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I have a custom hotkey layout as well, and I actually like mine better:
1-7 = Unit hotkeys
Q, W, E = Building hotkeys (I use: Q = bases, W = production buildings, E = special stuff, e.g. engineering bays)
R = main special ability (Terran = lift building/hide supply depot, Zerg = burrow)
A, S, D, F, G = commands (attack, stop, move, patrol, hold fire)
Z, X, C, V = special unit/building abilities (C is the most used one)
Units and upgrades in buildings are grid-based: units A-G, upgrades Z-V. Building construction for workers is standardized, too: A = barracks/gateway/pool, S = supply, D = gas, and so on.
// I guess someone who binds his barracks/factories/starports to different keys can easily use R as a building hotkey, too.
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Why doesn't anyone use the function keys? Those keys are in such a great position for camera saves/or additional hotkeys.
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1 2 3 4 = Production facilities and town hall.
Q W E R = army control groups
A S D = spells and abilities(including build basic and advanced structures for workers)
A S D F Z X C V = Unit production/Buildings/upgrades
~ and Tab = misc. (things like scouts, drops, eng bays)
Space = attack
B = patrol
There are several other hotkeys that may be unbound and its just user preference as to where they should go,i chose to put everything as close to the left side as possible.
I play random. I think the way I do it is a bit more organized as it is really just done in rows. It also transfers between races very easily. Zerg is a little different but hatches can go to either 1 2 or 3, queens at 4 and unit production takes up every key available for it. Everything is on the left side of the keyboard and very close together. There is also a lot of repeated use of the same button (I use A the most) so I find it to have really simplified control for me.
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1 2 3 4 - unit keys
5 - command centers
6 - buildings
ctrl q,w,a,d,z,x set camera
f1-6 go to camera zone
qwert upgrade row one
asdf upgrade row two
z - upgrade row 3
` lift building
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On May 20 2011 05:52 KevinIX wrote:
Why doesn't anyone use the function keys? Those keys are in such a great position for camera saves/or additional hotkeys.
Because I seriously doubt the majority of the people screwing around with their hotkeys have lived/grown up in a world were you were stuck with one set of hotkeys, and you had to deal with it.
Sure it's fun an' cool and all to have a custom setup, but is it really so unbelievably hard to press 'a' instead of 'space' ? Burrrrr, I guess it's whatever you're used to.
Gone are the days where you'd download your favorite player's replays, just to see and copy their hotkey layout. Why bother when you can just stick to 1,2,3 and set whatever you want? *saddened*
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Yeah, I've moved around a few hotkeys as well.
I moved backspace to spacebar, moved ctrl groups 8, 9, 0 to tilde, q, capslocks
Immortal is now "r" instead of "i" (robo/star on 4, 4r much easier than 4i)
Cameras f1-f4 (shift to assign them respectively)
Protoss is layed out pretty well for maintaining the left side of the keyboard, so I only moved around some control groups and cameras, really.
For cameras, f2 is main nex, f3 2nd nex, f4 third nex, f1 warp-in pylon (late game, 2-4 bound to important expansions or other important areas on the map). I have found that forcing myself to use the cameras a lot has made me play waaayyy faster. I recommend getting a camera hotkey setup that works for you, and making yourself use it for important spots on the map. It really gives you a good feeling about your play the first time you see red dots appear in your main on the minimap, and you tap f2 box workers f3 click on mineral patches, and save all of your probes from blue-flame hellions. It is much less stressful than dragging your screen with the mouse around your bases, or having to move your mouse all the way to the minimap, and then all the way back to the center of your screen.
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Nice setup, a bit too cramped for my hands but glad you found something that works for you!
Also, thank blizzard for the server-side hotkey configuration storage 
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You must type in caps like ALL THE TIME.
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Interesting set up! I prefer using the default hotkeys and then...
1 - CC
2 - Fac
3 - Rax
4 - Starport
5 - 9 - Units
0 - Upgrades
: )
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So some decent setups here but none seemed that great. I recently started getting some coaching and had to improve hotkeys even though I thought mine were good enough.
I'm really glad I did however, because I think I've found almost ideal setup for minimal movement, and maximum control group usage. It's definitely far superior to standard
It's basically GRID but asdfg is control groups 6-0 used for army. Works awesome for Terran, theres almost 0 middle row commands. for the odd commands (hold fire and repair) i shifted the middle grid row to hjkl;. Also added attack to space. Seems pretty awesome so far
in a nutshell:
12345 - Building control groups (best mapped as SP, fac, rax, CC, upgrades)
qwert - GRID row 1
adfg - Army Control groups
zxcvb - GRID row 3
Space - attack
hjkl; - Grid row 2 which is never used. (maybe H for repair)
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Hi, if anyone could post how to change attack/attack move to space bar, that would be extremely appreciated. I can't seem to figure out what or where in the hotkey file I change.
Nevermind, just solved! put Attack=space under commands!
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On June 04 2011 01:11 Macmacmacmac wrote:
Hi, if anyone could post how to change attack/attack move to space bar, that would be extremely appreciated. I can't seem to figure out what or where in the hotkey file I change.
Nevermind, just solved! put Attack=space under commands!
Or do it the slightly easier way: open up SC2 and go to hotkeys, pick a random unit and click attack, then change it from A to Space.
Yay no more crazy hotkey file madness!
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this is amazing for when I play terran. Unfortunately, I'm random so I can't use this for when I get the other races :<
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Wow crazy hotkey set up, Ive set up my own custom one as well. Just feels like you have to reach a damn mile to hit some hotkeys on the default setting. I have a friend that uses classic BW keys, mind boggling!
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The funniest shit his mentality on TvZ is spot on. Anyway seems like a radical change, but efficient at the same time.
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I use custom hotkey setup as zerg with same idea in mind (although my keys are slightly different), I just wanna point out that you can set create/add to control group to alt+(the control group), my pinky just cant bend to shift all that well so thats what I use (I press ctrl with my thumb). I got used to the change after maybe 30 games and I am so much faster now, I reccomend this for everyone.
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lol wut
Sounds pretty awesome... but man, getting used to that X_X
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Some good ideas here, I already changed some hotkeys to make them easier (stimpack and land to F). I recommend at least to change hotkey for upgrades, 'cause it is something you don't use a lot and tend to forget, I put them as it would be in grid mode.
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note: this is coming from someone who didnt play a lick of sc1 and bw:
my apm jumped from approx 50-60 to 150-160 since using this hotkey setup. I also beat mOOnGLaDe 1v1. msg me for replay. i am master level 4v4 but not a lot of experience 1v1 (i mostly play custom matches or tournaments.
I recommend changing anything that you are confused about - such as 'last notification' which was previously 'spacebar' - to 'J' key. additionally, try to create secondary hotkeys that you are familiar with such as still using 'H' for hold position as well as 'S'.
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Hey. Bump cause alot of people wanted the hotkey file posted.
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