I've got right side blindfire set to my back mouse button so I can use it while moving around. Klean has a great video on how he uses the blindfire to clear some corners safer than regular peeking.
That's a good point, forgot about that video! It's a good system, I just find I'm not using it currently. One to add later at some stage, still need to find somewhere I find comfortable to put it
The stop all bleeds key bind is BRILLIANT. I mapped 4 to press 4 and 0 to release 4. This way I can still use 5 since it’s so close to my left hand. Seriously game changing. The auto hold breath when aiming is also a super smart change. Awesome video!
The hold breath + ADS has been a game changer for me. Also, ended up trying the alternate lean keys and I'm really digging it. I have long fingers that tend to get in each other's way, so binding the opposite sides to lean left/right has been much easier. Thanks for these big brain key bind tips!
Fantastic vid, love the notion of the med binds! Surprised you didn't mention binding "change sights" and "change zoom" to the same key, with double press for one of them, though. That is an incredibly useful one.
I use R for tactical reload and Alt+R for regular reload. When you use regular reaload, you have time to press a modifier button, but if you are in a pinch, having R for tactical can be quite handy. Using alt for regular reload was awkward at first, but it become absolutley natural for me now.
This is to painful for me try this instead u want reload on r continuous and tactical reload on r release this allows u to tap r for fast reload and hold r for slow reload making life alot easier
Yall wanna get proficient? Get pedals and bind them to left and right lean. Left and right mouse wheel for scope magnification change and to turn on your flashlight or laser. Hold breath and ads on same key ads press, hold breath release.
@@Jordy-kk1kw feels a bit weird considering you're out of action for that long holding the key lol. I tried it but I think the inspect and then other keybind works better because you can move all you want. (In my case at least, using all my mouse buttons)
@@Exicide I was just running out of keys and didn't want to have one in an unnatural position, I don't often use low durability weapons though so to be honest don't use it much
Amazing video! Learned a lot, and that’s even after I’ve messed around with keybinds quite a bit! I personally prefer setting hold breath to press shift and sprint to hold shift, because you can’t hold your breath when moving and you can’t sprint when you aren’t moving, so the binds don’t conflict. I see a lot of people putting what I would consider useless stuff on mouse buttons, like drop items or blind fire instead of what I would consider essential in the moment, like leaning or throwing a nade. My suggestion for this is to use your B, V, C, X, and possibly Z keys if you’re flexible enough with your thumb. This adjustment opens up a ton of quick actions you can do with your thumb when not jumping, which why are you ever jumping so much you can’t free up your thumb? Just my two cents though! Keep up the great videos! Maybe one on headsets soon?😬
Nice tips! Adding the same key for mutually exclusive binds is smart :) what would you want from a headsets video? I have never bothered because the veritas videos are so comprehensive. I'm like 'gssh or razors, have fun' haha
@@Gigabeef Also I like discard to be a modifier. before they added the sorting table it was SHift + left click. But afterwards i switched it to space bar + left click. I find it really handy to just hold down space and then click on stuff to discard.
I use the same for hold breath/sprint. My mouse has 2 thumb buttons and 2 index finger buttons on the side of left click so I have no issues using those for stuff. More specifically discard item (just click on item with thumb button and it's gone), and my middle click is check mag, the two sides of middle mouse also work as buttons so that's my free look and check chamber/clear malfunction. The two buttons on left click are for zeroing +/- but I find myself using that less and less as I am getting more and more use to different setups and rounds.
Good stuff! Definitely stealing this! I put switch tactical mode on a side mouse button so I can quickly flick from laser to blinding a pmc if I get jumped. Put toggle scope zoom on the other side button so I can hop quickly from scanning an area to going for a shot
I always put lean on C and V, giving you free movement with the fingers and allowing you to use Q and E, two very good key positions, for something more important.
I have the same lean binds C and V since the PUBG days I could never get Q and E for lean to work, and it makes movement so much easier. Also, Q and E are great keys for other stuff.
Struggle with lean and wasd on the same time so i swap Q and E a long time ago. Didnt need a lot of time to get used to it, its great. Also i missclick reload a lot of times when i toggle my laser with t. So i swap T and V (V was fire mode before). T: switch firemode Lctr+t: check firemode (i use this a lot) V: laser on/off Lctr+v: change tactical device mod Bound Entf Button (discard) to the mouse button under my mousewheel My mouse has 3 side buttons, i bound switch scopes like hamr, switch scopes like valday and mag check.
