Keyboard Shortcuts
Keyboard Shortcuts
BTA has added a bevy of custom shortcuts for your convenience and usefulness. The ones we've done are added below for your edification.
Movement - Holding Left Alt: This lets you see the movement nodes around your cursor. Not amazingly useful but lets you see dropship landing locations and terrain types.
Movement - Hold Left Shift: Lets you select waypoint movement (only on walk by default, requires Lightfoot to do on a sprint).
Combat - Left Ctrl + A: Cycles through all Aura display modes (default, show all, hide all).
Combat - Ctrl + T: Enable/Disable attack direction indicators.
Combat - With Attack Ground selected, hold Left Alt: Allows you to friendly fire allied units. Note: you do not receive salvage for allied units.
Combat - Hold Ctrl while dismounting a building with Battle Armor: When you click dismount, the BA will now dismount to the roof.
Weapon Panel - Left Ctrl + Click Ammo: Ejects ammo.
Weapon Panel - Left Shift + Click Weapon Name: Enable/Disable all weapons with the same name
Weapon Panel - Left Shift + Click Weapon Ammo: Sync ammo for all weapons with the same name
Weapon Panel - Left Shift + Click Weapon Mode: Sync mode for all weapons with the same name
Brace Button + Ctrl: Will open dialogue to enable/disable individual heat sinks.
Sprint Button + Ctrl: Will open a dialogue to scroll through and play voice lines for that pilot.
Mechlab - Ctrl + Max Armor: This will enable the stupid vanilla-style max armor functionality that doesn't actually work don't use this.
Mechlab - Ctrl + Strip Equip: Will only strip weapons and ammo.
Mechlab - Shift + Armor Increment: Will increment armor by 1 point up or down instead of 5.
Shops - Shift + Quantity Change: Will buy or sell in increments of 5.
Shops - Ctrl + Quantity Change: Will buy or sell in increments of 20.
Salvage Screen - Shift + Click on an item you have received (not a mech/tank part): Will sell the item from that screen.
Starmap - Ctrl + F: Opens a search bar. Can search by planet name or planet tag.
Starmap - Shift + Click on system: Allows you to set waypoints for planetary travel.
Barracks - Ctrl + Click SERVICE RECORD: Allows you to reset OpFor Specialization, Mission Specialization, and (if the commander) the StratCom bonuses.
Barracks - Shift + Click SKILLS: Allows you to retrain pilots (costs c-bills, requires Training Module 2).
Argo Screen Timeline - Shift + Click timeline item: Advances timeline and stops at that specific event. Will stop if other things pause the timeline before that item (events, bills, etc).