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India465 Posts
Done by a moderator (I think) from all things protoss on reddit . Link to the video below
+ Show Spoiler +http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8hYrEOGJVU
Basically change unit management from left key to 'W' your default key for warp gate , hold shift + hot key of the unit (say zealot) and move mouse over the pylon field - I think this maybe similar to the infestor trick ?
Looks pretty nifty.
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Yup that's what I do too Ever since I found out about the creep spread trick.
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I was wondering if this was going to spread(hehe) past zerg creep tumors after the same trick got poster here.
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Means more problem for me as a zerg
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United States4883 Posts
Cool thing. I'm pretty set in my ways, so it'll be a while I really get used to this. However, it seems like it's only extraordinarily useful for mass zealot warpins. Otherwise, the old shift-clicking technique is plenty fast enough (and a lot more accurate).
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Very similar to the infestor trick, i use the infestor trick for mass warpins myself personally, just seems alot more useful, you can use it for FF too but don`t plan on them being very accurate :-), feedback it works great as well.
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Northern Ireland23738 Posts
Perhaps it's sleep deprivation that causes me to ask this and it might be a dumb question, but does this make it awkward at all to say, warp in mixes of units? Like can it warp in 'too fast' or anything?
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On June 17 2013 14:24 Wombat_NI wrote: Perhaps it's sleep deprivation that causes me to ask this and it might be a dumb question, but does this make it awkward at all to say, warp in mixes of units? Like can it warp in 'too fast' or anything?
It can be awkward.
Solution is to warp in specific numbers of what you want less of first. Then spam the rest.
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On June 17 2013 14:24 Wombat_NI wrote: Perhaps it's sleep deprivation that causes me to ask this and it might be a dumb question, but does this make it awkward at all to say, warp in mixes of units? Like can it warp in 'too fast' or anything? Well I guess the limiting factor in this case is how much you move your mouse. It makes sense that it would set another unit to warp in as close as it can to the last one. So if you only make a small arc with your mouse, only a set number of units can fit to warp in that arc you made. If you make a larger arc, you might just use all your warpgates without meaning to.
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Northern Ireland23738 Posts
On June 17 2013 14:43 hearters wrote:Show nested quote +On June 17 2013 14:24 Wombat_NI wrote: Perhaps it's sleep deprivation that causes me to ask this and it might be a dumb question, but does this make it awkward at all to say, warp in mixes of units? Like can it warp in 'too fast' or anything? It can be awkward. Solution is to warp in specific numbers of what you want less of first. Then spam the rest. I may have this solely as a vT hotkey setup. Zealots are usually pretty good!
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Does this let you quickly warp in any gateway unit? Currently my unit management hotkey overlaps with my "warp in zealot" key, so I can only use this trick on that one unit. I would love to be able to quickly warp in stalkers, sentries, etc as well.
Can you also be set up to use the same trick to quickly cast feedback or graviton beam (or ghost snipe or infested terrans)? We only have one hotkey we can overlap with the unit management one, and it seems like if you use it on warp gate you will be blocked from using it anywhere else in the game.
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Russian Federation4295 Posts
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Russian Federation4295 Posts
On June 18 2013 04:09 archwaykitten wrote: Does this let you quickly warp in any gateway unit? Currently my unit management hotkey overlaps with my "warp in zealot" key, so I can only use this trick on that one unit. I would love to be able to quickly warp in stalkers, sentries, etc as well.
Can you also be set up to use the same trick to quickly cast feedback or graviton beam (or ghost snipe or infested terrans)? We only have one hotkey we can overlap with the unit management one, and it seems like if you use it on warp gate you will be blocked from using it anywhere else in the game. You can add more hotkeys for same command via hotkeys file in your Documents
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/ZH3etlx.png)
More about it here http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=386958
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Thanks! I'll give that a try. Spamming zealots, especially from a warp prism, is one of the most fun things I've found in this game. Hopefully that'll extend to the other units as well.
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On June 14 2013 20:05 vahgar.r24 wrote:Done by a moderator (I think) from all things protoss on reddit . Link to the video below + Show Spoiler +http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8hYrEOGJVU
Basically change unit management from left key to 'W' your default key for warp gate , hold shift + hot key of the unit (say zealot) and move mouse over the pylon field - I think this maybe similar to the infestor trick ? Looks pretty nifty.
Can someone please explain this a bit further? What is the Unit Mangement key? What does it normally? How does changing this key to also be W help with warping in units?
I normally just hit W, then hold down the unit hotkey, s for stalkers, z for zealots, etc...then proceed to spam click as fast as I can or money will allow.
I'm slow, sorry.
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you can do this for any units without editing anything out of game.
options...hotkeys...unit management...choose ability or ai target. set it to whatever, let's say X.
so i hit 4 (my warp Gates hotkey) Z (for zealot) hold X and wave the mouse around
4 S hold X and wave for stalkers etc.
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India465 Posts
Im confused as well now lol
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On June 15 2013 00:07 AwM wrote:I was wondering if this was going to spread(hehe) past zerg creep tumors after the same trick got poster here.
Is there any way to add more than 1 alternative to hot keys?
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On June 18 2013 08:25 deadmau wrote:Show nested quote +On June 14 2013 20:05 vahgar.r24 wrote:Done by a moderator (I think) from all things protoss on reddit . Link to the video below + Show Spoiler +http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8hYrEOGJVU
Basically change unit management from left key to 'W' your default key for warp gate , hold shift + hot key of the unit (say zealot) and move mouse over the pylon field - I think this maybe similar to the infestor trick ? Looks pretty nifty. Can someone please explain this a bit further? What is the Unit Mangement key? What does it normally? How does changing this key to also be W help with warping in units? I normally just hit W, then hold down the unit hotkey, s for stalkers, z for zealots, etc...then proceed to spam click as fast as I can or money will allow. I'm slow, sorry.
Hey I'm the one that made the video.
The Unit Management key is normally default to the left mouse button. So putting this as an alternative as well makes it so that when you select the unit you want to warp in, you use the same button to both say you want to warp it in and where you want to warp it in at the same time. In my example it was "W". You're eliminating the mouse click with this method allowing you to spam out a huge amount of units in 1-2 seconds. It really saves a lot of time during late game engagements (which is really the only time this is used to great effect).
@hearters: Is that not what I'm doing in the video?
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