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Best Battlefield 2042 settings

The best overall settings for Battlefield 2042.

Jorge Aguilar

Published: Jul 20, 2022 08:51 am

It may surprise you that the settings you choose for your Battlefield 2042 and other FPS games significantly impact how well you perform. Many streamers don’t stick to the default settings because they’re set to look appealing overall instead of focusing on killing the enemy. Setting up your settings for the first time can be very confusing since you don’t want to mess it up and ruin your gameplay or K/D ratio.

General

The Cross-Play feature is up to you, but we have it turned off because you’ll face people with similar advantages and disadvantages. Hints have been turned off because they’re a huge distraction. There can be times when usage data slows your gameplay, not much, but you don’t want any reason to react slowly.

Cross-Play: Off
Control Hints: Off
Reactive Hints: Off
Share Usage Data: Off
Show Player Created Content: On
Allow Followers: On
Show XP Type for Server: On

Network

We don’t recommend these because they distract you and are pretty useless. When your internet doesn’t work properly, you’ll know it.

Show Network Performance Stats: Hide
Show Network Performance Graph: Hide

Display

Video

The Field of View depends on your monitor, so please keep that in mind. Turn the setting up if you have a wider monitor. Keeping it at our settings is best for everyday 24-inch monitors.

Field of View: 90
Vehicle 3rd Person Field of View: 88
ADS Field of View: On
Brightness: 60
High Dynamic Range: Off
Motion Blur: 0
Chromatic Aberration: Off
Vignette: Off

Motion Blur looks more realistic, but it makes objects smear when running, making enemies harder to spot. It’s better to have it off.

HUD General

Show HUD: On
Show HUD Prompts: Off
Control Hints: Off
Reactive Hints: Off
HUD Motion: Off
Camera Shake Amount: 20
Soldier Compass: Off
Show Vehicle Seat: off
Chat Log Visibility: When Active
Colorblind: Custom

Custom Squad Color: Green
Custom: Friendly Color: Light Blue
Custom Enemy Color: Red
Custom Neutral Color: White
Kill Log: On
Show Kills Made by: Nearby
World Info Scale: 90
Player Info Scale 60
Vehicle Passenger Scale: 50
Personal Log Scale: 50
World Log Scale: 50
Chat Scale: 50

Crosshair

Your crosshair needs to be prominent on your screen. We have found white to work well, but if you think another color is easier to see, use it.

Crosshair Opacity: 100
Crosshair Projection: On
Crosshair Thickness: Thick
Crosshair Color: White
Hit Indicator Opacity: 100
Hit Color: Orange
Damage-Based Shape: On
Headshot Color: Lighter Red
Kill Color: Darker Red
Armor Broken hit Indicator: On
Armor Hit Indicator Color: Dark Green
Soldier Damage Color: Dark Orange
Soldier Damage Thickness: Thick
Vehicle Damage Color: Yellow
Vehicle Damage Thickness: Thick

Minimap

Although your minimap is very important, it should not interfere with your ability to see. It should only need to be noticed when you need to look at it. It should show you a lot around you when you’re walking, but when you’re driving, you’re going pretty fast, so you don’t need that much distance to see.

Rotate With View: On
Minimap View Distance – On Foot: 300
Minimap View Distance – Ground Vehicles: 120
Minimap View Distance – Air Vehicles: 200
Minimap Texture Opacity: 0
Minimap Background Opacity: 0
Bigmap Texture Opacity: 0
Bigmap Background Opacity: 0

HUD Icons

HUDs are only as important as you need them to be. Because you want to know where your targets are, friendly icons should be smaller than enemy icons.

Objective Icons Scale: 50
Objective Icons Opacity: 100
Objective Icons Opacity [Zoomed]: 50
Friendly Icons Scale: 90
Friendly Icons Opacity: 90
Friendly Icons Opacity [Zoomed]: 50
Friendly Revive Icons Scale: 50
Friendly Revive Icons Opacity: 100
Friendly Revive Icons Opacity [Zoomed]: 50
Squad Icons Scale: 90

Squad Icons Opacity: 90
Squad Icons Opacity [Zoomed]: 50
Squad Revive Icons Scale: 100
Squad Revive Icons Opacity: 100
Squad Revive Icons Opacity [Zoomed]: 50
Enemy Icons Scale: 100
Enemy Icons Opacity: 100
Enemy Icons Opacity [Zoomed]: 100
Neutral Icons Scale: 50
Neutral Icons Opacity: 100
Neutral Icons Opacity [Zoomed]: 50
Ping Marker Icons Scale: 100
Ping Markers Icons Opacity
Ping Marker Icons Opacity [Zoomed]: 50

Sound

Good sound settings allow you to adjust everything in-game, so you won’t need to touch a remote later on.

Audio

Master Volume: 75
Music Volume: 40
Sound Effects Volume: 55
In-Game Announcer Volume: 50
Sound Configuration: Surround
Audio Mix: (Put the device you’re using to listen to the game)
Hit Indicator: BF2042
In-World Radio Music: On

Voice Chat

Enable Voice Chat: On
Voice Chat Channel: Party
Microphone Mode: Open mic
Microphone Threshold: -50.0

Subtitles

Subtitles: On
Subtitle Text Size: Small
Subtitle Outline: Off
Subtitles Background Opacity: 0

Controller

If you prefer one button over another, you should set the controller to Custom. We also know that some people prefer the inverted controls, so please invert when needed. Otherwise, you should be able to repeat these two settings.

Controls: Default
Buttons: Default

Accessibility

Accessibility is an important setting to change. It is important to set these settings, so they don’t interfere with gameplay.

General

Keep in mind that your friendly color should be as close to what we describe as possible and that your enemy color should be red. You want to make sure you can see an enemy when they’re close by using red. Red is known to catch your attention quickly.

Menu Narration: Off
Play Incoming Text as Speech: Off
Convert Incoming Voice to Text Chat: Off
Colorblind: Custom
Custom Enemy Color: Red
Custom Squad Color: Green
Custom: Friendly Color: Light Blue
Custom Neutral Color: White
Motion Blur: 0
HUD Motion: Off
Camera Shake Amount 20
Crosshair Projection: On
Controller Vibration: On
Control Hints: Off

The movement and motion of the HUD are just distracting. Keep your focus on keeping your score up; if you get distracted, you leave yourself open to bullets.

Subtitles

Same as the Subtitles above.

Controls

Making sure you have as much control as possible over what you’re doing is important. Therefore, instead of controls that continue and require your input to stop, you should keep controls that require your input to continue. Therefore, if something catches you off guard, you can stop doing something without needing to input anything, and you can move on to react.

Solder Sprint: Click
Double Tap Forward to Sprint: Off
Soldier Weapon Zoom: Hold
Steady Scope: Hold
Vehicle Weapon Zoom: Hold
Revive Interaction: Toggle
Request/Skip Revive: Toggle

Extras

This is just a bunch of legal stuff, the help section, and credits for the game. It doesn’t affect gameplay.

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