There are a couple of interesting things about this map mechanically, one of them being that Black produces units non-stop, as much as his mining rates and number of factories allow him to. I was going for a map where you have to use Zerg units' mobility to create opportunities, and I think I kinda succeeded in that, since the best way to win it is to abuse hydra speed and chip away at each corner without taking losses.
I was surprised at the new cost of hydralisks and creep colonies, so I started with zerglings. I did not immediately understand that colonies can be placed anywhere, and not only on creep. (I saw the tip) It seems to me that I will try to complete each mission several times.
This is the big GRANDdaddy of all the missions I've been making for this project. It was the one that started the whole ball rolling back in July '2018. While it wasn't tame to begin with, with the new (at the time) AI Scripts it has become a veritable Ultra-Violence fest in a 3-way melee between yourself, the feral Garm brood, and the four Overmind-loyalist broods. Combined casualties are usually in the thousands (up to 5000) as the two zerg forces are attacking each other with a vengeance. Playing it may become either frustrating or mighty fun.
BTW the right hand part of the campaign splash screen above refers mostly to the events of this mission where you might field marines and hydralisks side-by-side.
Excellent, that does it for my project (so far...) There are many things borne out of this testing run, and many changes to be made. Thanks Alexander! I recommend that everyone let him go over their campaigns/mods, maybe you'll learn things about them you haven't had known.
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They were really quite insane originally, when I had them at slightly more HP and with the original Hunter Killer armor - but now, at 0 armor and reasonably burstable HP, they can be killed really quickly under focus fire.
Ultraviolet -- I suppose we'll likely never know, but my guess would be that they already saw it operating successfully and there was no monetary incentive to finish the original work. And the dev cycle in old school Blizzard was so hectic, it's possible it just got forgotten about after the original game got released. Plus there's an element of existing MPQ files that were packaged with the original discs becoming outdated if they updated it. And it's not like they remade the original MPQs, they just made new ones for BW specifically
[04:26 am]
Oh_Man -- so that makes me think maybe the theory they are unfinished is not true and its a deliberate design decision, coz why not finish them wen ur making brood war?
[04:25 am]
Oh_Man -- the thing is thos buildings are from classic. that means they went ahead and made brood war without ever finishing the 'unfinished' buildings
[2026-6-20. : 6:15 pm]
Ultraviolet -- Yeah he's talked about a lot of that stuff in his casts before. It seems plausible. Especially knowing how Blizzard of yesteryear operated.
[2026-6-20. : 3:47 pm]
NudeRaider -- to clarify: couldn't recall the behavior for every single Protoss building but I was aware the disparity exists.
[2026-6-20. : 3:43 pm]
NudeRaider -- Contained nothing new for me. Didn't know all building's behavior, but very much all unit's. Also Terran balance whine - also nothing new
[2026-6-19. : 9:57 am]
Oh_Man -- makes me wonder if SEN knows anything about the topic
