Button Layouts

Games Other Halo
1

-I’d like to discuss the button layouts of Halo 4-
According to This MLG forum post the button layout in Halo 4 is simmalar to CoD, Crysis and other shooters on the market.

Sprint and AA’s

I believe that at a Halo Player we should have priority to newer gamers. Why have sprint as LS, that completely changes how a person uses the controller. We should get layouts we are familiar to such as:

Sprint-LB and AA-B or something of the sorts.

Please post what you would like to see in a button layout.

This is my preferred one:
A- Jump
B- Action/Reload
X- Sprint (Similar to Reach’s Bumper Jumper layout)
Y- Swap Weapons

LS- Crouch
RS- Zoom

LB- Armor Ability
RB- Melee

LT- Grenade
RT- Shoot

Up:D-pad - Change Grenade Type
Down:D-pad - Toggle Night Vision/VISR

We need the option to customize our layouts so that we as players can use something we are familiar to.

2

Assuming layout is Recon:

Halo 4----------------------------------------------------------------Halo reach

A - Jump--------------------------------------------------------------Jump
B - Melee--------------------------------------------------------------Melee
X - Armour Ability------------------------------------------------------Switch Grenade
Y - Switch weapon------------------------------------------------------Switch weapon

LS - Crouch------------------------------------------------------------Crouch
RS - Zoom-------------------------------------------------------------Zoom

LB - Sprint-------------------------------------------------------------Sprint/Armour Ability
RB - Reload------------------------------------------------------------Reload

LT- Grenade-----------------------------------------------------------Grenade
RT- Shoot-------------------------------------------------------------Shoot

Right & Left D-pad - Switch between grenade type--------------------------- Left - Night Vision
Up D-pad - Night vision/Flashlight

(Down D-pad - Lower weapon XD XD XD / taunt? lol)

3

A- Jump
B- Sprint
X- Reload/Pick-up
Y- Switch Weapons
RS- Crouch
LS- Zoom
RT- Fire
LT- Grenade
RB- AA
LB- Melee
D-Pad Right- Switch Grenade

I would like to start a new Halo with different controls this time.

4

Apparently there are a lot of control layouts in the game.

5

I want to be able to fully customize, becasue honestly crouch jumping will be impossible with the default set up we have seen.

6

> I want to be able to fully customize, becasue honestly crouch jumping will be impossible with the default set up we have seen.

All i do when i jump is crouch jump. I want the ability to customize mine as much as possible. Like how Portal and Half life allowed.

7

A - Jump
B - Melee
Y - Switch Weapon
X - Armor Ability
RB - Reload
LB - Sprint
RT - Shoot
LT - Throw Grenade
Left Stick - Move/Crouch
Right Stick - Look/Zoom
D-Pad - Switch Grenade

8

> Apparently there are a lot of control layouts in the game.

Yeah sounds like 16943540 of them and you can customize it you your liking…

And that’s a +

9

> A - Jump
> B - Melee
> Y - Switch Weapon
> X - Armor Ability
> RB - Reload
> LB - Sprint
> RT - Shoot
> LT - Throw Grenade
> Left Stick - Move/Crouch
> Right Stick - Look/Zoom
> D-Pad - Switch Grenade

ahem

I will choose one that is closest to Recon/halo 3 default. This halo 4 default is stupid and too much like cod and other fps’s.

10

> > Apparently there are a lot of control layouts in the game.
>
> Yeah sounds like 16943540 of them and you can customize it you your liking…
>
> And that’s a +

Ummmm Wouldn’t it be around 4.38x10^10?
That doesnt sound right…

I think actually it is 479,001,600

11

> Apparently there are a lot of control layouts in the game.

Agreed, it’s pointless to discuss layouts when we don’t even know which one’s already present and not. It could turn into a massive flamewar over something that’s already present, but can’t be discussed due to NDA.
We know there will be a multitude of options, and I bet at least one of them will work for you guys, don’t worry ^^

12

just give customization

13

Why not just have button mapping and make everyone happy? It can’t hurt anything.

