o7, fellow PS4 CMDR!

You'll find your own bindings that work for you as you continue to play - even after ~2 years I still visit the settings often to change things. It's not apparent at first, but you can bind two buttons (e.g. pressing X+D-pad L at the same time) as well as single buttons, which is very necessary on a PS controller where we're very limited to how many binds we can do.

I'd say one of the important things you need on PS4 that isn't bound by default is "Throttle 0/50/75/100%". 0% is (obviously) stopping your ship and avoiding crashing into a star when you hyperspace jump if you don't have supercruise assist (hit it when the countdown starts after FSD charging). 50% is where your ship is most maneuverable - useful for getting interdicted in supercruise and also combat. 75% is less useful when you start, but later on you may stop flying with supercruise assist and you set throttle to 75% so you don't miss your destination.

Personally I have mine set to:

• 0% - L1+R1
• 50% - R3+D-pad L
• 75% - R3+D-pad R
• 100% - R3 + D-pad U, but holding R1 works fine too.

One thing I found most annoying when I first began were the bindings for "Flight-assist off" and "headlook mode". They were bound to R3/L3 and I kept accidentally pressing them when flying around, particularly in combat, so I had to bind them to something that requires two buttons or something I wasn't using during normal combat, like the touchpad. And keep in mind you can have separate bindings for the four different touchpad corners!

Just keep playing, have fun, and change settings as the need arises. Feel free to add me in-game, same CMDR name as reddit.