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Sm1Le
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
United States179 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-03 06:55:01
May 03 2012 06:49 GMT
#1
Not sure if this is a bug,

While laddering not sure what happened,

but all of a sudden it started bugging like hell.

i can't do anything. It seemed like everysingle unit and building was in one control group. i Couldn't make a single unit, i couldn't stim, I couldn't do anything but move my army around as you can see (looks like being shift clicked). I can't even type enter to start typing.

Also note the hotkeys, when i press a number on my keyboard, it automatically hotkeyed it without holding cntrl.

I tried tabbing out, but it didn't solve.

meh.

Anyone else run into this?

Replay: http://topreplays.com/Replays/Download/13733

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heha
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Australia425 Posts
May 03 2012 06:50 GMT
#2
Out of curiousity would you be able to upload your replay?
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mataxp
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
Chile538 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-03 07:35:12
May 03 2012 06:53 GMT
#3
The same thing happened to me like looooog ago, maybe 4-5 months, I blamed the batteries of my wireless keyboard holding shift automatically or somehting, anyway, never happened again.

funny thing I was a-moving to victory in a pvz with a nice deathball after a long macro game and this happened, then opponent left when i was about to engage panic mode
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Yoshi Kirishima
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States10338 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-03 06:54:25
May 03 2012 06:53 GMT
#4
I had a problem like this... it was strange. At the start of the match I must have hit some key to switch hotkey settings or something. When I pressed enter to try to talk, instead of showing "To All" in white, it showed it in red. I couldn't type anything. I couldn't use my control groups either (this was at the very start). I could left click on things but that was it. Though, I could somehow press F10. The only thing I could do was quit, but it fixed the next game.

Also, I changed keyboards (paused the game) but no fix. So it wasn't the keyboards.

Maybe it's related...?
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caradoc
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Canada3022 Posts
May 03 2012 06:55 GMT
#5
What type of keyboard are you all that have experienced this using?
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SheLovesMe
Profile Joined March 2012
11 Posts
May 03 2012 06:58 GMT
#6
It happens when you place buildings into the same control group as your units. Check at the end of your control group and there are probably going to be barracks/command centres selected as well.
Buddhabig
Profile Joined April 2011
Denmark72 Posts
May 03 2012 07:00 GMT
#7
This sometimes happen to me to. I usually just spam the Alt,ctrl,shift and alt gr. Usually it stops.
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windsupernova
Profile Joined October 2010
Mexico5280 Posts
May 03 2012 07:02 GMT
#8
On May 03 2012 15:58 SheLovesMe wrote:
It happens when you place buildings into the same control group as your units. Check at the end of your control group and there are probably going to be barracks/command centres selected as well.


I hate this so much and yeah it behaves like what OP describes.
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Encrypto
Profile Joined August 2010
United States442 Posts
May 03 2012 07:13 GMT
#9
On May 03 2012 15:53 Yoshi Kirishima wrote:
I had a problem like this... it was strange. At the start of the match I must have hit some key to switch hotkey settings or something. When I pressed enter to try to talk, instead of showing "To All" in white, it showed it in red. I couldn't type anything. I couldn't use my control groups either (this was at the very start). I could left click on things but that was it. Though, I could somehow press F10. The only thing I could do was quit, but it fixed the next game.

Also, I changed keyboards (paused the game) but no fix. So it wasn't the keyboards.

Maybe it's related...?


I had this same thing happen the other day. When I tried to select my drones to mine, instead it just pinged the map over and over again.
KeksX
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Germany3634 Posts
May 03 2012 07:17 GMT
#10
Did you happen to tab out of the game? Did you hold shift/ctrl while doing that? I had this issue once and it was after I tabbed out to check a messenger
canikizu
Profile Joined September 2010
4860 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-03 07:19:13
May 03 2012 07:19 GMT
#11
Do you use any software that require combo Shift+Ctrl?
I use a Vietnamese typing assistant software Unikey, and everytime I want to play SC2, I have to turn the software off because the combo Shift+Ctrl (which is supposed to switch between English mode and Vietnamese mode) get in "sticky" mode and keep queuing stuffs.
BreakfastBurrito
Profile Joined November 2011
United States893 Posts
May 03 2012 07:30 GMT
#12
known bug where sometimes the game reads that the shift key is being pressed down, causing minimap pings and general chaos.

fixed by: alt tab, key spam, sometimes restarting game etc etc.
seen this thread at least 5 times in my tenure here and have experienced it myself (although not lately)

triggered by: ????
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pOnarreT
Profile Joined March 2012
155 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-03 07:47:31
May 03 2012 07:45 GMT
#13
On May 03 2012 15:49 Sm1Le wrote:
Not sure if this is a bug,

While laddering not sure what happened,

but all of a sudden it started bugging like hell.

i can't do anything. It seemed like everysingle unit and building was in one control group. i Couldn't make a single unit, i couldn't stim, I couldn't do anything but move my army around as you can see (looks like being shift clicked). I can't even type enter to start typing.

Also note the hotkeys, when i press a number on my keyboard, it automatically hotkeyed it without holding cntrl.

I tried tabbing out, but it didn't solve.

meh.

Anyone else run into this?

Replay: http://topreplays.com/Replays/Download/13733

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this has happened to me numerous times but only at the beginning of a game. I can't reproduce it even if I try but I think it happened to me when the screen is loading before the game and I clicked numerous times on the screen. But sometimes, even if I do, it doesn't happen so I don't know the exact cause.

What happens is all my workers are selected (I did not select them) and they are shift clicked to my nexus and the mineral patch. I cannot stop them, cannot issue other commands; I must wait for them to finish the queued actions before I can control them. Luckily, this has only happened to me on team games and not on 1v1. I think this has happened to me at least 6 times.

And BTW, they are not queued to nexus-patch one time. They are queued nexus-patch-nexus-patch... you get the idea. And also on a single patch so it really affects your opening.
Lysergic
Profile Joined December 2010
United States355 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-03 08:13:09
May 03 2012 07:46 GMT
#14
It's holding shift down. When it happens, just press the shift key and it should stop.

I have a black widow, it hasn't happened in a while, don't think the keyboard has anything to do with the bug though. I remember it would sometimes happen when the lag window would pop up - the game didn't receive the Shift-Release input, so it acts as though the shift key is pressed. I've had it happen at the start of game as well, and after a pause/unpause.

Edit- I looked at your actions in sc2gears. It's definitely holding down the shift key, not ctrl. It started right after you hit Ctrl+1 to hotkey 2 marines, you then shift+select the tech lab, factory etc and do a bunch of Hotkey Assign (add selection) commands.

I've found that pressing the shift key by itself fixes the problem right away, don't need to alt tab or restart. (If it doesn't work try tapping the Ctrl key, and maybe Ctrl+Shift, the point is to make the game receive a shift_up input.)
JerKy
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Korea (South)3013 Posts
May 03 2012 07:47 GMT
#15
This happened to me once, I restarted SC2 and the problem went away
Dunno what causes it, but it was REALLY annoying.
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ROOTIllusion
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States1060 Posts
May 03 2012 07:51 GMT
#16
just hit shift, used to happen to me when i shift + tab for steam.
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feardragon
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States972 Posts
May 03 2012 09:06 GMT
#17
So I think I know what has caused this for me in the past. For me, it turned out to be an issue that happens when I launch Starcraft through steam and shift-tab in game at some point. I don't know if this is the same issue you're getting but I just became a lot more careful about shift-tabbing in starcraft and stopped getting the issue. I'll also note, it usually didn't occur right after I shift-tab'd. It only caused problems a bit after(I think after I hit shift at some point? I'm not sure).

Hopefully that helps.
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CaptainCharisma
Profile Joined February 2011
New Zealand808 Posts
May 03 2012 09:10 GMT
#18
On May 03 2012 16:46 lysergic wrote:
It's holding shift down. When it happens, just press the shift key and it should stop.

I have a black widow, it hasn't happened in a while, don't think the keyboard has anything to do with the bug though. I remember it would sometimes happen when the lag window would pop up - the game didn't receive the Shift-Release input, so it acts as though the shift key is pressed. I've had it happen at the start of game as well, and after a pause/unpause.

Edit- I looked at your actions in sc2gears. It's definitely holding down the shift key, not ctrl. It started right after you hit Ctrl+1 to hotkey 2 marines, you then shift+select the tech lab, factory etc and do a bunch of Hotkey Assign (add selection) commands.

I've found that pressing the shift key by itself fixes the problem right away, don't need to alt tab or restart. (If it doesn't work try tapping the Ctrl key, and maybe Ctrl+Shift, the point is to make the game receive a shift_up input.)



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Indolent
Profile Joined January 2012
Poland137 Posts
May 03 2012 09:11 GMT
#19
Yeah, I had this and as the others said shift key is the culprit. Fix the key or replace keyboard
cristo1122
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Australia505 Posts
May 03 2012 09:34 GMT
#20
yeah i usually get this in mid to late game when all my hotkeys get messed up and i have no units and 1000/1000 resources its an annoying way to lose
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