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Striverz-G
United States63 Posts
-Hotkey every building but in groups, the buildings don't spread out unit production sometimes (marines, marauders sometimes cue in one building -Do you guys double tap hotkey to jump around on the map quickly? I should build this habit I feel like I'm missing a lot more, Tips anyone? | ||
Insane
United States4991 Posts
Yes, I use double tap hotkeys to move around when need be. | ||
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Gnarg
Netherlands165 Posts
1. You can put all your barracks in 1 group instead. When you press the group, you will automatically only select your rax with tech lab and build from those, but with tab you switch to your reactors, and another tab switches to your barracks without addon. 2. Keep building construction facilities. Around the time you can stop SCV production the available minerals shoot up alot. Just plant down 2-3 additional barracks to macro from. | ||
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Striverz-G
United States63 Posts
In general, How do you guys jump from expansion to expansion? If I want to edit a hotkey group 4, I have to CTRL+4 the group I want, then SHIFT+4 ? Is this the best way to do it? Are there any uses for the F1 through F10 keys? | ||
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Gnarg
Netherlands165 Posts
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Striverz-G
United States63 Posts
On March 03 2010 17:21 Gnarg wrote: Yeah tab selects sub-groups and it pretty much works for anything. For example if you have mutiple casters in 1 control group tab will switch between them. if I have 3 ghosts in a 50 man army (hotkeyed to 1), will it auto select each ghost with energy for me if I wanted to cast multple EMPs? | ||
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Insane
United States4991 Posts
I suspect (but haven't tested) that it will cast with the one which has the most energy currently... | ||
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Striverz-G
United States63 Posts
Hotkey the subsequent ones to a different hotkey? 2 = ghost #2, 3 = ghost#3? | ||
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CursOr
United States6335 Posts
IE: [8] is 2 Facts with Tech and 2 with reactors. It always selects the tech ones first. So with one hotkey you can [8][S][S][Tab][E][E][E][E] to get 2 siege and 4 hellions all being made at the same time. As TAB will also let you sub-select different units in the same group. If all your attack units are HotKey'd to 1, pressing Tab a few times will allow you to siege your tanks without de-selecting the whole group. | ||
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CharlieMurphy
United States22895 Posts
On March 03 2010 17:27 Insane wrote: Spells are smart cast, so if you cast it with multiple units it will only cast it with one of them. Tabbing will tab between different types of units instead. I suspect (but haven't tested) that it will cast with the one which has the most energy currently... no, I think it casts whichever is closest. | ||
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Mr.Pyro
Denmark959 Posts
On March 03 2010 17:33 Striverz-G wrote: So in a 50 man army, how do you easily different ghosts? Hotkey the subsequent ones to a different hotkey? 2 = ghost #2, 3 = ghost#3? If you have an army of for example marines marauders and ghosts, you just select all of them and the hotkey for casting is available from having them all selected. One hotkey = one spell, it's smartcast as in BW, and there seems to be a priority queue to this. Anoter example could be sentries zealots and high templar mapped together I'm farily certain that initially you would have hotkeys available for high templar press tab --> hotkeys from sentries available. tab again --> back at HT | ||
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Mr.Pyro
Denmark959 Posts
On March 03 2010 19:22 CharlieMurphy wrote: no, I think it casts whichever is closest. I do believe it considers all of those who are in range, and cast with those in range who has the most energy!  | ||
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Mikilatov
United States3897 Posts
I personally put all my buildings of each type (rax,fact,port) on 5, 6, and 7 respectively, regardless of addons. This makes it easier for me because I don't have to change the keys if the addons change or get added. The only time I change the keys is to add more buildings to them. While in battle, or moving around, or whatever, I'll just randomly press "5, ddd, tab, aaaaa" to make maras and marines, or "6, ss, tab, eee" to make tanks and hellions, or "7, b, tab, dddd" to make a BC and some medivacs. Remember, once you start getting addons, tech labs are always auto-selected first when you press your hotkey (5,6,7), then reactors. | ||
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EximoSua2
United States216 Posts
