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Patch 1.5: CTRL+F not working as intended

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Jordan_
Profile Joined March 2012
Italy50 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-03 12:59:51
August 01 2012 16:07 GMT
#1
Hi TL.
I'm opening this topic to ask you if you've encountered the same issue as mine.
If you press CTRL+F while having selected a unit or a building, the screen will be centered on that selected unit/building. I find it quite useful to center the screen on main bases before camera-hotkeying them.
Now, with the 1.5 patch, this key combination only works occasionally. Most of the times the screen keeps following the selected unit/building until I click on the minimap, other times nothing happens.
Any solutions?

Edit: There are two threads on this bug both on EU and US Starcraft 2 forum, please bump if you have the time.
EU: http://eu.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/5071487208?page=1#2
US: http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/6232903600
SunTurtle
Profile Blog Joined January 2012
156 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-01 16:26:53
August 01 2012 16:25 GMT
#2
nope, thats how its supposed to work. always has, always will.
nucLeaRTV
Profile Joined May 2011
Romania822 Posts
August 01 2012 16:27 GMT
#3
wait, wasn't ctrl+f the team color changer?
"Having your own haters means you are famous"
Railgan
Profile Joined August 2010
Switzerland1507 Posts
August 01 2012 16:29 GMT
#4
it was always ctrl+shift+f but sure blame everything on the patch eventhou it still works
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Jordan_
Profile Joined March 2012
Italy50 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-01 16:32:13
August 01 2012 16:30 GMT
#5
On August 02 2012 01:27 nucLeaRTV wrote:
wait, wasn't ctrl+f the team color changer?


No, team color changer is ALT+F.



On August 02 2012 01:29 Enema wrote:
it was always ctrl+shift+f but sure blame everything on the patch eventhou it still works


Ctrl+shift+f is to follow the selected units, ctrl+f is supposed to center the screen on that unit. I can ensure you that before 1.5 it worked just fine.
nonsequitur
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
384 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-01 16:36:06
August 01 2012 16:30 GMT
#6
On August 02 2012 01:25 SunTurtle wrote:
nope, thats how its supposed to work. always has, always will.


That is not how it worked before. Previously Ctrl+F wasn't a toggle. You pressed Ctrl+F and it centers on the unit you selected. If you click on another unit without holding down ctrl+f the camera would not follow whatever it is you selected.

I know this because I used ctrl+f every game to center my hatches before saving their camera position.

In 1.5, ctrl+f seems to function as a toggle, and a buggy one at that. After you hit ctrl+f, it centers the camera on the unit you've selected and occasionally continues to follow anything else you click until you hit ctrl+f a couple of times to toggle it off. It's clearly a bug and hopefully Blizzard fixes it asap.

I created a bug report on the us battlenet forums, please bump it if you can spare the time.
Backlash123
Profile Joined July 2012
Canada57 Posts
August 01 2012 16:30 GMT
#7
Control shift f was to keep the camera centered without having to press anything afterwards. Like a constant queue of control f
Grumbels
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Netherlands7031 Posts
August 01 2012 16:39 GMT
#8
On August 02 2012 01:30 nonsequitur wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 02 2012 01:25 SunTurtle wrote:
nope, thats how its supposed to work. always has, always will.


That is not how it worked before. Previously Ctrl+F wasn't a toggle. You pressed Ctrl+F and it centers on the unit you selected. If you click on another unit without holding down ctrl+f the camera would not follow whatever it is you selected.

I know this because I used ctrl+f every game to center my hatches before saving their camera position.

In 1.5, ctrl+f seems to function as a toggle, and a buggy one at that. After you hit ctrl+f, it centers the camera on the unit you've selected and occasionally continues to follow anything else you click until you hit ctrl+f a couple of times to toggle it off. It's clearly a bug and hopefully Blizzard fixes it asap.

I created a bug report on the us battlenet forums, please bump it if you can spare the time.

You can still click on the unit portrait for the same effect, right? I mean, it's a bit slower and more awkward, but you only have to save camera positions for your hatcheries a few times a game, so it shouldn't be so bad.
Well, now I tell you, I never seen good come o' goodness yet. Him as strikes first is my fancy; dead men don't bite; them's my views--amen, so be it.
nonsequitur
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
384 Posts
August 01 2012 16:41 GMT
#9
On August 02 2012 01:39 Grumbels wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 02 2012 01:30 nonsequitur wrote:
On August 02 2012 01:25 SunTurtle wrote:
nope, thats how its supposed to work. always has, always will.


That is not how it worked before. Previously Ctrl+F wasn't a toggle. You pressed Ctrl+F and it centers on the unit you selected. If you click on another unit without holding down ctrl+f the camera would not follow whatever it is you selected.

I know this because I used ctrl+f every game to center my hatches before saving their camera position.

In 1.5, ctrl+f seems to function as a toggle, and a buggy one at that. After you hit ctrl+f, it centers the camera on the unit you've selected and occasionally continues to follow anything else you click until you hit ctrl+f a couple of times to toggle it off. It's clearly a bug and hopefully Blizzard fixes it asap.

