Warframe: Beginner guide: Important moves

The essentials

The tutorial mission will you give you a quick feel of the game but it misses out on some essential moves:

Holding shift to run and pressing ctrl while running will allow you to slide. Sliding stops the loss of stamina whilst running. Whilst sliding you can shoot enemies and pressing melee will do a spinning attack. Sliding can also let you bypass laser doors.

You can also air slide by running, jumping and then pushing ctrl. After pressing ctrl you can also press melee to do a spinning attack and cover more distance. You should master this move because later on when you will be with experienced players you will have to run fast if the team decides to skip enemies and go for objectives only. Currently I believe using this jumping spinning move with dual zorens (maxed fury) is the fastest way to travel.

Wall running(VERY important!) Run towards a wall and jump keeping shift and space pressed. If you run straight on you will climb upwards and releasing space will do a backflip. If there's a wall behind you can wall run again by releasing and repeating the combo.
If you run at an angle you will run across horizontally. Releasing the jump button will fling you forwards and it can be hard to control where you land. Once you get the hang of it try it out on smaller surfaces like crates and stuff. Run off any surface! You can find many shortcuts while wall running and if you ever want to stop without flipping off the wall just press ctrl to stop.

Jump and press melee to do a small aoe attack upon landing. Different weapons have different effects, like knocking down the enemy or causing surrounding enemies to burn with the dual heat daggers.

Something else not covered is reviving! If you are in a team and one of you dies you can still shoot with your secondary while downed on the floor. There is a limited time before you die and teammates can revive by coming to you and pressing x. If you are downed you can still crawl about so if your stuck in the middle of green poison, move out of it or else the person trying to revive you will die. Generally whilst downed, enemies ignore you unless you shoot at them. You will die faster if they attack you though.

Press g to lay a waypoint (orange marker) on the minimap for your team to see. This is done usually to highlight resources or mods that have dropped. Mods are used to upgrade your warframe and weapons hence being very important to pickup.

To use any Gear you have equipped press q and on the bottom left of the screen click on the gear you want to use. This menu does not appear if you have the team health menu (press z to toggle) open. However this method of using gear is annoying so I recommend changing the key bindings so that you may use hotkeys for your gear slots. On a sidenote whilst using the codex scanner(hold the left button to scan or right to zoom first) you can still melee but need to press f to go back to primary weapon.

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