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Elite Dangerous (PC) keyboard shortcuts
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First published at 10/22/2020 on
https://defkey.com/elite-dangerous-shortcuts

Elite Dangerous is a space flight game developed and published by Frontier
Developments. In the game, the player explores a 1:1 scale open-world
representation of the Milky Way galaxy. The game was first released for
Windows in December 2014.

Elite Dangerous (PC) has 42 shortcuts and we have listed all of them below.



Flight
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D                       Yaw right
A                       Yaw left
E                       Thrust right
Q                       Thrust left
R                       Thrust up
F                       Thrust down
W                       Throttle up
S                       Throttle down
X                       Set speed to 0%
Z                       Disable flight assist
Tab                     Engine boost
J                       Enter / Exit supercruise mode
J                       Jump to targeted system


Miscellaneous
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Del                     Silent running mode
V                       Deploy heat sink
Insert                  Toggle ship lights
Page Up                 Increase sensor zoom
Page Down               Decrease sensor zoom
Up arrow                Divert power to engines
Right arrow             Divert power to weapons
Left arrow              Divert power to systems
Down arrow              Balance power distribution
L                       Landing gear
Home                    Open / Close cargo scoop
End                     Jettison all cargo


Weapons / Targets
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U                       Deploy hardpoints
Left click              Primary fire
Right click             Secondary fire
N                       Cycle next fire group
T                       Target ahead
G                       Cycle target next ship
H                       Select highest threat
Y                       Cycle target next subsystem
*Mode                   switches
Left Shift              UI focus
1                       Target panel
2                       Comms panel
3                       Sensors panel
4                       Systems panel
Enter                   Quick comms
Middle click            Headlock
P                       Pause


Customizing controls
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If you feel default key bindings are not good or insufficent, you can try
an alternative keybinding created by game community.


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