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This is my hotkey setup for Terran. After watching a recent episode of meta with artosis on hotkeys I've been inspired to change my hotkeys and make them more efficient. After a lot of tinkering and practice this is what I've come up with. I would like to ask anyone to comment on it and offer suggestions on how to improve it further. Thank you!
CAMERA
Shift + F1 - F8 = Create Camera Location F1 - F8 = Select Camera Location
UNITS:
2 = Main Army 3 = Air Units Q = ?? W = ?? ~ = Spare (drops, scout etc.) CAPSLOCK = Spare (drops, scout etc.)
BUILDINGS
4 = All Command Centres 1 = All Production Facilities
HOTKEYS
Tab (with CC selected) = build SCV Tab (with Barracks selcted) = build marine Tab (with Factory selected) = build hellbat E (with SCV selected) = build supply depot V (with SCV selected) = build engineering bay Space = Select next sub group
HAND POSITION
The pinky finger covers: Tab, Caps, Shift, Control The ring finger covers: ~, 1, Q, A, Z, F1 The middle finger covers: 2, W, S, X, F2 The index finger covers: 3, 4, 5, D, R, F3 - F5 The thumb covers: B, V, C, G, H, F, Space
ADDITIONAL INFO
Ctrl + 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Q, W, ~, Caps = Create Control Group Shift + 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Q, W, ~, Caps = Add to Control Group Shift = Queue Commands
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I do not not if your setup is efficient or not. What I do know is that is best to completely ignore the standard hotkeys. They are not efficient and the only reason some pros are using them are because most of them played 10000+ of hours of BW so they have problem changing their habits.
A modified grid solution is always better since you should move your hand as little as possible.
I use A for basic building and S for advanced buildings. AA build depot. AS build barrack SA build factory SS build star port etc
I use ASDFGH for unit abilities and unit orders. I use ADSDF for making units. SPACE is main army. QWE is for drops and raiding groups. R is all military buildings. T is all CCs plus armouries and engineering bay. ZXCVB is camera locations.
First mouse side button is CTRL Second mouse side button is SHIFT. I use the mouse wheel to TAB through subgroups. My left hand fingers rests on ASDF and my thumb on SPACE.
This setup is easy to use and very efficient.
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On August 31 2014 19:21 mGGNoRe wrote: This is my hotkey setup for Terran.
we also need to know what you use to create groups, add to groups and use to queue commands. moreover, do you know about the rapidfire ability? you might want to add that to drop mules/snipe/launch hsm with godspeed (usually 1100 apm)
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On September 01 2014 00:50 graNite wrote:we also need to know what you use to create groups, add to groups and use to queue commands. moreover, do you know about the rapidfire ability? you might want to add that to drop mules/snipe/launch hsm with godspeed (usually 1100 apm)
I've updated the OP to include the information you requested. I don't use the rapidfire ability.
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On August 31 2014 21:15 MockHamill wrote: I do not not if your setup is efficient or not. What I do know is that is best to completely ignore the standard hotkeys. They are not efficient and the only reason some pros are using them are because most of them played 10000+ of hours of BW so they have problem changing their habits.
A modified grid solution is always better since you should move your hand as little as possible.
I use A for basic building and S for advanced buildings. AA build depot. AS build barrack SA build factory SS build star port etc
I use ASDFGH for unit abilities and unit orders. I use ADSDF for making units. SPACE is main army. QWE is for drops and raiding groups. R is all military buildings. T is all CCs plus armouries and engineering bay. ZXCVB is camera locations.
First mouse side button is CTRL Second mouse side button is SHIFT. I use the mouse wheel to TAB through subgroups. My left hand fingers rests on ASDF and my thumb on SPACE.
This setup is easy to use and very efficient.
Can you please make a .hotkey file for I download it? I did like your hotkey layout but I would like to see the entire layout.
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Oh Tab for building units? What if you want to make 8 marines at once, holding down the tab button..it doesn't repeat does it?
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On September 01 2014 19:01 SeXyBaCk wrote: Oh Tab for building units? What if you want to make 8 marines at once, holding down the tab button..it doesn't repeat does it?
This is the first thing that popped into my head. I use kind of a modified grid with q-w-e-r as most of my production keys. What do you use besides TAB (marauders, mines, vikings etc?)
On August 31 2014 19:21 mGGNoRe wrote: HAND POSITION
The pinky finger covers: ~ , Tab, Caps, Shift, Control The ring finger covers: 1, Q, A, Z, F1 The middle finger covers: 2, W, S, X, F2 The index finger covers: 3, 4, 5, D, R, F3 - F5 The thumb covers: B, V, C, G, H, F, Space
Interesting use of your Thumb! How does that work out for you? (and, since you're asking for hotkey help, is there anything about your current setup that you have an issue with?)
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On September 01 2014 19:17 y0su wrote:Show nested quote +On September 01 2014 19:01 SeXyBaCk wrote: Oh Tab for building units? What if you want to make 8 marines at once, holding down the tab button..it doesn't repeat does it?
This is the first thing that popped into my head. I use kind of a modified grid with q-w-e-r as most of my production keys. What do you use besides TAB (marauders, mines, vikings etc?) Show nested quote +On August 31 2014 19:21 mGGNoRe wrote: HAND POSITION
The pinky finger covers: ~ , Tab, Caps, Shift, Control The ring finger covers: 1, Q, A, Z, F1 The middle finger covers: 2, W, S, X, F2 The index finger covers: 3, 4, 5, D, R, F3 - F5 The thumb covers: B, V, C, G, H, F, Space
Interesting use of your Thumb! How does that work out for you? (and, since you're asking for hotkey help, is there anything about your current setup that you have an issue with?)
I only use TAB for making workers, marines and hellbats (the basic unit for the economy, bio armies and mech). It doesn't repeat and is a little slower but it tricks my brain into using the pattern for making workers for marines/hellbats a little like a metronome in music. All other units are on their standard hotkeys except for hellions (now A) and seige tanks (now E).
In regards to how I use my thumb, I have many years of piano practice so that's how I've always used it in sc2. I rest my finners on 1 & 4 and so my thumb is tends to be in that area anyway ^_^
After some more experimenting I've switched a few things around, I've updated the OP to reflect the changes. In general I've moved all production facilities to 1 and the main army to 2. I naturally want to spam 1 & 4 so I decided to put all production on that. My macro instantly improved but it will take a while to get used to army on 2 haha.
As for questions, I now have Q and W free as I've combined all my production facilities on 1. Should I use them for microing/drops and if so which units? At the moment 2 is all army, 3 is air units and ~ is scouting units.
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