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Creating this thread to talk about achievements ppl have a hard time with. Feel free to post when you're in trouble or when you feel like helping.
Carefull, SPOILER + Show Spoiler +
I'll start with mine own (sry, have client in french so I cant tell the english names). After 30+ try and 2 fcking hours, I cant kill the 4 heroic battle cruiser in the mission where you have to make your tumors progress so that they can activate the scourge nests.
I managed to activate 3 out of 4 within 2 minutes by hitting PERFECT tumors spread together with starting a queen as my first action of the game and having the special creep ability with kerrigan. Basically i a-move kerrigan to open space for tumors to come, and every tumor was able to be perfectly landed or within 1-2 second. didnt make a single drone and started a second queen asap as well. the 3rd battle cruiser died at 1:59, not kidding :D
I honestly think blizz means that we have to activate 3 nest, not 4, unless there's a way to activate them that i didnt understand. I guess it will be patched,it can not be anything else than a mistake from their part really.
Would be interested if anyone succeeded. Rly dont know how to do it :D
I can help with another achievement i had a bit of trouble with.
It's the Supreme mission
+ Show Spoiler + , where you have to kill the 4 primal Zergs. Basically to get it done under 12 minutes you have to never fight any ennemy zerg you encounter. When you receive extra zergs yourself to help you, just let them stay where they are. With kerrigan you have to use your leap as often as possible, never engage any ennemy unless it's one of the 4 boss itself ofcourse. I could get it done in 10:20
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What difficulty are you on/what morphs did you use?
Because spamming spawn banelings with the jumping bane modification won me pretty much every level xD
For the BC one you can spread creep while using sac lings to get the tumor rooted without getting shot, you don't necessarily have to destroy every base/obstruction.
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United States8476 Posts
You have to activate all four scourge nests at the same time. I'm not sure I understand the problem. I got all the achievements just fine.
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Just place creep up to the fourth scourge nest without activating any nest. When the battle cruiser is killing your base you should be able to activated all four scourge nests at the same time.
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You spread the creep near the nests without activating them, only activate one when the ship is getting near the base. Otherwise just push and kill and keep active tumors near the unactivated nests until you have 4 nests all within range of a tumor, then activate all 4 at once and they will insta-kill 4 ships.
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Yeah you just have to spread your creep close to the four first scourge nest and activate one after another~
very easy!
Anyone finished the "Ludicrous Speed" achievement ? + Show Spoiler +the mission with the Hyperion, you have to finish it in less than 11 min
Dunno if I should try to go for an upgrade (with minerals) or just rush the hell out of it T_T
edit: yeah just tried with your advice and it worked! done it in 9:15ish~ really easily thanks to the upgrade haha~
Thanks guys!
@Natalya: you can place your tumors close but still far enough from the nests in order to not activate them.
You don't have to do it in the first 120 seconds of the missions (that'd be impossible)
Just spread your creep to the 4th nests without activating a single one! (the gordon should be close to the 2nd nest I think, but that doesn't matter)
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On March 16 2013 06:15 SyDe wrote:Yeah you just have to spread your creep close to the four first scourge nest and activate one after another~ very easy! Anyone finished the "Ludicrous Speed" achievement ? + Show Spoiler +the mission with the Hyperion, you have to finish it in less than 11 min . Dunno if I should try to go for an upgrade (with minerals) or just rush the hell out of it T_T
Did with ease just spamming the jump, got all the upgrades too.
Warping around is so fast haha.
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I got all the mineral upgrades but skipped the optional objectives I believe (I actually don't remember if I got the bottom right one now that I think about it). The upgrades are really useful to 1-shot yamato those towers. Yeah just spam the warp jump and make use of the repair bots at last possible moments as much as possible.
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Just spread your creep without placing the tumors near the scourge nests and activate them at the same time.
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I dont understand lol... How do you spread creep without activating the nest? Do you guys mean that you put a creep tumor close to the nest but out of activation range? then create a new creep tumor next to it to make it shoot? even if i didnt care about activating or not, i just cant get the creep all the way to the 4rth nest. Never gona happen within 2 minutes of the beggining of the game period, it's far too far...
Is there a way to spread creep that do not involve using the first creep tumor you get for free, the one near your base? I mean you cant plant a tumor wherever you feel like can you? lol
I'm laughing so hard coz i think i tried for hours when there's a little trick i didnt understand ;D
Btw there's also the mission where you're attacking warfield. Tried a couple times to blow up the pf, seems not likely to be possible.
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United States4991 Posts
I haven't bothered with that achievement, but my impression is that it's within a period of 120 seconds, not within the FIRST 120 seconds of the map...? It sounds like you're misinterpreting what you're actually supposed to do.
I'm not at my SC2 computer at the second to validate for sure.
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For the scourge one, I just made a bunch of roach hydra, and just tore through everything. Then just make 4 hatches while the third gorgon is pummelling your main and use creep from those. It's so much easier. Just don't forget to sneak the queens and drones out first. Also kerrigan spawning splitter banes is completely imbalanced.
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On March 16 2013 06:44 Natalya wrote:
I dont understand lol... How do you spread creep without activating the nest? Do you guys mean that you put a creep tumor close to the nest but out of activation range? then create a new creep tumor next to it to make it shoot? even if i didnt care about activating or not, i just cant get the creep all the way to the 4rth nest. Never gona happen within 2 minutes of the beggining of the game period, it's far too far...
Is there a way to spread creep that do not involve using the first creep tumor you get for free, the one near your base? I mean you cant plant a tumor wherever you feel like can you? lol
I'm laughing so hard coz i think i tried for hours when there's a little trick i didnt understand ;D
Btw there's also the mission where you're attacking warfield. Tried a couple times to blow up the pf, seems not likely to be possible.
You're assuming too much. You're assuming that it's saying "the first 120 seconds of the game".
It's really saying kill 3 more gorgon battlecruisers within 120 seconds of killing killing one.
On March 16 2013 06:04 monk wrote:
You have to activate all four scourge nests at the same time. I'm not sure I understand the problem. I got all the achievements just fine.
you got all the mastery achievements?
Personally I've tried a few that I had trouble with. Namely the Rendezvous one (Premature Evacuation: Destroy all Dominion Structures in the “Rendezvous” mission before Naktul’s brood arrives on Hard difficulty.). Assuming it means killing all structures on your side of the bridge (rather than ALL of them), I've always been a fair bit short of doing-so (although I guess it does look possible)
The reason I'm saying it's problematic is because I don't see what I could be doing wrong. There's no extra minerals or gas that's useable, and unit composition is extremely straightforward since we get only zerglings and queens. I was going to try PURE queen once,but went against it (doesn't seem good)
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On March 16 2013 06:54 Xapti wrote:Show nested quote +On March 16 2013 06:44 Natalya wrote:
I dont understand lol... How do you spread creep without activating the nest? Do you guys mean that you put a creep tumor close to the nest but out of activation range? then create a new creep tumor next to it to make it shoot? even if i didnt care about activating or not, i just cant get the creep all the way to the 4rth nest. Never gona happen within 2 minutes of the beggining of the game period, it's far too far...
Is there a way to spread creep that do not involve using the first creep tumor you get for free, the one near your base? I mean you cant plant a tumor wherever you feel like can you? lol
I'm laughing so hard coz i think i tried for hours when there's a little trick i didnt understand ;D
Btw there's also the mission where you're attacking warfield. Tried a couple times to blow up the pf, seems not likely to be possible. You're assuming too much. You're assuming that it's saying "the first 120 seconds of the game". It's really saying kill 3 more gorgon battlecruisers within 120 seconds of killing killing one.
LOL OMG OMG OMG OMG OK oh my god sad face and laughing at the same time
Thanks a lot
I think it was the french translation that was misleading
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most annoying one was probably killing hybrids with terran units, but even that one was easy TT.
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And any hint on how to kill the pf before the nuke happens (mission where you get 3 waves of Zerglings/bane) What do you do, do you blow up everything and keep going untill you reach the pf? Do you go left or right? and what spells do you use with kerrigan?
(btw those screen where you change your spells etc, look much like diablo, same with the mission where you kill primal zergs)
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On March 16 2013 07:08 Natalya wrote:
And any hint on how to kill the pf before the nuke happens (mission where you get 3 waves of Zerglings/bane) What do you do, do you blow up everything and keep going untill you reach the pf? Do you go left or right? and what spells do you use with kerrigan?
(btw those screen where you change your spells etc, look much like diablo, same with the mission where you kill primal zergs)
Wait till reinforcements come and basically just make a b line for it. It's basically the farthest base back.
I actually killed the door with spawn banes and psi blast, then killed the first base. Then when the reinforcements came, I just went straight for it. Make sure you have lings with the bonus health, and banes are splitters with the 100% damage bonus. That's probably overkill tbh.
