StarCraft keyboard controls 

StarCraft controls   

Zeynel -
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- Shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts are essential for almost any real-time strategy player, as they allow to do repetitive actions quicker than mouse movements and clicks. In this shortcuts list, a few are specific to Remastered edition of the game, and they are indicated in parentheses.

0
F5

Toggle remastered graphics (StarCraft: Remastered)

-1
Ctrl + S

Toggle sound

0
Tab

Cycle through various buttons and input fields (use shift to reverse the order of cycling)

0
Esc

Cancel

0
Alt + V

Toggle join and leave channel notifications (multiplayer)

0
Alt +

(on own unit) Select all units of its last group (group = units selected by any way, not necessarily in a control group)

0
Ctrl +

Select the clicked unit and other units of the same type on the screen

0
or
0
Ctrl +

(on unit in selection box) Select all units of that type already selected

0

Move camera

2
↑  Shift + F2

Save location

0
or ↑  Shift + F3
0
or ↑  Shift + F4
0
F2

Go to saved location

0
or F3
0
or F4
1
Space

Go to last alert location

1
↑  Shift +

(on own unit) Add or remove unit from current selection

0
↑  Shift +

(on unit in selection box) Remove unit from current selection

0

Adjust view height (single player, observer, and replay) (StarCraft: Remastered)

0
Ctrl + C

Center screen on selected unit(s)

-1
Tab

Toggle whether to show terrain in minimap

0
Ctrl + R

Toggle multiplayer ranking mode if game type is Use Map Settings (UMS)

0
Ctrl + Q

Quit mission

0
F10

Open main menu

0
or Alt + V
0
F11

Open help and tips menu

0
⤶ Enter

Message prompt

0
M

Move

0
S

Stop

0
A

Attack (and Attack Move)

0
H

Hold Position

0
P

Patrol

0
G

Gather

0
C

Return Cargo

2
B

Build Structure

0
V

Build Advanced Structure

0
R

Set Rally Point

0
L

Load

0
U

Unload All

0
Esc

Cancel

0
C

Command Center

0
S

Supply Depot

0
R

Refinery

0
B

Barracks

0
E

Engineering Bay

0
T

Missile Turret

0
U

Bunker

0
A

Academy

0
F

Factory

0
S

Starport

0
A

Armory

0
S

SCV

1
M

Marine

0
F

Firebat

0
C

Medic (Brood War)

0
G

Ghost

0
V

Vulture

0
T

Siege Tank

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0
G

Goliath

0
W

Wraith

0
V

Science Vessel

0
D

Dropship

0
B

Battlecruiser

0
Y

Valkyrie (Brood War)

0
T

Stimpack (Marine, Firebat)

0
C

Terran (Ghost, Wraith)

0
L

Lockdown (Ghost)

0
N

Nuclear Strike (Ghost)

0
A

Heal (Medic) (Brood War)

0
R

Restoration (Medic) (Brood War)

0
F

Optical Flare (Medic) (Brood War)

0
C

Comsat Station (To Command Center)

0
N

Nuclear Silo (To Command Center)

0
C

Machine Shop (To Factory)

0
C

Control Tower (To Starport)

0
P

Physics Lab (To Science Facility)

0
C

Covert Ops (To Science Facility)

0
Ctrl + X

Exit game

0
O

Siege Mode/Tank Mode (Siege Tank)

0
D

Defensive Matrix (Science Vessel)

0
W

Infantry Weapons (Engineering Bay)

0
A

Infantry Armor (Engineering Bay)

0
U

U-238 Shells (Academy)

0
T

Stim Pack (Academy)

0
R

Restoration (Academy) (Brood War)

0
F

Optical Flare (Academy) (Brood War)

0
D

Caduceus Reactor (Academy) (Brood War)

0
W

Vehicle Weapons (Armory)

0
P

Vehicle Plating (Armory)

0
S

Ship Weapons (Armory)

0
H

Ship Plating (Armory)

0
E

EMP Shockwave (Science Vessel)

0
Y

Yamato Cannon (Battlecruiser)

0
S

Scanner Sweep (Comsat Station)

0
L

Lift/Land structure (Command Center, Barracks, Engineering Bay, Factory, Starport, Science Facility, Infested Command Center)

0
N

Arm Nuclear Silo (Nuclear Silo)

1
M

Spider Mines (Machine Shop)

0
S

Siege Tech (Machine Shop)

0
C

Charon Boosters (Machine Shop) (Brood War)

0
C

Cloaking Field (Control Tower)

0
A

Apollo Reactor (Control Tower)

0
E

EMP Shockwave (Science Facility)

0
T

Titan Reactor (Science Facility)

0
L

Lockdown (Covert Ops)

0
O

Ocular Implants (Covert Ops)

0
M

Moebius Reactor (Covert Ops)

0
C

Personal Cloaking (Covert Ops)

0
Y

Yamato Gun (Physics Lab)

0
C

Colossus Reactor (Physics Lab)

0
N

Nexus

0
G

Gateway

0
P

Pylon

0
A

Assimilator

0
Y

Cybernetics Core

0
F

Forge

0
C

Cannon

0
B

Shield Battery

0
S

Stargate

0
C

Citadel of Adun

0
T

Templar Archives

0
R

Robotics Facility

0
O

Observatory

0
P

Probe

0
D

Dragoon

0
Z

Zealot

0
K

Dark Templar (Brood War)

0
R

Merge to Dark Archon (Brood War)

0
T

High Templar

0
R

Merge to Archon

0
S

Shuttle

0
V

Reaver

0
O

Observer

0
S

Scout

0
C

Carrier

0
A

Arbiter

0
O

Corsair (Brood War)

0
W

Ground Weapons (Forge)

0
A

Ground Armor (Forge)

0
S

Plasma Shields (Forge)

0
W

Air Weapons (Cybernetics Core)

0
A

Air Armor (Cybernetics Core)

0
S

Singularity Charge (Cybernetics Core)

0
L

Leg Enhancements (Citadel of Adun)

0
S

Scarab Capacity (Robotics Support Bay)

0
C

Increased Reaver Capacity (Robotics Support Bay)

0
G

Gravitic Drive (Templar Archives)

0
P

Psionic Storm (Templar Archives)

0
H

Hallucination (Templar Archives)

0
K

Khaydarin Amulet (Templar Archives)


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Program name: StarCraft StarCraft (Games - PC)

StarCraft is the first video game in the StarCraft real-time strategy game series. It was released on March 31, 1998. The game is set in a distant sector of the Milky Way galaxy. The story of the game revolves around the appearance of two alien races in Terran space and each race's attempts to survive and adapt over the others. StarCraft: Remastered, a remastered edition of the game was released on August 14, 2017.

Web page: starcraft.com

Last update: 7/20/2022 8:19 AM UTC

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