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Maxd11
Profile Joined July 2011
United States680 Posts
August 03 2012 21:08 GMT
#21
On August 02 2012 12:59 corpuscle wrote:
I played the mission recently (like three weeks ago) for the achievement and got 2.9k kills on Brutal. I just did it again out of curiosity after reading this thread and I got 2.8k, and it felt the same. It might have gotten "nerfed" at some point since release, but I'd guess that it's just that you've gotten better.

U didn't hear? Gravity was OP as shit.
I don't think they've changed the campaign since release though.
Also "ALL IN" was the hardest mission by far.
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HornyHerring
Profile Joined March 2011
Papua New Guinea1059 Posts
August 03 2012 21:40 GMT
#22
On August 04 2012 06:08 Maxd11 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 02 2012 12:59 corpuscle wrote:
I played the mission recently (like three weeks ago) for the achievement and got 2.9k kills on Brutal. I just did it again out of curiosity after reading this thread and I got 2.8k, and it felt the same. It might have gotten "nerfed" at some point since release, but I'd guess that it's just that you've gotten better.

U didn't hear? Gravity was OP as shit.
I don't think they've changed the campaign since release though.
Also "ALL IN" was the hardest mission by far.

They did, there were some changes. Mostly bugfixes tho and you might not see them in the patchnotes.
oh, hai
HaXXspetten
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Sweden15718 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-03 22:52:37
August 03 2012 22:52 GMT
#23
On August 04 2012 06:08 Maxd11 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 02 2012 12:59 corpuscle wrote:
I played the mission recently (like three weeks ago) for the achievement and got 2.9k kills on Brutal. I just did it again out of curiosity after reading this thread and I got 2.8k, and it felt the same. It might have gotten "nerfed" at some point since release, but I'd guess that it's just that you've gotten better.

U didn't hear? Gravity was OP as shit.
I don't think they've changed the campaign since release though.
Also "ALL IN" was the hardest mission by far.

one might argue that, but all you needed to do was save everytime kerrigan spawned and reload if she oneshotted too valuable stuff lol, other than that you could just sit on your ass behind a wall, only thing needed to micro was a couple of banshees to kill of nydus worms

then again In Utter Darkness didn't really need that much other than graviton beam and psi storm either... so there are really no hard missions in the single player :s
Ansinjunger
Profile Joined November 2010
United States2451 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-04 03:56:33
August 04 2012 03:55 GMT
#24
I actually find it just as frustrating as always, and I'm pretty sure I've gotten better. I think I'm just really impatient when doing the campaign, as it almost certainly means my internet is down or battle.net is on maintenance. Or maybe carriers suck on that level. I probably try once on brutal and since it's been so long, I fail and say "screw it, I don't like this level anyways." The first mission where you have no warp gates drives me nuts, plus the lack of chronoboost in all missions. It feels so slow.

In theory, however, I should probably have an easy time doing a super Artanis archon toilet.
Temerarious Trout
Profile Blog Joined August 2012
174 Posts
August 04 2012 09:29 GMT
#25
Your OP lacks information,
it goes against TL legislation.

Improve the OP, man.
Do you want a ban?

User was warned for this post
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JazzNL
Profile Joined March 2012
182 Posts
August 04 2012 10:16 GMT
#26
So many teenagers venting their RL rage here trying to make the OP feel bad for.. no reason. It's entirely possible the mission got nerfed because it is indeed one of the harder missions, it is at the very least plausible that Blizzard considered it to be ''too difficult''. I doubt any of the teenagers did any research at all to back up their stalwart response, I shall do mine! :-)

Have a nice day!
Iyerbeth
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
England2410 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-04 11:01:34
August 04 2012 11:01 GMT
#27
On August 04 2012 19:16 JazzNL wrote:
So many teenagers venting their RL rage here trying to make the OP feel bad for.. no reason. It's entirely possible the mission got nerfed because it is indeed one of the harder missions, it is at the very least plausible that Blizzard considered it to be ''too difficult''. I doubt any of the teenagers did any research at all to back up their stalwart response, I shall do mine! :-)

Have a nice day!


Kinda silly to have not read the thread, and also to be calling other people teenagers as well as using the term as an insult honestly. Especially when talking about doing research before replying.
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Denzil
Profile Joined August 2010
United Kingdom4193 Posts
August 04 2012 14:05 GMT
#28
In all seriousness though, when I first started playing SC2 the campaign was fucking hard

now macroing marine medic to complete all achievements on brutal is piss easy.

wonder who they balanced the campaign for
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yeint
Profile Joined May 2011
Estonia2329 Posts
August 04 2012 14:31 GMT
#29
On August 03 2012 18:35 ThatGuy89 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 02 2012 06:35 Whatson wrote:
On August 02 2012 06:11 Surth wrote:
Why is every single answer in this thread so petty? Could have made the point (Chances are you improved due to multiplayer) without being so condescending. :o

Because its a ridiculously obvious answer?

is it?
what if hes stuck in bronze for 2 years, and plays mainly custom games like marine arena and stuff
and if he only plays zerg say, hes gonna be no better with terran then he was 2 years ago

the reason everyone has to be a tool about answering him is because they all wanna flex their e-penis and act really tough


In Utter Darkness is not a Terran mission.

When SC2 came that mission was nearly impossible for me on Hard. Now I can do it on Brutal without any issues. And I don't play much either.

And I don't play protoss, I just understand the strengths and weaknesses of the units from having played against them. I know where storms go, I know how to pull back colossi. My micro and use of control groups is better so lifting up the hybrids is easy. My macro is better by orders of magnitude.

