[H] Removing hotkeyed units

padavoine

France37 Posts

April 23 2012 12:21 GMT

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

United States145 Posts

April 23 2012 12:25 GMT

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

Kambing

United States1176 Posts

April 23 2012 12:26 GMT

(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`

Netherlands2402 Posts

April 23 2012 12:26 GMT

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

Sweden2951 Posts

April 23 2012 12:26 GMT

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.

padavoine

France37 Posts

April 23 2012 12:47 GMT

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

United Kingdom1320 Posts

April 23 2012 12:50 GMT

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.

Pokebunny

United States10654 Posts

April 23 2012 13:10 GMT

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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