Once you are holding shift. Click mouse 1 rapidly while you press backspace rapidly. It is what allows you to hop around and cast the spell quickly.

Spam is a word used to describe repeating something over and over, usually mindlessly.

Zelniq

United States7166 Posts

May 16 2010 22:21 GMT

#24

and "mouse 1" is the left mouse button

roark

United States187 Posts

May 16 2010 22:25 GMT

#25

On May 17 2010 07:21 Zelniq wrote:
and "mouse 1" is the left mouse button

Yeah. Sorry, I've been a gaming nerd for a long time. I forget these aren't actual words that mean something to everyone lol.

I'll update the OP to be more concise.

KingV

United States97 Posts

May 16 2010 22:28 GMT

#26

Holy Shit, this is awesome. Nice find

sLiniss

United States849 Posts

May 16 2010 22:29 GMT

#27

This is a pretty sick find. I'll be trying this out def.

Baerinho

Germany257 Posts

May 16 2010 22:31 GMT

#28

since i am comming over from CS 1.6(yeah shame on me) i am totally used to having multiple commands on my mouse(MX518, changed DPI buttons to keystroke assignment F9-F12 and have grenades and stuff bound to it in CS. Simply changed one to backspace. Makes this extremley easy to use.

cyclone25

Romania3344 Posts

May 16 2010 23:04 GMT

#29

I still prefer the minimap clicking because I can keep an eye on my army while I spawn larvae. I just don't like the idea to constantly go back in my base.
Also don't you guys need to take a quick look at the keyboard when you press smth like 4->V->backspace->right shift? I mean these are pretty far away from each other ^^
This seems useful when you have like 4+ bases, but minimap clicking is ok when you have under 3 bases.

Dex4

Germany19 Posts

May 16 2010 23:40 GMT

#30

it is an awesome way to macro, but there is one conflict.

If you have less queens than hatcheries and start spamming clicks and backspace the queens will try to spawn larvae on all hatcheries which means that if you have a queen in your base and a remote hatchery without a queen nearby that one queen will run through the whole map to spawn larvae there which is bad for obvious reasons.

Anyway, if you have a queen for every hatchery, its ok.

roark

United States187 Posts

May 16 2010 23:45 GMT

#31

On May 17 2010 08:40 Dex4 wrote:
it is an awesome way to macro, but there is one conflict.

If you have less queens than hatcheries and start spamming clicks and backspace the queens will try to spawn larvae on all hatcheries which means that if you have a queen in your base and a remote hatchery without a queen nearby that one queen will run through the whole map to spawn larvae there which is bad for obvious reasons.

Anyway, if you have a queen for every hatchery, its ok.

Yeah that is true. I've been using this for a while so I forgot to mention it. You do need 1 queen per hatch. But the same is true of mini-map clicking.

If you don't [have 1 queen per hatch] just make sure you SLOW down and look at the hatch to see if a queen is there.

I always have 1 queen for each hatch, and I've started goofing around with an extra queen just to spew creep early on. So I transfer that queen to the 3rd or whatever base.

ilnp

Iceland1330 Posts

May 17 2010 00:08 GMT

#32

why is the backspace hotkey not ` (~)?
BLIZZZZZARD!! USE YOUR HEAD

QuothTheRaven

United States5524 Posts

May 17 2010 00:10 GMT

#33

On May 17 2010 06:16 Zelniq wrote:
Lots of amazing hotkey tips.

Thank you so much for those tips! I modified my game the same way, seems a lot more efficient.

I might also suggest you consider adding the following (in the Core GameHotKeys.txt file):

UI/Hotkey/CameraSave0=Control+F1
UI/Hotkey/CameraSave1=Control+F2
UI/Hotkey/CameraSave2=Control+F3
UI/Hotkey/CameraSave3=Control+F4
UI/Hotkey/CameraSave4=Control+F5
UI/Hotkey/CameraSave5=Control+F6
UI/Hotkey/CameraSave6=Control+F7
UI/Hotkey/CameraSave7=Control+F8
UI/Hotkey/CameraView0=F1
UI/Hotkey/CameraView1=F2
UI/Hotkey/CameraView2=F3
UI/Hotkey/CameraView3=F4
UI/Hotkey/CameraView4=F5
UI/Hotkey/CameraView5=F6
UI/Hotkey/CameraView6=F7
UI/Hotkey/CameraView7=F8

to get all 8 location keys active, and to have ones one F1-F4 where they're easier to hit than F5-F8.

Megaman703

Canada688 Posts

May 17 2010 00:23 GMT

#34

I applaud you for not only finding out this super sweet trick, but also for not calling it the "roark method"

Zhou

United States832 Posts

May 17 2010 00:35 GMT

#35

Now we know how Koreans are kicking booty! xD

Tsagacity

United States2124 Posts

May 17 2010 00:37 GMT

#36

I just wish I could use tilde instead of backspace.

nodq

Germany123 Posts

May 17 2010 00:37 GMT

#37

Very cool, i will try it out tomorrow. I used to have every Queen on a different hotkey and double press it to switch to quenn and make larava inject on the near hatch. for me it was best way to have every queen under good control with a hotkey and good control over larva inject.

only thing that bothers me... having all queens on one hotkey could be really suck in some situations like not enough energy on one queen or smth.. then u will have a queen running around the map or something like that.

Archerofaiur

United States4101 Posts

May 17 2010 00:37 GMT

#38

NO! Why did you tell people this? Now Blizzard is going to take away the shift key.

Deathfate

Spain555 Posts

May 17 2010 00:44 GMT

#39

Blizzard should reconsider their hotkeys... Control f5 to f8 are imposible to hit unless you have a pretty big hand, also backspace is super far, not to mention the R with roaches and worker rally points etc...

roark

United States187 Posts

May 17 2010 00:51 GMT

#40

On May 17 2010 09:37 nodq wrote:
only thing that bothers me... having all queens on one hotkey could be really suck in some situations like not enough energy on one queen or smth.. then u will have a queen running around the map or something like that.

This is true. You have to watch out for it and be careful. I have accidentally tried to move them once or twice...

It might be worth it to have a separate key for all queens, and another for individual.

I'm fairly used to it now and don't make that mistake too often.