Tips and trix

This week I stumbled upon some really interesting stuff I did not know about. It´s pretty basic and most of you probably know this already. But this has helped me loads. Hope some of you can learn something from this and please keep posting stuff like this. Nothing is to basic. It´s easy to miss simple very useful stuff.

1. When u make zerglings for example and have 20 larvas to make from I used to press z 20 times. I found out you can hold down z to make em faster.

2. If you have a group of zerglins on 1 and making a couple of more zerglings you can click shift+1 to add them to group 1. Even works to add the eggs that are making the zerglings. I find this very useful.

3. Put all your Overlords in a group as soon as you make em using the shift trick. And as soon as you hit lair u can make em all generate creep with only 1 click instead of selecting every single ol. There is plenty of other stuff you can do instead.

I have all my hatches on 4 and all my queens on 5. When I wanna inject larva I just press 5 and the v and click the hatch on minimap. Works really good. Easy way to keep your macro up.
Also works for chrono boosting your nexus.


If you wanna drop stuff while moving. Baneling bombing for example. Move the overlord over the area you want to target and when the ol is above press D and click the ol. This will drop banelings while moving over the enemy army. Very effective. This obviosly works with all types of drops and dropships.

Thx Osgi.
Even if I knew everything, and thats thanks to PsyStarcraft, who always give those kind of tips during cast.

Btw, Shift+ number is made to ADD some unit to an existant bind. So if your hotkey was virgin, it works exactly like CTRL + number, or else, it adds.

About queen/hatch control, you should learn from PsyStarcraft a better way to use it. I explained it to Zergo.

Citation :

Nothing is to basic.

You mean "too" right ?

Thx Catyoul. That was some really nice info. Plenty I didn´t know.

Catyoul a écrit:

Everybody knows Ctrl-F1 to select all idle workers, right ?

Huge !

Catyoul a écrit:

• I recently noticed that you can know if a Xelnaga tower is controlled even under fog of war ! Still need to confirm it.
  

Nevermind, this doesn't actually work. It just shows the tower in the last state where you actually had vision of it.

Take a Xel'Naga with a reaper and pop it over the cliff, if close enough--you'll remain in control of it !

* Map Trick : On Shakuras Plateau, opponents can't spawn on vertical position.

DaRa a écrit:

* Map Trick : On Shakuras Plateau, opponents can't spawn on vertical position.

Ty that was really helpfull. Now I do fast expand and get 6pooled all the time ZvZ ^^ I usually still win so its all good

[*]Use shift to spam infested terrans. (thx osgi)

Let me clarify that a bit. Lets say you have 5 infestors burrowed moving into enemy base and sneaking up on a nexus for example. Before you arrive you just mass shift t (think thats the shortcut) and when u are in range to spawn infested terrans you kinda instantly throw out all the eggs u got energy for. Much faster then mass clicking t once u are at the location. So basically all eggs pop at the same time and u can kill most of the workers that way.

The natural's choke ?

SynxS a écrit:

The natural's choke ?

Nah the other choke, so instead of going towards the middle of the map the overlord will go slightly on the direction where the probe/scv could come.

Little more precision about the infested terran trick:
You can shift+click your terrans as much as you want, it will still launch the eggs slowly, the real factor is that your infestor has to be actually moving while you're queuing your marine eggs.

+10 for the fast larva injection, it's WAY faster than mini-map clicking your hatches, especially when you start having 5 or 6 of them. So far i'm amazed by the number of zerg players that doesn't know about it. Plus, it's shockingly easy to do^^