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Whenever I start a game, my starting squad and hero don't have their number hotkeys (2 and 1 respectively). That wouldn't be a problem if I could just give my hero the "1" hotkey but I can't assign on "1". That leads to confusion and reaction time loss because I'm used to press "1" and give an order to my hero. Instead the second squad (the one that I buy at the base) gets "1". Also happened in retail if time spent on the loading screen was long enough. So, does anyone know a way to stop that from happening or, even better, a way to assign "1" hotkey?

Meh, happens due to long loads and has always been there to plague us. You're not the only one.

Just click on your hero and press, 'Ctrl + Desired Number' which in this case, would be 'Ctrl + 1'


Make it a habit to just drag a box over them then send them away on an adventure filled with rainbows and unicorns first before checking their hotkey assignment

It's an annoying bug.

You can assign hotkeys with Ctrl + number with unit selected.

Thank you, I knew about "Ctrl + number". Thanks for advice, Discreet, I do that too. Well, funny thing is, I can't use "1" neither in retail nor in Elite. I can give anyone any number except "1".

There can only be one

Idk how to help you there though. Try reinstalling if you so desire or verifying game integrity

Yah, I never heard of that problem either. Maybe its a problem with your keyboard?
Like, what language is your keyboard in?

Moreover, when I create units, I'd swear they don't follow an order in the right portrait list. I mean: normally each unit i create gets its protrait at the bottom of the list and so on, but I'd swear I've seen units getting their protrait in apparently random places, moving all the others down.

Aertes wrote:Moreover, when I create units, I'd sweat they don't follow an order in the right portrait list. I mean: normally each unit i create gets its protrait at the bottom of the list and so on, but I'd sweat i've seen units getting their protrait in apparently random places, moving all the others down.

Lets say you have 5 units. So Hotkeys 1 through 5 are all used up by them. And then you start building your 6th unit

However, while building that 6th unit, Unit 2 gets wiped.

With Unit 2 gone, Hotkey 2 is now empty and available for use.

As a result, what would have been a squad with Hotkey 6 instead is automatically assigned the lowest Hotkey available, i.e Hotkey 2.

Orkfaeller wrote:Yah, I never heard of that problem either. Maybe its a problem with your keyboard?
Like, what language is your keyboard in?

That's an interesting thought, normally my keyboard is in russian language, but I made Windows to switch to english by pressing Ctrl + 0 and to russian by pressing Ctrl + 1...
Wait a second, I think I found the source of my problem! Thanks, everyone!

Aertes wrote:Moreover, when I create units, I'd sweat they don't follow an order in the right portrait list. I mean: normally each unit i create gets its protrait at the bottom of the list and so on, but I'd sweat i've seen units getting their protrait in apparently random places, moving all the others down.

Elite has added a feature that units automatically scale on list according to their number. In retail, if your squad was killed and you bought a new one, the new one would be at the bottom of the list with the number of the killed squad. In Elite, it automatically assumes place according to its number.

Da Warboss Biff wrote:

Orkfaeller wrote:Yah, I never heard of that problem either. Maybe its a problem with your keyboard?
Like, what language is your keyboard in?

That's an interesting thought, normally my keyboard is in russian language, but I made Windows to switch to english by pressing Ctrl + 0 and to russian by pressing Ctrl + 1...
Wait a second, I think I found the source of my problem! Thanks, everyone!

Just checked, yep, that was the problem. Sorry to bother you, everyone.

This is how you need to thank Orkfaeller

Discreet wrote:This is how you need to thank Orkfaeller

Yeah, that seems appropriate, considering I have suffered from this for more that a year.

Da Warboss Biff wrote:Elite has added a feature that units automatically scale on list according to their number. In retail, if your squad was killed and you bought a new one, the new one would be at the bottom of the list with the number of the killed squad. In Elite, it automatically assumes place according to its number.

Oh, knowing that all makes sense. Sweet work.