I wouldn’t call the end result easy, but it wasn’t as bad as Last Stand, that’s for sure. Not something I ever would have considered, but I resolved to try it, lacking better options.Īnd amazingly, it worked. One odd but popular strategy was to simply mass corsairs and Dark Templar. To my shame, I was forced to turn to Team Liquid and read what players there had attempted. So I returned to the Spear of Adun, selected totally different units and abilities, and tried again. The greatest challenge of all, though, came from the final mission of the main campaign, Salvation.Īfter many reloaded saves and trying everything I could think of, I just could not make it past 90% completion. Even then, it took multiple tries to pull it off. Brothers in Arms proved tremendously difficult, and only a last ditch run to the Keystone during a disruption wave saved me. There were other harsh challenges along the way, as well. I was forced to complete the mission on hard for the sake of the solarite, then repeat it on brutal via the archives, that time ignoring everything but survival. I learned the hard way that I am not able to complete that mission on brutal while also completing the bonus objective. Last Stand, in particular, is a mission I would be happy to never repeat again. Probably didn’t help I made it harder on myself by trying to get as many achievements as I could along the way. There were still a few “easy” missions (I use the term loosely), like Templar’s Charge and Purification, but on the whole, Legacy of the Void on brutal was an incredibly nail-biting experience from beginning to end, perhaps exceeding even the challenge of Wings of Liberty. All I can make are zealots and stalkers with no upgrades of any kind, and they throw ultralisks at me. I knew things would be different by the second mission. Let me tell you: After going a bit soft in Heart of the Swarm, they meant business this time. The journey is over, and I stand victorious. Over the last few weeks, I have done a complete play through of Legacy of the Void, the final expansion, on brutal, and now, at last, I’ve completed it. It proved easier than Wings of Liberty had been, being barely more difficult than playing on hard.Īnd now we come to the present. Prior to the release of Legacy of the Void, I did a second play through of Heart of the Swarm to refresh my memory of the story, and I decided to do it all on brutal. It was a long, hard-fought effort, and very gratifying once complete. I might have done it sooner, but technical issues forced me to repeat several missions - a very frustrating setback. It wasn’t until two years after the game’s release that I earned my brutal completionist achievement for Wings of Liberty. To that end, I have shed much blood, sweat, and tears completing each of its installments on the highest difficulty setting, aptly called brutal. Regular readers will know that, as a rule, I’m not much interested in achievements in video games, but that I make an exception where StarCraft II is concerned.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |