It’s common knowledge that crosshairs are a relatively important part of any shooter. Deadlock being a unique MOBA with shooter mechanics, is no exception. But, for any beginner to Deadlock, especially those with less shooter experience, making a crosshair can be troublesome.

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At first, you don’t know what’s good, and what works for you. Sure, trial and error is a great way to find out. Similarly, copying a pros’ crosshair isn’t a bad idea either. But, it’s better to understand how to make a crosshair yourself, the dos and don’ts, and what works best in Deadlock.

So, here is an extensive guide explaining everything about the crosshair menu, how to make a competitive-friendly crosshair, and some pre-made crosshairs to use or tweak for yourself.

Note: The default name for crosshairs in Deadlock is reticle, we will use crosshair in this article since that is most common.

Crosshair Settings, Explained

You will find the crosshair settings in the option tabs under the main settings. It’s the section under Reticle Settings. It has several different sliders and options. Before we get into what they are we need to know the difference between dots and crosshairs. It’s as the name suggests, plus crosshairs are in the shape of a place, that is four bars in all four directions, and dots are simple dots. It’s important to mention this because both of these have their settings.

Gap: Controls the gap in your plus crosshair. Increasing it widens the space between the crosshair.

Width: Controls the width of the bars of your crosshair. The higher the value the more bolder and thicker your crosshair will be.

Height: Controls the length of your crosshair, increasing it makes your crosshair longer on all sides.

Pip Opacity: Controls the opacity of your crosshair, don’t get confused by the word pip, it just means crosshair.

Show Pip Border: Turn this on if you want an outline on your crosshair.

Static Pip: Controls if your crosshair gap changes based on movement and recoil. It’s also called crosshair bloom in other games.

Dot Opacity: Controls the opacity of your dot. Slide this to 100 if you want to turn on the dot in your crosshair.

Dot Outline Opacity: Controls the visibility of the outline of the dot crosshair.

How to Make a Dot Crosshair

It’s quite simple just turn the Pip Opacity in the Reticle settings to zero, it will disable your plus crosshair. Then, increase the Dot Opacity to 100, and adjust the outline opacity to whatever you want, or keep it at 0 if you don’t want an outline.

Dot crosshairs are completely personal preference, from the size to the outline. So, we won’t go into it much.

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Best Crosshair Settings in Deadlock

The usual standard to making crosshair is to keep them small, and minimal so they aren’t distracting in games. However, this kind of changes in Deadlock as there is so much chaos and information on the screen.

So, you need to make a crosshair that’s visually distinct and visible when compared to other colors in the game.

That means, making a slightly bigger and thicker crosshair than usual. With that said, here are the best crosshair settings.

Of course, there is a good level of personal preference in this, so we will mention ranges.

Gap: 1-12

Width: 2-4

Height: 4-12

Pip Opacity: 90-100

Show Pip Border: Personal Preference

Static Pip: On

Crosshair Color

You can choose any crosshair color you want, but there are some that work better than others. Ultimately, you want to choose colors that are visible and don’t blend into the background. There are three crosshair colors that I would consider the best in Deadlock, Yellow, Cyan and Green. All of them fulfill the criteria of being visible and not blending into the background.

The color setting has three sliders for customization, Red, Green, and Blue. You can tinker with these three to get the color you want. Here are the settings for Yellow, Cya,,n and Green.

Cyan - Red: 0, Green: 255, Blue: 255

Yellow - Red: 255, Green: 255, Blue: 0

Green - Red: 0, Green: 255, Blue: 0

Sample Crosshairs

If you are confused about what crosshair to make, here are some good ones you can use. Once, you know what you like, you can then tweak them or make your own.

1. Classic Static: Gap: 1, Width: 2, Height: 4
2. Small Static: Gap: 0, Width 2, Height: 4
3. Classic Static Long: Gap: 2, Width: 2, Height: 6
4. Small Square: Gap: 0, Width: 4, Height: 3

Try these out in Sandbox mode to get a feel for them, feel free to adjust them to your liking. After all, crosshairs are mostly personal preferences.

Conclusion

With this you should have a decent understanding and what works and what doesn’t when it comes to crosshairs in Deadlock. Sure, there isn’t a perfect crosshair that works for everyone, but you can get a perfect crosshair for yourself, just by testing out what you like and don’t like. It also comes down to your choice of heroes and playstyle. You can go for a super precise and small crosshair or something bold that stands out, it comes down to your choice.