The biggest take away for me: Turn stuff off your don't use like 'tactical reloads'. Not at all ever concerned about shaving the smallest of differences in reloading. But picking up or losing those magazines...
@@chrisklugh Or... cheap ammo! 7.62x51 M80, 7.62x39 PS, 5.45 BP or even lategame BT, 4.7mm FMJ SX, etc etc, all so cheap that if you got less than 10 rounds left, dumping them out is no big deal
@@vert3432 If that's your play style. Bring in a half a dozen mags of cheap ammo and go blap blap. But its not efficient or economical. Just for the Meme. But have fun doing it!
@@chrisklugh A lot of those cheap ammo's, especially M80 and FMJ SX, are very much meta-level at the moment, 7.62 PS isn't, and neither is 5.45BP, but BT is the "common" round, as is M80, and FMJ is basically MP7's best atm as you cant buy AP on the flea- but they all cost very little
Bind „fix malfunction“ to L-press and „inspect gun“ to L-release. Makes it heaps easier to get rid of malfunctions when in fight instead of having to fumble for the shortcuts.
I came up with something just now that allows me to unjam so fast i managed to make my overheated rifle jam three times in a row easy! Space + Scroll Down to inspect and Space + Scroll Up to check chamber (start scrolling down and when the inspect animation starts, then start spam scrolling up until check chamber animation starts). I use space as my all purpose modifier so my reload setup is Space + R for tactical reload, R for normal reload, R + scroll up for next mag, R + scroll down for previous mag, Alt + R to unload mag, and unrelated but Scroll Up for Next, and Scroll Down for Previous (i think this is how walking speed is adjusted as well). With regards to walking, i have Shift for walk, and Shift + Scroll up/down to adjust next/previous walk pose (the idea is holding shift puts you into a walk, but you can go even slower by keeping shift held and scrolling down to lower your stance). Does it all work? Yes xD
I think the tactical reload is very much dependant on gun type but I also think retention reloads could be a bit longer since you need to put the mag back. I think rigs should also affect reload speed. Pretty sure there are rigs that just have a little bag on the side for empty mags to drop in so that you dont have to fumble them back into your rig.
the hold breath afteraiming bind was super helpful wouldnt have thought of that! I myself took my melee button completely off since i kept fatfingering it rather die honestly then accidently keep pressing the melee key lol
@@Gigabeef Its the "back" side button. It feels like a switch on the side of a gun. Come to think of it, I dont think I am using middle mouse other than for inspect...thats free real estate
I'm a disabled gamer who uses a single 12 button mouse to play EFT, which means its hard to have all the key bindings easily available. It's still surprisingly easy to play, but not being able to move diagonally sucks. Anyways my point is I don't really care about keyboard key binds because their position on my mouse is my key bindings xD That being said I'm still trying to figure out the best configuration to allow me diagonal movement and leaning to be easily accessible. To anyone curious it's a Razer Naga (left handed edition).
I know Xbox/Microsoft just started making a modular "controller" that can be set up in some amazing ways. "A" and "B" can be on a 5" dual-button foot pedal, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. Definitely look into it. I love the Logitech equivalent, it has a 3rd click that's a modifier by default. (I think it's the G600 or something)
The key remap that most helped me was to use '2' as my lean left button. I use my lean keys with my middle finger, but my fingers could not reach 'Q' happily. If you use middle finger to lean, then your fingers around that are still free to strafe :)
After nuking myself when VOGs first got added, I remapped grenade to GG Also mapped tactical device and device toggle to a thumb button because I don’t like reaching across the keyboard Remapping lean to the opposite buttons is a great idea though, going to give it a shot
The best way i found is using the 2 side buttons on the scroll wheel that some mices have (logi 502, and the cheap Microsoft one have them for sure) to lean right and left. The only hard part of doing this is getting used to move your middle finger to the wheel instead of RMB and use the ring finger on RMB.
I personally use Mouse 4 + 3 as modifier keys. X as prone (so it's harder to accidentally hit while peeking). C as changing scopes. Ctrl for crouch (only thing set to ctrl apart from ctrl + scroll for height), alt (slow walk, scroll by itself is speed). Mouse 4 for scope zoom setting. Caps for VOIP only. C + mouse 4/3 is overhead/blind fire so I can move in all 4 directions while doing so. H for inspect weapon. Y for discard. double Z discard bag. Mouse 3 + R Check ammo. Mouse 3 + B Check fire-mode. Mouse 4 + T change tactical device setting. T on/off tac-device. Mouse 3 + T check chamber. Same as video emergency reload unbound, takes longer for hit a key for it than to just wait for regular reload. Shift release as hold breath. Mouse 3 + E/Q slow lean. Mouse 3 + A/D whole-body peek. ~/console is double-click to avoid accidental press's. Been using these settings for awhile and they're pretty ergonomic once you get used to them.