On March 03 2010 20:58 Mikilatov wrote: Yeah, I'm feeling myself getting a lot better at SC2 macro as I play. I also play T. I'm not saying what I do is correct, but here's what I do: I personally put all my buildings of each type (rax,fact,port) on 5, 6, and 7 respectively, regardless of addons. This makes it easier for me because I don't have to change the keys if the addons change or get added. The only time I change the keys is to add more buildings to them. While in battle, or moving around, or whatever, I'll just randomly press "5, ddd, tab, aaaaa" to make maras and marines, or "6, ss, tab, eee" to make tanks and hellions, or "7, b, tab, dddd" to make a BC and some medivacs. Remember, once you start getting addons, tech labs are always auto-selected first when you press your hotkey (5,6,7), then reactors. I'm still going back to my base while attacking to macro... ::ashamed:: | ||
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seRapH
United States9756 Posts
On March 03 2010 21:04 EximoSua2 wrote: I'm still going back to my base while attacking to macro... ::ashamed:: im still doing this out of habit when i play, tab is a really annoying thing to remember | ||
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jimbobdwayne
United States53 Posts
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Striverz-G
United States63 Posts
Are there other macro tips? -If you hold SHIFT with a worker you can have them build different buildings one after another right? -How does Auto Repair work with Terran? | ||
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FortuneSyn
1826 Posts
On March 03 2010 22:43 Striverz-G wrote: -If you hold SHIFT with a worker you can have them build different buildings one after another right? Yes but I believe it takes the minerals away from the second building ur gonna build already. I.e. you tell ur SCV to build 2 supply depots 1 after the other, 200 minerals will be subtracted. | ||
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Striverz-G
United States63 Posts
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Hammy
France828 Posts
On March 03 2010 17:27 Insane wrote: Spells are smart cast, so if you cast it with multiple units it will only cast it with one of them. Tabbing will tab between different types of units instead. I suspect (but haven't tested) that it will cast with the one which has the most energy currently... Actually from what I've seen (with queens specifically), distance is also a factor. Maybe there is a minimal distance as of which it will start looking at energy rather than distance. But the AI definitely seems to be doing a lot for us. edit: Ah I hadn't seen murphy's response. It might only be distance then : ) | ||
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Hammy
France828 Posts
On March 03 2010 21:34 jimbobdwayne wrote: Just wanted to say thanks for pointing out the Tab feature, makes it a lot easier when things get crazy imo. Back in WC3 there was this awesome feature where using ctrl and issuing a simple command would only give the command to the selected sub-group (not your whole group). Putting this back would be awesome for microing because it means you can have blings and lings in the same groupe and regulate their speed by using tab and ctrl-click. I would also make great use of when it comes to building hotkeying (especially if you intend to hotkey your queens with your hatches for macro purposes, want to set rallies but don't want to use Y...). I made a post about this on the suggestion forums (EU)... I hope it gets some attention. | ||
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guitarizt
United States1492 Posts
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Mastermind
Canada7096 Posts
On March 05 2010 16:31 guitarizt wrote: I read the other thread where someone explained tabbing with queens and how they would autocast on the nearest hatch, but I still don't get it. Can someone explain in detail what to press and what happens? Can I hotkey all my queens to control+4 and then have them spawn more larva without going back to my base? I havnt tried this, but I see no reason this wouldnt work. Put the hatcheries and the queens in the same control group. Tab to the queens. Select spawn larva and click one of the hatchery icons. The closest queen should go to the hatchery and inject. Repeat as necessary. | ||
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Koffiegast
Netherlands346 Posts
say I got 5 lings in a group, is there a hotkey that allows me to give each ling a different order? Like say, you move here, you move there, you move there, etc. That would be so much easier then to select individually and then move the mouse again to a point when you want for example a line of units. Is there also a key that allows your units to 'move away from each other'? I remember such a thing in red alert, where you pressed X and the units would move randomly, eventually resulting in a more spread out army. | ||
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ImBa_JaCkAsS
Canada200 Posts
building placement do matters too what I do is If I tend to micro less n macro more unless its a big battle and always make a more buildings if you have alot of money lets say u have 1k money then you will have that much less units than good player however if u built more building lets say one more barrack u will just have 150 minreals loss yet almost same units count | ||
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Clonze
Canada281 Posts
Use shift to queue up actions while you do otherstuff... You don't have to double tap keys and be perfect.. yet. Just use the minimap! | ||
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