Hello all,
Ive owned starcraft for about a year now but have just recently completed the campaign, but unfortunately I missed a couple of the research opportunities. Do I have to go back and find a saved file from like halfway through the campaign so that I can restart from there and get them all? Or is there an easier way?

Thanks

Drascus

United States100 Posts

October 10 2011 17:15 GMT

Are you talking about the research stuff you get in-missions from zerg bits and artifacts or the stuff you unlock with cash? For the artifacts and bits, you can just replay those missions on a saved game that's past them, and get the item. Win the mission and you get to keep the extra stuff to research with.

For the money there's an easy solution as well, but it may require you to start a new campaign, though you won't have to finish it. Do the following:

Don't buy stuff. Well, buy the marine upgrades, but otherwise don't buy stuff.

Build up enough money to buy an entire tech path at once, comfortably.

Save your game.

Buy an entire tech path. Get achievement. Reload game. Buy a different tech path, get achievement, reload game.

Do this until you have all the cheevos, reload your game one more time, and buy whatever tech stuff you'd like.

Incandenza

United States56 Posts

October 10 2011 17:39 GMT

On October 11 2011 02:15 Drascus wrote:

Don't buy stuff. Well, buy the marine upgrades, but otherwise don't buy stuff.

Build up enough money to buy an entire tech path at once, comfortably.

Save your game.

Buy an entire tech path. Get achievement. Reload game. Buy a different tech path, get achievement, reload game.

Do this until you have all the cheevos, reload your game one more time, and buy whatever tech stuff you'd like.

This is so smart. I totally played the campaign 10 times just to get one tech path unlocked at a time.

ViperPL

Poland1775 Posts

October 11 2011 07:50 GMT

On October 11 2011 02:15 Drascus wrote:
Are you talking about the research stuff you get in-missions from zerg bits and artifacts or the stuff you unlock with cash? For the artifacts and bits, you can just replay those missions on a saved game that's past them, and get the item. Win the mission and you get to keep the extra stuff to research with.

For the money there's an easy solution as well, but it may require you to start a new campaign, though you won't have to finish it. Do the following:

Don't buy stuff. Well, buy the marine upgrades, but otherwise don't buy stuff.

Build up enough money to buy an entire tech path at once, comfortably.

Save your game.

Buy an entire tech path. Get achievement. Reload game. Buy a different tech path, get achievement, reload game.

Do this until you have all the cheevos, reload your game one more time, and buy whatever tech stuff you'd like.

I did that and it worked well until it came down to starship upgrades. I have 10 possible to buy. After doing all other upgrades for achievements I reloaded the game and bought all the starship ones, but only got 9/10 in achi count. I tried to do that a few more times, but still no achi. Do you have any idea if it's a bug or something ? Or should I just play the campaign again and buy them? (I'm gonna do it anyway, since I need the "kill 50 protoss buildings with giant laser", but for that I need to unlock Vikings, cause it's impossible for me to do with Barracks spotting

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BlackAut

Austria58 Posts

October 11 2011 11:17 GMT

at my first campaign i upgraded like i found it useful to support my style of play. Played the campaign 2 times more for hard achievements and brutal playthrough. Did the bio & base upgrades in the hard campaign.

In one campaign its possible to upgrade vehicles, air and liga if you by nothing else and sell all the zerg & protoss points after 25.

Conquerer67

United States605 Posts

October 12 2011 03:41 GMT

In one campaign its possible to upgrade vehicles, air and liga if you by nothing else and sell all the zerg & protoss points after 25.

WTF is a liga?

I find the raid night achievement to be more difficult than this one. As has been said, get money, save, buy shit, load.

Atreides

United States2393 Posts

October 12 2011 16:16 GMT

Raid night achieve play through on normal, do no extra missions (dont do protoss or rebellion missions at all) finish in WAY less than 8hr. I did the whole thing while watching one longish session of GSL.

StatX

Canada343 Posts

October 12 2011 18:53 GMT

If you are talking about the Swan upgrades, the best trick is to fill the research for each then do 2-3 missions and save that state after the 3rd mission.

The game will remember you had X research to sell at 10k credits each. So redoing the map will allow you to get all the upgrades. Just be sure not to waste reseach points too early on. Take a look and balance progression paths based on research.

Thats how I got them all anyways.

Headsortails

Australia20 Posts

October 13 2011 13:30 GMT

Can play the lvl on casual, blast through it and get all research.

Then play the map at your chosen difficulty and u don't have to worry about the research as u got it all in the casual.

Faranth

933 Posts

October 13 2011 14:48 GMT

#10

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roflSloth

Canada43 Posts

October 13 2011 17:13 GMT

#11

On October 13 2011 23:48 Faranth wrote:

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This glitch was fixed a long time ago - at least 6 months ago.

The best current strategy for getting all the upgrades would definitely be to simply save up as many credits as possible and then save, buy one tech tree, and load back, repeat.

Haha I thought you necro'd this thread when I read what you quoted. That hotfix is ancient indeed

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