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Ebolamonkey3
Profile Joined August 2010
United States23 Posts
July 26 2011 00:55 GMT
#1
Hey guys, is there any way to make money via zerg/protoss research points after the patch? I'm trying to get all the upgrades and hire all the mercenaries. Thanks!
:P
Zephyr_C
Profile Joined May 2010
United States23 Posts
July 26 2011 01:35 GMT
#2
In one play through, it's sadly impossible to obtain the money needed to purchase all the upgrades even with leftover Zerg and Toss research bits. To my knowledge I don't think the patch is changing anything, someone correct me if I'm wrong. Leftover research points can still be sold by going to the research module after maxing each tree, 10,000 credits per I think.

If you're aiming to obtain the achievements, I would suggest doing a series of missions without spending anything, save, and then buy out a tech tree. Once you do that, just reload the game from that same point and buy the next tree, and so on until you get the achievements.

If you just want everything for the sake of having everything and don't need the achievements, I believe the cheat code, 'whysoserious' will grant you 1 million credits which you can spend at your pleasure.
Lurker.
Ebolamonkey3
Profile Joined August 2010
United States23 Posts
July 26 2011 01:47 GMT
#3
I tried replaying the mission for research bits and it didn't work, so I think the patch disabled it
:P
Nesserev
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Belgium2760 Posts
July 26 2011 01:49 GMT
#4
--- Nuked ---
Ebolamonkey3
Profile Joined August 2010
United States23 Posts
July 26 2011 02:01 GMT
#5
Ohh... bummer

So there's no way of getting all the research achievements unless you replayed the mission, didn't spend anything, saved, bought all of one thing at once, and then rinse/repeat?
:P
StatX
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Canada343 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-26 02:57:01
July 26 2011 02:56 GMT
#6
when I got mine, I played 2-3 maps and didnt turn in the research points and saved. TYhen simply replayed and turned in again for several dozens of thousands

It might have been fixed though...
Can we snipe it? Yes we can!
ZaeZSC
Profile Joined July 2011
Canada15 Posts
July 26 2011 03:17 GMT
#7
you can stock pile up to 1 million credits. I suggest either doing that, or starting a new campaign and doing it (might as well do it on casual or normal) then ocne you have 1 mil stocked up, save, buy all the research for one type for the achieve, then reload your save. Rinse and repeat and do it with buying all the mercs too.
Lunchador
Profile Joined April 2010
United States776 Posts
July 26 2011 08:23 GMT
#8
If you're going for the Rory Swann achievement, you'll need to save up a total of 1,050,000 credits (you can go above 1 million credits: disregard the poster above you) by the time you reach Char. That lets your purchase every single starship upgrade. Then you can reload and buy the remaining upgrades.
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emc
Profile Joined September 2010
United States3088 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-26 10:42:18
July 26 2011 10:41 GMT
#9
you have to replay the singleplayer and go a different route, blizzard did it on purpose. Honestly, I think it's a good thing because I've played through it like 3 or 4 times doing things differently each time. If I could max out on one play through I wouldn't have gotten as much value from the single player.

if all you want are achievements, then save your money until a point that you can spend it and get all the different upgrades and/or mercenaries. You don't have to wait until char to do it, you can do it before then.
Ebolamonkey3
Profile Joined August 2010
United States23 Posts
July 31 2011 08:06 GMT
#10
Darn, was hoping to be able to get all the achievements in one go.
:P
WackaAlpaca
Profile Joined December 2010
Canada208 Posts
August 10 2011 22:29 GMT
#11
If you are good enough at the game to save up money (Not get upgrades except the very important ones) you can buy all the upgrades for achievement A, then reload your save and buy all for achievement B, repeat.

That's what i did - i got all achievements on one playthrough.
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Sanguinarius
Profile Joined January 2010
United States3427 Posts
August 10 2011 23:12 GMT
#12
You will need to do 1 of 2 things, 1 - multiple play throughs.

2 - (what I did) Save alot of credits and then just spend everything to get one set of upgrades. Reload and do it again.
Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others -Heart of Darkness
nalgene
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada2153 Posts
August 11 2011 06:58 GMT
#13
On August 11 2011 08:12 Sanguinarius wrote:
You will need to do 1 of 2 things, 1 - multiple play throughs.

