No, there is no way have the old controller layout. I am not happy with this either but as of now there is no way around this.. there is a "veteran" setup option in the controller options which changes gas/brake from the left stick to L1/R1, which is a little closer to what you would be familiar with from battlefield 3 but it seems that the whole controller layout is based on an R2 spot button as this doesn't change with any controller layout option. I am yet to encounter any player that is happy with this new layout, the set up from Battlefield 3 was as close to perfect for a first person shooter as I have ever seen. There are many other problems plaguing this game before they deal with that though, which I don't believe they will.