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padavoine
Profile Joined July 2011
France37 Posts
April 23 2012 12:21 GMT
#1
Apologies in advance if I'm posting in the wrong place, it's not exactly strategy, but it's closer to strategy than SC2 general.

Just a quick mechanics question: is it possible to remove a bunch of units from a hotkey?
For instance, if my army is hotkeyed to 1, and I went to send a bunch of units to scout various locations, I'd like to be able to select them and remove them from 1, so that whatever commands I assign to 1 later on won't affect them.

ATM I just select the remaining army and ctrl+1.
Trevoc
Profile Joined October 2010
United States145 Posts
April 23 2012 12:25 GMT
#2
If you have all the groups selected and hold SHIFT + click the unit in the group selection it removes it from the group but not permanently. You have to reassign the control group (CTRL+1) to save that
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Kambing
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1176 Posts
April 23 2012 12:26 GMT
#3
(Belongs in Simple Question, Simple Answers btw.)

The technique you're referring to is called deselect http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/Cloning and then rebinding the smaller group with ctrl+1 afterwards. There's no other way to do this.
dani`
Profile Joined January 2011
Netherlands2402 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-23 12:26:57
April 23 2012 12:26 GMT
#4
You can remove units from the current selection by holding shift and clicking the unit (either on the selection pane in the bottom center of the screen or on the actual unit). You can remove all similar units (e.g., all Stalkers), by clicking on 1 with Ctrl + Shift held down.

So what you see people typically do is press 1 to select all their units, then move to a spot to scout, quickly shift + click a few units out of the selection (who will be doing the scouting), then move back with the remaining units and re-assigning the control group with ctrl + 1.
Zorgaz
Profile Joined June 2010
Sweden2951 Posts
April 23 2012 12:26 GMT
#5
Use the shift key.

Select the group of units, shift click on the unit that you want to remove from the group, then bind the group to the key again.
Furthermore, I think the Collosi should be removed! (Zorgaz -Terran/AbrA-Random/Zorg-Dota2) Guineapigs <3
padavoine
Profile Joined July 2011
France37 Posts
April 23 2012 12:47 GMT
#6
On April 23 2012 21:26 Kambing wrote:
(Belongs in Simple Question, Simple Answers btw.)


Ah thanks, now I'll know.

I already use cloning, and shift to deselect units, I was just wondering if it was possible to do it from the other side (select just the couple separate units and use a hotkey that 'removes' them from a control group).

Thanks anyway.
bbm
Profile Joined April 2011
United Kingdom1320 Posts
April 23 2012 12:50 GMT
#7
You can shift+click on a unit to remove, you don't need to use the portrait

So hit 1 to select, shift+click on the units on the main screen, ctrl+1 to rebind the rest to 1.
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Pokebunny
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States10654 Posts
April 23 2012 13:10 GMT
#8
On April 23 2012 21:50 bbm wrote:
You can shift+click on a unit to remove, you don't need to use the portrait

So hit 1 to select, shift+click on the units on the main screen, ctrl+1 to rebind the rest to 1.

It's like 100x easier to use portraits though, especially for moving units.
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