The Planetary Annihilation Hotkeys Super Guide

eXodus eSports is proud to present its latest player guide: The Planetary Annihilation Hotkeys Super Guide, designed to help you use hotkeys to improve your game.

Planetary Annihilation has a lot of useful keyboard shortcuts and mods that add even more or replace default functionality. If you only use the mouse to control the game you are surely missing out.

Did you know most top players use the keyboard constantly? If you want to be more efficient in your play style, read on! This guide might be just what you need to join the top ranked players in their struggle to be the best.

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Nice guide, you have got most of the essential ones although I think you should definately have patrol in there too.

Good job exodus, another link forth the new guys! Keep it up

I forgot patrol because I always forget pressing patrol key ...
But yeah good point I'll add.

Press Alt+F4 to ragequit.

See
Units > Unit Commands > Self Destruct Unit (del) *Essential for blowing up your commander in case you are going to lose

Typo! Under "select idle factories" it says tough instead of though.

Thanks, I blame @Quitch , @cptconundrum for not fixing my text !

But there was so much to fix!!

"Communication is a the key to victory in team games!"

Where can i find this key? I'm tired of constantly having to micro my mouth to communicate.

It's key A obviously.

Communication is A: the key to, and B: the lock keeping you away from victory in team games.

So what your saying then, is if your not winning you need to mash 'A' harder?

One of my home keys.

Question: what do you use explicit move command for? I only use it via right-click.

Issuing move commands into tightly packed areas of enemy units and buildings.

Really nice guide.

I definitely need to figure out how to best leverage hotbuild2, though. I didn't really get it until I saw the tutorial on it.

It'd be even better if we could assign a macro of selections to keys in hotbuild2 (e.g. I have pretty much a default pattern of order queuing for new factories - I'd like to not have to hammer that out every time).

I was saying this elsewhere, but I'd love a key to deselect portions of my selected units.

I want to click-drag select a bunch of units and then drop the air (or just the bombers) out of that selection via key command.

I don't want to zoom in to select a portion of units + cntrl-z + zoom out + command. The tiny x is too costly to hit. And using cntrl-z zoomed out (or other hotkeys for selecting units on screen) generally selects far more than I actually want/need.

I use 3 buttons to play PA
shift
lmb
rmb

hotkey scrubs pls go

AAAAA yes

You can deselect a portion of selected units.
Say you put fighters under F and bombers under B in hotbuild.
Select a bunch of fighters and bombers.
press F to select fighters
or press B to select bombers
or press alt-F to select all non fighter units
or press alt-B to select all non bomber units.

I plan to seperate the selection keys from the normal hotbuild keys with the same customization the hotbuild keys bring. But @cola_colin hasn't invented a time or clone machine, so haven't gotten around to it.

Could you add a CSG Hotkey Guide possibly? I am really into making crazy planets with lots of chokepoints and that would be useful for a lot of other planet "modders" as well.