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Toony
France27 Posts
So, at the beginning, I was trying to rebuild as often as possible the towers on the edges of my base, was using the gravity spell from the phoenix / helping on mutas. So I was not really able to get and keep the gold mine on the left .. heard that with full towers it was working but ... | ||
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YarNhoj
United States69 Posts
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Mortal
2943 Posts
Having said that, if you want to make it even easier on yourself, graviton beaming the Reavers makes this exponentially more manageable, and can even give you a fighting chance to get all the achievements in one run on brutal. There are absolutely other ways of doing this, like massing VR's, Carriers, etc. The Colossus method just seemed the most intuitive and simple for me personally, but try a bunch of stuff out! If you prefer mobility and just hammering things everwhere and have decent multitasking, VR's might be the way to go. Colossus are just clunky and very passive, which I enjoyed. It allowed me to catch up on Mythbusters while I was doing the mission  | ||
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OneofDays
Canada58 Posts
 ), you can get up to 3400 kills + pretty easily . | ||
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D3ath3nat0r
United States163 Posts
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shoop
United Kingdom228 Posts
On January 28 2011 14:30 D3ath3nat0r wrote:pheonix psuedovowels make my eyes water. | ||
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DarkCount
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Shiladie
Canada1631 Posts
On February 24 2011 08:11 DarkCount wrote: Hi any 1 got In Utter Darkness on brutal save with 2500 kills or smtg for newest patch (1.2.2) There shouldn't be any real change... The reason people see this achiev as possibly so hard is that they lose all their ground units/buildings and fly around with air units trying to still fight. The problem here is that the type of spawning waves change once you have no more buildings left, so they include masses more white hybrids. the best way to get the achiev is to mass void rays and the air upgrades, and then wall off all over with gateways and cannons. Remember the voidrays in the campaign are the oldschool voidrays still, so they rip everything apart with ease. Then it's just micro to lift white hybrids with the free phoenix you get and gg. | ||
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whiteLotus
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Tyrellius
36 Posts
On July 28 2010 12:59 RisingTide wrote: Wait, does the high yield get attacked? I only noticed it on my last playthrough and decided "no, three placed to defend is enough" The high yield does indeed get attacked, but it seems to split the force attacking from the west into two prongs, roughly half goes to each. A load of cannons to constrict movement and 2 or 3 colossi rock the HY, you'll have to rebuild the cannons quite a bit though. Once the archives are saved, I abandon the lower area and place my entire defense on the northern most tip of the upper part. Loads of cannons everywhere with a mothership cloaking a huge army of colossi and either voidrays or carriers and you'll nail the achievement. | ||
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[F_]aths
Germany3947 Posts
On February 24 2011 08:11 DarkCount wrote: You can play it yourself if you build a ton of immortals and upgrade them. They blast away hybrids. Also build some phoenixes to fight his air. Later use either carriers or void rays if you want but you can play it on brutal with the achievement with essentially just immortals and phoenixes. You don't need to take the gold base.Hi any 1 got In Utter Darkness on brutal save with 2500 kills or smtg for newest patch (1.2.2) For the start, save often and go with your main army (which should be reinforced by immortals) where the enemy attacks. You can build some cannons to dump your minerals. Use you phoenixes to snipe mutas and brood lords. In later stages you may be need two control groups of phoenixes to be able to respond in time. You can also use the save-and-look-where-he-spawnes-again trick. Don't lift hybrids because the best counter is go kill them. If you retreat on highground, build additional cannons. Once you get overrun, you probably still need 100-200 kills. Use cannons to snipe zerglings. | ||
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han.
United States51 Posts
That being said, I think the gold expansion is easily worth taking because if you watch the timing, you'll notice that the waves will never come in all at once, so if you have observers at the AI spawning area, you can see where the next wave is coming. Then it's just about moving to that side and killing asap before moving to the next wave. I used this strategy and got full upgrades on everything with the extra resources from the gold expansion. The extra gas is what's really helpful. After that you can just spam colossi/immortals/phoenix and zealots/cannons with spare minerals and it should be pretty easy. I believe I had 10+ warpgates, 5 robos, and 5 stargates. I made it to 3500 kills with that strategy. I dont think the level is designed to be played much further than 3500 kills btw because from there on you get about ~100 hybrids every few minutes which is pretty much impossible with a food cap. | ||
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Happykola
United Kingdom62 Posts
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DoubleReed
United States4130 Posts
I never was able to take the expansion though. They always killed it immediately... | ||
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Dfgj
Singapore5922 Posts
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Rylaji
Sweden580 Posts
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Whitewing
United States7483 Posts
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radscorpion9
Canada2252 Posts
Since the first attacks aren't that strong it should give you enough time to set up. Its also good because you don't need to take the extra gold base as others have talked about (because its hard to defend and stretches APM, making it more difficult for an average player). Of course later on they start bringing in overseers with each attack group - but all you really need to do is start massing pheonixes and pick them off. Then the rest of the forces die off mindlessly. They always bring one overseer per attack (until later in the mission when they send more) - so as long as you shoot them early you're okay I don't remember my playthrough exactly but I remember it being pretty easy (this is on brutal of course). I suppose if you feel you have enough pheonixes you could build some back up collosi and start building tons of cannons in your main as well (since you may as well do something with your minerals when you're maxed). Its more than enough to get the all the achievements (bonus included), and its probably one of the easier strategies as you don't need to have a lot of micro to pick off overseers, until they start spawning 4 per group. But by that point you've practically won | ||
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Mookeypoop
2 Posts
)and the phoenix to kill the air if you know where the overseers are at or where they would be just take your phoenix kill the overseers then run away simple User was warned for this post | ||
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HornyHerring
Papua New Guinea1059 Posts
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