14

Personally, I’d like something like this:
A - Switch Grenades
B - Action/Reload
X - Sprint
Y - Switch Weapon
RB - Zoom
RT - Shoot
LB - Jump
LT - Grenade
RS - Melee
LS - Crouch
Left - AA
Right - Flashlight
Up - Switch to Forge mode (in Forge)

15

> Personally, I’d like something like this:
> A - Switch Grenades
> B - Action/Reload
> X - Sprint
> Y - Switch Weapon
> RB - Zoom
> RT - Shoot
> LB - Jump
> LT - Grenade
> RS - Melee
> LS - Crouch
> Left - AA
> Right - Flashlight
> Up - Switch to Forge mode (in Forge)

Wow so random lol

16

> > Personally, I’d like something like this:
> > A - Switch Grenades
> > B - Action/Reload
> > X - Sprint
> > Y - Switch Weapon
> > RB - Zoom
> > RT - Shoot
> > LB - Jump
> > LT - Grenade
> > RS - Melee
> > LS - Crouch
> > Left - AA
> > Right - Flashlight
> > Up - Switch to Forge mode (in Forge)
>
> Wow so random lol

Well, it’s basically a combination if Bumper Jumper and Green Thumb, with AAs assigned to the left button.

17

We better get full customization of the controller layout. I highly dislike changing to cods format even if it does make sense. It completely ruins any Halo skills I have since everything was so instantaneous with those controls. Now after 10 years of playing I have to change completely? Doesn’t make any sense why we can’t tune the controls to cater to our preference of layout. Definitely going to make crouch-jumping harder and more annoying to perform. I do know we get other controller layout options but what I’m saying is why don’t we get 100% control over the layout instead of preset options.?

A-Jump
B-Melee
X-Reload/Pick-up weapons/Enter Vehicles
Y-Swap Weapons
LB-Sprint
RB-AA
Left Trigger-Grenade
Right Trigger-Fire Weapon
Down on Left Control Stick-Crouch
Down on Right Control Stick-Zoom
D-Pad-Switch Grenades

This is how I prefer to play Halo 4. I don’t know about you guys but if I can’t have this I’m going to be quite upset. Even for Halo:Reach I switched my controls to Recon to have more of a traditional halo layout and my BPR is 100. Couldn’t imagine how bad it would be trying to play with a completely different control layout. I remember the first time I played halo after playing cod for a while…Poor teammates got blown up every time I went to zoom in with the br.

18

> I want to be able to fully customize, becasue honestly crouch jumping will be impossible with the default set up we have seen.

I´d like fully customizable controls too.

19

What I want (although not likely, but I can dream)

rt- shoot
lt- grenade

rb- melee

lb- jump

VERY IMPORTANT THE UNLIKELY PART SADLY!!!

TAP AT THE SAME TIME LB + RB - SPRINT: have it where you tap it like in reach so you can jump while sprinting

l3 (left stick click)- amour ability

r3- zoom

x- reload
y- switch weapons
b- crouch
a- switch grenade

up- team chat
left- night vision
right- unknown
down- unknown
back- score board

what do you guys think? I REALLY want this one

20

> What I want (although not likely, but I can dream)
>
> rt- shoot
> lt- grenade
>
> rb- melee
>
> lb- jump
>
> VERY IMPORTANT THE UNLIKELY PART SADLY!!!
>
> TAP AT THE SAME TIME LB + RB - SPRINT: have it where you tap it like in reach so you can jump while sprinting
>
> l3 (left stick click)- amour ability
>
> r3- zoom
>
> x- reload
> y- switch weapons
> b- crouch
> a- switch grenade
>
> up- team chat
> left- night vision
> right- unknown
> down- unknown
> back- score board
>
> what do you guys think? I REALLY want this one

I think it would be smarter to have a button on the D-Pad to change between srpint and AA’s on the button of choice.