9 Settings that Made Destiny 2 Easier for Me 

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I’d say that the charged melee having its own button is the most important out of all the changes

Fun fact - jumper is so good that Bungie almost made bumper jumper the default layout for Halo 3 but moved it to an alternate option because they thought people would be too confused first starting up

Changing the emotes to hold is huge! I never even thought of that. That helps a ton

One change I made to my controls that I find helps out a little bit is is setting my switch weapons to each D-pade button. So left D-pad is kinetic, right is energy, and bottom is heavy. If you’re terrible at weapon swapping during DPS phases like me this will help you out a lot.

Turning my Aim into my interact helps a lot in any mode you revive your team. (Edit: so I aim as I revive, surprisingly helps a ton in trials)

Wait...people use their middle fingers for triggers?

Even for people who don't play much PVP, having separate melee buttons is SO nice in PVE. I switched a long time ago, but i still remember how annoying it was when I'd want to throw shurikens at a mob of approaching thrall, only to have it do an uncharged melee when they got too close.

If you’re have trouble changing weapons, I use up arrow for primary, down arrow for energy, triangle for heavy. Really helps so you don’t have to toggle the triangle. Super is right arrow

Personally I like having my finishers set to the crouch joystick idea and also set to press as it allows me to go from sliding to the enemy directly into a finisher

That alt-reload tip is a blessing for Ager's users who are sick of losing their super to a slightly longer button press.

the dpad tips were something i didnt even think about, i have a razer controller that has back paddles and two extra buttons in between the triggers and the bumper buttons, makes gunplay so much faster but definitely hinders my sparrow accessibility, this would definitely help

Personal preference on charged/uncharged melee, I have my uncharged bound to the combo of aim+melee, for me L2+X. It only works if I hit them both at the same time rather than holding aim down then melee. I like the idea of the aim button as a modifier and am thinking of expanding it to other actions in my layout.

You know, this channel really has been dropping some gems lately.

One of my absolute best decisions has been changing controllers to the Xbox Elite Series with the assignable buttons on the back which are all set to jump, dodge, reload, class ability.

The best setting that made it easier for me was the "Exit to desktop setting" it really improved my overall wellbeing 😊

This video has really made me think about my button layout. Will have to try and see what results i get. Thanks TDT :)

The Emote/Alternate Fire settings are smart. I’m always running into the problem with Symmetry

I actually love my slide with my finisher too because now I can slide into a finisher. Though I had to rebind super because aiming down sights and firing immediately launched it

I wish you could bind a single action to multiple buttons.

Hate that I didn’t think to change emotes to hold till this video. The amount of times the kill feed has my emote due to a failed finisher is astronomical 😂

The Icarus dash thing is genius and so helpful. Also I have been considering the whole charged and uncharged melee thing but felt I didn’t have another button for it but the whole long press emote thing changed that. Great vid, nice job.

I never even considered it was possible to bind emotes to "hold" instead! This opens many possibilities....

I picked up the alt-fire tip from one of your recent shorts & it has changed everything! OMG I'm so grateful! Now if only I could avoid picking up random Strand Tangles when I'm just trying to frickin reload

far more helpful than what I thought changing my setup drastically improved my gameplay thank you!

Your 7th tip is such a good idea. Wow, I wish I knew about that before I became a M&K pleb.

I have super as left dpad because of the Wambo combo used to pop super because you did the inputs to fast

I haven't thought about my button layout in years. These are great ideas

Thanks for the tips! The crouch change is a game changer for me 😊

This really made me rethink my layout, Thank you

A tip for the hunters: bind your dodge to a button, and make sure it doesn’t require a double press or hold press to activate. Mesome will get mad at me, but for me this is right thumbstick click. Titans and warlocks dont need the same precision and speed for popping a class ability that hunters do. This has saved me so many times. Make the dodge instantly activatable.

Also worth changing any diving input from hold to press. Shatter dive, Phoenix Dive and all those feel so clunky and unresponsive on hold.

I once had a controller where the thumstick wouldn't let me sprint. So i changed it to circle, which feels more natural to me, but it sounds weird to people when i say it.

Thank you TDT for telling me I can rebind alt fire. I had NO idea you could actually do this

"Most dexterous finger is NOT your middle finger" My evil side laughed for 5 mins at that line lol. Learned some new stuff watching this. Thank you so much.

Great tips. Definitely gonna try these out

Okay, the alternate reload button one makes sense. There have been so many times I’ve gone to try and interact with an object only to accidentally turn on sniper mode for my Revision Zero… and unlike Quicksilver Storm and its grenades, Revision Zero can’t go back to pulse rifle mode if you accidentally enter sniper mode.

If you have a controller with paddles and use those for jump and slide, try R3 for your uncharged melee! I will definitely change emotes to the hold to activate input! Good tip!

The hold D pad for emote and press or different functions is definitely something I'm going to use. I have my uncharged melee and crouch swapped from what you recommended, just because of muscle memory from so many years of COD

If you bind your uncharged melee and finisher to the same button, then the finisher feels like a classic halo assassination. Just know that the finisher range is slightly shorter than the uncharged melee range, but I feel it's very useful to have melee and finisher so close together.

