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DN2perfectionGM
Profile Joined August 2004
United States233 Posts
February 07 2006 13:14 GMT
#1
Nada's 400 apm, spamming 3-8 seems exotic. I use numbers to hotkey buildings in the beginning in tvp and tvz, but as my forces get bigger, i usually hotkey my units over buildings, so I start using F2 F3 F4. Using F keys however does take my attention from micro. In the middle of big fight, coming back to the home base, search starport, factories, and extra scv to build supply depot is cumbersome, not to mention finding cc to make extra scvs as well. All this while zealot or two harass far expo will make me scream.

How do gosus play?
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YunhOLee
Profile Blog Joined April 2005
Canada2470 Posts
February 07 2006 13:22 GMT
#2
On February 07 2006 22:14 DN2perfectionGM wrote:
Nada's 400 apm, spamming 3-8 seems exotic. I use numbers to hotkey buildings in the beginning in tvp and tvz, but as my forces get bigger, i usually hotkey my units over buildings, so I start using F2 F3 F4. Using F keys however does take my attention from micro. In the middle of big fight, coming back to the home base, search starport, factories, and extra scv to build supply depot is cumbersome, not to mention finding cc to make extra scvs as well. All this while zealot or two harass far expo will make me scream.

How do gosus play?


listen to the bw sounds more often, you should remember where are your command centers..., gosus use both ( F2 F3 F4 AND hotkeys ), but i dont think that anyone plays the same way.. just play like you want it, i dont use f2 f3 f4 and i dont think that everyone uses them..
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NonYold
Profile Joined April 2004
United States2814 Posts
February 07 2006 13:38 GMT
#3
use the arrow keys like boxer...
YoUr_KiLLeR
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
United States3420 Posts
February 07 2006 13:49 GMT
#4
i set F2/F3/F4 all to the rally point of my hatches.
what the fuck do you have to say for yourself now you protoss jackass can you retaliate in any way
HappyManRun
Profile Joined November 2005
1111 Posts
February 07 2006 14:52 GMT
#5
On February 07 2006 22:49 YoUr_KiLLeR wrote:
i set F2/F3/F4 all to the rally point of my hatches.

good idea mate, so you can just smash your hand in that general area and hit the hotkey you want :D
I happy, thus I run.
skyglow1
Profile Blog Joined April 2005
New Zealand3962 Posts
February 07 2006 15:15 GMT
#6
In TvZ or TvP a large factory or barracks count coupled with a large hotkeyed army can seem reall daunting. Here is my setup that I use to manage everything:

TvZ 12345 hotkeys for Units. 6 and 7 for 2 barracks. F3 on main CC, F2 on nat CC (click on the animated icon to center the cc before setting the area hotkey, like how sometimes commentators do in vods, its really helpful :O), F4 on 2nd nat CC. So, I micro with 123456 then when I need to macro I double press on 6 (sometimes I smash onto 7 but it doesnt matter cause theyre both set to barracks) then macro quickly by clicking on a rax then pressing the hotkey for the unit I want, then moving on to the next rax etc so you macro all your mm within about 1 second, then you have your starports and factories close to your raxes (well not like miles away) so you can macro vessels and tanks quickly as well in the same view or nearby. Then I press F2, click on cc then press s, F3, click on cc etc etc. This whole macro cycle takes me about 3-5 seconds, so you have time to go back to your army and micro again.

TvP is pretty much the same setup except for less hotkeys for the units, so factories is set to 456.
koehli
Profile Joined January 2004
Germany350 Posts
February 07 2006 22:10 GMT
#7
On February 07 2006 23:52 HappyManRun wrote:
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On February 07 2006 22:49 YoUr_KiLLeR wrote:
i set F2/F3/F4 all to the rally point of my hatches.

good idea mate, so you can just smash your hand in that general area and hit the hotkey you want :D

But, ohhh, the fun when you hit F1 by accident ;-)
You go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time.
sCV
Profile Joined July 2004
Jamaica246 Posts
February 07 2006 22:58 GMT
#8
f1 is removed from the most of the sc player keyboards, i think
from mine for sure ^^
gulii
Profile Joined November 2004
Sweden2791 Posts
February 07 2006 23:11 GMT
#9
I dont use them...maybe I should. But I manage fine without. Mouse speed instead.
sundance
Profile Blog Joined May 2004
Slovakia3201 Posts
February 07 2006 23:34 GMT
#10
F2 - main
F4 - nat
F3 - rax or factories or gateways or rally point of my hatches (random player =p )
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Not_Banned
Profile Joined January 2006
United States158 Posts
February 08 2006 03:04 GMT
#11
Wtf??? I don't even know how to set the F2 F3 keys!! Help??
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kimseongchan
Profile Joined September 2004
Korea (South)733 Posts
February 08 2006 03:22 GMT
#12
On February 08 2006 12:04 Not_Banned wrote:
Wtf??? I don't even know how to set the F2 F3 keys!! Help??

