Speed Building Placement Modifier and others for an old aoe2er
Upfront preface: extremely casual starcraft 2 and aoe 2 player since childhood so mildly biased on what I've learned. couldn't find a post addressing if these do or don't exist.
tldr: how do I do that ctrl+left click building placement queue thing? and other common hotkey modifiers I should know?
Finally bought AoE4 a few weeks ago and I'm trying to get my head around it converting from AoE2 and trying to figure out if there are easy analogues. I understand that the way they split the buildings by age rather than by econ vs. military is pretty locked in and can't be changed (although if it can is there a way? really throws me off to have to think about which age a building is from) but I can adjust. and I assume a lot of it is just adjusting to new metas, but there are some like basic modifier like stuff I can't figure out or maybe i am stupid
My main issues are around finding the like unique modifiers for mouse clicks for common actions I'll list the modifier and action below if anybody could help find the analogues:
ctrl+left clickwhen you've selected a villager with an existing job or queue and are placing a building | it resets their queue so they start work on the new building but just like when holding shift it doesn't kick you out of the build menu so I can ctrl place the first house and shift place 4 more and the villagers start on the new queue right away without extra clicks to reset their queue beforehandshift+left clickon individual units you've selected | Deselect individual units. usually used when i want exactly 4 villagers out of the 8 sitting there. I also don't see how to view the health of all the selected units is there a view I can enable?
Seriously thanks, the graphics look pretty but trying to switch over is driving me nuts when I can't do speedy placements I figure the newer game should have something I just can't find it.