Quake/Controls

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		Attack
/		Change Weapon
Space or Enter		Jump
↑		Forward
↓		Back
←		Turn left
→		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 look (hold)
Insert		Keyboard look
D		Swim up
C		Swim Down

Options

• 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.