 degrees per second when the stick is fully tilted. 90 degrees per second gets me to targets relatively quickly, while being slow enough that I can still make adjustments as I go. 45 degrees per second for little taps and adjustments also works well for the size of the targets, but Aim Lab has released an update already where the targets can be much smaller, so it might not work as well. JoyShockMapper lets you set your settings using these real world values if it’s calibrated appropriately for the game you’re playing. Aim Lab lets you use the sensitivity scales of other games, so we can use the same calibration settings we use for those games. For example, I told Aim Lab to use Overwatch sensitivity, and then I used this configuration file in JoyShockMapper: :overwatch:console-inspired-but-shoulders-to-shoo From there, you can change your settings further to have the same stick-only settings I had: STICK_DEADZONE_INNER = STICK_DEADZONE_OUTER = STICK_SENS = 45 STICK_POWER = 1 STICK_ACCELERATION_RATE = 100 STICK_ACCELERATION_CAP = 2 RIGHT_STICK_MODE = AIM L = LMOUSE This makes the deadzones really small and sets the stick sensitivity / acceleration settings to what I described before, including shooting with the left shoulder button. Learn more about gyro controls that are actually good at GyroWiki: For further reading, here’s “Why not just use thumbsticks?“: :why-not-just-use-thumbsticks Twitter: Patreon: