Starcraft Master achievements available now

On February 27 2012 23:22 Gescom wrote:
Could be hacking? There have been people who got impossible achievements in the past..

On February 27 2012 23:23 FreudianTrip wrote:
Achievments are the dumbest thing ever added into video-games. Although I guess it says something about the human psyche that people would be interested in something as banal as imaginary points that have no indicator of skill or talent.

OP for creating this thread you get 50 Trip-Points! Anyone who quotes me will get 5 Trip-points each! Get to work guys!

On February 27 2012 23:24 kaluro wrote:


He claims it's legit.

On February 27 2012 23:23 FreudianTrip wrote:
Achievments are the dumbest thing ever added into video-games. Although I guess it says something about the human psyche that people would be interested in something as banal as imaginary points that have no indicator of skill or talent.

OP for creating this thread you get 50 Trip-Points! Anyone who quotes me will get 5 Trip-points each! Get to work guys!

On February 27 2012 23:28 Grovbolle wrote:


Doesn't make it legit. Would he tell you how to get it? If not, then he is prolly abusing something. Just saying

On February 27 2012 23:27 Fede wrote:
Check his match history...

On February 27 2012 23:23 FreudianTrip wrote:
Achievments are the dumbest thing ever added into video-games. Although I guess it says something about the human psyche that people would be interested in something as banal as imaginary points that have no indicator of skill or talent.

OP for creating this thread you get 50 Trip-Points! Anyone who quotes me will get 5 Trip-points each! Get to work guys!

On February 27 2012 23:33 JOJOsc2news wrote:
You can open and play the map in the galaxy editor.

On February 27 2012 23:23 FreudianTrip wrote:
Achievments are the dumbest thing ever added into video-games. Although I guess it says something about the human psyche that people would be interested in something as banal as imaginary points that have no indicator of skill or talent.

OP for creating this thread you get 50 Trip-Points! Anyone who quotes me will get 5 Trip-points each! Get to work guys!

On February 27 2012 23:39 vicml21 wrote:


I like achievements because it gives people a different way to play the game. I have friends not very into the 1v1 laddering, and instead work towards getting a lot of the achievements that way. I like it because if you don't want to get them, theyre still optional. But it's still interesting to see who ACTUALLY played the game for the story, especially among progamers.

But I wonder if he did some private testing for Blizzard? I mean it's not likely that they particularly asked this guy unless he works for blizz, but besides hacking, I cant really think of a way to get it.

On February 28 2012 00:18 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
That's pretty cool I'm sure we'll find more of these popping up soon enough.

On February 28 2012 00:49 MiracleBW wrote:
What a fantastic story. Also, you can embed the editor test function in your game by altering the dependencies, which makes it sort of, online.

On February 28 2012 00:49 MiracleBW wrote:
What a fantastic story. Also, you can embed the editor test function in your game by altering the dependencies, which makes it sort of, online.
Edit: obviously not in the checkboxes, it's not that simple.

On February 28 2012 00:51 kaluro wrote:


^
This is the guy with the achievements. Under an Alias.,

On February 28 2012 01:00 MiracleBW wrote:
What catch? My second account is called Miracle, it's common knowledge in our community, I've also got coaching threads which says my account names haha.

On February 28 2012 00:49 MiracleBW wrote:
What a fantastic story. Also, you can embed the editor test function in your game by altering the dependencies, which makes it sort of, online.
Edit: obviously not in the checkboxes, it's not that simple.

On February 27 2012 22:58 kaluro wrote:
Dear Team Liquid,

Apparently it is very well possible to get the starcraft master achievements and icons.
I'll show a screenshot as proof, this is the EU server. (CLICK THE SPOILER! It's to prevent unnecessary bandwidth)

+ Show Spoiler +

Naturally he's too good of a person to even tell us how to do it.
But the fact is, that it's possible. So does anyone have any insight on achieving said achievements? I love the portrait myself.

Regards,

Kaluro

On February 27 2012 23:24 kaluro wrote:


He claims it's legit.



I am interested in the portrait, not the achievement points.
Your portrait is something you carry around in-game everywhere, it might as well suit your preferences.
It was love on first sight. <3

On February 27 2012 23:29 Teoman wrote:
Well on the blizzard forums someone have found the map (with only 15 challenges though, But i cant find it. Maybe blizzard removed the thread. Anyways its in the map editor and you have to open a file called "master" something, something in the campaign map. Then you have to turn on some stuff that i dont remember.

