Valor Mortis PC Controls: All Keybinds and Controller Schemes Explained

Valor Mortis lets PC players remap every keyboard and mouse action one slot at a time, while controller users pick from five fixed button layouts (the launch version has no way to bind pad buttons one by one). All of it sits inside the Options menu, which you can reach from the main menu or from the Pause Menu during play.

Quick answer: Open Options, then the MOUSE & KEYBOARD tab to rebind keys. Click a slot, press the new key, then press F to apply. On keyboard, Sprint is a held key, and the launch version has no setting to make it a toggle.

Where to find the controls in Valor Mortis

From the main menu, pick OPTIONS. You can also press Esc during play to open the Pause Menu and choose OPTIONS from there. Either way lands you on the same screen.

Five categories run across the upper edge: GAMEPLAY, VIDEO, AUDIO, MOUSE & KEYBOARD, and CONTROLLER. Use Q and E to switch tabs. On the right, a panel identifies the row beneath your pointer and provides a brief help line; the lower-right corner displays “Esc BACK”.

Settings menu on the Mouse & Keyboard tab listing sensitivity sliders, invert axis options and key bindings for movement and jump. — The Mouse & Keyboard settings tab shows Mouse Sensitivity at 0.30, Mouse Aiming Sensitivity at 0.40 and the first Key Bindings for movement, Jump and Attack.

All default keyboard and mouse keybinds

The MOUSE & KEYBOARD tab lists 20 actions under “Key Bindings”. Each has a primary slot, a secondary slot, and an X button that clears it. “None” means the slot is empty.

Action	Primary key	Secondary key
MOVE FORWARD	W	None
MOVE BACKWARD	S	None
STRAFE LEFT	A	None
STRAFE RIGHT	D	None
JUMP	Space	None
ATTACK / (HOLD) HEAVY ATTACK	Left mouse button	None
INTERACTION	E	None
SPRINT	Shift	None
DODGE	Alt	Side (thumb) mouse button
HEAL	F	None
AIM / CAST	Right mouse button	None
RELOAD	R	None
SWAP WEAPON / (HOLD) WEAPON WHEEL	Q	None
PARRY / (HOLD) BLOCK	Ctrl	None
SLOT 1	1	None
SLOT 2	2	None
SLOT 3	3	None
TARGET LOCK	Middle mouse button (wheel click)	None
INVENTORY	Tab	I
CROUCH	C	None

Keybindings list with Aim / Cast highlighted and its mouse-button binding shown — The Key Bindings list with Aim / Cast selected on the MOUSE & KEYBOARD tab.

Several keys do two things depending on how you press them. Attack is a tap for a normal attack and a hold for a heavy attack. Swap Weapon is a tap to swap and a hold to open the weapon wheel. Parry is a tap to parry and a hold to block. Heal sits on F and Interaction on E.

Key bindings screen with the Slot 3 row bound to the 3 key — The lower part of the binds list, showing Slot 3 bound to the 3 key alongside Target Lock, Inventory, and Crouch.

Press Esc to bring up the Pause Menu. Because it is absent from the binds list, you cannot assign it to another key.

Mouse sensitivity and axis settings

The top of the MOUSE & KEYBOARD tab holds a “Sensitivity” section with four options above the binds.

MOUSE SENSITIVITY — slider, default 0.30; higher values turn the camera faster.
MOUSE AIMING SENSITIVITY — slider, default 0.40; it slows the mouse while aiming, and 1 means no slowdown.
INVERT VERTICAL AXIS: toggle OFF or ON; it starts OFF.
INVERT HORIZONTAL AXIS: toggle OFF or ON; it starts OFF.

How to rebind a key

Open Options, go to the MOUSE & KEYBOARD tab, and scroll down to “Key Bindings”. Find the action you want to change.

Click the primary or secondary slot for that action. A box appears reading “Press any key to assign it to the action: Crouch” with the action’s own name, plus “Press Esc to cancel.” The prompt takes the very next key or mouse button you press.

Valor Mortis rebind prompt reading Press any key to assign it to the action: Crouch — The rebind prompt: the next key or mouse button you press is assigned to the action.

Press the key or mouse button you want. If it is already in use, the game asks “The key W is already bound to Move Forward. Are you sure you want to rebind it?” with “W CONFIRM” and “Esc CANCEL”. Confirming takes the key over.

