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StarCraft: Remastered |OT| Evolution Complete
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And sometimes it's just more fun to do that! I like to mess around and use different ways to win the mission that they didn't necessarily intend.
I used part of the speedrun strat on Norad II, blowing up one bunker to build a barracks, and then breaking the air defenses of the base from the inside in order to sneak Raynor in by dropship. And it was super fun! Of course, with how many missions are just "destroy everything" you can't always do that.
I always do that strategy nowadays (last few years)... much faster than than alternatives.
Once i did it by spamming Drop Ships though. Built 8-12 of them, loaded Raynor in one, just flew through, hoping the one with Reynor would be spared.
My man. What kind of UMS maps were you playing?Just picked this up and have already played a few rounds of UMS games. Definitely going to try and get back into the swing of the regular competitive game as well
unknownstranger
Member
Welp, wish autosaves were a thing. I just had an extremely dumb thing happen. 5th protoss level in the original campaign. I have almost everything cleared, so I send a Shuttle with Tassadar to the beacon. Right by the beacon were 2 Spore Colonies on the high ground I didn't kill. I'm almost directly on top of the beacon, but I forget to drop Tassadar out. The Spore Colonies kill the Shuttle with Tassadar in it, failing the mission. T_T
FriskyrumX
Banned
We really should get a Mini Game Party UMS gaf game going sometime, forgot how much fun that map is.
TheMoon
Member
Yeah, it's a great map. I only discovered it a few months ago. Can't believe the creator managed to cram 128 Mini-Games into one map, and there are relatively few duds in the bunch.
This has been the best part about Remastered's release: seeing the activity levels on Bnet rise once again to nostalgic heights. It's still a niche game given its age and genre, but seeing a nice long scroll bar on the custom games list makes me smile every time I log on.Man it's great to see so many people online
unknownstranger
Member
What you start with for every campaign mission seems so random. Seventh Protoss mission in the original gives you a decent army, a massive bank and most of your tech to start with, while the 8th mission gives you no bank, a small army and only a forge for tech.
Easton Dark
Member
7th you have Tassadar's whole fleet backing you up. 8th it's just the heroes and whoever they can convince to help Tassadar despite his orders.
AdventureRacing
Member
unknownstranger
Member
Last few Protoss missions in the original campaign are a big step up in difficulty compared to the rest of the missions. You can't just build a big army and A-move. I tried doing that in two different locations in the 8th Protoss mission and got wrecked in completely different ways lol. One side I got frozen repeatedly and slowly picked apart, and the other side I got Stormed to death. Got through it and tried the 9th mission. I hate needing separate bases to mine minerals and gas unless you want to put like 10 Probes on gas to mine it efficiently. A few of the Zerg missions were like this but building more Hatcheries to produce faster is never a bad thing. Ended up losing because Fenix got cornered by Cracklings and already had little health from previous fights and Defilers, but I have a better idea on what to do now.
I think they re-recorded a lot of the voice lines. There's a option to go back to original.
I don't think Kerrigan's old VA does VA anymore so I don't think hers have been re-recorded. Switching back and forth between original and updated voice overs don't reveal any large differences to me but they could be mastered sligthly different. Would be interesting to see a 1-1 audio comparison without having to exit through the main menu to switch it.
Yep I still have to check my options every time I log in lol. Worse is the ladder situation which is totally screwy; people taking losses when their opponents disconnect, W/L not being recorded properly, MMR errors. I want to get back to it but gonna wait for them to fix all that first. Strange that bugs this big made it to release.
FriskyrumX
Banned
Yeah it was working for a bit after the patch with the settings but now they're just reverting them selves again, I have to keep turning on V-Sync or my game keeps pushing my graphics cards really hard and pushing them to like 82C+
Starcraft 1 confirmed the new Crysis of our time.
Starcraft 1 confirmed the new Crysis of our time.
Seth Enosh
Member
Is there a NeoGAF channel on bnet or any cool channels where people are idling?
Can anyone answer this question?
Built-in latency was reduced to LAN level latency some time ago, i think.
