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    Ive thought of a really good way of making life easier.

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    • T Offline
      thecore
      last edited by

      Here is my idea

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      • JipJ Offline
        Jip
        last edited by

        I think the columns should be independent of one another, e.g., if you have an hq air factory it shouldn't take the hotkey of the extractor.

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        • LunyshkoL Offline
          Lunyshko
          last edited by

          I believe there is a hotkey for upgrade.

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          • T Offline
            Tagada Balance Team
            last edited by

            Guys, you do realise that there can't be any overlap between techs right? You can't have a titan and a mechmarine on the same hotkey since you can build both with the same factory. The current hotkey layout, besides few weird key choices like mass fabs, is already quite optimised and intuitive as each row of qaz corresponds to one tech tier

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            • LunyshkoL Offline
              Lunyshko @Tagada
              last edited by Lunyshko

              @tagada you are actually wrong. There already is a solution for that.
              once you press key you get a selection window and you are at the first possibly buildable unit if you press it again you are at the second possibly buildadble unit and so on.

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              • T Offline
                Tagada Balance Team
                last edited by

                Ah forgot that existed, well that may be fine for most players then

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                • LunyshkoL Offline
                  Lunyshko @thecore
                  last edited by Lunyshko

                  @thecore I would recomend using hotkey for upgrade instead of yousing q w for hq and support factories. As it will do hq if you dont have one and will do support one if hq already exists.
                  Also there are currently no hotkeys for upgrades on acu. #At least i dont know of them.

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                  • SpikeyNoobS Offline
                    SpikeyNoob Global Moderator
                    last edited by SpikeyNoob

                    How could u use the multi unit hotkey when its a factory. Rn it only works on buildings cus with buildings u click to show u have selected the correct unit. With factories there is no why to know if u wanted choice 1 or 2.

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                    • LunyshkoL Offline
                      Lunyshko @SpikeyNoob
                      last edited by Lunyshko

                      @SpikeyNoob you actually q by pressing lmb in the required quantities and the give the rally point by rmb which is also the trigger to close the selection window.

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                      • SpikeyNoobS Offline
                        SpikeyNoob Global Moderator
                        last edited by

                        That seems slower than the current solution. Whst about queueing large amounts of units. If click the key too fast before the mouse button u will end up with wrong units. Also if the unit i want is the 3rd option and i want 4 units, thats 12 key presses and 4 mouse presses compared to the 4 using the current system. At that point just use normal clicking of the icon.

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                        • LunyshkoL Offline
                          Lunyshko @SpikeyNoob
                          last edited by Lunyshko

                          @spikeynoob The input sequence would be for example q q shift+lmb w lmb s lmb d d lmb k lmb
                          Its not that hard tbf

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                          • SpikeyNoobS Offline
                            SpikeyNoob Global Moderator
                            last edited by

                            Good point with shift. Why are there no lmb after w and s?

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                            • LunyshkoL Offline
                              Lunyshko @SpikeyNoob
                              last edited by

                              @spikeynoob current solution require a shit load of keys being used. The choice is up to you to either memorise 150 keys or use 20 keys with a bit slower input (the actual input timings shouldnt be THAT much slower as you describe id say its 1-5 seconds at most)

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                              • LunyshkoL Offline
                                Lunyshko @SpikeyNoob
                                last edited by Lunyshko

                                @spikeynoob Actually on a second thought we should add a priority so that the higher tech unit comes before its lesser tech unit predecessor in the selection window. Thanks for noticing. So that later in a game would save you from pressing the same key few times.

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                                • SpikeyNoobS Offline
                                  SpikeyNoob Global Moderator @Lunyshko
                                  last edited by

                                  @yellownoob Agreed, I think that would be a lot faster.

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                                  • Dragun101D Offline
                                    Dragun101 @Tagada
                                    last edited by

                                    @tagada said in Ive thought of a really good way of making life easier.:

                                    Ah forgot that existed, well that may be fine for most players then

                                    As a note its bugged for factories. And can resulted in an interesting interactions but functionality exist yes

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                                    • Ctrl-KC Offline
                                      Ctrl-K
                                      last edited by

                                      Currently working on mod allowing you create your own key setups. Idea is taken from PA mod. I called it Keybind Overhaul. If you are really interested im open for suggestions

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                                      • LunyshkoL Offline
                                        Lunyshko
                                        last edited by Lunyshko

                                        Close the topic Azot made op hotkeys

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                                          Ctrl-K
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