How to set up your Hotkeys in AoE2?!

[@bowlchamps37]

Back in 2009, when I printed out my exam, there was a guy who printed out small pieces of various picture. When I asked him, he said it was for AOE Conq. and he sticks them on his keyboard.

[@simbaa93]

This video comes at a perfect time. Now that i am in quarantine i finally have the time to reset my hotkeys :) thanks nili !

[@JanJanNik]

actual corona patient?

[@areebmasoodi8932]

I'm sick but I'm not sure if I have Corona

[@Tpoleful]

@@areebmasoodi8932 I know right? Any illness is now scary.

[@guntherleenaert7187]

so illogical, yet I have the same experience. you always had time, but now priorities change :D

[@FrazBrown]

@7:30 you can still use two fingers. Just the middle finger for the stable, and then the ring finger for the unit. But you have to move your hand position. Great Vid!

[@britneyspheres7yearsago11]

THIS is the video. Was researching EXACTLY this for the first time in my life today. Spooky

[@mr2octavio]

THIS, THIS IS WHAT THE PRO SCENE NEEDED.

[@dogeofgreatness2222]

Finally a vid on this topic for the average aoe 2 player! Thank you Hippo man

[@kastellan1324]

You miss the most important hotkey, ring town bell!

[@tilmerkan3882]

This was ironic, right? I'm not sure. So I might ad a "nobody in the right mind uses this one"

[@ctsgames7130]

I don't know how he managed to make a great and helpful video about setting up hotkeys. Thanks so much for this though.

[@muhittincankorkut6094]

dude at about 3:10 There is no differencefor me at all betweeen the colors :D. I am colorblind and I also cant differantiate between ingame yellow and green. But I can still understand it. But in your video no no difference at all :D. You hit the swet spot. thank you for the video :)

[@galaxygalaxy4429]

Do you always use 1 hand or sometimes also 2 hands?

[@NiliAoE2]

for the keyboard? never use two hands!

[@3167]

Hi Nili, just fyi, I tried downloading your hotkeys file but when I load them onto my settings, they're just the default DE hotkeys. I uploaded the file to aokhotkeys.appspot.com/ and that indeed seems to be the case.

[@narrito]

You're not alone. It's the same for me

[@Ser_Knoeterich]

I've got the same issue. Could you checkt he file, Nili?

[@HazmanFTW]

I still use the classic AoC hotkeys

[@DeepMoonWave]

do u use patrol instead of a-move? that was the biggest hotkey change I had to make. use A for A-move.

[@NiliAoE2]

i patrol, not sure if it's good

[@tpyka]

How can you queue building construction so fast?

[@stephenballard3665]

This downloads as a .rar file All of my hotkey files in my folders at .hki files How do I convert over?

[@mareker]

Can anyone share hotkeys file of this setup? Thanks

[@NiliAoE2]

in the desciption and in my discord

[@mareker]

@@NiliAoE2 I think I am blind. Can't see it in description 🤷 Went to your discord yesterday. Got help immediately. Nice place, nice people, thanks!

[@NiliAoE2]

whoopsi

[@Obbliteration]

I use wasd to move the camera. How do pros move the camera?

[@NiliAoE2]

the mouse

[@littledrummerofDEATH]

Does this video still apply to HD edition?

[@NiliAoE2]

not really, but the general concept still applies

[@Xergius]

am I the only one that's confused? I love you videos, but I don't get why you wouldn't use the default qwert when selecting a villager i.e: QQ for house. do you use the arrow pad to move around map or is that a rookie move lol

[@NiliAoE2]

there are three different "defaults": AoK, HD, DE DE hotkeys can be absolutely fine

[@Joelivingsten1667]

Good stuff good idea

[@warbreakr]

This took me a second to realize but german keyboards (like nili's) they have the Z and Y key switched around.

[@andrean_7725]

ÄÖÜß f*ck zou! :D

[@akiimmortal6043]

FINALLY! Somebody (a Streamer or Player), who gets it. Thank you so much for the video. I, myself, figured it out after weeks of trial and error, but with a video like this the start or in most cases restart of AoE2 could have been so much smoother. That's what beginners and even lots of quite decent players need.

