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Hey so I'm just messing around on the firing range with the new patch. I noticed there's no thread yet and didn't think I should make one myself. But there are a bunch of new options settings now and I thought it might be good to ask other controller users what setting they use. Maybe it would be better to create a controller thread. Not sure.

Random things:

• I have my deadzones between 8 and 10%. More than that and my sticks don't feel responsive (XB Elite).
  
• Follow @BleedingUranium 's guide on USA and sensitivity (my 50-FOV adjusted USA coefficient is 87%)
  
• Trigger stops are on and full trigger pull is set to 40% of max range. This REALLY helps with 449 RPM weapons.
  
• I map two paddles to left and right d-pad so I have my gadgets handy. I only use two paddles so I have a better grip. Also, I use the shorter bottom paddles upside down in the top two paddle slots - a unique but VERY comfortable configuration for a long play session.
  
• I am still having a few sensitivity issues, so not confident there, and from our other discussion, I definitely have issues with FOV scaling not giving me proper ADS zoom dynamics.
  
• Stick acceleration is all the way to 0% - super important IMO.
  
• No motion blur, chromatic aberration, film grain, etc. etc.
  

Quoted from "Hau_ruck"

Uniform vehicle aiming: Much like with the soldier version I'm never quite sure whether this is good or bad.

Absolutely good, enable both.

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I have it at 50% with the standard 133% ration and am scared to mess with it. Does anyone have better info on how this helps?

You have what at 50%? Acceleration I assume? Turn that the fuck off, right away.

As for the Coefficient, for us console players the BF1 system still applies, so setting it depends on your FoV setting. I'm going to make a new, cleaner version of this post now that the patch is out. Also, that ADS Sensitivity issue from BF1 is fixed, so ignore that part of the post, it's just Coefficient that matters.

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Vertical aim ratio: Pretty sure this is new. I left it at 48% for infantry because at 100% it kept making me overcompensate for vertical recoil and shoot the ground. Since vehicles don't have recoil I've put mine at 100% to make aiming turrets/ MGs more consistent. So I'll see how that goes. My Kubel MG is feeling very smooth and natural.

Interesting, that does sound like it makes sense, I'll have to try 100% for vehicles. I changed mine a tiny bit to 50%; I'm sure it's effectively the same, but psychologically I feel like 50% being exactly half helps with muscle memory.

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I thought while I was here I might ask what deadzones people use. I have left stick at 15%. Any lower and I keep accidentally going off my bipod. I have right stick at 10% for center, 15% for axial. I want the aiming to be snappy but without randomly drifting around.

Deadzone is always as low as you can possibly set it, without getting drift (or enough drift that causes problems). I had my Right Stick set to 15%, but I bought a new controller last week (first in at least a couple years) and now it's down to 5%.

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Is there anything in the default settings that everyone should change?

The stuff I'd consider must-have is UsA on (do not mess with the individual sensitivity sliders), Coefficient set correctly, Acceleration off, and deadzones set properly. And turn off all the awful visual effects, meaning Motion Blur, DoF Effect, Chromatic Aberration, Film Grain, Vignette, and Lens Distortion.

I also have Axial Deadzones set to 0%, which means zero fudging small horizontal/vertical movements, for more direct control. I also set Trigger Deadzones all the way down to 5%, for instant response.



I also highly recommend having fun with custom button mapping, though in the interest of muscle memory I do not recommend actually trying out different setups; it's best to figure out a good system in your head and play some mental gymnastics of how you think it would work best beforehand, and only change things when you're really confident with them.

This is all personal preference, but for some of my own examples, I made infantry and all vehicles as the same as possible, so the same actions are on the same buttons for all of them. I have Switch Weapon on Left Bumper, Grenade / Self-Repair on Right Bumper, Spot / Commorose on D-Pad Up (now that normal spotting is gone, this can move), Melee / Bayonet on X, Reload / Interact / Enter Vehicle on B, Self-Heal / Vehicle Seat #1 on Y (being able to jump to Seat #1 is huge), A is the usual Jump / Vault / Parachute / Switch Seat, while Squad Leader Radio / Toolbox / Equipment Three are D-Pad Down.

Does anyone have found a way to disable general messages on the screen? Like "We have majority" "objective captured" etc. I could disable them on BF1, but here even with Award messages turned off, they don't disapear. It really annoys me as I got AHDH syndrom and also it hides flag capture bar which tells me if there is an enemy on the flag.

@BleedingUranium

so if I have the default 55 FoV then I should put the coefficient down to 100% (from 133)? As a console scrub the whole "FoV" thing has always kinda confused me. I understand it in principle but like with many BF settings I fear changing it will bugger my muscle memory in some way. Great post btw.

I'm on XBox and I've already looked through the custom controller mapping so I doubt I can, but I thought I'd ask anyway.

I HATE having firing mode on 'hold Y'. I was hoping to have fire mode on 'down d-pad' and move the toolbox(?) to 'hold Y'

Now I doubt I can because the mapping is 'tap Y switch weapon/hold Y fire mode' but the default options also seem to have some differences to how I can customise it, for example: multiple buttons assigned to the same option (vehicle turret zoom is LT & up d-pad)

Point being I wish we could control tap vs hold behaviour instead of picking preset options

You're free to map them to different buttons.