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On March 16 2013 07:08 Natalya wrote:
And any hint on how to kill the pf before the nuke happens (mission where you get 3 waves of Zerglings/bane) What do you do, do you blow up everything and keep going untill you reach the pf? Do you go left or right? and what spells do you use with kerrigan?
(btw those screen where you change your spells etc, look much like diablo, same with the mission where you kill primal zergs)
Go left.
With your first batch, kill the entrance base and the mini base at the left. With your second batch, kill the bottom part of the left base, the part below the road. You need to bait enemies by backing a bit. With your third batch, roll to the PF. You will have just enough time.
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On March 16 2013 06:54 Xapti wrote:Show nested quote +On March 16 2013 06:44 Natalya wrote:
I dont understand lol... How do you spread creep without activating the nest? Do you guys mean that you put a creep tumor close to the nest but out of activation range? then create a new creep tumor next to it to make it shoot? even if i didnt care about activating or not, i just cant get the creep all the way to the 4rth nest. Never gona happen within 2 minutes of the beggining of the game period, it's far too far...
Is there a way to spread creep that do not involve using the first creep tumor you get for free, the one near your base? I mean you cant plant a tumor wherever you feel like can you? lol
I'm laughing so hard coz i think i tried for hours when there's a little trick i didnt understand ;D
Btw there's also the mission where you're attacking warfield. Tried a couple times to blow up the pf, seems not likely to be possible. You're assuming too much. You're assuming that it's saying "the first 120 seconds of the game". It's really saying kill 3 more gorgon battlecruisers within 120 seconds of killing killing one. Show nested quote +On March 16 2013 06:04 monk wrote:
You have to activate all four scourge nests at the same time. I'm not sure I understand the problem. I got all the achievements just fine. you got all the mastery achievements? Personally I've tried a few that I had trouble with. Namely the Rendezvous one (Premature Evacuation: Destroy all Dominion Structures in the “Rendezvous” mission before Naktul’s brood arrives on Hard difficulty.). Assuming it means killing all structures on your side of the bridge (rather than ALL of them), I've always been a fair bit short of doing-so (although I guess it does look possible) The reason I'm saying it's problematic is because I don't see what there is I am not doing. There's no extra minerals or gas that's useable, and unit composition is extremely straightforward since we get only zerglings and queens. I was going to try PURE queen once,but went against it (doesn't seem good)
I had a hard time on premature evacuation. You basically need to start queen production quick, and don't throw lings away to hellbats. Also, make liberal use of Kerri's psi blast to snipe bunkers. There's some youtube videos that can help you too. Oh yeah, you don't have to kill the buildings that are past the bridge, just everything else.
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On March 16 2013 06:54 Xapti wrote:Show nested quote +On March 16 2013 06:04 monk wrote:
You have to activate all four scourge nests at the same time. I'm not sure I understand the problem. I got all the achievements just fine. you got all the mastery achievements? Personally I've tried a few that I had trouble with. Namely the Rendezvous one (Premature Evacuation: Destroy all Dominion Structures in the “Rendezvous” mission before Naktul’s brood arrives on Hard difficulty.). Assuming it means killing all structures on your side of the bridge (rather than ALL of them), I've always been a fair bit short of doing-so (although I guess it does look possible) The reason I'm saying it's problematic is because I don't see what I could be doing wrong. There's no extra minerals or gas that's useable, and unit composition is extremely straightforward since we get only zerglings and queens. I was going to try PURE queen once,but went against it (doesn't seem good)
Yea, I got all the mastery achievements, 100% HotS achievements complete. I think got the Rendezvous achievement with about 1 minute 30 seconds left. I spent the first 2 minutes spamming spells to clear the small forces on the right. Mass drone with queens in the meantime. Second hatchery, constant queen production throughout the entire game, 4 spines on the right, switch to mass zergling after fully saturated. Push the left with kerrigan + queens after you've cleared the right and gotten your first reinforcement queen. Then just follow the left path till you eventually kill everything. Don't engage with zerglings until you've cleared all helbats. Spam psi blast on all bunkers to get them to burn down and siege tanks.
On March 16 2013 07:08 Natalya wrote:
And any hint on how to kill the pf before the nuke happens (mission where you get 3 waves of Zerglings/bane) What do you do, do you blow up everything and keep going untill you reach the pf? Do you go left or right? and what spells do you use with kerrigan?
(btw those screen where you change your spells etc, look much like diablo, same with the mission where you kill primal zergs)
Go left so you hit thors and not siege tanks. Spam psi blast on the door then just a move. Use psi blast on the key units like thors and bunkers. Engage the first Terran force in the center and then the left base with the thors, but ignore all the units on the high ground where the pf is and head straight for the pf. It was really close but I killed it with about 3 seconds left on the timer.
I'll answer any questions people might have about achievements! The only hard achievement to get imo was the "finish BC mission in 11 minutes". It took me about 6 tries before I could optimize it and I beat it in about 10:23.
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If anyone is interested in having a REAL challenge, try to complete each mission on Brutal, while setting all 4 Achivement requirements as mission goals.
Meaning, say for example, the very last mission would require you to:
Complete in less than 25 Minutes
Prevent Raynor from taking damae
Kill Odin before it moves out (around min. 22)
Makes for some REALLY challenging games on Brutal.
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Try getting achievements... blizzard disconnected me from the server and even though my campaign is complete I have no achievements. It won't even retroactively add them when I log in. Stuff playing the campaign again for achievements I should already have.
At least I was able to continue playing the campaign (single player) despite being disconnected from battle.net. I will give them props for not being completely like EA.
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I've done all the achievements for the campaign and can help anyone that needs it 
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Does anyone else have some Kerrigan achievements bugged? Like my leaping death (leaping strike) and get a grip (crushing grip) achievement numbers won't go up no matter how much I use those abilities.
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On March 16 2013 09:03 Tachion wrote:
Does anyone else have some Kerrigan achievements bugged? Like my leaping death (leaping strike) and get a grip (crushing grip) achievement numbers won't go up no matter how much I use those abilities.
You have to reach the number in a single game. What's shown is your best effort so far. So if you hit 120 guys with crushing grip in some game, then it won't visibly increase until you hit 121 or more in a single game
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On March 16 2013 09:17 dainbramage wrote:Show nested quote +On March 16 2013 09:03 Tachion wrote:
Does anyone else have some Kerrigan achievements bugged? Like my leaping death (leaping strike) and get a grip (crushing grip) achievement numbers won't go up no matter how much I use those abilities. You have to reach the number in a single game. What's shown is your best effort so far. So if you hit 120 guys with crushing grip in some game, then it won't visibly increase until you hit 121 or more in a single game
oohhh ok. It doesn't actually specify doing it in a single game in the achievement menu like some of the others do. confusing :[
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Those Kerrigan achievements are just lame TT Like the crushing grip one... you simply have to pick a map where there will be loads of little weak units and spam spam spam ur spell. I mean, it's not a challenge, it's just farming like in wow....
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On March 16 2013 08:25 ch33psh33p wrote:
If anyone is interested in having a REAL challenge, try to complete each mission on Brutal, while setting all 4 Achivement requirements as mission goals.
Meaning, say for example, the very last mission would require you to:
Complete in less than 25 Minutes
Prevent Raynor from taking damae
Kill Odin before it moves out (around min. 22)
Makes for some REALLY challenging games on Brutal.
To make it better, restart a campaign and never go to the evolution chamber. Never upgrade your units at all :DDD
Honestly I'm not sure if the last mission are even possible without broodlords or with naked ultras, without double drone production and with Kerrigan not being max level :D
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Many of the achievements become significantly easier with the "right" mutations, upgrades, and mission order. For example, the Char achievements, including "Going, Going, Gorgon" the difference between having Malignant Creep and not is night and day.
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On March 16 2013 09:40 Natalya wrote:Show nested quote +On March 16 2013 08:25 ch33psh33p wrote:
If anyone is interested in having a REAL challenge, try to complete each mission on Brutal, while setting all 4 Achivement requirements as mission goals.
Meaning, say for example, the very last mission would require you to:
Complete in less than 25 Minutes
Prevent Raynor from taking damae
Kill Odin before it moves out (around min. 22)
Makes for some REALLY challenging games on Brutal. To make it better, restart a campaign and never go to the evolution chamber. Never upgrade your units at all :DDD Honestly I'm not sure if the last mission are even possible without broodlords or with naked ultras, without double drone production and with Kerrigan not being max level :D
Unless you want this mission under 25 min then:
Kerrigan to clear units (lings to kill buildings after units are cleared)
Mutas to kill BC and thor tank push on raynor.
Then transition into Kerrigan + Ultras (burrow dash + respawn) = Takes a while to macro but 3/3 ultra with resp are unstoppable and did not have to reproduce a single ultra until few died tearing apart final base before doors.
No need for double drones or max kerrigan level (healing + that 300 dmg every 10 sec is enough ;D)
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The level70 achievement bugged? I only got 69 in my brutal playthrough and tried to get them later. Semms kinda bugged... I don't want to play the whole campaign over again.
