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HolyArrow
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States7116 Posts
May 10 2011 00:26 GMT
#21
Oh wow, this is why I somehow deselect my sentries sometimes and end up getting trounced in battle. Good to see the detailed reason of how and why this happens.
KimJongChill
Profile Joined January 2011
United States6429 Posts
May 10 2011 00:33 GMT
#22
Can't you press stop command, and then do shift + F and click click click? I feel like that might stop the sentries from doing that annoying thing where they move to a point before casting.
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Jerokar
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Denmark83 Posts
May 10 2011 00:57 GMT
#23
On May 10 2011 09:33 KimJongChill wrote:
Can't you press stop command, and then do shift + F and click click click? I feel like that might stop the sentries from doing that annoying thing where they move to a point before casting.


This does not work since the sentries will automatically start re-attacking nearby enemy units if they are ordered to stop. The forcefield will still happen AFTER the enemy units are dead
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NET
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States703 Posts
May 10 2011 01:25 GMT
#24
Omg, how did I not know of this! As soon as I changed it, I tested it on word and just began to laugh because it felt so obvious... yet I didn't know about it. Good thread sir.
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PhiliBiRD
Profile Joined November 2009
United States2643 Posts
May 10 2011 01:29 GMT
#25
i dont play toss as a main race but i always found it easy to just f+click every FF, like any other spell.
JKira
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Canada1002 Posts
May 10 2011 01:31 GMT
#26
You don't know how many games I've lost with this problem. I used to f-click f-click f-click but after switching to holding the button for forcefields (and warp-ins) I started having this problem when an engagement was catching me off-guard. Will definitely put this to use. Thanks a lot!
sikyon
Profile Joined June 2010
Canada1045 Posts
May 10 2011 01:38 GMT
#27
Thank you ssssssssssssssssssssooooooooooooooo much for this
Keilah
Profile Joined May 2010
731 Posts
May 10 2011 01:47 GMT
#28
aha! I can't tell you how many times I've held F and ended up selecting an enemy unit, totally gotten obliterated because of the mismicro it caused, and then blamed myself because 'I must have let go of the F key in the heat of the moment'. The mystery is solved, thank you!
Xsoild
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United States121 Posts
May 10 2011 01:48 GMT
#29
On May 10 2011 08:04 iNbluE wrote:
You can also F+shift + click click click. That's what I do to warp units. For force fields I always did F click F click though. I feel very comfortable with it.

I didn't know that the delay was linked with the windows repetition thing though. Interesting!


you cant f shit click because it will not be an insta cast :p
Keep on trying
Lolrior
Profile Joined April 2011
United States26 Posts
May 10 2011 02:41 GMT
#30
On my Arch Linux box I have these commands in my .xinitrc to disable mouse acceleration and increase the repeat rate to a godly level:

$ xset mouse 1/1
$ xset r rate 200 100

With an army of 52 sentries, I literally cannot spamclick fast enough to deselect any of them while using this technique.

The only downside of playing SC2 on Linux is that you get a terrible framerate because all of the DirectX calls are emulated using OpenGL. (Plus all sorts of nasty artifacts on ATI cards.) My GTX 550 Ti gets a smooth framerate of maybe 40 fps on low settings.
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Triky
Profile Joined September 2010
Peru99 Posts
May 10 2011 03:54 GMT
#31
Just Press F and think "i have to wait for 1s" And then click anywhere u want
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Krayze
Profile Joined May 2009
United States213 Posts
May 10 2011 04:44 GMT
#32
This really changed my game as zerg when I found out because you can make units from larvae a lot more quickly.

OP, I don't think you should have even talked about "Fast-Forcefield" as a topic, it's really a keyboard setting. A player should realize the many situations for which this tip comes in handy. It's good information to know, but doesn't deserve to be in the strategy forum.
Kakisho
Profile Joined January 2010
United States240 Posts
May 10 2011 04:48 GMT
#33
First of all, all Zerg might as well do this, it helps with unit production when you hold down something to make a ton of a type of unit.

It's more important to plant your forcefields precisely than quickly.
Though both are important to get any effect what we need is not to get it faster, but to get them better. Admit it, we've all done at least one battle where we overlapped forcefields like shi and there were still holes we would've plugged up, had we not wasted the majority of our forcefields.
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Yoshi Kirishima
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States10364 Posts
May 10 2011 05:02 GMT
#34
Someone didn't read the entire post.


Thanks OP this has proven quite useful!


Someone underestimated the amount of times this information has been shared.

But once again, thanks for sharing.
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ujonecro
Profile Joined September 2010
United Kingdom846 Posts
May 10 2011 05:06 GMT
#35
On May 10 2011 08:47 Jerokar wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 10 2011 08:30 thesmoosh wrote:
Why not shiftclick?


The problem with Shifl-Clicking is that this will queue up the forcefield command instead of forcing the sentry to do it immediately.

Out of combat, shift clicking is fine, but if you engage with your sentries before you cast any forcefields, shift-click forcefielding will queue up a forcefield command to be cast AFTER the sentry finishes attacking, instead of just forcing it to forcefield immidiately by holding F and clicking. This will cause the forcefields to net be cast untill all the enemy units are dead, in which case the forcefields wont help at all

Hope that made sense


Thank you for solving my problem with fungals with this thread.
epikAnglory
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States1120 Posts
May 10 2011 05:37 GMT
#36
So is it more recommended to set it all the way to the right or to the left?
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Legend`
Profile Joined April 2011
Canada381 Posts
May 10 2011 05:45 GMT
#37
Actually didn't know that, going to be hard to change though considering I'm already used to repeated F clicking lol
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tyCe
Profile Joined March 2010
Australia2542 Posts
May 10 2011 07:04 GMT
#38
Thank you very much! This is a fantastic tip
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Cambam
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States360 Posts
May 10 2011 07:51 GMT
#39
You sir are a genius.

Wow, it's even nice in everyday word processing, as I just backspaced some text while typing this comment!
Ifrit
Profile Joined January 2011
Germany42 Posts
May 10 2011 08:20 GMT
#40
Huge thanks to the OP. This'll improve my FF, Storm and Warp mechanics by miles. /salute
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