[@JK-0playa]

God, I've been waiting for this forever!!! way to go @Nili_AoE

[@Mystprism]

It's honestly so refreshing after watching other pros like Viper just say "well it's super personal and you shouldn't use mine" with no other guidance. Yes, I get that everyone will have their own, but give me something to start with! Thanks Nili.

[@ahbraveconscript997]

the most important thing when you queue more villagers is to get "you don't have enough food" sound at least 5 times. just to be sure.

[@diegeigergarnele7975]

Bro do you even know how to play the game? You have to spam the villager hotkey from the start of the game all the way to 130 vills. Only way to improve is to make your roommate know how much you want to produce more vills

[@audioLME]

@@diegeigergarnele7975 you mean breed minecraft villagers right ?

[@stiefel7129]

I like the DE Grid System for hot keys. You have always the same key for the same position of the unit or tech. This way you can learn the hot keys really fast and easy.

[@johannesha186]

are you refering to the standart hotkeys in DE?

[@stiefel7129]

@@johannesha186 Yes. They are not perfect and I changed a few things already, but I think they are really good to get started until you have figured out what keys you need more often and so on.

[@johannesha186]

@J K i personnaly dont like there hotkeys for select buildings

[@stiefel7129]

@J K I have idle villager on space like Nili and select all TCs on Tab for example. And I am not really sure about the other select building hot keys. Nilis method from the video seems good, but it would interfer with the grid layout.

[@onesixtyofficial]

Imo its easy to remember the keys as long as they are comfortable to use, It's more important to have them spread out efficiently. The most used functions need to be closest to your natural hand position. Why set it up for easy learning when soon you will have mastered all of them?

[@K1AoE]

0:40 IT DOESNT EVEN MAAATTTTEEEEER

[@horsthuber482]

I tried so hard and got so far

[@Tsume1995]

​@@horsthuber482 Ive put my tc ooon e pushed as fast as i could go And for all this, theres only one thing you should know: I tried so hard and got so far but in the end it didnt even produuuuce I had to fail, to lose em all but in the end my eco was shit anyway

[@letsplaystrategygames70]

Would be great to see these in action with a cam on your keyboard. Would be amazing to see. Thanks for the great vid. :)

[@jandemetz7973]

For the eco techs i use the same key that i use to go to eco building. Eg: i use strg+z to go to lumbercamp and then z for the upgrade

[@orkanbasar]

makes sense, thanks

[@ПолОтто]

Some unique things I got Tab = idle vil Shift + Tab = all idle vil ` = idle military Shift + ` = all idle military

[@Prawn47]

Agreed. This is very good

[@clintony3000]

Just be careful for those who have steam overlay lol

[@Gunth0r]

@@clintony3000 which you can also edit, no?

[@Aynshtaynn]

Seems like Empire Earth hotkeys; if I switch to AoE2, I'd definitely use Tab for vils too

[@mesaber86]

Nice!

[@whiskyrebel9715]

Is there an upload of his keys? I'm having a real hard time with overlapping keys while trying to make changes..

[@Roechelrochen]

I just want to mention something about overlapping hotkeys I don't quite agree with: Like Nili said it is very important to not have certain hotkeys overlapping as that can slow you down, e.g. that you have jump to barracks and split formation on the same hotkey. If you are in a post imp fight you will want to jmp to the barracks to produce more units, but you have your military selected so all it does is let them go in split formation thus costing you important time and fucking up your micro. BUT you can overlap villager building and selection hotkeys. I have B+A for building an archery range and A for going to the archery range and it works perfectly fine: If you have a villager selceted and want to go to the archery range that still works as you first would have to press B for the building hotkey to be prioritized. And you are only in the building menu if you want to build sth anyway This way you can get your hotkeys to be more compact and also they might be way easier to learn for beginners (A for building the range and going to the range). More overlaps can be

[@therealhugo9940]

More overlaps can be WHAT??? thell us ... I need those answers...

[@lukas8385]

yes i think so too. I do it this way too.

