In Halo 6 I would love to see an advanced fully customise option for control schemes but falling short of that, after giving it some thought, I have narrowed it down to 8 that I think definitely should be in the game. 343 have shown resistance to full button mapping in the past so I think it’s something worth talking about and having few quick access default control schemes would be useful even with custom button mapping.
[Disclaimer: In my examples I have added only one additional button beyond classic control schemes and for convenience called it sprint, but that could easily be replaced by Equipment, Thrust or whatever, or indeed ‘Flash Light’. And yes I am pro cutting the extra button used in Halo 4 and 5 but if you want to add it back in just substitute ‘Switch Grenade’ for it and move that to the D-pad.]
Classic
LT- Throw Grenade
RT- Fire Weapon
LB- Sprint
RB- Switch Grenade
LS- Crouch
RS- Zoom
Y- Switch weapon
X- Reload/ Action
B- Melee
A- Jump/ Clamber
D-pad- Emote/ Flash light
[Basically default Halo CE/ 2]
Inheritor
LT- Throw Grenade
RT- Fire Weapon
LB- Switch Grenade
RB- Reload/ Action
LS- Crouch
RS- Zoom
Y- Switch weapon
X- Sprint
B- Melee
A- Jump/ Clamber
D-pad- Emote/ Flash light
[Basically Default Halo 3]
Recon
LT- Throw Grenade
RT- Fire Weapon
LB- Sprint
RB- Reload/ Action
LS- Crouch
RS- Zoom
Y- Switch weapon
X- Switch Grenade
B- Melee
A- Jump/ Clamber
D-pad- Emote/ Flash light
[Recon as it was in Halo Reach]
Reclaimer
LT- Throw Grenade
RT- Fire Weapon
LB- Sprint
RB- Melee
LS- Crouch
RS- Zoom
Y- Switch weapon
X- Reload/ Action
B- Switch Grenade
A- Jump/ Clamber
D-pad- Emote/ Flash light
[Basically Default Halo 4]
Guardian
LT- Zoom
RT- Fire Weapon
LB- Throw Grenade
RB- Melee
LS- Sprint
RS- Crouch
Y- Switch weapon
X- Reload/ Action
B- Switch Grenade
A- Jump/ Clamber
D-pad- Emote/ Flash light
[Basically Default Halo 5]
Bumper Jumper
LT- Throw Grenade
RT- Fire Weapon
LB- Jump/ Clamber
RB- Melee
LS- Crouch
RS- Zoom
Y- Switch weapon
X- Reload/ Action
B- Switch Grenade
A- Sprint
D-pad- Emote/ Flash light
[I’ve moved A, B and X to the arrangement I always thought it should have been, keeping it consistent with other schemes]
Hell Jumper
LT- Zoom
RT- Fire Weapon
LB- Jump/ Clamber
RB- Throw Grenade
LS- Crouch
RS- Melee
Y- Switch weapon
X- Reload/ Action
B- Switch Grenade
A- Sprint
D-pad- Emote/ Flash light
[I’ve moved A, B and X to an arrangement that I believe is more consistent with other schemes]
Fish Sticks
LT- Zoom
RT- Fire Weapon
LB- Throw Grenade
RB- Switch Grenade
LS- Sprint
RS- Melee
Y- Switch weapon
X- Reload/ Action
B- Crouch
A- Jump/ Clamber
D-pad- Emote/ Flash light
[I think it’s good to have a control scheme to aid accessibility for players moving from other shooters]
Out of them I think I would use Recon to begin with then maybe try out Guardian, Bumper Jumper or Hell jumper. What do you guys think? And What control schemes would you like to use?