So, I looked for a thread about this but couldnt find one. In which difficulty will you start the campain on tuesday? I guess there will be at least 4, maybe even 5.
Will you start on insane right away to have a real challenge? Or will you complete the campain on normal or hard first and then try it again on insane?

Poll: What difficulty will you choose for the campain?

Hard (260)

53%

Insane (129)

26%

Normal (93)

19%

Easy (11)

2%

493 total votes

Your vote: What difficulty will you choose for the campain?

(Vote): Easy
(Vote): Normal
(Vote): Hard
(Vote): Insane

Endymion

United States3701 Posts

July 23 2010 07:41 GMT

Insane is so dumb, the computer gets extra resources/has faster build times, it's like Blizzard saying "well we can't design a competent AI to beat you, so we are just going to give them cheats." Hard deff gets my vote.

Sworn

Canada920 Posts

July 23 2010 07:42 GMT

Hard because I want a challenge but I don't want to spend forever waiting to see more storyline.

Medzo

United States627 Posts

July 23 2010 07:43 GMT

My plan is to try insane at first. If its too much on any certain mission ill just lower it to hard and then return to insane for the next mission.

moopie

12605 Posts

July 23 2010 07:43 GMT

Campaign difficulty will be a joke regardless (assuming it has it). All the AI's from the beta were predictable and had pretty poor decision making. The insane one got more resources so it seemed a bit more challenging, but then you realize it also does the same stupid shit. There's always the possibility that Blizz will work on improving them, but I wouldn't count on it. AI aside, I'm sure it will have interesting missions/scripted events.

mufin

United States616 Posts

July 23 2010 07:52 GMT

playing it on the easiest at the start so I can get through the story before anyone spoils it for me. Then i'll probably play through it again on insane when I need a break from laddering

Zaru

Austria93 Posts

July 23 2010 07:58 GMT

Why do people relate the melee AI to the campaign difficulty? Those things are COMPLETELY different.

Campaign difficulty is switched by triggers. Particular units are removed/added, waves of units get bigger or smaller, etc.

The campaign AI will cheat by default, it will not rely on any resource gathering.

araged

Czech Republic189 Posts

July 23 2010 08:01 GMT

I'll enjoy the first playthrough like any other game - on normal. Game's are usually most balanced around this dif. and since almost noone bothers with advanced ai, the higher dif. usually just means that they are going to screw you one way or the other. When I've finished my first playthrough, I might pimp up the dif. for second. People will realize that your uber APM and build trees doesn't mean toss in a premade campaign.

Polar_Nada

United States1548 Posts

July 23 2010 08:03 GMT

heh if 1v1 insane computer if beatable, i would like to try the insane campaign. if it does get too hard ill just check it to "hard" lol. i dunno if i wanna play through the campaign a few times just for the achievements.

Jocoma

Denmark100 Posts

July 23 2010 08:06 GMT

#10

I'm gonna go for normal and enjoy the lore-ry stuff and maybe try out hard and insane at some later point when I've improved my macro/micro on the multiplayer.

I'm still "just" a silver/gold level player so I've got a lot of improvements to make

Insanely looking forward to it though. The first time in pretty much the last decade I've looked more forward to the singleplayer than the multiplayer in what seems to be an obvious high level competitive game.

3,5 days to go!

Zerksys

United States569 Posts

July 23 2010 08:12 GMT

#11

Where's the very hard option? I was pretty sure the ai levels went, easy medium, hard, very hard, and in sane.

Ploppytheman

United States248 Posts

July 23 2010 08:23 GMT

#12

On July 23 2010 16:58 Zaru wrote:
Why do people relate the melee AI to the campaign difficulty? Those things are COMPLETELY different.

Campaign difficulty is switched by triggers. Particular units are removed/added, waves of units get bigger or smaller, etc.

The campaign AI will cheat by default, it will not rely on any resource gathering.

Are you sure? I would be very glad if this is the case (but doubtful) and will play insane if this is true. Did a blue post this or how do you know? I'm not very good (300 ELO diamond) but playing ANY single player that is easy feels like work to me, but I figured insane would be like the crack multiplayer where they get 2x resources. I never tried blizzard's AI.

Zaru

Austria93 Posts

July 23 2010 08:24 GMT

#13

The highest difficulty level is called "Brutal", btw.

MavercK

Australia2181 Posts

July 23 2010 08:26 GMT

#14

On July 23 2010 17:23 Ploppytheman wrote:

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you expect every singleplayer missions to be a straight up 1v1 melee match on maps like lost temple?
did you even play starcraft 1 campaign?

campaign missions are more like having you start as normal with nothing. a 5 minute no rush timer and with the AI player having 4-6 expansions and a full tech tree. who just barrels down on you the moment you switch that trigger that tells him to beat the living shit out of you.

sOvrn

United States678 Posts

July 23 2010 08:28 GMT

#15

I've played SC and BW campaigns countless times. Since I'll probably play SC2 campaign the same amount of time (or even more, it just looks incredible) I'll start normal, then go to hard, then the last difficulty. ^_^

Zaru

Austria93 Posts

July 23 2010 08:28 GMT

#16

I can't be SURE, since I haven't played the campaign.

But think: The campaign will not be like melee games. You will sometimes defend positions, escort stuff, walk around without having any base at all, or have multiple main bases etc.

This means, melee AI is absolutely worthless for the campaign. The AI behaviour for every single campaign map has to be specifically triggered. Otherwise the AI would not be able to comprehend where to attack and what to send. The tech tree is limited for like half of the campaign, too.

FuRRie

Belgium815 Posts

July 23 2010 08:29 GMT

#17

Normal or maybe even easy, just to get the storyline done.
After that i'll do a run on hard possibly

HeIios

Sweden2523 Posts

July 23 2010 08:31 GMT

#18

I always play on the difficulty setting one step above normal. It makes the game more challenging but not insurmountable. If I go all out on "insane"/"brutal" I'm just not going to have as much fun.
Repeating missions over and over again disrupts the flow of the game, and thus make it boring for me.

So in two words: Hard mode

DaCruise

Denmark2457 Posts

July 23 2010 08:33 GMT

#19

If "hard" means its about the same diff as hard in WC3 then I will prolly start at normal.

Piski

Finland3461 Posts

July 23 2010 08:34 GMT

#20

Hard probably. I want to try insane sometimes but after release I have under a week to go through the campaign so I actually want to finish it before I leave

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