I have a problem with SHIFT key: As you know SHIFT has three functions:
queueing commands
adding units to control groups
adding/removing units from selection
in my opinion the last two functionalities are conflicted with each other. Let me explain:
Let’s say you have two control groups : first contains your army and second one contains production facilities (say barracks for example). Group 2 is currently active. Now let’s say that your barracks spawns new units and you want them to add to group 1. So what you need to do is select these units with your mouse and press SHIFT + 1. However think what will happen if you press SHIFT key too early (before actually selecting your units) and then press SHIFT +1. Barracks will be added to group 1 which is something you don’t want and something that happens to me all the time only because i have tendency to press SHIFT too early. So i would like to ask for ability to remap that functionality to some other key (ALT maybe). I hope you understand what i mean.
Unfortunately all those three functions are integrated in the Shift Key. Users can’t separate them, only Blizzard can. But i doubt that many people has issues with that.
Just as i thought. My current solution to the problem is adding units to control groups with CTRL (CTRL + 1,2 ,3 etc.) but CTRL is so far away from numeric keys. Seems like all i can do is just to remap CTRL to other key like Caps Lock with some 3rd party software. I can’t believe that such simple thing cannot be customized.
How would anything change. When you press alt early, it would act same as shift. What you can do is: press last command card and ctrl+shift unclick buildings types. Than recreate unit group.
I don’t know if you knew. Ctrl+shift removes whole unit groups! Or you can cycle through unit groups by unit group button to swap quickly through unit cards…
Also if you press your hotkey for production, than you can press alt+4 and it creates unit group and removes them from any existing unit groups. So your production would get removed from your group, where you have hotkeyed your army! THIS IS PROBABLY FASTEST WAY!
Also alt+shift adds units to existing unit group, while removing them from previous unit group!
Yes you’re right but still it would be nice if Bliizzard introduced ability to customize this function. One key has too many functions. I would appreciate possibility of adding units to control groups via Tab + 1,2,3 etc
or
bind ALT + click to add/remove units from current selection.
That would be nice but as Ollumbubu said i doubt if Blizzard will bother with this until there is overwhelming demand for that.
I only hate that you can remove units from selection per one each time. I would like to box a group unit and with shift remove them, but it doesnt work. Its stupid mechanic