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On March 16 2013 08:25 ch33psh33p wrote:
If anyone is interested in having a REAL challenge, try to complete each mission on Brutal, while setting all 4 Achivement requirements as mission goals.
Meaning, say for example, the very last mission would require you to:
Complete in less than 25 Minutes
Prevent Raynor from taking damage
Kill Odin before it moves out (around min. 22)
Makes for some REALLY challenging games on Brutal.
It's hard enough and I am quite sure sometimes impossible to do it on hard (due to time restraints of conflicting goals and such). It would certainly have many impossible ones for brutal just as well, let alone the fact that it the increased difficulty may may it essentially impossible.
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On March 16 2013 10:06 Lokerek wrote:Show nested quote +On March 16 2013 09:40 Natalya wrote:On March 16 2013 08:25 ch33psh33p wrote:
If anyone is interested in having a REAL challenge, try to complete each mission on Brutal, while setting all 4 Achivement requirements as mission goals.
Meaning, say for example, the very last mission would require you to:
Complete in less than 25 Minutes
Prevent Raynor from taking damae
Kill Odin before it moves out (around min. 22)
Makes for some REALLY challenging games on Brutal. To make it better, restart a campaign and never go to the evolution chamber. Never upgrade your units at all :DDD Honestly I'm not sure if the last mission are even possible without broodlords or with naked ultras, without double drone production and with Kerrigan not being max level :D Unless you want this mission under 25 min then: Kerrigan to clear units (lings to kill buildings after units are cleared) Mutas to kill BC and thor tank push on raynor. Then transition into Kerrigan + Ultras (burrow dash + respawn) = Takes a while to macro but 3/3 ultra with resp are unstoppable and did not have to reproduce a single ultra until few died tearing apart final base before doors. No need for double drones or max kerrigan level (healing + that 300 dmg every 10 sec is enough ;D)
Point I was trying to make is :
1) never click on the "evolution chamber" in the mission selection screen. Never mutate your units, never do a single evolution mission
2) Never click on the Kerrigan button either. (So you dont have extra life and so on). Because, yes, Kerrigan can solo half the map, even on brutal, if you use those imba abilties.
3) Try to win whole campaign like that. Not sure if it's possible at all. If it is, try to get the achievements done.
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On March 16 2013 10:26 Talos[GER] wrote:
The level70 achievement bugged? I only got 69 in my brutal playthrough and tried to get them later. Semms kinda bugged... I don't want to play the whole campaign over again.
Yeah, it's a bug. Blizzard will fix it so don't worry about replaying the campaign. When will blizzard fix it? Who knows? Probably the next update. Your alternative is to check the mission archives and see where you missed a bonus objective. From what I've read, if you restart the campaign from that point you can get the achievement. So if it happened really early in the game, I would just wait.
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I'm really confused about Psi-Lence is golden... I am supposed to complete ALL the objectives in the first 12 minutes of the game? What I managed to do was to kill the three psi-lances in 11:30, but completing the rest of the objectives in 30 seconds seems impossible to me. Any hint on how to do it?
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On March 17 2013 02:04 Ahelvin wrote:
I'm really confused about Psi-Lence is golden... I am supposed to complete ALL the objectives in the first 12 minutes of the game? What I managed to do was to kill the three psi-lances in 11:30, but completing the rest of the objectives in 30 seconds seems impossible to me. Any hint on how to do it?
7. Psi-lence is Golden + Show Spoiler +http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB2pu9H0DKY&list=PLYKOujirOI-SiuLXEs0p68wAo85qSwt5s&index=7
TL;DW: make ling/muta or pure ling and blitz the objectives during deep freezes. Split up army to get them all at once.
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On March 16 2013 06:54 Xapti wrote:Show nested quote +On March 16 2013 06:44 Natalya wrote:
I dont understand lol... How do you spread creep without activating the nest? Do you guys mean that you put a creep tumor close to the nest but out of activation range? then create a new creep tumor next to it to make it shoot? even if i didnt care about activating or not, i just cant get the creep all the way to the 4rth nest. Never gona happen within 2 minutes of the beggining of the game period, it's far too far...
Is there a way to spread creep that do not involve using the first creep tumor you get for free, the one near your base? I mean you cant plant a tumor wherever you feel like can you? lol
I'm laughing so hard coz i think i tried for hours when there's a little trick i didnt understand ;D
Btw there's also the mission where you're attacking warfield. Tried a couple times to blow up the pf, seems not likely to be possible. You're assuming too much. You're assuming that it's saying "the first 120 seconds of the game". It's really saying kill 3 more gorgon battlecruisers within 120 seconds of killing killing one. Show nested quote +On March 16 2013 06:04 monk wrote:
You have to activate all four scourge nests at the same time. I'm not sure I understand the problem. I got all the achievements just fine. you got all the mastery achievements? Personally I've tried a few that I had trouble with. Namely the Rendezvous one (Premature Evacuation: Destroy all Dominion Structures in the “Rendezvous” mission before Naktul’s brood arrives on Hard difficulty.). Assuming it means killing all structures on your side of the bridge (rather than ALL of them), I've always been a fair bit short of doing-so (although I guess it does look possible) The reason I'm saying it's problematic is because I don't see what I could be doing wrong. There's no extra minerals or gas that's useable, and unit composition is extremely straightforward since we get only zerglings and queens. I was going to try PURE queen once,but went against it (doesn't seem good)
Pure Queen is the way to go. Every time you have 50 gas, make a Queen. Any extra minerals can go into Zerglings, but straight Queens got it for me on the first try.
But yea, the 4 Gorgon Battlecruisers one has me stuck. I feel like the hatchery tactic might be the best one?
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United States4991 Posts
With regards to the Rendezvous one, lings are fine for killing structures, but either target down first with ranged or use Kerrigan's nuke on things like firebats and especially Hellbats. You can't afford to have them kill all your lings, which they will if you're not careful. I left the base at the far top right (not the one across the bridge, but rather the one right below the bridge) for last, as I found that area the most challenging. You can free the first Queen/Ling on the left side with just Kerrigan at the start, and then use the units you get from that to free the units on the bottom right, which'll give you enough to start continually pushing towards the top. If you're doing it quickly enough, you should have quite a few minutes to build up and take the final area (when you do engage an area, make sure you lure out the things that will kill lings highly effectively first).
I didn't have to use any offensive hatcheries for the Gorgon one. Just keep continually pushing tumors forward as you push forward with your army (initially I pushed forward with just Kerrigan who can be pretty effective by herself, and then used almost pure Hydra with her later on). You do have to use one scourge nest independently of the 4x from my experience, but once you get rolling with your Hydra army you can clear the last two in quick succession and make it. Oh, and I assume it's obvious, but wait until the very last minute to use the first scourge nest - it should be pretty much at your base when you use it...
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For most of the time limit missions where the goal is to destroy specific buildings, the easiest method is to just build up a huge army of the jumping Banelings and then right-click down the objective.
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On March 17 2013 02:19 Stratos_speAr wrote:Show nested quote +On March 16 2013 06:54 Xapti wrote:On March 16 2013 06:44 Natalya wrote:
I dont understand lol... How do you spread creep without activating the nest? Do you guys mean that you put a creep tumor close to the nest but out of activation range? then create a new creep tumor next to it to make it shoot? even if i didnt care about activating or not, i just cant get the creep all the way to the 4rth nest. Never gona happen within 2 minutes of the beggining of the game period, it's far too far...
Is there a way to spread creep that do not involve using the first creep tumor you get for free, the one near your base? I mean you cant plant a tumor wherever you feel like can you? lol
I'm laughing so hard coz i think i tried for hours when there's a little trick i didnt understand ;D
Btw there's also the mission where you're attacking warfield. Tried a couple times to blow up the pf, seems not likely to be possible. You're assuming too much. You're assuming that it's saying "the first 120 seconds of the game". It's really saying kill 3 more gorgon battlecruisers within 120 seconds of killing killing one. On March 16 2013 06:04 monk wrote:
You have to activate all four scourge nests at the same time. I'm not sure I understand the problem. I got all the achievements just fine. you got all the mastery achievements? Personally I've tried a few that I had trouble with. Namely the Rendezvous one (Premature Evacuation: Destroy all Dominion Structures in the “Rendezvous” mission before Naktul’s brood arrives on Hard difficulty.). Assuming it means killing all structures on your side of the bridge (rather than ALL of them), I've always been a fair bit short of doing-so (although I guess it does look possible) The reason I'm saying it's problematic is because I don't see what I could be doing wrong. There's no extra minerals or gas that's useable, and unit composition is extremely straightforward since we get only zerglings and queens. I was going to try PURE queen once,but went against it (doesn't seem good) Pure Queen is the way to go. Every time you have 50 gas, make a Queen. Any extra minerals can go into Zerglings, but straight Queens got it for me on the first try. But yea, the 4 Gorgon Battlecruisers one has me stuck. I feel like the hatchery tactic might be the best one?
On March 17 2013 02:26 Insane wrote:
With regards to the Rendezvous one, lings are fine for killing structures, but either target down first with ranged or use Kerrigan's nuke on things like firebats and especially Hellbats. You can't afford to have them kill all your lings, which they will if you're not careful. I left the base at the far top right (not the one across the bridge, but rather the one right below the bridge) for last, as I found that area the most challenging. You can free the first Queen/Ling on the left side with just Kerrigan at the start, and then use the units you get from that to free the units on the bottom right, which'll give you enough to start continually pushing towards the top. If you're doing it quickly enough, you should have quite a few minutes to build up and take the final area (when you do engage an area, make sure you lure out the things that will kill lings highly effectively first).
I didn't have to use any offensive hatcheries for the Gorgon one. Just keep continually pushing tumors forward as you push forward with your army (initially I pushed forward with just Kerrigan who can be pretty effective by herself, and then used almost pure Hydra with her later on). You do have to use one scourge nest independently of the 4x from my experience, but once you get rolling with your Hydra army you can clear the last two in quick succession and make it. Oh, and I assume it's obvious, but wait until the very last minute to use the first scourge nest - it should be pretty much at your base when you use it...
Yeah. Also I know that by the time (or rather before) the 3rd Battlecruiser gets to my base, I captured (and had creep tumors next to) all 5 remaining nests, so it's quite possible to get 5 in a row even.
For rendezvous I managed to do it in another retry (maybe total 3 or 4 tries); just takes a bit of proper timing and multitasking, nothing major (I made a bunch of mistakes on my successful run). Practice is all a person really needs to do to get it done. note: you can make use of burrow if a fighting queen or rogue group of lings/queens(i.e. rally group) is about to die. That way they'll live to fight again and will be healed.
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Russian Federation4295 Posts
Look at the name of achievement. Reference to Idra?
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May I kindly ask anyone to upload some brutal savegames (or mastery achievements) please?
I think the savegame trick still works (may need to re-save and load again however)
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Surprised no one commented on the "So Many Banelings" achievement.
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On March 16 2013 10:26 Talos[GER] wrote:
The level70 achievement bugged? I only got 69 in my brutal playthrough and tried to get them later. Semms kinda bugged... I don't want to play the whole campaign over again.
The trick is to load before you do the last mission where you gain levels (Either the Narud mission or the Prison mission) and to go complete the leveling up in the archives before that one. Then just do it again.
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May I have your brutal / mastery savegames please?
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On March 18 2013 05:17 WolfintheSheep wrote:
Surprised no one commented on the "So Many Banelings" achievement.
Or the fact that The Infested mission starts you off with a 4 Brofester Hitsquad. It may or may not be a reference to Destiny, but I thought it was pretty funny and subtle if it was.
On March 18 2013 17:26 mkMFX wrote:
May I have your brutal / mastery savegames please?
Will you please stop posting this in every thread that is discussing the campaign? If you need to wait for someone to provide them to you, then just wait for a response and stop posting this over and over please. Not trying to be mean, but every thread I go to that discusses campaign strategy or achievements has this post at least once, sometimes multiple times, peppered throughout.
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Will you please stop posting this in every thread that is discussing the campaign? (...)
I think that you're exaggerating a little bit, but OK no more requests from me!
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On March 18 2013 17:26 mkMFX wrote:
May I have your brutal / mastery savegames please?
seriously? you want achievements bad enough you'll download saved games to cheat getting them?
the point is to show what you've DONE not what you've managed to cheat to get...
I'm working through the mastery achievs right now, so far no trouble with any of them, though they can be a lot of fun.
I like the combination of kinetic blast + Dash + heal, picking up ability efficiency when it unlocks. This has allowed me to ability spam my way through enemy forces with kerrigan while I macro up an army in my base.
For the 4 BCs in 2 minutes achiev, I did BCs 3-6
I cleared out all the terran, and used the super creep to get creep all over the map in time, then got everything lined up and hit em one after the other, worked like a charm.
Rendevous I forgot to defend my base, and actually lost my last structure 10 seconds after getting the achievement, was a close call...
One of the best tools for a number of the kill single building/unit achievs, is hunter banelings with corrosive acid. 80 single target damage, 160 single target building damage pre upgrades. Just swarm in with a group of these and whatever your target is will be dead shortly.
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On March 19 2013 01:45 Shiladie wrote:
I'm working through the mastery achievs right now, so far no trouble with any of them, though they can be a lot of fun.
You are probably Master, but I'm a Bronze Scrub so it's not that easy ---_______---
BTW: What's easier - campaign on brutal, or mastery achievements on hard?
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Don't know if it's relevant but i have a question. I completed the whole campaign on Brutal but some of the missions i completed while ''achievements we're down'' for whatever reason so i didn't get the achievement that i completed the missions for a couple of maps in the middle of the campaign, also some evolution missions apparently. Is there anyway to get them now that I've competed the campaign or would i need to start over? Tried playing one of them true the archives but it didn't give me anything.
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On March 19 2013 02:06 mkMFX wrote:Show nested quote +On March 19 2013 01:45 Shiladie wrote:
I'm working through the mastery achievs right now, so far no trouble with any of them, though they can be a lot of fun.
You are probably Master, but I'm a Bronze Scrub so it's not that easy ---_______--- BTW: What's easier - campaign on brutal, or mastery achievements on hard?
Mastery achievs are harder, brutal isn't that bad. My suggestion if you're having trouble is to build your army to not require micro, and focus on just overwhelming your opponent. This is what I'd suggest getting for playing brutal if you're having trouble. (each mastery achiev generally has specific things you should pick for it.)
Kerrigan:
Kinetic blast
Bounce attack
Automated geysers
Heal
double drones
Fury
Drop pods
Army:
Hunter zerglings with adrenal glands (attack speed)
Hunter banelings with corrosive acid
Corpser roach with the +8 damage to light upgrade
Hydralisk with range and lurker morph
Mutalisk with sundering glaives and broodlord morph
Swarm host with carrion and attack air/ground (flying locusts that attack air and ground are awesome)
Ultralisk with 40% lifesteal and terrasque upgrade (self revive)
Then just defend your main base while you max out your patches on drones while your kerrigan cleans out your expansion. Then defend both bases with spines/spores/swarm hosts once available, until you have an army of whatever you feel like building and can go kill the enemy with an f2 a
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On March 19 2013 02:06 mkMFX wrote:Show nested quote +On March 19 2013 01:45 Shiladie wrote:
I'm working through the mastery achievs right now, so far no trouble with any of them, though they can be a lot of fun.
You are probably Master, but I'm a Bronze Scrub so it's not that easy ---_______--- BTW: What's easier - campaign on brutal, or mastery achievements on hard?
Mastery achievements definitely harder for most of them.
Edit: If you can macro kinda decently brutal's actually not too bad. The Supreme mission is disgusting though hahaha
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I think I've tried for an hour on Hard to get the Rendevouz achievement where you have to kill ALL of the Dominion Structures before the Brood arrives. I'm very close but always comes up short...
Any strategies to help me with this fucker?
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On March 19 2013 02:20 3nickma wrote:I think I've tried for an hour on Hard to get the Rendevouz achievement where you have to kill ALL of the Dominion Structures before the Brood arrives. I'm very close but always comes up short... Any strategies to help me with this fucker?
Build up an army of queens instead of zerglings, and only move out once you're ready to not stop attacking, otherwise you're just attacking with less troops then otherwise.
also have kerrigan go out early to solo some of the trapped units, with a swarm queen for heals/support.
build lings with excess resources, but expect to lose them as fodder while the queens remain alive behind doing the damage.
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On March 19 2013 02:20 3nickma wrote:I think I've tried for an hour on Hard to get the Rendevouz achievement where you have to kill ALL of the Dominion Structures before the Brood arrives. I'm very close but always comes up short... Any strategies to help me with this fucker?
There are some good videos online that you can checkout. You basically want to waste as little time as possible. At the very start, macro up while you take Kerrigan solo and start to clear out the bottom right base. Return to defend against patrols (start to remember when these come, and from what direction, at the beginning so you are never defenseless) and then go finish up that area. Make at least 2 extra hatcheries and as many queens as possible. I did it all counter clockwise once the bottom base was down since that leads you to have the most 'free' units. Don't be afraid to invest in spines so you don't ever have to waste time returning to base once your army is moving forward. Try at least 5-6 spines on the side that you are not clearing (right or left) and feelf ree to leave 1-2 queens to heal them. Lings help as well but make sure to snipe Tanks and Hellbats ASAP since they will wipe them out. Also get upgrades going for your units so they do more damage and live longer. It's not too rough once you know where the bases are and when the patrols come (and from which direction). GL!
