[G] Fleet Keys - Refined Hotkey Systems - Page 6

On April 05 2013 16:00 mongoose22 wrote:
Downloaded the Alloy keys and they look like an interesting combination of a grid-based philosophy with a more usable layout. I have a number of comments and a to-do list of what you need to consider once you get Heart of the Swarm access, which you will need to make separate hotkey files for, since the ordering of buttons has changed in a number of places.

Note that for grid positioning I will use A-C as rows and 1-5 as columns.

TERRAN

Both Versions
Command Center, Planetary Fortress: If you wanted to be consisted with transports, Load All should be assigned to F and Unload All should be assigned to D.

Tech Lab (Starport): With no Seeker Missile research, the Corvid Reactor and Cloaking Field buttons have moved over to A3-A4, so by convention they should be assigned hotkeys E and R,respectively.

Bunker: The Set Rally Point should be . (period) to be consistent with the other buildings.

SCV: The Advanced Structures hotkeys don't follow the usual convention; Armory should be assigned to S, Starport to Z, and Fusion Core to X.

Current WoL Setup
Tech Lab (Factory): The 250mm Strike Cannons should be mapped to E.

Future HotS Setup
Barracks: The Reaper has been moved to before the Marauder, so the order is now Marine, Reaper, Marauder, Ghost, meaning the Reaper and Marauder need to switch hotkeys to W-E.

Factory: The new unit order goes Hellion, Widow Mine, Siege Tank, Hellbat, Thor from A1-A5.

Tech Lab (Factory): Drilling Claws and Transformation Servos are at A2-A3 and should be assigned W-E.

Armory: Vehicle and Ship Plating has been combined and should be assigned to W.

Hellion: Hellion Mode and Hellbat Mode are at C1-C2 and should be assigned to A-S or Z-X.

Widow Mine: Activate Mine and Deactivate Mine are at C2-C3. Given the other Terran conventions they likely should be assigned to A/Space and S.

Thor: High Impact Payload and Explosive Payload are at C1-C2 and should be assigned to A-S or Z-X.

Medivacs: Assign Ignite Afterburners to A/Space.

PROTOSS

Both Versions
Warp Gate: IMO Escape is too common of a key to assign to the Transform to Gateway ability. The number of times I would make a mistake undoing a Warp Gate change while hitting Escape would far exceed the convenience of something the vast majority of players never do. I'd remove Escape and leave it with just X as the hotkey.

Fleet Beacon: Anion Pulse-Crystals should be assigned to Q.

Future HotS Setup
Nexus: The button to build the Mothership has been replaced with Mothership Core, which isn't a big deal. A bigger problem is that the Nexus now can attack, so it has an Attack button that's bound to E with all the units. I'd recommend assigning W to the MSC and changing the Chrono Boost key to A/Space.

Stargate: The order of units to build has changed. It now goes Phoenix, Oracle, Void Ray, Tempest, Carrier, which would change the Void Ray and Carrier build hotkeys from WoL. (Unfortunate that Tempest and Carrier aren't switched.)

Sentry: The hallucinated Oracle at C2 pushes the Colossus to C3, changing their hotkeys to X and C, respectively.

Mothership Core: This unit poses all sorts of problems for your setup. It has the button to upgrade to full mothership at B1, then Photon Overcharge, Mass Recall, and Time Warp from C1-C3. So if it was like a grid you'd assign A to the upgrade and then Z-X-C to the spells, but every other unit assigns A-S-D to spells, so it's more natural from a use standpoint to assign A-S-D to the spells on the bottom row and something like Z to the upgrade, even though visually it's reversed. (Space should be assigned to Time Warp.) And the other related problem is...

Mothership: The new mothership has the same spells as the core, except it's missing Photon Overcharge -- and the remaining two spells have shifted over to C1-C2. So, either you follow grid and reassign those spells as A-S, or you keep the spells consistent with the core and assign them to S-D, or you go back and assign the spells in the core as D-A-S as some sort of compromise. Personally I'm a fan of option #2.

Oracle: It has four spells from C1-C4: Revelation, Envision, Activate Pulsar Beam, and Deactivate Pulsar Beam. To be consistent these should be assigned as A-S-D-F. I'd assign Space as an alternate to Activate Pulsar Beam.

Void Ray: Assign Prismatic Alignment ability. Should be A/Space.

ZERG

Both Versions
Ultralisk Cavern: Chitinous Plating should be assigned to hotkey Q.

Drone: The Infestation Pit is assigned the wrong hotkey for Advanced Structures; it should be W.

Zergling, Corruptor, Overlord: I believe the morph action should be consistent with the building morphs, all of which are mapped to Z. So I would map each of these units' morph actions to Z. This has the advantage of adding consistency between the Corruptor and Overlord morph keys, which are currently S and A, respectively. For the Corruptor, I would keep Corrupt on A; I would move Generate Creep to X on the Overlord, as it pairs up well with the Stop Generate Creep command, which currently can't be changed and is mapped to C.

Baneling: I feel the explosion is an important action and should be moved up to A. Enable/Disable Building Attack can then be mapped to Z-X, which feels more natural as they're less used.

Current WoL Setup
Infestation Pit: Pathogen Glands and Neural Parasite should be assigned to Q and W, respectively.

Future HotS Setup
Hydralisk Den: Muscular Augments should be assigned hotkey W.

Infestation Pit: The upgrade button order is now Pathogen Glands, Neural Parasite, Enduring Locusts, which should be assigned hotkeys Q-W-E.

Larva: The units produced from larva have been reordered and need to have their hotkeys reassigned as appropriate.

Drone: The Basic Structures layout has been modified so that the Roach Warren and Baneling Nest are in row B and the two static defenses are in their own row C. The hotkeys need to be reassigned as appropriate.

Viper: The three spells are Consume, Abduct, and Blinding Cloud, assigned to A-S-D.

Swarm Host: Three things have to be mapped: Spawn Locusts, Burrow/Unburrow, and Set Rally Point. The options that most make sense are either to follow the unit burrowing convention and assign T to Burrow/Unburrow, and then A to Spawn Locusts; or, since Burrow is the primary action you do with Spawn Hosts, follow the Crawler convention and assign Burrow/Unburrow to A and Spawn Locusts to S or Z (it's an autocast, so used less often). I lean towards the second option myself. Set Rally Point should be mapped to . (period) like the rally points on the Hatchery.