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Snaphoo
Profile Joined July 2010
United States614 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-10 06:50:36
May 10 2011 06:22 GMT
#2761
QUESTION: I'm thinking about setting up a customized hotkey set-up that doesn't involve that usual 1-0 (e.g. nexus on W, main army on Q), but I'm wondering: are customized hotkeys tournament-legal? I recall someone saying on a thread awhile back that customized hotkeys were a no-no in BW, and in every GSL match I've paid attention to, players were using 1-0 for group bindings.
Demonace34
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States2493 Posts
May 10 2011 08:49 GMT
#2762
Question: What keyboard keys aren't used in the Zerg race? I've been wanting to find keys to have my 7,8,9, and 0 control groups on closer keys.
NaNiwa|IdrA|HuK|iNcontroL|Jinro|NonY|Day[9]|PuMa|HerO|MMA|NesTea|NaDa|Boxer|Ryung|
Timm
Profile Joined February 2011
34 Posts
May 10 2011 10:21 GMT
#2763
On May 08 2011 10:29 dementrio wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 08 2011 10:21 [Atomic]Peace wrote:

What exactly is your hotkey setup? I inject by setting Q to cylcing between bases. Then every 10 seconds I tap Q and look through all my bases. When not injecting, I use this time to check on saturation, status of upgrade etc. I build my Evo chambers near my mineral line so I can see the upgrades when I cycle. Other races have to get used to pressing the build worker button every 17 seconds. The nice thing about Zerg is that while you have to get used to pressing Q regularly, you can accomplish other things besides injecting during that time. It simply will come with practice. When I first started with Zerg I fell off pressing Q around 10 minutes. Now 100 games later I fall off around 20 minutes, and I expect in the next couple of hundred games I will have it down pat.


I have remapped the camera hotkeys to shift+1-5 (adding to control groups is now alt+1-0 for me), so I can select the queens, press V for inject, hold shift and cycle through hatcheries with 1-5. It solves the problem with the queenless hatches the base camera hotkey has.

And I've played more than 2k games but still suck at injecting so I don't believe in the "comes with practice" mantra. I need some trick or technique but I tried all the ones I knew of.


Isnt it much easier to use the 'cylce through bases camera' button to do that? Backspace by Default.
I changed it to ~, so now i do, 5 (queens), ~ inject, ~ inject, ~ inject, ect..

Still I just forget to do it later in the game..
deathly rat
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United Kingdom911 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-10 10:57:25
May 10 2011 10:53 GMT
#2764
If I want to upgrade Broodlords do I upgrade air attack or melee?

Edit: NVM, SC2 website says air attack
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Leavzou
Profile Joined January 2011
France156 Posts
May 10 2011 11:07 GMT
#2765
On May 10 2011 19:53 deathly rat wrote:
If I want to upgrade Broodlords do I upgrade air attack or melee?

Edit: NVM, SC2 website says air attack


I tought it was melee...
Kambing
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1176 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-10 14:39:19
May 10 2011 13:57 GMT
#2766
On May 10 2011 17:49 Demonace34 wrote:
Question: What keyboard keys aren't used in the Zerg race? I've been wanting to find keys to have my 7,8,9, and 0 control groups on closer keys.


In terms of default unit and structure hotkeys:

a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, l, m, n, p, q, r, s, t, u, v, x, y, z

are all used, leaving

j, k, l, o, w

as available (w is globally bound as the warp gate key).

This only includes the letter keys. In particular, you can move around function keys as the lower set are the useless hero keys by default. In the past I've put 7-0 on F1-F4 and inactive drone to F5.

On May 10 2011 20:07 Leavzou wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 10 2011 19:53 deathly rat wrote:
If I want to upgrade Broodlords do I upgrade air attack or melee?

Edit: NVM, SC2 website says air attack


I tought it was melee...


