How To Fix Sprint Button On Ps4 Controller

No Man's Sky contains an unfathomably massive universe, and the planets within it are, well, appropriately planet-sized. Suffice it to say that you're going to be doing a lot of running around those worlds, which means you lot're quickly going to discover that the sprint role in the game is mapped to an annoying push. Thankfully, nosotros've got a quick and like shooting fish in a barrel prepare for yous.

Before we begin, mayhap the subject of this story wasn't evident to yous already — we've heard from a number of people who didn't even realize they could sprint in the game. You can indeed sprint for a limited fourth dimension in No Man's Sky, and it'due south possible to upgrade the ability and then you tin run for longer periods without getting winded.

But in the PlayStation 4 version of No Homo'southward Heaven, the sprint function is mapped to R3 — clicking in the correct analog stick. That'southward the opposite of how it works in most other kickoff-person games, where you click the left stick to run.

There'south a simple solution for this consequence. While No Homo'south Sky itself doesn't let you lot remap the controls, yous tin go around that by going directly into the PS4's settings. Sony'southward version two.50 firmware update for the console, released in March 2015, added a number of accessibility options to the arrangement — including the power to reassign buttons on the DualShock 4 controller.

Go into the Accessibility section of the PS4'southward settings bill of fare, and so roll downwards to Button Assignments. Check the box that says "Enable Custom Push Assignments," and so go into "Customize Button Assignments." Go downward to the L button, then printing X to reassign it to the R push button. (Don't worry: This will only bandy L3 and R3, not the sticks themselves.)

Voilà! At present when you play No Homo's Sky, you'll click the left stick to sprint. The role that was formerly assigned to that button — the environment scanner — will be on R3 instead.

We should note that there'due south a major drawback to this. Whatsoever controller remapping that you do in the PS4's accessibility settings is a global change; the console doesn't permit yous to create sets of push button assignments on a game-by-game basis. That ways that your L3 and R3 buttons will be swapped in every game, unless you manually switch them back whenever yous want to play something too No Man's Sky. (We've asked Hello Games if at that place are any plans to add button remapping to the game, and we'll update this commodity with any data we receive.)

It's a skillful matter, so, that No Man's Sky is the but game we're going to play for the rest of our lives.

For more on No Man'due south Sky, bank check out our impressions of the first ten hours.