Force Field Delay when holding down 'F' Button Keyboard Fix

Most Protoss players I have seen on my online games and professional gamers are using the 'F Click, F Click, F Click' when casting multiple Force Fields. This is probably they more common used way. There is another way of casting multiple Force Fields by HOLDING DOWN F and LEFT click, click, click. Both ways works well and this is up to your preference.

Whey does 'Holding Down' the F key works? The general answer lies in the design of Stacraft 2, where holding down a specific button will have the same aspect of pressing the key multiple times. This is often used by Zerg players where holding down the 'D' button after selecting the larvae will issue a command to build multiple Drones. Often times this trick is used by Protoss players when warping in multiple units. 'Hold down Z and left click, click, click' will warp in multiple Zealots.



If you are using the 'Holding Down' way, you may already realise that there can be some delay when using this method. For instance, when casting multiple Force Fields by Holding down 'F' and left click, click, click, sometimes you will sometimes instead select your opponents units. This causes you to DESELECT your Sentries. This will slow you down even more instead of speeding up things.

There is a fix first posted by Jerokar from Denmark so all credits goes to him. His fix here is to configure your keyboard setting. Basically, this keyboard setting allows you to issue faster commands. The closes example here is when you hold down a button when typing. If you hold down 'D', this will appear as dddddddddddddd. The keyboard change basically, makes this faster. This change is good in casting faster Force Fields and Warping in Units.

The steps:

1. Click START button on Windows
2. Go to CONTROL PANEL
3. Select KEYBOARD
4. Set CHARACTER REPEAT DELAY to SHORT (Furthest to right, Default setting is 3/4)

NOTE: This change affects your other programs as well such as Microsoft Word etc. 

With this small fix, you can reduce the delays when casting Force Fields.

Cheers.