Angels Fall First Controls & Keybinds Reference (1.0)

Angels Fall First spreads its controls across infantry, ground vehicles, fighters and capital ships, and tells you about maybe half of them. This is the reference sheet — the defaults every other guide assumes. Everything is rebindable in settings; the / key even opens extra in-game help.

The keys that define the game

Key	Action	Why it matters
G	Tag target	The spine of AFF: tags enemies, objectives, boarding targets; shows target health; feeds squad awareness; sets up context orders
C (hold)	Command rosetta	Orders for squads, vehicle accept/decline, context actions on your tagged target
F	Universal interact	Doors, consoles, briefings, pickups, boarding, ready-up
Esc	Tactical map	Spawn selection, orders, vehicle acceptance, situational awareness
F1	Claim offered ship/vehicle	Capital ship spawn prompts
Middle mouse	Gravity mode toggle	The flight-model switch in every flying machine

If you learn six bindings, learn these.

Infantry

Key	Action
WASD	Move
Shift	Sprint
G	Tag / spot
C (hold)	Command menu
F	Interact / pick up weapons
X	Toggle fire mode (weapons, explosives, mine/charge modes)
Z	Flashlight
R	Reload — release the trigger first after full-auto
Mousewheel	Zoom adjust on high-power scopes (7x)
/	In-game help

Notes the game won’t volunteer:

• Auto-reload only triggers if you release the trigger — holding the button on an empty magazine does nothing.
• X switches more than rifle fire modes: it toggles MNL grenades between sticky and bouncing, CH8D charges between remote and proximity, and RID/MLI launchers between heavy/guided and light/dumbfire.
• Right-click with CH8D charges draws the detonator; left-click then detonates all placed charges.
• Hold left mouse to cook frag grenades (5-second fuse) and to load multiple MNL grenades.
• Downed by a headshot with an Anti-Trauma helmet? You’re incapacitated, not dead — wait for a Multitool revive.

Squad and command

Key	Action
C (hold)	Order rosetta — slot 1 is context-sensitive to your G-tagged target
Esc map	Click squad members → right-click objective to order
G	Tag first, then order “attack/capture my target”

Squad status lives top-right; red entries mean “no orders.” If your name tops the squad list, you’re the leader — the squad leader guide is the follow-up read.

Ground vehicles

Key	Action
WASD	Drive
Shift	Boost
Z	Activate shield / countermeasure
Middle mouse	Gravity mode (gunships) — off hovers, on flies fixed-wing
F	Enter / exit
Number keys	Switch weapon systems (mechs carry two; one fires at a time)
Esc / C	Accept or decline offered vehicles

Remember: rear armour takes bonus damage, and the Multitool repairs from outside.

Fighters and capital ships

Key	Action
Middle mouse	Gravity mode — off for Newtonian drift, on for aircraft handling
Shift	Boost (watch the right-hand gauge)
Q / E	Roll
Z	Countermeasure / shield generator
N	Cycle capital-ship subsystem targets (weapons, point defence, engines)
Number keys	Switch weapons — new pilots forget missiles exist
R	Reload
. (period)	Change camera view
F	Board / dock (dropships: slow down at the hull until the yellow ring appears)
F1	Take an offered capital ship

Flight HUD decoder: left gauge is engine power (negative = reversing), right gauge is boost, GR blue/yellow is grav on/off, CM blue/yellow is countermeasure ready/cooling.

Spawn screen

• Pick a location first (ground: the one battlefield; space: a ship or station), then a deploy zone within it.
• The bottom arrows on space maps cycle locations — you cannot spawn into open space, only into hulls and stations.
• Squad-only locations (corvettes, destroyers, cruisers) appear only if your squad owns them.
• Enemy ships appear as locations once your team holds a breach point aboard.

Related guides

• Beginner’s guide
• Space combat & fighter guide
• Weapons guide