[@warbreakr]

That's... ur a legend i love you

[@mickey_jim2770]

You can overlap multiple keybinds like this without conflict. (Each line is 1 key) - Produce unit 1, Build economic, Build military, Build palisade, Build fish trap - Produce unit 2, Build wall. Pack treb - Produce unit 3, Build gate. Unpack treb - Produce Unit 4, Build palisade gate. - Garrison, Ungarrison, Unload, Build Farm - Attack ground, Repair, Send back to work, Build House - Patrol, build tower You can overlap unit formations & stances onto any other build building hotkeys that you don't need "Go to" hotkeys for, like outpost or farm for example You can also overlap produce unit/tech hotkeys with formations or stances if you prefer

[@whiskyrebel9715]

Dude, can you upload your keys? I'm having a real rough time trying to make it like Nilli's...yours sound good

[@RustyBrakes]

I like the idea of taking a step back to look at how hotkeys are set up. When I played HD, I reassigned to a grid system, and now on DE many of the defaults are the same as I set myself. However, I have some ideas: 1. Like others have mentioned, side mouse button for TC and idle vill is great. Even idle military for a third mouse button if possible 2. It would be very interesting to gather analysis of what actions are performed most often (by percentage) and use hotkeys based on that 3. Maybe to help with the "go to" conflicts, the space bar could be set to "select nothing" (I don't know if this is possible and I'm not by my PC)

[@HawkOfGP]

I remember TheViper saying he doesn't agree with having hotkeys on the mouse buttons because you are already having to do so much precise clicking and maneuvering with the right hand and any hotkeys can have a negative effect on that. But I suppose it's a preference thing.

[@Halvtooth]

@@HawkOfGP if I recall MBL got 10+ buttons on his mouse

[@johannes.evol.]

Hey Nili, thanks for the video. Do you have "Select" or "Select all" as default when selecting buildings? Which key do you use as a modifier to switch between those options? Vielen Dank. :)

[@NiliAoE2]

D: select all stabled SHIFT+D: go to stable

[@Progeusz]

The way you talk about index finger and thumb makes me think we place our hands on keyboard completely differently. I always default to WASD setup and the only button I would ever press with my thumb is space while W I usually press with middle finger and not index finger. Even E can be pressed with middle finger if index one pressed R etc. beforehand. Regardless, you raised a lot of good points and I believe your setup should be very effective as long as someone can get used to it.

[@DnHVid]

I have the same, but can't really picture how Nili places his hand on the keyboard. Could you explain that to me?

[@linuxjuris8997]

"the only button I would ever press with my thumb is space while W I usually press with middle finger and not index finger" +1 on this

[@Gunth0r]

Hey, nice layout. Also, there should be a 'clear all queues' feature.

[@champolini7135]

I don't quite get where the fingers are supposed to be hovering. Can someone explain that? :)

[@camilocarrillo2132]

new player here, grid is good. Im using alt modifier to cycle: alt+'qwert' for military, alt+asdfg for eco and alt+ zxcv for upgrades.

[@samson_]

What is this, a T90 title?!

[@mdobejr]

Do you use ctrl+y(german keyboard)? I see ctrl+x and ctrl+c, ctrl a,s,d but not ctrl+y... do you have all your keybinds posted somewhere. This videa gives a lot of good principles, but I feel like for new players it would be helpful to see the entire picture of your setup

[@NiliAoE2]

uploaded my updated hotkeys in my discord

[@mdobejr]

@@NiliAoE2 thanks!

[@rmarks-it3qs]

Thanks bro! years playing Aoe and just recently i'm trying to improve my game, thx again

[@warbreakr]

What really works for me is I put build archery range on A, Go to archery range also on A, and select all archery ranges on ALT-A. This basically means evrything related to archery ranges is on 1 key (and also the building and going to key dont overlap since when you enter the build menu, you're gonna build anyway and not go to production building)

[@Whistler112]

This is a fantastic tip man, i'm going to implement it.

[@warbreakr]

@@Whistler112 Im happy you found it usefull, and you're welcome!