Broodlord attacks deal damage (affected by air attack) in addition to spawning broodlings that deal additional damage (affected by melee attack).
vanao
Profile Joined November 2010
9 Posts
May 10 2011 14:18 GMT
#2767
do ghosts regenerate energy when they are in a medivac?
rsvp
Profile Blog Joined January 2006
United States2266 Posts
May 10 2011 14:19 GMT
#2768
On May 10 2011 23:18 vanao wrote:
do ghosts regenerate energy when they are in a medivac?


Yes.
Kambing
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1176 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-10 15:43:17
May 10 2011 15:10 GMT
#2769
On May 10 2011 15:22 Snaphoo wrote:
QUESTION: I'm thinking about setting up a customized hotkey set-up that doesn't involve that usual 1-0 (e.g. nexus on W, main army on Q), but I'm wondering: are customized hotkeys tournament-legal? I recall someone saying on a thread awhile back that customized hotkeys were a no-no in BW, and in every GSL match I've paid attention to, players were using 1-0 for group bindings.


Keep in mind that BW hotkeys were not customizable through the game interface.

In starcraft 2, virtually all tournaments allow customizable hotkeys through two clauses:

1) Requiring that players use their own battle.net accounts (which comes with whatever hotkey setups are tied to their account), e.g., MLG (http://pro.majorleaguegaming.com/competitions/17#event_36_event_rules)


7. Players must provide their own Battle.net account with an active Starcraft 2 license for the North American (NA) Region.


2) Giving players ample set up time to customize the tournament-provided accounts given to them, e.g., GSL (http://www.gomtv.net/2011gslsponsors3/news/64582)


All players must arrive at the tournament venue no later than 15 minutes prior to the start of the game.
All players are allowed 15 minutes to adjust their personal settings.


On May 10 2011 19:21 Timm wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 08 2011 10:29 dementrio wrote:
On May 08 2011 10:21 [Atomic]Peace wrote:

What exactly is your hotkey setup? I inject by setting Q to cylcing between bases. Then every 10 seconds I tap Q and look through all my bases. When not injecting, I use this time to check on saturation, status of upgrade etc. I build my Evo chambers near my mineral line so I can see the upgrades when I cycle. Other races have to get used to pressing the build worker button every 17 seconds. The nice thing about Zerg is that while you have to get used to pressing Q regularly, you can accomplish other things besides injecting during that time. It simply will come with practice. When I first started with Zerg I fell off pressing Q around 10 minutes. Now 100 games later I fall off around 20 minutes, and I expect in the next couple of hundred games I will have it down pat.


I have remapped the camera hotkeys to shift+1-5 (adding to control groups is now alt+1-0 for me), so I can select the queens, press V for inject, hold shift and cycle through hatcheries with 1-5. It solves the problem with the queenless hatches the base camera hotkey has.

And I've played more than 2k games but still suck at injecting so I don't believe in the "comes with practice" mantra. I need some trick or technique but I tried all the ones I knew of.


Isnt it much easier to use the 'cylce through bases camera' button to do that? Backspace by Default.
I changed it to ~, so now i do, 5 (queens), ~ inject, ~ inject, ~ inject, ect..

Still I just forget to do it later in the game..


Cycling through bases has the problem that if you have less queens than hatches or your queens are out of position in the right way, backspace injection causes your queens to wander around the map trying to inject other hatches. When you get into this situation, it can take a bit of time to fix which can disrupt your game flow. This is the queenless hatch problem dementrio's talking about.

There are, of course, ways to mitigate this such as being more careful with your injects or switching to minimap injection when you're in this situation. But it is problematic enough that some people prefer a different injection method altogether.
Brennan55
Profile Joined May 2011
1 Post
May 10 2011 16:24 GMT
#2770
as zerg i always over drone, last game i had 108, i still won, and had a lot of bases, how can i manage to keep my drone count in check, how do i know when to stop etc?
torm
Profile Joined May 2010
Canada274 Posts
May 10 2011 16:26 GMT
#2771
On May 11 2011 01:24 Brennan55 wrote:
as zerg i always over drone, last game i had 108, i still won, and had a lot of bases, how can i manage to keep my drone count in check, how do i know when to stop etc?


