StarCraft 2: Hotkey & Control Groups - Everything You Need To Know!
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- Recommended hotkeys and control groups in StarCraft 2.
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In this video I cover everything that has to do with hotkeys and control groups in StarCraft 2.
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I discuss the different kinds of hotkeys that I use and what I recommend. I also go over camera hotkeys, the base camera hotkey, the difference between ctrl, shift and alt hotkeys and how to create control groups most efficiently.
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This is probably the most important video for new starcraft players to watch
Friedcheese thanks
sc2 is too complex haha.
I’m Diamond and trying to get better. Been playing since beta. Didn’t know about base cameras lol. This is good for everyone!
I agree! Helped me soooo much!
I was having a hard time with hotkeys myself.
After watching this video I proceeded to rearrange some hotkeys. Was doing pretty well, until I hit Alt F4.. Haha
XD ....
xD LOLZ
lmaoooo
I bet that made you autowin the game ;)
@@spagettech :)))) lool
I tried to bind camera shortcuts on alt F1 to F4. The first three worked. :)
Yeah I was kind of annoyed to realize alt + F4 wasn't disabled for SC2.
@@yugen can be disabled in the hotkeys optiond
@@krenze1164 Only 2 years late but thank you :)
Years of playing SCII and I never knew about the base camera key :S
u aint the only one. That would of saved me tons of hassel and headaches throughout the years but was just too confused and scared to learn.
+Aqwia L feels good not to be the only one that ignores that ✌️
Octavio Castro I think there are a lot of us out there like this but we to scared to speak up
you are not alone
I'm only at 40 games right now bought the game a few days ago, and gonna look deeper into that haha
Edit : well I didn't wanted to show off, but actually i vaguely knew about backspace being base camera but didn't switched it, since there is too much keys to changes I was a bit 'afraid' of doing it without help xD and glad i just found that video
A much requested, long overdue update to one of my most viewed videos. Everything you need to know about hotkeys and control groups in StarCraft 2.
thanks lowko, i really need help with hotkeys, thanks so much for helping. Big fan btw, I watch your videos loads. =)
Thanks for the update these technical vids help as much if not more than the gameplay :)
Thank you very much! :)
hey, this has been bothering me for a while...why does you're select army icon, top left of HUD read "GRAVE"???
Question: how do you hotkey producing structures as Protoss or Terran? And do you hotkey upgrade buildings such as the Evolution Chamber?
For everyone who dislikes having the Attack hotkey being changed to 'T' instead of 'A' after you switch to custom grid mode, you can set it as 'A' still by going to grid (1:38) and clicking the 'T' (top right) and setting an alternative 'A'. I don't think this will negatively affect one's game play, and it most definitely resolves some problems that some may have with the command settings. :)
Thank you so much! This has been amazing for my game!
I've been seeing your vids, coaching sessions and tutorials for almost two years now... And this is what I appreciate the most of professionals like you! Heads up for Lowko, sharing is caring and you are a clear example of that, a compromised vlogger with his audience, congrats with all your hard work, you deserve every triumph and recognizing.
Single most game changing video I've seen since I started playing SC2 around 3 months ago... and I've watched about a half dozen videos on the matter.
If anyone is wondering, you need to use the key "T" to attack move units in the Grid layout. T instead of A.
yeah I love the grid set up , only downside is attack move T instead of A
@@finix7419 I move the hotkey to "Q" for attackin and "T" for moving I think
@@krsna802 but that mess up whole grid system .you have to press T instead of Q for first upgrade and everything else in that place.I got used to T for attack quickly after putting that comment ,default is best choice pretty sure
@@finix7419 Not really, there's a way to bound "Q" just for the attack command, and "T" just for the move command. At the end of the hotkeys file, you must type the following:
"[Commands]
Attack=Q
Move=T"
Without quotes, and it won't mess with anything else.
t posing your army
Who is watching this on 2017 after a gap of 3 years not playing? Seems that, as i have not practice anymore with hotkeys, ill go with the grid setup :) Your channel is being very helpful as a returning player.
