Section One: Basics and Getting Started
Part one: Flight & Basic Ship Systems
Part Eleven: Platforms, or Spacelegs (Hanging out ON stations. Crafting. Etc.)
Section Two: The Interfaces
Part two: Interface/The Menu (Player Information)
Part three: Interface/The Menu (Ship Interactions)
Part four: Interface/The Menu (The Map)
Part Five: Interface/The Menu (Encyclopedia)
Section Three: How the Universe Works
Part Six: The Universe (Basics of economy)
Part Seven: The Universe (Examples of things to find/do)
Part Eight: The Universe (Missions, rough overview + details on how to use map for them)
Part Nine: Your Empire (Hired ships, command, control, fleets.)
Part Ten: Your Empire (Stations, building, owning, interacting.)
Part Twelve: Faction relations and things to do with them
Appendicies
Appendix 1: Hotkeys + Default keybinds
General:
Flight:
Steer - up/down/left/right
Strafe - W/S/A/D
Roll - Q/E
Accelerate/Decelerate - Z/X
Match Target Speed - shift-X
Stop Engines - Backspace (Recommend to alt-bind to shift-z or similar)
Boost - Tab
Toggle Mouse Steering - Shift-Spacebar
Toggle Flight Assist - Ctrl-Space
Weapons:
Fire Primary - Spacebar
Fire Secondary weapons - L/R
Fire Primary weapons at cursor: Middle Mouse Button
Next Ammunition - K
Deploy Countermeasures - Shift-C
( I don't see it in the settings, but...)
Change Primary Firegroup: 1/2/3/4
Change Secondary Firegroup 5/6/7/8
Modes:
Toggle Travel Mode - Shift-1
Toggle Scan Mode - Shift-2
Toggle Long-range Scan mode - Shift-3
Toggle SETA mode - Shift-4
Menu Access:
Open Quick-Action Menu - Enter
Map - M
Missions - Shift-M
Property Owned - Shift-P
Player Information - Shift-I
Current Ship Information - Shift-Enter
Help/Tutorials - H
Interaction Menu - F
Object Info - I
Object Comm - C
Target Object in Map - T
Options Menu:
Options Menu - Delete
Options Menu - Shift-O
Save Game - Shift-S
Load Game - Shift-L
Exit Game - Shift-Q
Quicksave - F5
Quickload - F9
Camera:
Camera Mouse Look - Shift+Middle Mouse Button
Standard View - F1
External View - F2
External Target View - F3
External Static View - F4
Zoom in/out - Num Plus/ Num Sub
Camera left/right/up/down - Num 4/Num 6/Num 8/Num2
Camera up/left, up/right, down/left, down/right - Num7, Num9, Num1, Num3
Change Camera Mode - Num 0
Reset Camera View - Num 5
Target Management
Target Closest Enemy - Shift-E
Target Object - T
Next Target/Previous Target - PGDown/PGUp
Next Surface Element/Previous Surface Element - Home/End
Misc
Dock - Shift-D
Get Up From Chair - Ctrl-D
Toggle Radar Mode - Ctrl-M
Toggle Autopilot - Shift-A
Toggle Guidance - Shift-G
Pause - Pause
Toggle Sound - Shift-V
Container Magnet - O (letter o on keyboard)
Expert Settings
Toggle HUD - Shift-H
Platform Movement
First Preson: Digital
Forward/Backward/Left/Right - W/S/A/D
Run - Double tap W
Crouch - C
Jump - Space
Menu Navigation
Menus - Digital
Menu Scroll Up/Down/Left/Right - Up/Down/Left/Right
Menu Select - Enter
Menu – Open Context Menu - Ctrl+Enter
Menu Page Up/Down - PGUp/PGDown
Menu Tabulator - TAB
Main Menu Tab Right/Left - CTRL-Right/CTRL-Left
Menu Back - Esc
Close - Delete
Holomap Pan Left/Right/Up/Down - A/D/W/S
Holomap Rotate Left/Right/Up/Down - Num4/Num6/Num8/Num2
Holomap Zoom in/Out - Num Plus/Num Sub
Dialog Menu
Dialog Menu Interaction - F
Select Option 1,2,3,4,5,6 - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Map
Target Object in Map - T
Zone View - . (Period key/fullstop key)
Sector View - , (comma key)
Toggle Plot Course - Shift-G
Remove Order - CTRL-Delete
Appendix 2: Purpose of this document + Mission statement for contributors
This manual started as an offshoot of my early attempt to gather up tips and tricks for users in a Steam Guide. Unfortunately, Steam Guides are both tricky to use, and limited since it makes it difficult to open it up to the public to contribute, and X4 is a big enough game that I certainly don't know everything about it, and your expertise won't match mine. Thus, the hope is we can all figure this thing out together. This document is everyone's document - if you see something you want to change, change it. If you want to reformat something, reformat it.
The original steam guide I started work on can be found here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1578744214
- Rataphract