count your drones
Nick_54
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
United States2230 Posts
May 10 2011 16:54 GMT
#2772
On May 11 2011 01:26 torm wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 11 2011 01:24 Brennan55 wrote:
as zerg i always over drone, last game i had 108, i still won, and had a lot of bases, how can i manage to keep my drone count in check, how do i know when to stop etc?


count your drones


You can do this by dragging a box over them and counting them at each of your bases.
Nick_54
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
United States2230 Posts
May 10 2011 16:58 GMT
#2773
On May 10 2011 13:15 425kid wrote:
How do you stop a 2 rax all in as terran when the second rax is hidden and you're teching and doing a 1-1-1? Is it just a BO win?


Bunker at your ramp and scvs to repair if needed
Blazinghand *
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States25558 Posts
May 10 2011 17:18 GMT
#2774
On May 11 2011 01:24 Brennan55 wrote:
as zerg i always over drone, last game i had 108, i still won, and had a lot of bases, how can i manage to keep my drone count in check, how do i know when to stop etc?


One trick is to just keep count of how many saturated bases you have. Each 2 vespene geysers uses 6 drones, and each min line at full saturation is 24 drones, or at full effeciency is 16 drones. if you have, say, 2 gases running in the main, 3 expos with full saturation and 2 gasses each, you have 6+24+24+24+6+6+6 = 96 drones, and should stop droning.
When you stare into the iCCup, the iCCup stares back.
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lavhmrps
Profile Joined April 2011
Norway4 Posts
May 10 2011 17:50 GMT
#2775
Hi,

What does the stars (0-5) next to a matchsummary say about the match?
Is it how entertaining it is?
oh behave
BadWolf0
Profile Joined September 2010
United States300 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-10 23:42:58
May 10 2011 20:57 GMT
#2776
I have a question about portraits: Do you have to get all the wins for a portrait in one season? I have 303 wins with 51 of them in custom games and I don't have the 250 win portrait (queen). My other thought is that maybe I won like 2 games offracing drunk some night but I don't think I have. I was wondering if my 200 or so wins in season one don't matter anymore. I know portraits don't really matter but I was kind of excited in game 301 to get the portrait so now I'm disapointed. Is there a way to see how many wins I have with each race?

edit: ANSWERED thanks. i thought i was probably missing something obvious, turns out I was.
All hail the Queen!!!
daglivewire
Profile Joined February 2011
14 Posts
May 10 2011 21:04 GMT
#2777
On May 11 2011 02:50 lavhmrps wrote:
Hi,

What does the stars (0-5) next to a matchsummary say about the match?
Is it how entertaining it is?


Yep!

On May 11 2011 05:57 twstdletz wrote:
I have a question about portraits: Do you have to get all the wins for a portrait in one season? I have 303 wins with 51 of them in custom games and I don't have the 250 win portrait (queen). My other thought is that maybe I won like 2 games offracing drunk some night but I don't think I have. I was wondering if my 200 or so wins in season one don't matter anymore. I know portraits don't really matter but I was kind of excited in game 301 to get the portrait so now I'm disapointed. Is there a way to see how many wins I have with each race?


They don't have to be in a single season. If you go into your achievements -> quick match and click the relevant achievement you're trying to get you will be able to see a progress bar that tells you exactly how many games you've won as that race.
JaqMs
Profile Joined August 2007
United States73 Posts
May 10 2011 21:26 GMT
#2778
What is the best zerg army composition against stalker/sentry/immortal/high templar?
MaK UK
Profile Joined January 2011
United Kingdom47 Posts
May 10 2011 22:29 GMT
#2779
Is it more cost efficiant to go stalker heavy or zealot heavy vs a terran ball which is marauder heavy? (ignore collosi numbers i just want to know what gateway units)

also should you ever get zealots vs a roach hydra army or just focus on going sentry stalker collosi?
H2OSno
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States127 Posts
May 10 2011 22:50 GMT
#2780
Can banelings cost effectively kill roaches in high numbers, similar to the way they kill hydralisks?
When in doubt, scout.
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