Unbelievable.....Im in the exact same situation
One more guy right here XD
Nícolas Wildner me
me at the end of 2017 as a returning player
Im watching this in 2018 as a new player. haha
I know this video is a couple years old, but I just started playing SC2 last week after watching numerous games online. These simple tips were very helpful and made things a lot easier. Since I don't know the controls by heart yet, hopefully these instructions will prevent me doing too many rookie mistakes. Thanks Lowko
Finally! You rock my world Lowko... Keep these tutorials going up and you won't let me down!
Happy to hear that!
question: what mouse do you use? what sensitivity? what dpi? what polling rate?
Lowko you explains it in the clearest way.
i didn't know about alt key. this will be very useful
Playing SC for the first time in 5+ years, your videos have been great thus far. Much obliged. Very fun game.
I got about six minutes into this video, paused and decided to say thank you LowkoTV, it is very hard to find help when playing RTS games however you do it perfectly and for my personal favourite RTS game SC2. Thank you!
Just make sure that if you split a group that you hit alt + 4 and not alt + F4
This was super helpful. I've been playing SC and SC2 using a lot of these commands, but never the placed camera one, didn't know that was a thing. Also I may give the grid layout a try for a bit (I usually just use standard).
excelent tutorial, i needed this very much!
thanks]!
Can I honestly say that this could possibly be THE one key tutorial video out there that allows you to take your SC2 micro technique to a whole nother level-- bar none? Thanks Lowko, you beast.
I've been using Lowko's setup ever since the first video he made, this video is right up my alley. Much thanks Lowko.
That was super useful.
+Volnik Awesome. Thanks Volnik.
One of the greatest SC2-Videos (Mechanics) ever made!
Thanks for the amazing video! I just started back into Starcraft and kept having to look at the mini screen on the right to see what each unit was hot-keyed to. Grid sounds so much easier!
thanks a lot for this video lowko. I was always confused on most hot keys so I stayed away from using them outside of the f2 for all army and the control groups but I wasn't the best at using them in general and I never understood splitting the army. This video is exactly what I needed cause it cleared up some of my confusion on hotkey and control groups and gave me the courage to go more into hotkeys. I definitely think I will be getting better faster as I implement the things from this video.
i think sc2 standard hotkeys are one of those things that make sc2 unaccessable for new players
VillaMasterSF depends,are u a sc veteran or a sc newbi,i mean did u play the last sc game or you re just entering the fracaise??
tbh I'm new player but i didn't like grid hotkeys so much, standart is universal make more sense to be, but i already had a dota/ RTS background before playing it.
To me standard makes more sense, specially as a newer player, because, when I want to build I press B, then what do I want? Barracks - well that's B, engineering bay? Well that's E, supply depot? That's S. It makes everything easier if you ask me.
sc2 hotkeys are super easy almost a joke. If you compare with original sc1 it makes macro basically non existent and very easy to control a big army. This isn't the reason for any loss in popularity to new players.
@MrChiato There's a problem though: that only works perfectly if your native language is English :)
Lowko: If you are one of those who uses the ALL ARMY hotkey, I highly recommend you leave it unbound.
Me: Sweats in Toss A-move👀
Just started watching your videos as I'm just getting back into SC2. Love your energy and passion for the game. Keep on keeping on! :)
I have been wanting a quality video on hotkeys for a while now. Thanks a lot, Lowko
I never understood why the base cam was defaulted to backspace. Why Blizz why?
Especially when the designers consider harassment units that can rape your mineral line in seconds to be "exciting".
I don't have a problem with that tbh. But the way they did it is too much
they did it intentionally so ignorant ppl (who never actually read all the available hotkeys) will be at a disadvantage muwahahaha... just kidding, just kidding, but never miss things like this, because I'm usually the nerd that read the whole manual to pass time while downloading or so xd
they probably didn't think it through, as far as player could set any action to any key, the goal was just to make a game and assign each action to some key, so that it's not blank. I mean, allot of fps games still have arrow keys for movement, even though everyone normally uses wasd
I know this is years old, but it is a common occurrence that ppl rebind capslock to backspace and then the binding makes a lot of sense. Who uses capslock anyway?
you say to learn to properly hotkey your army. Got any videos helping me on that one? I'm one of those people that just F2's + A-attack EVERYTHING.
When I get dropped, all my overseers gather to watch the slaughter...