[@fidrewe99]

Overlapping commands are very useful: You can accomodate many more fast commands within reach of one hand. There are no disdavantages if you just know which actions can be on the same hotkey and which can't. Every command that requires you to have selected a unit or building is situational and thus can share a hotkey with other situations. For example, you could use E to tell a villager to build an economy building, to build a house, to develop the most important technology in each building and to have your army do something. In every given situation, all actions must have a different hotkey. As you want to be able to select or go to specific units or points in any situation, those actions need unique hotkeys. I like mouse wheel up for producing the primary (gold) unit in each building and mouse wheel down for producing the trash unit. It's so much smoother for queuing up several units than pressing a key multiple times or even having to use the left hand.

[@floijd]

How do you set "build" to just one key instead of "military" and "economic" buildings?

[@ivanweissbein5253]

floijd same question here!

[@floijd]

@@ivanweissbein5253 I figured it out: You simply delete the "military" option, then all builings will be selectable by pressing your "econ" hotkey.

[@ivanweissbein5253]

@@floijd thanks a lot man!!

[@lukasg4807]

@@floijd I think it's that way regardless. For example with hd hotkey defaults, if i'm in dark age, click the military build button "s", and try to build an archery range with "w", which is redundant with the hotkey to build a mill, it automatically just builds a mill, even though I'm in the military menu from the military hotkey.

[@dampfnudel24]

Where can I find the file? I am just starting with AOE2 DE for the first time after about 10 years and whant to start with a sensible hotkey set from the getgo. After a bit of research i like your the best. but can't find the file...

[@maximilianbucko314]

How did you set up the switch between economic and military buildings? If I use this layout the hotkeys only work if I select the category first.

[@NiliAoE2]

i only use economy building and it uses the key from the 2nd page

[@spd7693]

Well... That's something I need to figure out. For now I'm thinking of something like the StarCraft hotkeys. A for archery range, S for stable, D for dock, W for siege workshop, E for barracks, C for castle, R for monastery, U for university and B for blacksmith. Q stands for build a house and building everything else is Ctrl+select hotkeys (like Ctrl+A - build an archery range.) Since Shift is used for queues I use it for nothing else. I think the best hotkey for the TC is Space since I anyways press it very often. Still I need to get my keys for queuing units, because in SC the hotkeys work differently. I could use the wheel to select my camps, but I'm not sure if pressing the wheel does something. But still I'm rather used to pressing Shift and Ctrl while spider-handling a keyboard - main thing I use my pinky for - so maybe I won't need that many hotkeys. Another advantage of it is me having big hands. (Not that big though, on the guitar I can only stretch from fret 3 to fret 8.) So I should test it. And practice a lot.

[@warbreakr]

Like someone else said, you can overlap Go to X building and Build X building since when ur in the building menu u will be building something anyway and when a villager is selected the Go to building still works as long as ur not in the villager building menu. This way building a archery range is done with ''A'' for example and Go to archery range is also "A". Works like a charm :)

[@alequecoisa]

i am sorry but i dont see advantages in your hotkey system compared to the standad

[@shepardthemailman]

Dumb ass question: what do I do whit the hotkeys download file? Is there a way to import them directly in the game?

[@shepardthemailman]

@@f0rtyEight Ok but how?

[@shido534]

Oh no, by copying Nili's setup I can't keyboard-spam Xolotl Warriors :(

[@hansoskar1911]

for techs and upgrades there are diffrent cases to consider. For lumbercamp etc hat have just 1 tech you can put the hotkey on the goto hotkey for the same building bc when it matters nothing is faster than double clicking the same hotkey twice. for a unit upgrade you can put the hotkey right below the unit that makes it easy to click. make sure you have the most common and time critical things on easy combinations. the castle age trifecta of goto lumbercamp->bow saw, goto blacksmith->bodkin and goto range->Crossbow is probably the most important one. same with goto university->ballistic. the super fringe techs i wouldnt place bc it is to easy to missclick and then some res is gone before you realize.

[@Sh4rkQueen]

I use standard DE hotkeys, but I have my idle villagers and select TC on my mouse buttons because I find pressing those way easier. I'm bad at the game, but I generally control group my production buildings and use those instead of jumping to them so I can easily produce out of all my production buildings at once and reset gather points for all.

