Galactic Starfighter Basics Guide

Galactic Starfighter is the intense free flight dogfighting ship combat mode available in Star Wars: The Old Republic. Galactic Starfighter is available to all players for free starting at level one, and is not restricted to high level characters or to subscribed players. In this video we’ll be going over the very basics of flying your ship and moving around in space.

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In Galactic Starfighter, you move forward by default – but you can press X to kill your engines and stop, and the V key you center your cursor and bring your ship back to its default position – this will let you stop perfectly in place and get your bearings, placing your ship’s bottom facing towards the “floor” of the minimap. To move forward, tap W – you don’t need to hold it down, though holding W down will speed you up. To slow your ship down, hold down your S key. These four speeds, coasting by pressing nothing, W for maximum speed, holding S for slow, and X for stop, are represented by your throttle on the interface, which is the curved blue bar on the right.

To speed boost more efficiently, you can press F3 to switch power to your engines. You can see your power mode on the bottom left, represented by a yellow bar, a blue bar, and a purple bar. Pressing F3 will divert your power to your engines, making you move faster, and replenishing your engine power faster while you’re flying normally. While you’re in the F3 speed-boosted engine power mode, you’re more vulnerable, as your firepower and shields are reduced, which you can see in the distribution of power on the bottom left of your screen, with your weapons bar in yellow being low, your shield power in blue also low, and your engines power boosted up high. Once you get to where you need to go you’ll switch your power to your weapons by pressing F1 or switch power to your shields by pressing F2. It’s best not to fully empty your engine power, as some of your defensive moves also rely on you having some engine power available. Lastly, F4 will balance your engine power between all modes, if you need all three at once.

In addition to moving with your mouse, you can also use the A and D keys to roll your ship left and right.

Topics covered:

Movement Keys
Speed Boost & Power Modes
Aiming Your Ship
Circle in Center of Screen
Getting to Your Target
Camera
A & D Keys
Strafing (see written guide)
Engine Ability
Shields
Healthbar
Attack

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