Last Updated on 26 April, 2023
HighFleet Controls PC Keyboard – All the shortcuts, hotkeys, and also how to change the controls & default settings
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HighFleet Controls PC Keyboard – Default
These are the default PC Keyboard controls & shortcuts:
These are the default combat controls:
- W/A/S/D keys – Thrust up/left/down/right to move. Be careful of inertia and don’t get too close to the ground.
- Hold Shift key – Engage afterburners for a burst of extra speed while held. Holding too long will cause an Overheat and shut your engines off for a period.
- Mouse – Aim your weapons.
- Left Mouse button – Fire primary weapon.
- Right Mouse button – Fire auxiliary weapon (if available)
- Mouse Wheel Button (Hold/Release) – Hold to set a bomb arc, release to drop bomb (if available).
- Mouse Wheel Scroll – Zoom In/Out
- R key – Cycle Ammo Type between regular HE ammo and the Special Ammo you chose before the battle began (if any). Be warned that reloading will take some time!
- [Only during your Aircraft Carrier attacks] R key – Command your airplanes to retreat.
- Space bar – Fire guided anti-ship missile (if available) at targeted enemy, with fire & forget thermal homing head.
- C key – Fire air defense missile (if available), which will protect against incoming tactical missiles and small airplanes launched from an aircraft carrier.
- F key – Pop decoy flares (if available) if an enemy missile is tracking you
- B key – Expend a Fire Suppression unit (if available) to put out a fire on your craft or cool your overheated engines.
- X key – Launch airplane (if controlling aircraft carrier).
- T key – Abandon ship to save your crew (if rescue modules are intact).
- E key – Rotate Craft Clockwise
- Q key – Rotate Craft Anticlockwise
Landing Controls
- Esc: Pause Menu (Retry / Quit Load checkpoint
- Shift: Engage afterburners
- Q: Rotate craft anticlockwise
- E: Rotate Craft Clockwise
- A: Move craft laterally left
- D: Move craft laterally right
- W: Thrust upward
Map view Controls
- Esc: Pause Menu (Quit / Load checkpoint)
- Mouse wheel: Zoom in and out
- Shift: Speed up time
- Space bar: Toggle pause unpause
- Mouse movement: Pan Map
Of course you can customize any of the controls on your keyboard, and even adapt all the action to another area of your keyboard, it is very simple:
How to change the Controls & Settings?
Once in the game press ESC, select Controls, and change any key, shortcut or hotkey
Video Guide
A little video to make people aware that there is a manual for this game and to also demonstrate how some of the more obscure controls work, by Atova (youtuber)
Other Controls Guides – PC Keyboard, Playstation & Xbox:
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