The problem with the campaign is that its too good.
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//: StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm |OT| Like Riding a Bike
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The problem with the campaign is that its too good.
Heart of the Swarm - Ryan O'Donnell tested and approved.
Basically what I'm going to do, play through on hard not worrying about the achievements just the story, then second run through will be for achievements.
Will probably play some multi at a later time
Haha it was bugging me so bad.
Fusion Pizza
Member
I'm really enjoying the campaign, and unranked ladder matches are great, I keep getting walloped, but i dont mind. Taking out medievacs with widow mines is awesome.
MagicWithEarvin
Member
who's that
Campaign was alot of fun, better than WoL imo though that maybe cause I think zerg is the funnest race to play with. Only complaint was that kerrigan was a little too imba on hard setting and it made the games really short.
Spawn Baneling-Extra splash-jump ability-short cooldown = 1 person army.
Spawn Baneling-Extra splash-jump ability-short cooldown = 1 person army.
AppleSmack
Banned
Unranked matches don't count for placements right?
Former 1UP editor. An appearance of his on The 1up Show created the "problem is that it's almost too good" meme.
pretty sure unranked matches still affect your invisible MMR. So even if you have placement matches, it wouldn't mater;
Fusion Pizza
Member
AdventureRacing
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Grubbys stream is awesome at the moment, also lol at him talking about cannon rushing.
IT most certainly does but it's not like blizzard wants this to be an esport or something
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Yeah, I figured so
Sigh, that definitely sucks.
IT most certainly does but it's not like blizzard wants this to be an esport or something
.TreasureHunterG
Banned
Totally agree. When Legacy of Void comes out they can easily do this.
EscapingJail
Member
Last season I was playing hots beta mostly. 3 Seasons ago I was right outside of GM mmr. top 8 masters.
EscapingJail
Member
Lion Heart
Banned
This is pretty OCD of me but for those who installed HotS through a cd or download client (ie not a patch), do you have a dedicated icon for HotS? I did it through the patch but I wanted a new icon, I still access the game through vanilla WoL :/
Sad I know.
Sad I know.
Just finished the campaign and although i enjoyed it more then i did WOL the ending still left me wanting more.
Also fucking battlenet.. I got disconnected twice during the campaign and achievements didn't trigger for both those missions so i have this gap which is highly annoying >.<
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=366405
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Also fucking battlenet.. I got disconnected twice during the campaign and achievements didn't trigger for both those missions so i have this gap which is highly annoying >.<
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=366405
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http://dexistor371.deviantart.com/art/Heart-of-the-Swarm-icons-for-desktop-341642677
other way round here: 9 TvP 2TvT
It's like that for everyone. If you're honestly OCD about it you can whip up a custom icon in Photoshop with relatively little effort.
Heavy's Sandvich
Member
Just doing a mission per day. I'm too scared to go online.
I, too, have been watching Grubby on my second monitor all day while playing the campaign. Fantastic streamer.
Don't be, no one cares if you lose, that's how you get better.
says the guy who only played one placement match
Heavy's Sandvich
Member
I can't have it consume me, I'd just get obsessed with learning strats etc.
Still wish they'd release Kerrigan as a character in Diablo.
GhostRidah
Member
So when did they change to queen larva thing? I haven't played WoL for over a year, was it in a patch or Hots? Also I guess you get her now just for creep spreading and a early AA option?
Whatever happen to fruitdealer? Does he still play? Was my favorite player to watch back in the day.
Whatever happen to fruitdealer? Does he still play? Was my favorite player to watch back in the day.
I want to see this just for all the crazy strategies people would use
Except they'd have to work on some things... For example: swarm zerglings
Queens have the same abilitys as they have always had in MP
GhostRidah
Member
Oh, so I guess they just changed them in campaign so it would be easier.
ElectricBlue187
Member
man it's so good to be back into Starcraft. I missed it. Only now I feel like I'm starting from square 1 again hah. At least I remember the Terran keyboard shortcuts from WoL even if I have no idea what these new units do or what builds are good
heh, when I (most likely) get this over the weekend, that's probably the way I'll do it. It's weird; I'll play pretty much any game online, but I have a crippling fear of online RTS. Such a weenie.
