DEVS: Why not add that Alt-# to remove unit from control group?

Age of Empires IV IV - Discussion
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Just like Shift-1 add selected units to a control group.
Id like a way to quickly remove selected units from a control group.

They could just add that alt-1 alt-2… does this. This would be a very simple feature to add to the game that probably takes less than 1 day to code (probably more to go through the testing pipeline)

So the idea is that if i want to send one of my horse to a specific location like a sacred site and remove it from group 2, all i would need to do is

  • select the horse
  • right click location to move to
  • alt-2

Right now i have to do this:

  • select horse
  • right click location to move
  • press on 2
  • hold shift and click horse again
  • ctrl2

which is way too many steps in my opinion.

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This is currently a feature in the game. The default for it is Control + Alt + #.

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You can rebind this as you please in the Settings menu, under Controls.

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Ahh thats strange, why not just put Alt-# by default? Why need to hold ctrl ?

IS there something else linked to Alt by default ?

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I’m not sure about why they did exactly, my guess is that you bind the group with ctrl, so ctrl+alt is just a modification on that… but as far as I can tell no keys are bound to Alt+# by default.

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These are the only other Alt+ combos I can find. Nothing associated with numbers.

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Alt-# should be the default, makes no sense to ask for 3 keys if alt is available by itself

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You can just customize the key. The default doesn’t matter. good players won’t use default but customize hotkeys to their needs.

besides, there are alternative ways to archive your objective. e.g.

  • if u have exclusive control group, just assign the horseman to another group without any special hotkey.
  • just remove your one horseman from all groups. (it is identical to remove from group 1/2…)
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I only use the hotkeys to remove all control types because I use exclusive control groups

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True, I currently have exclusive ctrl groups on, and use Alt alone to just remove selected units from a group, in case I send them to raid or something and don’t want them to come back by accident.

But thinking of switching to non-exclusive ctrl groups, because I hate moving out with my army that’s on 3 different groups. I wanna have a ctrl group for the whole thing as well.

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I changed control-backspace to ctrl-` (the button before 1) otherwise you need two hands. And I removed push to talk conflict because i don’t use it.

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I set up my control group hotkeys to do this, so that it’s similar to SC2.

I set “remove unit from all control groups” to alt.

Then I set “add selected units to control group” to ctrl + #, and then the alternate hotkey for it to alt + #.

This way, when I press alt + #, when I’m hitting the keystrokes it deletes from pressing alt, then adds them to the new control gropu # when I press the number in one smooth motion.

Hope that helps :slight_smile:

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