PUBG Replay Controls (2026): Every Key for Speed, Free Camera, X-Ray and Switching Players

If you have opened a PUBG replay and found the camera stuck on your own character, or rewatched a whole match because you could not skip to the fight you wanted, you only need a handful of keys. A PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS replay on PC is not a video. It re-runs the match data, so unlike a video player you can fly the camera anywhere on the map and switch to any player's point of view. The catch is that there are a lot of controls and the on-screen key guide only shows the keys for what you are doing at that moment, which is why people end up searching for PUBG replay controls, replay keys and replay keybinds separately. This guide groups every PC replay key by what it does, based on PUBG's official support article 'Are there any hotkeys for the replay mode?', the control guide in the 1.0 release patch notes and the official Replay Editor guide. It covers the timeline and play speed, moving the free camera, switching and saving players, display toggles such as X-Ray and player tags, and finally how to keep a scene you find as a video file. The support article's table was last edited in 2020, so if a key behaves differently in today's client, trust the on-screen key guide in the replay (toggled with Alt+K) over any list, including this one. Movement, shooting and inventory keys for actual matches are covered separately in best PUBG keybinds. Everything here was checked on October 16, 2026.

Bottom line: learn seven replay commands first, then save what you find before the next update

Seven keys cover most of what you do in a replay. J opens the timeline so you can click to jump to a moment, P pauses, and the Up and Down arrows raise and lower play speed. To see a fight from another angle, press F (or Space) for the free camera. To watch exactly what one player saw, select them and press V. To follow a player while steering the camera yourself, press C. To come back to your own character, press B. Learn those seven first and look up the rest in the table when you need them. Two more things are worth knowing before you start. First, a replay is match data, not a video, and it does not last forever. PUBG has announced several times, in the patch notes for Updates 12.2 and 14.1 among others, that the replay system was updated and replay files from previous updates can no longer be used. Arcade modes do not support replays at all (Update 24.2). Second, that means when you find a great play or a suspicious one, you should turn it into video the same day. There are three ways to do that: export a keyframed section from the game's Replay Editor, record the screen while the replay plays, or record the match itself from the start next time. With DOR running, you can press F8 right after the moment while watching the replay to save the last 30 seconds, and from the next match DOR records the whole game automatically. If what you found looks like cheating, the reporting route and how to prepare evidence are covered in how to report cheaters in PUBG.

How to use PUBG replay camera controls, from opening a replay to saving a scene

1. 1Open a replayIn the lobby, go to Career > Replays, pick a match and play it. Matches from modes that do not support replays, such as Arcade, will not appear. If a match is listed but will not play, it may have been recorded before a replay system update. 2D Replay is a separate feature under Career > Match History > Match Report > 2D Replay. It shows movement and engagements on the map at 1, 2, 5, 10 or 20x on PC, so it is a quick way to find where a fight happened before you open the 3D replay.
2. 2Skip to the fight with the timeline and play speedPress J to show the timeline at the bottom of the screen and click on it to jump to a point in the match. P toggles pause, the Up arrow increases play speed and the Down arrow decreases it. Speed through the drop and the long rotations, then go back to normal speed 30 seconds to a minute before the fight you want. The official table does not give a maximum speed, so watch the speed shown on screen as you adjust it.
3. 3Change the angle with the free cameraPress F or Space to switch to the free camera. W, A, S and D move it forward, back, left and right, E moves it up and Q moves it down. Holding Left Shift makes it faster and holding Left Ctrl makes it slower. Mouse wheel up zooms in, and clicking the middle mouse button resets the zoom. The official English table also lists A as 'Toggle Smooth Free Cam', which clashes with A as a movement key, so check how it behaves in your client.
4. 4Switch players and save them to slotsV (or left click) gives the selected player's own view, C (or right click) follows that player while you control the camera, Y switches to third-person spectate and B returns to the recorded player, which is you. Tab opens the player list, and clicking an ID takes you to that player. L opens the battle list of players fighting the one you are watching, and M opens the map, where left-clicking a player icon spectates them and right-clicking empty ground drops the free camera there. Ctrl plus a number key on the top row saves the current player to a slot and the number alone jumps back to them. Ctrl plus a numpad number saves a camera position and the numpad number returns to it. PUBG's support article notes that a saved player cannot be recalled when they are more than 1 km away from your own character.
5. 5Read positions with X-Ray and player tagsX toggles X-Ray, which outlines characters through walls, H toggles player tags, the ] and [ keys increase and decrease how far tags are visible, and the | key shows care packages. When you want to know where an enemy was watching you from, turn on X-Ray and tags in the free camera and you can see positions behind cover at a glance. One caution about H: Update #27 (March 2019) added Highlight Replay, where pressing H while you spectate a specific player lets you step through that player's highlights, such as kills and knockdowns, and a 2023 patch note still mentions a Highlight View key in PC replays. If H opens highlights instead of tags in your client, check the on-screen key guide for the tag key.
6. 6Save the scene as video while the replay still opensOnce you find the moment, keep it today. With DOR running, press F8 right after the scene to save the last 30 seconds as a video, or press F7 to start recording a longer stretch and F7 again to save and stop. Save a short test once to confirm the replay screen is captured the way you expect. To stay inside the game, use the Replay Editor: according to the official January 2019 guide, open the timeline with J, click Edit at the bottom right (or press Ctrl+J), set keyframes and export with Ctrl+E. Check that the Edit button is still there in today's client.

