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7thSamuraii
Profile Joined December 2010
3 Posts
May 10 2011 07:34 GMT
#81
sorry guys I only use like 4 or 5 hotkeys
becuz I have problems reaching them on my keyboard ( you know ctrl plus number)
FinestHour
Profile Joined August 2010
United States18466 Posts
May 10 2011 07:36 GMT
#82
Β½

need to get this to work for me too. its really helpful to add on caster units like ghost or raven
thug life.                                                       MVP/ex-
Korred
Profile Joined August 2010
Poland16 Posts
May 10 2011 07:39 GMT
#83
1-> CC's
2-> Rax
3-> Factory
4-> Starport
5-> Drops
Q-> Main Army
W-> Casters
DontRushMe.Bro
Profile Joined May 2010
Australia14 Posts
May 10 2011 07:42 GMT
#84
Nada and MKP do all production on 4 and command centre on 5 iirc.

Pretty sure MVP has a hotly for each command centre.
Don't rush me.
DooMDash
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1015 Posts
May 10 2011 09:08 GMT
#85
I was talking with LZGamer today and he said Select puts all his production on one hotkey, and just tabs through them.

LZ's is 1-3 units, 4 main production, 5cc, 6 nat cc ect.
S1 3500+ Master T. S2 1600+ Master T.
-Aleski-
Profile Joined December 2010
France6 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-10 09:55:56
May 10 2011 09:51 GMT
#86
1: main army
2: special units (stalkers, infestors, hts, ghosts)
3: special units (most likely Air units)
4: prod buildings (i jump with tab)
5: cc main
6: cc nat
7: 3rd
8: all CC's

Β²: drops, obs, overseer
y: Proxy building (starport, stargates)

F1: idle worker
F2: cycling between CC's view
F3: Saved location view 1
F4: Saved location view 2

Im playing with grid hotkeys as a random player.
GenuineOne
Profile Joined December 2010
United States37 Posts
May 10 2011 11:55 GMT
#87
~ is SCV hotkey instead of S
1 main army
2 2nd army or ghosts n such
3 command centers
4 reactor barracks
5 tech barracks
6 factorys
7 starport
8 scout


I have no idea if it is beneficial at all to have seperate keys for reactor and tech lab but somehow i started using it and i cant change it.

recently changed the scv hotkey, took like 3 games to get used to and i LOVE it
Ashok
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Australia339 Posts
May 10 2011 11:59 GMT
#88
On May 10 2011 18:08 DooMDash wrote:
I was talking with LZGamer today and he said Select puts all his production on one hotkey, and just tabs through them.

LZ's is 1-3 units, 4 main production, 5cc, 6 nat cc ect.


This seems to be standard amongst the korean progamers, from the few replays ive been able to find.
Blizzard_torments_me
Profile Joined February 2010
Romania199 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-10 12:03:33
May 10 2011 12:01 GMT
#89
1. Bio;
2. Mech/Ghosts;
3. Air/Drops;
4.Barracks + Factories+ Starports;
5. CC's;
6. Scouting SCV/Upgrades.

Q- patrol ( for splitting marines).

Don't really get why you would bind production buildings separately and use up 3 keys instead of 1.It's much easier and faster to tap tab instead of pressing 6-7-8.
Kyhol
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
Canada2575 Posts
May 10 2011 12:02 GMT
#90
I'm a grandmasters player and my set up is

1 Units(early scout etc)
2 Special tactic units( drops etc) Late game casting units/Tanks
3 Ghosts/Raven Harass units.
4 Barracks
5 Factory
6 Starport
7-8 are up for debate. I'll be adding them in when I start more actively.
09 Orbital/Plantary
Wishing you well.
Kostoglotov
Profile Joined February 2011
France28 Posts
May 10 2011 12:42 GMT
#91
I play with an azerty keyboard

1-4 - Units
5-6 - E-bay, armory, ghost academies
F - Command center
D - Rax
S - Factories
Q (A on a qwerty keyboard) - Starports

My production hotkeys are very similar to the grid configuration : AZER (QWER)
There are a couple of exceptions though ( SCV : E, BC : B, ravens and banshees are switched...).

I find it much easier with the building hotkeys below the units production ones. It goes very smoothly under my left hand.

