launch Time for HotS

Grimebox

General unit composition as the game went on for me:

Pure queen at first and lings/spines with extra cash.

Then queen and roach. Add in lings with speed, leap and auto-spawn to constantly reinforce.

Then queen/roach/hydra/ling/ultra, A-move and roll over everything with ease.

Queens constantly heal everything. Free lings act as buffer for other units. They get back to fight so quick with speed/leap. Do not morph banelings as your free lings will not return. No micro required, just heavy macro.

Gbear

Started into the brutal campaign. Far more interesting.

I finished the second mission with only Kerrigan and 1 Swarm Queen left and no more minerals.

I don't think I died once in the hard playthrough but I've already failed missions a load of times.

I'm not entirely sure why it's so much harder. Enemies seem to kill me faster but they've only had 11 upgades so far so I don't really understand why they're murdering me so much more.

SeantheMan

What did you make of the story ?....

Just finished it there...it's...ehh...well its was very good up until near the end when it got a bit

lovey dovey jim raynors my hubby - I'm gonna destroy this human planet jim......I'm angry with you Kerrigan, actually, I've changed my mind, you're hot even as a zerg, I'll help you and the zerg and we can kill loads of humans together and then you can fly off as an angel. It's all good.

murphzor

SeantheMan wrote: »

What did you make of the story ?....

Just finished it there...it's...ehh...well its was very good up until near the end when it got a bit

lovey dovey jim raynors my hubby - I'm gonna destroy this human planet jim......I'm angry with you Kerrigan, actually, I've changed my mind, you're hot even as a zerg, I'll help you and the zerg and we can kill loads of humans together and then you can fly off as an angel. It's all good.

Blizzard(Chris Metzen) cannot write a story.

Grimebox

I thought the whole story was meh. I wrote about it elsewhere



"The story seems to be told well in terms of voice acting, cut scenes and the missions themselves are inventive, but I'm not sure if the actual plotline is written too well. I didn't realize it was essentially a love story. They all seem like different characters in SC1. So all of Raynor and Kerrigans motivation was just so they could be together? I'm not all that happy with that disposition so far (only mission 3 mind you)"



"Much shorter than the original. Technically there is the same number of missions but I'm not counting the evolution tutorial missions whatsoever. It is far to easy as well. I beat all the levels on the hardest difficulty setting bar one. I think they were trying to hammer home that the nature of the zerg is overwhelm your opponents. Building a ton of units and over running everything just isn't hard at all though. Very little precision micro required at all, if any. Last missions got even easier with Kerrigans ridiculously overpowered abilities, one of which spawns an entire army from the sky... you can almost beat the last few level with her alone.

The missions do vary like the original which keeps it interesting. The new evolutions for each unit keep it fresh too.

The storyline is the usual rubbish from Blizzard theses day. The whole premise is a love story and apparently Kerrigan is hell bent on revenge. It didn't do it for me at all. She doesn't seem like a real character at all. She comes out with cliché one liners non-stop. Her abraisive nature cuts short any conversations which could get interesting. You hear some people calling for blizzard to make a feature length film. I say they shouldn't embarrass themselves. They make fantastic visuals for cut-scenes but that's about it. The supporting cast were decent. Especially the creature in the evolution chamber and the return of Stukov from brood war"

Gbear

Didn't much like the bland

uber-baddie being introduced. Eamon I think his name is :P.

Maybe could've been a bit more creative. The bit from In Utter Darkness in WOL where he says "I love it when a plan comes together" was fairly silly. I'm not sure they get the A-Team in the void.