Starcraft Brood War Core-lite-ish Hotkeys

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I wanted to find Core Lite like hotkeys for Brood War. Then I found you can't bind keys to Space, you can't rebind F1-F4, and you can't rebind 1234567890. However, if you're willing to edit your keyboard like so:

You can get something pretty close to The Core Lite. I bound every key to roughly match The Core Light. It's been working pretty nicely! 56789 are my first 5 bases, 4 is the cluster of macro hatches currently in my main, 123 for army control groups, 0 for the main upgrade building I care about at the moment, or for drops later in the game.

This currently has Zerg, Protoss, and Terran hotkeys! If you want to emulate this, you'd likely need to use something like AutoHotkey or Karabiner to rebind your keyboard to match the photo above. Then replace the hotkeys in your Documents/Starcraft/CSettings.json with the ones above.

Updated to have Terran hotkeys as well

Hey thanks for sharing this. Do you happen to have an AutoHotKey script to do this re-map?

@dfcannon sorry, I don’t. My Keyboard is able to rebind keys at a firmware level, so that’s what I normally use

No worries, thanks anyway

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