Streaming some 4s with a friend, we are pretty awful! http://www.twitch.tv/alphring/
i'm not sure how possible it is to play protoss with standard anymore. too many control groups are required for anyone not willing to reach over to 8-9-0.
i don't recommend straight grid though, they are rarely efficiently laid out; come up with something similar but more optimal. i generally put all my abilities on QWERF, scattered depending on importance (big ticket spells are generally on F, spammy spells on Q, "don't touch this unless you're sure you've got the right unit selected" on R for example) using 12345TGCVB for control groups.
I don't know if this is the right place to ask, but recently Starcraft 2 has been stuttering a bit so I was wondering if anyone else experienced this problem. It doesn't show that my framerate drops or anything but every so often it stutters and has become quite annoying. My computer can definitely run the game fine and it didn't start happening till a few weeks ago. I don't have HoTS yet but I'll probably be buying it within a week or two! Thanks for any help and sorry if this counts as spam.
Moff
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there are different reasons for turning her human
1. the samus aran effect. she needs to lose her abilities to get them back as upgrades.
2. Zeratul is convinced that she is needed against the dark voice, but she is a mad mass murderer, so he and jim decided to turn her instead of killing her. she needs to control the zerg though, how else is she supposed to help against amon? so zeratul lets her get primal zerg powers which make her independent from amon, the dark voice, and let her become the primal queen
3. samir duran needed her so be purged from her powers, so he can use that power to awaken amon, the dark voice, so he lined up everything for that to happen, starting with making rayonr find xel naga artifacts with tychus.
1. the samus aran effect. she needs to lose her abilities to get them back as upgrades.
2. Zeratul is convinced that she is needed against the dark voice, but she is a mad mass murderer, so he and jim decided to turn her instead of killing her. she needs to control the zerg though, how else is she supposed to help against amon? so zeratul lets her get primal zerg powers which make her independent from amon, the dark voice, and let her become the primal queen
3. samir duran needed her so be purged from her powers, so he can use that power to awaken amon, the dark voice, so he lined up everything for that to happen, starting with making rayonr find xel naga artifacts with tychus.
This is actually explained in on of the dialogues with arabthus, your evolution master. he says the primal zerg adapted these new formes immediately after you landed, he is actually quite annoyed by it because they were apparently of his design
I really like the story and where this is going, for that I can even deal with some metzen cheese that makes me cringe sometimes.
the campaign was good, but not excellent like WoL, it just feels terribly small compared to WoL. Wings was so fleshed out and polished, with so many characters, funny/silly side stuff like the news, clickable items on the hyperion. WoL had these amazingly detailed mission brifings and a protoss mini campaig. it just felt so epic and polished. I cant really say that for swarm, though I am glad they managed to still deliever completely different missions with great gameplay, after all that was the most important part of WoL and made its campaign the best in RTS, yet.
I just hope Void will be released withhin a year, I know thats not gonna happen, but damn, over 2 years for swarm was clearly too long. too long for what we got now.
Cool explanations! I think I can digest that a bit better actually. Can you explain how
Amon got revived? I thought we foiled Narud but he just says "loltoolate he's alive" before he dies?
Peeled off energy or something from the firing of the xel naga artifact that turned her human
Hahaha! this bothered me a lot as well, it's relieving to know that I wasn't just imagining it and that I had heard that particular robot voice before.
Wow, this campaign is MUCH more fun on Hard. I just did the mission where you use the creep tumors. It was actually challenging, and rewarding when I learned to play better. Yum!!!
Normal was way too boring. When Legacy of the Void comes out, I'll remember to start on Hard.
Yeah, it was a terrible mistake on my part. I still feel all my criticisms were valid for Normal, since most people would play on that difficulty, but goddamn, Hard is the REAL Normal. Lol.
Crimsonlink
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I'm gonna stick with Normal to get all the achievements first and then do a hard and brutal run.