[G] TheCore - Advanced Keyboard Layout - Page 255

On July 16 2013 04:12 Tertyshny wrote:
I found out that on TRM layout, button 'i" is same for 'EMP' and for 'unload units from drop ship'. If add 'i' button as alternate for 'choose ability or A.I Target' hot key, you can drop from medivac and do EMP's easier.
Move your cursor over medivac you can just double click 'i' to unload units, instead pressing 'i', then click with left mouse on medivac. Also, you can double click "i" then your ghost selected and he will throw EMP to where your cursor is.
Killing 2 rabbits with one button.
I don't know if these two actions made on same button on purpose, just found out this by myself. Sorry if it is discussed in thread already..

On July 17 2013 04:40 Smackzilla wrote:
I've been trying out the ForGG style in TvT and have been having fun with ravens. I feel like HSM qualifies as a spammable spell, and perhaps PDD could too, e.g. you need to rapidly spit out some HSMs and PDDs.

Given the recent key change to Snipe, has there been any consideration of putting HSM or PDD on apostrophe? I'm more curious than anything. Spamming HSM with 'H' hasn't been bad, but perhaps PDD could benefit from coming off of slash?

P.S. In unrelated news, last night Khaldor was griping about terrans not hotkeying the depots in their wall in the game between Yoda and Effort. His point was that with a hotkey, a good terran could simply watch the minimap and hit 2 keys to raise the wall and stop the ling run-by. Sounds like a good candidate for The Core's plethora of easy-to-use hotkeys.

On July 17 2013 07:07 Doomstar1 wrote:
Hi all,

I've been trying The Core now on the second day. I've got buliding structures down fairly well and am fairly satisfied with how it should get faster for me, but I'm having immense problems with control groups on ZRM.

Using the 0 and - tends to move my home key finger positioning out of place and l ; ' feels unnatural during combat in conjunction with J as attack. In fact, that J attack command in general just feels like it's slowing me down as my pinky is my slowest reacting finger and J attack is my most commonly pressed command during micro, it feels like it would be much quicker to use my index finger for the attack command (perhaps because I'm used to Grid).

I'm also curious about the Baneling keys and unburrow in general. I understand that binding them to separate keys prevents accidental burrowing and unborrowing, but in practice this makes it more difficult (so far and for me) to do burrow micro to keep units alive, especially roaches which I will micro heal fairly heavily in early game harassment/all ins. Banelings in particular having the disable structure attack and unborrow on the same key has been problematic for building destruction. I like to plant 4-5 banelings at the opponents third and sometimes natural if I can get burrow and banes before they set up to do an early build destroy, which requires destroying it almost immediately after building, double tapping unburrow on accident causes a slight delay that may give the opponent enough time to manually cancel production.

The rally key seems unusually out of the way (though I suppose since Right Mouse does this, they feel there is no reason for a hotkey). However, has anyone run into problems with having to correct hatchery rally points between Worker and units? I imagine having to reach for D and R in game would be really slow and frustrating when you're just trying to fix a mis-click.

Finally, I'm having the most trouble with using , in conjunction with Nydus and/or overlords. This is the single hardest key to press with the Core layout for me, even doing it slowly and concentrating on it while looking at the keyboard, it's a slow and uncomfortable finger position if you keep your Pinky on J (I've been bringing down my middle finger instead just to speed it up, but that occasionally shifts my home position when I correct).

Most of the keys seem to be designed well in conjunction with what you use next, but I'm really curious what the reasoning behind , for overlords and Nydus is, as the load and unload are very far from eachother (making quick drop and pickup micro-projectile-avoiding nearly impossible for me with this setup). I also don't notice using , anywhere else. I know not that many people use overlords or nydus, but it seems at least common enough to merit a more natural key. Any suggestions on something closer to the middle or index finger, or from anyone that has successfully used pickup projectile micro on The Core?

Has anyone else found a better position setting for loading units into overlords, or a way of loading and unloading micro with the way the setup is now?

On July 17 2013 13:27 Reckie wrote:
I dont understand the small/medium/large when trying to pick a file. This should be explained, or perhaps im just ignorant. Anyone?

On July 17 2013 14:02 Reckie wrote:
Well I have a Macbook pro so I cant do the whole tilt thing. Guess I'm not downloading

On July 17 2013 14:02 Reckie wrote:
Well I have a Macbook pro so I cant do the whole tilt thing. Guess I'm not downloading

On July 18 2013 18:02 virpi wrote:
[..] ctrl + alt + j is completely uncomfortable to press [...]

On July 18 2013 21:28 virpi wrote:

well, if that's really enough, I'll give it a try. I was pressing ctrl, altgr and j and this felt pretty terrible. I want to rebuild my mechanics from scratch, so trying out a new hotkey layout felt like a natural thing to do.