Speaker 1: There are some settings in Destiny 2 that you literally never want to be turned on, and yet I constantly see people using these awful settings. Many of these settings will straight up make you worse at Destiny, so I thought I'd make this video to let you know which ones you should probably turn off. These settings are often turned on by default, so you might not actually know that they are actively hurting your gameplay. I also want to note that some of these settings are sometimes good to have on, but since most people should turn them off, I've decided to include them in this video. So without further ado, here are 10 Destiny 2 settings that you need to turn off now. Motion blur. This is a setting that basically smears your screen with this awful blur whenever there is any movement at all in the game. And if you've ever played Destiny, you know that there is a lot of movement happening all the time. I constantly see people with this one turned on, and since it is the default, I guess a lot of people just aren't aware how bad this actually is. This setting might be okay for other types of games where stuff like reaction time and aiming don't matter, but in a first person shooter, you should really never have motion blur turned on. It's kinda like telling the game, I intentionally want to see less stuff. Of course this matters for all activities, but it's extra important to turn this one off when playing the Crucible. When you're moving around the map, the motion blur will obscure your opponents, and then they'll just kill you before you even see them. Like imagine this scenario, you see someone behind you on the radar, so you turn around to shoot them, but now you can't see where they are because there's so much blur everywhere. This setting can also make small targets seem larger than they actually are because of the blur coming off of them, and this can cause you to miss shots because you're just shooting at the blur instead of the actual target. So in short, this setting makes it so that you react slower and react less accurately, which are both very bad things in a first person shooter. The only redeeming quality of motion blur is that it makes extremely low frame rates feel a little bit more bearable, but even then, just trust me and turn this one off. I absolutely agree with Aztacross here, this is not a setting you want to be using. Next up is this aim smoothing feature. This will basically make it so that your aim gradually accelerates smoothly instead of instantly reacting to your input. As you might imagine, this feels absolutely terrible and you should never have this turned on. It might make your camera movement look more fluid, but it will absolutely destroy your muscle memory for aiming, and this will make you much worse at the game. For this next setting, you can leave it on if you really want to, but I'd recommend turning it off if you actually care about hitting your shots. This setting is controller vibration. Look, I understand that some people love the immersion that vibration can provide, and I might even consider using it in something like a super easy PvE activity, but in more challenging situations where you actually care about your performance in the game, I'd definitely recommend turning it off. The vibration can kind of encourage death gripping your controller which may decrease its lifespan and also make your hands just get tired after a while. At the end of the day, this setting rapidly drains your battery and messes with your aim by literally shaking your hands, and it doesn't really have any benefits other than making the game slightly more immersive. I've heard people say that it helps them be more aware in the game, but personally I find that the radar, health bar, and sound effects are more than sufficient. As I said in the beginning, you can leave this one on if you really want to, but personally I turn it off. Next up is VSync. This is a setting that is supposed to reduce screen tearing, an issue where half of your screen updates to a new frame, but the other half does not. It looks like this, and understandably, you probably don't want this to be happening in your game. Unfortunately though, VSync also adds a tremendous amount of input lag, making the game feel unresponsive and sluggish especially in fast-paced PvP environments. It is essentially slowing down your graphics card so that it can guarantee synchronized frames. For this reason, you should definitely not use VSync unless you're having distractingly bad frame tearing issues and you do not care about the added input lag. There are far better solutions to screen tearing like G-Sync, something that comes with Nvidia graphics cards, and it does not have the same issue. It also seems that VSync is only available on PC, so don't worry about this if you're on console. This next one is totally optional and purely personal preference, but I thought I'd mention it briefly here because this is a video about settings. Some people choose to turn off the default color mode in favor of something else like Protanopia. Due to the reddish colors being rather common in the Destiny universe, some people find that the red on the radar doesn't stand out enough, so they prefer to have a yellow radar. Changing the setting to Protanopia will do this. Film Grain is a subtle visual effect that basically just adds this fuzzy filter on top of everything in Destiny 2. This originates from a defect in film, and I guess game developers were just like, ah yeah, people are familiar with this so let's put it in video games. When you zoom in like this you can really see the added grain on the screen. You can leave this setting turned on if you like because it doesn't really have any downside, but personally I don't really get the appeal so I turn it off. I debated if I should even mention this next one because it is so minor, but this is another visual effect that basically adds like blue and red outlines to stuff. This effect is called Chromatic Aberration and it also originates from defects in old fashion movies. As I said this one is pretty minor and you probably won't even notice the difference, but I thought I'd mention it because a lot of people don't know what this actually does and they have it turned on because that is the default setting. Turn this one off if you feel like it, but it's not going to make or break your gaming experience. The next setting doesn't technically have an off button, but I still wanted to mention it in this video because it's extremely important. The ADS Sensitivity Modifier is a setting for both controller and mouse and keyboard, and it affects how your crosshair moves while you're aiming down sights. This setting ranges from 0.5 up to 1.5, and I often see people making the mistake of setting this above 1.0. If it is above 1.0 this will basically make it so that your sensitivity will be higher while aiming down sights, and this extra speed can make it rather hard to accurately hit a target. The general philosophy here is that you want it to be at 1.0 or below so that you can be accurate while aiming, but still feel fast while moving around the game. Personally, I play with this set at 0.5. This setting right here is called Depth of Field. Do me a favor and try this out in real life for a second. Hold up one finger a few inches from your face and focus on looking at that finger. When you do this, you'll notice that everything else in the background becomes rather blurry. This is basically what this setting does in game, and it is extremely annoying. For example, when you aim down sights on your weapon, you'll notice that the edges of your screen become blurry. This is going to decrease your awareness of your surroundings just like motion blur, and obviously this is not a good thing, especially in PvP. If you struggle with having tunnel vision and being unaware of your surroundings, this setting might be why you're struggling. This one should definitely be turned off unless you're trying to take a fancy screenshot or something like that. I believe this next setting only applies to those of us playing on controller, and it is called Auto Look Centering. To demonstrate what this does, I'm going to run forward while applying no other input to my controller. As you can see, it automatically moves my camera up so that I can see where I'm going. I recommend turning this off because it basically just interferes with your gameplay and I prefer to be able to look around by myself and not have the game force me to look in a certain direction. This next setting is called Wind Impulse and it basically makes it so that the grass and other foliage in the game will react to your presence and abilities. Normally these bushes do not move when I throw a grenade at them, but with this setting turned on, you can see that they now do this extremely unnatural and almost glitchy looking movement. I don't really think this movement looks like a realistic reaction to the grenade. Turn this setting off because A, it doesn't really look that cool and B, having it on will slightly reduce performance. This next setting isn't technically a Destiny setting, it's more of a PC setting that greatly affects Destiny. Under your mouse properties, definitely turn off Enhanced Pointer Precision. This is basically the same as the aim smoothing we mentioned earlier, and it will massively screw up your aim and mess with your sensitivity. Also a bonus tip here, if you're on PC there is a way to almost completely turn off shadows in Destiny 2. You can't actually do this in game, but if you go to this file location and then open up this file called CVars, you can set the shadows to 0. You don't need to do this one, but I have seen a lot of top PvP players do this to increase their performance and remove the dark areas from PvP maps. Did you know that Guardians in Destiny 2 actually have holes in them? Like you can shoot right on someone and your bullet will just pass right through the hole and deal 0 damage. To find out more about that, watch this video where I bust 100 common myths about Destiny 2.