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A real fun challenge btw. is doing the Rendezvous "kill 15 building before reinforcements" achievement on brutal. I did that and the other one on brutal difficulty and it took me forever and required real quick but also cautious Spine Crawler pushes. Zerglings are just so bad on that mission on brutal, and Queens too just die to the high amount of reinforcements. I restarted the entire mission probably 5 times or so and loaded a save field ~10-12 times. Was the hardest challenge I've done in the game.
I got the game on Friday and finally decided to look up what's up with the Gorgon mastery achievement. Would've been real nice if they wrote "within 120s of one another" instead of just "within 120s" to make it clear. Because at first I thought "within 120s of spawning" and then "within 120s game time". The first one being laughably easy and the second one absolutely impossible!
Apropos impossible, considering what I've said above I doubt anyone could get the mastery achievement for Rendezvous playing on ultra (killing all the buildings)!
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Does anyone have problems with the Smoking Corpses (Kinetic Blast 50 kills), Get a Grip (Crushing Grip target 150 units), or So Many Banelings (100 units killed with spawn banelings)?
These numbers on the achievements at not changing, (32/50 kinetic blast) (74/150 crushing crip)..etc.
I know I have killed more then 50 units with kinetic blast and it still has not changed. Am I doing something wrong or is it glitched stuck?
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Yes you gotta do them all in one mission. Then it works.
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Yea, they are bugged so the counter does not continue upon completing a mission. Load up Casual Rendesvous and just have Kerrigan go around and solo everything with those items (and Ability Efficiency skill). It will be pretty quick. Remember that Kinectic Blast (maybe spawn blings too) works on buildings as well so auto-attack them into the red then snipe/bling them.
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Is there no mastery for Death from Above? It seems odd there would be one for every other level but not that one.
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On March 19 2013 07:09 Sherlock-Canada wrote:
Is there no mastery for Death from Above? It seems odd there would be one for every other level but not that one.
They either forgot, ran out of time/resources, or couldn't think of a good one for that level due to the complexity of two hero squads and the big psi-disruptor field. Very odd indeed.
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On March 19 2013 07:25 DrSeRRoD wrote:Show nested quote +On March 19 2013 07:09 Sherlock-Canada wrote:
Is there no mastery for Death from Above? It seems odd there would be one for every other level but not that one. They either forgot, ran out of time/resources, or couldn't think of a good one for that level due to the complexity of two hero squads and the big psi-disruptor field. Very odd indeed.
Probably where the secret mission is! 
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hey everybody ;D
I was corious about if there were some hidden feats of strenghts achievements for the hots campaign, just like there were 3 for wol- Anybody found some yet? :D
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^ Nope, nothing outside of the 3 Beta ones.
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On March 19 2013 09:28 AndaGalant wrote:
hey everybody ;D
I was corious about if there were some hidden feats of strenghts achievements for the hots campaign, just like there were 3 for wol- Anybody found some yet? :D
There must be some right? If anyone can find blizzard employee accounts they can use those to see if they have any feats of strength on them I guess. I haven't gotten all the achievements yet but when I do I'll see if I can find any tips to help those who are having a hard time.
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Feats are usually in the Strategy Guides as well and none have been posted or discovered. I think they may have just skipped them this time around like the Mastery achievement for the 19th mission. usually they are discovered before the game is even released.
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Another question,
to beat the campaign and get the "Beat Campaign on Hard" achievement, do I have to play through the campaign from the beginning or can I go into the master archives and do each mission on hard? (i would have lvl 70 kerrigan)
im pretty sure id have to start over but i just wanna make sure
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Premature Evacuation achievement on Brutal:
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/9MuYlO8.jpg)
Mass queens then pullback/split micro your heart out.
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On March 19 2013 07:25 DrSeRRoD wrote:Show nested quote +On March 19 2013 07:09 Sherlock-Canada wrote:
Is there no mastery for Death from Above? It seems odd there would be one for every other level but not that one. They either forgot, ran out of time/resources, or couldn't think of a good one for that level due to the complexity of two hero squads and the big psi-disruptor field. Very odd indeed.
If you look at the game data, there is supposedly one called "missing link"
I didn't bother to see what it's description was, but on the map itself (fire in the sky), there's the following trigger actions (Context: Victory trigger)
------- Check Mastery Achievement
General - If (Conditions) then do (Actions) else do (Actions)
If
(Power Link 3 [173.00, 99.00] is alive) == True
Then
Trigger - Run Achievement: Don't Destroy Last Power Link H (Check Conditions, Don't Wait until it finishes)
I don't remember a whole lot about the mission, so I guess it makes sense that I don't know why this achievement isn't mentioned or used. As far as I can tell it is active though, so the fact that people aren't getting this achievement is because for whatever reason someone didn't actually make the achievement on the server-side I'd guess.
edit: I was curious enough, so I did look up it's description: "Field Swarm Campaign (Mastery) - Korhal02 - Missing Link
(Basic) Description Complete the "Death From Above" mission before destroying the final power link on Hard difficulty." (as expected/predicted based on the previous code)
On March 19 2013 10:02 Maxd11 wrote:Show nested quote +On March 19 2013 09:28 AndaGalant wrote:
hey everybody ;D
I was corious about if there were some hidden feats of strenghts achievements for the hots campaign, just like there were 3 for wol- Anybody found some yet? :D There must be some right? If anyone can find blizzard employee accounts they can use those to see if they have any feats of strength on them I guess. I haven't gotten all the achievements yet but when I do I'll see if I can find any tips to help those who are having a hard time.
If there was a secret and/or secret achievement, I assume it would have been found really quickly since the maps are all available to be opened in the editor by the public.
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On March 19 2013 10:43 ShowTheLights wrote:
Another question,
to beat the campaign and get the "Beat Campaign on Hard" achievement, do I have to play through the campaign from the beginning or can I go into the master archives and do each mission on hard? (i would have lvl 70 kerrigan)
im pretty sure id have to start over but i just wanna make sure
You can use the Mastery Archives, which makes it easier. I started from scratch after Normal difficulty for Brutal to get the full experience but being able to bypass the Evolution missions would have been great.
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Russian Federation59 Posts
On March 16 2013 06:15 SyDe wrote:Anyone finished the "Ludicrous Speed" achievement ? + Show Spoiler +the mission with the Hyperion, you have to finish it in less than 11 min . Dunno if I should try to go for an upgrade (with minerals) or just rush the hell out of it T_T
Take all the minerals and kill all enemies (get the electric ability from the mercenary ship as well) until you reach the final part, take the last minerals to max level your ship then rush to the base and fight it. There may be better way, but this worked for me. Without max level it is too difficult to rush and win in a firefight against the base.
On March 19 2013 02:52 ShowTheLights wrote:
Does anyone have problems with the Smoking Corpses (Kinetic Blast 50 kills), Get a Grip (Crushing Grip target 150 units), or So Many Banelings (100 units killed with spawn banelings)?
These numbers on the achievements at not changing, (32/50 kinetic blast) (74/150 crushing crip)..etc.
I know I have killed more then 50 units with kinetic blast and it still has not changed. Am I doing something wrong or is it glitched stuck?
I have the same problem, but don't know how to solve it.
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On March 19 2013 18:11 Xapti wrote:If you look at the game data, there is supposedly one called "missing link" I didn't bother to see what it's description was, but on the map itself (fire in the sky), there's the following trigger actions (Context: Victory trigger) ------- Check Mastery Achievement
General - If (Conditions) then do (Actions) else do (Actions)
If
(Power Link 3 [173.00, 99.00] is alive) == True
Then
Trigger - Run Achievement: Don't Destroy Last Power Link H (Check Conditions, Don't Wait until it finishes)
I don't remember a whole lot about the mission, so I guess it makes sense that I don't know why this achievement isn't mentioned or used. As far as I can tell it is active though, so the fact that people aren't getting this achievement is because for whatever reason someone didn't actually make the achievement on the server-side I'd guess. edit: I was curious enough, so I did look up it's description: "Field Swarm Campaign (Mastery) - Korhal02 - Missing Link (Basic) Description Complete the "Death From Above" mission before destroying the final power link on Hard difficulty." (as expected/predicted based on the previous code)
Interesting, it would mean finishing that mission and killing the Main Psi-disrupter in like 10 minutes since the units cannot survive the powerfield or using everyone to clear as much as possible and finishing it off with Dehaka before the power field destroys every last structure of yours. Sounds like quite the challenge and two different areas to watch over.
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(Phone post fail, DrSeRRoD answered below anyways!)
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On March 19 2013 20:37 ecstazy wrote:
I have the same problem, but don't know how to solve it.
The achievements are bugged and stop counting across missions. Get them in ONE mission and they will be earned. Load up Reckoning on Casual and have Kerrigan load up as many of the skills as she can that you need + Ability Efficiency and just run around killing/using with them until they are earned. Do not take your army with you so that she gets all of the kills.
