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[Edit~~ this method is only preference, my only wish is to teach those who doesn't already have a prefered method, introducing them to mine just to see if it suites their style. NOT saying its any easier than other methods.]
Hey guys, I'd like to share with you the way I've been injecting. First, you only need 4 buttons, F1,F2,F3, and left click, in that order is what you press to inject fairly easily.
F1---Center to base camera (hitting this also has the same function of cycling and centering your screen to your next hatchery, very important to this method)
F2--- select your queens. I hotkey my all of my hatch queens to 1 hotkey. [hotkey number 9] to clear up 1~5 for easier army selection
F3---re-hotkeyed to select inject larva
left click--- clicking on hatch to finish off the Inject hatch.
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~You re-hotkey F1 key to do the center to base camera.
~You re-hotkey F2 to select your queen grouped hotkey, i pick 9 for all my queens.
~You re-hotkey F3 to the queen specific hotkey of inject Larva
~You left click to do the physical action of injecting.
ALL of this is done in the sc2 hotkey menu only.
By doing [F1,F2,F3, left mouse click] you can literaly inject 1 base with VERY little effort in finger movement, as all the necessary buttons are in 1 close area.
Why this is easy! It ensures a very accurate way of quick spamming these keys and injecting all your bases. just try it out[see image link below]
Well, if you have 3 bases, all you need to do is hit F1,F2,F3,click, repeatedly 3 times realllllly fast. you just injected all of your bases in less than 2 seconds only pressing 4 buttons in an easy manner! F1,F2,F3,click, F1,F2,F3,click, F1,F2,F3,click, F1,F2,F3,click etc...
http://imgur.com/t81ZF
***When repeatedly hitting F1,F2,F3,click, when you rehit the F1 key, you cycle to your next hatchery, so spamming F1,F2,F3,click cycles through all your hatcheries effortlessly***
[Note] You only need to center your mouse to the middle of the screen to click easier onto the hatches.
Edit--by hitting the F1, you recenter to the next base that you have, thereby sifting through all of your bases and injecting all of them.
This if you try on your keyboard, feels very natural and free flowing for repeated spamming for multiple bases
This method is only useful for convenience, not to say its better than other methods, just want to share this method with people to give them some sense of better injecting methods, sharing with the community is all.
TL;DR click F1,F2,F3, left mouse click repeatedly to inject all your base, keeping your hands still, making inject larva easy!
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not like zerg macro needed to be any easier
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Injecting will always be personal preference. I personally bind the "Base camera" key to my mouse and just manually inject.
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One question, how is this any easier than setting hotkeys to a number, then setting ~ as rotate and doing this process
Select Queens
Inject
Rotate
And Repeat?
I'm pretty sure most of the pros use this method (I think Idra stated this on a SOTG ep), so could you care to explain?
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Zerg has the hardest macro mechanics...
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On February 26 2012 11:26 nShade wrote:
Zerg has the hardest macro mechanics...
compared to terran/toss? yeah
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On February 26 2012 11:26 AxelTVx wrote:
One question, how is this any easier than setting hotkeys to a number, then setting ~ as rotate and doing this process
Select Queens
Inject
Rotate
And Repeat?
I'm pretty sure most of the pros use this method, so could you care to explain?
By doing this i keep my numbers open for other things, army, upgrades etc. just a personal preference.
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On February 26 2012 11:27 FallDownMarigold wrote:Show nested quote +On February 26 2012 11:26 nShade wrote:
Zerg has the hardest macro mechanics... compared to terran/toss? yeah
....so... not compared to omg 4th race!
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On February 26 2012 11:26 nShade wrote:
Zerg has the hardest macro mechanics...
agreed
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On February 26 2012 11:22 cozzE wrote:
not like zerg macro needed to be any easier
On February 26 2012 11:27 FallDownMarigold wrote:Show nested quote +On February 26 2012 11:26 nShade wrote:
Zerg has the hardest macro mechanics... compared to terran/toss? yeah
Well this thread is off to a cracker jack start.
Anyways, I personally just use the tilde method. Rebind home base to Tilde, bind all queens together. Spam v + left click + tilde and the closest queen will inject the hatchery. Super duper fast and effective, just got to make sure to skip over queen-less hatches.
