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Vokasak
Profile Joined July 2010
United States388 Posts
July 30 2010 06:23 GMT
#81
I've only tried Welcome to the Jungle on Hard, but there I was able to easily stop any alter from getting sealed using a small squad of reapers. Does the same work in Brutal? Or do they have too many defenses on the way? On hard I could get to any alter right from the beginning with reapers and take no more damage than a stalker shot or two.
Practical wisdom is the combination of moral will and moral skill
Doomgaze
Profile Joined March 2010
Sweden89 Posts
July 30 2010 06:27 GMT
#82
On July 30 2010 11:20 AlienAlias wrote:
I made the huge mistake of choosing to remove the nydus worm and face broodlords on All-in. To make things worse, I have no credits and my Vikings aren't upgraded for AoE damage.


Reload a previous state of the campaign to chose the other route or to collect funds to up turret/viking/bc
PhallicAgressor
Profile Joined March 2010
52 Posts
July 30 2010 06:32 GMT
#83
lmao i'm getting tossed on the ALL IN mission. I can get past kerrigan's first appearance. Right after that it gets really damn hard. Like 4 nyduses appear at once, and my cash is low due to constant spending. What is your defense layout like? Rines in the bunks? any perdition turrets? Do you D farther back in your base, or up at the ramp. It really sucks once the overlord mass comes in, its all downhill from there, and i ALWAYS have to use my artifact blast right after kerrigan comes the first time.
Crazyman1932
Profile Joined July 2010
1 Post
July 30 2010 07:38 GMT
#84
Hey OP, I got a question.



If I missed the secret level, and I already completed the game on brutal, do I have to do another brutal go around just for the secret level? Or can I just do all of the other levels on the easiest mode and then nab the secret level on brutal?

I really don't want to have to reload back 3+ missions :/
silverwind
Profile Joined August 2009
Canada40 Posts
July 30 2010 08:22 GMT
#85
On July 30 2010 09:17 Shauni wrote:

Show nested quote +
On July 30 2010 09:14 silverwind wrote:
I need help with media blitz, what do you guys take out with odin? Also what's the best way to open? I always lose about 500 hp on the initial marines

What do you follow up with?


You're supposed to lose a lot of hp on the initial marines (I lost like half), just be careful later and you'll take out most of a base anyway. It doesn't really matter which, but I took out the one to the right. It's good to have him alive though so don't get too low on hp. After you've killed off a base just take another expansion and chill for a little while. I only made thors and scvs at that map and it worked really well.


Alright thanks, I only have this and all in left on brutal, I'll try massing thors.

I got through a lot of brutal missions by turtling till I had a giant force
Mintzsquee
Profile Joined July 2010
United States1 Post
July 30 2010 09:00 GMT
#86
I'm having trouble doing Gates of Hell on Brutal.
I've done every other mission fine so far.
Any tips?
devilesk
Profile Joined May 2005
United States140 Posts
July 30 2010 09:10 GMT
#87
The Dig took me a while, especially trying to break the toss bases to get to the artifact shrines. I was holding my base well, but with the building at only 25k hp left, I realized I had no chance to push out to get to the research artifacts.

But then I realized that I could bypass all of that by just sneaking vikings to them to get vision for the drill and that made it ridiculously easy. Once the shrine died, I just morphed a viking to pick it up. Meanwhile I just held my base with masses of siege tanks and walled off with planetary fortresses.
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NonFactor
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Sweden698 Posts
July 30 2010 14:32 GMT
#88
Btw guys here's a tip for research artifacts that should maybe be added:

If you need artifacts, a simple way to get them is Scan > Mule. This even worked on Supernova when I accidentally missed an Artifact, the mule stayed alive long enough to get the artifact.
pieisamazing
Profile Joined May 2009
United States1234 Posts
July 30 2010 14:40 GMT
#89
How do I get the optional missions to count? Do i have to start the campaign over and get to them again and do them on brutal? I don't mind but I've done them each like 3 times each but it never counts.
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Casta
Profile Joined April 2010
Denmark234 Posts
July 30 2010 15:19 GMT
#90
Im really having trouble on the last mission All-In on brutal vs the flyers. Ive tried lots of different strategies.. mass wraith, mass battlecruiser even mass thors and I still can't even charge the artifact much past 60% before getting overrun.

The problem mostly is Kerrigan herself softening up a choke so much that it will get overrun after she dies and thor cannons and yamato cannon don't seem to do the intended damage.

