CONTROLS
On a phone everything is on screen: the stick (bottom left) steers, the slider (bottom right) is the throttle, and the buttons change with what you're doing (flying, landed, on foot, driving). On a PC the keys below do the same - the mouse works like a finger on the on-screen controls, and on foot you click the view to look around with it.
| W / S | Stick: nose down / up |
| A / D | Stick: tilt (roll) left / right |
| ↑ / ↓ | Throttle up / down (or drag the THR slider) |
| ← / → | Yaw (fine aim) |
| X | Cut throttle |
| Mouse | Click the console buttons, drag the stick + throttle |
| Space | Fire |
| Shift | Boost (uses FUEL) |
| E | Combat target (nearest threat) |
| F | Factions + standing |
| J | Supercruise on / off |
| T | Next target |
| L | Launch (when docked) · land on a planet pad (autopilot) |
| N | Sound on / off |
| Enter | Chat (opens the CHAT tab) |
| M | Mouse steering on/off |
| C | Chase / cockpit camera |
| I | Invert pitch |
| R | Respawn |
| 1 - 5 | Console tabs: contacts / status / cargo / chat / factions |
| Z | Scanner range |
| Map buttons | SUPERCRUISE THERE (planets, stations, spaceports) · HYPERJUMP THERE (stars, any distance) - the autopilot flies you; steer to take over |
| Tab | System map |
| G | Galaxy map (pick a jump target / plot a route) |
| K | Hyperjump to your jump target |
| + / − | Nav map zoom |
| V | Hide / show console |
| ON A PLANET | |
| L | Land right here (flat dry ground) · take off again |
| E | Get out · board · get in / out of the rover · salvage |
| B | Rover: deploy it (and drive) · call it back to your ship |
| W A S D | On foot: walk · in the rover: drive |
| Mouse | On foot: click the view to look with the mouse (Esc lets go) · drag / arrows work too |
| Space · Shift | Jump (again in the air = double jump) · sprint (rover: boost) |
| Q · C | Dash (crouched = roll) · crouch |
| Run at a wall | Jump next to a cliff / rock / wall while running = wall run · jump again to leap off |
| Left · right click | Fire · aim (holo sights zoom further) - or the FIRE / AIM buttons |
| R · X · P | Reload · swap gun · 1st / 3rd person view |
| ON FOOT: SHLD comes back when you stay out of fire, HP heals slowly, EXO powers jumps + dashes. Buy guns at a station ARMOURY. | |
| CAPITAL SHIPS, RAIDS + BATTLES (v11) | |
| L at a hangar | Slow down in front of a capital ship's bow and press L: the autopilot lands you inside (hostile ships: shoot their shield down first) |
| E aboard | At the vault: crack it (stay close 5 s) · at the reactor: plant a charge, then get back to your ship and L to launch before it blows |
| RAID THIS STATION | On the dock panel: raid the station you're at - a crime (WANTED + standing lost) |
| Battles | Every couple of hours a battle may break out over a planet in Guard / Union space - it's on your nav targets |
| MENU | CALL MY CAPITAL SHIP - your Bastion jumps to just ahead of you |
| H | Show / hide this help |
| MENU | Graphics OFF / LOW / HIGH / ULTRA (glow, soft shadows, particles) · retro dither on / off |
Gamepads work too: left stick to fly, triggers for throttle.
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