What does "Reactivity" do in the controller settings?

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I’ve never noticed this before, perhaps it is new: What does this setting “Reactivity” do in the controller settings?

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It essentially dampens your inputs, so full left to right deflection takes longer. Should be good for smoothing erratic inputs

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Ah good to know, thank you. I shall turn that off then!

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I thought reactivity adjustment sounded great when I discovered it and reduced it to 65 percent to smooth out my flying a little. It seemed to work, then after a couple of days flying CE208, I realized the power lever wasn’t reducing power all the way and I wasn’t able to get the plane to settle on the runway. The Caravan in SIM is tricky this way anyway. So, I changed the reactivity back to 100, and boom, I can land again . Anyone else?

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I’m finding the rudder on the cessna 152 is extremely senstive/twitchy - i’m using the Turtlebeach yoke setup, would lowering reactivity help this ?

At present they are all on 100%

Are there any listed recommended settings for sensitivity and reactivity ??

Thanks

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I found this to be more of an irritation than useful. As mentioned by @CaptGrogbeard above it dampens the inputs. I found that there is thus a “lag” between when I apply a control surface change and when it actually happens. I did not like it.

When you say the rudder is too sensitive, do you mean for taxiing or flying? If it is the latter, my suggestion is to change the curve on the rudder pedals so that the initial input has smaller effect. The down side of doing this of course, is that at the end of your rudder pedal travel there will be a very abrupt change. If taxiing is the problem, I change the configuration file settings so as to achieve a more realistic effect (for most of the sim aircraft and even third party aircraft, even a small rudder input on the ground results in a very aggressive turning movement of the aircraft. This is not realistic especially at very low speed and/or very little prop wash)

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Thanks
its very sensitive for both taxi and flight.

I’ll leave the reactivity as it does not sound like what is needed, will revisit the sensitivity curves again instead.