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BalduursGATE Field Manual · Academy · Edition 1
New CitizenLevel: Beginner

Your first steps

You are in the game for the first time: get up, look around, open the mobiGlas, head to your ship, go. The whole beginning in one order.

Valid from patch
4.10.0
Game data version
4.10.0-hotfix (55227)
Version
1
Updated
2026-09-11
Review statusSourced

Every control function and game object used exists in the current game version. The statements come from the sources listed.

Review path and sources

Editorial in-game review

Nobody from the editorial team has flown it in game yet. The information comes from the sources listed below.

What you will learn

  • Know what to do in the first minutes.
  • Be able to place the most important terms of the game.

Prerequisites

No special prerequisites listed.

What this is about

You have started Star Citizen and wake up somewhere. No tutorial, no arrow saying “this way”. This guide tells you what to do in the first minutes – in an order that makes sense.

Five numbered boxes in a row, connected by arrows.
DiagramFirst hours UNCONFIRMEDFive stations of the first hours: wake up, ship, flight, mission, return.Own graphic · claude-entwurf, 2026-09-11

Waking up

You usually start in a bed in your habitation. The first step is meant literally: get up. The game has its own function for that (“exit seat”).q1

Stand still for a moment and look around. Nothing is urgent.

Getting your bearings

Three things help immediately:

  • The exit. Habitations are small; there is exactly one door.
  • The lift. It takes you to shops, the spaceport and the vehicle terminals.
  • The markers in your view. The game shows signs and waypoints.

If something does not react: you almost always need the interaction mode – a key that shows a cursor you use to operate buttons and doors.q2 More in controls & interaction.

Word by word

These terms come up constantly. Explained once, and you are in:

  • mobiGlas – your wrist computer. Map, contracts, inventory, messages. Own guide: understanding the mobiGlas.
  • PU – “persistent universe”, the shared game universe everyone travels in together.
  • Shard – the server you are currently playing on. You do not see players on another shard.
  • Vehicle terminal (ASOP) – the kiosk where you request your ships. In game the interface is called “fleet manager”.q1
  • ATC – air traffic control. It clears you for a hangar or a landing pad.q1
  • Quantum travel – the jump across long distances. Without it you travel for hours.
  • FPS – “first person shooter”: everything you do on foot, above all combat.
  • SCU – the size unit for cargo boxes. You only need it once you fly cargo.
  • HUD – the displays shown to you in the cockpit or in your helmet.
Do not memorise keys, memorise names. Which key does what for you is in the settings – and you can change it.

The first steps

  1. Get up and leave the habitation.
  2. Open the mobiGlas once and close it again.
  3. Go to the vehicle terminal and request your ship: finding your ship.
  4. Get in and switch the systems on: starting your ship.
  5. Get clearance and take off: take-off & landing.
  6. Accept a simple contract: your first mission.
This order is our recommendation for the start, not a game rule. You may do something else at any time.

If something does not work – and at the start some things will not – when something goes wrong says what helps.

Next: controls & interaction

Checklist

  • You have got up and looked around.
  • You have opened your mobiGlas once.
  • You know where to request your ship.
  • You know: at the start everything may go slowly.

On your Stream Deck

These functions belong to this topic. Which key that is for you is shown by the BalduursGATE plugin based on your own bindings – on purpose, no key is listed here.

Profile page FPS INTERACTION

  • Interaction Mode

Profile page MOBIGLAS

  • mobiGlas (Toggle)

The profile page MOBIGLAS is part of OMC Stream Deck 0.9.0. Go to the Download Center →

Read next

Links are stored in the hub entry – the index computes the reverse direction. No address is hard-coded here.

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Sources

  1. q1GAME DATASpieltexte – Hinweise des Spiels zu Aufstehen, Fahrzeugterminal, Flugverkehrskontrolle, Quantenflug, Inventar und Diensten (global.ini english / german_(germany))Build 4.10.0-hotfix (55227)Sinngemäß zusammengefasst, nicht zitiert. Wo der deutsche Text fehlt, gilt der englische.
  2. q2GAME DATAACTION-MASTER – Steuerungsfunktionen aus defaultProfile.xml und global.ini (SC-4.10-ACTION-MASTER.json)Build 4.10.0-hotfix (55227)Namen, Gruppen, Auslöseart und Standardbelegung (belegt ja/nein) gelesen – keine Tasten.

Patch and version information

Valid from
4.10.0
Valid until
open
Game data version
4.10.0-hotfix (55227)
Version
1 · EN Version 1
Review entries
none
Identifier
guide.newcitizen-erste-schritte