EPTNow I have camera locations on 123456, and control groups on aqwerty (and attack on space). I only play about an hour a week and my mechanics aren't great, so this really helped me personally.
[G] Screen Hotkeys: An easy way to improve - Page 3
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BurgerAce
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Now I have camera locations on 123456, and control groups on aqwerty (and attack on space). I only play about an hour a week and my mechanics aren't great, so this really helped me personally. | ||
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TangSC
Canada1866 Posts
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Snoodles
401 Posts
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Gator
United States3432 Posts
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awwnuts07
United States621 Posts
On April 28 2012 11:55 EngrishTeacher wrote: Coming from a hardcore BW background, screen hotkeys are a MUST for efficient play. F1 for main cc/nexus/hatchery, F2 for natural, F3 for rally point/ramps, F4 for enemy base then F5-f8 for additional expansions. I'm pretty sure SC2gears registers screen hotkeys usage towards your APM, because I only average about 120APM (sc2 time) in SC2 but usually over 260APM in SC2gears. I think I'll switch my camera set-up to this. Camera hotkeys are practically a must for jumping between a fight and and a proxy pylon to warp reinforcements. | ||
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Bojas
Netherlands2397 Posts
Things like f2 select workers f3 select workers f4 sent workers to your third in a matter of seconds is too awesome not to use. It's like the switch town center button, but actually accurate and faster. | ||
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lazyo
Germany90 Posts
Chronoboosting is also at least twice as fast with screen locations, even more if your tech is spread. On a related note concerning playing faster as toss I recommend you use a 3rd party software to bind left click on your mousewheel so you can do those 20 gateway warpins in lategame at over twice the speed. | ||
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SeriouR
Spain622 Posts
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LazinCajun
United States294 Posts
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-Dustin-
United States718 Posts
I personally use a weird setup I guess? My camera hotkeys are x-c-v-b-n-m All expansions usually, but I have z as a quick save it doesn't require shift to save and I just press spacebar and I'm back there. I love it because I can be dropping and save the drop location just by hitting z press c drop mules spacebar back to microing the drop if needed. I want it mainly for battles as I usually add units to control groups soon after they finish and when I double tap it takes me to some units walking over. The problem is its hard to remember to do it when you are in battle ;_;. When I played Zerg I loved it for injects, it was just so fast and smooth to check all bases even in the late game. I 10000% recommend using camera keys. | ||
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LazinCajun
United States294 Posts
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TechnoSchaman
United States156 Posts
One little tip for protoss that I've suggested to a lot people is setting your first camera scree hotkey as Q, and always using that as your pylon screen. Whenever I'm about to attack, i Control+Q in between my army and pylon where i can still see the edge of the pylon ring. This allows for quick Q -> W warp ins with absurd ease. Compared to screen scrolling or doing F2-F4 for one of them, Q is right next to W so for instance if i want 4 stalkers, I simply hit QWSSSS with very little movement of my hand. This has helped me tremendously, and i hope it can help others. | ||
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Alejandrisha
United States6566 Posts
Using a screen hotkey for warp-ins as toss and rally points as terran (and for zerg as well, for units that you aren't rallying as eggs) saves a lot of time as well. I noticed MC wasn't using a screen hotkey for warp-ins and I thinking herO does the same thing. Both could improve efficiency a little bit with an additional hotkey of course ^^ I'm currently using 3 screen hotkeys for bases and a 4th for warp-ins. I will need to reconfigure my settings a bit to allow a good screen hotkey for my 4th base, or just use my rally screen hotkey for that one, as warp-in hotkeys are not as important once I've got my fourth, and warping in at the fourth is usually appropriate, anyhow. | ||
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belatube
United States27 Posts
On April 28 2012 21:09 Salivanth wrote: Because "Ctrl + F3" and "Ctrl + F4" was just SUPER hard for me to do, I came up with an alternative hotkey setup I think will work very well: F1-F4 for selecting locations, F5-F8 for keybinding locations. Only one key! What i did was add alternative hotkey to bind the locations. to Shift F1, Shift F2.etc doing that will free up 4 more locations... i have F5 set to front of enemy base. or what ever location im abo ut to pressure. | ||
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dicedicerevolution
United States245 Posts
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Alejandrisha
United States6566 Posts
On April 29 2012 14:15 dicedicerevolution wrote: How do you view the player POVs in the VOD archives? I have the pass but I don't see where to go. in the mlg arena page each set will have "caster" and then "x pov" and "y pov" | ||
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TechnoSchaman
United States156 Posts
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Alejandrisha
United States6566 Posts
On April 29 2012 14:47 TechnoSchaman wrote: alej, do you think the Q screen key I use would work for you? I know artosis used use Tab which i dont agree with cuz tab is too useful but its the same idea, yes, but i cannot unbind my q key because it is ESSENTIAL for my 4v4 zerg :D i'll just have to make a second set of hotkeys TT | ||
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dicedicerevolution
United States245 Posts
On April 29 2012 15:05 Alejandrisha wrote: yes, but i cannot unbind my q key because it is ESSENTIAL for my 4v4 zerg :D i'll just have to make a second set of hotkeys TT Just switch hotkey profiles when you 4v4, problem solved. | ||
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tuestresfat
2555 Posts
On April 29 2012 15:05 Alejandrisha wrote: yes, but i cannot unbind my q key because it is ESSENTIAL for my 4v4 zerg :D i'll just have to make a second set of hotkeys TT I unbound my q key to a camera hotkey and use it for rally points I simply rebound queen to 'a'. I've had no trouble so far =/ | ||
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