Hope that helped. But again i cant find the thread :D

On February 28 2012 01:41 emc wrote:


it's called Tsimulator and you have to make sure to add every standard dependancy.

I was able to do 14/15 ez pz, the HT against marines is hard.

you can skip levels by typing: spacejump# where # is obviously the number corresponding to the level 1-15

On February 28 2012 01:16 JOJOsc2news wrote:
Your screenshot itself is proof that it has not been obtained legitimately. He got the achievement for 30 levels before 10 levels before 25 levels. When it comes to counting I am sure 10 comes before 25 and 30 comes after 10 and 25. But I could be mistaken... :p

On February 28 2012 01:44 Pantythief wrote:


Typed in Tsimulator, no such game was found.

On February 28 2012 01:50 Zeetox wrote:
He must have bugged/hacked/exploited something. I've just checked his match history and there's nothing but ladder games for the last 3 days.

On February 28 2012 01:53 Pantythief wrote:


Photoshop fakery, perhaps.

On February 28 2012 02:26 Xolo wrote:
Some maphacks also have features to award yourself achievements, so I guess that guy is basically just holding up a big sign that says "I AM RUNNING A MAPHACK, PLEASE REPORT ME."

On February 28 2012 02:47 momonami5 wrote:
lol @ this guy ruining his image in the community for a dumb avatar and achievement he just couldn't wait until it was released instead he had to use hacks.

On February 28 2012 02:31 pettter wrote:
Youtube walkthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvxSG8shqgg

On February 28 2012 01:19 MXfive wrote:
It is (well, was) quite easy to get achievements non legit. Back about 12 months ago now, I had a friend that used map hacks in team games (got banned shortly after), but it also had a number of other functions such as changing stats in custom games vs AI and unlocking any achievement you want (it DID work and show up for anyone else looking at the profile). This was over 12 months ago but I guess something similar can still be done today.

On February 28 2012 02:31 pettter wrote:
Youtube walkthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvxSG8shqgg

On February 28 2012 04:23 oGoZenob wrote:

thx !
but i still have a small issue:
The only way i can save the map is a SC2MAP extensions, but all i can load in game are SC2SAVE extension. I'm really noob at all these things, maybe you can help

On February 28 2012 04:09 AlphaWhale wrote:
Is that portrait of so many banelings?

On February 28 2012 04:32 kaluro wrote:


Open the map offline, save the game.
Copy the save file to your online save folder.
Log in, open save.

On February 28 2012 06:15 xycz wrote:
There are no Achievement Award triggers in the version we can find in the campaign maps (the TSimulator.SC2Map). Which means it has nothing to do with how he got the Starcraft Master achievement as it is now, even if he added triggers to award him the achievements upon completion as they are supposed to work, he has to upload the new version (with the working achievement triggers), ergo removing the blizzard-sign, making the achievement triggers completely useless since they only work on blizzard-signed maps. If you just try to add the achievements without having the blizzard-sign you will receieve a trigger error saying you're not authorized.

I thought about adding the triggers then testing the map and saving it in-game so that I could play it (blizzard-signed) when I was logged in but it's still only playable in single player (the only way I know of to load maps in sc2) since every map has to be uploaded via sc2editor (publishing maps) which was not the case with WC3 where you could easily just host online maps which had been a previous saved game (even from single player).

STXProgamer most likely found a newer blizzard-signed version of this map or did something illegal, time will most likely tell us soon anyway.

EDIT: Note that his match history does not show any odd maps, only Antiga & Korhal by the time the achievement was received.

On February 28 2012 08:47 MiracleBW wrote:
This Pantythief chap should really seek a hobby, coming to conclusions while not having a single clue about programming whatsoever.

On February 27 2012 23:23 FreudianTrip wrote:
Achievments are the dumbest thing ever added into video-games. Although I guess it says something about the human psyche that people would be interested in something as banal as imaginary points that have no indicator of skill or talent.

OP for creating this thread you get 50 Trip-Points! Anyone who quotes me will get 5 Trip-points each! Get to work guys!

User was temp banned for this post.

