So, playing SC without sound isn't as bad as I thought it would be. I finally beat that stupid gas level by using a pack of Thors. The level after (I went with Nova) was super fun, totally made up for the other suckier levels.

After I got past that I totally flew through the levels to the final level. Was doing well till QoB showed up the second time and I didn't notice till she had powered through my defenses.

Multiplayer is as much fun as the original. I however did need to change the way I played with Zerg in multiplayer from SC1, Zerglings aren't very good anymore.

- infact I don't build them at all anymore, unless I need a meatshield quickly.

Haven't tried the multiplayer yet. I do kind of notice that zerglings don't seem to be nearly as cool as they used to be though from killing them for so long.

Oh, and funny story, for some reason my cut scenes stopped working. Anyone else have this problem with the patch or something? I didn't realize it was happening at first, and couldn't figure out why everyone was mad at me for

I should really get around to finishing the single player campaign, but I havent noticed any issues with my cut scenes from the patches in the few times I've played.

I guess the only way I've got Zerglings to work is very early in the game, where you dig them in at a bottleneck and literally wait for the enemy to walk ontop of them. But its a very limited strategy, I prefer mass Roaches and some Hydralisks, Roaches rule.

Oh, still no working driver found? Well, at least there's the message log.



Gas Level? That "breath of creation"/"terrazine" stuff?

A big group of Goliaths (16 or so) plus a bunch of SCVs for in-combat repairs worked very well for me.

That's also where I am right now on my second playthrough... that one is rather tough on Brutal.



Yeah, the Nova level (also went with her, she is so much cooler than that Tosh guy ) was very nice.



Heh. Yeah, she can be pretty tough. And you do not hear the warnings... have to have a close watch on the minimap then, I guess.


No issues here, either.



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Thanee

Marines + Medics! Just make sure you have the Medic upgrade that they don't require tech labs to build.

I played Engine of Destruction on brutal, trying to win by letting the odin mostly take out the bases with wraiths to knock out dangerous targets. That didn't work so well. So I just ended up constantly building Battlecruisers and I won the map easily enough. Did the same thing with Media Blitz, Battlecruisers. After knocking out all the bases, I just started massing a bunch of battlecruisers. I ended up with 195/200 supply on the map, which included 12 Marines, 2 Siegebreakers, and about 8 SCVs while the rest was Battlecruisers. Easy. I'm down to four missions left on Brutal; In Utter Darkness, The Invasion of Char, All In, and the final mission where you knock out the space platform (I had done Belly of the Beast on my previous campaign).

Yeah, finally took it in to a repair place today, they couldn't figure it out right away, but they're looking at it. I really don't want to send it in to acer because then I won't have it for a couple weeks, and it isn't under warranty any more, so it'll likely cost a ton too.

Yep, that's the level. Goliaths don't seem to do as well with those anti-armor ray ships running around on the higher difficulties. Then again, they were murdering my Thors anyway since they do fairly sucky air damage.

Yep, she is fairly easy to notice there, so I've gotten used to scanning the MM more often (likely a good thing) and the message does come up on my screen that says 'class 12 psychic etc' so after a couple more tries I've noticed it. I still have problems with the overlords dropping stuff behind my front lines because I don't get the under attack messages.

Yeah, realized that when I talked to him, but it was still a big 'WTF?' moment.

So I finally got around to finishing the campaign on the weekend, little pissed off though (not relevant to the campaign) as I got logged off about 8+ missions before the end, so did not get a -single- achievement for finishing those levels. Too lazy to go back and finish it again ^.^ that takes time off my SC2 multiplayer time.

Hmmm? I had the same problem when I was playing the arcade machine Lost Viking (the best before that was bronze level, making it to the third level, but not beyond; this time I made it to level 12, with solid gold).

But, some hours later, when the achievement server was back on, I got my achievements in there.

Maybe you got them, and you just don't know it? Maybe check the Mission Archive or Achievements page.

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Thanee

Unfortunately you can't back-fill achievements. Something similar happened to me and I never got the achievements. Had to go back and replay em'. Maybe you got yours later because you were still logged in and it was the achievement server that was down?

No, I didn't have them when I logged out, and I later logged in and out again, still nothing... and laaater, I suddenly had them. *shrug*

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Thanee

Nah, still says I dont have the achievements - and on my profile page says I havent finished the campaign


On another note, fisty, is this you?
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/181/star...aft-2-a-847811/

Well, that's too bad.

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Thanee

Blizzard has done retroactive achievement granting in World of Warcraft based on factors other than you completed this achievement right now.

For example, if you had completed the quest Draconic for Dummies, you would have been given the achievement for clearing the Onyxia and Molten Core raids when the achievement system first went live.

There are a few achievements that I can think of that can be retroactively granted in SC2.

All the upgrade achievements. They can easily check if you have the upgrades already completed.
Hard/Brutal 5/10/15/20/25. I've noticed those achievements have had some issues, but they can cross check them with your progress on the achievement to beat every mission on Hard/Brutal. If you have 25 missions on that achievement, they could give you the Hard/Brutal 25 achievement.

