Halo 5: 343 announce more changes for Guardians



The Cartographer's Gift has just been released for Halo 5 Guardians



 

HALO 5 players have been treated to a surprise update from 343 Industries.

 

The changes are related to Halo’s Controller Menu and could affect how gamers play the Xbox One exclusive.

343 have confirmed that the update was included with the Cartographer’s Gift and will allow players to customise the following three areas:

 



- Look Acceleration: 

“Look Acceleration adjusts the time it takes to hit max look speed when you peg (apply 100% input in any direction) the look stick.

“The higher the setting, the quicker you will reach top speed, and the lower the setting, the long it takes to reach top speed.

“Currently, this value defaults to 3. For Halo 5’s launch, we made the Look Acceleration a tad faster that it has been in past games and the Halo 5 Multiplayer Beta.

“This was done in part to help you make large corrections a bit faster (for example, if someone is attacking you from behind it allows you to more quickly do a 180). If you would like the Look Acceleration to match the Multiplayer Beta, use a setting of 2 here.”

 



Players can now change their Look Acceleration settings



 

- Inner Dead Zone:

“The Inner Dead Zone refers to a small region around the analog stick’s centre position where we disregard input. Inner Dead Zone is used to prevent drift (camera movement when you aren’t applying any input to the look stick).

“This is caused because the analog sticks do not always return perfectly to the centre for a variety of reasons (manufacturing tolerances, wear and tear on the controller etc). Note that the default we use her aligns with the platform recommended value and is what past Halo games have also used.

“Recommended tuning process: Try turning the Inner Dead Zone down to 0% and test if you run into cases where after releasing the look stick, the camera continues drifting.

“If you do get drift, increase the inner dead zone setting a bit and try again. Ideally, you want as small of a deadline as possible so that you’re maximising as much of the analog stick as possible.”

 

Players who do not wish to make changes can go about playing as normal

 

Inner Dead Zone and Outer Dead Zone can now be customised too

 

- Outer Dead Zone:

“The Outer Dead Zone allows you to adjust the point at which the analog stick registers as hitting 100% input. Outer Dead Zone is used to prevent slow turn (when you are applying 100% input on the look stick but not reaching top look speed). The larger the Outer Dead Zone, the sooner you will hit 100%.

“Recommended tuning process: Try turning the Outer Dead Zone down to 0% and test if you run into cases where you can’t hit the ‘pegged state’ and encounter slow turn.

“If you do get slow turn, increase it a bit more and try again. Note that the majority of cases we found where people were encountering slow turn were somewhat hard to discover as the problem tended to be inconsistent and were offering happening only when clenching, torqueing, or rotating the analog stick around the edges a tad. So you might need to experiment with this one a tad more before settling on the proper setting.”

343 also had a final word of advice for those worried by potential changes to their gaming experience, saying: “Finally - note that the default values on these parameters are all identical to what we (and you) have been using previously.

“Therefore, you don’t need to worry about this update changing anything. If you don’t touch them, the game will play identically to how it has.

“But for those of you that want the ability to more intimately adjust your aiming experience, these parameters should provide more fine-tuned control that will help better adjust the game to your specific controller hardware and personal preferences.”