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[Xallan]

Who's going to be playing?

[Victomizer]

Who's going to be playing?

Insufficient Vespane Gas.

[Collider]

How good is this game's single player?  I've never been one much for RTSs, but it certainly looks interesting.  Who's a big Starcraft player?  How exactly is the game played?

[Tarosaris]

I think you're considering this game much like I am Collider, I never played the original warcrafts and starcraft when it came out and only recently tried out a copy of starcraft to see if I wanted to buy starcraft 2.

For the most part I think the single player is very strong, it has campaigns that are heavy in story and you play all 3 factions in an order of storyline, so where faction 1 campaign ends (lets say Terran) you unlock faction 2 (Zerg maybe), they're starting the story from their perspective, from that point.

Also if you just want a quick map to build a base, build an army and destroy an opponent or 3 (not sure max # of computer opponent choices), I'm sure there's plenty of maps available to keep it different, and a random option on your opponent's faction.

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As far as how it's played.  Most missions start with a small base, maybe a special unit.  The unit must live, and you must either destroy the enemy base, get to a certain object, or survive.  Some of them are just unit based where you're in a building of some sort and trying to survive to your objective with the units given, you generally can pick up a few more along the way if you explore.

But for the basics, it is: Have a base, have workers.  Start collecting mineral, start collecting gas.  Build defensive turrets, build population sustaining 'houses'.  Build army recruitment buildings for infantry style units, build factories for tank/plane style.  Build research buildings...

From that, it can be your style on if you want to upgrade fully before attacking, if you want to mass produce cheap units (where zerg term came from) or just want to diversify somewhere in between.

I haven't finished the first game yet since I play it only on and off, but I do enjoy it despite the horribly outdated graphics, I plan to get starcraft 2 eventually.

[Victomizer]

From that, it can be your style on if you want to upgrade fully before attacking, if you want to mass produce cheap units (where zerg term came from) or just want to diversify somewhere in between.

Ahh the memories :p
They did make a very effective counter for the Zerg strat, when they released Brood Wars (expansion), Medic's. Get 10 Marine's, and 5-10 medics, with the Marine's spamming Stim's. Those 10 marine's could kill just about anything that didn't 1 shot them :p (Battlecruiser's for example)

[Xallan]

The campaign is terran only is SC2 so far. There are unique elements to the missions in the campaign and many campaign specific units.

I guess I could compare it to questing in vanilla wow and questing in LK. I just played a mission where I had to destroy 3 Protoss structures in order to disable the shields of this giant protoss mothership flying around nuking civilians. Mission order is chosen, like different questlines. Pretty much all research is done outside of the actual missions. Each mission you complete gives you a certain amount of credits, and you can buy the normal upgrades permanently between missions. There are also upgrades and units you can research that aren't in the normal game, ex. I got some concealed flame thrower turrets (roasted zerglings).

There are tons of cinematics, most are optional. Story mode definately blows SC1 out of the water.

[Faisrole]

Wings of Liberty complete.
Can't wait for the Zerg campaign next.

Also a tip for people doing the campaign:


During the "Media Blitz" mission, there is a science facility in the South East, destroy it to unlock the secret mission

[Collider]

Good info!  I downloaded it last night so I'll give the trial a shot and see if it's worth the expenditure.  Thanks all <3

[Xallan]

What difficulty did you do the last Zeratul one on fais?

[Faisrole]

I wanted story so I did everything on normal, got 2500 kills at the end. Honestly that shit drags out for way too long. It would have gone on longer had they given me the sentinel orbs to use. No fucking way would they have gotten past 5x5 cannon arrays with those things up.

[Xallan]

Ah yeah didn't think about sentinels...beat everything on normal was well. 4-0 in practice league, games haven't gone longer than 8-9 minutes. What's your handle? We could rock some 2v2


Also, did you choose Ghosts or the other guys, and prevent nydus canals or air units for the last mission.

I went air so I could mass siege tank. I'm really curious to see how beefy the bosses are on harder modes.

[Zaxxs]

Zaxxs is mine.  

email is rfrankb4@hotmail.com

[Victomizer]

I'm not sure what Faisrole was talking about, about SC2 only having about as many missions as just the Terran Campaign. I've done 19 missions so far, with 3 still on map, plus several left on Zeratul's. SC1 only had 30 missions total (10 per faction), and this one is totally up around that same count so far.

[Xallan]

I noticed a theme while doing campaign mode

DON'T STAND IN THE FIRE

Blizzard should adopt the slogan already

[Victomizer]

Yea, that mission was a joke for a previous SC1 player. I got the Blaze of Glory achievement for that one as well on the first try. It was right when i got that achievement, i said 'forget this', and just started having my units attack my cannons.

If your having problems with this, I've got three words for you, that will make all the problems in this mission go away:

"Build More Carriers"
(Pst, they're still OP as heck )