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UseKey
| The UseKey is Your main way of interacting with the environment. By pressing the UseKey, you can open doors, activate engines, access keycard readers, and many other things.
Creeping
| Use creeping to lower yourself onto your belly. This is useful for getting into particularly tight spaces. The "creep" key toggles creeping. Press it once to begin creeping, and once again to stand up again.
Active Item Belt
| In the lower right corner of your HUD is the active item belt. This display informs you about all the items that you are currently holding and that can actively use to perform certain tasks. An example of an active item if the Flashlight. You have to activate it to get some light in dark areas and disable it later on to save some battery power. You bring up the active item display by pressing the "Next Active Item" or "previous Active Item" keys. These keys are also used to scroll through all active items, in case you posses more than one of them. Pressing the UseKey while having selected an active item with the next/previous key will activate/deactivate it.
Passive Item Belt
| Passive items are mainly items that you have to collect in order to accomplish some tasks. An example of a passive item is a keycard. The keybinding for "Show/Hide Passive Items" lets you manage the display of this window.
Accept Communications
| Whenever someone wants to communicate with you, a transmission will be sent to your HUD module. In the lower left corner of your HUD, a little icon will indicate the availability of a new transmission. To play the communication, press the "Accept Communication" key.
Cancel Communications
| During a playback of a transmission, you are free to cancel and continue by just pressing the "Cancel Communication" key. Due to the fact that some transmissions are vital for your survival. your HUD module has an build in mode to disable the "Cancel Communications" feature for very important messages.
Communications
| During fast paced action and thrilling fights you might not be able to follow every communication. To keep a history of received communications, your HUD module uses a 12GB lightwire storage module. You can bring up the stored history by using the "Communications" key.
Loading and Saving
| There are a couple of bindings for loading and saving. QuickSave: Does an immediate save using the special QuickSave slot. QuickLoad: Does an immediate load using the special QuickLoad slot. Save Menu: Displays a menu to save a game to a savegame slots. Load Menu: Displays a menu to load a game from a set of savegames.
Toggle the Flashlight
| Binding the "Toggle Flashlight" command allows you to easily switch the flashlight on and Off, without using the Active item menu. Of course you have to own the Flashlight before you can activate it.
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