EPTStarJeweled Insane Mode - Page 15
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Spacely
United States108 Posts
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Syrupjuice
United States173 Posts
It does take quite a bit of speed to pull it off, but it is a very good exercise for mouse accuracy and keeping your eyes moving. | ||
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Nevex
Germany25 Posts
On June 04 2011 23:39 Flight wrote: I once had trouble beating Medium. Just got against Insane today, saving 1000 for 2 Colossi, then spamming hidra/roach. I got lucky right after the Colossi poped, getting some big combos, then I reached the critical mass and just had to keep it up. Had to reset the board once. Also paused twice to help on some hard matches. I didn't watch the battle at all. At the end my total energy was 4600, against his 6400. Game last 3:16 (blizzard time). this is actually pretty good - i made thie achievement in the 3rd or 4th try with this just get 1000 - look for the next jewels , then spawn 2 colossi after the 2 colossi came out just SPAM A + W ( Like this : awawawawawawawawawawawaw ) then you dont need to focuse what your units are doing since roaches and hydras get spawned 50:50 so u got a good mix ( probably u will get more roaches cuz they need less minerals but even better - they tank the damage ) then u just need to focuse on the jewels - if it doesn't work - try again , you might get better stones i actually never looked at the battle screen til the end *lol* | ||
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crarm
England1 Post
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iNCuBuS_
United States905 Posts
I went with the 2 colossus into spamming roach/hydra approach. I started off with 1000 energy and waited until the enemy got close to my cannons and sent the colossi, then started spamming roach hydra. I definitely ended up with many, many more roaches because they use the energy before it gets up to enough for a hydra while just spamming wawawawaw over and over again. They started to slow my push down, so I just saved up to 1000 again and when they got near my cannons again, I sent two more colossi and spammed roach/hydra again. It was a long attempt (7-8 minutes probably), but I got it. I had 11880 energy and the computer got 13740. | ||
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Draycott
Belgium4 Posts
Tried out diffrent of the strategies which were suggested on this topic, started off trying the tanks one but it always failed for me and so did the rest. Also in the beginning i wasn't clicking fast enough atleast not for the insane mode and the problem was if you start off at a good tempo after various game(s) youre reaction (atleast for me) was starting to slow down and I started to get troubles with finding pairs. How it worked for me: Now how I started off with this was like alot suggested; Try to get as much pairs and as fast as possible constantly and reach 1000 energy. I then spawned 2 Ultralisks, they pretty much cleaned everything but from here on it gets a little tricky if the insane AI starts getting alot of units it might become more difficult, You need to be able to get enough energy all the time to keep healing them when there starting to get like under 65-70%. Eventually I almost breached trough his defences when he suddenly starts pushing again, my ultras near dying but then I got a big combo filled my energy back up to 1000 able to heal them + spawned an extra Ultralist (So 3 in total now) And that was a life savior, with the 3rd one backing up I was able to beat it. This try i was hitting up pairs like a maniac constantly. | ||
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kyanPH
4 Posts
Then I read above tip, and got the damn thing in 2 tries! HA! ^^ Almost everything the AI spawned on the ground gets eaten up by the ultras. Easier to manage my money when I only need to heal the ultras every few seconds rather than pumping out units. When I had extra money, I spawned mutas which couldn't be reached except by the cannons, which were being eaten up by the ultras anyway. Ah... I could almost cry ^^ | ||
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kyanPH
4 Posts
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iNCuBuS_
United States905 Posts
I havent tried this, but I dont see why it wouldnt work if you need the extra little help  | ||
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Tweleve
United States644 Posts
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kyanPH
4 Posts
Nevertheless, to each his own. * Just finished again! 3mins flat this time ^^ yeah! | ||
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PhantomR32
Netherlands17 Posts
4am but I finally got the very hard Starjeweled achievement. Not even going to bother with insane seeing as how much effort this took (probably >5 hours today, tried all the approaches: mass tank, mass banshee, ultra with healing, 2 collos followed by awawawaw, but in the end it was 1 collo + zerg what finally allowed me to push to the end) destroyed the tower with the 3rd or 4th push, had to keep matching to build up to 1000 every time. Pretty tired now! But thanks for the tips, whoever it was  | ||
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Piou
Belgium415 Posts
On June 26 2011 10:57 PhantomR32 wrote: *yawn* 4am but I finally got the very hard Starjeweled achievement. Not even going to bother with insane seeing as how much effort this took (probably >5 hours today, tried all the approaches: mass tank, mass banshee, ultra with healing, 2 collos followed by awawawaw, but in the end it was 1 collo + zerg what finally allowed me to push to the end) destroyed the tower with the 3rd or 4th push, had to keep matching to build up to 1000 every time. Pretty tired now! But thanks for the tips, whoever it was got it the first time i tried (against Insane) using the colossus + roach/hydra strategies. Couldn't get it with the tank. Really, just watch this video and copy the strategy, it's easier | ||
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Bladelore
9 Posts
So I tried for some splash damage. Colossus worked pretty well but i still couldn't finish it cuz the AI would just crap out 2 utras and a colossus so fast. Eventually finished it with ultras. Just keep 200 energy so you can make a quick match and heal your ultra and prison their ultras when you can. Put out more ultras when you have 700~ energy. It was incredibly easy. The only way this ever fails is when the ultras chase the little line of marines and ignore the cannons; then they get shot up by 4 cannons and die. If your ultras hit the cannons, it's win. | ||
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Cyber_Cheese
Australia3615 Posts
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SugarBear
United States842 Posts
I tried a bunch of other strats including ultralisk heal and 2 colossi and it would all just fail. Mass t1 is the way to go right now for sure. | ||
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Chylouk
United Kingdom30 Posts
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zeizei
Finland36 Posts
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DruidzHistory
Sweden231 Posts
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saris84
Sweden48 Posts
On June 27 2011 06:28 Piou wrote: got it the first time i tried (against Insane) using the colossus + roach/hydra strategies. Couldn't get it with the tank. Really, just watch this video and copy the strategy, it's easier http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPX0PT9vJ5o Thanks, I watched your video and BAM! I owned :D | ||
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