Quake/Controls

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The controls in Quake are considered primitive by modern standards. As such, you will want to configure them significantly to more common systems; and you still cannot make all the changes within the Quake menu system.

Key Mouse Command
 Ctrl  Mouse left click Attack
 /  Change Weapon
 Space  or  Enter  Jump
 ↑  MouseMouse right click Forward
 ↓  Mouse Back
Mouse Turn left
Mouse Turn right
 Shift  Run
 ,  Step left
 .  Step right
 Alt  Sidestep
 A  or  Page Down  Look Up
 Z  or  Delete  Look Down
 End  Center view
 \  Mouse middle click Mouse look (hold)
 Insert  Keyboard look
 D  Swim up
 C  Swim Down

Options[edit]

  • Always run: Adjusts your minimum movement speed to that you always run.
  • Invert Mouse
  • Lookspring: When mouse look button is released, the view centers back to normal.
  • Lookstrafe: When doing mouselook, you strafe left/right instead of looking.