Controls / Shortcuts

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Controls / Shortcuts
Topic Started: Sep 21 2009, 10:56 AM (20 Views)
[=T=] HawK	Sep 21 2009, 10:56 AM Post #1
5000 Posts + Posts: 5,578 Group: Elder & Forum Admin Member #1 Joined: November 10, 2005	I was talking to Redneck recently about CNC3 shortcuts I use and realised that people use different shortcuts and may know some that others don't and vice versa, so here's a list of shortcuts. I highlighted the ones that are especially useful to use beyond the basic controls. SPACE: Jump to Last Map Event (unit detected, enemy base detected, unit destroyed etc.) A + Right Click (left click if you are set to traditional controls): Attack move. Tells any units you have selected to move to the desired location attacking hostile base defenses and units along the way. They will not attack enemy buildings. S: Stop units. Immediately stops the selected units. D + Right Click (left click if you are set to traditional controls): Reverse move. Forces the units to move to the desired location backwards. This is used to prevent enemies from hitting your vehicles unarmored side and to speed up retreat. F + Right Click (left click if you are set to traditional controls): Assault move. This tells the selected units to move to the desired location while attacking any hostile buildings or units along the way. This is useful to clear out entire bases without having to tell them what to attack. G + Right Click (left click if you are set to traditional controls): Force move. This forces your units to move to the location even if units happen to be in the way. This is used to crush enemy units if possible. H: Primary construction yard camera. This is used to jump to your construction yard with the press of a button. If destroyed, it will jump other construction yards then to cranes. Ctrl + J, K, L, or ; Sets a camera bookmark. By pressing both Crtl and one of the following buttons you may set a camera bookmark. J, K, L, or ; Jump to camera bookmark. These jump to the set camera bookmark. Useful to jump back and fourth from key spots in the game easily. ' : Toggles unit health bars ~: Selected structure or unit tab (known as contextual tab). Q: Selects all combat units. This is used to select everything you have. Useful to throw everything you have at the enemy at once and to see how many units you have. Double tapping Q selects everything on the map. This is very useful to help you find a unit as it will display all units in the sidebar, you can then click on that unit's icon twice to go to it. W: Selects all units of the type currently selected. This is used to get all the units of a specific type or types together for an assault. Double tapping W selects all the units of the types currently selected across the entire map. E: Structure tab. R: Defense tab. T: Infantry tab. Y: Vehicles tab. U: Aircraft tab. I: Intel database (single player)/Messenger (multiplayer) O: Objectives (single player)/Player status (multiplayer) Z: Sell mode Ctrl + Z: Planning mode: This mode allows you to make multiple commands to a unit. Press it again to have the unit complete the commands in order. X: Power mode. This turns off and on power to a structure. Useful to direct power to vital structures. C: Repair mode. V: Voice chat. Press this key to talk with a microphone. Ctrl + V: Toggle either global voice chat or team voice chat. B: Place beacon N: Next harvester. Used to jump between harvesters. >: Fast forward button (only during replays) 0-9: Selects grouped units. Simply press the number to select your entire group without worrying about manually selecting all of them. It is very useful to group assault forces to control them much easier. Ctrl + 0-9: Sets the selected units to a number. Backspace: Opens up chat to all teammates. Enter: Opens up chat to everyone. Alt + A: Changes stance to aggressive. Alt + S: Changes stance to guard. Alt + D: Changes stance to hold ground. Alt + F: Changes stance to hold fire. Ctrl + A: Uses unit power in slot one. Ctrl + S: Uses unit power in slot two. Ctrl + D: Uses unit power in slot three. Ctrl + F: Uses unit power in slot four. F1-F10: Selects the unit or building in slot 1-10 respectively. Ctrl + F1-F8: Uses support powers in slots 1-8 respectively. Delete: Deletes the beacon. Cursor left / right: rotate camera (you can also use middle mouse button) Keypad 5: Reset camera. Keypad 5 is on the right side of the keyboard. Hold Alt: Waypoint mode. This allows you to select multiple commands for the selected unit(s). They will start the commands upon receiving the first one. Hold Ctrl + Right Click (left click if you are set to traditional controls): Force fire. This forces you unit to fire at the location no matter what. Hold Shift + Left Click: Adds unit/structure to selection. (in multiples of 5) End: Toggle HUD. Tab: Next sub tab. Ctrl + Tab: Previous sub tab.
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