Update for PTR: 2.0.1.22452
I am posting important, hotkeys related things that are missing with some suggestions. I also recorded a video about this subject.
Missing/broken hotkeys:
Human:
- FIXED!
“Back to work” militia ability is missing inMilitia, Town Hall, Keep and Castle panels
Note: there is no option to set up “UNHOTKEY” for Call To Arms (RawCode: Amic), Back To Work icon on Town Hall, Keep and Castle has always the same hotkey as Call to Arms with makes hotkey collision. - FIXED!
Guard Tower upgrade will not save, so you can not change it - FIXED!
Sundering Blades has no icon
UD:
- FIXED!
In Necromancer - Unholy Frenzy, hotkey will not save, so you can’t change it - FIXED!
Morph into Destroyer ability for Obsidian Statue will not save the hotkey, so you can’t change it - FIXED!
Skeletal Longevity in Temple of the Damned should be removed - it’s no longer in game - FIXED!
Wand of Negation has a wrong icon in UD shop, it should be the pink one
NE:
- FIXED!
Hippogryph Taming should be removed from the Ancient of Wind, upgrade is on by default - FIXED!
Ancient Protector uproot/root hotkey won’t save, so you can’t change it - FIXED!
Other ancients, then ancient protector, are missing ROOT-UPROOT ability, it’s different than Ancient Protector one - FIXED!
Glaive Thrower has no Attack Ground icon - FIXED!
Vorpal Blades upgrade in Ancient of War is missing - FIXED!
Resistant Skin upgrade in Ancient of Lore is missing - FIXED!
Roar in Druid of the Claw (Bear) form can’t be edited because Roar in just Druid form has different Raw Code - Resistant Skin and Hardened Skin should be removed from Mountain Giant pannel(they don’t work anyway) and be only avaiable in Ancient of Lore
- FIXED!
Avatar of Vengeance is missing. It has “Summon Spirit of Vengeance” Ability - FIXED!
Druid of the Talon (Crow Form) doesn’t share “Faery Fire” Hotkey with regular Druid of the Talon - FIXED!
Mount / Dismount of Hippogryph / Hippogryph Rider doesn’t share a Hotkey
Neutral:
Heroes
- FIXED!
Tinker abilities have different raw-codes with every Engineering Upgrade, so hotkeys will go back into defaults ones after every Engineering Upgrade (solve this problem for every level)
Buildings:
- FIXED!
Reveal hotkey in the Goblin Laboratory won’t save - FIXED!
remove question mark “select unit” for every building except tavern - random hero feature in the tavern can be a nice and fresh addition that actually you can click in the in-game tavern if you are not sure with hero you want - Add random choice (“Select UNIT”)to in-game Tavern, not only to Hotkey Editor so we can test it
- Fixed
Remove icons scroll in Goblin Merchant, you can’t buy items via hotkey in the marketplace, so there is no need to set up hotkeys for items different than ones with special ability like cloak of shadows. - NEW: Marketplace: Assigning hotkeys to every item just to buy them in the marketplace is not a good idea because there are more items than alphabet letters, and it may lead to hotkey collisions. That being said, I still prefer having any hotkeys in the marketplace over no hotkeys at all. However, a better solution would be to enforce a grid system or even allow users to map individual hotkeys to marketplace “squares.” If that’s too much work, I would suggest at least removing items like Minor Replenishment Potion, Lesser Replenishment Potion, and Greater Replenishment Potion, as they are not used in ANY melee mode. Also, there are too many Rings of Archmagi and Potions of Divinity.
Last but not least, the Cloak of Shadows “Hide” ability hotkey still can’t be modified because clicking on the item only allows modifying the “item key” without showing special abilities. I would recommend adding an item tab at the bottom of the neutral category with just the Cloak of Shadows.
Units:
- Fixed
Add units from Charged lvl 5 and 6 items to set up hotkeys for their abilities: Blue Drake, Furbolg Tracker, Fel Stalker, Rock Golem, Furbolg Ursa Warrior, Blue Dragonspawn Overseer, Ice Revenant
Note: Abilities for summoned units won’t save (simillar to Human Guard tower) - Nether Dragon family and ROOST are missing in netural units (their roost looks like Black Dragon Roost and it’s avaiable for example in “black citadel” tile set).
- FIXED!
Clockwerk Goblin is missing, you can’t set up his Kaboom! ability.
General:
Allow modifiers (like control + G, mouse buttons “mouse4” and non-letter characters like “.” as inventory hotkeys.
Design Suggestions:
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Add key binding when click on UNIT - for example, when you click on FOOTMAN, add ability to set up training hotkey without going to the building where FOOTMAN can be trained.
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When click on a unit in a BUILDING, show special skills in the “right” panel (UNDER QUICK FILTER). For example, when you click on a priest in Arcane Sanctum, allow setting up Heal, Dispel and Inner fire abilities.
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Add Item tab at the bottom of Neutral and put there Cloak of Shadows (to set up HIDE ability), there is no more items in Warcraft 3 MELE that grants special abilities so far.
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Add GRID hotkey feature to the marketplace, so you don’t bind hotkey to the item, just to the location in the marketplace
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FIXED!
remove hotkeys for MENU - it’s annoying if you miss click while setting up a new hotkey and pressing for example “G” will bring you to gameplay TAB and you need to look for a hotkey again or at least do not rest hotkey tab to default -
FIXED!
when there is text in the quick filter, you can’t change a hotkey - allow user to change hotkeys when quick filter has a search string -
add a “skin” reward for choosing “random hero option” in the Tavern - your hero will appear with a RANDOM THEMED SKIN (later you can try to monetize this skin to get it without “random option in tavern”.
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Allow grid users to move icons in panels. If you are used to having abilities in a given order and, for some reason, it changes, then the entire grid experience is ruined.
Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn-2I_W3GkM 6