The $$$$ credits

On August 02 2010 17:26 Silu wrote:
1. Gather up ~1M$ without buying any upgrades on some easy difficulty
2. Save the game
3. Buy yourself an achievement
4. Reload the game
5. Goto step 3

I assume the achievements were what you were trying to get :p

On August 02 2010 17:26 Silu wrote:
1. Gather up ~1M$ without buying any upgrades on some easy difficulty
2. Save the game
3. Buy yourself an achievement
4. Reload the game
5. Goto step 3

I assume the achievements were what you were trying to get :p

How long it takes to finish "In the Utter Darkness" in casual mode and how much you get from it?

On August 02 2010 17:39 justiceknight wrote:


must it be 1M?? what u mean buy myself an achivement??

On August 02 2010 19:20 Nihility wrote:


There are achievements for getting all the upgrades in one section, so first time you reload your game you buy all the upgrades in let's say, vehicles. You get the achievement for that and then you just reload your save again for another achievement.

On August 02 2010 18:38 semantics wrote:
I just do casual liberation day takes me 2 mins and i still get the credits i dont need to gather crap just complete a mission and touch the console.

On August 02 2010 19:33 justiceknight wrote:



oh ok i see what u meant,ok so now i need to get as many upgrades so i can play Char easily,need $$ though.I just played the "ghost in the chance" ,is it a secret mission because I chose to help Tosh earlier.I complete that nova mission and suppose to get $125000,and when i am on the bridge the $$ didnt credit to me,is it a bug now??

On August 02 2010 20:35 th3b3t0 wrote:
so, can i play missions again and again and still i got credits?

On August 02 2010 20:38 justiceknight wrote:


I only know "in the utter darkness" allows u to get 6 relics and sell them to the lab,even if u are playing Casual mode in that mission,it wastes ur 25 mins every time.I always just mass units and alt tab and do something else.

On August 02 2010 20:42 Lobo2me wrote:

It doesn't matter what mission you do. I had 2 extra zerg relics on the mission before utter darkness and got 20k credits, then I got 3 more from utter darkness and 30k more credits. Now when I do liberation day casual (attackmove from start to end, done in 2:20) I get 50k credit every time.

On August 02 2010 20:50 justiceknight wrote:


i did the liberation casual and didnt get additional $$ =/

Weird, are you 25 in a research with extras?

On August 02 2010 22:46 789 wrote:
Use the credit bug. For some reason they repeatedly pay you for your protoss/zerg researches over 25. So just play the game and amass a good deal of the researches over 25 (I went for 20 for 200k credits) and just replay short missions on casual. I'm able to do liberation day in like 2 minutes and go to the lab and get 200k out of it. Of course you could always hold out for even more researches later in the game to make it even more profitable.

Just something I've noticed - this bug only seems to work when you're replaying a mission you've already beaten. After I noticed this bug I also noticed that it doesn't seem to work when you complete a new mission.

On August 03 2010 01:32 MangoTango wrote:
So I played Liberation again on Casual, did not get additional money. The extra research items do appear to work, so I'm going to spam that to get extra credits. Which level is best for more of those?

On August 03 2010 01:49 789 wrote:
Odd, so the credit bug seems to work for some, but not others? It was definitely working for me. Like I said, when I was using it to buy upgrades I was getting about 200k (was actually 210K) credits after everytime I redid a mission and went back to the lab.



People seem to be doing well with smash and grab. I'd also suggest doing the save/load trick after you build up a substantial sum. If there are upgrades you don't care about you can buy them and get the achievements and then load and pick the ones you reall want.

On August 03 2010 01:51 TheDaemon wrote:
So when can you get extra credits? I'm on Char redoing missions for achievements and don't seem to be getting credits from the missions redone.
And reloading a save where I'm still on the Hyperion doesn't work either...

On August 03 2010 02:53 Superiorwolf wrote:
So you have to load a campaign save from where you're still on the ship, then just redo a mission with relics? Or any mission you want, aka Liberation Day on casual?

On August 03 2010 06:05 socal50 wrote:
heres what my attempt yielded:

i play a new mission, where i got my 25 and got 2 left over. after the mission, i got 20k credits.
i replay the same mission and an older mission (which had 3 and 4 research respectively). after the missions, i got 20k both times

so if that trend continues, then it would be advantageous to avoid the lab if youre near 25 until youve gathered a decent amount of research over the limit. ex: youre at 24, you have 34. you get 100k extra on replays.

or at least thats my current hypothesis from these two plays.

edit: did a couple more on casual, still 20k. so it seems what this does is just gives you the same amount for whatever your latest mission gave you (in research credits)

On August 03 2010 07:24 Chuiu wrote:
So do you not get extra stuff when you're at Char? Because I replayed a couple missions and haven't gotten squat.

On August 03 2010 08:08 Chuiu wrote:
Are we sure it is a bug for getting cash though? Why would blizzard have an achievement thats otherwise impossible to get.

On August 03 2010 07:56 SincerelySaint wrote:
Would someone explain exactly how this works I don't get it and what you're saying doesn't make much sense. So you got through the game and max your protoss and zerg tech then replay missions collect relics and resell them after you've maxed your tech? I didn't think you could regain relics. Explaaaiiinn

On August 03 2010 10:51 Morayfire73 wrote:
Can this bug be used to gain research points if you are in a middle of a play through, or do you need to have one strain maxed?

On August 03 2010 08:25 Superiorwolf wrote:
Basically what happens is that each time you play a mission, the amount of relics you collected earlier over 25 Protoss and 25 Zerg continue giving you money when you go back to the laboratory. So I was playing Smash and Grab on casual getting 3:45 minutes or so and all 4 relics and then going back and getting 80,000 each time. People who had more relics than I did were getting like 250,000 for each mission. I think liberation day might have worked too, but I was thinking getting more relics on Smash n' Grab would give more money, but actually I don't know if that's actually the case.

So what you do is load your game, go to the bridge and hit the mission archives console. Choose the mission you want and beat it quickly on casual and you'll get your money when you go back to the ship and go to the laboratory research console. Then when you are buying your upgrades, save the game before you buy the upgrades so that after you buy the upgrades and get an achievement, you can reload the game and buy the other set of upgrades, etc.

On August 03 2010 12:10 justiceknight wrote:
3) the missions $$ abuse
I havent figure much yet,currently i just play liberation and go to lab after that ,still get 40K for selling relics even though that mission doesnt have relics.Liberation only takes about 2 mins.

On August 03 2010 12:16 TheYango wrote:

I think the logic behind it is that when you do new missions, selling relics doesn't actually consume the relics.

Example:
Supposely just got 25 zerg research. The next mission gives you 3 more points in zerg research. This should net you 30,000 credits for selling the bio-samples. However, the current bug is that selling the bio-samples does not cause you to lose them. When you redo liberation day, it re-checks to see if you have samples to sell, and since you didn't lose the ones you sold before, it gives you 30,000 more credits. As you do more missions and build up more surplus, you get more and more money from doing this.

On August 04 2010 02:52 AndyBear wrote:
So if I understand this right, before you head off to char, you can redo missions for Zerg and Protoss relics, get money by selling them, and buy every single upgrade, and then complete campaign and finish the Char missions?