INKBLADETHE DUEL

Key bindings (click a key, then press the new one)

Movement & tech

• Wall-run: running along a wall (or into it at an angle), jump. You run on the wall, floaty, for up to 2.1 s. Jump again (from 0.4 s in) to kick off up and out with a side flip; when the time's up, the wall ends or something blocks the way, you kick off by yourself (as in GunZ). Run up past the top and you hop onto it. Your body faces along the wall; your aim is free.
• Wall-climb: run straight at a tall wall and jump, or stand against it holding W and jump. At the top (or when you jump, from 0.4 s in) you backflip straight up. Hold W to carry over the ledge.
• Wall-kick: jump near a wall in mid-air for a big boost up, flipping away from the wall. Every 0.5 s at most.
• Wall hang: hold Shift in mid-air facing a wall to stick to it. Jump to flip up off it.
• Wall slash: slash a wall in front of you (up to about a blade's length away) in mid-air, or while climbing it, and you spring straight up off it (about 2.4 m); slash it again on the way to go higher (3 per jump).
• Air slash: hits the moment you click and lasts 0.5 s unless a guard or a weapon swap cuts it short. You can tumble during one, but the slash goes on and you can't guard or tumble again until it's over, so dash first, then slash.
• Air control: you can steer a little in the air, but not while you're moving faster than a run, so dash and kick momentum carries you where it points. A jump with no keys held halves your speed. Wall-runs from the air are flat.
• Tumble: double-tap a direction, on the ground or in the air (no limit in the air). The sword dash lasts 0.33 s, the gun roll 0.55 s (a roll, then a quick rise as the slide slows). Until it's over you can't tumble again, jump, guard or swap weapons; a gun can fire through it. A slash ends it at once and you can tumble again straight away: that's the K-style dash cancel. In the air you keep its speed until you land.
• Ground slash: stops you dead, even out of a dash (speed only survives in the air, so jump first). You can't jump or tumble out of the swing; guard cancels it. During its return you can move, tumble and guard.
• Flip: right-click with the blade on the ground for a backflip slash that launches anyone in front high into the air (goes through guard). Your own guard cancels it at any point; before it connects that means no launch. Launched? Press jump near the top of the launch (0.17 to 0.67 s in) to recover: you fall with no control but land on your feet. Miss it and you're knocked down for 2 s.
• Dash-jump: a jump pressed in the last 0.3 s of a tumble happens the moment it ends and keeps almost all of its speed.
• Dash into walls: jump during a dash or tumble next to a wall to wall-run, climb or kick off it at full speed.
• Weapon swap: drawing a weapon takes 0.28 s (no shooting or slashing until it's up). A swap waits while you sword-dash, guard, slash on the ground, or a gun's shot animation plays, then happens by itself. During a gun roll you can swap freely: the new weapon comes up while you roll and can fire as soon as it has. Once you've pressed a swap key the old gun stops firing, and your next click is for the new weapon. It goes straight through during an air slash and during another swap. Every gun keeps its own shot delay, and it goes on running while the gun is holstered or reloading (as in GunZ): swapping never makes the same gun fire sooner, it lets you fire the other one meanwhile. Click during the swap and the gun fires the instant it's up; keep the click held and it fires the moment its delay is over; clicks from before the swap key, and a held button, don't carry over. Quick swap (X) flips to your last weapon.
• Reload cancel: the bullets go in about a third of the way through a reload (you hear a click and see LOADED). After it, swap weapons to skip the rest, or, if you pressed R yourself, just click to shoot. Swap before the click and the reload is lost.
• Slash stun: every slash that lands stops the target, pushes them back and stuns them for a third of a second.
• Block & counter: the guard starts the moment you press Shift and cancels a slash or a flip. Letting go lowers it, which takes 0.23 s; it blocks once it's fully up (0.17 s) and all the while it's being lowered, so a quick tap blocks almost at once. Until it's down you can't slash or tumble, but you can jump. Not during a tumble or on a wall. Block a slash from within 2 m and the attacker is stunned for 1 s, your guard lowers and your next click within 1 s is an instant Massive. Explosions go straight through a guard. A Massive into your guard only shoves you; one unleashed right in front of a guard (2 m) is stopped and stuns its user.
• Heavy guns: machine guns and launchers slow you to 90% and rule out wall-runs and climbs. No shooting while climbing a wall.
• Rocket jump: fire a rocket at your feet as you jump for a small boost (to about 4 m). Like GunZ, you take your own blast in full. A grenade throws you much harder and hurts more.
• Loadout: your blade, any two guns and any two items, picked in Equipment.

K-Style

• Swap Shot: gun, shoot, swap to your second gun, shoot, swap back: each gun's delay runs while you fire the other. Two shotguns fire about twice as often as one.
• Reload Shot: shoot, R, swap (a key or one roll of the wheel), shoot, R, swap. R ends the shot animation so the swap goes at once. Don't wait for the reload. The gun's own delay still has to run out before it fires again.
• Slash Shot: jump, dash, slash, swap to a gun, shoot. You keep the dash's speed while the gun comes up.
• Half Step: jump, dash, slash, swap to a gun, dash, shoot. The slash ends the first dash, and the gun dash after it (any time before you land) is a quick slide instead of a roll.
• Half Half Step: jump, slash, swap to a gun, dash (the same quick slide), shoot.
• Reload Half Step: a Half Step, then R right after the shot.
• Butterfly: jump, dash, slash, tap Shift, and again. The tap cancels the slash and blocks while it lowers. Raise the guard after slash 1 lands on the ground (too early is a feint; a frame or two early still lands); an air slash lands the moment you click. A click made while the guard lowers comes out the moment it's down: about 0.3 s per slash in the air, 0.4 s on the ground. Chains swing left and right and count up (BUTTERFLY ×4).
• Double / Triple Butterfly: jump, dash, slash, guard, slash, guard, (slash, guard): two or three butterflies in one jump.
• Juggle: flip, guard (ends the flip), run in under them as they come down, jump and slash while aiming up. A hit on someone launched sends them along your aim and stops them drifting away: aim up to keep them up. Bullets juggle too.
• E-Flip: double-tap forward and right-click together: the flip carries the dash's speed and reaches much further.
• Multi Wall Run: wall-run, slash (you drop off with your speed), dash back at the same wall (or another one) and jump to run along it again. Out of a dash the run goes the way your keys or your facing point along the wall, at your full speed; facing the wall square gives a wall kick instead.
• Flash Step: jump, dash, slash, swap to a gun, swap straight back to the sword: the swap ends the air slash early.
• Advanced Flash Step: jump, slash, gun, sword, dash, slash, gun, sword, dash.
• Forbidden Step: jump, slash, gun, shoot (R), sword, dash, slash, second gun, dash, shoot: two slashes and two shots in one jump.