On February 28 2012 08:55 Pantythief wrote:


Speaking of which, I just spoke to MiracleBW aka. STXProgamer, turns out he has indeed illegitimately obtained this portrait with a workaround.

Now we must wait for a Blizzard map to be officially released. :-)

PS: I agree, spending 30 minutes on a thread on TL does indeed indicate that I need a hobby. So unless you're going to take it, I suggest you tell us how you worked this around legitimately? ;-)

On February 28 2012 09:10 MiracleBW wrote:


You basicly spoke to me, I told you to bugger off, you said that's solid proof. Your logic, is flawed.

On February 28 2012 04:49 willoc wrote:


I believe it's the broodling or swarm host.

On February 28 2012 06:15 xycz wrote:

EDIT: Note that his match history does not show any odd maps, only Antiga & Korhal by the time the achievement was received.

On February 28 2012 17:57 TangoPhoenix wrote:


If the mod is a solo player challenge, vs ia or a part of the campaing itself (like lost viking), it won't appear in the history.

On February 28 2012 18:40 spatz wrote:
so, here it is: i played stxprogamer twice on ladder today and after i beat him in the first time a random guy whispered me and told me i should check the replay cause he thinks that the stxprogamer guy is maphacking.
i checked it and it was pretty strange play by him.
so, i met him again in ladder and again he played without ANY scouting etc and moved to 5 burrowed infestors with his hole army to fungle them perfectly :D
he s a maphacking son of a bitch, he plays realy bad with his 100 apm swag and i reported him for maphacking like a lot of other guys did.

i can upload the replays if you want to.

On February 28 2012 18:46 spatz wrote:
i told you, i can upload them if you want to.

here we go:
game#1
http://drop.sc/122628

game#2
http://drop.sc/122627

On February 28 2012 23:14 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
So this went from:

X has achievement!

to

X can't have achievement because it's not out yet and therefore X hacks!

to

X also hacks in a bunch of other ways!

lol

On February 28 2012 23:14 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
So this went from:

X has achievement!

to

X can't have achievement because it's not out yet and therefore X hacks!

to

X also hacks in a bunch of other ways!

lol

On February 27 2012 23:23 FreudianTrip wrote:
Achievments are the dumbest thing ever added into video-games. Although I guess it says something about the human psyche that people would be interested in something as banal as imaginary points that have no indicator of skill or talent.

OP for creating this thread you get 50 Trip-Points! Anyone who quotes me will get 5 Trip-points each! Get to work guys!

User was temp banned for this post.

On February 29 2012 07:26 Kaitlin wrote:


Enjoy Disneyland !!! LMAO.

Anywho, I saw these achievements the other day (NA) and found threads about people playing on some map through the map editor tester, but haven't done that. Is the map available now through the game ?

On February 29 2012 07:35 KiF1rE wrote:


no its not, which is the whole reason for the mystery discussion of this thread, of how people are getting the portrait and other stuff with it.

On February 27 2012 23:23 FreudianTrip wrote:
Achievments are the dumbest thing ever added into video-games. Although I guess it says something about the human psyche that people would be interested in something as banal as imaginary points that have no indicator of skill or talent.

OP for creating this thread you get 50 Trip-Points! Anyone who quotes me will get 5 Trip-points each! Get to work guys!

User was temp banned for this post.

On March 02 2012 02:34 KiF1rE wrote:
biggest update regarding this...

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/4544189/New_Blizzard_Custom_Game_StarCraft_Master-3_1_2012#blog

Something official from blizzard finally. Nothing really new thats not known about the map, 30 challenges etc.

But the highlight of the blogpost, its going to be released in the next few days.

On March 02 2012 02:34 KiF1rE wrote:
biggest update regarding this...

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/4544189/New_Blizzard_Custom_Game_StarCraft_Master-3_1_2012#blog

Something official from blizzard finally. Nothing really new thats not known about the map, 30 challenges etc.

But the highlight of the blogpost, its going to be released in the next few days.

On March 02 2012 02:40 inCyde wrote:



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On March 02 2012 03:23 GinDo wrote:
What makes me sad is the portrait. Yes it is very cool, but its a Zerg portrait. That makes 2 special Protoss and 2 special Zerg portraits.

Me a vewy sad Mawader (T_T)

On March 02 2012 03:48 basballguy wrote:
am i the only one that doesn't know what starcraft master is?

