20 Destiny Settings You Need to Turn Off Now (Updated 2024)

There are some Destiny 2 settings that you should never use under any circumstances... and yet, I still see tons of players using these trash settings. In this video, I cover 20+ settings that you need to change immediately, UPDATED for 2024 and The Final Shape! This includes settings for BOTH Console and PC, so this video will greatly improve your gameplay regardless of what platform you use.

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:30 Number 1: Full Auto Firing
0:52 Number 2: Radar Opacity
1:18 Number 3: Motion Blur
3:11 Number 4: Reticle Location
3:47 Number 5: Aim Smoothing
4:41 Number 6: 120 Hertz Mode
6:21 Number 7: Vsync (PC)
7:09 Number 8: Colorblind Mode
7:28 Number 9: Sprint Turn Scale (Controller)
8:04 Number 10: Film Grain
8:30 Number 11: Chromatic Aberration
9:39 Number 12: ADS Sensitivity Modifier
10:25 Number 13: Framerate Cap Enabled (PC)
10:41 Number 14: Depth of Field
11:37 Number 15: Autolook Centering (Controller)
12:02 Number 16: Screen Bounds
12:50 Number 17: NVIDIA Reflex (PC)
13:24 Number 18: Wind Impulse
13:55 Number 19: Text Chats
14:24 Number 20: Radial Deadzone (Controller)
15:30 Number 21: Axial Deadzone (Controller)
16:11 Number 22: Controller Vibration (Controller)
17:12 Number 23: Enhance Pointer Precision (Mouse)
17:31 Disable Environmental Shadows (if wanted)

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[SumoneAverage]

general note for text chat-you can type ‘/clear’ to clear out the chat, iv noticed ppl talk in tower or maybe a fireteam from 30min ago and the chat stays open until cleared

[fleecygold]

I am never going to change the reticle setting. Playing Halo for two decades has ingrained it in my brain.

[J-Mcc]

MOTION BLUR....Now I know why I get killed from someone in the periphery...I never saw them...Thanks. Great video.

[MegaDrain]

Ever since I found out motion blur was a thing during the ps4 era, my immediate gut reaction for literally any game on console or pc no matter what, is to immediately turn it off.

[NeptuneThePlanet]

Back when I was on controller, I couldn't play without vibration. If there was none, it just felt too weird and light. Vibration somehow helped me with my recoil control in games

[lordpadric]

I had Vsync on for so damn long I thought my fucking PC was broken and I couldn't play Final Shape. But now I'm going to play until my computer catches fire. Thanks Shadow, you are my Hero.

[Aidenn]

Number 16 is a life saver for those of us with ultrawide monitors man. I HATE having to physically turn my head left to see radar.

[Tamed_Delirium]

The aim smoothing one is wild I didn’t notice any changes when turning it off and just thought it was a coincidence. Thanks for the heads up! I’ll have to manually disable it in the files.

[dirtybird]

Bungie does a lower reticle for a design reason. It makes you look up at their glorious sandboxes more, games where it’s in the middle like 40% of your view is the ground… It’s genius. Don’t ever change that.

[harpuia]

Full-auto firing can mess with bows, making it harder to de-nock an arrow without accidentally shooting it.

[comfyzenny]

Hot tip about Vsync, please read.
Vsync does delay render timings therefore creating an input lag. But it is important to note that unless you are in native Fullscreen mode, you will be getting this delay regardless. (This means that borderless fullscreen, windowed, windowed fullscreen, all have the same delay as Vsync.)

This is because fullscreen display API's that are in most rendering engines will render horizontally onto your screen, which is currently (Wayland renderer is working on it but doesn't support Windows systems) only possible by swapping out the render method of your systems graphical output. Windows desktops are displayed with both a horizontal & vertical rendering which is Vsync ("Vertical Synchronisation), thus, any options that render your desktop to your display whilst also displaying the game, including borderless mode, will inherently perform a vertical rendering process before displaying the image.

[HCgamer]

WHEN DID THEY ADD RADAR OPACITY?!?!?! I already knew some of these, but WHAT?? Not being able to see it well is why I use a color blind mode. Oh my fudge cakes. I just got on to change this rn, tysm! 😂❤

[Quantum_Magnus]

Adding ADS sensitivity modifier is what got me in to Destiny. Having to set my sensitivity to 4 just to be able to ADS was awful. The modifier itself represents the percentage of your look sensitivity your ADS is set to. For example, if your look sens is 10, and your ADS modifier is at 0.7, that means your ADS sensitivity would be as if your look sensitivity was set to 7.

[jaconator]

Hard disagree on the reticle location. It keeps your FoV more upward so you can see enemies above you and also allow you to take in your surroundings better while keeping your sights forward. Theres a reason big fps games with a very distinct vertical axis of movement and large structures keep the reticle 1/3-3/8s the way up

[djnone]

You can set your trigger sensitivity, and i recommend doing so, for advanced timing for shots, especially with sidearms and pistols to keep from wasting dmg bullet rounds or keeping enough in the mag to kill 2 with one clip before reloading.

You still need to be mindful if full auto is on for these. Ace, hawkmoon, sturm, bottom half mag dmg, rampage, etc.

[tristan]

5:30

I know for a fact im not the only person who was watching this & went feral the moment you implied blacklisting PVP maps

[Escher]

0:12 you didn’t have to do soup like that 😂😢

[TheAdjuster]

The final shape update did something on ps5. My right thumbstick deadline feels different. Might have to check things out.

[Croulx]

fun fact: the enhanced pointer precision in mouse settings doesnt actually do anything in destiny 2 cause it uses raw input which isnt affected by any windows settings :)

[darkelf]

Thanks again for the tips. As a colour blind player, changing the reticle from red to yellow (even though I had the CB settings on), made an enormous difference to my game. As a CB player, who is RG colour blind, I really couldn't see the reticle easily. I can't see items as yellow when the CB mode is on, yet changing the reticle colour to yellow was an enormous change. It was why I stayed away from PVP.