[@coronnation8854]

I'm a StarCraft player trying to get into aoe 2, but I can't get the attack move to work. Also, why is attack move called Economic buildings in the hotkey menu?

[@dylian_]

thx nili for doing this and playing ttl gold cuz now i know u have highest apm in the world

[@blubblubber9460]

You must have big hands, t, 5 and m are uncomfortable to reach for me, at least with qwe finger placement

[@CraigH999]

I'm thick as a plank at the moment b/c i'm watching this and i simply don't get it. DOH!

[@smart8348]

Can you show, how you set up the "5" to be able to choose all town centre ? I didn´t find it... : -( , furhtermore, how do you make groups in game and what are your favorite groups ?

[@NiliAoE2]

"select all towncenters" CTRL+1 sets something to group 1 scout, vils under tc, fwd vills, army, military buildings

[@a1elon]

Since I´m coming back to RTS I wanted to start on the right track - this video helped me alot. The grind layout does not take advantage of the most impressive feature of AoE, the select buildings feature. Could you help me out Nili with the following: 1. you use B (for opening the building tab) then 2. select the desired building. But if i want to build a farm with B the system jumps back to step one. What am I missing? EDIT: had B on "cancel" - so classic conflict. Any chance on a settings video? I guess all low (to see key features like hills?) and keep it as simple as possible?

[@NiliAoE2]

all lowest :)

[@dougschitt100]

Does anyone know how to import the .hki file into Definitive Edition? I scoured the program files, but can't find an equivalent to the 'profiles' folder that used to hold hotkey templates in HD

[@LoLRoadToDiamond]

Games\Age of Empires 2 DE\(SomeRandomNumer)\profile

[@areoduki3346]

Hey, how can i use your hotkey file from the download link ? I cant find the correct place to put it in

[@Alxoholiker]

Thx for sharing this. And pleasce come back soon Mr. Nili! ;)

[@sirh0tsauce]

Which editor did you use to "create the concept" of your hotkeys? It would help to have something to visualize as you did in the video!

[@NiliAoE2]

paint

[@broncojones3146]

The one Hotkey I struggle to find a place for is delete and mass delete... I used to have it on the DPI mouse button somewhat easy to reach, but I don't click it by accident. My new mouse doesn't have a DPI button, for now I put it on F1 and F2, but it doesn't work I delete my scout every second match and lost several games because I deleted 40 archers by accident.... My hotkey setup is somewhat similar to Nili's, but not completely, he skips a lot of unit commands that are frequently use like stop, select all army on screen, aggressive and defensive stance.

[@NiliAoE2]

I have it on F1 and SHIFT+F1 now kzbin.info/www/bejne/h6rEmWCNbr99nc0

[@LadyShihita]

I am just deeply confused that you use your thumb to press those keys in the bottom line. Like WTF I've tried it, feels so wrong for me. Nice video though, I am sure this helps some people out and as you've said, people need to use whatever feels good for them.

[@retrofly9]

Can someone explain if the building keys a "cycle" or "select all", I thought they were select all but then he has TC's on key 5 to select all.

[@NiliAoE2]

there are both options. i mainly use "select all"

[@99DaNtEmAN23]

@@NiliAoE2 Hello. So for example, your A key would be "select all archery buildings"? Can you explain what advantages this would have over cycle all archery building?

[@JorgenRuizGarcia]

@@NiliAoE2 So select all for most buildings except for TC, where you have cycle for Q and select all at 5?

[@walrus2193]

for techs i'm (slowly) getting comfortable using the same unit key: example, archery range is W for archer, so my blacksmith W is archer attack, shift W archer armor. Stables E is knight, so blacksmith E is cav armor. Carrying this over to Shift + build unit key = upgrade. R for skirms? shift R upgrades to elite skirm. Shift C and V are for good misc tech (thumb ring, husbandry) I love archers and pointy bois, so my university main W E R, shift W, shift E, shift R are the common ones(ballistics,chem,etc). Weird shit i never use is on N, M. TC tech E is Vil, so shift E is my hand cart line. Market i'm using W E R for SELL, and shift W E R for BUY. techs are on CV, shift CV I fumble a lot with the monk tech, but the keybinds are there lol. Thank you again for this video.

