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On April 21 2012 19:58 Blazinghand wrote:Show nested quote +On April 21 2012 19:41 DontLoseSightOfIt wrote:
This thread has made me play around with my hotkeys.
Someone mentioned the idea of hotkeying your Bases (Spawn base, 1st expansion, 2nd expansion, 3rd, so forth) to f1, f2 f3 f4 and so on. Can someone briefly explain how to do this? I cannot control + f1 a Comman center. F1 is not a camera hotkey. This is because F1 is the "idle worker" hotkey. Some players unbind the "idle worker" hotkey and shift their camera hotkeys over.
Ok, so how do I bind my spawn CC to f1, my expansion to f2, so on? My idle now is ` however I have a major issue...I cannot control + ` to select all idle workers...i used to be able to do control f1 to select all, though.
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Ok, so how do I bind my spawn CC to f1, my expansion to f2, so on? My idle now is ` however I have a major issue...I cannot control + ` to select all idle workers...i used to be able to do control f1 to select all, though
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go to camera and change your idle worker hotkey
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I can't really use the F keys, just not used to using it.
As to compensate, I tend to bound a weird location (such as where drop usually hit) with an overlord to 0.
But I have seen a few pros using it for reinforcement rally point
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Its extremely good to use its an advantage youre not utilizing why wouldnt you try it? of course its going to take a while to get used to, but trust me its much better in the long run
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I don't think a tool is necessary to use because it's simply in the toolbox. I tried the F hot keys for several months and then decided that they were more detrimental to my play than they were helpful. The only thing they did positively for me was to help me jump around my bases to defend drops/other attacks, but they also were making me play more sloppily because I found myself leaning too much on the individual screen save points and missing out on action lying just outside the screen's vision. When I stopped using the F shortcuts again, I went back to clicking and dragging on the minimap, which turned out to be stronger because I was being more precise with viewing the action in key situations.
I played the piano for a decade growing up, my typing WPM is about 110, and I have had ~350 apm spikes for several years since being a Warcraft 3 player. I use 3-4 army hotkeys and hotkey all my relevant production and upgrade buildings. I know I can handle the additional buttons, but I have personally found the function keys to make my game weaker where it should make it stronger. That's just me, but I wanted to point out that this set of tools actually was negative for someone and it's not necessary to use something "just because it's there."
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On April 21 2012 19:41 DontLoseSightOfIt wrote:
This thread has made me play around with my hotkeys.
Someone mentioned the idea of hotkeying your Bases (Spawn base, 1st expansion, 2nd expansion, 3rd, so forth) to f1, f2 f3 f4 and so on. Can someone briefly explain how to do this? I cannot control + f1 a Comman center.
I retasked my hotkeys to let me do this. I retasked the base toggle (under camera in hotkeys) from "backspace" to "caps lock".
This base toggle lets me center the camera on the nearest base, continuing to use the hotkey cycles through your bases, centering on each one. When you center your camera on the base, you can set the camera hotkey.
For the F keys, I retasked the "setting" portion of the hotkey to "Shift + F1", "Shift + F2", etc. Accessing the hotkey would be F1, F2, etc. You can't use this on individually selected units or buildings, the setting only works on toggling your camera. So you can use it to toggle bases (using the camera-centering technique), or just use the hotkeys for rallypoints, big areas of the map, etc. Hope it helped.
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Yes definitely use Fkeys, no matter how you set them up. Using the basecamera to go between bases is not accurate, especially if you have inbase CC that are not floated out yet, or building macro CCs in late game
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