Mouse drift is when your mouse gradually moves further and further in one direction while Osu!ing, such that you have to lift the mouse off the mousepad and reposition it in order to avoid your mouse falling off your desk. This is bad, because you don't always have time to reposition your mouse when playing Osu! and then your hand ends up in a really awkward position, killing your aim.
Assuming you've put mouse acceleration off, this is what I believe is the main cause of the problem:
In other words: unless you keep your mouse at the same angle all the time, you drift. And the more your change the angle of your mouse, the more you drift.
Solution 1: Play with your arm instead of your wrist. It's easier to maintain the same angle if you let your whole arm do the movement. I don't like this solution, however, since I suspect it's easier to learn how to aim by letting your wrist and fingers do the fine work.
Solution 2: A mouse that tracks using the absolute position of the mouse on the mousepad. Or a mouse that tracks the rotation of the mouse in addition to its velocity, so that it's able to track absolute distance travelled from a set point as long as you don't lift your mouse or hit the screen boundaries. Does anyone know of a mouse that does any of this?
Solution 3: No, I don't want to use pen! : P I started playing Osu! in order to get better at clicking orbs in Gop, and I can't play Gop with pen, so I want to continue practicing Osu! with mouse.
Solution 4: Use higher mouse sensitivity so that you don't have to move (or rotate) as much. I'm considering this, but it also seems likely that it's easier to learn better aiming with the relatively low sensitivity I have right now...
Assuming you've put mouse acceleration off, this is what I believe is the main cause of the problem:
In other words: unless you keep your mouse at the same angle all the time, you drift. And the more your change the angle of your mouse, the more you drift.
Solution 1: Play with your arm instead of your wrist. It's easier to maintain the same angle if you let your whole arm do the movement. I don't like this solution, however, since I suspect it's easier to learn how to aim by letting your wrist and fingers do the fine work.
Solution 2: A mouse that tracks using the absolute position of the mouse on the mousepad. Or a mouse that tracks the rotation of the mouse in addition to its velocity, so that it's able to track absolute distance travelled from a set point as long as you don't lift your mouse or hit the screen boundaries. Does anyone know of a mouse that does any of this?
Solution 3: No, I don't want to use pen! : P I started playing Osu! in order to get better at clicking orbs in Gop, and I can't play Gop with pen, so I want to continue practicing Osu! with mouse.
Solution 4: Use higher mouse sensitivity so that you don't have to move (or rotate) as much. I'm considering this, but it also seems likely that it's easier to learn better aiming with the relatively low sensitivity I have right now...
