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To view your current controls in game, press F2. Below are the default keys.

Control Default key binding Comment
Up W
Down S
Left A
Right D
Shoot Left mouse button
Squad command Right mouse button
Squad command modifier (aka MOD-key) Left Windows key See Squad control, see Weapons and equipment for remote 'detonate'.
Map Tab
Jump / enter vehicle / climb ladder Space Jump means vaulting over obstacles such as walls and fences
Pick up / quick pick up / horn / inventory F Tap over an item for quick pick up
Reload R
Grenade G
Equip 1st/2nd weapon B Switches between main weapon and secondary weapon/support item
Show radio calls H The key needs to be held down, then press Shoot button to execute the call on the desired point
Knife V When wounded and can't get help, hold the button for 3 sec. to force respawn. Also used to disarm explosives (see Weapons and equipment).
Walk Shift
Crouch Ctrl
Prone C Going prone while moving will make you dive in that direction. Nice way to jump from a building/into the water or to avoid grenades
Map zoom in Mouse scroll up When you zoomed into the map you can pan it around my keeping the left mouse button pressed and moving the mouse
Map zoom out Mouse scroll down
Global chat Enter Small white box at the top right corner of the chat bubble
Faction chat T Small colored (color of your faction) box at the top right corner of the chat bubble
Squad chat Y Small colored icon (normally all squad's members are colored in the same or similar color) at the top right corner of the chat bubble
Pause game P Only applicable in Single Player
Statistics / Chat log F1
Controls config F2
Increase squad size Page Up Increases the numbers of the members in your AIs squad
Decrease squad size Page Down Reduces the numbers of the members in your AIs squad
Next squad config Home A squad layout that represents the kind of soldiers you want in your squad
Previous squad config End A squad layout that represents the kind of soldiers you want in your squad
Crouch toggle Unassigned Some players might prefer to assign a crouch key as toggle
Prone toggle Unassigned Some players might prefer to assign a prone key as toggle
Hotkey 1 - 10 Unassigned Can be used for example for a custom chat text (see the explanation below)

Screenshots[]

The Take Screenshot key (can be remapped in Steam settings) takes a screenshot that is saved in one of following directories (depending on your OS):

Windows: %appdata%\Running with rifles\ 
Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/RunningWithRifles
Linux: $HOME/.running_with_rifles

Tip for Windows users: to easily navigate to the directory just copy the path and paste it in the Explorer bar or in the search bar under Start menu for quick access

Hotkeys[]

'Hotkeys' is a file where you can save some quick chat messages enterable by pressing an assigned key.
To create a Hotkeys file you need to create a file called hotkeys.xml and place or just create it in the directory explained above.
Open the hotkeys.xml with a text editor and copy/paste inside the text from example below. Fill the text field to your desires. When done restart your game for changes to take effect.

Tip: be sure to assign buttons 1-10 to hotkeys under F2, or else these keybinds won't work!

<hotkeys>
       <hotkey index="0" text="enter here text for Hotkey 1" />
       <hotkey index="1" text="enter here text for Hotkey 2" />
       <hotkey index="2" text="enter here text for Hotkey 3" />
       <hotkey index="3" text="enter here text for Hotkey 4" />
       <hotkey index="4" text="enter here text for Hotkey 5" />
       <hotkey index="5" text="enter here text for Hotkey 6" />
       <hotkey index="6" text="enter here text for Hotkey 7" />
       <hotkey index="7" text="enter here text for Hotkey 8" />
       <hotkey index="8" text="enter here text for Hotkey 9" />
       <hotkey index="9" text="enter here text for Hotkey 10" />
</hotkeys>
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