Venture AOT Controls Reference

Keep this page open on a phone while you play. The long explanation is ODM controls. This is the laminated card.

Default PC table

Action	Key	One-line rule
Move	WASD	Release on a live cable.
Reel	Space (hold)	Pull along the hook. Not a double jump.
Reel (alt)	Middle mouse	Cleaner once you have speed.
Left hook	Q	High facade, not cobbles.
Right hook	E	Alternate before slack.
Boost	Left Shift	Airborne only. Feather, do not hold.
Equip ODM	Y	After NPC, death, and rejoin.
Gas check	G	After spawn, titan, and any unplanned Shift.
Blades	R	When a pair snaps. Land first if you can.
Slash	Left click	One nape, not a panic drum solo.

Settings can remap every row. If you rebound Q/E in another AOT game, those binds did not travel. Confirm before the first street.

30-second spawn card

1. NPC → green equip → Y.
2. Frozen? Rejoin → Y again. Getting started.
3. Q, E, reel, G.
4. If the tank dropped hard, you held W or Shift. How to swing.

Combat card

1. Travel on buildings.
2. Blind.
3. Behind and above.
4. One cut.
5. Roof, G, R. How to kill titans.

Mobile / gamepad

Split hooks onto two buttons. Feather reel on a trigger. Do not bind boost to a face button you mash. Physics does not care that you are on a phone.

After a patch

If testers change reel cost, this table’s rules column matters more than the keys. Read updates and gas management. Then come back and play the courtyard drill with the same binds.

Print, screenshot, or pin. When you know this card cold, you can close it and open skill planner with a clean conscience.

Courtyard drill (use the table, not your memory)

Run this with the cheat sheet visible:

1. Spawn. If you skip Y, the rest of the card is fiction. Getting started.
2. Fire Q at a wall slightly above eye line. Reel. Do not touch W.
3. Fire E before slack. Reel.
4. Feather Shift once at the top. Land.
5. G. If the tank crashed, you held Space like nitro. Read the reel row again.
6. Left click a dummy titan only after a blind. How to kill titans.
7. Break a blade on purpose on stone once, then R, so your fingers know the restore.

Do the drill after every physics patch. Binds rarely change. Rules in the third column do. Updates will tell you if reel stopped sharing the tank.

Streaming overlay note

If you capture with software that also binds middle mouse, reel will feel “broken.” That is your overlay, not Apeworm7. Rebind reel in settings or free the mouse button. Then come back to this card. The ODM controls article explains why middle mouse exists; this page only reminds you to check it.

Tape the table next to skill planner. After a death, do not open Discord first. Look at the row you actually failed: reel, boost, or Y. That diagnosis is faster than a montage review and cheaper than a script.

If a squadmate asks for binds in chat, paste this page instead of a screenshot of your custom layout. Defaults are the shared language. Remaps stay in settings. Squad play fails when four people argue about which key is reel.