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NobodyImportant
Profile Joined October 2012
Canada8 Posts
November 08 2012 15:58 GMT
#1
Hi everyone!

I'm pretty new to teamliquid, and I've read the general rules of posting, so I hope that this post fits all the criteria of posting, -if not, feel free to remove it but please don't ban me haha.

Anyways, I looked through the threads, but couldn't find anything relative to this.

This thread is simply to help players refer to small technical things that SC has included that players might forget/don't know, and rather then going onto SC and testing it, they want to simply refer to a thread to confirm what they think a certain unit did in a certain situation.

If this sounds confusing, feel free to look at my first post in this thread - a question I have pertaining to how protoss hotkeys work.

Enjoy!
NobodyImportant
Profile Joined October 2012
Canada8 Posts
November 08 2012 15:58 GMT
#2
If you have a templar in a hotkey (say hotkey 4), then you load it into a warp prism, that you SHIFT HOTKEY (add to hotkey 4), then when you unload the templar, will it still be in hotkey #4? (this is very important for when your using templar drops in a PvT engagement to avoid emps) Also, when selecting hotkey #4 consisting of warp prisms/templar/stalker/sentry/colossus/immortal, will it default to having the templar abilities first? Thanks for the help!
Mali__Slon
Profile Joined October 2010
Senegal163 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-11-08 16:01:34
November 08 2012 16:01 GMT
#3
There is protoss help me thread for this. And to answer your question - yes HT will still be at #4
NobodyImportant
Profile Joined October 2012
Canada8 Posts
November 08 2012 16:02 GMT
#4
On November 09 2012 01:01 Mali__Slon wrote:
There is protoss help me thread for this. And to answer your question - yes HT will still be at #4

But are they they primary unit default selected when unloaded?
NobodyImportant
Profile Joined October 2012
Canada8 Posts
November 08 2012 16:03 GMT
#5
On November 09 2012 01:01 Mali__Slon wrote:
There is protoss help me thread for this.

I feel that protoss help me thread is more for strats and counters and what not, as opposed to technical details.
Shkudde
Profile Joined February 2011
Netherlands709 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-11-08 16:12:48
November 08 2012 16:11 GMT
#6
On November 09 2012 01:02 NobodyImportant wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 09 2012 01:01 Mali__Slon wrote:
There is protoss help me thread for this. And to answer your question - yes HT will still be at #4

But are they they primary unit default selected when unloaded?


Yep, casters always have priority over other units in a control-group. Same deal with sentries

Edit: this sometimes messes me up when I have both caster-types in one controlgroup because they both have F as a spell-hotkey. 1-controlgroup-syndrome ftw!
$O$ | herO[jOin] | Zest hwaiting!
IBringUFire
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
Germany103 Posts
November 08 2012 16:11 GMT
#7
I still think you might want to look at the Simple Questions - Simple Answers Thread.
IcemanA
Profile Joined September 2012
Canada10 Posts
November 08 2012 16:45 GMT
#8
On November 09 2012 00:58 NobodyImportant wrote:
This thread is simply to help players refer to small technical things that SC has included that players might forget/don't know.


Here's about 600 of those small technical details:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=214757
NEEDZMOAR
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
Sweden1277 Posts
November 08 2012 17:13 GMT
#9
On November 09 2012 00:58 NobodyImportant wrote:
If you have a templar in a hotkey (say hotkey 4), then you load it into a warp prism, that you SHIFT HOTKEY (add to hotkey 4), then when you unload the templar, will it still be in hotkey #4? (this is very important for when your using templar drops in a PvT engagement to avoid emps) Also, when selecting hotkey #4 consisting of warp prisms/templar/stalker/sentry/colossus/immortal, will it default to having the templar abilities first? Thanks for the help!



Yes the hotkey will be in hotkey #4 as soon as it is unloaded unlike in bw where units disappeared from the hotkey if they were loaded into a dropship and u then used that hotkey for something else.
monk
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States8477 Posts
November 08 2012 17:15 GMT
#10
Please read the strategy forum guidelines.

You should refer to the Simple Questions Thread, the Race Specific Help Me Threads, or the 1000 Tips Thread for stuff like this.
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