Understanding your new controls

Basic Layout

Right Grip - Dodge



Left Grip - Item, Hold to display the item wheel



DPad on Right Trackpad click for quick item selection



Center RPad Click is Interact, long press is lock camera (if you ever need it)



Left Pad Click - Dash (Toggle), long press is Dash (Hold)



Right Trigger Soft Pull - Normal Attack



Right Trigger Full Pull - Special Attack



Left Trigger Soft Pull - Unique Weapon Action / Aiming on ranged weapons



Left Trigger Full Pull - Aiming on melee (not all weapons use this) / Reload / Coating on ranged weapons



Left Bumper - Sheathe Weapon



Right Bumper - Combo, this is the Y+B combo for all the weapons, on Left Trigger Full Pull it becomes a Shoot button, because you can shoot with Sword and Shield and Insect glaive.

Melee controls

Ranged controls

Using Items and the Item Wheel

Menu Controls

Iceborne Slinger and the Clutch Claw

Action Melee Ranged Shoot all slinger ammo LT RT Weapon attack RT LT Full Pull Use Claw (redirect monster) RT Full Pull RT Full Pull

Right TrackPad and Gyro (Mouse Input)

so you might want to change that too.

Left Trigger Soft Pull also activates the gyro for greater precision while aiming ranged weapons or the slinger.The keys are not random, I chose them because the symbols kind of make sense for the controller buttons (at least to me) and when you see a prompt are not left thinking "the heck am I supposed to press?" in the picture below you can see what they mean.The only thing to note here is the right shoulder button, some movements require you to press normal+special attack, and this is impossible because both are in the same trigger, for this reason RB becomes the combo button, and it has a chord activator on LT Full Pull for the sword and shield, with that weapon you can shoot the slinger while wielding your weapon, but it uses the aim and special weapon action button again in the same trigger, with this you can shoot with RB while aiming on melee for the weapons that use it.Using ranged weapons changes the aim from full pull to soft pull, and reloading is set to full pull, this might confuse you at the beginning specially when you want to aim the slinger, but since aiming is essential to ranged I think is better to leave it on soft pull.Press the left grip to use an item, click the right pad at the edges to access the DPad for quick item selection.When holding left grip the item display will open, to change item sets click the right pad at the direction of the set, to use the selected item press right grip, if you hold left trigger while the item display is active you can scroll through the item bar and holding both triggers lets you scroll vertically (ammunition, coatings).You can use the stick and face buttons to navigate the menus if you like, everything behaves as the standard layout, except RT is confirm and LT is Back, The grips acts as the triggers.For quick menu navigation there are extra binds, RT Full Pull does what the Start button would do and LT Full Pull is the same but for the Select button. LPad Click long press is X and RPad Center Click long press is Y, or you can simply follow the prompts with the symbols explained before.Astera behaves as a menu too, pull RT to interact with NPCs, and you can use RT Full Pull to skip cutscenes such as the smithy or the canteen.Iceborne changed a bit the slinger mechanic and Introduced the clutch claw, now the slinger can be shoot even with the weapon drawn.For melee, aim pressing LT Full Pull and shoot with RT Soft Pull, to use the clutch claw press RT Full Pull.For ranged, press the right pad at the center to toggle between the slinger and weapon while aiming (LT Soft Pull), then press RT to shoot or use the claw, same as melee.Just be careful once mounted on a monster the button actions change on melee and ranged (as described below).You can access the gyro options selecting the square below the controller (see picture)My RPad Settings and Gyro might feel off to you. Here is all personal preference, adjust the sensitivity of the pad/gyro/in-game and other options to your liking.One thing I've noticed is that there is not a menu sensitivity setting in game, if you set a high sensitivity for the pad then the cursor in menus becomes harder to use, for that reason I suggest to adjust the pad sensitivity for menus first and then change the in-game mouse sensitivity setting for the rest of the gameplay.For the gyro I use LT Soft Pull to enable it when aiming, the other popular choice is Right Pad Touch, change it to whatever option you like better. In the Additional Settings section I use "Roll" for the Gyro Steering Axis option, most people prefer "Yaw"I've changed the default to yaw in the latest config.