The reverse lean tips is really interesting and can absolutely be applied to other games as well. It's always been an issue for me how cramped it feels trying to move and lean/peek at the same time in any game that supports it. I'll have to give that a try.
Thats crazy most of these i did on my own last wipe and told my friends and they thought i was crazy especially with the Q and E lean opposite but once you get use to it. it feels so much better. The bleed one is definitely one im gonna use now too
The heal button you have close but not fully the best way. You can use press,hold and release all on the same button 5 for example. So press key 5 on heavybleed quickly drag across painkiller or healpack and than release button on light bleed. Now you have one key for all healing. Heavy Leeds is always more important so it’s on press and if you have no heavy by default you release the button and it heals the light bleed. And hold to either use a painkiller or a heap pack of your choosing. It’s really great. That’s my fav
I use Tactical on Mouse 5 (front mouse button) and high/low movement speed toggle on mouse 4. The former bind allows me to manipulate laser/light, check ammo etc a lot easier. The latter just gives me the instant speed-to-silent-to-speed movement without taking my fingers of WASD. In other games like Squad I usually run firemode on Mouse 4 but I found the movement modifier more important in Tarkov given how powerful sound is.
Yes I find high/low movement on "back" mouse button really good, allows for quickly going silent / un-silent when coming up-to a gunfight or corner etc without moving you hands off the movement keys.
I just wanted to add a simple, yet effective way to fix your weapon malfunction in 12.12. Due to the fact that you now need to inspect your current weapon before you can fix a malfunction this is what I've found most useful: Set "T + Shift" to "Press" on your "Inspect current weapon" and "Release" to your "Check chamber\Fix malfunction" controls. This will allow you to fix your malfunction by using one keybind rather than two. I hope this was helpful!
I did this keybind and found it needs to be reversed or everytime you press shift + t you just inspect your malfunction over and over and dont fix it unless you hold shift + t and release it after the inspect animation finishes to then clear the malfunction. I prefer not having my keyboard hands "locked up" and would rather click shift + t two times at my convenience to manage the weapon.
I play on a controller. I have the X button (which is usually reload for me in other games) set to Press to reload, hold to check ammo and double press to change fire mode. That seems to work really well for me.
I like my key binds as they are now, but I do like the idea of already holding breath when ADSing so I'll try to bind that to aim. Though I'm have to set it to continuous or press because I hold down RMB to ADS.
Set your last 5 hotbar keybinds to ALT+1, ALT+2, etc... this saves a lot of fuckery when you need to reach for 7 or 8,9,0 in those times of need... Also, I find setting ALT+F1 and ALT+F2 work best for zeroing. Page up and down are a bit difficult on the fly to swap. Another huge thing that helped me was setting ALT and SHIFT combinations with my back and forward mouse buttons to do various things like change magnification, change sight, change flashlight setting, etc. Unbelievably helpful on the fly.
There are situations when you would want to heal the bar on parts of your body before healing a heavy bleed. Like when you don’t have time to fix the heavy bleed before your head or thorax will be blacked out.
Thanks! Awesome video, just saw summit1g having two items "4" in his hotbar which got me wondering if there might be something that I miss :D Guess I did, even tho the "bind multiple items to one hotkey" wasn't for me, I still learned a lot. Since I also want to reload asap, I unbound the "emergency reload" key. Thanks! Good contribution to the community
I bound everything melee-related to the period key, because I got sick of fatfingering V when being surprised and pulling out my knife when being shot. (tbh for the rare occasions in which I need a knife, I have the time to press a key that's in a safer spot) Also for the same reason I unbound whatever was on the caps key, because getting shot and only being able to move at lowest walking speed until you start sprinting is very deadly and happened to me way too often. So if you are like me - and have the movement control of an alcohol addict after his first week of detox as soon as something scares/surprises you - then those things might help you aswell :°)
You can use caps for tactical device for example so you even have a secondary indicator that lets you know if you have it on or off (caps lock light on the KB)
Overhead blind fire will take you out of ADS and not make noise. Worth having on in a game where sound is huge imo. Some other binds I use people said weee Kinna cool Double tap R to check mag Shift R emergency reload Double tap T to change tactical dubbed ie between laser and flashlight or both etc
I saw Pestily fold a GL-40, put it into his rig and then binding it. Since you fire only one shot this should work perfectly with a folded weapon, but there also is a key for unfolding your weapon.
