Challenge Difficulty Questions

On July 28 2010 17:30 reprise wrote:
The Expert ones were much easier than the Advanced ones. I got gold on all three Expert on my first or second go whereas Advanced took 3 or 4 tries.

On July 29 2010 00:28 EnigmaZero wrote:
I agree with the OP completely. The expert ones were really really easy, the advanced ones are just about having a "trick". For the ghost/raven one, the trick would be to use auto turrets to tank and kill buildings, since they're worth 7 kills once the broodlings pop out, then just work your way to the middle and nuke it twice for the win. I didn't use a single PDD or seeker missle. Don't overuse cloak either, just let auto turrets tank.

For Psionic Assault, I would say the trick is to use hallucinations to tank the ranged units. Depending on the group, you only need 1-2 hallucinated archons or immortals to tank any ranged group long enough to kill it with a storm and a few zaps. Also, I ended up morphing 2 of my HTs into an archon towards the end once they were out of energy, which helped a lot.

For the zerg one, it was super easy, as mentioned above. All the other units are on hold position so they won't even fight you at all, and NP lasts forever, so it's disappointingly easy.

The "basic" ones took several tries each to get to gold, they were awesome.

On July 29 2010 23:05 psychopat wrote:
I've only tried the basic ones, but it shows that I'm pretty bad at Protoss...

First try, 8 losses on Terran
First try, 8 losses on Zerg
First, second and third try, 21 losses on Protoss... to add insult to injury, that's 1 short of Silver.

I think my main problem is the carriers vs thors... The subset of the map is too small to really run away and let the interceptors do their thing without taking way too many hits on the carriers themselves. I tend to put my templar in that section, but it doesn't seem to help all that much...

On July 29 2010 22:33 Av4st wrote:
I got gold on every mission except the ghost nuke one on the first try. Severely disappointed at the diffuculty of these. I was hoping for something more similar to the really hard sc1 micro maps.

On July 30 2010 02:10 TheYango wrote:

They're supposed to teach players fresh off the campaign some extremely basic things before they jump into multiplayer. They're not meant to actually be difficult for someone who knows what they're doing.

Would have preferred if, for example, you had to do all 3 attack waves at the same time in the beginner missions though. Because I think one of the biggest faults of players starting out in multiplayer isn't just unit control, but multitasking.