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On May 11 2010 05:01 Fruscainte wrote:
Protip: If you keep accidentally pressing your windows button or alt-tabbing out in the middle of a game, select your resolution setting to be "Windowed Fullscreen" It will be just like it was fullscreen in terms of performance and whatnot, but if you alt tab or press the windowed button nothing will happen and you can continue on your way.
I know it's nothing huge, but helpful to new players.
You can just disable the windows key, or alt+tab in the ingame options.
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On May 15 2010 08:11 Saggi wrote:
I guess this is the place to ask.
>How can I add units to an already existing control group?
>Can I save a location so when I hit space(or any other key by that matter), I get directed to my saved location instead of the location of a recent event?
TIA
1. Hold shift then select your units you want in a control group then stop holding shift.
You can also select a bunch of units but if you want only one type of unit then press control and select the wire frame.
The two I just mentioned are THE most helpful things in the world and even though they have been mentioned before I just can't stress how important these things are.
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It's also possible to set your waypoints on moving units and when they are produced they will follow the unit. Good for reinforcing moving armys. Especially somthing like Muta/Pheonix.
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On May 10 2010 12:43 codewarrior wrote:
Many Zerg units can have Unburrow set to autocast.
Notable because really, who's looking at the Unburrow tooltip these days? It's easily missed.
wait.. what?
i mean... when?
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On May 15 2010 13:41 roemy wrote:Show nested quote +On May 10 2010 12:43 codewarrior wrote:
Many Zerg units can have Unburrow set to autocast.
Notable because really, who's looking at the Unburrow tooltip these days? It's easily missed. wait.. what? i mean... when?
I just tested this. If you have unburrow on autocast then a unit will unburrow if something comes into its attack range and start attacking it. I guess this would be pretty useful for baneling traps?
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On May 15 2010 22:04 pheus wrote: If you have unburrow on autocast then a unit will unburrow if something comes into its attack range and start attacking it. I guess this would be pretty useful for baneling traps?
This is how to make the most damage while losing as few banelings as possible, compared to move, attack-move, underground detonation.
Even if they get killed while unborrowing, there is a unit nearby, and only those that can do damage will unborrow, leaving some unsettled banelings still underground... hope not many people learn to use this, I play mostly protoss 
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you can macro your queens easier by hotkeying them and spawning larvae on the minimap. you have to click on a hatch on the minimap though
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Didn't know about the ctrl+F1 or backspace. Cool beans.
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can we make Arcalius' post in page 6 its own thread? I think more people would keep updating it. Some very useful tips in there (mixed in with some obvious ones, but hey).
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I got the impression that people only wanted the "Pro UI tips" and not really interested in the expanded list I created. If people are finding it useful then I'll update it and post it to a new thread.
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On March 07 2010 04:11 azndsh wrote:
[*] SCVs can be set to auto-repair by hitting 'Alt'+'R'.
Oh never heard of this, thx!
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Two small details:
1. Workers on Watchtowers do not count as idle (they will not get selected when hitting F1).
2. When a siege tank fires in siege mode, his weapon-icon shows the cooldown until the next shot (don't know what thats good for though, doesn't take that long).
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wow I actually want to shoot myself. from the first beta game that I have ever played I knew what would happend if you press f1, W, or shift click or any other OBVIOUS keybinds.. I find it completely impossible to understand how anyone could not have realized this.
but lets continue in this "tricks for absolute beginners that have never played any RTS ever" style
-Ctrl+click is the same as double clicking
-hit any number hotkey twice and your screen is focused on where that unit stands
-In broodwar, shift+F2,F3,etc hotkeys a certain location so that when you hit F2, your screen moves there. havent tried it in the beta
-ping on the map by alt clicking on the location -.- please dont use alt+G, it's like taking each marine seperately and rightclicking to move the whole ball somewhere
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Chrono boost: Have one hotkey that just contains all your buildings, then you can chrono boost with by clicking on the building's wire frames without looking at your base. Hold shift, click C, then left click the building's wire frames.
I thought you could only Chronoboost by clicking the actual building or on the minimap (good luck with that one...)
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On March 07 2010 07:48 DefMatrixUltra wrote:Show nested quote +On March 07 2010 05:34 faction123 wrote:
How does hotkeying queen/hatch together work? Don't you need to target the hatchery with inject larvae for it to work anyway, which means you'd have to look at the hatch? Or is there some way to do it via hotkeys that i'm missing? You can target the hatchery's icon/wireframe in the unit selection area at the bottom of the screen instead of the physical hatchery itself.
This has been removed right? I used this in the beginning of the beta but after that went over to playing Protos. Now when I started playing zerg again I can't get it to work anymore 
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On June 10 2010 13:31 bananengurke wrote:-In broodwar, shift+F2,F3,etc hotkeys a certain location so that when you hit F2, your screen moves there. havent tried it in the beta
Ctrl+F5-8 by default
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On June 10 2010 14:04 Torture wrote:Show nested quote +Chrono boost: Have one hotkey that just contains all your buildings, then you can chrono boost with by clicking on the building's wire frames without looking at your base. Hold shift, click C, then left click the building's wire frames.
I thought you could only Chronoboost by clicking the actual building or on the minimap (good luck with that one...)
I haven't had any luck with chronoboost on the minimap.
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I know it's a simple one, but I didn't know it for the longest time that space bar centers on the important events on the minimap.
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- Chrono boost: Have one hotkey that just contains all your buildings, then you can chrono boost with by clicking on the building's wire frames without looking at your base. Hold shift, click C, then left click the building's wire frames.
This just doesn't work in my game. Nothings happening, when I C-Click + Leftclick on the icon in the group.
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Whoever bumped this I love you . Had no idea about the building placement grid and had my thumb stuck on ALT the whole game haha .
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