Seth Enosh
Member
When creating a custom game there's an option to adjust the "turn rate" which I think is the tick rate. The max is 16 which I guess is probably what it was on LAN in the old days. Edit: people on TL have a breakdown but apparently the default of 8 is close to Lan http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/brood-war/428360-bw-general-discussion?page=198
I don't know what it is set to on ladder. Edit: this forum in bnet says 8 is the default on ladder https://us.battle.net/forums/en/starcraft/topic/20758606498?page=1
There's also an options menu choice for network which can increase the latency, my setting was defaulted to the lowest latency so I assume it's the same for everyone unless you're playing someone who has changed that setting.
Foxy the Fox
Member
Worst job ever
Except the SC1 Advisor isn't an AI. Looks like a cybernetic human, like the Science Vessel.
At least on the original graphics, the HD version has made the Advisor a bit more robotic.
That said, cybernetics could certainly take care of dizzyness.
I just installed it and couldn't get the game to launch even after restarting Battle.net several times, so I've just uninstalled it, restarted, and am trying again. Hoping it works soon.
If it won't work, try logging out before closing Battle.net.
I just installed it and couldn't get the game to launch even after restarting Battle.net several times, so I've just uninstalled it, restarted, and am trying again. Hoping it works soon.
Check your antivirus. My friend had the same issue and that was the issue.
I just tried that, still not working.
I am trying to run it on my Mac; I confess that I'm not even running an antivirus program. <_<
In the error message link, it does say:
"Failed to launch a critical file. Please close all other applications, temporarily deactivate your anti-virus software, and try again. Alternatively, log in as an administrator and try again."
Those instructions don't really help me, so I'm not sure what I should be doing.
Looking at Blizzard's common issues post (https://us.battle.net/forums/en/starcraft/topic/20758517787), there's a section that notes something about hotkeys/options not appearing. The solution on Mac may be creating new admin user. Now, while the issue is different, you could try that to see if it solves the launching issue.
Otherwise there don't seem to be anything like this. Nor did the bug report or technical support forum yield any help with quick look.
But... i did find something else. Actually WoW-related but the error message seems to be similar. Apparently "failed to launch critical file" indicates an ".app" file is missing.
You could check what was done here and apply that to SC:R.
Otherwise there don't seem to be anything like this. Nor did the bug report or technical support forum yield any help with quick look.
But... i did find something else. Actually WoW-related but the error message seems to be similar. Apparently "failed to launch critical file" indicates an ".app" file is missing.
You could check what was done here and apply that to SC:R.
I just made a new Admin account, no luck.
That is incredibly tedious-looking.
So, I can't even do all those things. I can't delete the Blizzard folder (or rather, I don't want to because I don't know how deleting it would affect anything else Blizzard-related I have installed) and I don't even have any of those other things that were listed installed or on the computer or whatever. So I can only put the first thing in the trash. And I can't use either of those links to install it directly; it doesn't even show up on the website. I can only install through the appwhich I just did, and it still has the same problem.
Well, I was looking forward to this.
I hoped perhaps the proper uninstall method could've fixed things. That said, i don't know how things work on Mac.
That installation thing is weird though. Looking at Download Clients page, StarCraft Anthology is there. Remastered is technically only an update for it (that does need the B.net app). If it appears, you could try that installer. Not sure if it is really different from the app but... maybe it is worth a shot.
Replaying the campaign I once again remember that I don't like how hero units are handled in the game. They're powerful but can die so quickly, meaning that I generally just leave them at home which is kind of boring. Then the current Protoss infiltration mission with Tassadar just insta-killed him from full health, from a trap which didn't even trigger from using hallucinations to scout. Super meh on that.
SpiceMelange
Member
Cap your fps
Seth Enosh
Member
FWIW as a Mac user I'd suggest your best bet would be clearing out all files relating to blizzard and starting fresh. Don't all blizzard games have cloud saves, so you should be able to uninstall everything, search your hard drives, including the "~/Library/Preferences" and "~/Library/Application Support" folders, for any remaining files from anything blizzard related, and then reinstall? (Check on the cloud saves bit before doing it though - or do a full time machine backup so that you can restore back the deleted files.)
Indeed. There is zero advantage with FPS over refresh rate in this game, just cap it to 100 likely.
Play custom maps online. It's the best thing about StarCraft, after all.