Shift+F2 ,F3, F4 etc. it'll save wherever you are on the screen
life goes on..
rick the dangerous
Profile Joined April 2004
Turkey90 Posts
February 08 2006 03:51 GMT
#13
well i tried only once to use the f keys and it was a complete mess .... i use 1-2-3 for units... it is cool enough for me to have 3 groups of marines at hand (vs Z of course) and 4-5-6-7 goes for barracks and 8 is for the fact or port according to the situation... 0-9 is for scanners... i just double press on the last rax hotkey to produce from the not-hotkeyed raxes...

the same applies vs toss for facts instead of raxes...
jkillashark
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
United States5262 Posts
February 08 2006 07:02 GMT
#14
right now i play on a laptop and i tend to mash 1, 2, or 3 when i try to use the F keys so once I build a computer i will try to learn the awesome F2-F4 keys
Do your best, God will do the rest.
Murph
Profile Joined July 2005
Canada591 Posts
February 08 2006 07:52 GMT
#15
On February 07 2006 22:38 NonY wrote:
use the arrow keys like boxer...

I don't know if thats a joke or not, but personally i've always played virtually exclusively with the hotkeys, as far as screen scrolling is concearned.
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Shauni
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
4077 Posts
February 08 2006 08:42 GMT
#16
On February 08 2006 16:52 Murph wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 07 2006 22:38 NonY wrote:
use the arrow keys like boxer...

I don't know if thats a joke or not, but personally i've always played virtually exclusively with the hotkeys, as far as screen scrolling is concearned.


I think Boxer did it in a couple of games, I remember there was some discussion if it was worth to use the arrow keys.
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RuNei
Profile Joined January 2006
United States30 Posts
February 08 2006 09:12 GMT
#17
Why dont u just group all of your macro buildings and have one essential hotkey for them?

i.e. Group 4 racks together and have the middle one be hotkey 5 so just.. 55 and then que all ur macro up then 11 and go back to ur micro frenzy . . .
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mitsy
Profile Joined October 2005
United States1792 Posts
February 08 2006 09:21 GMT
#18
boxer used arrow keys in certain situations, i think to macro while moving the mouse too.
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YoUr_KiLLeR
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
United States3420 Posts
February 08 2006 10:32 GMT
#19
most first-person views of boxer show him using the arrow keys. one VOD once, i think it was a tvz on bifrost, showed his left hand glued to the arrow keys while he microed vultures.
what the fuck do you have to say for yourself now you protoss jackass can you retaliate in any way
SpeaKinRiddleS
Profile Joined October 2005
United States148 Posts
February 08 2006 11:34 GMT
#20
I've seen a number of pro gamers use the arrow keys. I've given it a lot of thought as to what possible purpose this could serve
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Judicator
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
United States7270 Posts
February 08 2006 13:45 GMT
#21
i use arrow keys if theres a fight at my nat on say LT, i can just whip back and forth without having to move my mouse as much
Get it by your hands...
KrAzYfoOL
Profile Blog Joined September 2005
Australia3037 Posts
February 08 2006 19:48 GMT
#22
Never really use them, I also wonder what Nada's thoughts are on APM and what he thinks of other pro gamers who only get half of what he does.
It's better to burn out than to fade away
JokeBook
Profile Joined January 2006
United States28 Posts
February 08 2006 23:00 GMT
#23
sound like u got it figured out
once u start f2f3f4 use arrow keys
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I-Emerge
Profile Blog Joined December 2005
United States435 Posts
February 09 2006 02:10 GMT
#24
The arrow keys help with micro since you need the arrow mouse for micro. Also, last week I found out that instaed of the arrow keys, the mouse wheel can be used to move super fast around the map long distatnces.
A punch is just a punch. Then a punch becomes more than a punch. A punch becomes just a punch again.
CCHS
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
United States614 Posts
February 09 2006 04:10 GMT
#25
On February 07 2006 22:38 NonY wrote:
use the arrow keys like boxer...
really boxer does that i never knew
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RuNei
Profile Joined January 2006
United States30 Posts
February 09 2006 07:22 GMT
#26
how does he use the quick-key for mines then?
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Kami5909
Profile Joined November 2005
United States157 Posts
February 17 2006 04:35 GMT
#27
I know that a few of the progamers set their mouse scroll to lowest so they don't move their screen too far while microing, and just click the minimap and use the arrow keys for all of their macro and building.
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