Very Cool!
I have to re-install SC but I've been thinking about doing that anyway. I
got all 15 but noticed there is a 17th mission and no 16th.
Cheers
"lena" <lena@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:FdWwd.3635$wQ2.270471@phobos.telenet-ops.be...
> Could Blizzard have done better ? Could Blizzard have made their games
> less
> complicated on purpose ? And what about our game developer ? Does each
> developer do this with their games ?
> I thought I had seen it all but now : awesome, unbelievable, remarkable
> ... .
> A friend recently gave me a compilation of the Starcraft/Broodwar missions
> he'd made himself. He had put these together with the very best missions
> he'd found on internet but then most severely altered to change difficulty
> or to make them more fun. Especially the very last level (GeertFinal) is
> extremely special : you see two other Terran tribes battle each other all
> the time while you fight the Zerg. But if you come near the Terrans, both
> attack you (!). Surprises are never far away in this level, and when you
> think it's over... . Blizzard never made that ! Can it be that Blizzard
> avoided to make it so complicated ? Or didn't take the risk to make
> something
> so complicated ? And what about Microprose, Activision, Micosoft, ... ???
> Also, in some levels, another race battles together with your tribes, but
> indepedently and without your need to interfere. This race even comes to
> help
> you when you're attacked. This allie has its own AI but is attacked too by
> your enemie. So, sometimes you need to defend this allie or he could be
> lost
> for the rest of the mission ! I wonder why Blizzard never accomplished
> that !
> The fact is that everybody can make impossibly hard missions with their
> campaign editor. But good balance between still possible but rather
> challenging, that's what we need. I think, this "ExtraMissions"-zip from
> my friend contains the best Starcraft/Broodwar maps ever made for
> singleplayer. BTW I have done nothing here. It's all a friend's work, but
> I asked him to share this with the "world" because they're really worth
> being played and so I've put them on my server. Anyone who doesn't believe
> me
> and who still has Starcraft/Broodwar lying around, just point your
> browsers to
http://lena.servegame.com:1025
> and download the ExtraMissions zipfile (14.3 MB in one file). The missions
> are
> made especially for veteran players. Some levels are extremely difficult
> but all
> can be played to victory, and in fact not all are difficult of course.
> Indeed,
> the first level (Geert01) is rather easy. No need to say that brute force
> isn't
> always the good path, ruse and good thinking can sometimes bring you far
> too 
> Also, take a look at the code of "GeertFinal" after you've played it.
> Isn't that
> a beauty ?!? Also worth mentioning are "Badlandswar" and "DesertKerrigan".
> And
> now that I've said all this, I come back to my starting questions : after
> years
> of working on the serie, the Blizzard crew must have noticed the above
> mentioned
> possibilities. So why didn't they make us a mission like GeertFinal ? Do
> all
> gamedevelopers do this ?
> Enjoy gaming ... En taro Adun ...
> Oh, BTW, if my server is offline, you can also get the ExtraMissions from
>
http://www.starcraft.org/scums/maps.asp?mode=search
> Just do a search for the map name "extramissions" on this page. It's 15
> zipfiles
> all together here (ExtraMissions01-->15). It seems that I messed up during
> uploading, so there is a 2nd number 02 instead of number 03. Just download
> both
> 02's. All zipfiles have a readme.txt to get you started and all files are
> about
> 1MB each. I'm in Europe, my server is daily at least online 10 --> 24
> (Western
> European time).
> Lena
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