[@burck6113]

My hotkeys are much simpler than that and i feel it helps me use them in a more streamline fashion. All units have corresponding hotkeys with their position in the building menu and buildings are jumbled up where more common ones are closer to my left hand

[@porteurliste]

What I really need to set up my hotkeys is an interactive keyboard display. Basically as what we see in your video. The ingame hotkey menu is pretty much the worst.

[@NiliAoE2]

www.legitreviews.com/images/reviews/247/optimus_oled_quake.jpg

[@Wilsonwill89]

Am I right in finding these dont work with DE as there is a seperate button for Eco & Military buildings?

[@NiliAoE2]

They work for DE

[@nightelf4161]

any word near wasd work, any number from 1-7 works, 8-9 is too far away. 1-3 for military units, 4-7 for tech, production buildings. that was my rule for control groups back when i played sc2, the only confusion i have right now, is whether i should use the 4-7 control groups for production tech buildings, or use the ctrl+a ctrl+s ctrl+d etc.

[@YukalayleeGames]

I very much appreciate this video

[@proper_noun436]

I recommend a split keyboard with thumb modifiers. I use a dactyl manuform

[@proper_noun436]

also I love my logitech g604 for control groups on the side buttons and common actions on the extra top buttons

[@Slythar]

I use similiar but use Mousewheel for farms and houses which I use all the time. Units are CVBNM. TC is at X so XC to spam villigers and Docks at Z. I use S for Stable and D for DaBarracks. Making up words will help to remember as well. So the 'F '#$%ing Castle and 'G'uns (Seige)

[@Heistergand]

Nice video! But that yellow and green looks quite similar to me. Deuteranomaly is a thing. Please use colors with more contrast next time, like blue/orange for example. (Nicht so ganz #Barrierefrei -> Deteranomaly #farbenblind)

[@JamesJameson]

I can't get the hotkey download file to work. I copy it to my profile and 'Nili2' shows up in the games' hotkey options, but these are just the default hotkeys. Has anyone got this to work?

[@guidojt21]

Hi there! Very useful information Nili! Is there anyway we can download this hotkeys?

[@NiliAoE2]

in my discord

[@guidojt21]

@@NiliAoE2 Thx!

[@tilmerkan3882]

Hey Guys, I have a really hart question.My Hotkeys sometimes work different than other times. Example: I put building a castle on alt+F. Than I discovered that I can put "going to castle" on the same combination. (alt+F). Everything was fine. But now I started a game and it changed. Every time I want to build a castle the game now jumps to an existing castle. Why is that not consistend????

[@EsquireR]

white background is brutal.

[@shaunstevens4292]

I picked this game up after 20 years and the first thing I did was reload all the original hotkeys. It's amazing how well I still knew them and instantly picked them up. Finally forcing myself to fix that garbage.

[@wayne9287]

Is your hotkeys setup still good 3 years later? Did you make some changes?

[@NiliAoE2]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/h6rEmWCNbr99nc0 playing wiht like 98% of the same

[@aronnov]

just download the orignal hotkeys mod! forget this new stuff. 2001 MSN ZONE baby

[@Ugapiku]

Thx but I prefer HD hotkeys :)

[@mdobejr]

oh my, I just spent hours on making keybinds and referencing this video without realizing that z & y are switched.. I feel pranked

[@rowdyfranken3750]

New player here, is there not a way I can just download yours or do I personally need to do this all?

[@NiliAoE2]

i uploaded it in my discord (and I also think somewhere here in the desciption)

[@Ultypro]

I have a problem with color perception and the orange and green color looks really same to me so its hard for me to realise which is which at 3:10

[@Cruz0e]

man u use index finger for W on keyboard? u out of your mind? your index finger goes on F and J keys (they even have a little line on them you can touch with closed eyes), but most of us using keyboard, not the official way, but shifted one left/right... but still you can't use index finger on W key.. man its for middle finger or ring finger! you keep saying "I use index finger" then its the W key...

