It's about damn time...

**WinterSays** · 07-27-10, 12:59 PM

Finally finished downloading. Very excited, now to get started on the brutal campaign while B.net and the ladder settles down.

**Keiron** · 07-27-10, 04:30 PM

Found my disks. Installing them now. And man, for being old games, they still take a decent amount of time to install.

**Raptor** · 07-27-10, 09:17 PM

FYI Make sure you play SC1 and BW before you go to SC2. Or you'll be ripping your hair out once you start doing the tricks you can pull off with grouping that is common and required for SC2 MP and helpful in SC2 SP.

**PizzaSHARK!** · 07-27-10, 11:08 PM

Originally Posted by ...bigdog...

downloading now. Think I might play through original and brood war to refresh my mind on the story.

Like when I read all the Harry potter books again, just so I can remember what the hell happened before the next movie.

Wouldn't recommend it. The gameplay is horribly outdated by this day - just watch the two "recap" videos they've got posted to refresh your memory of the plot.

**Keiron** · 07-27-10, 11:32 PM

Originally Posted by Raptor

FYI Make sure you play SC1 and BW before you go to SC2. Or you'll be ripping your hair out once you start doing the tricks you can pull off with grouping that is common and required for SC2 MP and helpful in SC2 SP.

I know I am. Got up to Mission 7 for the Terrans pretty quickly and should be able to finish them tomorrow and start the Zerg campaign. Trying to remember all the quick build commands as I go.

Playing through it all just makes me want to play SC2 even more though.

**Raptor** · 07-28-10, 12:03 AM

The simple key to the zerg missions is hydra's lots of hydra's. Thery will win you pretty much every battle. Cheap do good overall damage. Great building and large unit damage and are very spammable. Get 4 hatches up on the mid to late maps and just roll everything over and once you get ultra's get 4 of them put them infront of the hydra's and let them tank the hits while the hydra's rip everything to shreds (defilers are also useful if you feel you need the added protection of DS). The only thing that will make life hard are the toss reavers and for those guardians will do the trick quite easily.

BTW has anyone else found the mission Utter Darkness to be completely epic. even on normal that mission was frantic. (note I'm playing normal just to get the story I'll play the harder shit later plus I suck with terrans).