Woo! Terran Campaign is fucking done!
This was easily the most time-consuming mission yet. It might look like I've been slacking off, but seriously, I've been playing almost every day. (Save for the weekends when I go out partying.)
I started off by following the strategy guide pretty much to the letter, but ran into massive problems when trying to expand to the central mineral deposits. I kept reloading the game, hoping to fortify the area before being overrun with siege tanks and ghosts, but kept butting my head against the same wall.
Checking online, I came across a speedrun hosted on SpeedDemosArchive.com which gave me my eventual strategy. A wraith rush.
I built the bare minimum of structures required to keep myself up and running (bunkers and supply depots, mostly) before working my way up the tech tree to build 3 simultaneous starports. Then I just started building wraiths. Once I had 2 control groups of 12, I brought them to the eastern border of the army and went all out. One time I had gotten SO close to completing it. I only had 6 wraiths left, but they were cloaked and undetectable, slowly picking away at the Ion cannon. I had it down to a mere 65 life when some damn science vessel drifted by and exposed my Wraiths. I hoped it would burn down on its own, but by the time I'd built an academy and comsat station to check, it had apparently been repaired. I gave up at this point.
I tried once more, this time only having 2 wraiths left from my original 24. But instead, I just kept building more. Before my two were exposed I had amassed a third strike force of 12 more wraiths with even more in production. I swooped in with my third group and finished the cannon off. Booyah!
I'm taking a hiatus from Starcraft for now. I have to send my laptop in to be repaired and this seems like a logical stopping point, since I'll have to relearn pretty much everything when I move over to the zerg campaign. I'll be playing Okami for a while now.
Missions Completed:
The Hammer Falls
Total Complete: 33%
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Progress for September 10, 2009 - Starcraft
I finally completed a mission without consulting the strategy guide! :D
It took me 5 hours and I depleted every mineral deposit and vespene geyser on the map, but I still did it!
I built bunkers and turrets all around my base, and around every ramp to keep the Zerg contained, then built up a small army of ghosts after I effectively harassed a good number of Zealots with Kerrigan cloaked and assumed it meant they were really good for that.
My basic strategy was to bring in my battlecruiser to take out photon cannons, then sneak my ghosts in to call in a nuclear strike, and then move in my dragoons and siege tanks to clean up the rest.
The strategy guide said to pretty much build 8+ battlecruisers and just annihilate everything.
That may have been a better way to do it, but it wasn't MY way.
Missions Completed:
New Gettysburg
Total Complete: 30%
It took me 5 hours and I depleted every mineral deposit and vespene geyser on the map, but I still did it!
I built bunkers and turrets all around my base, and around every ramp to keep the Zerg contained, then built up a small army of ghosts after I effectively harassed a good number of Zealots with Kerrigan cloaked and assumed it meant they were really good for that.
My basic strategy was to bring in my battlecruiser to take out photon cannons, then sneak my ghosts in to call in a nuclear strike, and then move in my dragoons and siege tanks to clean up the rest.
The strategy guide said to pretty much build 8+ battlecruisers and just annihilate everything.
That may have been a better way to do it, but it wasn't MY way.
Missions Completed:
New Gettysburg
Total Complete: 30%
Monday, September 7, 2009
Progress for September 7, 2009 - Starcraft
Finally beat it. The mission time said 3:36, but I'm fairly sure it was longer than that. Probably because I was playing it on slowest speed so I would actually have time to think. I saved copiously, but I never had to reload an earlier save due to mission-ending mistakes.
I'm starting to get the hang of the game better. I'm noticing how many units of whatever type it takes to effectively take out various structures and units. And showing a nuclear missile right up an enemy's command center is just as cathartic as I've always heard.
The book is really helping me, but it's starting to get a lot more straightforward with its strategies. Will the next level be more of the same? "Use siege tanks and goliaths to slowly push forward into the enemy's areas. Repeat."
Once I finish the Terran campaign, I'm going to send my laptop in to be repaired, then I'll start on Okami. I'm sooo close to being done with this chapter. Just two missions to go!
Missions Completed:
The Big Push
Total Complete: 27%
I'm starting to get the hang of the game better. I'm noticing how many units of whatever type it takes to effectively take out various structures and units. And showing a nuclear missile right up an enemy's command center is just as cathartic as I've always heard.
The book is really helping me, but it's starting to get a lot more straightforward with its strategies. Will the next level be more of the same? "Use siege tanks and goliaths to slowly push forward into the enemy's areas. Repeat."
Once I finish the Terran campaign, I'm going to send my laptop in to be repaired, then I'll start on Okami. I'm sooo close to being done with this chapter. Just two missions to go!
Missions Completed:
The Big Push
Total Complete: 27%
Friday, September 4, 2009
Progress for September 4, 2009 - Starcraft
Well, I beat Mission 7, and moved right on to Mission 8. After a 6 hour hiatus of course.
Mission 7 went alright once I built up a massive enough force of vultures, goliaths, siege tanks, and wraiths (quickly becoming my favorite unit). I was able to completely blow through the upper corridor without much resistance. I actually made it the first time I tried, but Kerrigan died the exact second I reached the beacon. It even delivered her closing speech over the "Defeated" dialog box. Damn.