a lot of shooters with "lean" I've found that flipping the lean buttons helps a lot with ergonomics in manoeuvring my keyboard. R6s squad and Arma are games where I've switched the lean buttons having to "shimmer" my finger off of E holding D is just awkward there was a period where i actually had "analog" lean in Arma 3 simply to free up my keyboard, i had pedals for piloting and learned i could just bind them to my lean buttons, worked quite well. it also added the.. "gradual lean" we also know from tarkov but instead of having to stay stationary i could analog lean whilst being mobile,
I am very surprised you keep Alt+T for ammo check. Its by far the most used hotkey and I have set it to "Z" during my Tarkov day 1 playing, years ago. Also I highly recommend "Hold R" for "Fix malfunction", as this usually happens in the worst possible scenarios and pressing multiple buttons when you are milliseconds from death (as well as changing the mag) can be suicidal
V "hold down" for right side blindfire so you can move near a corner and blindfire or while having a flashlight make it seem like you are in the open peaking to bait shots, you have to learn how get the angle right, but when done even slightly right it is very deceptive and looks like you are in the open. Melee is almost useless so you can put it to equip with the keys after 9 and 0. Clearing jams missfires with the console button next to the 1 key to clear quickly with one button press.
Not sure if you knew this, but it has been in the game for a while. If you are scoped in, you can use the 'blind fire' key to UNSCOPE SILENTLY. So if I am crouch walking forward and i am scoped in, i just tap alt, because i am already holding W to move forward and I un-scope very very fast and completely silent. Half the noise means half the chance to get heard, which is key in tarkov. You should check it out.
Set “discard” to ctrl + right click. Ctrl + left click is to quickly move an item into your bag or rig, so it feels really natural to use ctrl + right click to discard something. My looting got really fast when I did this. Also I like setting lean keys to toggle.
Using my thumb for actual keys on the keyboard goes against everything I have been doing for 40 years, considering what proper placement of hands on the keyboard is, I think i'll just keep using press.
Reversing lean only helps if you always commit to the peek. The better solution imo is to use your middle finger to hit Q and E. This allows you to move both ways when leaning (though you won't be able to use W while leaning, but that's pretty rare).
Funny, of all the binds you go through I've never experienced any of the misclicks EXCEPT grenades, which I've fat fingered about a million times trying to press F.
You can also leave the lean on default and just press each Q or E with your middlefinger, since you don't need forward movement when leaning. Many people do this.
I just set something to the same button to delete it, as pressing esc doesn't seem to work for me. Eg set fast reload to r and then normal reload back to r, deleted the fast reload bind
I don’t trust people who use toggle ADS. Just kidding, this is a great video!! I always hotkey my grenade to “0” and I’ve linked “G” and “0” together. Since most FPS’ have G as Grenade. Just makes sense to me.
It can be handy to use the blindfire to un-ads silently (just press your shortcut keys while in ads), kindof a weird bug but helps me out when Im trying to be super sneaky
Do you know for sure if other players dont hear it? Same for pushing "check fire mode" hotkey, then while that animation is displaying, changing the fire mode will appear to do so silently. Few other similar silent bugs. I wish there were more sound guides for this game, ie how audible things are to other other players per skill level, and possibly factoring vertical audio. What I've mostly learned is that audio is overrated, soon as you hear a new player in an area, pretty much W key while spamming f1.
I learned playing Rainbowsix siege where leaning is very important to bind my lean buttons to either C and V or V and B since your thumb is usually free in these types of games when engaging in fights. It takes a moment to get used to but I think this is the best setup for have snappy lean movement.
I've always found Q/E awkward, because I like to move around at the same time as leaning. I've gotten used using Mouse 4+5 (thumb buttons) on toggle instead for leaning. Q=Discard E=Interact F=[can't remember, but something I use often]
I have foot pedals for flight sims and Elite Dangerous. So I just use them for leaning. Its quite intuitive. If you have access to a 3d printer and basic electronics knowledge you can very easily build your own too.
