Macro for Hasten

[Lockpick]

I remember seeing a post at one point where you could create a macro for hasten tagged to the W key, so whenever you were using W to move it would presumably click hasten if it was available.

 

Can anyone provide this macro?

[Intermipants]

I have hasten bound to whichever key I use to move backwards (down arrow for me because I’m left handed). If you’re using W to move backwards it would be /bind w “+backward$$powexecname hasten”

[srmalloy]

13 minutes ago, Intermipants said:

I have hasten bound to whichever key I use to move backwards (down arrow for me because I’m left handed). If you’re using W to move backwards it would be /bind w “+backward$$powexecname hasten”

Mine is similar to yours -- my keybinds.txt has W "+forward$$powexecname hasten" -- so that hasten tries to fire each time I move forward; for a simple bind it would be:

 

/bind W "+forward$$powexecname hasten"

[Lockpick]

Thank you both, got it to work!

[WanderingAries]

On a related note, I've always had Hasten as my autopower so that I don't have to worry about it. It just made sense as it borderlines needing to be a passive.

[Ukase]

On my dominators, I just use H for hasten, as a key bind. That way I don't have to remember what key to use. It just makes sense to me. When I used a movement key, and it wasn't recharged yet, that sound drove me nuts! I tried playing without sound, but it's just not the same game without it. 

 

 

[Uncle Shags]

1 hour ago, Ukase said:

When I used a movement key, and it wasn't recharged yet, that sound drove me nuts!

 

Powerexecauto avoids this.

 

Top of page 2:

https://forums.homecomingservers.com/topic/4494-psa-for-new-players-how-to-have-hasten-and-domination-on-auto/

 

[srmalloy]

3 hours ago, Ukase said:

When I used a movement key, and it wasn't recharged yet, that sound drove me nuts!

CoH Mod Installer, "Completely Muted Recharge Sound" -- it silences the "power not recharged yet" bleat.

[srmalloy]

3 hours ago, WanderingAries said:

On a related note, I've always had Hasten as my autopower so that I don't have to worry about it. It just made sense as it borderlines needing to be a passive.

There are times when you have another power that you want to be autofiring more reliably than Hasten, as the movement-key bind won't fire if you're not moving forward, or if you use the LBUTTON+RBUTTON combo to move forward. For example, if I have a character with Conserve Power, I'll generally put that on auto, rather than Hasten, and let the movement bind trigger Hasten.

[Lockpick]

On 10/26/2025 at 10:18 PM, srmalloy said:

CoH Mod Installer, "Completely Muted Recharge Sound" -- it silences the "power not recharged yet" bleat.

 

NVM, found it.

Where do I find this?  The recharge sound is driving me nuts! 🙂

Edited October 29 by Lockpick
Found it

[srmalloy]

6 hours ago, Lockpick said:

Where do I find this?  The recharge sound is driving me nuts! 🙂

Download the CoH Mod Installer and run it. Along with installing "Vidiotmaps for Homecoming" (pretty much a 'must have') and "Completely Muted Recharge Sound", I recommend the "Double Loud Glowie" mod, which makes the glowie sound louder so you can find them easier (doesn't make the sound extend further away from the glowie, though, so you still have to find their general area, but they stand out better against background noise).

[mistagoat]

24 minutes ago, srmalloy said:

I recommend the "Double Loud Glowie" mod

Truth!! This was a game changer that I can't recommend enough! I keep my overall volume pretty low when I play and the blinkie sound is still very easy to hear. Huge QOL upgrade!

[Uncle Shags]

Get the mod if you want, but the macro from that thread I linked does it in a way that doesn't need it. 

[Scarlet Shocker]

I'm trying to make this into a Macro rather than bind, so there's a power (in my case I'm calling it "HST") in my tray. How do I get that to work. I'm keying to my S (backwards) key. 

[tidge]

1 hour ago, Scarlet Shocker said:

I'm trying to make this into a Macro rather than bind, so there's a power (in my case I'm calling it "HST") in my tray. How do I get that to work. I'm keying to my S (backwards) key. 

 

I may be missing something: This approach might be defeating the purpose of having multiple powers queued for auto-execute, Macros act like power icons you have to click, the concept of keybinding is that the player is queue a power along with some key they would be pressing anyway. I suppose you could set up a macro to trigger a rolling set of bindfiles, but for (alternating) powers this seems like the wrong approach for the more common circumstances (e.g. Domination and Hasten).

[srmalloy]

4 hours ago, Scarlet Shocker said:

I'm trying to make this into a Macro rather than bind, so there's a power (in my case I'm calling it "HST") in my tray. How do I get that to work. I'm keying to my S (backwards) key. 

If you want a macro in your trays that fires off Hasten when clicked, why not simply put the icon for Hasten in your tray, where you can click on it directly? If you want something that tries to fire off Hasten when you back up, that's changing the bind for backing up, not a macro. For that, you want to change the default bind for 's':

 

/bind S "+backward$$powexecname hasten"

[biostem]

2 minutes ago, srmalloy said:

If you want a macro in your trays that fires off Hasten when clicked, why not simply put the icon for Hasten in your tray, where you can click on it directly? If you want something that tries to fire off Hasten when you back up, that's changing the bind for backing up, not a macro. For that, you want to change the default bind for 's':

If the macro had 2 powexec commands, with hasten as the first to execute, then it'll trigger the second power while hasten is still recharging, IIRC...