I created a bug report on the us battlenet forums, please bump it if you can spare the time.

You can still click on the unit portrait for the same effect, right? I mean, it's a bit slower and more awkward, but you only have to save camera positions for your hatcheries a few times a game, so it shouldn't be so bad.


Yes I can, but it is still a bug should therefore be fixed.
Floydian
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United Kingdom374 Posts
August 01 2012 20:57 GMT
#10
Oh God this is so damn annoying, like the OP I use this function every damn game to save location hotkeys on my hatcheries. Even if there is an alternative way to achieve the same thing, it's muscle memory for me now so it's still throwing me consistently.
Seems really bizarre to me that an interface patch can have so many odd ingame bugs like this. Really hope it gets sorted soon.
Sepheren
Profile Joined May 2012
United States66 Posts
August 01 2012 21:03 GMT
#11
On August 02 2012 01:07 Jordan_ wrote:
Hi TL.
I'm opening this topic to ask you if you've encountered the same issue as mine.
If you press CTRL+F while having selected a unit or a building, the screen will be centered on that selected unit/building. I find it quite useful to center the screen on main bases before camera-hotkeying them.
Now, with the 1.5 patch, this key combination only works occasionally. Most of the times the screen keeps following the selected unit/building until I click on the minimap, other times nothing happens.
Any solutions?


why don't you just hotkey your main base then double tap the hotkey to center, then camera bind it.
Floydian
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United Kingdom374 Posts
August 01 2012 21:06 GMT
#12
On August 02 2012 06:03 Sepheren wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 02 2012 01:07 Jordan_ wrote:
Hi TL.
I'm opening this topic to ask you if you've encountered the same issue as mine.
If you press CTRL+F while having selected a unit or a building, the screen will be centered on that selected unit/building. I find it quite useful to center the screen on main bases before camera-hotkeying them.
Now, with the 1.5 patch, this key combination only works occasionally. Most of the times the screen keeps following the selected unit/building until I click on the minimap, other times nothing happens.
Any solutions?


why don't you just hotkey your main base then double tap the hotkey to center, then camera bind it.


That's what I'm doing as a work around for now. But like I said in my last post, when you've been doing something a certain way for many many games it's just muscle memory to do it, it's quite jarring for it to suddenly not work, consistently throws you off. And a bug is a bug, still needs to be fixed even if there is a (slower) work around.
forsooth
Profile Joined February 2011
United States3648 Posts
August 01 2012 21:08 GMT
#13
Why would you do that when you can just double tap the hotkey?
ToAn8
Profile Joined February 2012
52 Posts
August 01 2012 21:09 GMT
#14
Or just click on the unit/building portrait to center it
Floydian
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United Kingdom374 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-01 21:26:45
August 01 2012 21:25 GMT
#15
On August 02 2012 06:08 forsooth wrote:
Why would you do that when you can just double tap the hotkey?


Who says I have each one of my hatcheries hotkeyed? I use location hotkeys a lot more than control groups. So much so that I've jigged around my hotkey setup to make them a lot more accessible. So hotkeying each individual hatchery just so I can then double tap it to center it for saving the location is a hell of a lot slower than simply hitting ctrl+f.

But then, why does it matter to you the way I do it? The point is, there's a bug, and we want it fixed. That's all. I have my preferences, you have yours.

(I like your name btw)
Jordan_
Profile Joined March 2012
Italy50 Posts
August 01 2012 22:44 GMT
#16
On August 02 2012 06:09 ToAn8 wrote:
Or just click on the unit/building portrait to center it


Clicking on the building may be viable as a temporary workaround, but it's so much slower than using CTRL+F .
As Floydian said, hotkeying every hatchery (or nexus in my case) on a different hotkey isn't that efficient.
H0verMyr
Profile Joined June 2012
Poland19 Posts
August 02 2012 16:52 GMT
#17
Hi guys. I got the problem with 1.5 patch. It didnt install yet and when I try to login it is what I see: Battlenet is temporarily unavailable the game will try to restart. What can I do? Is there any websitefrom I can upload this patch or I have to reinstall the game?
1982Srdjan
Profile Joined August 2012
Serbia5 Posts
August 03 2012 11:42 GMT
#18
I changed ctrl+f to mouse4. Better get used it cause i think this bug will stay here for a long time. I browsed the battle.net forums, it seems like blizzard doesn't even know about this bug cause i guess not many players use this hotkey and its certainly not used by blizzard employees
ZenithM
Profile Joined February 2011
France15952 Posts
August 03 2012 12:00 GMT
#19
Is it for casting/observing games? I can't imagine why would anyone use that in game :D
1982Srdjan
Profile Joined August 2012
Serbia5 Posts
August 03 2012 12:08 GMT
#20
sigh... Its used when you have multiple buildings/units in one control group that are not on the same screen(not in the same field of view). Examples: 7 Zerg hatcheries in one control group you want to go to one. 10 rax in one control group you want to go to the one that is badly positioned and the tech lab wont build on it...
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