Just discovered the fov setting 2 weeks ago and now I'm faster than ever

I just subscribed! I’ve been looking for a video I just like this!!

Thanks for the tips! (Even though I'm too stubborn to switch my settings up.)

number 7 genuinely will save me from the insanity of reloading instead of changing fire 😭

The return to desktop setting makes me so happy

One thing I found is that if you set up fire and reload with the right bumper, the weapon automatically reloads after firing the weapon. Not sure how useful this is, but it is an interesting interaction.

back when felwinters was super popular, I had to learn right claw to be able to shotgun melee. Wish I had though of this back then.

I swapped the aiming and shooting to L1 and R1, but after I press L1, I have to wait like a half a second after I aim for the character to shoot, because if I press L1 and R1 simultaneously, there is no shooting . Using L2 and R2, I can start shooting right after I aim.

The hold emote d pad thing to free up the d pad for other actions is a complete game changer thanks for that 👍

These are honestly things i never thought of but are really handy and next time i play on PS5 will definitely make these sorts of changes

Can confirm that you *_reaaaally_* wanna move the charged and normal melee to different buttons. I've learned the hard way about what happens when you don't and got angry about using the wrong melee at the right and wrong time.

Some solid suggestions, thanks! Been messing with some different button layouts myself. Now I just wish Bungie would add settings to adjust deadzones and maybe a couple options for thumbstick response curve or something! Crazy to me those haven’t been added yet.

change #3 is useless if you use your index on r2/l2, but yeah the point still stands

I used the puppeteer before rebinding was thought of being better Puppeteer felt more natural since d1 and I never thought it was an issue until some points in the vid made sense I think I’ll follow but also modify the suggestions

When I first changed my button layout I didn’t bind a finisher button because I never use them. I forgot that finisher is how you kill the hive ghost.

I've moved to claw grip and cannot go back. Reaction time and movement has improved and I can never go back to holding a control "normally". Those who want to see improvement should practice claw grip.

Great video, once you get really into D2 alot of these changes are needed at higher level play. The one thing I hope Bungie adds is the ability to make charged hunter melee (strand) a double button press; like it does for warlock icarus dash (those that grapple melee in pvp know why ;) @ TDT - On a different note, what is the little sound sample at the end of your vids, is a custom sound bite or a sample from a song - loved to know

A month ago my friend mentioned changing his ADS sensitivity. I decided to try it since I left it unchanged at 1.0 for years. I'm now a happy camper at 0.7 and I finally understand how those trials tryhards land all those snipes on controller. It took some getting used to on pellet shotguns, but other than that I feel like a new player. I'm racking up the kills on all my favorite snipers fast. I got 350 kills on cloudstrike in no time, when before the only sniper I could use was frozen orbit with moving target opening shot.

Good video TDT! for me I have an Xbox elite controller with paddles. And I assigned A, B, X, and Y to them to game more effectively lol and I also assigned my uncharged melee to my right thumbstick.

alot of these are actually super smart.... one change for me though is I have charged melle and uncharged on R1 but it uses charged before uncharged

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I had the up and down d-pad buttons set to change weapons so I had more control and could pull out my heavy with a single button press. Changed it back after I stopped using Y for uncharged melee but if you get used to it, it can be very helpful.

i have a logitech mouse with 2 buttons right next to the left click, one near the tip of my finger and the other below it somewhere between my first and second knuckles. i have my reload set to that first button near my fingertip with the alternate weapon set to holding that button, since if i'm either reloading or switching modes i can't shoot anyways.

I totally just changed my emotes to long press and alternate fire mode to the d-pad. I had most of the other stuff set pretty much the same as you besides the triggers. I use my index finger for those since I have spare buttons on the back of my controller. I also have my Stasis slam mapped to a+x (Xbox) to make shatter skating much more fluid.

i personally use my index fingers for both bumpers and triggers (R/L 1&2) and enjoy wellskating so my controls look something like this: -Super: Left D-Pad -Charged Melee: R3 -Uncharged Melee: R1

MnK player but love these tips! The icarus combination is money.

On an elite controller I very much enjoy uncharged melee as R3, and finisher and L3+R3, leaving everything else the same

I put uncharged and charged melee on right bumper but I made uncharged a double tap and charged a hold. It’s way easier to aim your melees when you don’t have to take your thumb off the right stick.

