What does Weaver mean by "brake"?

[valenti_scott]

Hello-
I'm back after about a year, so I'm starting over. I'm at the part when Weaver says to fly to the waypoints (trivial), and then he says to apply the brakes for one second after getting your speed up to a good clip.

So the brakes are "S," right? Or maybe "Q", "E" (that's what the taks list says, but that doesn't make sense, does it?)

Either way, I can get my speed up to the max, but I can't get the "brakes" to engage at all, let alone the required one second. A little help would be nice...
-Scott

P.S., I tried pressing Q+E at the same time; that was it. So Q+E is brake. Got it.

[Vilkata]

It shouldn't be q+e, that seems wrong. I play left handed, so my "breaks" key is Num0, but I suspect the q+e is the either/or default setup, since we can assign two different keys to do the same thing.

[Takovacs]

Q+E is brake, as is ctrl on the standard keyboard control layout.

[Vilkata]

That seems like an odd default for such an important function. I'd immediately rebind that to a single key for sure.

[Huillam]

Originally posted by valenti_scott:

So the brakes are "S," right?

It's counter intuitive but no: while S will lower your speed and once it reach 0 have you fly backward it's not nearly as fast as brake.

[Eddie]

It's Q + E bossman. Just like it says, S is to go backwards. No gaslighting here

[valenti_scott]

Yeah, it's nice to have a brake, so it stops you now matter which way yer goin'.

[Takovacs]

Control. It's bound to control. Bottom Left of your keyboard.

Q and E is also in the game as braking on controller requires you to push both rotation controls, and it's easier to leave that function In than particulalry remove it. It cna be rebound, as can the single key ctrl that's already also bound as brake.