I like how Mission 8 starts you right off with a bunch of add-ons that you can land all your buildings right next to, including TWO command centers with nuclear silos. As well as a pair of ghosts.
I detect nuclear launches in the future.
Missions Completed:
The Trump Card
Total Complete: 23%
Mission 7 went alright once I built up a massive enough force of vultures, goliaths, siege tanks, and wraiths (quickly becoming my favorite unit). I was able to completely blow through the upper corridor without much resistance. I actually made it the first time I tried, but Kerrigan died the exact second I reached the beacon. It even delivered her closing speech over the "Defeated" dialog box. Damn.
I like how Mission 8 starts you right off with a bunch of add-ons that you can land all your buildings right next to, including TWO command centers with nuclear silos. As well as a pair of ghosts.
I detect nuclear launches in the future.
Missions Completed:
The Trump Card
Total Complete: 23%
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Progress for August 30, 2009 - Starcraft
*sighs* I'm about to hit the wall. This game is straddling the line between enjoyable and annoying. It's really quite remarkable; Sometimes I'm having fun, sometimes I'm completely bemused. And I don't know what to do about it. I know if I stop now, I won't get back into it for a long, LONG time. The strategy guide that came with the battle chest has been very helpful, but I have been trying every mission at least once on my own before consulting it. Needless to say, today's mission was an "on my own" attempt. I wasn't doing too badly. I took out the bunkers on the topmost expansion well enough, but I lost my Science Facility to the initial assault. I know next time I'll do better and hold it from the start. I'm sure that will make my Science Vessels much more useful.
Progress for August 29, 2009 - Starcraft
Well, that's another level beaten. Actually rather easy when you know how. But still, the Zerg protector units are ludicrously overpowered. And you know what? I'm pretty damn sure when I'm playing the Zerg campaign, they'll suddenly be crap.
Missions Completed:
Norad II
Total Complete: 20%
Missions Completed:
Norad II
Total Complete: 20%
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Progress for August 27, 2009 - Starcraft
I am really starting to hate this game, and I'm only 6 missions in. I tried 3 times to rescue the Norad II, and every time, the Zerg AI cheats. Honestly, how the hell is this supposed to be fair? You're up against an enemy that can control every one of its units at the same time, issue unique commands to every single one, AND use every unit more effectively than you can without even thinking about it.
The Zerg are supposed to be WEAKER than the Terran! How the fuck can 2 Mutalisks take out a missile turret, when the exact equivalent unit, a spore colony, can stand up to 8 FUCKING WRAITHS AT ONCE?
The Zerg are supposed to be WEAKER than the Terran! How the fuck can 2 Mutalisks take out a missile turret, when the exact equivalent unit, a spore colony, can stand up to 8 FUCKING WRAITHS AT ONCE?
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Progress for August 23, 2009 - Starcraft
Yeah, I officially suck at this game. Mission 3: Desperate Alliance Ended with me surviving with about a dozen units left from my peak of 50+. I won, but only by mere seconds. My first real battle (Mission 5: Revolution) Took me about an hour and a half to complete, and I was constantly losing units and dropships. Literally. I couldn't figure out where the hell they went to.
I managed to beat this one as well on my first try, but it took a long time. There is just way WAY too much going on in this game for me to make intelligent decisions in time. I'm definitely more of a turn-based strategist.
Completed Missions:
Desperate Alliance
The Jacobs Installation
Revolution
Total Progress: 16%
I managed to beat this one as well on my first try, but it took a long time. There is just way WAY too much going on in this game for me to make intelligent decisions in time. I'm definitely more of a turn-based strategist.
Completed Missions:
Desperate Alliance
The Jacobs Installation
Revolution
Total Progress: 16%
Progress for August 22, 2009 - Starcraft
Thus begins my descent into insanity.
I am really going to try to enjoy this game moreso for the story than for the gameplay. That's not to say it's not a good game, but being bad at any game kinda makes it hard for it to be really fun for the player. I think the main reason I always get destroyed in Starcraft, be it by human, computer, or Korean, is that I play it as if I were playing an RPG or a city building sim. I spend time leveling up and building up my little units, occasionally fending off attacks from enemies until I either get annihilated by an all-out better player, or I have such a huge army that I can completely steamroll the opponent. The latter rarely ever happens.
Anyway, I played through the first 3 missions, including the tutorial, and watched the first movie. I'll probably do one more quest before I go to bed.
Completed Missions:
(Tutorial)
Wasteland
Backwater Station
Total Progress: 6%
I am really going to try to enjoy this game moreso for the story than for the gameplay. That's not to say it's not a good game, but being bad at any game kinda makes it hard for it to be really fun for the player. I think the main reason I always get destroyed in Starcraft, be it by human, computer, or Korean, is that I play it as if I were playing an RPG or a city building sim. I spend time leveling up and building up my little units, occasionally fending off attacks from enemies until I either get annihilated by an all-out better player, or I have such a huge army that I can completely steamroll the opponent. The latter rarely ever happens.
Anyway, I played through the first 3 missions, including the tutorial, and watched the first movie. I'll probably do one more quest before I go to bed.
Completed Missions:
(Tutorial)
Wasteland
Backwater Station
Total Progress: 6%
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