BEGINNER'S GUIDE - ALL CONTROLS + TIPS (Escape from Tarkov)
- Hold Shift when zoomed in with Mouse Right Click to hold breath and steady aim
- Press B to switch between firing modes 🔥 (You will always start a raid in single fire mode)
- The animation when switching to 🔥 🔥 🔥 fire is an ⬆️ flick
- The animation when switching to 🔥 fire is an ⬇️ flick
- Press L to inspect your weapon 🔫 and look for your firing mode
- If your fire selector is in an ➡️ position, you are in auto fire mode
- If your fire selector is in an ⬇️ position, you are in single fire mode
- Press Tab to bring up your inventory. You can see your ammo count there
- Press Alt + T to make your character take out the mag and estimate the remaining ammo
- Press Shift + T to look into the chamber to see if there is a bullet
- To be able to reload your ammo with R you need to have your magazines in your tactical rig or pockets
- Quick reload: Press R R (double tap) to toss mag on the ground for a quicker reload. Do not forget to pick up your mag afterwards!
- Selective Reload: Press and hold R and use Mousewheel Up or Mousewheel Down to select the mag you want to reload
- You cannot reload from mags in your backpack or pouch
- Magazines are selected from ⬅️ to ➡️, skipping empty mags
- Press T to switch your 🔦 on and off
- Press Ctrl + T to switch your laser sight on and off
- Press Alt + Mouse Right Click to switch recticles in your red dot sights
- Press Ctrl + Mouse Right Click to switch between stacked sights/scopes
- You can drag and drop items from your tactical rig or pockets onto your quick access bar (keys 1 through 0), this also applies to grenades
- Press G to instantly throw a grenades
- Grenades are chosen ⬅️ to ➡️ like magazines
- The F1-Grenade is a shrapnel grenade, seek cover when you throw it!
- Select a grenade from your quick access bar (keys 1 through 0) to take it into hands to be able to time your throw
- Press O to see the remainig time of the raid and get a feel for if it is still worth to check on the early objectives
- Factory is 60 minutes
- Customs is 90 minutes
- Forest is 120 minutes
- Press Shift to sprint, go to Settings > Controls and make sure that Hold to Sprint/hold breath is ✔️
- Press C to crouch
- Press X to go prone
- Press X when prone to return to your previous stance
- Press and hold C and Mousewheel Up or Mousewheel Down to move through your stance from standing to crouching to prone and vice versa
- Press Capslock to instantly go to minimum speed
- Press Capslock again to return to your previous speed
- Press Q to lean ⬅️
- Press E to lean ➡️
- Press Alt + A to do a slow ⬅️ lean
- Press Alt + D to do a slow ➡️ lean
- When using slow leans, you stay in the leaned position you moved to. To reset to normal, press Q or E
- Press Alt + Q to do a backstep/left-sidestep ⬇️ ⬅️ lean
- Press Alt + E to do a backstep/right-sidestep ⬇️ ➡️ lean
- Press Y to mumble, if ai is around you, they will respond to you with a voice line
It's Alt + Q/E for sidestep, Alt + A/D to slow lean.