The Best PUBG Sensitivity Guide

Finding your ideal sensitivity in PUBG is critical to ensuring smooth, natural camera movement and maximizing your aiming potential. Both personal preference and your desk setup are unique factors that impact what your settings should be. The same person who uses 400 DPI with a large desk that requires more forearm and arm movement might not match someone on 1200 DPI with a smaller setup who relies more on wrist movement for aiming.

A smaller mousepad and desk setup that affects your best PUBG sensitivity settings — Your desk and mousepad size matter. A smaller setup leans on wrist aim, a larger one on arm movement.

So by the end of this guide, you'll have found your most optimal in-game sensitivity settings in PUBG for assault rifles, SMGs, and DMRs, so that aiming and recoil feel natural for your specific setup.

The PUBG Sensitivity Settings Explained

First, let's review all the sensitivity options we have:

General sensitivity determines how fast you look around when you're not aiming.
Vertical sensitivity multiplier lets you change your vertical sensitivity when aiming, and is arguably one of the most important sensitivity options in PUBG.
ADS sensitivity determines how fast you move when aiming down sights.
Sensitivity per scope sets a separate sensitivity for each scope.

General and ADS sensitivity play hand in hand when it comes to crosshair placement and having a smoother transition when aiming. If they aren't set properly, you can either over or under aim, meaning when you move your crosshair it either goes past the target or falls short, which forces a millisecond adjustment in the heat of the moment that often leads to death.

This heavily impacts first bullet accuracy, one of the most important aspects of aiming in PUBG. Since PUBG has such a low time-to-kill, especially in close-quarters situations, you need to make sure those first couple of bullets are on target in order to win your fight.

Setting Up in the Training Grounds

To find your perfect sensitivity, head to the training grounds. Once you're in, hit M to open the map and select Aim Lab (Sound Labs), or click the oil tanker at the top of the map.

How to find Aim Lab on the PUBG training grounds map to test sensitivity — Open the map with M and select Aim Lab, or click the oil tanker at the top of the map.

Once you're in Aim Lab, before we start, set all of your sensitivity settings back to default: 50 for general and ADS sensitivity, vertical sensitivity back to 1, and all scopes to 50 as well.

Resetting all PUBG sensitivity settings to default before testing — Start from a clean slate: general and ADS at 50, vertical at 1, and every scope at 50.

Finding Your General and ADS Sensitivity

Set your crosshair nice and centered, directly in front of you, resting underneath the big "A". Then simply aim at one specific target at a time, recenter your crosshair, and focus on the next target.

If you start to see your crosshair going past your targets, that means your general and ADS sensitivity are too high, so it's time to adjust. Bring down both your general and ADS sensitivity at the same time by clicking the < key and reducing them by 5 to 10 points, then restart the aim trainer and repeat the same aiming process. If you're still over aiming, follow the same steps and make another 5 to 10 point reduction to both.

Over aiming in PUBG when general and ADS sensitivity is too high — Over aiming: your crosshair sails past the target. That means your general and ADS sensitivity are too high.

If you start under aiming, that means you've gone past your sweet spot, so you'll need to increase your general and ADS sensitivity by 1 to 5 points until it feels the most comfortable for you.

Under aiming in PUBG when sensitivity is too low and the crosshair falls short — Under aiming: your crosshair falls short of the target. Nudge general and ADS back up a few points.

// Side note

It might take time to adjust to your new settings, and sometimes making small 1 to 2 point corrections to find that perfect sens is okay. The goal here is to find what is most comfortable for you and your specific setup.

Vertical Sensitivity Multiplier

Now that you've narrowed down your general and ADS sensitivity, let's move on to one of the most important settings in PUBG: the vertical sensitivity multiplier.

There are a lot of other factors that play into vertical recoil control, like foregrip and muzzle attachments, whether you're crouching versus standing, moving while shooting, and many others.

Staying inside the aim trainer, turn away from the target area and focus on the wall in the opposite direction. Hit the < key and set the vertical sensitivity multiplier to its max setting, which is 2. Now have your character crouch and spray, pulling down your mouse in a nice, smooth motion.

Testing the PUBG vertical sensitivity multiplier with a crouch spray on a wall — Crouch and spray a wall with the vertical multiplier maxed at 2, then dial it down until the pull-down feels smooth.

If you start to notice some vertical bounce in your recoil, with fluctuations going up and down, your sensitivity is more than likely too high. Reduce the vertical sensitivity multiplier by a set amount, either by 0.25 or 0.5, and repeat the same process until your sprays feel smooth with a comfortable level of recoil. If you're still struggling to keep the gun from rising, make micro-adjustments, increasing or decreasing the vertical sensitivity until it feels manageable.

Just like general and ADS sensitivity, this will take time to find that sweet spot. Personally, I always try to envision that there is a line I never want my red dot to go above or below when I'm pulling down with my mouse. Take some time, play around with it, use different attachments, and see what works best for you.

Envisioning an invisible line to control vertical recoil in PUBG — Picture an invisible line your red dot should never cross above or below as you pull down through a spray.

2x and 3x Scopes

Starting with the 2x and 3x, I tend to keep those relatively close to my ADS settings, with the 3x set just a tad higher than the 2x to make pulling down on sprays with an assault rifle a little easier.

Scope Sensitivity for DMRs

DMRs handle recoil very similar to assault rifles, despite being semi-automatic. When shot, DMRs have a continuous rise, with every shot having varying levels of both vertical jump and horizontal sway, depending on which attachments and scope size you're using.

While your muzzle and foregrip attachments do play a part in reducing recoil, scope sensitivity also attributes to how you, the player, properly reset your crosshair, allowing you to line up your shot with minimal corrections.

PUBG DMR sensitivity and recoil with vertical jump and horizontal sway — DMRs rise with every shot and add horizontal sway, so scope sensitivity decides how cleanly you reset between shots.

Long Range Scopes (4x, 6x, and 8x)

For each long range scope, again set all sensitivity settings to 50 and work your way down, finding a good balance of both control and comfort. You should never feel like you're fighting your DMR to get proper shot placement.

Larger scope sensitivity really becomes important at around 200 meters and beyond. Since targets get smaller, your aim has to be much more precise.

With each scope, start by placing a couple of rhythmic shots at the 100 and 150 meter targets, both static and moving, to get a good feel for the default sensitivity. Next, aim for the 200 meter targets using the same rhythmic shots. At this range, if it feels like your crosshair is swaying too far left or right once the scope resets, or if you're shooting under your target, this might indicate your scope sensitivity is too high and you're pulling down too much. Try lowering that scope's sensitivity by 5 to 10 points and retest.

If you find your bullets are starting to overshoot the target despite pulling down, or you're having trouble re-centering horizontal sway when firing, your sensitivity might be too low. Try increasing that scope's sensitivity by small increments until it feels just right.

PUBG DMR scope sensitivity too low causing overshoot and horizontal sway — If bullets overshoot despite pulling down, or you can't re-center the sway, the scope sensitivity is likely too low.

Also experiment using different foregrip and muzzle attachments to see how each sensitivity setting feels, since each attachment impacts the DMR's performance considerably.

Final Thoughts

Like I suggested with assault rifles, take your time, experiment, and see how each sensitivity setting feels. Remember, it's going to take a lot of time and practice before you find that sweet spot that works best for you and your setup. DMRs took me a long time to find what worked best for me, so make sure to be patient, practice, and you'll be hitting those long range targets in no time.