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Kakashi12309: /* Useful Keyboard Shortcuts */

2016-08-01T04:31:07Z

‎Useful Keyboard Shortcuts

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‎Tips

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‎Target Locking (Unit Distraction)

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‎Speeding up Unit Reclaim Process

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‎Toggle during construction

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‎Toggle during construction

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‎AI Underwater Unit Lock

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‎misc

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‎Increased projectile range

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‎increased projectile range

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 *'''CTRL+F''': Select all factories. Useful for quickly accessing the build menu for the first factory that you finish constructing/capturing. Note you must let go of the CTRL key to issue any build orders. Using this command when you have more than one factory will only give you access to the orders menu for all selected factories.
 *'''CTRL+B''': Select all construction units (excluding the commander).
-*'''O''': Switch to "Orders" menu for selected units. Required to use the reclaim, capture and repair commands with the commander and all construction units.
+*'''O''': Switch to "Orders" menu for selected units. Required to use the reclaim, capture and repair commands with the commander and all construction units. Press B to switch back to the build menu.
 *'''C''': Capture
 *'''E''': Reclaim

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 = Tips =
 ===Viewing the Enemy in Campaign===
-A very useful cheat to help plan strategies is "+view 1" or "+control 1" which allows you to see the positions of the enemy units and their status. It requires typing in "+now Film Chris Include Reload Assert" (case-sensitive) in order to allow the +view or +control cheats to work in campaign.
+A very useful cheat to help plan strategies is "+view 1" or "+control 1" which allows you to see the positions of the enemy units and their status. It requires typing in "+now Film Chris Include Reload Assert" (case-sensitive) in order to allow the +view or +control cheats to work in campaign. To switch back to the player's units, type in "+view" or "+control".
 Viewing the enemy status is very helpful:

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−	For example: Anti-air units (e.g. Samson) have BadTargetCategory=NOTAIR, which means that they will not target lock on a ground unit. They will target lock on aircraft, so if you want it to not attack an aircraft, you MUST use another aircraft. ~~Thus, you~~ cannot use a ground unit to prevent an AA unit from attacking ~~aircraft. You must use another~~ aircraft.	+	For example: Anti-air units (e.g. Samson) have BadTargetCategory=NOTAIR, which means that they will not target lock on a ground unit. They will target lock on aircraft, so if you want it to not attack an aircraft, you MUST use another aircraft. You cannot use a ground unit to prevent an AA unit from attacking aircraft.

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 ===Speeding up Unit Reclaim Process===
-Reclaiming a unit at any health does not change the amount of metal received, so intentionally damaging a unit to low health can speed up the process. This is useful to get back metal from obsolete units that would take some time to reclaim, such as an aircraft plant. Additionally, the commander's reclaim speed on units depends on his veterancy, so the more kills, the faster he can reclaim units - somewhat useful when there is not enough energy to D-gun. A 70 kill veteran commander can reclaim a full health battleship in 10 seconds.
+Reclaiming a unit at any health does not change the amount of metal received, so intentionally damaging a unit to low health can speed up the process. This is useful to quickly get back metal from obsolete friendly units that would otherwise take some time to reclaim, [https://youtu.be/jltA1pPx3Ak?t=20s such as an aircraft plant].
 = Build orders =

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 * ARM Adv Sonar Station
-Exceptions (do turn off when attacked or receive damage when fully constructed, but do not automatically turn on during construction):
+Exceptions (automatically turn OFF then ON when attacked or receive damage when fully constructed, but not during construction):
 * Targeting Facilities

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 ===AI Underwater Unit Lock===
-When ground units (including hovercraft) under AI control (which act as the AI in a skirmish) attack, they will stall when their target is underwater. In essence, they try to attack the unit, but since they can't, they stall indefinitely until another target which they can attack moves closer. This exploit is exemplified here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDOqqb3KWxM
+When ground units (including hovercraft) and ships under AI control (which act as the AI in a skirmish) attack, they will stall when their target is underwater. In essence, they try to attack the unit, but since they can't, they stall indefinitely until another target which they can attack moves closer. This exploit is exemplified here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDOqqb3KWxM
 = Tips =

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	Further discussion at http://www.tauniverse.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20678, http://www.tauniverse.com/forum/showpost.php?p=707466&postcount=287		Further discussion at http://www.tauniverse.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20678, http://www.tauniverse.com/forum/showpost.php?p=707466&postcount=287
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		+	===AI Underwater Unit Lock===
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		+	When ground units (including hovercraft) under AI control (which act as the AI in a skirmish) attack, they will stall when their target is underwater. In essence, they try to attack the unit, but since they can't, they stall indefinitely until another target which they can attack moves closer. This exploit is exemplified here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDOqqb3KWxM

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 ===Increased projectile range===
-Artillery units (i.e. Guardians, Punishers, Berthas, Intimidators, Thuds, etc) can all have their range slightly increased. Simply aim very close to the unit itself. Depending on how close you aim, you can get most of these buildings to aim "up" and perform longer arc shots than their max distance will allow.
+Artillery (i.e. Guardians, Punishers, Berthas, Intimidators, etc) can all have their range slightly increased. Simply aim very close to the unit itself. Depending on how close you aim, you can get most of these buildings to aim "up" and perform longer arc shots than their max distance will allow.
 ==Aircraft==