StarCraft Mass Recall: SC1 campaigns on SC2 thread - Page 63

On April 10 2015 20:00 DariusTirsar wrote:
When is v5.4 going to be released ?

On April 11 2015 04:40 Jones313 wrote:
Just a quick heads up, Crank is tearing up MR again if anyone's interested:
http://www.twitch.tv/CranK



soon

On April 08 2015 16:06 Blazethesage wrote:
I think it's neat to watch him because the campaign is such a different beast from Multiplayer, and going from Starcraft 2's tech tree to Starcraft 1's is such a leap as well (I heard him at one point in the first video lamenting the lack of tech labs and reactors).

A lot of multiplayer instincts actually don't translate well to campaign-play. In multiplayer, exploring as much as possible as early as possible is fairly crucial, but in the campaign can quickly get you overwhelmed as you stretch yourself thin, and you activate too many enemies or events. This bit Crank in the ass as early as Backwater Station, though he compensated admirably.

Incidentally, as for using heroes, I for one am an advocate of using the heroes to the fullest. They're beefed up, they're powerful, they kick butt. Let them kick the asses they are destined to kick! But, you simply have to be careful. Keep an eye on them, don't let them jump out too far ahead, and be ready to pull them out if things start to turn pear-shaped. Hell, Raynor can almost oneshot a Zergling - assuming equal upgrades, he leaves them in range to be finished by a single marine-shot. Kerrigan has similar power, and has the utility of a ghost, minus the nukes. Cloak and lockdown have plenty of uses. Fenix is just a wrecking machine in either incarnation, plain and simple - Infested Kerrigan EARNS her title as the Queen of Blades as well, what with dealing 50 damage a swing, and having storm to boot.

So use them, absolutely, just don't get reckless with 'em. Keep an eye on their health, and don't let them jump too far ahead of the rest of your army.

EDIT: Incidentally, I find myself amused to discover just how many SCV's it takes to long-range-mine that damn geyser on Biting the Bullet without a 2nd command center. Amusingly, 12 SCV's means it actually costs LESS MINERALS to build a second command center and have 3 SCV's on it; 400 for the CC, and 3 SCV's for a total of 550 as opposed to 600 minerals for 12 SCV's.

On April 11 2015 04:48 valas991 wrote:


Wait a second, he is playing ep2 map08 isn't he?
It seems that his uploads are rather late....I mean, compared to his state in the campaign. [or he just facerolled the last 2-3 missions in the terran campaign, and the 1st 7 maps of the overmind....]
Anyway, I'll wait for the YT upload.

I wanted to ask....what version is he playing with? I mean, 5.3. retro mod i guess....yet he got no cinematics, as far as I can tell....at least, in the options menu he only got 'cinematic notes'.

I do like, however, how in Starcraft One "hero" units, while good, aren't going to decide a game

On April 12 2015 13:07 HewTheTitan wrote:


My brother says the HotS campaign was Blizzard's way of training people for their next MOBA, which ended up also being called HotS...

On April 12 2015 10:24 Jones313 wrote:



Crank did a bit of a marathon stream of SCMR, he finished the first three campaigns. It was glorious.

It looks like it might be 5.3 but with the non-cinematic map launcher/menu. I don't know if the lack of cinematics is intentional or not.

On April 12 2015 15:29 valas991 wrote:


Hehe. Haven't thought about that.



I guess he made that marathon because he likes this mod...Which feels good for you, I suppose.
I hope he's gonna upload 'em to YT. My net connection isn't good enough for stream-watching :|
And also, if he doesn't upload them, I'll never be able to watch them. [nor anyone]

I thought the non-cinematic map launcher wasn't playable.

On April 12 2015 16:42 Blazethesage wrote:
If it IS the newest version, it's possible he may have simply disabled the cinematics in the options menu. Popping in to note however, that apparently the Overmind's speech at the end of Episode 2 map 10 (Full Circle)'s subtitles got broken. More param/whatever messages instead of the proper subtitles.

On April 13 2015 21:37 dRaiser wrote:
Updating from 5.3 to 5.4 is safe for saves, campaign states and such?

On April 13 2015 11:03 Jones313 wrote:
I believe the marathon stream was to celebrate his 100th stream, I'm not sure he intended it to be all MR... obviously hearing from people enjoying the mod always feels good. Hopefully there are no major issues left with the mod and we'll get some relatively clean playthroughs.

And no worries, I believe Crank's people mentioned during the stream that everything'll be on youtube. I can see it taking him a while to get all of it up there.

And yeah, of course, the map unlock thing. It's definitely 5.3, the thing with the non-cinematic launcher is it does work, but only with the cinema mod even though it's not used. This is fixed in 5.4.

On February 23 2015 22:01 Telenil wrote:
Good point. We will remove the name next time we change something.

On April 13 2015 14:52 Blazethesage wrote:
Ooh, neat. Yay, Duran fix! ...I can't help but notice that bit about the power generators. I am tempted to claim credit for pointing that out.

Sadly, for me it's slightly delayed due to using the Retro Edition, which does take an extra day/two/whatever to update, but no big deal. I'm sorta stalling in recording the last Protoss Brood War mission for my own runthrough due to personal reasons, but I think I might wait to record the first few UED missions until the Retro update comes out so I can enjoy actually being able to use Duran against something other than marines

On April 13 2015 21:37 dRaiser wrote:
Updating from 5.3 to 5.4 is safe for saves, campaign states and such?

On April 14 2015 09:42 Jones313 wrote:
@valas

Go ahead - there's always different versions floating around file sharing sites anyway. We'd rather not link to these, though (the chinese version being the odd exception).

Yes, that subtitle thing did kinda slip through. My bad...