# AOE3 Holding 'Alt' mechanic

**URL:** <https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/aoe3-holding-alt-mechanic/26702>\
**Category:** I - Discussion\
**Created:** [June 17, 2017, 10:02am UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/aoe3-holding-alt-mechanic/26702 "2017-06-17T10:02:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![anon29497188](https://forums.ageofempires.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/aca169/32.png) [@anon29497188](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/anon29497188)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 10:02am UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/aoe3-holding-alt-mechanic/26702/1 "2017-06-17T10:02:34Z")

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In Age of Empires 3 (TAD), holding the alt key reveals the HP bars of all units in the area. This was particularly useful during a battle whilst microing. It would be nice to see the return of some modern features.

AOE3 also had some hotkeys to select all idle vils, idle military, all instances of a specific building or unit etc. It would be nice to see the return of some more up-to-date hotkey functionality.

I wonder if it could be ported over.

Thoughts?

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**Author:** ![anon29497188](https://forums.ageofempires.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/aca169/32.png) [@anon29497188](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/anon29497188)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2017, 9:57am UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/aoe3-holding-alt-mechanic/26702/2 "2017-06-19T09:57:40Z")

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bump

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**Author:** ![AirmanerX](https://forums.ageofempires.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f9ae1b/32.png) [@AirmanerX](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/AirmanerX)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2017, 10:15am UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/aoe3-holding-alt-mechanic/26702/3 "2017-06-19T10:15:12Z")

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Those would be useful QoL features, yeah, especially the HP bar thing.