What are the best controller settings for Modern Warfare 4?

The ones measured from your own pad: each stick’s minimum input dead zone just above where it rests when you let go, the maximum just below how far it reaches in its weakest direction, and trigger dead zones of 0 unless a trigger does not return fully. Then the Tactical preset if you slide mid-fight, Single Tap Sprint for tactical sprint, and the Dynamic aim response curve to start with.

Should I use the Default or the Tactical preset in MW4?

Both put four actions on the face buttons. On Default, crouch and slide are on B or Circle, so every slide and drop-shot lifts your thumb off the aim stick. Tactical moves crouch and slide onto the right stick press and melee onto B or Circle — you keep aiming while you slide, and give up the stick only for melee.

What dead zone should I use in Modern Warfare 4?

Just above where your own stick rests. The launch build ships Left Stick Min at 15 and both maximums at 99: 15 hides drift on almost any pad, but it also ignores the first 15% of every push, and a healthy stick can go far lower. The lab reads your sticks and gives you the number.

Is MW4 sensitivity the same as Black Ops 7 and Warzone?

Yes. Modern Warfare 4 uses the shared Call of Duty hip-fire scale — 0.0066 degrees per count at sensitivity 1 in the open beta — so the same number gives the same turn in Black Ops 7 and Warzone. ADS multipliers are set separately.

How do I make tactical sprint one press in MW4?

Set Tactical Sprint Activation to Single Tap Sprint under Controller › Movement › Movement Advanced Settings, or turn on Tactical Sprint Assist so the operator goes straight into tactical sprint. Either removes the second press.

What modes are in Modern Warfare 4 at launch?

A campaign, 6v6 multiplayer with 12 core maps including Kill Block, Gunfight, the large-scale Big War, and DMZ extraction with 20 squads of up to three players.

MW4 Best Controller Settings: Dead Zones From Your Own Pad

Modern Warfare 4 settings, read off your own controller.

The six dead zones in MW4’s Controller tab depend on the pad in your hands, not on anyone’s list. Plug it in and the page measures where your sticks rest and how far they reach, then gives you the numbers to type — with the preset, the sprint setting and your sensitivity worked out beside them.

Your Controller tab, filled in from your own pad.

Six numbers in MW4’s Controller tab depend on the controller in your hands: where each stick rests, how far it reaches in its weakest direction, and whether the triggers come all the way back. Two steps, about twenty seconds.

Connect a controller and press any button — the browser only reveals a pad after it has been touched.

Left stick

Right stick

LT / L2

RT / R2

Controller › Dead zones

Left stick · minimum input dead zone–
Left stick · maximum input dead zone–
Right stick · minimum input dead zone–
Right stick · maximum input dead zone–
Left trigger dead zone–
Right trigger dead zone–

In the game the six sit under Controller › Controller › Deadzone Inputs, in this order, and each value is a share of the stick’s travel. The launch build ships Left Stick Min at 15 — far above where a healthy stick rests — and both maximums at 99.

Default or Tactical: the same four buttons, a different job leaves the stick.

Both presets put four actions on the face buttons, and every one of them takes your right thumb off the aim stick. What the Tactical preset changes is which action that is: crouch and slide move onto the stick press, melee moves to B.

A B X Y RS Jump Reload Switch weapon Crouch · slide Melee

Default: the slide costs you your aim.

Crouch and slide sit on B / Circle. The drop-shot and the slide out of a corner are moves you make in the middle of a fight, and every one lifts the thumb that is aiming.

Tactical sprint is a second press, and it costs time.

By default MW4 starts tactical sprint with a second press of sprint while you are already sprinting. Press the left stick in twice (or tap Left Shift twice) the way you would leaving cover; the page measures the gap you add each time.

L3Left Shift

Double-press sprint the way you would leaving cover

Every double press adds a gap before tactical sprint starts. Five or six of them show your own number.

The setting: Controller › Movement › Movement Advanced Settings › Tactical Sprint Activation › Single Tap Sprint.

Your sensitivity, carried into MW4 from any game.

Modern Warfare 4, Black Ops 7 and Warzone share one hip-fire scale, so the number carries straight across between them. From any other game the page keeps your turn per centimetre of mouse movement the same.

Game you play now Its sensitivity Mouse DPI

MW4 sensitivity –

– cm for a full turn · – eDPI

ADS multipliers sit on top of this; they are left at 1.00 here.

First boot: every setting worth changing, ticked off.

The 18 settings from the MW4 controls page, in the order you meet them. Tick each one as you set it — the list remembers, so you can come back after the shaders compile.

What Modern Warfare 4 is, counted.

Five modes at launch. The numbers below are Activision’s, from the release hub’s confirmed list.

12Core 6v6 maps at launch

500+Kill Block configurations

60DMZ operators at most: 20 squads of up to 3

CampaignEarly access from 16 October for digital pre-orders.
6v6 multiplayer12 core maps, including Kill Block.
GunfightIts own map pool.
Big WarLarge-scale maps.
DMZExtraction: 20 squads of up to three, a Forward Operating Base hub and operator trait trees.

Modern Warfare 4 ships Left Stick Min at 15, which ignores the first 15% of every push on a healthy pad. This reads where your own sticks rest and reach, gives you the six dead-zone numbers to type and times what the tactical sprint double press costs you

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Modern Warfare 4 settings, read off your own controller.

Your Controller tab, filled in from your own pad.

Default or Tactical: the same four buttons, a different job leaves the stick.

Tactical sprint is a second press, and it costs time.

Your sensitivity, carried into MW4 from any game.

First boot: every setting worth changing, ticked off.

What Modern Warfare 4 is, counted.

From announcement to 23 October

Modern Warfare 4 settings

The whole Call of Duty family

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Modern Warfare 4

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