State Of Decay Controls

[Melia Hazinski]

Stateof decay CAN be played with mouse and keyboard. All of the commands are mapped out, the game just acts as if you are playing with a controller. You must learn for yourself which button to press, but here is the list of keyboard controls, courtesy of halfbloodv on Youtube:( )

Mouse ControlsX / Y Axis Turns the CameraLeft Click = Attacks or Fires and when held down it activates Emote modeRight Click = Activates Aim Weapon Mode / Surveys Area Middle Mouse Scroll / Up & Down Zoom for map / Changes Weapon / Cycles through inventory)

Door Control...never thought id be writing a guide for opening and closing doors....To open and close a door quietly, simply hold left CTRL and press ETo open a door quickly, simply hold left SHIFT and press ETo break a door open simply gather momentum , keep holding left SHIFT and press E

Searching and Salvaging...To search an item of interest that's glowing white, simply press and hold the E key, once this is held down you will see the search has begun. You can speed up the search by keeping E held down and pressing left shift to begin searching faster, note this is nosier and may attract unwanted attention.

Once you have searched and you see your inventory on the left and the contents on the item you searched on the right, from here you can use WSAD to move to the selected item, then LEFT click to take and item, once clicked it should then move to your inventory on the left, if you want to put an item back, simply go to your inventory on the left side and RIGHT click to put it back.

Advanced Fighting ControlsShift & E = Performs Silent Kill (you have to be crouching, quiet and behind the enemy for this to work) This combination can also finish off an enemy who is laying on the ground.

To add suppressor to the gun, make sure it's in your inventory and selected by using the mouse wheel, then simply press F to add to your weapon. Note some guns need certain silencers / compatibility mode.

When laying on the ground and your being eaten to death and it says press A repeatable to get up, "calmly" hold left RIGHT mouse button down as if you are going to do an EMOTE and repeatable press SPACE for your life! (press it very quickly like you're playing an old 80's game)

You can install the Icon and Keyboard Mouse Mod by Th3DEAD to change most of the Xbox 360 controller buttons shown in the screen to their PC mouse/keyboard keys default equivalents. This should make learning the mouse/keyboard keys easier. I've listed the default mouse and keyboard keys in this answer here for reference, too.

If you're going to download the ZIP file of the already extracted files, extract the zip to your State of Decay\Game folder.Then go to the State of Decay\Game folder and rename "gamedata.pak" to "gamedata-backup.pak".

If you're going to extract the files yourself, you are going to need an application called QuickBMS GUI (download link). Once it's downloaded, extract the two files to your desktop and install and launch Quick BMS.

Note: Extracting works for all PAK files.

At the top, click "Script File", then "Open" and select the script you extracted (zip2.bms).Click "Archive File" at the top and click "Open Archive", select the PAK file you want to extract - "gamedata.pak", which is in your State of Decay\Game folder.Click folders at the top and select "Output Folder", go to where you grabbed the "gamedata.pak" file (State of Decay\Game).At the bottom, click "Extract".

While the game currently does not officially support using the keyboard and mouse, keyboard and mouse controls do work. However, only Xbox 360 controller buttons are shown in the game interface, and keyboard and mouse controls currently can't be configured through in-game settings. Editing the mouse and keyboard controls requires extracting and editing the game's XML configuration files.

Since the game only shows Xbox 360 controller buttons in its interface and messages, and extracting and editing the XML configuration files may be tedious, I am including here the default keyboard and mouse controls.

You can also install the Icon and Keyboard Mouse Mod by Th3DEAD to change most of the Xbox 360 controller buttons shown in the screen to their PC mouse/keyboard keys default equivalents. This should make learning the default mouse/keyboard keys easier.

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