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[TLCH] Mission 10: The Infinite Cycle

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Plexa
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
Aotearoa39261 Posts
November 11 2015 01:59 GMT
#1
Please use this thread to discuss the tenth level of the LotV campaign, "The Infinite Cycle". This is the second Altarian Rift mission. Clearly mark spoilers using the spoiler tag. Plot events that occurred in the prologue or Missions 1-9 do not need to be spoilered.

Feel free to use this thread to ask any simple questions you might have about the mission, or for tips/help/advice on completing the mission
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summerloud
Profile Joined March 2010
Austria1201 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-11-13 08:19:24
November 12 2015 11:04 GMT
#2
i had no real problems on brutal so far, but im finding this mission extremely hard

cant get past the first big fight on brutal, any tips?

edit: finally made it, after like 15 tries, i concentrated too much on kerrigans baneling ability (one of my favourites from hots), when the trick really seems to be to use her other ability to shoot down medivacs before they can unload

edit2: the rest of the mission, while not exactly being a walk in the park, took me less reloading than that first fight :o
deacon.frost
Profile Joined February 2013
Czech Republic12129 Posts
November 12 2015 11:58 GMT
#3
What broodling ability? I had Fury!

So I was right when I thought that it read the save from my disk and loaded the state of Zerg from it? I had banelings.

Nice touch, but they should gave me the Achievement for finishing all 3 campaigns when they were able to read this from the save!
I imagine France should be able to take this unless Lilbow is busy practicing for Starcraft III. | KadaverBB is my fairy ban mother.
InfCereal
Profile Joined December 2011
Canada1759 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-11-12 13:54:39
November 12 2015 13:54 GMT
#4
Found this one disappointingly easy. A-moved most of it. You can abuse Artanis' second life ability to just tank while kerrigan kills everything. Artanis' charge attack one hits most trash mobs as well, as do kerrigan's banelings.

The biggest mistake you can make is not attacking. You have insane DPS, if artanis is low on health, and his second wind is on cooldown, his heal is a no-energy short cooldown spam. If Kerrigan's low, just move he back slightly, she'll lose all aggro.

90% of the time in that mission, everything died before artanis got a chance to die twice.

edit: On brutal, dunno if things change on other difficulties
Cereal
summerloud
Profile Joined March 2010
Austria1201 Posts
November 13 2015 08:20 GMT
#5
On November 12 2015 20:58 deacon.frost wrote:
What broodling ability? I had Fury!

So I was right when I thought that it read the save from my disk and loaded the state of Zerg from it? I had banelings.

Nice touch, but they should gave me the Achievement for finishing all 3 campaigns when they were able to read this from the save!


orly? thats weird, there was even an achievement for killing units with banelings for me - how is that possible?
deacon.frost
Profile Joined February 2013
Czech Republic12129 Posts
November 13 2015 08:25 GMT
#6
On November 13 2015 17:20 summerloud wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 12 2015 20:58 deacon.frost wrote:
What broodling ability? I had Fury!

So I was right when I thought that it read the save from my disk and loaded the state of Zerg from it? I had banelings.

Nice touch, but they should gave me the Achievement for finishing all 3 campaigns when they were able to read this from the save!


orly? thats weird, there was even an achievement for killing units with banelings for me - how is that possible?

I don't know but I had the jump, fury, banelings and something(cannot remember). Which was the setup from HotS I used(I was doing the baneling achievement(in HotS)).

Anyway this was the mission which stopped me from reading achievements before the mission. The spoiler when you read that "kill with banelings". WTF, Blizzard?
I imagine France should be able to take this unless Lilbow is busy practicing for Starcraft III. | KadaverBB is my fairy ban mother.
summerloud
Profile Joined March 2010
Austria1201 Posts
November 13 2015 10:21 GMT
#7
On November 13 2015 17:25 deacon.frost wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 13 2015 17:20 summerloud wrote:
On November 12 2015 20:58 deacon.frost wrote:
What broodling ability? I had Fury!

So I was right when I thought that it read the save from my disk and loaded the state of Zerg from it? I had banelings.

Nice touch, but they should gave me the Achievement for finishing all 3 campaigns when they were able to read this from the save!


orly? thats weird, there was even an achievement for killing units with banelings for me - how is that possible?

