RTS ship hotkey

[bleak wyvern]

Basically, sometimes you have a lot of ships around the domination arena, which itself can be large, I think allowing players to Hotkey individual ships or even Multiple ships on a Keybind during a match could be beneficial to playing in the match, as it would be easier than having to select the ships manually

For example, I have ship 1 on one side of the map, and I select the ship, hold ctrl +1 and add it to that hotkey until the ship is dead or replaced by a new ship(s),
While I also have 4 small ships on the other side of the arena, and I then hold ctrl+ 2 and bind these 4 ships to that hotkey and as 1 ship dies, it is removed from the hotkey, until all of them are dead or replaced by a different ship into that hotkey

I should note, these hotkeys probably shouldn't work while already controlling a ship

Else they will interfere with the hotkeys of that ship

[fiery crypt]

pretty sure you can do that by assigning the same F* key to multiple ships

@bleak wyvern

[bleak wyvern]

Hmmm

[mint talon]

Like F1 through F9?

[fiery crypt]

yeah

you can assign X amount of ships to F1

and they will all respond to F1

[fiery crypt]

and weirdly F9 doesnt work for it

so your capped at F1 - F8

[mint talon]

Honestly, I’d prefer Shift + number to set and select ship groups, since function number keys are so often preset to do things like open Microsoft edge, sometimes adjust brightness, etc. Depending on the computer.

[fiery crypt]

the number keys are already set to weapon systems IIRC

cannons, ions, lasers, missiles etc

[mint talon]

1-9 are weapons systems, Shift + 1 through 9 are not

Using Shift to decide whether specific weapons or ship groups should be selected when pressing a number

[gray ember]

Yeah, ships have control groups too. Just substitute number keys for function keys (but do NOT remove control group 4).

[mint talon]

Wait, why not remove control group 4? Does removing control group 4 involve pressing Alt + F4?

[gray ember]

Yep

[crude coyote]

Surely there's a way to override that

[gray ember]

If you mean in settings, definitely, all control group keybinds are fully customizable. While I think it's technically possible to override alt f4 from the window instance as a whole, it's probably not a good idea.

[bleak wyvern]

What about keybinding ships to the Number pad, right side of the keyboard

[gray ember]

That might cause issues with laptops. Keyboards pretty much universally have function keys, but I don't think I've ever seen a laptop with a physical numpad, and most don't have an fn digital replacement either.

[mint talon]

My gaming laptop has a number pad, some Acer computers may have them. Agreed that since not all laptops have dedicated number pads, it wouldn’t work for everyone.