Halo Infinite Controller Settings

About these numbers: Halo Infinite exposes center + axial deadzones on a 0–10 scale. Most players set center and axial at 0–1 on clean sticks. Halo's curve is fixed; feel is tuned via deadzone and "Look Acceleration" settings. These are starting points, not guarantees — your controller\'s drift profile is unique.

PS5 DualSense: Potentiometer sticks. The DualSense exposes no system-level deadzone slider on PS5 — the only deadzone control lives in each game's own options menu. On PS5, wireless and USB report identical stick values; on PC, the pad shows as a generic gamepad unless you run Steam Input or DualSense feature drivers, so tune {game.name}'s slider on the platform where you actually play.

The DualSense is unique in this set because its adaptive triggers and haptics sit on the same USB link as the stick data. If you run {game.name} on PC, keep the DualSense on a direct USB port — wireless adds a small amount of jitter to the stick stream that a tight deadzone will expose. Also note that the DualSense's built-in audio and touchpad keep the controller awake in a way older pads do not; if your {game.name} stick reads noisy at rest, disconnect the headset from the pad and re-measure before adjusting the game deadzone.

Halo Infinite exposes center and axial deadzones as separate 0–10 sliders, which is rarer than a single radial zone and worth understanding: the center deadzone is a circle that filters resting offset, while the axial deadzone clips each axis independently. Because Halo's aim assist and magnetism mask small drift during tracking, many players run both sliders at 0–1 and never notice the noise — but the Battle Rifle's burst pattern exposes a center offset immediately. Set the center slider just above your resting noise floor and leave the axial at 0 unless you see diagonal bias.