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monad
Profile Joined March 2010
United States156 Posts
August 15 2010 10:04 GMT
#1
I am replaying everything on Brutal now that I've beaten the campaign and I'm trying to plan my mission sequence so that I have Orbital Command before doing The Dig. But I can't remember when / how Orbital Command unlocks in the campaign. It's not an an armory upgrade or a research upgrade that I can see. Does anyone else remember at what point in the campaign it unlocks?
esla_sol
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States756 Posts
August 15 2010 10:07 GMT
#2
could i ask why?

its not like is a mission where it could really come in handly, like the two you have to liftoff. on the dig you can just throw up a cc right away at the natural, plenty of income there.
monad
Profile Joined March 2010
United States156 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-15 10:09:03
August 15 2010 10:08 GMT
#3
To scan the enemy's bases so I can take our their unit production buildings easily with the laser
cascades
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Singapore6122 Posts
August 15 2010 10:16 GMT
#4
Tip : Float rax instead of building mnm with spare mins.
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monad
Profile Joined March 2010
United States156 Posts
August 15 2010 10:56 GMT
#5
Yea I've heard people talk about that, but on brutal anyway my rax always gets decimated before I even have a chance to hit anything worthwhile with the laser. Most of the photon cannons are backed up by multiple pylons, and when you kill the pylons or cannons they just rebuild them. Scan is better, I can take out selective buildings more easily, such as gateways. Or the pylons powering the gateways, way in the back of the bases, so it slows down the waves.
Carnac
Profile Blog Joined December 2003
Germany / USA16648 Posts
August 15 2010 11:03 GMT
#6
Orbital Command actually is an upgrade in the ship's armory, but I don't know what the requirements for its availability are (wondered about it yesterday actually).
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Apollys
Profile Joined July 2010
United States278 Posts
August 15 2010 11:07 GMT
#7
On August 15 2010 20:03 Carnac wrote:
Orbital Command actually is an upgrade in the ship's armory, but I don't know what the requirements for its availability are (wondered about it yesterday actually).


Yeah, it's probably a certain number of missions, although it could be a specific mission completion... Not sure about this either.

Anywa, regarding the dig mission, I was too lazy to get the achievement on brutal, so I just replayed it on hard and, wheeeeee yipeeeee-ki-yayyy
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monad
Profile Joined March 2010
United States156 Posts
August 15 2010 11:19 GMT
#8
Heh, well I'm actually not getting it for the achievement, already got that. I mostly just want it to make the mission easier lol. I can do it without it, but if I can set it up where I have the OC on The Dig, i might as well take advantage of it.
eshlow
Profile Joined June 2008
United States5210 Posts
August 15 2010 15:24 GMT
#9
I'm pretty sure you have to do a specific amount of missions... or it's either complete one of the storylines. I'm not sure about this though.

I got it on moebius mission my second play through, and I know I had it by the dig earlier so I'm pretty sure it's a specific amount of missions you have to play through to access the upgrade in the armory.
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Sanguinarius
Profile Joined January 2010
United States3427 Posts
August 15 2010 15:28 GMT
#10
On August 15 2010 19:16 cascades wrote:
Tip : Float rax instead of building mnm with spare mins.


Works really well

Also never took the expand
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WiljushkA
Profile Joined March 2006
Serbia1416 Posts
August 15 2010 15:42 GMT
#11
i think you get it after you complete one of the zeratul missions, which you can only get if you finish the dig, so id say theres no way to have the orbital command for the dig.
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eshlow
Profile Joined June 2008
United States5210 Posts
August 15 2010 17:02 GMT
#12
On August 16 2010 00:42 WiljushkA wrote:
i think you get it after you complete one of the zeratul missions, which you can only get if you finish the dig, so id say theres no way to have the orbital command for the dig.


Nah, I had orbital for the dig once because I remember scanning a lot.

I still think it's a certain number of missions... maybe 13,14, or 15 completed before you get access to it.

You would pretty much have to finish up the Tosh, Horner, and Hanson mission lines to get Orbital before the Dig though..
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shawabawa
Profile Joined May 2010
United Kingdom417 Posts
August 15 2010 17:14 GMT
#13
I'm guessing the reason he wants OC for the dig is so he can use scan to laser the protoss bases.
buhhy
Profile Joined October 2009
United States1113 Posts
August 15 2010 17:52 GMT
#14
Just wondering, if OC is researched, is there a way to build PF after that?
neobowman
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Canada3324 Posts
August 15 2010 17:55 GMT
#15
Orbital Command upgrades into PF. I know, stupid.

I was thinking, maybe you don't need orbital command. Unlike multiplayer, the general strategy I use is mass up and defend until I'm mined out, then attack. In that sense, you don't need to mine faster at all.
eshlow
Profile Joined June 2008
United States5210 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-15 18:08:37
August 15 2010 18:07 GMT
#16
Also, easiest way to get the achievement even on brutal is to get 1-2 vikings and fly them around the left side to the top of the protoss base and keep them on the ledge there.

Use laser to target protoss buildings... they will keep rebuilding them so you can just rack up free building kills.

Of course you need vikings so that means you had to do safe haven/haven's fall... but that's far faster than doing all of the missions to get to orbital command before the dig.
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Chuiu
Profile Blog Joined June 2003
3470 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-15 20:34:58
August 15 2010 20:34 GMT
#17
On August 16 2010 00:28 Sanguinarius wrote:
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On August 15 2010 19:16 cascades wrote:
Tip : Float rax instead of building mnm with spare mins.


Works really well

Also never took the expand

+1 same here. Mass sieged tanks do the job well of defending.
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monad
Profile Joined March 2010
United States156 Posts
August 16 2010 02:11 GMT
#18
In case anyone is wondering, you get the Orbital Command after completing the 12th mission. It was down to only Engine of Destruction and The Dig, and I really wanted tanks for EoD so I went ahead and did The Dig without the OC. After completing The Dig, Orbital Command unlocked at the Swann's Armory. Since I know people have gotten it before The Dig, the only possibility is # of missions. And for me it was after completing the 12th.
FiWiFaKi
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Canada9859 Posts
August 16 2010 02:16 GMT
#19
I'm just wondering if you tried beating this just by taking your 2nd base early holding with tanks, and mass a huge marine/medic army? You can just stomp them that way, a very easy strategy... If you really want to go out of your way to get an OC; go ahead, but it's really not necessary.
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TriniMasta
Profile Joined December 2009
United States1323 Posts
August 16 2010 03:42 GMT
#20
Really? I remember there was an alternative to it
1) Orbital CC
2) Something else
It wasn't just rewarded instantly, you had to choose. I chose OC because a mule as soon as a mission with like 4-6 scvs helps a lot/
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