2 - (what I did) Save alot of credits and then just spend everything to get one set of upgrades. Reload and do it again.

And if you wanted it to be super easy, play on "Easy" and then only buy the medic/marine upgrades for most of the game and then save when you got around 1.1M ( buy all the upgrades you want? ) and then load the save file and repeat a few times till you get them all...
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TheGiz
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada708 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-12 18:34:55
August 12 2011 18:34 GMT
#14
For a challenge I did everything on Hard without upgrading, then saved after each mission. That means that I can load a saved campaign from any point, put all my money and research into the upgrades that I want, and then hammer whatever mission I want the advantage in. I used this to farm any achievements that I missed along the way.

Mission order is also something to play around with. It's kind of ridiculous how some upgrades and units change certain missions. This especially affects the side-campaigns, which you normally tend to do earlier rather than later. Gunning for Xil early is quite an egregious example, because Siege tanks make some of the side quest missions a curb stomp.
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101toss
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
3232 Posts
August 14 2011 03:09 GMT
#15
Maybe it could be done with cheat engine?
Math doesn't kill champions and neither do wards
Yung
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States727 Posts
August 14 2011 09:52 GMT
#16
On August 14 2011 12:09 101toss wrote:
Maybe it could be done with cheat engine?

NO DO NOT TRY IT BLIZZARD WILL BAN YOU OR DISABLE YOUR AVHIEMENTS!
Sneakyz
Profile Joined October 2010
Sweden2361 Posts
August 14 2011 12:29 GMT
#17
There was a bug you could do to get enough cash in one playthrough, which I did, no idea if it's been fixed. Something like replaying the first mission right when you arrive at char, it takes about 3mins and give you 3 research points you can sell and then just keep doing that.
I had spent my cash throughout the campaign so I did that to get enough for the buy/load/buy thing.
I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds.
Perseverance
Profile Joined February 2010
Japan2800 Posts
August 14 2011 13:42 GMT
#18
On July 26 2011 10:35 Zephyr_C wrote:
In one play through, it's sadly impossible to obtain the money needed to purchase all the upgrades even with leftover Zerg and Toss research bits. To my knowledge I don't think the patch is changing anything, someone correct me if I'm wrong. Leftover research points can still be sold by going to the research module after maxing each tree, 10,000 credits per I think.

If you're aiming to obtain the achievements, I would suggest doing a series of missions without spending anything, save, and then buy out a tech tree. Once you do that, just reload the game from that same point and buy the next tree, and so on until you get the achievements.

If you just want everything for the sake of having everything and don't need the achievements, I believe the cheat code, 'whysoserious' will grant you 1 million credits which you can spend at your pleasure.


This is what I had to do in order to get it, I was able to do it in just a couple of hours though.
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Gromo
Profile Joined August 2011
Poland49 Posts
August 14 2011 15:56 GMT
#19
IMO mercenaries are bad think to buy. Better idea is upgrades for normal units.
For the Swarm!
FireBlazzer
Profile Joined August 2011
4 Posts
August 15 2011 03:12 GMT
#20
i think not being able to get all the uprages is what makes the game so fun.. you need to pick and choose carfuly
Smajdalf21
Profile Joined August 2011
Czech Republic26 Posts
August 16 2011 06:50 GMT
#21
agree... being able to buy everything would make no point to it at all - you could simply unlock upgraded units right away as well. however, this is not the point of this thread, which seems to be making all the "unlock upgrades" achieves without too much effort and playing campaign over again. personally i did them on my first run through casual campaign, just saving all the money till it was time to go on char. saved, bought upgrades, loaded, bought different upgrades etc. did the same with mercs, after final load i went for the upgrades i wanted and headed for the last missions.
upgrades during the game wasnt needed at all, tbh, they shouldnt be needed that bad on higher difficulties as well, considering you use many units only in the mission you get them (when you cant have upgrades anyway) and they are little to no use in any following mission. firebats, hellions, vultures, goliaths, diamondbacks, reapers, vikings, thors, BCs and ghosts being a list of them, depending on your gameplay you could add some more to it. so - upgrade your marines, bunkers, terran buildings and banshees when you get them, the rest of the money you can save for the achieves. if you plan to do the last misson with disabling nydus, you can skip banshees too
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