Good method nonetheless. Habits die hard though, so I can't learn anything else =/
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This is turning into a Zerg circle-jerk...
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On February 26 2012 11:30 CluEleSs_UK wrote:
This is turning into a Zerg circle-jerk...
Why would you be reading this thread if you're not a zerg player
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On February 26 2012 11:30 Candadar wrote:Show nested quote +On February 26 2012 11:22 cozzE wrote:
not like zerg macro needed to be any easier Show nested quote +On February 26 2012 11:27 FallDownMarigold wrote:On February 26 2012 11:26 nShade wrote:
Zerg has the hardest macro mechanics... compared to terran/toss? yeah Well this thread is off to a cracker jack start. Anyways, I personally just use the tilde method. Rebind home base to Tilde, bind all queens together. Spam v + left click + tilde and the closest queen will inject the hatchery. Super duper fast and effective, just got to make sure to skip over queen-less hatches. Good method nonetheless. Habits die hard though, so I can't learn anything else =/
True dat.
I only do this because all my fingers for F1F2F3 are literaly in one close by spot, i dont like to stretch out my fingers to do things like larva inject :\
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select queens, select inject, hold shift, click, change base, click, change base, etc. Don't even need to rebind this way. all you need to hit repeatedly are left click, and next base hotkey, which in my case is a mouse hotkey even.
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On February 26 2012 11:22 cozzE wrote:
not like zerg macro needed to be any easier
hahaha I enjoy sarcasm!
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I've been trying this method for AGES in general I found it to be good in theory but hard to maintain because the hand gestures is quite unnatural when going from intense micro to this macro. Takes about 2 weeks to get through it that phase, I feel It has decreased my injects overral going from individual hotkey in beta to this, sometimess I find I have a lot of larva or not enough if I relay blindly on mussel memory because queens wander without incorrect energy or not by hatches. This can really mess things up and takes a long time to be aware of it.
This method is not the golden answer as it still has issues but I'm still using it so give it ago. However I still believe the individual queen hot keying is the way to go for pro's because you need to know when your queens are ready rather than lining up the timers and having wandering issues Otherwise you may find you have games where you have lots of units and others where you don't have enough because 1 or 2 queens didn't line up correctly, unless ofcourse you spend extra time between base jumps to ensure queens have injected but that defeats the purpose.
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On February 26 2012 11:32 Attri wrote:Show nested quote +On February 26 2012 11:30 Candadar wrote:On February 26 2012 11:22 cozzE wrote:
not like zerg macro needed to be any easier On February 26 2012 11:27 FallDownMarigold wrote:On February 26 2012 11:26 nShade wrote:
Zerg has the hardest macro mechanics... compared to terran/toss? yeah Well this thread is off to a cracker jack start. Anyways, I personally just use the tilde method. Rebind home base to Tilde, bind all queens together. Spam v + left click + tilde and the closest queen will inject the hatchery. Super duper fast and effective, just got to make sure to skip over queen-less hatches. Good method nonetheless. Habits die hard though, so I can't learn anything else =/ True dat. I only do this because all my fingers for F1F2F3 are literaly in one close by spot, i dont like to stretch out my fingers to do things like larva inject :\
Well, the method originally says to use backspace...but that's too cumbersome. So I rebound home key to tilde, as I said. So the most my hand has to stretch between is "v" and "~" which is not nearly as bad. However, it has the downside of making queens walk all the way across the map if I do it to a queenless hatchery, but meh.
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This looks really clever, definitely goign to try to utilize it, I don't have to reassign new keys for keyboard right? All this can be changed in sc2 hotkey setup?
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On February 26 2012 11:40 lSasquatchl wrote:
This looks really clever, definitely goign to try to utilize it, I don't have to reassign new keys for keyboard right? All this can be changed in sc2 hotkey setup?
exactly all is done in the sc2 hotkey menu
~You re-hotkey F1 key to do the center to base camera.
~You re-hotkey F2 to select any group selection, i pick 9 for my queens.hotkey all queens to 9
~You re-hotkey F3 to the queen specific hotkey of inject Larva
~You left click to do the physical action of injecting.
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