Best Rocket League settings guide: Camera, controller, & graphics

For fans of Rocket League, having the best settings can enhance your gameplay by allowing for more precise movements. Here’s a guide to the best camera, controller, and graphics settings we suggest using in this popular game.

Rocket League is one of the most distinctive sports games, offering a fast-paced and chaotic experience where players engage in car soccer. Decision-making and customization are integral components of the game, whether selecting the perfect car shape or optimizing hitboxes for maximum performance.

Adjusting and customizing your in-game controller and camera settings is one way to directly impact the game, and with the best settings, you’ll be able to pull off even the toughest moves much easier.

Best Rocket League camera settings

Your camera settings may become a complete oversight in the grand scheme of things, but its height, zoom, and many other nuances can determine how much of the arena you see and the default settings may not actually suit your eye.

Here are our picks for the best custom Rocket League camera settings.

• Camera Shake: Off
• Field of View: 110
• Distance: 280
• Height: 110
• Angle: -3.0
• Stiffness: 0.45
• Swivel Speed: 5.5
• Transition Speed: 1.2
• Invert Swivel: Off (personal preference)
• Demo Transition Time: 0.75

To start things off, we think Camera Shake needs to be off as it completely disrupts the screen and disorientates matters. Your Field of View should be a solid 105 as we don’t quite want to max it out, but we still want to open up our vision.

Your Distance should be around the 280 mark and your Height situated at 115. Simply, we find that too much height can throw off your perspective a bit, same with distance too. Angle won’t have a huge bearing so we’re happy to leave this at a fairly neutral -3.0.

Anything below 0.55 should be fine for Stiffness, so we’re just bringing it down a couple of notches to keep your camera locked in. Swivel Speed and Transition Speed are probably personal preferences depending on how quickly you can track and adjust to sudden movements.

So we’d recommend 5.5 for the swivel and about 1.15 for the transition. Finishing up now and Inverting Swivel only complicates gameplay, so we’ll leave that off. Finally, the Demo Transition Time is a new setting that allows you to control how long it takes for your camera to move after you’ve been blown up by an enemy. Truthfully, this doesn’t affect gameplay, so we would suggest just leaving it alone.

Best controller settings

Now that we have the camera better suited to Rocket League’s fast and frantic gameplay, let’s move on to the game’s controller settings. Knowing how to flip reset in Rocket League is one thing, but we need to hammer home these controls and guarantee your movement is fluid and pure.

These are our recommended best controller settings for Rocket League.

• Steering Sensitivity: 1.00
• Aerial Sensitivity: 1.00
• Controller Deadzone: 0.50
• Dodge Deadzone: 0.60
• Controller Vibration: Disabled
• Vibration Intensity: N/A
• Ball Camera Mode: Toggle

We can’t stress how important it is to keep your Steering Sensitivity and Aerial Sensitivity set to the lowest possible, seriously. Messing around with what is essentially the car’s traction control is alright if you’re playing a competitive racer like Gran Turismo or Forza, but we don’t need it here.

For Controller Deadzone and Dodge Deadzone, we’re going to keep them pretty similar at 0.50 and 0.60 respectively. FPS players will be acquainted with dead zones as it basically tells the thumbstick how much it needs to be pushed in a certain direction before your player/car moves in that direction. Keeping this quite neutral will suffice.

Controller Vibration is all up to you and your sense of immersion but for optimal playing conditions, it’s probably best to leave it off.

Finally, your Ball Camera Mode should be set to toggle as you’ll want to follow the ball the majority of the match and this stops you from having to focus on extra button presses.

Best Rocket League graphics settings

Many Rocket League players, including pros, prefer to play with video settings for performance. Better performance often comes at the expense of good visuals but has drastically higher FPS, leading to a better gameplay experience.

Turning off Vertical Sync is crucial for reducing input lag, especially for console players. While screen tearing may take some getting used to, your eyes will adjust over time, resulting in noticeable improvement.

Here are the best graphics settings for Rocket League for optimal performance: 

Window Settings:

• Resolution: 1920 x 1080 16:9
• Display Mode: Fullscreen
• Vertical Sync: Off

Basic Settings:

• Anti-Aliasing: Off
• Render Quality: High Quality
• Render Detail: Custom
• Frames per Second: Match your monitor’s refresh rate

Advanced Settings:

• Texture Detail: High Performance
• World Detail: Performance
• Particle Detail: Performance
• Effect Intensity: Low Intensity
• High Quality Shaders: Off
• Ambient Occlusion: Off
• Depth of Field: Off
• Bloom: Off
• Light Shafts: Off
• Lens Flares: Off
• Dynamic Shadows: Off
• Motion Blur: Off
• Weather Effects: Off

Best Rocket League controller keybinds

Now that you have all your settings right, it’s time to look at personalizing your Rocket League experience even further. While the default controller keybinds are really solid, there are some ways you can improve them to get another advantage over your opponents.

While there’s no real limit to which action you map to any button, there are a few we would recommend to make your life a little easier.

Action	Default Button	New Keybind	Reason
Powerslide	Square / X	L1 / Left Bumper	Moving this to the bumper makes it easier to reach in the middle of a game, and makes it easier to Powerslide and Boost at the same time.
Air Roll Left / Right	Square / X + Left Thumbstick (Direction)	L1 / Left Bumper & R1 / Right Bumper	Using the bumpers to air roll to either side is more intuitive, and requires less input as you only need to press one button with no need to move the thumbstick.
Scoreboard	LB	Square / X	With Powerslide moved to L1 / Left Bumper, it just makes sense to move the scoreboard to the open slot.

How to set new keybinds

1. Go to “Settings” in Rocket League
2. From the top list, select “Controls,” and then “View/Change Bindings“
3. Pick the binding you want to change, and then press the button on your controller you want to set it to.

Open Rocket League’s settings

First, you need to head to the game’s settings, as that’s where the keybind option is found. We recommend doing this from the main menu, as it’s the easiest way to get there.

Go to Controls, then choose “View/Change Bindings”

Now that you’re in your settings, go to Controls at the top bar, and then choose the “View/Change Bindings” button which can be found at the very top of that section.

Pick the binding you want to change and press the new button

Once you’ve made it here, scroll down the list until you find the action you want to change. Press A/X on your controller, and it will tell you to “Press any button to bind.” Push the button you want to set it to, and the list will update. You can then back out of this screen and go test it out on the field.

Those are our recommendations for the best Rocket League settings. For more on the game, check out ranks explained, How to use trade-in feature, and how to get blueprints.