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Roggay
Profile Joined April 2010
Switzerland6320 Posts
October 10 2010 14:07 GMT
#81
Honnestly I don't have that much problem with the current keys, but I guess some people really want this.

Blizzard could have released the game with it, and the chat channel/clan features, it's really easy to implement and they are losing many customer because of things like that.
TheAntZ
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Israel6248 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-10 14:22:15
October 10 2010 14:09 GMT
#82
Blizzard Casually Announces Custom Hotkeys


dohoho, clever rascal
43084 | Honeybadger: "So july, you're in the GSL finals. How do you feel?!" ~ July: "HUNGRY."
flodeskum
Profile Joined September 2010
Iceland1267 Posts
October 10 2010 14:12 GMT
#83
No more accidentally making my templars into archons when I'm trying to chronoboost \e/
IdrA: " my fans are kinda retarded"
XsebT
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Denmark2980 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-10 14:18:28
October 10 2010 14:17 GMT
#84
omg, P for probes incoming? YEAH BABY!
I'm having such a hard time adjusting to the sc2 protoss because of the new hotkeys. :S
화이팅
lowercase
Profile Joined September 2010
Canada1047 Posts
October 10 2010 14:28 GMT
#85
Finally, I can bind something to shift-tilde.
That is not dead which can eternal lie...
EZjijy
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States1039 Posts
October 10 2010 14:30 GMT
#86
Thank goodness. The Zerg hotkeys were awful.
EZjijy
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States1039 Posts
October 10 2010 14:31 GMT
#87
On October 10 2010 23:17 XsebT wrote:
omg, P for probes incoming? YEAH BABY!
I'm having such a hard time adjusting to the sc2 protoss because of the new hotkeys. :S

You know theres a classic keyboard layout that changes the probe hotkey to p right?
Ndugu
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States1078 Posts
October 10 2010 15:37 GMT
#88
On October 10 2010 23:09 TheAntZ wrote:
Show nested quote +
Blizzard Casually Announces Custom Hotkeys


dohoho, clever rascal


LMAO.

Kinda surprised to hear that this was announced months ago. It's something I've intensely wanted and I spend enough time here and on the SCII forums that I wouldn't have expected myself to miss it. Ugh.

I guess less time spent looking forward to them and more time spent trying to accept some of the worse hotkeys as a fact of life?

Also, I feel better that everyone except 2 that have posted missed this news as well lmao
Cade)Flayer
Profile Joined March 2010
United Kingdom279 Posts
October 10 2010 15:39 GMT
#89
Finally! Everyone has their own style of play, it's only fair that we are all allowed to set our hotkeys in our preferred manner. Some people will be perfectly happy with the default set up while others will not be so comfortable with it, this evens everything up and is helpful in creating better play.
That boys a monster
Penecks
Profile Joined August 2010
United States600 Posts
October 10 2010 15:47 GMT
#90
I hope they let you use mouse buttons as hotkeys as well, that is what I'm really looking forward to. Oh and the A key, it does nothing when using grid, so maybe it will be useful now.
straight poppin
TheOnlyOne
Profile Joined August 2010
Germany155 Posts
October 10 2010 15:58 GMT
#91
Its kinda funny, as the feature is allready in the freaking game.

The method posted here in the forum shows that the game allready reads a "Hotkey" folder for a hotkey text file, how can it be difficult to simply put the text file in it ?

Making the hotkey customizable is super simpel in terms of adding this feature to the existing UI , theirs simply no reason they can't do it right away, they just dont want to ...


