Here's a couple of screenshots of Nova's hologram army wielding Plasma Rifles. Seems like there are some glitches in the archives. Not sure how I achieved this. It just happened.

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Anyone else having issues with the Master Archives? After beating all the missions I went back to work on the mastery achievements and it decided I hadn't obtained the extra tech in Trouble in Paradise. It also forgot that I had beaten mission 6 for some reason.

RoKetha

United States211 Posts

August 06 2016 19:09 GMT

#43

I have a similar issue, yes. The campaign screen says 5 of 6 missions complete, but the progress text blurb is the one for post-mission-6. If I go to the master archives, mission 6 is not listed, but I can then close the archives screen and be at the mission 6 briefing.

Having completed all achievements for this pack now, I can easily say that it was much easier than the very difficult mission 2 mastery achievement, simply because super regen liberators are monstrously overpowered (especially if Nova is also present to bait with decoy and shotgun packs of light units). I miss stealth gameplay a bit, too. On the other hand, if one was to not just mass liberators, the customizable Ravens are really cool and incredibly strong (those spider mines are a lot more useful than seeker missiles), and it might be interesting to mess around with other unit compositions as well.

GamerJatt

63 Posts

August 06 2016 23:49 GMT

#44

I was going for the achivement for completing the last mission without eliminating the zerg unit types. I ended up mass nuking one of the zerg bases just for fun while leaving one structure alive for the achievement. Unfortunately that one remaining structure was placed too close to the mission waypoint and Nova cutscene doesn't activate if there are any zerg units/structures close by, so I had to restart

Skuttlebutt1

2 Posts

August 07 2016 10:08 GMT

#45

I am really suprised how much I am enjoying these Nova Mission Packs. The first pack was fun but not too challenging, then this one for me at least is pretty challenging(till you build a ton of nukes then its whatevs). Makes me wonder about pack 3.......hmmmmm...

Hockleberry

63 Posts

August 08 2016 17:59 GMT

#46

The 3rd mission is very challenging for me!! The attack waves are brutal and I am having a lot of trouble microing nova to nuke everything while I hold my base. Anyone got any thoughts on how to beat this mission. I am playing on Brutal. Love it!!

Jayborino

23 Posts

August 08 2016 18:16 GMT

#47

Check out my playthrough Hockle, I went overboard with defense to the point where I had so much it was self-sustaining and then got rid of Brood Lords and Nydus Worms first.

Ganseng

Russian Federation473 Posts

August 08 2016 18:18 GMT

#48

On August 09 2016 02:59 Hockleberry wrote:
The 3rd mission is very challenging for me!! The attack waves are brutal and I am having a lot of trouble microing nova to nuke everything while I hold my base. Anyone got any thoughts on how to beat this mission. I am playing on Brutal. Love it!!

defend the base with bunkers(stimmed marines)&tanks(no tech lab)
then go for goliaths(increased range)&ravens(spider mines)

nova: high energy suit + ghost visor + sniper rifle + energetic grenade

add some nuclear silos if you like

easy

Hockleberry

63 Posts

August 09 2016 13:11 GMT

#49

Alright!! Beat the mission on Brutal. I changed out the sniper rifle for the shotgun, like you had in your video Jay, and wow that thing is awesome!! Really helped in defending the initial attack waves until I got my defenses set-up. I ended up taking the natural expansion just because I was enjoying the mission!!

I watched lowko played this mission too...he is so good at this game. Didn't even have defenses just map-awareness and an insane amount of liberators. He did have to reload a few times, but hey!!

FeyFey

Germany10114 Posts

August 11 2016 01:32 GMT

#50

hm was fun, hoped for a bit more solo Nova parts. I like that there is an easy mode even for brutal for when you just want to explode everything.

And I start to like the Taldarim even more. I hated them in WoL, when they were just depicted as mostly silent servants of Amon, so Raynor had some Protoss to beat up. Really like the new Taldarim kind of evil.

NerfBat_SC2

United States2 Posts

August 23 2016 22:43 GMT

#51

On August 05 2016 01:56 Zulu23 wrote:

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I have the same problem. The attack command of Nova can't be moved to another hotkey. I have it on A but I use a custom hotkey profile A is useless for me.

FYI, there is a workaround for this:

http://us.battle.net/forums/en/sc2/topic/20747637126#post-2

Zulu23

Germany132 Posts

September 02 2016 21:14 GMT

#52

Great, thank you

JimmyJRaynor

Canada17409 Posts

October 26 2016 03:26 GMT

#53

finally finished the 6 missions and so far i'd say Nova Covert Ops is very good, but not great. 8/10.
some interesting plot twists

slit

Spain212 Posts

October 26 2016 14:14 GMT

#54

Anyone knows the ETA for the third pack?

-IAEVAI-KolosS

Canada60 Posts

October 26 2016 16:12 GMT

#55

On October 26 2016 23:14 slit wrote:
Anyone knows the ETA for the third pack?

I recall reading somewhere that Blizzard mentionned before december 1st as their goal.

slit

Spain212 Posts

October 26 2016 16:52 GMT

#56

On October 27 2016 01:12 -IAEVAI-KolosS wrote:

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I recall reading somewhere that Blizzard mentionned before december 1st as their goal.

good, thanks!

JimmyJRaynor

Canada17409 Posts

November 14 2016 17:03 GMT

#57

November 22nd is the release date of the 3rd and final installment of Nova: Covert Ops.

if you are looking for single player content until November 22nd i recommend checking this out.

slit

Spain212 Posts

November 15 2016 06:21 GMT

#58

On November 15 2016 02:03 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
November 22nd is the release date of the 3rd and final installment of Nova: Covert Ops.

if you are looking for single player content until November 22nd i recommend checking this out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2Rd40_37q4

Currently I'm playing this one: Odyssey and it's really good, too

JimmyJRaynor

Canada17409 Posts

November 21 2016 23:46 GMT

#59

with Nova Covert Ops coming out tomorrow it sort of feels like XMas Eve when i was 10.