Base Camera Inject. Queen melt down, SOLVED - Page 13

On April 05 2011 12:40 ChefStarCraft wrote:

In my play I really can't see this being any different.
This is just achieving the same method as base camera with just pressing more buttons and taking the time to assign hotkeys.

The main problem with the back space method is when something has killed your queen.
This camera location idea will put you in the same spot with queens running around.

It does solve the queens running around if a new hatch just has popped and you haven't made a queen yet, but thats not a big enough reason for me to start using it this way. Imo the time to make the hotkeys and manage them inst worth the effort compared to the backspace method.

When injecting with the base camera the newest hatch created will be the last hatchery to be centered on. Thats all i need to know.

On April 05 2011 17:22 dementrio wrote:



Alas it just is not consistent enough for me, and I always have the meltdown problem when I have 1 queenless hatch. You should consider also that if you stay on top of your injections you should not need more than 3-4 queens lategame, whereas it's common to have 6+ hatcheries past a certain point (because you should not have more than 3-4 mining bases, having 6 queens is a waste).

I think the effort and exta clicks that my method requires are comparable to checking whether the hatch you are clicking has a queen. Also it's easy to associate mentally each hatchery with a number, so if one queen gets killed you can easily skip that number for a couple cycles until your new queen spawns, and you can use the camera hotkeys for other means as well (e.g. I keep my tech in my main, so I can tap alt+1 to check progress on my evolution chambers etc). It's basically like using an individual hotkey for each queen without the discomfort of using the 7-9 hotkeys.

Glad to see other people have found it helpful and looking forward to the video!

On April 05 2011 18:08 dementrio wrote:
jump to location is alt+1-5. Shift is hold to press V only once. For a while I tried using QWERTY/ASDF for the camera hotkeys, but I found that it's easier mnemonically to use the numbers.
The setup time is just setting the camera location once for each hatchery, it's maybe 10 seconds total in the course of a game. Try it and I think you'll find checking for the queen is more maintenance


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On April 05 2011 18:18 jinorazi wrote:
i think i'm getting too old -,.-

55v66v is good enough for me. i just make extra hatch to compensate for lack of perfect injects.

i dont think this is game deciding factor but i guess its about saving all the weight possible for 1/10 of a second off the lap time.

i hope more different tricks will come up in the future

On April 05 2011 18:30 dementrio wrote:
golgotha, we are using very similar methods except I didnt want to mess with the add to control group hotkeys because I use them a lot. Also to chefstarcraft, my concern with using shift+x is that I'm afraid it may mess up things, e.g. if I use shift+QWERTY for my locations, will my queens queue up a burrow when i hit shift+R? or will I unable to queue up burrow with other units? although there may be enough keys not assigned to unit abilities on the left side of the keyboard, will check that out.

On April 05 2011 18:44 dementrio wrote:
it is fast, as I said its almost as fast as the backspace method and when you don't have to check and see if there is a queen it's faster imo. From the video it seemed you had found a revolutionary way to use 6+ camera hotkeys, but it turns out we are using very similar setups and you gain an edge with some clever tricks ^^. Thanks for the tips and happy injecting!