PUBG replay key guide (official support article and patch notes, checked October 16, 2026)

Checklist before and after you watch a replay

• The match I want is not from a mode that skips replays, such as Arcade.
• The replay feature is not turned off in the game settings; with it off, no replay is created.
• If a key does not match this list, I turned on the on-screen key guide with Alt+K and followed what the screen shows. The Gameplay tab in settings lets you pick the basic or advanced key guide, and the timeline, pause and play speed keys can be remapped in the control settings, so I checked there too.
• My recording app's hotkeys do not overlap replay keys such as J, P, X, H, B, the number keys or Ctrl+number.
• Scenes I want to keep are saved as video before the next update.
• My recorder is running before the next match starts, so the whole game is saved without relying on the replay.

Saving a replay moment with DOR: F8 for the last 30 seconds, F7 for longer stretches, auto recording from the next match

DOR is a free Windows PC app. It detects PUBG automatically and records each match as an mp4 from the moment you join the match server until the match ends (1080p at 30fps by default). While you watch a replay you are not in a match, so this auto recording does not run, but Blackbox Record, which is on by default, keeps a buffer ready. Press F8 right after a moment in the replay and the last 30 seconds of the screen are saved as a video. You can set the length to 15, 30, 45 or 60 seconds under Highlights in the settings. For anything longer than one fight, press F7 to start recording and F7 again to save and stop. DOR does not record replay playback on its own, so you press the key for each scene you want. Outside a match, DOR also passes F7 and F8 through to the game, so if you have bound either key to something in PUBG's own key settings, both actions will fire. F7 and F8 do not appear in PUBG's official replay hotkey table, but if they clash, change DOR's hotkeys to a Ctrl or Shift combination. The clip key is under Highlights and the screen recording key is under Recording in DOR's settings. Key combinations work only in the latest app, and older versions show a message that only F1 to F12 can be set. Avoid Ctrl+number, which saves players in the replay, and Ctrl+J or Ctrl+E, which the Replay Editor uses. From the next match on, you will dig through replays less often. When a match ends, DOR analyzes the recording and creates clips of kills, knockouts, getting knocked out and deaths (30 seconds by default, ending 3 seconds after the event). Because the analysis processes the full recording on your PC, low-spec PCs may see some lag while it runs, and you can turn it off with the Highlight Auto Analysis toggle in settings. Events of the same kind within about 20 seconds are merged into one clip. The steps for turning those clips into an edit are in how to make a PUBG montage. In My Clips, you can trim a video to 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1 and export it, or share it as a dor.gg link. Unlike a replay, an mp4 keeps playing no matter how the game updates. Full-match recording takes disk space, so keep Automatic File Management on (30 GB by default, favorited videos are kept), and if your drive is still short, see fixing low disk space for Steam game recording.