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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
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nope, thats how its supposed to work. always has, always will.
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wait, wasn't ctrl+f the team color changer?
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it was always ctrl+shift+f but sure blame everything on the patch eventhou it still works
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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.
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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.
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Control shift f was to keep the camera centered without having to press anything afterwards. Like a constant queue of control f
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Why would you do that when you can just double tap the hotkey?
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Or just click on the unit/building portrait to center it
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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)
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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.
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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?
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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 
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Is it for casting/observing games? I can't imagine why would anyone use that in game :D
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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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Hm I always clicked on the hatches portrait. Considering the fact that you won't build that many bases in a game I think it's not to bad. But know that I know about that Ctrl+F key I really want to switch to that but cant.
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It's bad if you're used to it and now you have to change your mechanics.
Also, I noticed that clicking on the portrait doesn't work properly as well. I created a custom game to check that and after a minute it stopped working, portraits weren't clickable anymore.
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Yes the portraits sometimes work sometimes don't. I think its an issue if your control groups are unclickable or unit portraits are set to 2d. But in any case its slower than with ctrl+f. I reported this bug in the arcade beta on battle.net forums but it seems no one cares. People care more about the cosmetics of bnet menus and stuff like that...
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On August 02 2012 01:27 nucLeaRTV wrote:
wait, wasn't ctrl+f the team color changer?
beleif that is alt+f.. and i thought that screen lock placements were like f1-4
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There are more than two Bumped. Hope someone cares to help.
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On August 03 2012 21:08 1982Srdjan wrote:
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...
Hmm ok, I don't really see how a good player could need that (in fact, I've never seen any streamer use it :D).
You can use the "base camera" to switch between hatcheries, although many prefer location saves.
But point taken, I guess it's useful if you're used to playing like that.
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I explained its not an only zerg hotkey. Sure i could hotkey individual hatcheries like drg, use TownCamera hotkey, or use CameraView hotkeys. Now try building 10 barracks around the map and going to the location of a specific barrack without using ctrl+f hotkey or clicking on their portrait which is slower and also bugged like we reported... Then when you see this is impossible maybe you could help us by bumping the thread on EU or Us battle.net forums instead of coming hear to tell us that we are bad players for using that hotkey...
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Please keep this to the 1.5 bugs thread.
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