DarkBlizz

Grid hotkeys for SC2, kept Escape for Cancel.

Yes, I know attack as "T" sucks, I'll be using E myself, like in SC1 grid hotkeys.

The file should go to:
StarCraft II Beta\Versions\Base14133
Only GameStrings.txt was modified.

I used UnitData.xml to find the rows and columns of the keys, so the process is automatized.


Note: Changing the hotkeys is part of the translation package, so I'm pretty sure it will be legal to change it (kind of how you can change anything translation-related in other Blizzard games).

Changing the position of the buttons, though, is part of the game and you probably can't play with them modified.

Links:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/3a9elr
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Q6BZO2DN

Okay, found how to modify them.

I'll set all of them to the grid.

If I remember, I'll post the result here.

In SC1 it wasn't detectable at all, I always played with the Grid hotkeys both in Battle.net and ICCUP.


And more recently, WC3 and WoW support it natively. It's pretty obvious Blizzard will allow it (if they don't because "it's a game-breaking setting" what about "always show the health bars"? Now THAT's game-breaking).

Also, they confirmed it's a feautre they're working on.


I just want to practice SC2 with grid hotkeys, which are far superior to what SC2 has right now (hell, some hotkeys are in the right side of the keyboard and others don't make sense at all (Pylon(E))?)

Does anyone know how to change the default hotkeys?

If you just saw them in the MPQs it would be enough, I'll modify them myself (and maybe document it).