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To get all those "kill" Achievements with Kerrigan just use them in the last mission and play it as long as you got enough kills/targets on each. That's how i did it 
Any you have to be sure that the ability does the "killing blow". It doesn't help if you reduce their health and kill it with Kerrigan then.
I got all achievements yesterday
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On March 19 2013 20:37 ecstazy wrote:Show nested quote +On March 16 2013 06:15 SyDe wrote:Anyone finished the "Ludicrous Speed" achievement ? + Show Spoiler +the mission with the Hyperion, you have to finish it in less than 11 min Dunno if I should try to go for an upgrade (with minerals) or just rush the hell out of it T_T Take all the minerals and and kill all enemies (get the electric ability from the mercenary ship as well) until you reach the final part, take the last minerals to max level your ship then rush to the base and fight it. There may be better way, but this worked for me. Without max level it is too difficult to rush and win in a firefight against the base.
I did it more-or-less easily if you skip the Kel'Morian pirates; It didn't seem to me like it be as worth it compared to getting the minerals (looked like it would take some time). I didn't have much time to spare though, so I don't know if (and wouldn't say that) it's any easier.
On March 19 2013 20:37 ecstazy wrote:Show nested quote +On March 19 2013 02:52 ShowTheLights wrote:
Does anyone have problems with the Smoking Corpses (Kinetic Blast 50 kills), Get a Grip (Crushing Grip target 150 units), or So Many Banelings (100 units killed with spawn banelings)?
These numbers on the achievements at not changing, (32/50 kinetic blast) (74/150 crushing crip)..etc.
I know I have killed more then 50 units with kinetic blast and it still has not changed. Am I doing something wrong or is it glitched stuck? I have the same problem, but don't know how to solve it.
Yeah I had the same problem too. The answer was posted a post or few after in this thread, but they weren't clear (edit: and answered again more recently as well, but made this post before I saw it. I guessed what they were saying, and tested it out. What they meant to say (or at least how it is), is that the achievement requires you to to do the requested action in one whole mission, not multiple missions.
Essentially they are all worded badly; the words "within a single mission" should be added at the end of them.
The most difficult (boring/tedious) one seems to me to be the 15000 damage with leaping strike (but maybe not if you like soloing lots with kerrigan and using mend), but I guess come to think of it, it's probably just as easy or even easier to spam that 100 times (actually it's probably less than 100 times because it seems like it's counting more damage than the base 150) than kinetic blast 50 times, due to Kinetic's long cooldown.
On March 19 2013 20:53 DrSeRRoD wrote:Show nested quote +On March 19 2013 18:11 Xapti wrote:If you look at the game data, there is supposedly one called "missing link" I didn't bother to see what it's description was, but on the map itself (fire in the sky), there's the following trigger actions (Context: Victory trigger) ------- Check Mastery Achievement
General - If (Conditions) then do (Actions) else do (Actions)
If
(Power Link 3 [173.00, 99.00] is alive) == True
Then
Trigger - Run Achievement: Don't Destroy Last Power Link H (Check Conditions, Don't Wait until it finishes)
I don't remember a whole lot about the mission, so I guess it makes sense that I don't know why this achievement isn't mentioned or used. As far as I can tell it is active though, so the fact that people aren't getting this achievement is because for whatever reason someone didn't actually make the achievement on the server-side I'd guess. edit: I was curious enough, so I did look up it's description: "Field Swarm Campaign (Mastery) - Korhal02 - Missing Link (Basic) Description Complete the "Death From Above" mission before destroying the final power link on Hard difficulty." (as expected/predicted based on the previous code) Interesting, it would mean finishing that mission and killing the Main Psi-disrupter in like 10 minutes since the units cannot survive the powerfield or using everyone to clear as much as possible and finishing it off with Dehaka before the power field destroys every last structure of yours. Sounds like quite the challenge and two different areas to watch over. Kerrigan can summon primal zerg which aren't affected by the psi destroyer. When I first played I was using that plus the AoE super unit buff and discovered that.
Because of this, I guess that means you could do it much later than 10 minutes; not an indefinite amount of time though because the psi destroyer's field does slowly grow (until it would wipe all units from the map)
edit: after a long attempt that was very unoptimal, I did manage to do the achievement as far as I know (3rd time I got dehaka, I just had him sit there and do nothing), but nothing happened (not much surprise). I used hearty ultralisks and primal summons and mend, but it was still rather ineffective considering the power of the enemy that would always rebuild (the production buildings are hard to get to)
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On March 20 2013 17:34 Xapti wrote:The most difficult one seems to me to be the 15000 damage with leaping strike (but maybe not if you like soloing lots with kerrigan and using mend), but I guess come to think of it, it's probably just as easy or even easier to spam that 100 times (actually it's probably less than 100 times because it seems like it's counting more damage than the base 150) than kinetic blast 50 times, due to Kinetic's long cooldown.)
Personally the easiest mission I found to do this on, is "Domination" where you have to collect the 100 eggs for a few reasons:
- The mission can go on indefinitely as long as you keep Zagara in her base
- She spawns infinite amounts of units
- The enemy units you encounter are fairly easy to deal with and provide no danger to Kerrigan
- The infested terrans and random buildings all over the map provide you with a good amount of "target pratice" for either leaping strike or kinetic blast
It took me about a bit over half an hour to complete both achievements on that particular map. Mind you I have done that through the Master Archives since it will provide you with increased energy regeneration on Kerrigan as she starts in her "primal zerg" form.
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On March 20 2013 18:41 Erinyes wrote:Show nested quote +On March 20 2013 17:34 Xapti wrote:The most difficult one seems to me to be the 15000 damage with leaping strike (but maybe not if you like soloing lots with kerrigan and using mend), but I guess come to think of it, it's probably just as easy or even easier to spam that 100 times (actually it's probably less than 100 times because it seems like it's counting more damage than the base 150) than kinetic blast 50 times, due to Kinetic's long cooldown.) Personally the easiest mission I found to do this on, is "Domination" where you have to collect the 100 eggs for a few reasons: - The mission can go on indefinitely as long as you keep Zagara in her base - She spawns infinite amounts of units - The enemy units you encounter are fairly easy to deal with and provide no danger to Kerrigan - The infested terrans and random buildings all over the map provide you with a good amount of "target pratice" for either leaping strike or kinetic blast It took me about a bit over half an hour to complete both achievements on that particular map. Mind you I have done that through the Master Archives since it will provide you with increased energy regeneration on Kerrigan as she starts in her "primal zerg" form.
by difficult I mostly meant tedious. It's not difficult whatsoever, it's extremely easy, it just takes quite some time to spam the skill 100 times. That said, by far the best way to do it is with 20% lower ability cost on one of the last missions like the reckoning; just use it on all the buildings and units with lots of health. I guess that's maybe a good mission to do it if you're multitasking achievements though.
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Hey folks. When I go through my Master Archives, I've beat everything on Brutal, but still don't have the Brutal Achievement. I know for sure that for some missions the achievement service was down. Is there any way to tell which missions didn't register? I have no recollection of which ones they were!
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Btw I think an achievement bugged for me, and badly. That's in the mission where the super spore crawler are landing and you have to protect them. The achievement is to kill every terran building before the 5th spore land. I did it twice and didnt get the achievement. I had literally whole map scouted, not an inch of black remanining on minimap, meaning i had scouted everything at least once, and didnt see any red stuff on minimap 
Anyone having the same bug?
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On March 21 2013 03:02 Natalya wrote:Btw I think an achievement bugged for me, and badly. That's in the mission where the super spore crawler are landing and you have to protect them. The achievement is to kill every terran building before the 5th spore land. I did it twice and didnt get the achievement. I had literally whole map scouted, not an inch of black remanining on minimap, meaning i had scouted everything at least once, and didnt see any red stuff on minimap Anyone having the same bug?
Are you completely sure you scouted the map and killed everything before the time ran out? I tried to beat that mission several times with a save that was 2 minutes from the end time, and I found eventually that there were two missile turrets on high ground I had missed the first time I had cleared out that area.
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On March 21 2013 03:12 Lobo2me wrote:Show nested quote +On March 21 2013 03:02 Natalya wrote:Btw I think an achievement bugged for me, and badly. That's in the mission where the super spore crawler are landing and you have to protect them. The achievement is to kill every terran building before the 5th spore land. I did it twice and didnt get the achievement. I had literally whole map scouted, not an inch of black remanining on minimap, meaning i had scouted everything at least once, and didnt see any red stuff on minimap Anyone having the same bug? Are you completely sure you scouted the map and killed everything before the time ran out? I tried to beat that mission several times with a save that was 2 minutes from the end time, and I found eventually that there were two missile turrets on high ground I had missed the first time I had cleared out that area.
wtf must be that... i didnt use air units so ofc i didnt kill those turrets. Do you remember where they are?
