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Alejandrisha
United States6565 Posts
On April 28 2012 15:00 tuestresfat wrote: Sure, not everyone does it, but I thought this was common sense O____o why the need to make a guide on it. because not everyone does it | ||
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tuestresfat
2555 Posts
so it was to emphasize common knowledge? fair enough. | ||
monk
United States8476 Posts
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Stopher
United States38 Posts
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Rimak
Denmark434 Posts
Feels kinda clumsy, but i do see the possibilities you are talking about. Thanks again. | ||
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Andreas
Norway214 Posts
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Mesha
Bosnia-Herzegovina439 Posts
On April 28 2012 11:44 Alejandrisha wrote: Disable edge-scrolling in the options if you have to. This is what i have to do. Because i am dumb. :D I have my main, natural and third on camera hotkeys, for quite some time now. But somehow, i really can't force myself to use them. I realized everything you wrote even before this guide, and somehow i am still scrolling like a complete noob. The funny thing is i realize in game how much it wears me down to scroll and still do it. But it's all over from now on! Even if i lose every single game because im not used to using them i will force myself that i use camera hotkeys for everything i need to do in my MAIN, NATURAL, and THIRD ... when i get used to it i will add maybe forth location that is important, hehe. Nice unusual guide. Very, very important skill to have - yet, i don't think it's used and spread around as much as it should be. edit: I forgot to thank you, Alejandrisha. ^_^ edit: played one game vs easyAI with scroll disabled. It's soooooo much more effecient and the warm up of the left hand felt really good. I will really enjoy practicing this in my games. I just love the sim city build up inside the screen! I really can't explain to myself why didn't i use this before even though i knew about it. o_O | ||
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lahara
Germany140 Posts
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Salivanth
Australia1071 Posts
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Surili
United Kingdom1141 Posts
On April 28 2012 12:01 Crushgroove wrote: Some other things to consider: Protoss: Camera save your proxy pylons... don't give it a control group. That way, you can hit 'w', 'camera save key', spam units. I have my 4th mouse button hotkeyed which at the start i use for my natural, and then for the rest of the game (ie exactly when the nexus finishes) i hotkey it to wherever my proxy pylon/ main warp prism is. Other than that i use the tab through bases button, which i rebound to f2, to chrono nexi and everything else around them. | ||
Poopi
France12906 Posts
 . That's still 2 camera hotkeys. | ||
Teoita
Italy12246 Posts
On April 28 2012 15:14 NrGmonk wrote: Players who come from a wc3 background usually don't do this, because location keys didn't exist. The keys were used for heroes. Grubby does it though; you can see on his stream he sets his hotkeys for his main, nat and third at the start of the game on the f buttons. | ||
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Gladiator6
Sweden7024 Posts
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SwirlQ
United States148 Posts
Putting all hatches on 1 hotkey, then using cam hotkeys for each individual base and f1 for rally. Pros: This method I think you save time on injecting, you only need to press the hatchery hotkey once and more hotkey keys available. Cons: You lose the ability to quickly and efficiently change individual rallies for a base and going to inject a base you might have to stretch to f5-f8 often. OR Putting each hatch that your gonna be injecting on its own hotkey, then spreading camera hotkeys throughout the map. Pros: Quicker army movements, efficient control of rallies and drg uses this method so its a obvious plus. Cons: Injecting is maybe 1 or 2 sec slower( on high base count ) then above method, and when making units you have to cycle through approximately 4 diffrent hotkeys. | ||
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Kambing
United States1176 Posts
On April 28 2012 13:56 Cycle wrote: I've been advocating this for months and months  I just recently put a twist on this though, and here's my current screen key setup: F1 main F2 natural F3 third F4 fourth F5 fifth F6 sixth F7 seventh space rally point Since I wasn't using the space bar for "most recent action", I changed control+space to set a new screen location, and space bar jumps to it. Echoing this. Bases are one thing, but having a camera key dedicated to your rally point/proxy pylon and on an easily reachable key like space helps your macro and responsiveness to surprise drops greatly. (And I strongly recommend that zerg do in addition to rallying non-OL/worker eggs as they are created. Both styles have their place in a game.) | ||
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Madera
Sweden2672 Posts
I use F2 for my main, F3 for my nat and F4 for my third. When I place my building down I go Ctrl + F to center it and then Ctrl + F2-4 to save the location. For those of you saying the F-keys are hard to hit, try resting your palm on the Ctrl key and hit the F-keys with your fingers. Works for me at least. | ||
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Nhed
France14 Posts
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Fenneth
Australia354 Posts
On a vaguely related note, does anyone use middle mouse button drag-scrolling? | ||
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Kambing
United States1176 Posts
On April 28 2012 22:54 Fenneth wrote: Yeah they're really useful, I switched recently and there's absolutely no reason to go back. On a vaguely related note, does anyone use middle mouse button drag-scrolling? I do both out of habit from casting/obsing games. But it doesn't offer any significant benefits over drag-scrolling. | ||
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CakeSauc3
United States1437 Posts
On April 28 2012 21:58 SwirlQ wrote: What do you guys think would be more optimal for zerg? Putting all hatches on 1 hotkey, then using cam hotkeys for each individual base and f1 for rally. Pros: This method I think you save time on injecting, you only need to press the hatchery hotkey once and more hotkey keys available. Cons: You lose the ability to quickly and efficiently change individual rallies for a base and going to inject a base you might have to stretch to f5-f8 often. OR Putting each hatch that your gonna be injecting on its own hotkey, then spreading camera hotkeys throughout the map. Pros: Quicker army movements, efficient control of rallies and drg uses this method so its a obvious plus. Cons: Injecting is maybe 1 or 2 sec slower( on high base count ) then above method, and when making units you have to cycle through approximately 4 diffrent hotkeys. When I play Zerg now in SC2, I prefer to put all my hatchers on hotkey 4, and then my queens from 5-8, just so I can go through and inject super fast. I then use the camera positions for my main, nat and third (I could add more for additional bases, but it's not a habit as of yet) and also for rally points and the enemy's natural (wherever the point of most conflict will be so I can be quick to do runby's and stuff). | ||
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