The Glade 4.0

I truly hate this sacred gas collecting mission.

I guess I'll have to just churn out Goliaths and hope for the best.

Kinda disappointed that this game emphasizes zerg tactics so much. Not much strategy really.

I found marines with doctors suprisingly effective on that mission.

After the first probe came to seal off a chamber, I went and killed it with my small force, then I built a couple of bunkers in the areas with a lot of gas shrines. I picked the turret for the bunker research, so they could at least do something. I slowly filled them as the level went on. Then I built up some vikings to take care of the rest of the probe groups that would come and try to seal the shrines, since the probes were almost always escorted by a couple of scouts and later a warp ray or two. But I would always land first to kill the probe first. Golaiths are good as well...but they aren't nearly as mobile as Vikings are. Still, having a roaming ground force is always a good idea anyway.

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"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

Yeah, I finally got past it. Didn't do the bunker thing, but basically prioritized gathering the gas and continually adding units to the main escort.

BTW, I hate these decisions you have to make -- right now I'm:


EDIT: Ok coolest little cutscene so far:

I bought SCII the other night, played for 30-40 minutes this morning...

I suck.

I'm still going to get all the achievements in one level before moving to the next, but dang, I suck.

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In time, this too shall pass.

Yeah, I hate the resource-juggling of strategy games. Hence why no SC2 for me. I tried WC3, to no avail, so I figure I'd probably just be wasting money.

So...just a side point, everyone make sure they don't miss the secret mission!

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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Los Angeles Kings 2014 Stanley Cup Champions

"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

I played each mission through both ways, and ...


Also, for the third choice...

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
█ ♣ █

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Los Angeles Kings 2014 Stanley Cup Champions

"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
█ ♣ █

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Los Angeles Kings 2014 Stanley Cup Champions

"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

That's what I figured. Doesn't take a telepath to know..

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
█ ♣ █

It just seems like Jim has a thing for hot female ghosts.

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Los Angeles Kings 2014 Stanley Cup Champions

"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

Tosh all the way. He's a troll from WarCraft too.



Did anyone else notice the night elf dancing in the Cantina? I didn't realize what it was until one of the talking scenes where it was right behind Tosh.
Other references include New Folsum prison - Johnny Cash

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The dancing night elf has been around for a while. It was a map thinger back in the original Starcraft 2 gameplay video at the WWI 2008. Plus, it has been on Tosh's Starcraft 2 page for a while as well.

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"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

Yes. The whole "Jamaican Voodoo" thing is unique to blizzard characters such as Warcraft Trolls and Tosh. Voodoo doesn't really exist in Jamaica (Obeah isn't really the same thing). Voodoo is a Creole (French) syncretism of Catholicism and African Vodun practiced in Haiti, Louisiana, and a little bit in Martinique. Creole speakers sound nothing like Jamaicans. Jamaican Voodoo is, therefore, a Blizzard invention.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
█ ♣ █

I have definitely decided that I'm probably better off, sanity-wise, backing down to Normal to play through the campaign, and then going back and replaying missions on Hard for kicks.

I shudder to contemplate Brutal.

I am, I've decided, just a hair beneath the adaptation curve for Hard. First play-through on the last mission on Mar Sara? Annihilation at 37 seconds left. Second playthrough: 12 seconds. Third one, I got it by the skin of my teeth.

And now, I'm banging my head against the wall on the Firebat mission -- I keep ending up with 47 - 49 civilians evacuated, and having to escort a final transport through hell. Right around the time it's ready to pull the chocks and head out, my bunkers at the far end of the road get swamped and die. I pull troops from bunkers as the truck passes them, in order to supplement the escort and fight a retreat, but they get too bogged down to forward of the truck and sweep the road effectively. The truck keeps dying about 3/4s up the road, and then the civilians get run down by zerglings.

Clearly, I need to keep that first or second truck from exploding, but I've been repeatedly having trouble ramping up production fast enough to meet that first or second run in force.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Ok, who's hotter:

Queen of Blades

Nova

or Ariel?

Pre-infestation Kerrigan
Nova
Ariel
Queen of Blades Kerrigan

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Nothing against Tricia Helfer, but I don't understand going for big name voice actress over Glynnis Campbell. Helfer's voice is adequate, perhaps even good (I also don't understand getting models who are *also* actresses to do voice roles. They didn't get into acting because of their voices), but there was nothing wrong with Glynnis Campbell's Kerrigan voice. I think continuity is worth keeping the same actor unless there's a serious problem with them.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
█ ♣ █

Hotter at cons?

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

Hotter in the game.

EDIT: Ok need help with:

Again, pretty much any mission in this game can be completed with mass Marines and Medics. With Marauders for terran and protoss levels and firebats for zerg levels. Everything else is just gravy. You can pretty much M&M all of the levels save the very last level which will require a specialized force.

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Los Angeles Kings 2014 Stanley Cup Champions

"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

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