What this is about
Star Citizen has many keys. For the start you need a handful of them. Here are the functions with their in-game names – not the keys, because you can change those yourself.q1
Finding your own bindings
The game menu has the key bindings. There you search for the name of a function and see which key it is for you. The other way round, you can assign your own key there.
Across the whole Academy we never name keys, always function names. That feels clumsy at first but it is the only thing that is true for everyone.
Moving
- Walk – slower and quieter than running.
- Crouch and prone – important as soon as someone shoots at you.
- The default movement speed can be increased and decreased.q1
Everything else about movement in combat is in FPS – basics later.
Interacting
The most important beginner button is the interaction mode: it shows a cursor you use to operate buttons, doors, lifts and terminals.q1
Two more menus go with it – plus your mobiGlas, the wrist computer:
- The personal menu – actions about yourself, for example distress calls or gestures.q2
- The inventory – where your belongings are. Equipping and dropping works by dragging.q2
Talking
The game has voice comms and a chat window.q1 For the start it is enough to know that both exist.
If someone talks to you and you do not answer, that is normal in the verse. Nobody holds it against you.
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- Goal
- Find and use the interaction mode.
- Preparation
- You are standing somewhere safe, for example in your habitation.
- Task
- Switch on the interaction mode, look around and use a door or a lift. Note which key that is for you.
- Success criterion
- You have operated a door or a lift through the interaction mode.
- Partner
- not required
- Functions needed
- Interaction Mode
- Personal Inner Thought (PIT)
- Toggle Inventory (short press)