Examination
Controls & Keybinds

PC keybinds

These are the keys the community wikis document for Examination on PC.

The movement keys come from Fandom’s Movement page, last edited April 11, 2026. Reload, bash and fire mode come from its weapon pages. The developers’ September 24 patch notes confirm M as the settings keybind. Miraheze’s Mechanics page, edited September 25, lists the same movement and combat keys, supplies the interact, mask, voice-line, radar and night-vision color keys, and says keys can be rebound in settings. It lists R only as reload.

How to reset when you’re stuck

Press R, or open the Roblox menu and choose Respawn. The reset only goes through after you stand still for 10 seconds, so find a quiet spot first.

• A reset is a death. You see the perished screen and come back at the Itagura NPP entrance. Miraheze says holding Space on that screen respawns you sooner, and Q and E cycle through spawn points, such as the Sector 3 checkpoint once it has been captured.
• It can end a challenge. Deaths are allowed on Underequipped, but in a one-life run such as Yuri’s simulation, or on VETERAN-OF-PURGATORY, resetting ends the attempt.

Sprint and stamina

Hold Tab to see your stamina bar. Sprinting, tactical sprinting and sliding all drain it; when it runs out you are exhausted and can’t do any of them until it recovers.

SPRINT · SHIFT

A full bar gives about 20 seconds of sprinting.

TACTICAL SPRINT · DOUBLE-TAP SHIFT

Faster still. It works at any stamina level and has no cooldown, but ends on its own after 5 seconds.

SLIDE · X

Only while sprinting, for a flat 10% stamina cost. Miraheze puts the cooldown at 10 seconds.

RECOVERY

About 25 seconds from empty to full normally. Fandom says it takes about 14 seconds when you’re exhausted, after a January 26 developer update sped that up. Miraheze gives about 23 seconds and says regeneration doubles while you’re exhausted.

Bash, backstab and kick

• Bash (G). Deals 50 damage and staggers the target, with a 5-second cooldown. You can bash while reloading, and each bash heals you a little: 5 HP, or 10 from a Shielder. It is how you break a Shielder’s guard.
• Backstab. Bash an enemy from behind for a knife strike that deals 1,000 damage (Miraheze: 1,050). Enemies that ignore a bash ignore a backstab too.
• Kick. After a bash, double-press G within two seconds to kick the enemy away. It has a 10-second cooldown and needs ONE-MAN-ARMY.
• Not every enemy can be bashed. Chimera clashes back and hurts you, and Gilbert and Mikhail don’t stagger from it. Miraheze adds SIN and Dave to that list.

Leaders and Commanders replace the bash with a bayonet that hits harder and can execute weakened infected.

Moves you unlock with ONE-MAN-ARMY

The official ONE-MAN-ARMY badge, for reaching the Sector 3 entrance solo in a private server, lists two unlocks: N night vision and X slide. Both community wikis list two more moves that need it:

• Kick after a bash, as above.
• Door bash. Tactical-sprint into a door to ram it open; it swings shut again a few seconds later.

Miraheze says a full goggle battery lasts two minutes and takes 15 seconds to recharge once it runs out. The wikis disagree on whether a classless player can use this night vision; Miraheze says classless players get goggles from LAB_ASSISTANT, from Yuri’s side task. See going classless.

Class tools

LEADER & COMMANDER · PULSE NODE

Left-click reveals nearby enemies; right-click shows where other players are.

MEDIC & CORPSMAN · VIREL-M MEDUNIT

Hold it out to see teammates’ health. Right-click a player to heal them; left-click to heal yourself. Miraheze calls the Corpsman’s stronger version the MedTac.

ENFORCER · RIOT SHIELD

Left-click bashes with the deployed shield. Right-click, a few seconds after deploying, fires a flash that stuns infected other than Chimera.

ANY CLASS · LUM-5 GLOWCELL

While holding it, R switches its color.

More on each kit in the classes guide.

Console

Fandom’s weapon pages don’t agree on a console reload or fire-mode button, and no source we checked covers mobile controls, so we leave those out.

Sources & verification

Checked against Fandom on September 27, 2026 and against Miraheze on September 28. Controls come from the two community wikis, read directly; the unlocks come from official badge text and the settings key from the developers’ patch notes. No independent in-game test was performed. Fandom’s Movement page hasn’t been edited since April, but Miraheze’s Mechanics page, edited September 25, lists the same core keys.

• Fandom: Movement (April 11, 2026) — PC and console movement keys, reset, stamina and ONE-MAN-ARMY moves.
• Fandom: Close Quarters Combat (July 22, 2026) — bash, backstab and kick.
• Fandom weapon pages, including A9 Brigadier and IA AR-56 (August 20, 2026) — reload, bash and fire-mode keys; LUM-5 “GlowCell” — color switch.
• Fandom: Classes (September 26, 2026) — Pulse Node, MedUnit and shield controls.
• Miraheze: Mechanics (September 25, 2026) — keybind list, stamina, slide cooldown, bash, kick and backstab values, night-vision battery and the death screen.
• Roblox badge API: ONE-MAN-ARMY (“Unlocks: [N] Night_Vision, [X] Slide”) and LAB_ASSISTANT (“Gives NVGs”).
• Examination official Discord, #updates, September 24, 2026 — fix for the M settings keybind.
• Miss MΔlice’s September 25 walkthrough, via our Underequipped FAQ — the 10-second reset wait.