Best Keyboard and Mouse Settings for Warzone 2

Call of Duty: Warzone 2 is a cross-platform game where controller players are pitted against mouse & keyboard players in the same lobby. While many players choose a controller input for its simplicity and aim assist, the mouse & keyboard input allows for greater precision and responsiveness when moving and aiming.

Warzone 2 features many different mouse and keyboard settings that can be tweaked to give you a competitive advantage. This guide will detail the best keyboard and mouse settings for Warzone 2 so you can play like the pros in Al Mazrah.

Best mouse sensitivity for Warzone 2

• DPI: 800
• Polling Rate: 1000 Hz
• Mouse Sensitivity: 3.00 to 8.00
• Vertical Sensitivity Multiplier: 1.00
• ADS Sensitivity Multiplier: 1.00
• ADS Sensitivity Multiplier (Focus): 1.00
• ADS Sensitivity Transition Timing: Instant
• ADS Sensitivity Type: Relative

DPI, or dots per inch, is how a mouse measures the distance traveled across a mousepad. The higher the DPI, the more sensitive a mouse will feel to small inputs. 800 DPI is an excellent middle ground that will work well for most players.

Polling Rate is the frequency at which your mouse tracks its position. Polling Rate is not an in-game setting and must be adjusted with your mouse software or through your computer settings. 1000 Hz is the standard for modern FPS games like Warzone 2.

The best Mouse Sensitivity setting for Warzone 2 is based on several parameters, including DPI, aim style, desk setup, and skill level.

The general rule is that you want to lower your Warzone 2 mouse sensitivity as you increase DPI. A Warzone 2 sensitivity value ranging from 3.00 to 8.00 should work for most players using 800 DPI.

A player’s style of aim will also factor in the sensitivity they choose. Some players use their wrists for aiming, while others use their whole arm. Wrist aiming can provide snappier aim and usually requires a higher mouse sensitivity, while arm aiming offers more precision and calls for a lower sensitivity value.

The gear and setup you use should also be considered when adjusting mouse sensitivity. A lower sensitivity will require a mouse to move further across the mousepad to perform a turn. Suppose you’re limited to a small mousepad or tiny mouse aiming area. In that case, you might need to compensate by increasing your sensitivity so that your mouse has ample room to perform sweeping movements.

Finally, players should consider their skill and experience level when determining their Warzone 2 mouse settings. For inexperienced or lower-skilled aimers, a low mouse sensitivity will make it easier to land shots on target. If you’re new to a mouse & keyboard, start with low sensitivity and increase the value over time as you become more comfortable with aiming.

The Vertical, ADS and Focus Sensitivity Multipliers allow players to adjust their sensitivity level when aiming down-sight or vertically. The default value of 1.00 keeps your aim consistent when performing all actions and should work well for most players.

ADS Sensitivity Transition Timing is the time it takes to go from hip-fire aiming sensitivity to ADS aiming sensitivity. Setting ADS Sens Transition Timing to Instant gives a more responsive feel when aiming down sights. This will significantly affect players with an ADS Sensitivity Multiplier value different than 1.00.

ADS Sensitivity Type can be explained as how your sensitivity feels when aiming down sight with different zoom levels and their associated FOV in Warzone 2. In Warzone 2, as you aim down sight, your FOV narrows and adjusts sensitivity based on your chosen ADS Sensitivity Type.

The Relative setting bases your ADS sensitivity on the Monitor Distance Coefficient setting, keeping aiming consistent no matter what weapon or optic you use.

Curious about how to find the ideal sensitivity for controller? Check out our guide on the best Warzone 2 controller settings.

Other Warzone 2 mouse settings

• Monitor Distance Coefficient: 1.78
• Custom Sensitivity Per Zoom: Off

The Monitor Distance Coefficient setting determines your vertical sensitivity with respect to your horizontal sensitivity.

To find this value in-game, divide your horizontal monitor resolution by your vertical monitor resolution. For example, players using a native 16:9 aspect ratio with 1920×1080 resolution would divide 1920/1080 and produce a monitor distance coefficient of 1.78.

Players using a wide-screen monitor or a custom resolution need to adjust their default Monitor Distance Coefficient value to ensure the best aiming experience.

Warzone 2 lets players customize sensitivity based on their optical zoom. The default setting is Off, but feel free to adjust the sensitivity level of any optics that feel too sluggish or quick when aiming down sights.

Best keybinds for Warzone 2

We cover below the best keyboard settings for Warzone 2, including movement keybinds, combat keybinds, and behavior settings.

