Halo Reach Tips: Best Controller Settings

Here’s a simple tip…

Choose a sensitivity between 3 and 6 and STAY WITH IT. The way your brain works is like this. It adapts and memorizes your sensitivity. Most professional players play between 3 and 5 ways and the bumper bridge is the most common design used by professionals.

If you always change directions, your brain will get confused and this can affect your accuracy when aiming. Just because you’re having a bad gaming day doesn’t mean you should change your meaning. Take time to warm up on some customs or an easy playlist before playing against the toughest players in Arena or MLG customs.

My general rule of thumb when giving lessons on controller setup, goes something like this. When you play default (3), you don’t have the advantage of being faster than your enemies.

I personally play on 4. I was on 5 when I started playing Reach, then I noticed it was a bit too fast for some reason. I was missing a couple shots that I shouldn’t have with the snipe and DMR. So bringing it down to 4 was good. It’s a bit faster, but still accurate. Anything above 6 is less accurate, so I don’t recommend it.

However, in Halo: Reach, if you like to use the jetpack, you’ll need to grab the bumper bridge (this is where you put your middle finger on the trigger and your index finger is on the bumper above it. You can use your index finger to switch weapons with Y or use Skills with X as well.Takes some getting used to, but that’s how I play if I’m not using sprint.

Otherwise, if you like to use the jetpack a lot, you might want to use default or recon as your button layouts. My general advice is to find your comfort zone and don’t change. Try not to blame your senses for your game, instead go to the theater and see where you can improve.

Thank you, Fear your personal Halo Coach.