Ever since the Master Chief Collection was announced at E3 2014, fans have been curious as to how easy it will be transitioning across five Halo games at once, and one common concern that has been brought up is the issue of controller settings. It’s obvious that each game has had different default button layouts and options, and 343 eventually confirmed that players will be able to set universal control layouts to seamlessly transition from game to game.

In the Halo Bulletin on October 16th, Bravo and the Bulletin team officially announced the universal controller schemes for all of the games in the collection, as well as other Master Chief Collection controller settings. Below are each of the universal control layouts that you can pick from in-game.

Bumper Jumper:

Recon:

Zoom and Shoot:

Reclaimer:

Green Fingers:

In addition, you can also select the default control layouts from each game, so if you prefer Halo 2’s classic controls, those are still available to you. Also, you can select a different layout for each game, for example if you prefer to play Halo 3 on the Recon layout, but prefer to play Halo 2 on Bumper Jumper, that option is also available to you.

Bravo also stated the following options are also available to modify:

(Items marked with an * allow players to set them to the same configuration for all supported games)

• Thumbstick Layouts*: Default, Southpaw, Legacy, and Legacy Southpaw

• Button Layouts*: All original button layouts in addition to the above universal control schemes, minus Southpaw (read on, lefties)

• Southpaw layouts have been upgraded. The traditional Southpaw button layout has been removed and replaced by a more customizable lefty set of options for each game:

• Bumpers and triggers can be swapped for any control scheme.

• The DPAD and face buttons can be swapped for any control scheme. In addition, if the DPAD is swapped, it can also be inverted.

• Look Inversion*: Frankie or Not Inverted

• Look Sensitivity*: 1-10

• Impluse Triggers*: Can be turned on for Halo 2 Anniversary Multiplayer, Halo 3, and Halo 4, and are independent of “Vibration”

• Auto Look Centering*: Enabled or Disabled

• Crouch Behavior*: Click or Toggle

• Flight Inversion*: Enabled or Disabled

• Theater Controls (Halo 2: Anniversary Multiplayer, Halo 3, Halo 4)

• Turn sensitivity: 4 levels

• Panning: Hold to pan, toggle

• Camera Speed: 4 levels

• Camera Thrust: 3 levels

So there you have it, a TON of controller options are available for the Master Chief Collection! Do you already know which layout you’ll be selecting for each Halo game? Discuss on our forums now!

Source: Halo