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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by Clockwork Rainbowdash » August 3, 2014 5:36pm | Report
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I am having a LOT of issues with my current control scheme, especially in terms of scrolling and micro managing.

The issue I have with scrolling is that, using WASD, forces me to move my abilities keys to the number keys, which makes setting up control groups almost pointless, because there are no available keys to use (The F1,F2,and F3 are currently set to go to my hero, my heros units, and then all units). The other issue with scrolling is that I have had issues with edge scrolling. I find it glitchy to control, and it sometimes causes game-breaking issues with camera controls. Whenever I am edge scrolling while spectating, and I just have a game ready, the loading screen appears and the camera is forced to edge scroll to infinity, and I have no idea how to fix it when it does happen.

Micromanaging is even worse. As I said, I cannot set convenient control groups, so playing heroes that require them is next to impossible (Meepo, Chen, Enchantress, Visage, etc). I really want to have a chance to learn every hero through experience, but being unable to do the simplest task is really irritating.
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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by Timminatorr » August 4, 2014 3:20am | Report
Well i just use the mouse to controll the screen since im used to playing RTS games. But i can understand if its hard for you.

There is a WASD controll sceme in the game i think that changes the abilities to Q E R T G, so you still have the numbers to use for controll groups.

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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by DzikaPanda » August 4, 2014 5:52am | Report
You don't really need control groups to play these heroes well, I can do that with just Select All Units and Select All Other Units both on my mouse and Select Hero on space. Then I'm using mouse to scroll screen around and when I need to center camera on hero I just double-tap space. And if I double tap space and hold it then camera follows my hero, so ez.
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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by Wulfstan » August 4, 2014 6:46am | Report
Micromanaging units is really easy (least for me, thanks to good ol' SC : Brood War). But, if you find it hard, just use the TAB key (default) for cycling through each unit you posses at the time.

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