Stick Rivals / How to play
How to Play Stick Rivals
Stick Rivals is a first-person shooter that runs in your browser. You'll need a computer with a keyboard and mouse. Press Play now, click to lock your mouse to the game, and you're in.
Play nowControls
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| W A S D | Move |
| Shift | Sprint. While scoped, it steadies your aim |
| Space | Jump |
| C or Left Ctrl | Crouch. Press it while sprinting to slide |
| Left click | Fire |
| Right click | Scope in |
| R | Reload |
| Q | Swap to the knife and back |
| F | Inspect your weapon |
| Tab | Show the scoreboard |
| Esc | Pause, change settings or invite friends |
If your aim feels too fast or too slow, press Esc and change the mouse sensitivity.
The game goes fullscreen when you start playing, so you can crouch-walk with Ctrl+W without the browser closing the tab. Browsers only allow that in fullscreen. If you turn fullscreen off in the pause menu, or your browser still takes Ctrl+W, crouch with C instead. Your browser will ask before closing the tab mid-match.
Game modes
- Gun Game: every 3 kills gives you the next weapon. A knife kill at the end wins the match.
- Team Deathmatch: Cyan against Red. The first team to 50 kills wins.
- Free For All: the first player to 25 kills wins.
Play now joins a public match, and public matches rotate through all three modes. To choose the mode yourself, create a private room.
The basics
- Health: you have 100 health, and it refills after 5 seconds out of combat.
- Respawning: you come back 2.5 seconds after going down. Press a number key on that screen to choose your next rifle.
- Spawn protection: you can't be hurt for 1.5 seconds after spawning, or until you fire.
- Headshots: a headshot kills in one hit with every sniper rifle.
Tips for your first matches
- Scope in before you shoot. Unscoped shots scatter. Stand still and aim for the head.
- Learn the slide. Sprint, then press C. It's the fastest way around a corner or out of a sniper's view.
- Find high ground. Stairs lead up to rooftops and towers on both maps, with long views down the lanes.
- Reload when it's safe. Bolt-action rifles only hold a few shots, and reloading takes over 2 seconds.
- Keep moving between shots. Tracers show other players where you're firing from.