Okay, so I decided to give The Finals a real shot. Been playing a ton of Overwatch for years, you know how it is, muscle memory is basically baked in at this point. But jumping into The Finals, man, the default sensitivity felt completely alien. My aim was all over the place.
First thing I did was try to eyeball it. Went into the settings in The Finals, fiddled with the slider, trying to get that familiar feeling from Overwatch. Spent maybe 15 minutes just sliding it back and forth, jumping into the practice range, shooting some dummies. It kinda worked? But not really. Something always felt slightly off, either too fast when I tried to track someone or too slow for quick turns.
Figuring Out the Numbers
I realized eyeballing wasn’t gonna cut it. I needed my exact Overwatch feel. So, the next step was figuring out my actual Overwatch sensitivity. I booted up Overwatch, went straight into the options, and wrote down my sensitivity number. I also double-checked my mouse DPI setting using its software, because that’s super important too. Gotta keep the DPI the same between games, otherwise, the conversion gets messy.
Alright, so I had my Overwatch sensitivity number and my mouse DPI. Now what? I figured someone must have figured out how to convert this stuff already. Did a bit of searching around, just looking for how people convert sensitivity between these two specific games.
Doing the Conversion
Found out there’s a pretty common way people do it. Apparently, the sensitivity scales differently between the games. The general idea I gathered was that you take your Overwatch sensitivity and multiply it by a specific number to get the equivalent for The Finals. It wasn’t super complicated math or anything, just simple multiplication.
- Grabbed my Overwatch sens value.
- Found the conversion factor people were using (it seemed consistent across a few places I looked).
- Multiplied my OW sens by that factor.
This gave me a new number. That was supposed to be my magic number for The Finals.
Testing and Tweaking
Armed with this calculated sensitivity, I launched The Finals again. Went straight into the settings, typed in the exact number I calculated. No more guessing with the slider!
Then, back to the practice range. Started moving around, aiming, flicking. And honestly? It felt way closer immediately. Like, noticeably better. It wasn’t 100% identical, maybe like 95%? There’s always gonna be tiny differences because the games themselves feel different – movement, FOV, engine stuff, you know.
Played a few quick cash matches with the new setting. It felt much more natural. I wasn’t fighting my mouse anymore. My brain knew how far to move my hand for a certain turn, just like in Overwatch. Maybe over the next few days I might nudge it just a tiny, tiny bit up or down based purely on feel, but that calculated number got me basically all the way there.
So yeah, that was my little journey. Took a bit of digging and a simple calculation, but totally worth it to get that comfortable aim feeling back in a new game. Makes jumping in way less frustrating.
