How do I cancel hero groups?

[Seaver]

I accidentally made hero groups that overlapped each other, thus making it pointless to have it. I tried to look at the keybindings but I didn't see the option. I tried shift + respective number and some other stuff (first thing that came to me since making groups is bound to ctrl + number) but nothing worked. Hopefully someone comes up and tells me how to do it! Still on my first run ever and I've made it to the 6th floor, the game is brilliant!

[BiskutMentega]

Try Ctrl+any number. Shift is for grouping heroes. Ctrl+number is for assigning them to the number.

[Seaver]

Originally posted by BiskutMentega:

Try Ctrl+any number. Shift is for grouping heroes. Ctrl+number is for assigning them to the number.

Shift is for selecting multiple heroes, if that's what you mean. I tried ctrl + number but it didn't work. It's kinda annoying to personally click on the specific hero because of overlapping group numbers haha

Has that worked for you, though? Maybe I'm just making things up because I was probably half asleep playing DotE up to like 3 in the morning before I made this thread.

[batCattle]

Same problem here. Ctrl + number will add whoever's active to that hotkey. But since you can use the first 4 numbers you may overwrite the single-hero hotkeys.

From that point on the group won't go away. You can reassign who's IN the group but not by *removing* heros. You have to just create the NEW group and hit Ctrl + number again. There is no way to have *nobody* selected, so you will end up having to put Hero 4 in his own Group 4, and likewise for any of the others you screwed up. If you created groups for 5,6, etc they will always have to be SOMEONE from that point on. As far as I can see...

If there's really no way to toggle players in/out of the group or get rid of the group, that's a hella sloppy feature implementation.

[brubru]

Does anyone know if there is a solution for this? It's soooo annoying when you click ctrl by mistake and create a group so that you can't select the rest of the heroes sepparately for the rest of the dungeon. :/

[Your Mother's A Good Woman]

Originally posted by brubru:

Does anyone know if there is a solution for this? It's soooo annoying when you click ctrl by mistake and create a group so that you can't select the rest of the heroes sepparately for the rest of the dungeon. :/

I just do ctrl plus the number to re-assign them.

For example. Click on the 1st hero, then press ctrl + 1. Now every time you push one, it will automatically go to that character.

Repeat the process for the other three. So you'd click on character #2, then press ctrl + 2, and so on and so forth.

[brubru]

Originally posted by pepemustard:

Originally posted by brubru:

Does anyone know if there is a solution for this? It's soooo annoying when you click ctrl by mistake and create a group so that you can't select the rest of the heroes sepparately for the rest of the dungeon. :/

I just do ctrl plus the number to re-assign them.

For example. Click on the 1st hero, then press ctrl + 1. Now every time you push one, it will automatically go to that character.

Repeat the process for the other three. So you'd click on character #2, then press ctrl + 2, and so on and so forth.

I see, thanks a lot!
That's what I ended up doing too. It's a shame there isn't another way to solve this >_<

[Cream-of-Plenty]

Is there still really no way to delete a hero group/number assignment once you accidentally assign somebody a number? It doesn't appear there is, and honestly, there should be.

[Your Mother's A Good Woman]

Originally posted by Cream-of-Plenty:

Is there still really no way to delete a hero group/number assignment once you accidentally assign somebody a number? It doesn't appear there is, and honestly, there should be.

You just have to re-assign their hotkey manually. I listed how to do it in my previous post. It really only takes about 5 or 6 seconds to do. It's not that big of a chore.

[Cream-of-Plenty]

Originally posted by pepemustard:

Originally posted by Cream-of-Plenty:

Is there still really no way to delete a hero group/number assignment once you accidentally assign somebody a number? It doesn't appear there is, and honestly, there should be.

You just have to re-assign their hotkey manually. I listed how to do it in my previous post. It really only takes about 5 or 6 seconds to do. It's not that big of a chore.

No I realize this, but it doesn't really make sense that you can't DELETE a number assignment, especially since a number assignment isn't obligatory (you don't start the game with anybody assigned a "group" number, nor are you required to use the system to play the game). It's just sort of a weird, half-implemented feature. If you can add them, you should be able to take them away.

[Your Mother's A Good Woman]

Originally posted by Cream-of-Plenty:

Originally posted by pepemustard:

You just have to re-assign their hotkey manually. I listed how to do it in my previous post. It really only takes about 5 or 6 seconds to do. It's not that big of a chore.

No I realize this, but it doesn't really make sense that you can't DELETE a number assignment, especially since a number assignment isn't obligatory (you don't start the game with anybody assigned a "group" number, nor are you required to use the system to play the game). It's just sort of a weird, half-implemented feature. If you can add them, you should be able to take them away.

The number assignment is basically a free throw-in from the developers. How many strategy games have you played where a unit has a predetermined hotkey? I haven't come across one yet.

This whole thread/concept is splitting hairs that don't even exist.

Yes, having an "undo" key is ideal. But they went that one step further and pre-assigned the hotkeys, and also gave you the option to re-assign, as well as assign group keys.

.... Why are people still complaining again?

[Werewolfkirby]

Because we want to DELETE group numbers from characters not just reassign them. because there seems to be no way to remove the group key from a character entirely. Sure its a nefty feature, but the group numbers also carry over on the character with the group numbers in a new game where you dont have a stategy for your characters yet (if you did pick new ones) that is. Yes ik this is a old ass post but I want to do the same thing as the maker of this post wants to do

[Bonejar]

Yeah I didn't realize that I had hit my ctrl key and when I went to select a hero it assigned them to a group. Didn't know what was going on, so I played around a bit to try and get rid of the number above their portrait but I just wound up throwing numbers above other heroes. New game didn't remove them, restarting didn't remove them. It's certainly not game-breaking, but it IS annoying to constantly see this jumble of numbers with no way of getting rid of them.

[fadster]

I just encountered this problem. I can't believe the hotkeys aren't cleared in a new game. This is absolutely ridiculous. What's even more idiotic is that if you accidentally assign, say, number 1 to a hero and that hero dies, you can't select the new first hero with the 1 key until you reassign that hero to group 1. How this passed QA and play testing is incomprehensible.