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Rigorous
Profile Joined August 2011
74 Posts
February 20 2012 13:06 GMT
#1
Hi all, I searched so really not trying to clutter up the threads! I've been playing SC2 for a while and decent at top 25 masters. When I watch streams it seems like the pros move units into their workers and then pull them out with incredible ease. How do they do this? Is there a way to only select your army units but no workers? I fumble around sometimes when I have to move my army into my workers, and in fact I try to avoid it sometimes because its hard to move the units out if you have multiple types...I've probably lost a few games to this reluctance. When watching streams, I am fairly certain they dont have that whole army hotkeyed, so it seems like there must be a way to select only army. Thanks for any help!!!!!!
awu25
Profile Joined April 2010
United States2003 Posts
February 20 2012 13:09 GMT
#2
As far as I know there isn't a way. They are most likely hotkeying the army or just ctrl+clicking the units. I don't think any player uses all their hotkeys so quickly hotkeying the army should be easy enough
Kin015
Profile Joined January 2012
United States5 Posts
February 20 2012 13:09 GMT
#3
Sounds like they're just double clicking with shift. With how fast some of the players are and the quality of some streams I wouldn't be surprised if you couldn't tell a double click from a single click.
theBALLS
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
Singapore2935 Posts
February 20 2012 13:09 GMT
#4
Usually they're mostly the same units in the mineral line (eg zerglings), so you just control + click a zergling so that all the lings are selected. Otherwise if theres more than 1 kind of unit in there, control+click the lings, then shift+control+click the roaches (assuming roaches) then you'd have both the lings and roaches selected without having your workers selected.

If you lose the stick, you'll always have theBALLS.
SoapSC
Profile Joined February 2011
Netherlands112 Posts
February 20 2012 13:10 GMT
#5
Me as a Diamond league player thinks that they will probally have it hotkeyed or they double clicks and uses shift with it.
umad?
Tobberoth
Profile Joined August 2010
Sweden6375 Posts
February 20 2012 13:10 GMT
#6
Hold ctrl, click unit: Selects all units like it. Or, before you move units into mineral lines, make sure they are in a control group.

I don't know if it works, but could it maybe be possible to box, then hold shift+ctrl and click workers to exclude all workers?
Flaiker
Profile Joined July 2010
Germany235 Posts
February 20 2012 13:15 GMT
#7
Just box select everything and press shift+crtl+klick on the workers in your selection?
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Gator
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States3432 Posts
February 20 2012 13:17 GMT
#8
if you hold ctrl+shift and click one of each unit you want to move out then you will select all the units of those type in the are and not the workers
TSM
ODKStevez
Profile Joined February 2011
Ireland1225 Posts
February 20 2012 13:19 GMT
#9
Remember you can shift click all the units as workers in the bottom if it's just a few. Since all workers appear at the end of the unit selection box.

Also you can double click a unit to select all units of that type if that helps and if you hold shift you can stack this.
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Rigorous
Profile Joined August 2011
74 Posts
February 20 2012 13:21 GMT
#10
Thank you all. I think it must be the ctrl+shift and click a worker to exclude. That's the only way these guys are able to move their armies out so fast. This will be a life saver now in clutch times!!!
merz
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
Sweden2760 Posts
February 20 2012 13:22 GMT
#11
On February 20 2012 22:15 Flaiker wrote:
Just box select everything and press shift+crtl+klick on the workers in your selection?


This is pretty much it. It'll keep everything except workers in your selection so you can move out whatever units you have except the workers.
Winners never quit, quitters never win.
Hunterai
Profile Joined October 2010
Thailand842 Posts
February 20 2012 13:23 GMT
#12
Doesn't matter for me.
Pulling a bunch of SCVs is standard Terran strategy anyway
gh0un
Profile Joined March 2011
601 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-02-20 13:29:11
February 20 2012 13:28 GMT
#13
Shift clicking a unit will add it to your current selection.
Shift clicking a unit that is already in your selection, will remove it from your selection.

Ctrl clicking a unit will choose every unit of that same type.
Ctrl + shift clicking a unit, will add every unit of that same type to your current selection.
Ctrl + shift clicking a unit in your selection, will remove every unit of that type from your current selection.

Just use the last one to remove all workers from your current selection after you boxed everything first.
iNbluE
Profile Joined January 2011
Switzerland674 Posts
February 20 2012 13:38 GMT
#14
On February
20 2012 22:23 Hunterai wrote:

Doesn't matter for me.
Pulling a bunch of SCVs is standard Terran strategy anyway

:-D i laughed. But yeah, shift ctrl on workers or control groups.
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-orb-
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States5770 Posts
February 20 2012 14:32 GMT
#15
Most of them actually DO have their entire armies hotkeyed. However if you drag select a lot of units and want to remove one type of unit (i.e. workers), just control+shift click on one of the workers in the wireframe selection at the bottom of the screen.
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Durso
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
United States51 Posts
February 20 2012 14:39 GMT
#16
On February 20 2012 22:23 Hunterai wrote:
Doesn't matter for me.
Pulling a bunch of SCVs is standard Terran strategy anyway


lulz!!! this made my laugh so hard so true, so true.
Big J
Profile Joined March 2011
Austria16289 Posts
February 20 2012 14:41 GMT
#17
I'd say it's simply ctrl-click combined with the precision and speed of a progamer
NoobSkills
Profile Joined August 2009
United States1603 Posts
February 20 2012 14:41 GMT
#18
On February 20 2012 23:32 -orb- wrote:
Most of them actually DO have their entire armies hotkeyed. However if you drag select a lot of units and want to remove one type of unit (i.e. workers), just control+shift click on one of the workers in the wireframe selection at the bottom of the screen.


I think it is probably good for him to know this way as well though because some units that have just been created might not already be in a control grouping, but yes I would assume everything was already in a control group in most cases.
KicKDoG
Profile Joined December 2003
Sweden765 Posts
February 20 2012 14:48 GMT
#19
On February 20 2012 22:22 dignitas.merz wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 20 2012 22:15 Flaiker wrote:
Just box select everything and press shift+crtl+klick on the workers in your selection?


This is pretty much it. It'll keep everything except workers in your selection so you can move out whatever units you have except the workers.


Couldn't have said it much better. shift+ctrl+click where you want the workers to go.
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vGl-CoW
Profile Blog Joined December 2002
Belgium8305 Posts
February 20 2012 19:41 GMT
#20
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