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by Neilyo88, Level 14
Last updated at August 12, 2009, 10:12 pm
First off I hardly ever played dota and have only played a handful of games in HoN so I'm not that great..

I had this idea for re-binding more than 2 years ago while messing around in WC3, but I couldn't find the keys I wanted to re-bind in the binding txt doc. Anyways to the point, re-binding the arrow keys to WASD is totally awesome, since there aren't very many things to be bound in HoN its not that big of a deal to shift ur W to E, E to R, and I shifted R to F, attack to tilde. Doing this cuts out one of the worst mechanic of RTS games which is needing to move your mouse away from where you would rather have it, all the way to the edge of the screen just to move the screen slightly while ranging/microing.

I didn't rebind stop, I might be wrong but I didn't see a need for it after rebinding hold to an easier key (g), if you try the WASD binds you definately want to unbind/re-bind the shops so that you dont try to move ur screen and buy ****, it doesn't seem like clicking to buy is a problem at all but you can rebind shop to num pad or something. Without WASD bound in your shop its easy to look through the shop while microing / moving the screen with WASD and landing KB's on npc's.

If I compared this to something in WoW I would say it is most closely related to binding party members as a healer, you don't need to do it, not a lot of people do it, but it is without a doubt much more effective and any healer that has made the change and gotten used to it will agree as long as they use good binds for it. Another thing I've noticed doing is combinding screen scrolling with targeting, this is similar to what is done with aiming in an fps, often times it is a combination of strafing your aimer onto the person and slightly adjusting your aimer with your mouse. Minimizing on how much you need to move your mouse is pretty much always a good thing because it allows you to maximize using your mouse on other very important things that you would otherwise have to split the utility of your mouse between.
     
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Fenkarn
Fenkarn Aug 12, 2009 at 10:18 pm
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first
not a huge issue is it?
Neilyo88
Neilyo88 Aug 12, 2009 at 10:31 pm
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cutting out something unnecessary = more efficient, efficiency is a big deal if you want improvement. Its also just faster.
tokeshlol
tokeshlol Aug 12, 2009 at 10:21 pm
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never really found this to be a big deal ;/

once you learn to double tap your unit hotkeys it just moves the camera right back over your hero anyway
Neilyo88
Neilyo88 Aug 12, 2009 at 10:26 pm
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yeah thats true forgot about that even though i do use it. Still though, it will cut out a huge chunk of uneeded mouse movements that you can reallocate to other important stuff.
trousertrout
trousertrout Aug 12, 2009 at 10:32 pm
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Neilyo88
Neilyo88 Aug 12, 2009 at 10:34 pm
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Or it oculd be because I hardly played dota or wc3 and have only played a handful of games of hon, i mentioned all this and said I wasn't great. I just got caught up in trying to make a point and over analyzed overlooking something I even use.
trousertrout
trousertrout Aug 12, 2009 at 10:36 pm
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Oh noe you just got caught up because you were typing so furiously to get the word out that you found how to bind keys. Congratulations idiot.
Neilyo88
Neilyo88 Aug 12, 2009 at 10:39 pm
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If by furious you mean frantic then yes, because I typed this while in a game. I found out how to bind the first time I played.. you really got me please stop.
tokeshlol
tokeshlol Aug 12, 2009 at 10:44 pm
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i guess it could, just seems pretty trivial
Neilyo88
Neilyo88 Aug 12, 2009 at 11:20 pm
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I've met plenty of healers that think binding unit frames is trivial until they have given it a real try realize how much it can help.
Neilyo88
Neilyo88 Aug 12, 2009 at 11:32 pm
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tokeshlol
tokeshlol Aug 13, 2009 at 12:00 am
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thats a big difference though ;p

i totally agree with hp bars, once i switched i couldnt believe i ever clicked.
Munk
Munk Aug 13, 2009 at 12:24 am
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tokeshlol said
never really found this to be a big deal ;/

once you learn to double tap your unit hotkeys it just moves the camera right back over your hero anyway
Or you could just press C once.
Sargaz
Sargaz Aug 13, 2009 at 12:14 am
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yeah you can move the camera around by clicking middle mouse on the floor and moving it anywhere you want. I don't see the point of AWSD for moving the camera when you only have 1 freaking unit to control.

And im pretty sure if HON is a copy paste of WC3 you can do shift + f2f3f4 to bind positions on the map like the runes.

And usually in RTS you bind your units and double tap them to get to them, theres rarely any use of moving ur camera at all with the mouse.

Maybe for WC3 when you are chasing down some random ass **** but that game sucks dick anyway you just tower D and press A in the back of a base and win tournies.

no need 2 nilio the **** out of hon just van rup 2 cheap n ur gud
Subparbdf
Subparbdf Aug 13, 2009 at 12:16 am
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VANISHED THE HAMMERSTORM STUN.

GOUGED ARACHNA'S SPIDER.

CLOAKED MALEDICT LOLNOOB.
Sargaz
Sargaz Aug 13, 2009 at 12:22 am
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naaw dog just vanrupt2cheap 2mar n 3k but not if 420
gottodisagree
gottodisagree Aug 13, 2009 at 12:23 am
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Sargaz said
naaw dog just vanrupt2cheap 2mar n 3k but not if 420
y
Neilyo88
Neilyo88 Aug 13, 2009 at 12:35 am
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didnt know about the middle mouse thing since i havent played much ill have to try it
tokeshlol
tokeshlol Aug 13, 2009 at 12:40 am
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Neilyo88
Neilyo88 Aug 13, 2009 at 1:12 am
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eh, dont like that middle mouse function, inverted left and right and its still slower since you cannot click while moving the screen. wasd still worth it imo
DarkUser
DarkUser Aug 13, 2009 at 1:14 am
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OMG NEILYO WHEN IS THE BIG COMEBACK HAVE YOU HEARD THE NEW MUSE SONG YOUR NEW LIVING ROOM SET LOOKS GREAT FROM THE LAWN
Snuffy
Snuffy Aug 13, 2009 at 1:30 am
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blink stuns all day


neilyo what's your nick let's play (or do you have 5 friends we can scrim!)
trousertrout
trousertrout Aug 13, 2009 at 2:13 am
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Iliekboyz
Iliekboyz Aug 13, 2009 at 2:37 am
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When you're neil and you're yo, you always have a friend.
Xastin
Xastin Aug 13, 2009 at 4:51 am
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wow neilyo try playing a hero besides agi carries.
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