Also, in case you didn't know....

You can tell if someone in your game has a Collector's Edition, as long as they build a Thor. All CE players have a different Thor model.

Normal Thor
Collector's Edition Thor

Nice, I didnt know that about the Thor. I wish I had the Collectors edition, but they sold so fast around here that I missed out.

Yep, I ordered mine like half a year ago to be certain to get one.

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Thanee

I usually order the games I desperately want, but for what ever reason I didnt for SC2, very unusual for me. I guess in my mind I couldn't beleive it was coming out, its been something I've been looking forward for for over 10+ years.

Kind of like Duke Nukem 'Forever'.

There's also a Mini-Thor pet if you have a World of Warcraft account on the same B.net account as Starcraft 2. I swear, it increases my DPS by 100.

I've just noticed there are a bunch of us on the boards who play. Would anyone be up to forming a 'clan' of sorts? Or just having regular/semi-regular meetups and then beating the snot out of each other for bragging rights?

I'm always eager for a game, but I doubt anyone would be available in my time zone AEST.

The bigger problem might be the region divide.

US players cannot play with Europe or Asian players, because they are all in seperate regions (unless you get the game multiple times, that is).

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Thanee

Really that is a bit shit.

A bit? Son, that right there is a turd the size of Mount Rushmore.

That sucks about the region stuff. My name is the same in SC as here, if anyone wants to look me up. Think my character code is... 745? Yeah, it is.

Oh yeah I forgot about the region thing, it costs $5 to buy another battlenet login for another region, I really didn't like how they set that up :/

Well, it is nice that they at least provide some means of it, but it kind of sucks that you can't just... you know, go to other regions like you used to be able to.

Yeah, I heard some pr0 players having a whinge, because they can't fight against different regions players to get some diversity on tactics, as different regions play differently to others.

Btw glad to see your still alive Karoline

Havn't heard about that $5 option, yet (and cannot find anything in my account to do that either; how do you get there?).

I did know that they were planning to have some way to soften the region borders somewhat, though.

I guess there were a lot of complaints about that.

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Thanee

Thanks for the concern

I do have a tendency to drop off every once in a while, I'm very moody like that. It's usually a combination of being interested in other things for a while and having no concept of time, and not realizing it's been a couple weeks since I last posted

Heh sorry I don't know where to do it yet either tbh, but I remember it being mentioned as an official SC2 comment, perhaps it hasnt been setup yet?
Or perhaps you need to purchase a separate account per region (and can't upgrade your current)?




Heh all good, just glad your back for Shadowwars

well i bought this game today. damn 65 bucks. But I decided to reward myself nontheless. If this is like warcraft 3 then it will be well worth it, in terms of gameplay and all. Haven't installed it yet, gonna wait till after the wife yells at me for buying it, with the palet cleansed then I will enjoy.

Fortunately it is not like WarCraft 3. It is much better!

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Thanee

I decided not to tell the wife. I've only played 3 missions so far, gonna try and pace myself to make it last. Its reputation proceeds itself, the game so far is all i expected and more. Great graphics, interesting storyline, characters and music. Looks like you can get certain achievements for each mission (like playing on easy, intermediate, or hard mode). The game seems to be well worth the dough.


The down side is you have to have a battlenet account to even play the game. When I installed I was amazed that you had to register before playing. I put the game on my account I already had on WOW when blizzard forced me to merge my wow account with battle net. You have to log onto the battle net account before playing the game and sure enough, i see my real name on it. If I knew this little tidbit, I definately would not have bought the game, my own picadillos and paranoia about having that info for peeps to see. It is unfortunate, but it seems it might be the case with all blizzard games.

the game is definately worth the money, if you are not a crank tin foil hat wearing crack pot like I am, having personal information on display isn't bad at all. I give it 4 thumbs up, 5 if i can somehow take all that private info off.

On the bright side, it doesn't actually display your real name to other people. You have to do something special to have them see that. I think if they're an account friend as opposed to just a WoW or Bnet friend they can see it, but just random people you are playing with, and even your normal friends, won't see you're real name.

Yep, only your "Real ID Friends" (i.e. when you add someone to your friends list not by username but by email and the other person agrees to it) can see your real name.

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Thanee

Well i finished the campagin awhile back. It still reatians my 4 out of 5 thumbs up raiting, still hate that I have to log on to play the game. New complaint was that it was way too short and it was in danger of dropping to 3 out of 5 thumbs, but then i realise that most games nowdays are not like they used to be so I forgave them.

I've just been playing the A.I. and have yet to play a real person for battles. the 3 play co op is kinda fun. Getting all the achievements for each mission is alright though can be frustrating at times.

as before good game if you got 65 bucks to burn.

I find, that the higher difficulties add quite some replayability. And then there are the Challenges.

It's quite ok for content.

As for logging on... I think you do not need to. You can play the single player campaign as a "guest", which is playing offline.

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Thanee