Another problem is the broodlords wrecking havoc within a few moments if left un attended. Im seriously considering reloading and taking the nydus one instead, unless I get some kind of idea on how to deal with this map.
MangoTango
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States3670 Posts
July 30 2010 16:00 GMT
#91
To kill Kerrigan easily, get a couple Thors and repeatedly stun her to death. She can't do anything. If you choose not to do this, at the least, get PFs and tanks.
"One fish, two fish, red fish, BLUE TANK!" - Artosis
kzn
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States1218 Posts
July 30 2010 16:01 GMT
#92
K, since I'm an achievement whore and I want my points, I'm just gonna ask about how people did the missions that give me trouble on Brutal (that aren't already addressed in the OP):

Haven's Fall - not a clue what to do here. I tried going tanks for defense and then pushing out, but by the time I felt safe pushing out I was getting hit with broodlords which fucked everything up.

Media Blitz - So far I haven't put a huge amount of effort into it since when I try seriously to beat missions I'm having trouble with it tends to take 40+ minutes per attempt. I had success with just mass thors on Hard, but that was because the AI doesn't focus SCVs on hard so I could just mass repair.

For that matter, if people have got the achievements associated with either of these (specifically the "in less than X minutes on Hard" ones, I'd like to know how >.>

Like a G6
pachi
Profile Joined October 2006
Melbourne5338 Posts
July 30 2010 16:14 GMT
#93
Haven's Fall - For this mission, i just got a couple tanks and walled in my main, while I massed vikings. The first two nexus you can kill from the cliff. Just take out the prisms and land on the cliff shooting the nexus. For defending the ships, it helps if you get vikings there while the colonists with guns are still alive as a meat shield. For the final nexus, you will need to clear a spot for your mass of vikings to land (top corner of minerals is ok), but you should have enough to kill the base. Purifier is easy because I never noticed it shooting air, only ground.
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kzn
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States1218 Posts
July 30 2010 16:32 GMT
#94
That's Safe Haven, Haven's Fall is vs Zerg when you decide to cleanse the planet with RIGHTEOUS FIRE etc
Like a G6
Snowfield
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
1289 Posts
July 30 2010 16:50 GMT
#95
All in: you don't have to kill the nyduses, i did this mission well with just siege
davec
Profile Joined July 2010
2 Posts
July 30 2010 17:24 GMT
#96
So im new so i got three days to make a post but i think this is prolly my best place for a question...
I have completed ALL missions on brutal BUT The Morbius Factor, Sinster Turn, Echoes of the Future, its not giving me the achivement for it. I went back and open my Auto saves it says difficulty "brutal" i redo the last 5 mins and still nothing. Any idea why? do you need to do the optional achivements??? really fustrating that i completed all missions on brutal but no achiviment...
I went and check what mission still need to be done on brutals just those three left. But i already done them. twice...
RumZ
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States956 Posts
July 30 2010 17:52 GMT
#97
For All In - People talk about BC's being great, but the problem is that they are much pricier than Banshees and cant cloak for killing Nydus worms.

I highly suggest making Banshees to deal with Nydus worms to alleviate some pressure off the tanks.

A++
ArC_man
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States2798 Posts
July 30 2010 17:58 GMT
#98
Haven's fall I just massed m/m/m (started with 1-2 rax, got up to 4-5) and vikings (2 port with reactor). Massing vikings alone can take out any village that's getting infested (kill all the air units then land). A group of m/m/m and vikings will take out any already infested base with ease (charge in with the m/m/m and pick off all air units w/ vikings following). I never really had any problems with defense, just remember to keep making m/m/m and vikings and whatever reinforcements you get should defend everything pretty easily.
atom1555
Profile Joined July 2010
2 Posts
July 30 2010 18:20 GMT
#99
Anybody has a strategy for the protoss mission "A Sinister Turn"? The re-spawning boss is keeping me in my base. I tried moving out to clear the right side with zealots and stalkers and I got pounded hard.

I finished the campaign on hard and this is my 2nd run doing brutal.
Adder
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States31 Posts
July 30 2010 19:51 GMT
#100
On July 31 2010 02:24 davec wrote:
do you need to do the optional achivements??? really fustrating that i completed all missions on brutal but no achiviment...

Yes. To get a mission to count as completed on Brutal for the purpose of achievements, you must beat it on brutal AND complete ALL the objectives, including the secondary ones.
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