You mean toss player?
lol @ all my overseers gather to watch the slaughter...
This made me laugh out loud.
This is EXACTLY the type of tips I was looking for, thank you so much!
Just felt like I needed to show some gratitude, just starting up from a dota/c&c background (although not using hotkeys very effectively at all) this video was super helpful and easy to understand, even at 4 AM :)
Base cam cycles through all of them??? Dam I was creating custom camera locations for all of them xD...
I do both actually. It's more accurate.
if you don't have locations bound and a base gets attacked, you might end up cycling through all of your bases before you get to the one you need and then if you accidentally hit the space bar too many times you have to click the map or cycle again and at that point you may as well have just clicked the map to begin with. cycling through bases is great for injects as opposed to binding each queen or hatchery individually
same
Same... as Zerg... God damn it hurts me now (and My queens)
Anima Manager i
Thanks Lowko! Brazilian 🇧🇷 Starcraft player here!
Amigo, tu sabe me dizer porque o zerg dele está nessa cor?
+Gustavo Moura selecionou nas configurações do jogo. Dá uma olhada lá.
options / gameplay / Team Color Intensity = 11
Jasan Friedlaender answer:
optoins < Gameplay, you can set your alliance color to white/black/whatever is given there, and then ingame you have to click the lowest of the 3 buttons next to your minimap, it looks like a kind of "handshake", this will then activate your alliance colors for you, your team mates and enemies, default is green for you, yellow for team mates, and red for enemies
A lot of neat tricks I've never tried. Figured out the shift one on my own, but the ALT one is gonna be a game changer. Thanks so much!
I know I’m late but this video has answered every question I had on groups and the bindings for them! Thankyou so much
tip don't bind this camera locations or anything else to alt+F4 (facepalm)
Awesome! Thanks a lot!
great video bro. been playing starcraft for years and learned some more tricks from you. didnt realize how many diff combos there were. didnt realize how shift and alt worked with ctrl. thanks for the vid man.
I just started playing SC II and this video actually helps me a lot now it's a matter of getting use to it. Thanks a lot ;)
4:50 Return to the location with a single click. Meanwhile, the Grandmasters click F1 300 times to get to that location.
Lowko, your keyboard has your icon on the space-bar. Want.
I tried to use grid and played the campaign to practice. Worked like a charm! Thanks for this Tutorial Lowko!
Been playing SC2 since beta and I had not found the base camera setting and also did not know the Alt + ControlGroup trick to add more units to a group! Thank you so much! It's the little things!
Nice video, but I have one question. How do you organize your control groups when you're playing Protoss or Terran? I mean how do you organize the control groups for the production buildings?
im not sure how lowko does it, but when i play i put them on five and just hit tab to switch between them, since you want them all to be producing anyways. You could also do barracks/gateway to 5, factory/robotics facility to 6, and starport/stargate to 7 if that works better for you. As said in the video, its about preference.
Set gateways or barracks to 3, factories or robos to 4, and starports and stargates to 5. Either that, or set them all to 3, and use tab to jump between them.
Thank you, I think i'll setle with puting them all in one control group and tabbing.
I always set mine to 3 too, although setting them to 4 will allow you one more hotkey for army control. When I have different production structures set to different hotkeys, I always forget to produce from one of them..
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The alt key + # is crucial for marine spreading when responding to baneling ambushes I presume.
I have been trying to figure out the split forever thank you!
I still don't get why use Alt instead of Control key. It works the same.
Plus, what does alt + control do, it seems like control itself does the same.
alt will create a new group to a new key while subtracting from the original group. control creates a new group, but the new group is also still bound to the old key.
Oh really... I assumed they just grabbed them with the mouse. That's the way I've done it
Great that u make this kind of VDO and updated it. I watched the previous one as well.
Really useful video. I have been playing grid for years and didn't know about these tips. Hopefully this will help improve my overall game. Thanks Lowko.
this guys like the redmercy of sc2 lmao
It's all about the Cherry Red switches. Clack! Clack! Clack!
This video helped me out. Thanks lowko. Keep up the content dude.
thanks, the shift+1 adding unit from a different scream in to a group is really useful. I been playing for many years and never realized that
what about hotkeying production buildings???