However as it is, all the posts also show they wont ban for changing the hotkeys right now, so everyone can simply ignore it and stick with the Custom Layout (that doesnt modify the MPQ), while they will never make it an "official" option.
Khanz
Profile Joined April 2010
France214 Posts
October 10 2010 16:04 GMT
#92
Sorry guys i dont understand quite well... If I have modified MPQ will I get banned or not ? sorry i suck at understanding sometimes
Don't worry, zombies eat brains. You're safe
sushiman
Profile Joined September 2003
Sweden2691 Posts
October 10 2010 16:19 GMT
#93
I'm so going to change things back to the BW-layout. Still can't get used to the current setup.
1000 at least.
Sten
Profile Joined September 2010
United States7 Posts
October 10 2010 16:30 GMT
#94
While I never played BW (well, not signficantly at least) and thus have no particular attachment to a static hotkey setup, I can see an argument for making them non-configurable. To some extent lots of customization options can be a bad thing, and there's something appealing about making the playing field level, as well as ensuring that hopping to a new computer is easy (admittedly, server-side hotkey customization, which I'm sure they'll have, fixes that issue).

The problem I saw after just a week or so of playing is that it's sort of living in a fantasy world to embrace this kind of non-configurable design. On an impulse, I decided to map the side button on my mouse to backspace, then immediately realized the fact that I could do so pretty much tears apart any benefit their system has. Then I realized my f-keys on my keyboard are configurable as well. Then I realized they should probably just add custom hotkeys, cuz it's awkward and pointless to try to prevent it from happening.

I do see the intention, though. Consoles don't typically let you configure the way the buttons work on a controller willy-nilly, and there's some strong benefit to that simplicity. But I think we kinda have to live in the real world where PCs just don't work that way.
Humble noob.
AJMcSpiffy
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States1154 Posts
October 10 2010 16:43 GMT
#95
Something I'm curious to see is if there will be a way to link your custom key setup to your account. That way in large tournaments if people entering all use different key setups they can just log in instead of having to go through the menus, which I imagine wouldn't be allowed in big name tournaments anyway.
If the quarter was in your right hand, that would've been micro
Mastermind
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Canada7096 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-10 16:55:05
October 10 2010 16:53 GMT
#96
They better make it so that your custom keys are bound to your bnet profile, and not to the computer you use. I dont want to have to reset all my keys if I go to a new computer or have to carry a text file around or something else equally silly.

edit: in reality, there will only be a few keys I actually change. i for immortal is an obvious one, so is m for ling speed. I will also be happy to finally have F keys in the correct locations so I can start using them in sc2.
XsebT
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Denmark2980 Posts
October 11 2010 02:49 GMT
#97
On October 10 2010 23:31 Repok wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 10 2010 23:17 XsebT wrote:
omg, P for probes incoming? YEAH BABY!
I'm having such a hard time adjusting to the sc2 protoss because of the new hotkeys. :S

You know theres a classic keyboard layout that changes the probe hotkey to p right?

Had no idea... Is that legal?
화이팅
RoarMan
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Canada745 Posts
October 11 2010 02:54 GMT
#98
On October 11 2010 11:49 XsebT wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 10 2010 23:31 Repok wrote:
On October 10 2010 23:17 XsebT wrote:
omg, P for probes incoming? YEAH BABY!
I'm having such a hard time adjusting to the sc2 protoss because of the new hotkeys. :S

You know theres a classic keyboard layout that changes the probe hotkey to p right?

Had no idea... Is that legal?

I haven't seen any tournaments disallow it so far, and I think it should remain legal.

Although it is good sometimes to force all players to be on the same level, something like hot keys I think is minor and should be left to preference.
All the pros got dat Ichie.
Terranist
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States2496 Posts
October 11 2010 07:18 GMT
#99
On October 11 2010 11:49 XsebT wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 10 2010 23:31 Repok wrote:
On October 10 2010 23:17 XsebT wrote:
omg, P for probes incoming? YEAH BABY!
I'm having such a hard time adjusting to the sc2 protoss because of the new hotkeys. :S

You know theres a classic keyboard layout that changes the probe hotkey to p right?

Had no idea... Is that legal?


yeah even at GSL there was one game that was delayed because a player forgot to turn grid off after his game.
The Show of a Lifetime
Arco
Profile Joined September 2009
United States2090 Posts
October 11 2010 07:22 GMT
#100
Can't wait to finally have F1-F4 as my location keys. REJOICE
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