Create a more friendly button layout for players?

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Hello Battlefield community! This is my first time posting on here. I have been a fan since the Bad Company Era. Miss the ol days of BF4, but moved on to 2042. Yes it was pretty crap during launch. But I know spending $100 for pre-order was all in time worth it. I mainly play on the newer cross-gen consoles now (Xbox).

However, I really wanted to express about the button layout for Xbox, which might as well do the same for PC & Playstation.

As for the Series X/S, we all know the basic concept for controller button layout.

But what if we could adopt a new layout, similar to what BF4 had.

Current Layout for Leaderboard on X/S:

View Button: Hold for Map

Menu Button: Hold for Scoreboard

Proposed change: Hold menu button for Leaderboard & Map by using both LB or RB to switch between.

Current layout for Call-Ins on X/S:

Pushing both LB & RB to pop open Call-Ins menu

Proposed change: Hold or tap View button for Call-Ins

Current layout for throwables on X/S: UP on D-Pad to throw nades, smokes, i.e.

Proposed change: Hold RB to use throwable equipment.

Currently layout for spotting can stay the same, since it's just tapping RB.

As far as Playstation & PC, feel free to chip in for button layout ideas. Just have it formatted for clarification.

Thank you to the Developers & the Community. We all know this game was dumpster fire in the beginning, but after a year with "Quality of Life" fixes, theres more to come to the table for the Battlefield franchise over the next few years!

psubond · Answer

@BIA_ORION How about we allow optional full custom remapping and dont mess with default layout. Allow people to adding any action to any button but don't take away the default option we have now. Most people have developed muscle memory over hundreds of hours of gameplay. I would be absolutely livid if they changed my button layout now and i didnt have the option to keep the layout i have now.

atfgunr · Answer

@Psubond They could make presets that we could select. As a PC player, I have to set up any game to work with my components. I’d love if games came with a number of presets and if devs would stop changing what the buttons do between games. I agree the existing default mapping would stay, it could be one of the presets, Throw 1 and V in there too.

cyberdyme · Answer

Hi&nbsp;@BIA_ORION&nbsp;,The game had indeed a peculiar layout for some functions at launch (I am myself on PS4 and PS5).As you, I am an old fan of BF games and therefore also used a functionality certainly available for the PlayStation gamers.And for what I know, then that is also available for both Xbox and PC platforms.The function you have in the game's advanced setup is to remap some of your button functions,I have dome that with success to match exact the same button functions/layout on my controller as I also have in the old BF4 game.&nbsp; So thereby its also very easy and intuitive when switching to play between the different BF games I have.I cannot recall I button re-mappings I have done specific for the BF2042 to match classic BF4 controller layout, but certainly the one about throwing the handgrenade on a single button push was one.&nbsp; And also the ones related to vehicle controls and helicopter controls had to be changed to match the classic BF4 layouts.&nbsp;I posted an article about that subject here around the time of game launch, but sure you can find many more on this subject today.&nbsp; Also several YouTubers have probably by now made some good instructables about this subject.Best of luck with it!

maskedocelot · Answer

Been trying the free trail on PS5 and didn't even manage to find the map or scoreboard until I saw you mention it. So I wondered how many other people may not have noticed. The lack of a map was really bugging me.

maskedocelot · Answer

Also not being able to just change the colour for allied soldiers is annoying, the light blue isn't really showing up for me especially on snowy maps and lighter backgrounds but colour blind option seems to change everything and I couldn't see an option to just change one colour. Sometimes it seems slow to pop in as well.

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