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There is one in the lower-east base (will be on the top left area when you first enter that part) and one I believe in the east base. Just load up a save, send overlords all over to find them, and then reload the save and take 5-6 overlords with you (or mutas) and snipe them down.
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100% hots, a bit easier if there is no lost viking to get frustrated on
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On March 21 2013 03:31 Laurens wrote:100% hots, a bit easier if there is no lost viking to get frustrated on
haha yeah. I just finished 100% HoTS yesterday. forever stuck at 99% WoL because Lost Viking lags really bad for me for some reason TT
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Just wait until Lost Voidray, it will be twice as hard!
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Ehm since I didn't find any other dedicated thread talking about the campain, I'll just post here.
So I just started playng, but is it only me or are most achievements pretty much impossible to gain on brutal? Like I'm only on the 2nd mission right now, but I see no way how I could have macrod enough units to save the brood mothers before reinforcements arrive, cause the bunkers and siegetanks will just shred them.
To be fair I haven't touched WoL in 18months and only just started playing again with hots release. so I'm definitely abit rusty^^
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The campaign achievements are meant for Normal and Mastery achievements for Hard. You are just making it a bit tougher on yourself but I'm sure they are mostly possible, if not all, on Brutal once you are good enough and know the timings of the mission. As for 'saving' the brood mothers, I'm guessing you mean the 3rd mission. All you have to do is reach the cave they are in and once they become controllable, you got them. Repeat for the other two and you get the achievement.
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On March 21 2013 08:11 AsnSensation wrote:
Ehm since I didn't find any other dedicated thread talking about the campain, I'll just post here.
So I just started playng, but is it only me or are most achievements pretty much impossible to gain on brutal? Like I'm only on the 2nd mission right now, but I see no way how I could have macrod enough units to save the brood mothers before reinforcements arrive, cause the bunkers and siegetanks will just shred them.
To be fair I haven't touched WoL in 18months and only just started playing again with hots release. so I'm definitely abit rusty^^
It's possible for most of them, I got all bonus objectives and achieves on a single Brutal playthrough except for one on the last mission which I replayed on hard for.
Sometimes the wording is not obvious e.g. "save" the brood mothers just means killing the units guarding the caves, you don't actually have to keep the brood mothers alive.
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Ah ok ^^ I guess I tryharder abit then.
When doing that mission for the first time I barely macrod enough units to even kill a bunker+siegetank even with kerrigan Psy blast, but that's because I was rusty^^ Next two missions my macro improved again and I rolled over them in true zerg fashion :D
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LOL for some reason, I thought that Fast Break was the level with the psy destroyer thing with the ancient zerg that goes and kills the generators. I tried for like an hour thinking of how to destroy the main generator in 10 minutes then realized I was on the wrong mission. Going through the missions though, they aren't too bad, just some trial and error and intelligent kerrigan usage.
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I managed to 100% the game a couple of days ago. I thought the masteries were a nice extra challenge (Particularly the ones for Supreme and the last mission). It was very satisfying.
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On March 21 2013 10:23 Sherlock-Canada wrote:
I managed to 100% the game a couple of days ago. I thought the masteries were a nice extra challenge (Particularly the ones for Supreme and the last mission). It was very satisfying.
Same here, the masteries were a lot of fun. Finished them this morning, with Supreme and Infested taking the most attempts (for some reason it didn't occur to me that the infestor mission would probably go a lot better just using mass neural parasite).
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On March 21 2013 10:27 Iranon wrote:Show nested quote +On March 21 2013 10:23 Sherlock-Canada wrote:
I managed to 100% the game a couple of days ago. I thought the masteries were a nice extra challenge (Particularly the ones for Supreme and the last mission). It was very satisfying. Same here, the masteries were a lot of fun. Finished them this morning, with Supreme and Infested taking the most attempts (for some reason it didn't occur to me that the infestor mission would probably go a lot better just using mass neural parasite).
I did the infested Mastery by making 100+ Banelings and right clicking on the mission objective. Kinda lame, but it was hilarious just bypassing all the defences.
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On March 21 2013 11:20 WolfintheSheep wrote:Show nested quote +On March 21 2013 10:27 Iranon wrote:On March 21 2013 10:23 Sherlock-Canada wrote:
I managed to 100% the game a couple of days ago. I thought the masteries were a nice extra challenge (Particularly the ones for Supreme and the last mission). It was very satisfying. Same here, the masteries were a lot of fun. Finished them this morning, with Supreme and Infested taking the most attempts (for some reason it didn't occur to me that the infestor mission would probably go a lot better just using mass neural parasite). I did the infested Mastery by making 100+ Banelings and right clicking on the mission objective. Kinda lame, but it was hilarious just bypassing all the defences.
I just did mass roach with kerrigan clearing bunkers and then using neural on the BCs at the end. it worked pretty well
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On March 21 2013 08:11 AsnSensation wrote:
Ehm since I didn't find any other dedicated thread talking about the campain, I'll just post here.
So I just started playng, but is it only me or are most achievements pretty much impossible to gain on brutal? Like I'm only on the 2nd mission right now, but I see no way how I could have macrod enough units to save the brood mothers before reinforcements arrive, cause the bunkers and siegetanks will just shred them.
To be fair I haven't touched WoL in 18months and only just started playing again with hots release. so I'm definitely abit rusty^^
Tune into Day9's stream right now, he's running through the missions on Brutal and making sure to get all the achievements. Definitely beyond my ability, but he doesn't seem to be having a whole lot of trouble. Definitely possible to do, though.
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Despite me always clicking characters/objects whenever I had the chance for dialogue, I didn't get the "fashion statement" achievement for talking to characters.
This is particularly annoying because I never saved games when I played, and unlike in WoL, you can't freaking load previous points in the campaign as if you were in the campaign (I can't do anything on the leviathan.
I'll have to restart the whole campaign just to get the achievement, or find someone else's save to load.
On March 21 2013 03:43 Weirdkid wrote:Show nested quote +On March 21 2013 03:31 Laurens wrote:100% hots, a bit easier if there is no lost viking to get frustrated on Hahaha truth Managed to get my friend to complete Lost Viking for me though
I don't get it; Lost viking was relatively easy and fun,
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On March 21 2013 11:36 Scootaloo SC2 wrote:Tune into Day9's stream right now, he's running through the missions on Brutal and making sure to get all the achievements. Definitely beyond my ability, but he doesn't seem to be having a whole lot of trouble. Definitely possible to do, though.
Watching him go through it last night to get all of the "Normal" achievements on Brutal definitely made me feel like a noob since I went through the campaign on Normal for the achievements and to learn how each mission works before trying Brutal. I'm just not as much of a free spirit as he is, I NEED to be prepared! His reactions were a blast to watch though.
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Getting the 4Gorgon in 120sec achievement is actually pretty easy.
All you gotta do is clear the first 5 launcher things with any unit composition you prefer and then follow up with a drone and a queen.
The drone builds a hatchery close (but not in activation range), then cancels it and the queen places a tumor on the little bit of creep that got generated. When you have done that with 4 tumors just activate all 4 launchers.
Edit: Do you need to play the whole campaign and get all the levels for kerrigan in one playthrough or can you get the "level 70 kerrigan" achievement through completing all objectives in the archives?
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ah just watched a few of day9's vods and I'm glad that he had to restart missions a few times and didn't just crushed through it getting all achievement at the first try, that way I don't have to feel too noobish :D
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On March 21 2013 20:58 Scio wrote:
Edit: Do you need to play the whole campaign and get all the levels for kerrigan in one playthrough or can you get the "level 70 kerrigan" achievement through completing all objectives in the archives?
I believe some people have been able to get it through the archives but it seems to be buggy for others and they had to start a new campaign to get it.
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Hmm so apparently i missed clicking on the "Nafash's Hatchery" for the StarTours mission... is there anyway to go back to the Leaviathan and click on it without having to play the whole campaign again? Does anyone know in which planet is this?
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On March 22 2013 04:47 Qwantz wrote:
Hmm so apparently i missed clicking on the "Nafash's Hatchery" for the StarTours mission... is there anyway to go back to the Leaviathan and click on it without having to play the whole campaign again? Does anyone know in which planet is this?
That's the ice world isn't it? You have to click on the big hatch/hive thing in the background. I think you can only do it if you had a save to open up to on the leviathan. Otherwise you have to restart I'm pretty sure.
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On March 22 2013 04:47 Qwantz wrote:
Hmm so apparently i missed clicking on the "Nafash's Hatchery" for the StarTours mission... is there anyway to go back to the Leaviathan and click on it without having to play the whole campaign again? Does anyone know in which planet is this?
That's only like the 4th mission so I don't think you're too terribly off. I didn't click warfields fortress and had to go back to Char and click that on a new game.
