Change These God of War Ragnarök Settings Before Playing!

PlayStation's God of War Ragnarök has just been released, but before you play the game for yourself, there are 12 settings you should change on both the PS5 and PS4 versions of the game to further elevate your experience!

Hey everyone, my name is Octorious, and in this PlayStation tips and tricks video, we'll be focusing specifically on God of War 5: Ragnarok! I'll be showcasing 12 settings that I recommend you consider changing before playing the game (or during, if you have already started!), as well as ensuring you have disabled an important PS5 feature to prevent yourself from seeing God of War Ragnarok spoilers. Most of these settings are identical across Sony's different generations of consoles, so it does not matter if you are playing the game on a PlayStation 4, or PlayStation 5; this video is for you! I hope you find this God of War Ragnarok tips and tricks video useful.

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0:00 Change These Settings Before Playing!
0:17 Setting 1
1:00 Setting 2 (Preference Based)
1:24 Setting 3
1:35 Setting 4
1:49 Setting 5
2:10 Setting 6
2:31 Bought on PS5? DO THIS ASAP!
2:56 Setting 7
3:19 Setting 8
3:59 Setting 9 (Preference Based)
4:31 Setting 10
5:07 Brief Review of Accessibility Settings
5:34 Setting 11
5:52 Setting 12
6:13 Console Settings to Change

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Note: After playing Ragnarök a little more, I am conflicted on ‘Setting 2’. Leaving it at default is ultimately the best way to go if you can get used to it; I just struggled considering how much muscle memory I have built up for using circle for dodging. It definitely does come down to preference! :)

[Ranerdar]

My favorite part of Navigation Assist is when presented with two paths. Click R3 to see which leads to the story and then go the other way to get the loot.

[opgamr]

Something to think about on the Pick up setting.... picking up health or rage drops is almost always a stun tactic for surrounding enemies, and can be part of smart gameplay if fully surrounded to pop them manually

[Jungle_Twist]

A tip for players playing on hard or Give Me God of War, keep the pick up on manual. Smashing a health crystal mid battle will stagger any enemies close around you and give you a moment to breathe.

[lomaxdesigns]

I would say the most important setting to change out of the box is your camera movement speed. I go with around 7 or 8. For me, this was near essential for beating the Valkyries on GMGOW 2018. It takes time to get used to that level of swiftness though & felt like I was learning to walk again when I first tuned it up. Get used to it early & when the combat gets serious, you'll be a step ahead.

[derrickwilliams]

That quick turn tip is a godsend, thank you!

[TheRealOne]

Setting 12 to use R3 is so helpful. This was also in Last of Us 2. It helps any time there's a diverging path and you aren't sure if one way is the story and the other will let you explore.

[Alex-ilpq]

As a Dark souls player I also swapped the dodge to O but I swapped it back to default as I realized it's faster/more convenient for playflow to dodge with X as it's closer to the right joystick which is moving the camera and GoW is a very camera moving focused game even more so than souls games.

Got used to it pretty quickly TBH

Bring on the hate but I say X is arguably the better button for dodge when you get used to it and I can see why they made it default

[travisbuschette]

There's a small one I didn't find for the longest time, but glad I changed it. The default to going bare-handed is the down D-pad button, but since the first game had you hit the same directional button of the weapon to sheathe it (left for Blades, right for Ax), I would recommend changing that setting back to be like the first game.

[PRNCETDT]

After playing elden ring, circle or B feels really natural when dodging/rolling.

[markippo]

It's nice to see that I'm not the only one who constantly tries to dodge with a circle :)

[rashadd]

I've died several times tapping the circle button thinking it was the evade button. Just feels so natural it's taking me a while to adjust

[Samko]

Yo man thank you so much, i always get delayed about an hour or two juat in the menu and options to optimize my game and fps and you made it so much easier!

[ultrawideDreamsGraphics]

Thank you
These were good tips, I just started playing the game :))

[lcan]

Just getting around to playing Ragnarok, and it didn't feel right the buttons, so I looked up this video and now it's amazing and I didn't even know I didn't have VVR turned on, this video has made this experience so far so much better thanks you, I will subscribe as a thanks 😊

[apria]

I was thrilled that you could turn off the hand held camera shake down / off during gameplay. I never minded it during the cut scenes, but it didn't add anything for me other than a headache and less play time on start.

[Alex-ilpq]

Very good tips! I didn't even realize I was playing without HDR and VRR benefits of my CX oled. I think I set them up previously but they probably got set to default by an update.

I could notice quite clearly some occasional dips in FPS as soon as i turned HRD on though (using performance mode) which wasn't the case before I turned it on but I think it's still worth it and it's far less noticeable than turning on quality mode for instance so it's a good balance

[thePraddagee]

The targeting system seems more awkward than in the previous game. So far I’m not feeling it. I also considered that I may have aged out and just trash now too. Yet still, it shouldn’t be this difficult to navigate through battle with multiple opponents.

[martialcitizen]

Really appreciate this video I hope it gets the attention it deserves Can't wait to hop on and change some of these thank you so much

[chincemagnet]

Actually a few good suggestions, swapped O and X right away, that was really throwing me off, although I kept mixing them up for a bit after that. I don’t like the auto pick up though.