For Terran and Protoss I use 3, 5 and 6, depending on the composition.
Ok. Do you also hotkey different nexus/cc? I thought I should to build probes/overcharge, etc... I had my own hotkey composition (of course, I'm no pro) of 1-3 is Gate,Robo,Stargate, 4,5,6 is different nexus and then 7,8 would be army. But i would really like to have army at 1-3 I just don't know how you pro's do it. ;P
It's mostly preference. I personally put my production buildings (ie Barracks Factory Starport) in the same control group on 4, and put my CC's on `. So I have 1 - 3 for army hotkeys. Some people put their Barracks Factories and Starports in separate groups, so they have like 3 different hotkeys for production. I personally don't like it, but it's something you can do. I'm assuming by hotkey different nexus/cc you mean each individual base get's it's own hotkey. I would strongly advise against that, since you can make probes from all of them at the same time and send all of them to one location by just using one group. If you want to send probes from one base to a different location to the rest, it's probably easier to just manually click on the nexus and then the location instead of giving it a separate control group. I would also suggest not using a control group for your gateways. In grid, the game adds all warp gates to Y automatically. There should be a way to customize that to your liking if you don't use grid.
+eightball I didn't know about the y grid warpgate hotkey. i have to look into that as I'm not completely sure how that works. thanks for the tips though. any other helpful videos you can recommend on the matter?
Nathanias has a good one on the Rapid Fire mechanic. As for the Y warpgate thing, it just selects all your warp gates and you can warp in units without de selecting or selecting each individual one. So, if you have 6 warp gates and you're using grid and you want Stalkers or something. You can press Y, then just press W and while staying on the warp gate group and it will use the gates one b one until you no longer have any warp ins. It's hard to explain in text, sorry if you're confused.
Just curious, Lowko, do you think APM really matters? I'm high plat low diamond as protoss with ~100-120 APM, spiking to about 180 in an engagement, I don't really see a necessity for it to be much higher unless I'm missing a timing, am I wrong?
+Visions You are right. If there's more to do, you'll become faster over time anyway.
As a silver tier 1 almost gold i hope ican become a platinum atleast this season, as silver atm 130apm to 180 apm end game is not right ?
The only bind I've changed has been my all army one, to ~. Maybe it's just my comfort not switching the binds, but I also feel like it's somewhat stopping me from getting out of Diamond 1 and into Masters. Then again it might just be that I don't know how to beat terrans or hold against a zerg 2 base all in.
APM in and of itself is not beneficial. But if you're able to micro 2 engagements while keeping also building workers, new buildings, supply, new units, upgrades, and tech... Well, that simply cannot hurt. If you imagine a computer AI that has unlimited ceiling on APM, it could micro every single unit perfectly. There's no way this wouldn't be beneficial.
APM are kinda misleading as you'll see the pros literally spamming base hot keys in the first few minutes but not actually accomplishing anything. I would say 60-70% of apm are wasted keystrokes/clicks.
Yesterday i was thinking "i wish Lowko made a video talking about hotkeys" dude! this is awesome
10 years of playing SC ll - Happy Birthday StarCraft ll.
Just started playing again and wondered why I‘m sucking that much. This video helped improve my skill so much! Thank you Lowko.
i hear if your early Lowko responds.....
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well im not early yeet
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Greetings from Argentina excellent video and loosen marijuana hahaha
i actually changed to grid a few months ago when i noticed that you use that lowko and it really was a pain for like a week or so but now i find it easier because everything is in the same little group and you dont have to move your fingers that much, also i implemented the location thingy also when i noticed you did it, and btw thanks for everything lowko you tought me 99% of what i know of starcraft, how to play zerg most of it, my favorite race
Just started playing the other day. Thanks for the tutorial. It helps a lot!
Soo, I just bought sc2 and after finishing wings of liberty, I changed my hot keys to the grid layout, so I didn't have to much of a connection to the standard layout, means that changing all the hot keys at once worked for me pretty well. This video also is extremely useful, and I am glad that I can learn from all your videos, they are great advice for a new starcraft player like me
I've been finding myself questioning some of the biggest developers default controller configuration schemes for years now-- thanks to Lowko, it proves that I've been on to something all along.
