Assassin’s Creed Shadows best controller settings

If Assassin’s Creed Shadows isn’t feeling quite right with the controller in your hands, it might be worth tweaking the controller settings. The default options more or less land right, but there are some that do benefit from a slight adjustment as we found out while playing for our review.

In this guide, we’ll walk you through the best controller settings for Assassin’s Creed Shadows on both PlayStation 5 DualSense and Xbox controllers. We’ve also thrown in an alternative control scheme for those that miss the classic AC layout and don’t get on with the more modern controls that Ubisoft has chosen to use as the default in Shadows.

General

Option	Setting	Details
Left-Handed Layout	Off	On if you’re left-handed and want to swap the thumbstick controls
Auto-Movement	On	Useful when riding a horse. Removes the need to constantly push the left thumbstick forward.
Walking Speed	10	Tweaking it lower makes walking feel too slow.
HUD Toggle	On	Gives you the option to toggle off the HUD if you want a more immersive experience.

Vibration

Option	Setting	Details
Gameplay	Default	Adjust based on personal preference.
Cinematics	Default	Adjust based on personal preference.
Interface	Default	Adjust based on personal preference.

Orientation

Option	Setting	Details
Invert X Axis	Off	Standard axis behaviour will be more familiar to most players.
Invert Y Axis	Off	Standard axis behaviour will be more familiar to most players.
Invert Aiming X Axis	Off	Standard axis behaviour will be more familiar to most players.
Invert Aiming Y Axis	Off	Standard axis behaviour will be more familiar to most players.

Sensitivity

Option	Setting	Details
X-Axis	5	The default 5 feels the best. Adjust based on personal preference.
Y-Axis	5	The default 5 feels the best. Adjust based on personal preference.

Sticks

Option	Setting	Detail
Left Stick Dead Zone	15%	If you controller is suffering from stick drift, increase the percentage until the problem lessens or, ideally disappears.
Left Stick Threshold Zone	100%	Adjust based on personal preference.
Right Stick Dead Zone	15%	If you controller is suffering from stick drift, increase the percentage until the problem lessens or, ideally disappears.
Right Stick Threshold Zone	100%	Adjust based on personal preference.

Triggers

Option	Setting	Details
LT Dead Zone	15%	A slight increase from the default setting makes trigger action feel smoother.
LT Threshold	100%	Adjust based on personal preference.
RT Dead Zone	15%	A slight increase from the default setting makes trigger action feel smoother.
RT Threshold	100%	Adjust based on personal preference.

Controller layout

Overall, Assassin’s Creed Shadows’s default controller layout is well-tuned and proposes the best arrangement of commands to make the most of Naoe and Yasuke parkour and combat skills. Personal preference plays a part here and you can adjust certain settings based on what you prefer. Options include switching Sprint from toggle to hold or changing Aim/Ranged Abilities from hold to toggle as well.

If you after more classic feeling controller layout that harks back to the first few games in the series, the following tweaks are worth trying out:

• Light Attack – square on PS5, X on Xbox
• Heavy Attack – triangle on PS5, Y on Xbox
• Assassinate – square on PS5, X on Xbox
• Crouch – R1 on PS5, RB on Xbox
• Prone – Hold R1 on PS5, RB on Xbox
• Character Ability – R2 on PS5, RT on Xbox

Beyond these, we don’t recommend messing around with any of the other controller bindings regardless of whether you using a PS5 or Xbox Controller.