[@NiliAoE2]

i use the middle finger for W

[@Cruz0e]

@@NiliAoE2 u keep saying in the video index finger :D

[@casualfriday917]

Hi. How do you set the hotkey that you have on 5 (to produce villigers from all towncenters without going back)?

[@Astigos]

I think DE's hotkeys are really intuitive since they actually line up to the left side of the keyboard. I guess nili had to adjust because HD didn't have such easy keys. Im glad the devs made decently good default keys, except for things like selecting stables and university which are L and U.

[@kpeleent]

just a little tip for future videos. dont select yellow and light green as colours near to each other, or even better, try to not use one of them at all. i'm one of those people blessed with red-green colourblindness and for me those 2 colours look exactly the same. try using complementary colours, for better contrast. :)

[@bencegedei4291]

Do you see green yellow or the opposite?

[@Multiple_Launch_Rocket_System]

ok so how do i actually set them to the key

[@bencegedei4291]

@Nili_AoE Age of Empires how to set up not to choose between economic and military buildings?

[@NiliAoE2]

just use economy and it automatically puts you in the 2nd one if needed

[@bencegedei4291]

@@NiliAoE2 thank you

[@nailsfolunch1213]

Hot keys are for n00bs. I managed to get to 200 elo in team random map without using them at all.

[@NickBrown79]

Nili, I bought a mouse with 4 buttons in a circle on the thumb (could have bought one with 2 in hindsight) and put the ALT and CTRL buttons on the two easiest ones to hit. This opened up SOOO many more options for hotkeys and unit selection. Example, when you hit ALT+LeftClick to grab only villagers, that's done on just one hand. It also allows me to keep my left hand in the SAME SPOT the whole time as I can just bind stuff to CTRL+A for military buildings or something like that. I HATE trying to move my left hand to the right side of the keyboard and this fixes that issue... I'm curious if anyone has thought to do this... just throwing it into the ether!

[@NiliAoE2]

oh yeah, nice stuff

[@lostmagicdude888]

5:40 when I make villager farm on b then when I click b to build then b for farm it goes back to the build screen for the villager??

[@NiliAoE2]

doesn't do that for me

[@lostmagicdude888]

@@NiliAoE2 Okay I just started playing like 4 days ago for the first time I must be doing something weird but I just put farm on f oh well I love your video!!!! This is a real good video!

[@Ragnarok4Win]

why can't i press B for Building and then B for farm? it always brings me back to the building Menu

[@NiliAoE2]

I can. Seems like it's overlapping with something else then.

[@Ragnarok4Win]

@@NiliAoE2 You're absolutely right, thanks a lot and keep up the good work ~ ♥

[@zeynel_99]

Pls someone tell me this app or what he is usingin this vide

[@NiliAoE2]

Paint

[@coffeefox5703]

What the hell? Z right next to T? :O

[@teemo-kawaii3423]

Hi. Can anyone still watching explain to me why I should "go to buildings" for example 'go to lumber camp" while I can "select all". What's the difference between go to archery ranges and select all archery ranges in a real game?

[@NiliAoE2]

go "select all" so you don't jump to the building

[@teemo-kawaii3423]

@@NiliAoE2 thank you for replying. This video is not new anymore and you still answer.

[@NiliAoE2]

I sort by comment date :-)

[@michelvanherck573]

nice video, if its possible you should add a comparison to the default set of hotkeys, since i think most of us are working with these. the defaults do look to have a system in them. why aren't they as good? i saw you mention some things like overlap, but where are these in the default set? This way we are more able to adjust the default set to our own standard, as you suggest in the beginning of your video. Keep up the good work and the nice community together with the other casters!

[@bigtuna1318]

As a new player I had to watch this maybe 30 times before I understood

[@odyssean4305]

Do you hit V with your pinky when making the buildings on the right side of your keyboard?

[@NiliAoE2]

thumb

[@odyssean4305]

@@NiliAoE2 Got it! Thanks for the quick response! I really enjoyed this guide, and I appreciate you explaining the logic behind why you put certain units where you did.

[@warbreakr]

I can't find the ungarrison keybind slot :( Edit: its called unload or something