I don't know but I had the jump, fury, banelings and something(cannot remember). Which was the setup from HotS I used(I was doing the baneling achievement(in HotS)).

Anyway this was the mission which stopped me from reading achievements before the mission. The spoiler when you read that "kill with banelings". WTF, Blizzard?


yeah, was feeling that to be a spoiler as well

i had banelings and crushing grip, and i guess the passive for life/dmg, can only remember having 2 active abilities
zhuwawagu
Profile Joined November 2015
25 Posts
November 14 2015 01:58 GMT
#8
I think this was one of the fun missions. I really enjoyed getting the mastery achievement for this mission. For the stage itself on brutal difficulty, I initially thought it was difficult until I realized the "E" button skill of Artanis heals XD

Mastery achievement
youtu.be

Brutal playthrough
youtu.be
Jaximus
Profile Joined November 2015
5 Posts
November 15 2015 04:24 GMT
#9
One of the trickier mastery achievements, given that unlike many of them, you can't build up until you're really ready - you just have to throw yourself at it and hope for the best.

I found that you have to try and run past enemies as much as possible, and I only stopped from Hybrids from whatever I remember. When you eventually do have to clean up small fry, Lightning Dash and Banelings do the job nicely enough that you're not in much danger from them. Also try and nuke (attack + Kerrigan's Q) Warp Prisms and Medivacs asap, to save precious seconds from having to kill their drops.

In the third section I actually killed enemies as I went along, as you're toast if you take too much damage while trying to bring down the Behemoth. As it was, I ended up completing the achievement with about 20 seconds to spare - rushing through the first 2 sections, chaining as many enemies as I could survive with, then killing enemies as I went in the third section (when I went into the room with the Behemoth, I did a Lightning Dash + Banelings on the enemies at the front to reduce the damage I'd take, then went straight to the Behemoth, being careful to keep Kerrigan alive - with only one life she's a lot more fragile than Artanis).
Highways
Profile Joined July 2005
Australia6103 Posts
November 16 2015 09:43 GMT
#10
Any tips for beating this on brutal??

Can't get past that first hard fight, where there are 3 colossus at the end.
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Castor385
Profile Joined September 2011
Netherlands20 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-11-16 10:51:16
November 16 2015 10:50 GMT
#11
For me the trick was to use Artanis to stun enemies, keep moving, use kerrigan to target high hitpoint enemies and spawn some banelings from time to time.

I failed this part a dozen of times, until I started to focus on artanis' charge/stun
Study everything, You'll find something you can use
[F_]aths
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Germany3947 Posts
December 27 2015 19:05 GMT
#12
On November 14 2015 10:58 zhuwawagu wrote:
I think this was one of the fun missions. I really enjoyed getting the mastery achievement for this mission. For the stage itself on brutal difficulty, I initially thought it was difficult until I realized the "E" button skill of Artanis heals XD

Mastery achievement
youtu.be
At minute 1:00-2:00, where he fights the two constructs, how does he pull it of? I always get killed if I engage two of them, as they spawn these littles golems which kill me too fast.
You don't choose to play zerg. The zerg choose you.
FueledUpAndReadyToGo
Profile Blog Joined March 2013
Netherlands30548 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-01-06 18:02:24
January 06 2016 18:01 GMT
#13
For the mastery achievement, in the final map part you can just run by everything, only using the heroskills to kill clustered groups on the run. When you get to the long narrow corridor going southeast you have a huge army following you, wait a few seconds while killing the spawning spectres and a taldarim purifier beam will kill all your assailants from the back if you time it right. Very useful ^^
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Laurens
Profile Joined September 2010
Belgium4541 Posts
January 07 2016 07:27 GMT
#14
On January 07 2016 03:01 FueledUpAndReadyToGo wrote:
For the mastery achievement, in the final map part you can just run by everything, only using the heroskills to kill clustered groups on the run. When you get to the long narrow corridor going southeast you have a huge army following you, wait a few seconds while killing the spawning spectres and a taldarim purifier beam will kill all your assailants from the back if you time it right. Very useful ^^


Ahhh :D I tried something similar and kept failing, dying to the huge army ball behind me.
Then I found out you have enough time to kill everything and still get the achievement. You just have to be quick.
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