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Failsafe
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States1298 Posts
July 27 2010 20:13 GMT
#1
Does anyone have an idea why Blizzard preferred F5-8, and now F8-F11 for camera saves? F1-4 or F2-4 seems like obvious choice to me. What could be the motivation for this change?

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green.at
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Austria1459 Posts
July 27 2010 20:17 GMT
#2
to start with (ignoring the quality OP) F1 is for idle workers and F2-Fx are for heroes. so i think thats the reasoning behind it.
Inputting special characters into chat should no longer cause the game to crash.
waffling1
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
599 Posts
July 27 2010 20:38 GMT
#3
ohhhh so they did change it. i thought my f5 f6 f7 keys were broken lol

i suppose 8-11 makes it more right side of the keyboard. 1-4 would be nice for the left hand, but they want it for other functions like green.at said.

8-11 accomodates ppl with even small hands. i still used the right ctrl button since, being easier for 5-8, but nwo it's exclusively 8-11. i'm actually quite happy with it.

1-4 seems logical, but it actually is sort of awkward on your hands and wrist to use the left ctrl button.

8-11 will push me towards going to the right of the keyboard more.

pllus the separate btw 8 and 9 helps to tell apart the buttons physically as well. f6 and f7 can be hard to tell apart purely by sense of touch.
DemiSe
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
883 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-27 20:43:43
July 27 2010 20:43 GMT
#4
Go to Options>Hotkeys and look up what the keys F1-F4 does. I'am sure you can find a reason behind it by just looking at what the mentioned keys are binded to.
But yea, I'd rather have the F1-F4 too.
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razorx
Profile Joined April 2010
United States4 Posts
July 28 2010 22:20 GMT
#5
Except that F9-F11 overlap with the menu hotkeys and thus don't work. I've reported this twice now:

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/145934651

If you care about this, I think the best thing to do would be to try and get Blizzard's attention via their official forums.
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