Keys such as Q, Z or E are good options for patrol. Patrol is useful and a good hotkey to change since it is defaulted to P which is generally difficult to press quickly. as long as you can find a good key to use as a control group. You can change as many control groups as you want, including 6-8 etc. Making the control groups that are far away from the rest of the useful keys easier to press. This makes it easier to control more units at once with bigger armies by giving access to more control groups that are close to each other. It is reasonable to change the 0 and 9 control groups to ~ and W respectively or another key that isn’t being used. The earlier you get used to using them the better. If doing an all-in or timing attack it is also useful to set a camera location to the area you are attacking.Ĭamera location hotkeys are incredibly useful for inject hatcheries and defending bases. Set each camera location on each of your bases for injecting your hatcheries.
Change the camera location hotkeys to F1-F8 and allow them to be set by either shift+Fkey or Control+Fkey whatever you feel most comfortable pressing.