I've been waiting ages for this - thanks Lowko!
Funny how you learn new stuff all the time. Thanks for the Hotkey tips Lowko, I'm tryyiin.
Great Video! been trying to find a decent guide to explain some of the hotkeys for awhile and most what I found is confusing. Nice job lowko 😆 it made sense for me for once
The grid hotkey setup like yours is very smart! I was always too lazy to apply any change at all to the default hotkeys in every game i played but i think passing to your setup would be very efficient and easy to master!
I have been waiting for a video about this! Thanks Lowko!
Thx for sharing, haven’t play SC2 for long time, just got back SC2 now, this tips helps!!
Thanks for the set up Lowko. I just recently started to really get into SC2 and this has helped my game play by extraordinary measures. You def. have me as a sub and look forward to your future videos.
I learned so much in this video. Thank you! I am still a low level player, so I am still learning how to use hotkeys for everything. The only reason why I haven't switched to grid setup is that I am so used to using "a" to attack move. But I want to switch to grid because it makes so much more sense.
This is amazingly helpful i'e always wondered how people kept track of all the different hotkeys and bass and such.
VERY HELPFUL!!! I would love to see more instructional videos like this to teach the less experienced players like myself how to play better. Thank you.
This is a very high quality video Lowko! nice!
I'm just learning about the camera hot key and also improved hot keys for control groups. Never knew this till now and been playing since WOL release
Thanks Lowko for the video! I was holding off learning Starcraft 2 multiplayer play because I know hotkey are very important to Starcraft gameplay. Thanks for making the video K.I.S.S (Keep It Simple Stupid) and I will feel more confident in learning Starcraft 2 now!
Thank you Lowko, this was extremely helpfull, even in 2021!
Excellent video. Keep up the good work. I personally found that when using/learning hotkeys in wow pvp/pve the best way to learn is to just bind all your keys and learn to use them even if you are throwing yourself in the deep end. That is just me... and this could work by practise in unranked games for those players worried about losing mmr.
Thank you Lowko. It's been a long time coming :p
such an Awesome Video, i desperately was craving for one of that. .. feel like it ll boost my playing for sure,thx! !
I'm a returning player from years ago, so I think I'll give your hotkey system a try seeing as i have no appreciable muscle memory. great vids, I am learning so much!
Thank you so much, this helps me a lot. Enjoying your new focus on the channel great work.
Oh my god, how did I not know of this video before? It's a godsend from my favorite Starcraft youtuber!
Really excellent video. I've finally come around to Starcraft 2 and this is a brilliant help. Cheers!
Thanks for the great vid! I just started starcraft 2 last weekend and I was binding everything with control xD. Im such a noob and this video really helped.
This video was exactly what I needed. Every question I had; answered. Thank you sir.
Thanks for the handy, dandy video. Pleasant voice and to the point; great as always!
Thank you so so much Lowko i been learning how to do a good set up for hotkey and control. I learn a lot from this videos so much
One of the most useful SC2 videos on the net
This is, first and foremost, the most firstest foremost StarCraft video of all time(, for example.)
This guy is my reference for SC2. Keep it up. They should invite you to comment on one of the official tournaments
Thanks for the info Lowko! I'm going to try this setup.
Lowko explains it in the clearest way I've ever seen.
I'm a Dota 2 player, started playing recently, and there's so many similarities between the 2 games (mainly because they were born from Warcraft 3). This tutorial was really explainatory, thank you LowkoTV!
OMG thank you! This is the reason why you continue to be my favorite starcraft 2 player ;)
Thanks lowko! This is gonna be a major game changer!
Thanks Lowko for all the tips you give in your videos ^^ Personally, I use TheCore setup, but with your tips I've climbed to Rank 1 Gold (soon to be plat). If you're reading this, have a nice rest of the day ^^
Very helpful. Thank you very much. I switch myself from standard to your style. I've played SC2 for only 2 months.
jesus the amount i learned in this video, thanks man I've been really trying to improve and this will CERTAINLY help lol
Thanks for the tips. I'm new to the multiplayer, so this was a great tutorial!
Thanks for this! Needed a nice refresher. My hotkey game has always been lacking.