Movement Keybinds

• Interact: E
• Jump/Stand/Mantle: Space Bar
• Prone: Z
• Change Stance/Slide: Unbound
• Crouch/Slide: C
• Sprint/Tactical Sprint/Focus: L-Shift

The best movement keybinds for Warzone 2 are close to the default settings, and most players use a similar setup. You might notice we didn’t include every keybind in our recommendations because you should leave them as default or they are personal preferences.

The Prone and Crouch/Slide inputs are bound to separate keys, which can be helpful when you need to get low in a hurry. All crucial movement keybinds are close to the WASD keys, so our fingers don’t have to move far to reach them.

Combat Keybinds

• Reload: R
• Weapon Mount: G
• Melee: V, Mouse Button 5
• Lethal Equipment: Mouse Wheel Press
• Tactical Equipment: Mouse Button 4
• Field Upgrade: X
• Armor Plate/Drop Item: Q
• Stow: Unbound

The best Warzone 2 combat keybinds allow us to perform essential actions like reloading or using armor plates without significantly interrupting movement and aim. Pick a combat keybind setup that’s easy to remember–these are the keys you’ll need to press in a pinch.

The Lethal and Tactical Equipment actions are both bound to mouse buttons. Binding throwables to the mouse buttons makes it easy to move, aim, and throw simultaneously so that you can yeet that semtex grenade with pinpoint accuracy.

Behavior Settings

• Crouch: Toggle
• Prone: Toggle
• Sprint/Tactical Sprint Behavior: Toggle
• Automatic Sprint: Off
• Automatic Airborne Mantle: Off
• Share Slide & Dive Inputs: Off
• Aim Down Sight: Hold
• Equipment: Hold
• Weapon Mount Activation: ADS + Melee
• Weapon Mount Movement Exit: Enabled
• Weapon Mount Exit Delay: 0.00

The best behavior settings for Warzone 2 are geared towards speed and removing the need for multiple key presses. Set Crouch, Prone, and Sprint to Toggle, to free up a finger immediately after performing the action. These keybinds combined with a fast gaming keyboard ensure your movement mechanics are as fast as possible.

Many players are still using Automatic Sprint because it was a valuable mechanic for movement and slide-canceling in Warzone 1. With the removal of slide-canceling in Warzone 2, turning off Automatic Sprint helps ensure you aren’t sprinting into a situation where you need your weapon at the ready.

Turning Automatic Airborne Mantle off requires a key press to grab a ledge or mantle, giving players more agency over their movement. Accidentally mantling or grabbing a ledge could be the difference between life and death in a gunfight.

Enabling Weapon Mount Movement Exit and turning Weapon Mount Exit Delay to 0.00 is the quickest way to switch between a mount and a regular stance. Make sure you utilize weapon mounting in Warzone 2 to increase accuracy for long-range engagements.

What mouse sensitivity do Call of Duty pros use?

Professional Warzone 2 players can be found using various mouse sensitivity settings based on gear and personal preference. Here’s a breakdown of trends we found when analyzing pro Warzone 2 player settings:

• The majority of the pros we track use 800 DPI.
• The average mouse sensitivity for players using 800 DPI is 4.66.
• Most pro Warzone 2 players we track stick with the default monitor distance coefficient of 1.33. We recommend trying 1.78 for increased responsiveness when playing with a native 16:9 aspect ratio.
• Almost every pro prefers Instant ADS Sensitivity Transition Timing for the quickest transition from regular to ADS sensitivity.

What Warzone 2 keybinds do pros use?

Choosing the best Warzone 2 keybinds can come down to personal preference. To help further, we’ve included below the Warzone 2 keybinds used by three famous mouse and keyboard players, including Huskerrs, Metaphor, and Symfuhny.

As you can see from the examples above, the keybind settings of professional Warzone 2 players vary from player to player. Most professional Warzone 2 players base their keybind settings on personal preference and performing actions quickly. Every pro has a few binds that differ from the default settings, usually due to leftover muscle memory from a past FPS game.

When customizing keybind settings, prioritize a keybind setup where the most vital keys are closest to the WASD movement keys. This ensures that oft-used actions like reloading, interacting, or adding armor plates are always within reach.

We highly recommend investing in a gaming mouse for Warzone 2 with at least two side buttons. Side mouse buttons, and the three scroll wheel functions (up, down, and press), are excellent places to bind essential inputs. In Warzone, many professional players use mouse buttons for urgent actions like melee, weapon mount, lethal and tactical equipment, and push-to-talk, so they don’t have to take a finger off the movement keys.

Warzone 2 pros like behavior settings that speed up actions and reduce key actuation. Professional players prefer to toggle actions like crouch so that they only need one key actuation and then can use that finger for another input. Behaviors such as Weapon Mount Exit Delay are always set to a minimum value for the fastest response times.