And I find necessary to have rax, starports and factories on different keys, in order to assign different rally points.
SteamySashimi
Profile Joined July 2010
10 Posts
May 10 2011 12:53 GMT
#92
1-2 army
3 casters
4 ccs
5 all rax, factory, starport, engbay, armoury, ghost academy, techlabs, fusion core

To this day I don't know why people use separate hotkeys for everything. This way is sooooo much easier than anything else I've tried...
Kostoglotov
Profile Joined February 2011
France28 Posts
May 10 2011 13:09 GMT
#93
On May 10 2011 21:53 SteamySashimi wrote:
1-2 army
3 casters
4 ccs
5 all rax, factory, starport, engbay, armoury, ghost academy, techlabs, fusion core

To this day I don't know why people use separate hotkeys for everything. This way is sooooo much easier than anything else I've tried...


Well, you never want to rally only your air units to the enemy base ? Or rally the tanks up the cliff, and the marines down the cliff ?
SteamySashimi
Profile Joined July 2010
10 Posts
May 10 2011 14:00 GMT
#94
On May 10 2011 22:09 Kostoglotov wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 10 2011 21:53 SteamySashimi wrote:
1-2 army
3 casters
4 ccs
5 all rax, factory, starport, engbay, armoury, ghost academy, techlabs, fusion core

To this day I don't know why people use separate hotkeys for everything. This way is sooooo much easier than anything else I've tried...


Well, you never want to rally only your air units to the enemy base ? Or rally the tanks up the cliff, and the marines down the cliff ?


True, that is an advantage, but in that case I just set rally points individually as I tab through. Also, I used to play zerg, so I'm used to having all units rally to the same spot. :-)
Avril_Lavigne
Profile Joined April 2010
United States446 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-10 14:25:40
May 10 2011 14:25 GMT
#95
TvZ/TvT

1 - Special units (ghost/raven)
2 - Main army (marine medivac/marauders/scouting hellions/scout/banshee)
3 - Tanks
4 - Barracks + Factory
5 - CC
6 - Starport

TvP/TvT Mech

1 - Special units (ghost/raven)
2 - Hellion+marine/banshee/scout
3 - Tanks
4 - Barracks early game --->> Factory+Starport
5 - CC
6 - Barracks late game
MechKing
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States3004 Posts
May 10 2011 14:27 GMT
#96
1 - Barracks
2 - Command centers
3 - Factories
4 - Starports
5-0 - Army
Poopi
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France12911 Posts
May 10 2011 14:32 GMT
#97
On March 30 2011 02:45 Kyandid wrote:
Whatever's comfortable is seriously best, but you really do want to have your tanks, vikings and infantry on separate hotkeys for TvT, and a comfortable drop-hotkey is a godsend too.

Why do you want separate hotkey for tank and infantry in TvT? o;o
WriterMaru
djdoodoo
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United Kingdom192 Posts
May 10 2011 14:33 GMT
#98
Well you just helped me out. I am currently using

1 - CC
2 - Barracks
3 - Factory
4 - Army 1
5 - Army 2 (sometimes ghosts)
6 - Vikings
7 - Starport
8 - Raven / banshee etc
9 - Armory
0 - Ebay

Now I'm going to use

Β½ Starport
1 CC
2 Barracks
3 Factory
4 Army (main 1 mmm)
5 Army (main 2 tank / ghosts)
6 Army (air vikings (if i'm playing vs zerg might be used for my drop ship instead which i s heading for his main)
7 Army (Raven)
8 Army (Drops)
9 armory
0 ebay

cashmate
Profile Joined May 2010
Sweden68 Posts
May 10 2011 14:35 GMT
#99
1 CC
2 Factory + starport
3 Barracks
4 Main army
5 Tanks or medivac/banshee
6 ghosts or medivac/banshee
mordek
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States12705 Posts
May 10 2011 14:40 GMT
#100
On March 30 2011 03:01 gentile wrote:
3.7k master t here, i do it like this:
1-3 armies (changing all game, depending on what i have and on what i want to do next)
4 cc's
5 rax's
6 fac's
7 starports
8 ebay/armory sometimes, sometimes too lazy

in late late game i sometimes change cc to 0 and make 4 army too, depends on game and on my mood.

playing standard hotkeys and will never change them ^^




This is exactly the setup I use when I play Terran. Same for Protoss just substitute in the Protoss equivalent for production facilities. I think improvement comes when you can change your army hotkeys around throughout the game and not miss a beat. That's something I struggle with.
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