Dialog warning that W is already bound to Move Forward, with confirm and cancel options — The “already bound” warning that appears when the key you pressed is in use elsewhere.

An undo arrow appears at the far right of any row you edit, and the bottom bar now reads “F APPLY SETTINGS” / “R DISCARD CHANGES”. Press F to retain the edit, or R to discard it.

To clear a slot rather than assign another input, click its X. When no edits are pending, the bottom bar offers “R RESTORE DEFAULTS” and “Esc BACK”.

Is there a sprint toggle?

Not in the launch version. On keyboard, Shift is the default sprint input and works while you hold it, and no setting changes that. Neither the MOUSE & KEYBOARD nor GAMEPLAY tab has a sprint-toggle entry, a walk toggle, or any hold-versus-toggle setting. Camera, map, and pause bindings are absent too.

Valor Mortis GAMEPLAY options tab with camera shake, field of view, subtitles, auto lock and gore rows — The GAMEPLAY tab: no sprint toggle or hold option among its rows.

Controller setup options

Controller setup differs from keyboard setup: individual pad buttons cannot be bound separately. Instead, select a full scheme under “Hardware”; a controller image and button legend display the selected mapping.

Controller settings with Control Schemes set to Default and a pad layout diagram — The CONTROLLER tab with CONTROL SCHEMES set to DEFAULT and the pad legend on display.

CONTROL SCHEMES offers DEFAULT, CLASSIC, DODGE/BLOCK SWAP, SHOULDER JUMPER, and SHOULDER JUMPER 2, with DEFAULT selected to start. The rest of the Hardware section covers these settings:

VIBRATION — ON / OFF, default ON.
INVERT VERTICAL AXIS and INVERT HORIZONTAL AXIS — default OFF.
The LEFT STICK DEADZONE slider begins at 20%.
The RIGHT STICK DEADZONE slider begins at 30%.
Choose XBOX or PLAYSTATION under CONTROLLER PLATFORM; XBOX is selected initially, and this setting determines which button icons appear.

Under “Sensitivity”, CONTROLLER SENSITIVITY is set to 1.00 initially and determines how quickly the camera turns. CONTROLLER AIMING SENSITIVITY begins at 0.30 and adjusts how much turning slows while aiming; setting it to 1 removes the slowdown. A deadzone set too low can cause the character to continue moving after you release the stick.

The five controller schemes

Some buttons stay the same no matter which scheme you choose (Xbox names shown):

LT — Aim / Cast; RT — Attack / (Hold) Heavy Attack.
View button — Inventory; Menu button — Pause Menu.
Left stick — Walk; L3 (click) — Sprint.
Right stick — Look Around; left/right — Switch Locked Target; R3 (click) — Target Lock On/Off.

The seven actions below are where the schemes differ.

Action	DEFAULT	CLASSIC	DODGE/BLOCK SWAP
Parry / (Hold) Block	LB	LB	RB
Dodge	RB	B	LB
Jump	A	A	A
Interaction / Crouch	B	Y	B
Heal	D-pad (down)	X	D-pad
Reload	X	RB	X
Swap Weapon / (Hold) Weapon Wheel	Y	D-pad	Y

Controller layout diagram with Dodge on LB and Parry or Block on RB — The DODGE/BLOCK SWAP legend, which moves dodge to the left bumper and parry to the right bumper.

Action	SHOULDER JUMPER	SHOULDER JUMPER 2
Parry / (Hold) Block	LB	LB
Dodge	B	B
Jump	RB	RB
Interaction / Crouch	A	A
Heal	D-pad	X
Reload	X	Y
Swap Weapon / (Hold) Weapon Wheel	Y	D-pad

Controller layout showing LB Parry/Block, RB Jump, A Interaction/Crouch, and Y Swap Weapon — A SHOULDER JUMPER legend, with Jump moved to RB so your thumb can stay on the right stick.

Pick SHOULDER JUMPER if you want to jump without lifting a thumb off the right stick. DODGE/BLOCK SWAP puts dodge on the left bumper and parry on the right bumper, and CLASSIC moves dodge to B and heal to X. Across every layout, jump rests on the face buttons unless you choose one of the Shoulder Jumper schemes.