Star Wars: Starfighter is a hard game to get used to if you aren't familiar with other arcade space/air flight games such as Star Wars: Rogue Squadron. Although there are not that many keys compared to an actual flight sim, there is still enough that might not be immediately intuitive. Full mastery of the controls should improve your experience no end and allow you to successfully complete the missions.

Even though the game does provide a training level as its first mission, I feel it does not do an adequate job of explaining exactly what keys need to be used. Although there are resources out there that do give key mappings for this game, they are on sites that have been long forgotten. You will also find them from the game's launcher, if you go on Options > Configuration Options where you will be able to configure them.

This guide will provide you will a full key listing of ship controls, which can be accessed at any time in-game by using the Steam overlay. The controls themselves are taken from the Configuration Options for the Keyboard at default but adapted for use in this Steam Guide, along with extra variations of controls it does not list.

Movement:


Weapons/Targeting:


Misc:

Hope the guide has helped to enlighten more people to the variety of keys available to them during play. Feel free to leave any feedback if you think anything can be added or improved upon.

May the force be with you.