It depends a bit on your taste what works for you, but think about it as a tool to make your life easier not as a secret skill to learn. ALT+1-9, Select group assigned to number and center view on that group. So you should think about having a layout that makes it fast & easy for you to control the game. (You can alternatively use rightclick scrolling) Assigning groups is something you have to do with hotkeys - and having to the map movement on the arrow keys and groups on the left control button is usually suboptimal. For example, scrolling the map is something you should never do with the edge of the screen, it’s just too much way. Now the hotkeys that are really useful are the ones, which let you reduce your mouse usage. For example, you’ll probably just build one or two universities in the game, so the hotkey to build them is one you can do without. And using one of these kind of forces you to always mind the hotkeys.Īnyway, what you always should consider is not to learn every hotkey there is, but learn the most useful.
That also means, I have a common method of where I want which kind of button. Patch 1.0b Patch 1.0c Contests Age Toons Contest The Continuous Screenshot Competition Pretty Town Contest Trial Versions Age of Empires The Rise of Rome Pocket PC Trial Apple Mac Demo HeavenGames Main Portal Age of Empires Age of Empires III Age of Kings Age of Mythology Age of Empires Online Age of Wonders Age of Wonders II Battle for Middle.
I’m using it in every game and I’m used to that beeing my left hand thing. HELP US BUILD OUR ALL-IN-ONE TRAINER APP, GET REWARDS AND SUPPORT THE FUTURE OF CHEAT HAPPENS. Zack Palm OctoPrepare to coordinate your empire.READ MORE. Trainer on Age of Empires: Definitive Edition PC message board and forum (page 1). Please consider donating your extra games, RC, wheelspins, etc to this years Day of Giving to be held on Dec 18th. Promise :) OK, below are some default hotkeys for Age of Empires II The Conquerors that can be used when playing.I’m using a Logitech G13, that’s a keyboard replacement which you can map all kinds of buttons to. Discussing Age of Empires: Definitive Ed. Decent Age of Empires IV Trainer on Age of Empires IV PC message board and forum (page 1). If there are two players AOE-II with the same skill, it is definitely a player who mastered the fine hotkeys will win this game. Hotkeys settings can be done before the game starts or while it is playing (at the top right corner of menu).
In the AOK-II or AOE-II, there are many default hotkeys, but the player can set any hotkey to suit the wishes of the option Hotkeys.
You can assign specific buildings to control groups using the same method shown above.
For example, a single spearman can be part of the control group assigned to your keyboards 1 and 2 keys. This can be alleviated by using a hotkey (B then E) or (V then E). A few additional tips for this hotkey: Units can be assigned to multiple Control Groups. Hotkey in a game is a kind of shortcut that is one or more keyboard keys that are combined to shorten an instruction without having to use a mouse so that an instruction can be executed quickly while playing.For example in Age of Empires II (AOK-II or AOE-II) when villager will make a house or other buildings, player must click on the villager, then the mouse is directed to the bottom left corner to select an appropriate menu, and then directed to to the map to place that house or other buildings to be built.
Game programmer usually keep a special code into program that he created for the hotkeys when playing including in the Game Age of Empires II The Conquerors.