Swapping the firing ads is a great tip, I have paddles binded to sprint and crouch/side under my controller and my middle fingers sit on those. If no paddles recommend it or definitely swap the firing and ads

For those who want some tips for keyboard bindings: -Middle mouse super. I'm not kidding, it's really nice. It also puts your super on the same hand as your sword heavy attack, this making sword skating on Warlock a more fluid motion. -Use your additional mouse buttons (if you have them) I use a Razer DeathAdder V2 and I have the top thumb button set to charged melee and the bottom one set to uncharged. That way I have quick access to both. I also have basic melee bound to F because of years of muscle memory from playing Hako Custom Edition on PC -Double check the guard button for swords! I've had several newer players not understand how to use block functionality on the Aegis in VoG and had them be confused when asking them to hit the guard button (This one's mostly for newer players but it never hurts to put it in a comfy location. I tend to use the default.) -Set weapon quickswap to Q. This is probably one of my biases from playing years of Team Fortress 2 and various other older FPS games where that is default. If you have a better option, by all means go for it! -Make sure your interact key is in a comfy location. I use the E key once again because I am used to Source engine games and other games where E to interact is the norm. -Grenades on G, again this is a holdover from older games I have played (the Gearbox Halo CE port) -Change your ADS sensitivity to something comfortable. Like mesome said in the video, this can help you land shots in longer range duels. Adjust it to your liking Anyway these are a few of my own personal suggestions! Controls in games where you can customise them (should be standard in all games tbh) are very personal! I find it interesting how different people use different layouts to suit their own needs. While this is something that can be seen as kind of mundane, I find the psychology behind such customisations fascinating! You can learn a lot about how someone plays by analyzing them. Also, bonus controller tip: Try putting your alt-fire on right stick press. I've been using it with Vex Mythoclast when I feel like playing on controller and something about it is immensely satisfying

nice video needed to see where i was lacking

Don't forget button combos. The super uses a combo on controller, so anything can be bound to button combos. If using a controller with paddles/buttons on the back (like the Xbox Elite controller) then preforming these combos are easy as you should be mapping your most used buttons to the back to reduce thumbs time off sticks. After remapping my right thumbstick to be normal melee I then use combos for finisher and heavy weapon swap.

Bind the class ability to a press (I've got mine on the right analog) for the same reasons as the alt fire. And if you've got a ps you could use the track pad for something other than your ghost because less travel time away from the all important analogs

The one issue I have with long press jump for icarus dash is that you can't short hop icarus dash. I have mine set to single press B/circle and all it takes to get the proper icarus skate is to flick your thumb across A/X to B/circle.

I have had swap weapon as my R3 due to my love of bow swapping. It may also be good for everyone else due to the prevalence of snipe swap and shotty swapping. I figure toggle crouch could be press R3 and swap could be hold/double press

If you're on Xbox and you have the Elite controller with the four extra paddles underneath, change them to be A, B, X, and Y. Once you get used to it, you never have to take your thumb off of the Right Thumbstick so you're always in control of your aiming. I had to change it to the two inner paddles that have contact with mg middle fingers to be Lb/Rb and the two larger paddles be X and B, after my normal Lb started not responding. Too much Suppression Grenade spam.

Interesting thanks man

Thanks!

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Best tip for me: Claw grip superior, it's weird at first but gets insanely useful as you use it

Making emotes to hold has blown my mind and there is so many things I can change to make life so much better

Bet the game is gonna feel like a whole new experience from new light day 1 as soon as i slap all these changes on. Interesting video

truly helpful

I got a Dualsense PS custom. Finish is Dpad. Left back button change weps and right back is sprint *cuz L3 spam leads to left stick drift*. Hot swap is so easy! Will do the l1 and r1 change...makes so much sense!

I just switch my charged melee to R1/RB, my regular melee to press in right stick, and my finisher to right on the d-pad. This solves every problem for me. On Xbox, the bumpers in my experience are always the first to break after about a year or two using them. They just get stuck or don't respond anymore. That's why I'd never use them for scoping and shooting. I leave that all the way it is.

I'm on a regular xbox 1s controller, and I've been running 3 sens with 1.0 ads for as long as I remember, and then I recently changed my ads to 0.8, it felt so bad. The muscle memory is real.

I have changed my finisher to double tap reload. Granted I have a paddle for reloading. That one simple change made my life so much easier.

kinda weird but I swapped grenade with crouch. Also, I like hold to crouch because it means you don't have to constantly mash the button to do sweaty crouch spam.

I have the strangest feeling this came off the tortured bones of that one stream with voice chat commands enabled....

I'm still experimenting with my controller setup myself, like putting Hunter Dodge on the Right stick since you can still turn while dodging anyway

I hope Bungie adds a "TDT" controller preset.

I have a couple extra buttons on the bottom of my controller, but I don't want to get banned for modifications, so they are tied to LS and RS, which I have binded to sprint (so I don't accidentally if I'm just strafing) and uncharged melee since I'm not really a crouch spammer and it helps with shotgun melee or glaive spamming.

I really like the jumper moveset. Just like crouching, you dont want to have to take your thumb off the stick to jump

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You could try to bind uncharged melee to full trigger and charged melee to a light press, or the other way around.

On console, try changing your swap to heavy button (for me as a PS4 user it's the triangle button) from hold to double press, it is much faster and more deliberate. I also have my melee set to R3 and charged melee set to R1 as It separates the two, I leave everything the same the better

I'm on PC and I still watched this. Why, I don't know, but I did.

I play claw so some of these don’t really apply but overall a really great video!

Change 7 is so true. Sometimes you end up picking stuff up or rez

If you play a lot of pvp, you should change your interact button to your aim down sights button, therefore allowing your self to get a res and still kill people