It is a pretty good plot framework that just depends on the execution. Blizz has gone for a combination of cringeworthy deus ex machina, out of left field betrayal and Twilight-lite "love" stories, though.

marvellosity

United Kingdom36161 Posts

November 11 2014 11:09 GMT

#142

Got really excited reading this.

Hopefully the campaign is harder than HotS though (which seemed easier than WoL by some margin)

Yoav

United States1874 Posts

November 11 2014 15:59 GMT

#143

Hoping the same. The campaigns were really fun and well designed, but just way too easy. I actually enjoyed watching the friends I got into the game play them more than I myself, since so much of it becomes trivial if you can macro even a little bit.

Ideally, they'd add a difficulty setting (or two or three) on top of each existing campaign where the enemy spawns 1.5x, 2x, 3x as many enemies as in Brutal. Enemy production build times reduced similarly.

Alternatively, just increase the HP/DPS of every bad thing. It's a lazier fix, but it would get at the higher difficulty and would actually be kinda cool for the HotS campaign's swarminess feel (wouldn't it be cool if you occasionally actually had to remax?).

Maybe lazy fix for existing campaigns and have much harder difficulties with increased spawn counts for LotV? I'd love to legitimately feel outgunned.

Whitewing

United States7483 Posts

November 11 2014 16:04 GMT

#144

I'd like a brutal mode that is actually somewhat challenging, instead of trivial.

The_Templar

your Country52798 Posts

November 11 2014 16:07 GMT

#145

On November 12 2014 00:59 Yoav wrote:
Hoping the same. The campaigns were really fun and well designed, but just way too easy. I actually enjoyed watching the friends I got into the game play them more than I myself, since so much of it becomes trivial if you can macro even a little bit.

Ideally, they'd add a difficulty setting (or two or three) on top of each existing campaign where the enemy spawns 1.5x, 2x, 3x as many enemies as in Brutal. Enemy production build times reduced similarly.

Alternatively, just increase the HP/DPS of every bad thing. It's a lazier fix, but it would get at the higher difficulty and would actually be kinda cool for the HotS campaign's swarminess feel (wouldn't it be cool if you occasionally actually had to remax?).

Maybe lazy fix for existing campaigns and have much harder difficulties with increased spawn counts for LotV? I'd love to legitimately feel outgunned.

Like torment difficulty in diablo? That would be interesting

PhoenixVoid

Canada32748 Posts

November 11 2014 16:11 GMT

#146

Don't expect much in terms of a deep and tragic story beyond perhaps a few big twists and key characters being killed off which can be seen from a mile away, but SC2's campaigns have a great sense of scale, creativity, artwork and manage to incorporate the RTS mechanics well to the campaign so I'm definitely giving it a try. I wouldn't want the difficulty ramped up artificially by giving the enemies more HP and damage, so if they could improve the enemy AI by improving their macro and maybe their micro it would be nice, or give them more minerals/gas.

Yoav

United States1874 Posts

November 11 2014 16:13 GMT

#147

Yeah, like Torment would be awesome (slider scale-ish at the top).

Also, if we actually make the campaign hard, we could have archon-mode campaign, which would be baller.

Lobotomist

United States1541 Posts

November 11 2014 18:29 GMT

#148

Oh man, archon mode campaign would be tight. The broodwar co op campaign that someone created a while ago was really cool

Foxxan

Sweden3427 Posts

November 11 2014 18:31 GMT

#149

Would be cool if at lets say the highest or next highest difficulty, the player rly needed to micro and macro top notch.
Like in multiplayer.

Yeah, like Torment would be awesome (slider scale-ish at the top).

Also, if we actually make the campaign hard, we could have archon-mode campaign, which would be baller.

Could be rly fun.

Grumbels

Netherlands7032 Posts

November 11 2014 21:54 GMT

#150

Logically speaking it makes no sense that Blizzard would fail at having a challenging highest difficulty setting. If they wanted to, they could have made Brutal truly difficult even for seasoned players. The fact it's not makes me think that this is on purpose and that they want for the highest difficulty setting to be accessible for new players, to not demotivate them or something. Expect the LotV campaign to still be incredibly easy on all difficulty settings.

HeroMystic

United States1217 Posts

November 12 2014 16:22 GMT

#151

All I can say is, I'm glad Artanis is the main character and not Zeratul. Artanis just makes a lot more sense.

I found the WoL Brutal Mode to be the most difficult, unless you just MMM everything. HotS' Brutal Mode is just a joke though. It'd be cool if Blizzard implemented a NG+ where you kept all the upgrades, but the enemies always had Mercenary units or something of that sort.

Mistakes

United States1102 Posts

November 14 2014 01:59 GMT

#152

On November 08 2014 14:10 lichter wrote:
HYPE