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On March 22 2013 04:49 Shellshock1122 wrote:Show nested quote +On March 22 2013 04:47 Qwantz wrote:
Hmm so apparently i missed clicking on the "Nafash's Hatchery" for the StarTours mission... is there anyway to go back to the Leaviathan and click on it without having to play the whole campaign again? Does anyone know in which planet is this? That's the ice world isn't it? You have to click on the big hatch/hive thing in the background. I think you can only do it if you had a save to open up to on the leviathan. Otherwise you have to restart I'm pretty sure.
can't you just load one of the auto-saves that are all under "Recent" of that mission, finish it quickly and then click the building? Didn't test that yet since I have all the achievements expect the mastery ones.
Same question for the Mastery Achievements, can I do them from the Master Archives or from the auto-saves or do I have to play through the whole campaign again?
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On March 22 2013 04:58 Yello wrote:Show nested quote +On March 22 2013 04:49 Shellshock1122 wrote:On March 22 2013 04:47 Qwantz wrote:
Hmm so apparently i missed clicking on the "Nafash's Hatchery" for the StarTours mission... is there anyway to go back to the Leaviathan and click on it without having to play the whole campaign again? Does anyone know in which planet is this? That's the ice world isn't it? You have to click on the big hatch/hive thing in the background. I think you can only do it if you had a save to open up to on the leviathan. Otherwise you have to restart I'm pretty sure. can't you just load one of the auto-saves that are all under "Recent" of that mission, finish it quickly and then click the building? Didn't test that yet since I have all the achievements expect the mastery ones. Same question for the Mastery Achievements, can I do them from the Master Archives or from the auto-saves or do I have to play through the whole campaign again?
You can do all the mastery achievements from the archives. They're also easier that way because they give you Kerrigan at the most powerful possible at the point depending on mission order so she is potentially way stronger in the archives for your missions than when she was when you actually did it. For example, I did char first so Kerrigan was still relatively low level for me but when I went back to the archives and did it it let me have like units up to mutas unlocked and like lv 35 kerrigan or something. Makes it ridiculously easy to do some of the mastery achievements.
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so, i wanted the kerrigan portrait for getting to level 70. i got to level 65 or so on my first run through, but missed a few points. i went back and did the few points that i missed so now i am up to level 70. however, it didnt give me the achievement. i replayed the last level to see what would happen, but no achievement. anyone know whats up? thanks.
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On March 22 2013 05:10 dAPhREAk wrote:
so, i wanted the kerrigan portrait for getting to level 70. i got to level 65 or so on my first run through, but missed a few points. i went back and did the few points that i missed so now i am up to level 70. however, it didnt give me the achievement. i replayed the last level to see what would happen, but no achievement. anyone know whats up? thanks.
According to Blizzard you have to restart the campaign to get it
http://eu.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/6893571367
Hello,
Customer service is unable to assist with achievement issues.
If this achievement has not completed for you, you will need to restart the campaign and complete the achievement criteria again.
someone else in that thread says this should work
Workaround if you have a save game from the Conviction mission(not the Archive).
-Load the mission and quit it, this resets the campaign back to that point of the game.
-Go to the Archives.
-Complete any missed objectives to get Kerrigan to level 59.
-Once you complete all of the Kerrigan levels, exit out of the Archives and go back to the Leviathan.
-Start the mission Conviction.
-Finish the bonus objectives within the level and complete it.
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woh. maybe i'll just stick with primal kerrigan. ;-)
muchas gracias for the information.
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So I completed all campaign achievements on my own, only to find myself stuck at four remaining Kerrigan achievements. Anyone else experience problems with
Get a Grip, Smoking Corpses and Leaping Death
not refreshing when you hit more enemies? Mine are all frozen at somewhere above 50%, not gaining any more numbers even if I use only Kerrigan to kill the top flank in Planetfall with, for example, Kinetic Blast and Crushing Grip selected.
Before you ask: yes, I'm lasthitting with Kinetic blast, not just damaging with it.
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On March 23 2013 00:31 Hermanoid wrote:
So I completed all campaign achievements on my own, only to find myself stuck at four remaining Kerrigan achievements. Anyone else experience problems with
Get a Grip, Smoking Corpses and Leaping Death
not refreshing when you hit more enemies? Mine are all frozen at somewhere above 50%, not gaining any more numbers even if I use only Kerrigan to kill the top flank in Planetfall with, for example, Kinetic Blast and Crushing Grip selected.
Yes, they are bugged and stop counting once a mission ends. The workaround is to just get the required amount of damage/kills in ONE mission. Load up the final mission on Casual (enemies with less HP) and snipe/grip away until the achievement pops. Reload, swapping snipe with leap, and then just leap into buildings non stop. I highly recommend Ability Efficiency and use ONLY Kerrigan, leave your army at home. You can get them all done in about 10 minutes or less.
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On March 23 2013 00:35 DrSeRRoD wrote:Show nested quote +On March 23 2013 00:31 Hermanoid wrote:
So I completed all campaign achievements on my own, only to find myself stuck at four remaining Kerrigan achievements. Anyone else experience problems with
Get a Grip, Smoking Corpses and Leaping Death
not refreshing when you hit more enemies? Mine are all frozen at somewhere above 50%, not gaining any more numbers even if I use only Kerrigan to kill the top flank in Planetfall with, for example, Kinetic Blast and Crushing Grip selected. Yes, they are bugged and stop counting once a mission ends. The workaround is to just get the required amount of damage/kills in ONE mission. Load up the final mission on Casual (enemies with less HP) and snipe/grip away until the achievement pops. Reload, swapping snipe with leap, and then just leap into buildings non stop. I highly recommend Ability Efficiency and use ONLY Kerrigan, leave your army at home. You can get them all done in about 10 minutes or less.
Thanks, I'm on it.
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okay, this is mb a dumb question^^ but I like to do the achievements, especially the ones against a specific time, knowing actually the time I have ^^
So for the mastery achievement, "Home Wrecker" it says: "Destroy the Planetary Fortress in the "Old Soldiers" mission before the nuclear strike on Hard difficulty." But when is it in ingame time? Before minute 19? Maybe someone knows it exactly :D
/edit: Aah, okay I found a guide, LOL, it meant "a" planetary fortress - and I was thinking of Warfields mainbase my fault - its even before the first nukes strike I see, so a very short achievement^^
Thanks for all ur help and Im sorry, I missed that it was already asked and anwered on page 1 :/ I simply overread it BIG SORRY :/
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On March 23 2013 02:39 AndaGalant wrote:okay, this is mb a dumb question^^ but I like to do the achievements, especially the ones against a specific time, knowing actually the time I have ^^ So for the mastery achievement, "Home Wrecker" it says: "Destroy the Planetary Fortress in the "Old Soldiers" mission before the nuclear strike on Hard difficulty." But when is it in ingame time? Before minute 19? Maybe someone knows it exactly :D /edit: Aah, okay I found a guide, LOL, it meant "a" planetary fortress - and I was thinking of Warfields mainbase my fault - its even before the first nukes strike I see, so a very short achievement^^
It's before the 1st nuke (the cutscene where you stop getting banelings and zerglings) so it's about 5-6 minutes in (I don't remember the time exactly, but it's the clock that's running at the very start of the mission)
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On March 23 2013 02:39 AndaGalant wrote:okay, this is mb a dumb question^^ but I like to do the achievements, especially the ones against a specific time, knowing actually the time I have ^^ So for the mastery achievement, "Home Wrecker" it says: "Destroy the Planetary Fortress in the "Old Soldiers" mission before the nuclear strike on Hard difficulty." But when is it in ingame time? Before minute 19? Maybe someone knows it exactly :D /edit: Aah, okay I found a guide, LOL, it meant "a" planetary fortress - and I was thinking of Warfields mainbase my fault - its even before the first nukes strike I see, so a very short achievement^^
Attack up the left side. Ignore the gold mineral base, and basically just rush the planetary foretress. You should be able to get it without too much trouble.
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On March 23 2013 02:39 AndaGalant wrote:okay, this is mb a dumb question^^ but I like to do the achievements, especially the ones against a specific time, knowing actually the time I have ^^ So for the mastery achievement, "Home Wrecker" it says: "Destroy the Planetary Fortress in the "Old Soldiers" mission before the nuclear strike on Hard difficulty." But when is it in ingame time? Before minute 19? Maybe someone knows it exactly :D /edit: Aah, okay I found a guide, LOL, it meant "a" planetary fortress - and I was thinking of Warfields mainbase my fault - its even before the first nukes strike I see, so a very short achievement^^
The dumb part about your question is that it was already answered on page 1 of this thread. Not taking away from the nice fellows who kindly replied to you, but if you could please actually use the forum instead of treating it like a chat room, that would be great.
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Where can I find this thing in campaign?
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^ probably deleted from the game like everything which Blizzards are lazy to finish at developing
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On April 01 2013 04:13 Existor wrote:
^ probably deleted from the game like everything which Blizzards are lazy to finish at developing
I am very sad about it I was very looking forward to touch this unit in campaign...
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