On March 02 2012 03:52 skyR wrote:
What unit is that in the portrait? o.o

On March 02 2012 03:17 lSasquatchl wrote:
Will be available in the next coming days. Awesome



+ Show Spoiler +.

On March 02 2012 05:17 AnalyZ wrote:
It looks like baneling, but it's not... Blizzard wouldn't be that sutpid to do 2 same unit for portrait.
It's might be the new unit in HotS, SwarmHost

On March 02 2012 05:33 Revelatus wrote:
I'm seeing alot of people with this now. Any word on how to get it???

On March 02 2012 03:52 skyR wrote:
What unit is that in the portrait? o.o

On March 02 2012 08:35 Marcus420 wrote:
cant beat the storm the marines one.

On March 02 2012 03:23 GinDo wrote:
What makes me sad is the portrait. Yes it is very cool, but its a Zerg portrait. That makes 2 special Protoss and 2 special Zerg portraits.

Me a vewy sad Mawader (T_T)

On March 02 2012 03:47 oberhofer wrote:
Blizzcon and CE Portraits were all Terran.

StarCraft
‎(EU) A new challenge is coming: the new single-player Blizzard mod StarCraft Master. StarCraft Master offers you the opportunity to put your skills to the test in 30 different challenges that will tax your knowledge and your ability to control your forces.

On February 27 2012 23:23 FreudianTrip wrote:
Achievments are the dumbest thing ever added into video-games. Although I guess it says something about the human psyche that people would be interested in something as banal as imaginary points that have no indicator of skill or talent.

OP for creating this thread you get 50 Trip-Points! Anyone who quotes me will get 5 Trip-points each! Get to work guys!

User was temp banned for this post.

On March 02 2012 23:05 Amber[LighT] wrote:


They're fun to do when playing the same build in 1s over and over gets boring. Sorry you don't enjoy fun

On March 03 2012 10:42 justiceknight wrote:
how the hell u beat the zlots vs banes??

On March 03 2012 10:42 justiceknight wrote:
how the hell u beat the zlots vs banes??

On March 03 2012 11:11 illumn wrote:
I found level 30 to be a lot easier if you just spam hold position the entire time. The timing is a lot easier to get if the medivac doesn't move.

On March 03 2012 13:32 Dullahan wrote:
Just finished them all :D
10 wins = achievement
20 wins = achievement + portrait
30 wins = achievement

Zealots vs banes, hold position all, then: select one->right-click to distant location->shift-H, repeat until you've got spread zealots. If you click fast enough, you don't need to move the initial ball of zealots back at all.

For ghost-marine, right click your marines to one of your ghosts so that you have slightly more breathing room, then switch to ghost hotkey, hold down R and have fun sniping (lol 45 damage snipe).

Banshee, just need to practice until you figure out the correct distance. Get the distance, hit H, and click away after a few milliseconds. If you're getting tired at the end and have enough HP remaining, you can abuse the corners where only 1-2 of them can hit you at a time.

#29, see Trashie's post above about running to the middle. Worked like a charm for me.

#30, I spent the whole time with the medivac selected. Immediately hit hold position (just need to hit it once, no spam needed), then use right-click to pick up the tank as the stalker shots are in midair and drop asap by clicking on the portrait. Repeat until medivac dies, and tank should be able to finish it.

As far as the special achievements:
Stalkers vs tanks: abuse the blind spot between them, easy enough
Stalkers vs roaches: classic blink micro, not much else to say. Might want to a-move the stalkers at the beginning so that they start shooting immediately.
Roaches vs bunker: it's all about distributing the damage while maximizing the amount of shooting time. Let's number them roach 1, 2, and 3. Roach 1 takes the damage to low hp, burrows and unburrows after a millisecond so that marines are shooting at #2. Roach 2 takes damage to low hp, both roach 1 and 2 burrow and unburrow so that now roach 3 is taking damage. Burrow all 3 at low hp, and let the fire help you out while you regen a little. After that it's all about figuring out how little time you can wait before finishing it. Focus fire the marines obviously.

On March 03 2012 10:42 justiceknight wrote:
how the hell u beat the zlots vs banes??