The OP found the mission easier because the OP has, amazingly enough, gotten better at a game he's played for the last 2 years.
Not supporting teams who take robber baron money.
yeint
Profile Joined May 2011
Estonia2329 Posts
August 04 2012 14:32 GMT
#30
On August 04 2012 23:05 Denzil wrote:
In all seriousness though, when I first started playing SC2 the campaign was fucking hard

now macroing marine medic to complete all achievements on brutal is piss easy.

wonder who they balanced the campaign for


They balanced it for people who hadn't played SC2 before, and not people who've been playing it for 2 years.
Not supporting teams who take robber baron money.
Whatson
Profile Blog Joined January 2012
United States5357 Posts
August 04 2012 17:14 GMT
#31
On August 04 2012 19:16 JazzNL wrote:
So many teenagers venting their RL rage here trying to make the OP feel bad for.. no reason. It's entirely possible the mission got nerfed because it is indeed one of the harder missions, it is at the very least plausible that Blizzard considered it to be ''too difficult''. I doubt any of the teenagers did any research at all to back up their stalwart response, I shall do mine! :-)

Have a nice day!

The campaign hasn't been changed. The only patches have been bug fixes, and please, anybody who even casually played BW could go through the entire campaign on brutal, it's not hard at all.
¯\_(シ)_/¯
Sanguinarius
Profile Joined January 2010
United States3427 Posts
August 04 2012 20:27 GMT
#32
I think you just got better. When I first played the campaign, it was very hard, but even a few weeks later it was much easier. Just needed to get used to the new game.
Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others -Heart of Darkness
shadowy
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Bulgaria305 Posts
August 05 2012 14:02 GMT
#33
I have played the single player campaign over 100 times -- than needs an explanation of itself. So before you think I am crazy, I was stuck in a very remote place of the earth with once a month Internet access, that will eventually reach 2 kbits.

Due to one of the infamous Blizzard bugs, I couldn't authenticate my client, without downloading and playing a map, which I couldn't do, so I was stuck with single player and some very bad AI on the original maps.

Anyway - I strongly believe, there is no one who played the single player more times, than I have.

But enough intro - the campaign never got nerfed. It's just that we got better. Right now It's so obvious to me what I need to do and how to use what I got, that it looks like a child game. That wasn't the case when we all started learning the game back in the days.

And yeah - I have read every single patch note as well.
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iiGreetings
Profile Joined March 2011
Canada563 Posts
August 05 2012 15:35 GMT
#34
Rofl what a beautiful post, no dude you just got better. It's still the same old bitch it was before
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Zeon0
Profile Joined September 2010
Austria2995 Posts
August 05 2012 20:45 GMT
#35
On August 04 2012 06:08 Maxd11 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 02 2012 12:59 corpuscle wrote:
I played the mission recently (like three weeks ago) for the achievement and got 2.9k kills on Brutal. I just did it again out of curiosity after reading this thread and I got 2.8k, and it felt the same. It might have gotten "nerfed" at some point since release, but I'd guess that it's just that you've gotten better.

U didn't hear? Gravity was OP as shit.
I don't think they've changed the campaign since release though.
Also "ALL IN" was the hardest mission by far.

nope, utter darkness at brutal is way harder then all in. for all in u just need lots of tanks and some 250mm cannon fire for kerrigan. in utter darkness u have to play decent or abues dts


btw: i experienced exactly the same as OP. had some problems with utter darkness back in the day, but then i was a complete scrub (started with 0-5 in MP, now i'm master). did it some months ago again for the lols and i did it at the first try without any problems
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[UoN]Sentinel
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States11320 Posts
August 06 2012 19:04 GMT
#36
Utter Darkness didn't seem too hard, I just pumped colossi in addition to all the free units they gave... it was really easy compared to the toss mission before it (if you didn't speedrun that one with Zeratul that is)

But yeah, you got better. Gratz
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SoniC_eu
Profile Joined April 2011
Denmark1008 Posts
August 07 2012 19:11 GMT
#37
Well bro u are swedish...and they tend to be good at gaming so maybe u got really good without noticing?
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acidfreak
Profile Joined November 2010
Romania352 Posts
August 07 2012 19:51 GMT
#38
On August 02 2012 06:20 black3200 wrote:
2 years ago I could bench 145lbs and now i can bench 195lbs , did they nerf my gym? ... but seriously im sure you just got better..


That would be physics, not "the gym". Silly jock.
You can't out-think the swarm, you can't out-maneuver the swarm, and you certainly can't break the morale of the swarm.
MaxViktory
Profile Joined June 2012
Sweden136 Posts
August 07 2012 20:43 GMT
#39
Don't all the balance changes from the multiplayer carry over to the campaign? That might have a small effect maybe?
I have only played the first 4 missions so I don't know a shit about campaign.

On August 08 2012 04:11 SoniC_eu wrote:
Well bro u are swedish...and they tend to be good at gaming so maybe u got really good without noticing?


Dänske djävel!
;D
Yeah, if you look at the amount of top pros from sweden and compare it to some other country like denmark, you might find it is pretty high. ;P I would actually like to see stats on that, how many pros are from what country. I suspect Sweden probably has third most.
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Greggle
Profile Joined June 2010
United States1131 Posts
August 07 2012 21:09 GMT
#40
I'm pretty sure the DT wall trick still works too. With that you can probably hit 3k no problem if you're playing plat or higher.

Also, brutal is disgustingly easy if you just spam MM or whatever the featured unit is. It's sad really, they need a harder difficulty.
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