Controls - UberWaffe/OpenRA GitHub Wiki

We try to support the usual RTS controls:

• Left-click (or drag for band-box): Select units

• Right-click to issue the default order, depending on context.

• Shift + right-click: queue orders to be executed in sequence (most things support this)

• Ctrl + right-click: Force attack or drag a mine field

• Alt + right-click: Force move

• Middle-drag to scroll accurately.

• 0-9: Select control group

• Shift + 0-9: Add control group to selection

• Ctrl + 0-9: Assign control group from selection

• Alt + 0-9 or double-tap 0-9: Center viewport on control group.

• Backspace: Center viewport on (and cycle through) Construction Yards and MCVs.

• Spacebar: Center viewport on last event (base under attack).

• Enter: Chat

• Shift + Enter: Toggle teamchat

• A: Attack-move (will engage any targets found along the way, then resume moving to the destination)

• S: Stop (cancel all orders for selected units)

• X: Scatter selected units

• F: Unload/Deploy selected units/Return aircraft to base

• Left-click on build palette: Add to queue / resume paused

• Right-click on build palette: Pause production / cancel production

• Shift+left-click / Shift+right-click: Queue/unqueue 5x

• Double-click on a unit: Select all onscreen units of the same type, and owner.

• TAB: cycles production tab - Shift+Tab reverse

• Z: Cycle selected units through HoldFire / ReturnFire / AttackAnything / Defend stances

• V: Select "sell" toggle button

• B: Select "power down" toggle button

• N: Select "repair" toggle button

The internal plumbing for all this will change radically when opal is merged -- and this will also give us discoverability of the shortcuts.

There are a couple of simple things being controlled:

• whether the unit retaliates when it takes damage
• whether the unit scans for targets and engages them automatically
• whether the unit is allowed to move

HoldFire turns all of that off, the unit will only accept targets from the player
ReturnFire turns off the scanning, but will engage a unit that fires upon you (provided it does at least 1hp of damage)
Defend enables scanning and retaliation, but prevents the unit from chasing a target
AttackAnything scans, retaliates, and chases things

• Ground units in most cases by default are to set AttackAnything
• Submarines are set to HoldFire
• Air units do not support stances