On March 03 2012 22:01 NeThZOR wrote:

Thanks for the help, although I have to add that you are wrong about the requirements for the portrait. I have completed 22 rounds so far, and therefore checked my rewards after I read your post. The portrait actually requires 25 wins, which also bags you an achievement.

On March 03 2012 21:49 Zeon0 wrote:
imo micro insanity is the hardest. ghost snipe the funniest

still dont sure how to make micro insanity, but i want to beat it myself, not with videos where they show how to make

On March 04 2012 00:34 Wherewolf wrote:
I think micro insanity can be beaten with a lot of different methods. It seems like everyone came up with something different :D Personally I feedback'd the PDDs while blinking onto one tank and rallying the Archon to the other, Phoenixes killed the Vikings and then lifted units to victory.

On March 04 2012 00:33 Swiv wrote:
these bling wars are infuriating >.<
always damn three litte lings left

edit: now three on my side. sweet revenge

On March 04 2012 00:20 Serelitz wrote:



Lift the marauders, blink on top of the tanks after feedbacking the PDDs + making HTs an archon. Relift marauders, get the other tank, get marauders + vikings > profit.

It's a bit counterintuitive but it worked for me at least. Took me about 90 minutes ingame to complete everything (platinum)

On March 03 2012 13:32 Dullahan wrote:
#30, I spent the whole time with the medivac selected. Immediately hit hold position (just need to hit it once, no spam needed), then use right-click to pick up the tank as the stalker shots are in midair and drop asap by clicking on the portrait. Repeat until medivac dies, and tank should be able to finish it.

On March 04 2012 02:01 MVTaylor wrote:


Phoenix #1 on hotkey 1
Phoenix #2 on hotkey 2
Templars on hotkey 3
Stalkers on hotkey 4

1, G, Lift Tank
2, G, Lift other tank
3, Shift, Feedback, Feedback, Merge
4, Blink, right click one viking, shift right click other

re lift tanks, gg.

On March 04 2012 02:52 dNa wrote:
i can't beat 12 14 and 16 ... like, no idea how the infestor ones are supposed to work, i don't seem to have enough energy to beat them

On March 04 2012 04:02 rasnj wrote:

You need 3 infested terrans to take out one group of marines. If you use more you are doing something wrong.

Some tips:
+ Show Spoiler +

On March 04 2012 09:40 Talionis wrote:
Only one I can't do is the one where you have to snipe the banelings.
I just can't click on the little bastards quickly enough. I guess the only way i'm going to do this is to get more accurate mouse precision?

On March 04 2012 09:40 Talionis wrote:
Only one I can't do is the one where you have to snipe the banelings.
I just can't click on the little bastards quickly enough. I guess the only way i'm going to do this is to get more accurate mouse precision?

On March 04 2012 09:47 Vei wrote:
damn all you guys saying #30 isn't that hard makes me feel like a nublet -.-

i'll try clicking the portrait, i've been d+clicking

On March 04 2012 10:16 Highways wrote:
level 12 is a fucking joke. (infested terran friendly fire)

quitting this shit.

On March 04 2012 10:49 Depetrify wrote:
26 and 27 were hard with frame lag. TT

On March 04 2012 11:16 Shyft wrote:
i pretty much 1-attempted every level except the one where you fight the raven/marauder/tanks/vikings as protoss and the 3 marines vs 2 zealots, which i got in like 3 or 4

On March 04 2012 11:16 Shyft wrote:
i pretty much 1-attempted every level except the one where you fight the raven/marauder/tanks/vikings as protoss and the 3 marines vs 2 zealots, which i got in like 3 or 4

On March 04 2012 12:55 darkcloud8282 wrote:
If anything, this game made me realize how much I lag when playing online..

On March 04 2012 03:46 C[h]ili wrote:
F12 - Help is actually really helpful for some levels. The infestor vs zeal is not possible with pure fungal, as 4 fungal do only 120 damage, but the zeal has 150 hp. So, first, fungal all zealots, then use both your infestor to spam some infested terrans (i guess 4 in total), and then use the remaining energy for three further fungals.

On March 05 2012 02:45 NeWeNiyaLord wrote:
ezpz, i hoped it would be harder, so it would actually be cool to have this, when people do it on the first try theres no point

On March 06 2012 01:16 GeNeSiDe wrote:
Thats the point no? Do you still play the single player challenges?