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forklift
Profile Joined August 2010
United States98 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-22 07:58:18
August 22 2010 07:48 GMT
#101
Psionic Assault was the best/most fun one for me. After I got Gold, I went back and got 300, where it ends. Some tips that I haven't seen mentioned yet (and a few that bear repeating):

1. You only need two forcefields to hold waves from the north (bottom of ramp). You technically need two FF for waves that come from the south (the choke point before the ramps), but you can get away with 1 for the very first wave (kill all the zealots before they get through) and 1 for the tank wave (too big to get through that hole). You only need one for the one wave that comes through the rocks once they go down (that roach/hydra wave).

2. Switch HT after every single storm, sentries I switched after every 2 FF or 1 hallucination. Sentry micro wasn't so important, since FF is so cheap. I didn't have any problems with sentry energy.

3. The protoss waves that come from the S are the most annoying in the whole challenge, you'll need 2 storms at least, 3 minimum when the immortals come.

4. Don't feedback the ghosts. You need to storm the marauders or hydras (depending on the wave) anyway, ghosts die to the storm before the marauders do, it's just a waste of energy.

5. Split your sentries up on both sides of the destructible rocks for the ultralisk--he'll dance around not knowing which side to stand on before attacking the rocks, giving you ample time to DPS. One storm is enough. Rocks should be at yellow or early red when he dies.

6. Dance with the roaches behind the rocks, sentries outrange them. Don't dance with the hydras. You will lose. Bring them down into a clump with a first storm; then when the rocks go down, FF quickly and then storm a couple more times.

7. The viking + MM wave is also pretty annoying. You need two hallucinated archons to take their fire while you storm--probably at least 3 times. Pull back instead of FF and sitting on the high ground, since they'll have vision from the vikings, choke/FF/high ground useless.

8. Battlecruiser gets 3 hallucinated archons tanking, one feedback, one storm, sentries DPSing

9. Mutas also get hallucinated archons tanking while storm/sentries DPS. I imagine guardian shield would be good here, but I didn't bother.

10. The wave with just 2 tanks you need 1 forcefield and nothing else, sentries kill it from the high ground before the next wave.

11. Last ultralisk wave my sentries all died, so I stormed twice and then morphed into archons. Turns out 3 archons (with micro) beats 1 ultralisk, then 1 thor, then 1 mothership (after a bit of kiting to frantically regen some shields). I might do this again just to feedback that motherflipping mothership.

12. Finally, note that the better you do in earlier rounds, the easier you have it later rounds--more units alive = more energy regen/second = more storms before you have to morph into archons.
dim2thesum
Profile Joined May 2010
United States65 Posts
August 22 2010 23:32 GMT
#102
For those doing the opening gambit, you really just have to 1rax Fast Expand and go from there. Make sure you get that gas early. I ended up doing the marines last because of all the extra minerals.
win some, lose some, dim sum
DARKHYDRA
Profile Joined September 2006
United States303 Posts
August 28 2010 19:08 GMT
#103
Dim2 how did u deal with the muta wave if u got marines last?
Sprouter
Profile Joined December 2009
United States1724 Posts
August 30 2010 23:55 GMT
#104
the only challenge mission i had trouble with was psionic assault

finished the terran expansion one with 4:20 time remaining
Lunit
Profile Joined July 2010
United States183 Posts
August 31 2010 01:23 GMT
#105
Great walkthrough of how to get gold in all challenges,
http://nextgenwalkthroughs.com/StarCraft_2_Challenges
Leath
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
Canada1724 Posts
August 31 2010 04:00 GMT
#106
The key for me was discovering you could save along the challenge and load every time to get best results.

The basic levels you can beat with different combination of units, but you can easily get gold by following the tips the game gives you. Sometimes the tip sounds absurd like "Use your carriers against Thors", but it works perfectly.

The intermediate challenge is by far the hardest because of psionic assault. You just gotta save the game a lot, try to beat early levels without casting sentry spells much.
Lings - No spells at all
Marines - Storm
Marines Marauders - Storm
Hydra Lings - Storm
Lings, Roach, Baneling - I think I used storm + 1 Force Field, not too sure.

When the units spawn in the other side, you can cast force fields below (not ramp, but cliff), and kill units from above.

Try to spend quickly the energy of two templars and morph them.

Most levels are actually easy after a few tries.
http://www.kongregate.com/?referrer=Sagess
FiWiFaKi
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Canada9859 Posts
August 31 2010 05:32 GMT
#107
On August 29 2010 04:08 DARKHYDRA wrote:
Dim2 how did u deal with the muta wave if u got marines last?


Ofcourse he got the marines at start, but all you need is 4 marines and 2 bunkers for pretty much all the waves... So he makes 20ish marines when ghosts are done. I think I did one fac, a techlab rax, two reactor ones, and I had almost 2 mins to spare.
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Specaz
Profile Joined August 2010
Lithuania8 Posts
August 31 2010 10:05 GMT
#108
After reading couple of pages of this thread, i completed it(psionic assault) perfectly - 300.
Mothership,battle cruize was scary, until i used feedback;]
Here's the replay:
http://topolis.ktu.lt/~a-t/Psionic Assault - 300.SC2Replay
Sanguinarius
Profile Joined January 2010
United States3427 Posts
August 31 2010 11:39 GMT
#109
Did all the challenges in the first or 2nd try. They really arent too hard.
Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others -Heart of Darkness
Esp1noza
Profile Joined September 2003
Russian Federation481 Posts
August 31 2010 23:16 GMT
#110
Did all 3 basic challenges with 0 units lost each.
BroodWar forever
IsoMuumi
Profile Joined June 2011
Finland4 Posts
June 02 2011 23:05 GMT
#111
Hi

Finished Covert Ops challenge with 410 total kills few days ago.

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n267/Lunideth/Starcraft2-CovertOps30052011.jpg
ClysmiC
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States2192 Posts
June 02 2011 23:52 GMT
#112
Gold for all challenges was pretty easy IMO, but still lots of fun. Psionic Assault was by far the best challenge, despite how easy it was. I got to about 200 kills before losing my first sentry. The spellcaster multitasking and decision-making was really fun though
IsoMuumi
Profile Joined June 2011
Finland4 Posts
July 20 2011 22:19 GMT
#113
I've managed to improve my Covert Ops record from 410 to 501 kills, can anyone top this ?

http://midnightfin.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Starcraft 2/Covert Ops, 501 tappoa.jpg/full
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