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On July 31 2010 03:20 atom1555 wrote:
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.
Use mostly stalkers, immortals and some dark templar. Skirt around the outside and kill the photon cannons, then send in the DTs to clean up.
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Thanks Adder! much appriacted your feedback man!
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I did a Sinister Turn in 17 minutes on Brutal. Basically just mass zealots and dts. Send it straight into the preservers. Hopefully, you have 1 or 2 dts left alive. Kill a statis field and hide in a corner. The boss respawns at the perserver point and wait until he leaves. Rinse and repeat with the remaining fields. The photon canon in the base can't hit you if you are south the of perserver field.
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Heavens Fall can be easily completed by only using nukes. Just build like 6 academies and perma nuke with two ghosts/specters. One control group of vikings is also needed to deal with mutas/brood lords and to give you vision over cliffs.
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I just finished all 29 missions on brutal, I have over 250 saves in my campaign folder, lol.
Haven's fall was one of the harder ones for me, I ended up bunkering the top and bottom of the base to defend against the incoming troops, massed a pretty big mmm ball while the zerg was taking over every base. I had about 5 vikings to deal with brood lords. I took down about 4 bases when I had a big enough force. The abberations were owning my forces though, and I ended up expoing to the top when all my resources ran out. I turtled again until 200 food and completely owned the rest of the bases
I had a completed mission time of 1 hour and 1 minute, probably spent a lot more than that in real play time experimenting with save files though.
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On July 31 2010 11:47 silverwind wrote:
I just finished all 29 missions on brutal, I have over 250 saves in my campaign folder, lol.
Haven's fall was one of the harder ones for me, I ended up bunkering the top and bottom of the base to defend against the incoming troops, massed a pretty big mmm ball while the zerg was taking over every base. I had about 5 vikings to deal with brood lords. I took down about 4 bases when I had a big enough force. The abberations were owning my forces though, and I ended up expoing to the top when all my resources ran out. I turtled again until 200 food and completely owned the rest of the bases
I had a completed mission time of 1 hour and 1 minute, probably spent a lot more than that in real play time experimenting with save files though.
How do you do all the missions? rofl.. I only got to do 22 and it wont let me do shit all now -_-
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Did you miss the crystal ones? There are 4 protoss missions, also there's a secret mission in Media Blitz by killing the science facility on the bottom right. You can also do the other path that you didn't choose by going to the mission archives
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On July 31 2010 12:41 silverwind wrote:
Did you miss the crystal ones? There are 4 protoss missions, also there's a secret mission in Media Blitz by killing the science facility on the bottom right. You can also do the other path that you didn't choose by going to the mission archives
crystal ones? I remember using zeratul to escape some place but then protoss missions ended after that.. so i did 1 protoss mission
when i went to char there was no other planet available lol
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On July 31 2010 12:45 Mobius wrote:Show nested quote +On July 31 2010 12:41 silverwind wrote:
Did you miss the crystal ones? There are 4 protoss missions, also there's a secret mission in Media Blitz by killing the science facility on the bottom right. You can also do the other path that you didn't choose by going to the mission archives crystal ones? I remember using zeratul to escape some place but then protoss missions ended after that.. so i did 1 protoss mission when i went to char there was no other planet available lol
You going to the crystal (from zeratul after the cinematic that he appears on the hyperion) in the lab section of the ship - located at the lower left of the screen. You just keep going back for all 4 of the protoss missions.
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On July 31 2010 03:20 atom1555 wrote:
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.
Protip: Feedback the boss-guy, makes him unable to do anything but autoattack
Except for All-in (which is the only one I have left on brutal), A Sinister Turn and In Utter Darkness were the only ones I had bigger problems with. Walling with DT's on Utter Darkness was a truly awesome tip, thanks a bunch for that one
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On July 31 2010 13:32 789 wrote:Show nested quote +On July 31 2010 12:45 Mobius wrote:On July 31 2010 12:41 silverwind wrote:
Did you miss the crystal ones? There are 4 protoss missions, also there's a secret mission in Media Blitz by killing the science facility on the bottom right. You can also do the other path that you didn't choose by going to the mission archives crystal ones? I remember using zeratul to escape some place but then protoss missions ended after that.. so i did 1 protoss mission when i went to char there was no other planet available lol You going to the crystal (from zeratul after the cinematic that he appears on the hyperion) in the lab section of the ship - located at the lower left of the screen. You just keep going back for all 4 of the protoss missions.
urgh.. but now that i've won the game it wont let me go back...
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For super nova, I found a much easier way, simply have 3 starports pumping out banshee and viking, and waltz your way to victory. And dont rush to the artifact at the end, just do a slow air push. Banshees destroy everything.
Edit: And whatever doesn't get destroyed, the dozen or so vikings behind them with range 9 kill it in the air.
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I think the two hardest missions were Belly of the beast and Piercing the shroud. I had to reload many, many times due to not having played them before going brutal.
What about the other "hard" stages?
All in: Used a save file near the end once, but basically a one-pop. Got all achievments, too.
Utter darkness: Not as hard as people make it out to be. One shotted and got both achievments easily.
A sinister turn: Actually gave me some problems. I underestimated the middle camp and suicided a lot of stalkers there, which caused my bases to get mined out. So I made a bunch of DTs and ran in with cover from zealots to just swing for the fences, which could and should have been done earlier. Also, I was too stupid to think of feedbacking the minion.
Maw of the void: Not difficult, but definitely annoying. I skipped going through the middle and just yamato nuked the generator from the north side.
Rest of the missions were easy as shit, including Engine of destruction, which I read some had problems with. banshee+viking+sv = rape. Killed Loki for achievment, too.
The key is to unlock the broken units asap and not skipping bonus tech.
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Is it possible to beat Train Robbery simply by massing diamondbacks? Or should I do the tank mission first?
Also, I heard upgraded Banshees and Vikings are rape mode, can anyone confirm this?
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On August 01 2010 02:13 TheTuna wrote:
Also, I heard upgraded Banshees and Vikings are rape mode, can anyone confirm this?
yea pretty much especially if you add in science vessels, later missions felt way easier than the early ones this way (a good exemple is supernova which is really trivialized).
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On August 01 2010 02:13 TheTuna wrote:
Is it possible to beat Train Robbery simply by massing diamondbacks? Or should I do the tank mission first?
Also, I heard upgraded Banshees and Vikings are rape mode, can anyone confirm this?
Yes, you can do it with just Diamondbacks. They tear the trains apart.
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On August 01 2010 02:13 TheTuna wrote:
Is it possible to beat Train Robbery simply by massing diamondbacks? Or should I do the tank mission first?
Also, I heard upgraded Banshees and Vikings are rape mode, can anyone confirm this?
Confirmed 100%, even the wraith mission with Odin is trivialized by just having banshees and vikings do all the work, it's absolutely ridiculous.
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Are they able to handle the forces the Dominion throws your way though?
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Terran air makes the base-building missions quite easy on brutal, since the AI still doesn't concentrate its forces well.
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When getting all 29 missions, if you choose a particular path, can you use the console in the bridge to play the alternate choice and have it count? I get the achievement but it doesn't list a time for how long it took me to beat the alternative missions. Basically, can I get all 29 in 1 playthrough using the mission archive thing or do I have to play through the game twice?
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