CLASHROIDS has a full touch layout for phones and tablets. A floating stick follows your left thumb, FIRE sits bottom right with the brake, weapon, build, shield and boost buttons in a ring around it, and emotes come from a drag off FIRE. Here is every touch control, and the settings worth changing first. Free in the browser. Steam Coming Soon (app 4296990), wishlist toward 10K+.
| Action | Touch |
|---|---|
| Move / aim | Touch anywhere on the lower left. The stick appears under your thumb |
| Thrust | Push the stick out. Further is faster |
| Fire | FIRE button, bottom right |
| Brake | Bars button in the ring around FIRE, hold |
| Weapon | Bullets button: tap for next, hold for previous. Its glyph shows the weapon |
| Shield | Filled-shield button: tap to turn on, tap again to turn off. It drops itself when power runs out |
| Boost | Chevrons button: tap |
| Build a hex | Hexagon button, then tap a hex to select it and tap it again to build |
| Emote | Hold FIRE and drag up and to the right into the empty space beside the buttons |
| Radar / ranking | Tap the radar (top right) to swap it for the ranking |
| Aim line | Tap your ship to toggle the range guide. On by default |
| Menu | ☰ button in the top bar |
Hold FIRE, drag up and to the right, and the emote wheel opens under your thumb. Drag to an emote and release to send it. Release without moving and it cancels. The gesture never fires a shot. The six emotes are on comms.
Three pips under the shield and boost glyphs show the level you have bought, so you can check your upgrades without opening a menu. See shields.
After a boost, a dark wedge sweeps off the boost button as the cooldown runs out. When the wedge is gone, boost is ready again. See energy.
The aim line is the range guide drawn ahead of your ship, the only thing that tells you how far your weapon reaches. A tap on your ship turns it off or back on.