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After some experimenting and playing around for a while, I've come up with a system that's made it a lot easier for me to to macro and generally use more control groups, while at the same time being familiar enough. I'm still working on practicing with these, but I would like to know what you think.
I always found that the easiest part of Zerg macro was producing hydralisks with 4sh5sh6sh etc, so I based my larvae layout with this in mind. Because I no longer need to use 2 keys on the left side of the keyboard when morphing larvae, I can start my buildings at control group 5 instead of 4, and my scouts/harass units on 4 and 3 instead 3 and 2.
I know pressing the same key is slower, but I find 5ss6ss7ss just too convenient to ignore. This also makes the rest able to fit into a 4x2 grid, with the most common morphs (ovi, ling, hydra, muta)
Select Larve: S Drone: S Overlord: Y Zergling: G Hydralisk G Muta: T Scourge: Fs Defiler: R Ultralisk: U Queen: J
Abilities are all grid-mapped to Q, W and E, and R for burrow/unload (Load is F), since I almost always map my main army's spell units (including Lurkers) to 1 or 2. I tried messing with Attack, but I found it messed with me too much. Patrol I've set G so i can easilty switch between it and Hold during muta micro, and it's where I would make zerglings as well, with T for mutas right above (very handy in ZvZ).
Upgrades are also set to the QWE grid, mainly since I just never memorized them. It's also niceif you like to put your tech building on 1.
Buildings are based around the thumb on B and V.
The tech is in order of typical progression on the keyboard. A is for "defence structures", and Hatcheries, of course, have a special place at T (they are the best building in the game after all )
Basic: B Hatchery: T Creep: A Gas: G Spawning Pool: W Den: E Evo: R
Advanced: V Spire: Q Queens nest: W Mound: E Cavern: R Nydus: A
Lurker morph, Guardian/Devourer, sunk/spore, Lair/Hive are all mapped to Z and X. Out of the way of 99% of actions, but still easily accessible.
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5ss 6ss for drones is interesting.
For me, it was very frustrating to be producing scourges in the middle of combat because i misclicked s again in my hatchery rolls. So ive decided to switch scourges to R. Ive also switched the overlord to E, which just works wonders for me.
I do not want to change too much because ive had years of muscle memory of the hotkeys, but keyboard hotkeys on the right side needs to go.
I'm so glad Blizzard decided to bring back hotkeys.
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I changed mutas to T, overlords to V and scourge to R. Will probably remap hold position, patrol and burrow as well but I haven't decided where I want them. G is a good idea for patrol, will probably try that. Goodbye forever P key
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muta, t, overlord v, scourge r, ultralisk g, lurker upgrade on the den/morph lurker, r. overlord speed A, upgrade lair B. Lurker burrow, e. ultra speed s ultra armour a
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I wouldn't put any 'build unit' command on s. That's why zergs end up building so many accidental scourge. You'll end up with accidental drones, which may not be any better depending on the situation.
It's all up to preference. I like E and R for burrow and unburrow, and I like Q, W, and E for any upgrades at any building, except upgrading to Lair and Hive, which I have on R. It's also very comfortable for me to have 'build' on B and 'build advanced' on G so I'm using a different finger rather than reaching farther or closer with my thumb.
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On August 17 2017 06:42 PntBttr wrote: I wouldn't put any 'build unit' command on s. That's why zergs end up building so many accidental scourge. You'll end up with accidental drones, which may not be any better depending on the situation.
It's all up to preference. I like E and R for burrow and unburrow, and I like Q, W, and E for any upgrades at any building, except upgrading to Lair and Hive, which I have on R. It's also very comfortable for me to have 'build' on B and 'build advanced' on G so I'm using a different finger rather than reaching farther or closer with my thumb.
Well, the thing I noticed about that was it was always when I was trying to make drones that I hit scourge accidentally. So far I haven't had much issues with making drones when I wanted to make something else because it's a very different pattern.
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[QUOTE]On August 17 2017 03:53 Dazed. wrote: muta, t, overlord v, scourge r, ultralisk g, lurker upgrade on the den/morph lurker, r. overlord speed A, upgrade lair B. Lurker burrow, e. ultra speed s ultra armour a[/QUOTE
Genius, that lurker burrow is money. Going to be much quicker with that hotkey.
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Muta to T, overlord to V, lurker to R. Scourge unchanged (never bothered me). Lair to A, sunken to C, ling speed / hydra speed to S. Burrow / unburrow to Z. Most importantly, patrol to Q and move to E.
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changing lurker burrow to e or r seems good, overlords to V would be my next choice. Rest of the buttons arent that far off(not liek siege mode on o or something) for me to change
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