SC Expanded adds variety to the standard melee maps. It was planned as a mod to be used with any melee map file. Players can select a few units, upgrades and abilities for each race, but the main feature is that players can affiliate to a faction (or brood, tribe), unlocking exclusive units, structures and abilities. It uses many units and abilities seen in SC2 campaign, but many more were created for this mod. Many "useless" units got a new role and are avaiable for players.
Updated here on 04-21-12
Terrans get more variety but its only because I borrowed most campaign ideas. I think HoTS will help me with that. These are the current stats:
- 4 terran unit decisions to make
- 4 terran upgrade/ability decisions to make
- 10 Terran factions
- 2 Zerg unit decisions to make
- 3 Zerg upgrade/ability decisions
- 8 Zerg broods
- 3 protoss unit decisions to make
- 1 protoss upgrade decision to make
- 7 Protoss tribes
Selecting a Terran faction:
Protoss tribe example: The hybrid adepts
Terran units included: Civilians, APCs, ARES, Blimps, Diamondbacks, Firebats, Goliaths, Hercules, Laserdrill Tanks, Medics, Miners, Nomads, Science Vessels, Scientists, Spectres, Tauren Marines, Vigilants, Vultures, Wraiths. All the mercenary units, including L2D mercenaries.
Terran unit example: The Laserdrill Tank
Zerg units included: L2D Chokers, Defilers, Feederlings, Guardians, Hybrids, L2D Kaboomers, Leviathan, Lurkers, HoTS Raptors, Scourges. "Special strain" units, that are stronger versions of normal units, just like mercenaries for Terran.
Zerg unit example: The Raptors
Protos units included: Arbiters, Corsairs, Dark Archons, Dark Heralds, Dragoons, Hybrid Destroyers, Preservers, Reavers, Scouts, Stone Zealots.
This mod is published on American and European servers, search for 'expanded' and the name of the map. 4 maps avaiable right now: Agria Valley, Arakan Citadel, Lost Temple and Abyss. There's a chat channel called "sc expanded" for it too.
Please take the time to give some feedback. There's a thread on the "map feedback" section. I'm always in need for more ideas and bug reports.
WARNING: This mod requires the Left 2 Die mod as a dependency, which means that if you test it offline you may experience some errors if you don't have the mod in your Starcraft mods folder.
Facts
- Date created
- Aug 18, 2011
- Category
- Last update
- May 11, 2012
- Development stage
- Beta
- License
- Just give credit if used
- Downloads
- 2,039
- Recent file
- B: SC Expanded 05-11-2012 May 11, 2012
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- #22
SoulFilcher May 19, 2012 at 12:20 UTC - 0 likes@oakway: Go Have you placed it in the right folder? The mod has to be in your Starcraft2/Mods folder, if its there and still not working try opening the map file in the editor, go File -> Dependencies and where it says SC Expanded, change it and search for the mod in that folder.
I hope it helps.
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- #21
oakway May 19, 2012 at 06:53 UTC - 0 likesPLEASE HELP It keeps saying this: Dependency data could not be loaded.
Dependency file could not be found (Mods\SC_Expanded.SC2Mod) Local file is not available (Core: a required object could not be found):
Continue anyway?
Please HELP. i would enjoy that alot. Thank you.
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- #20
Flinkelinks May 15, 2012 at 12:32 UTC - 0 likesThis is really cool. It sort of reminds me of Age of Empires and Age of Mythology. I can't wait to see this evolve when HotS comes out.
GL HF
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SoulFilcher May 13, 2012 at 01:25 UTC - 0 likes@DEFILERRULEZ: Go I'm not sure I understand what you want with an "sc2+bw" choice. The mod was designed so players don't have access to lots of units at once. In special some units thay may strongly overlap in their roles or that simply become OP when used together.
I don't see a good reason to make it possible to have Dragoons and Stalkers in the same army.
EDIT: Please post bug reports, balance issues and suggestions/ideas using the feedback thread (check my signature).
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- #18
DEFILERRULEZ May 12, 2012 at 23:47 UTC - 0 likesA suggestion for this really interesting project. What do u think about add a SC2+BW choiche for all race,it's the first time that i could see Dragoons vs Stalkers,could be really cool do an army of Zealot/Sentry/Dragoon/Stalker at the Start for example :)
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- #17
SoulFilcher May 11, 2012 at 15:49 UTC - 0 likes@DEFILERRULEZ: Go L2D Stank is still being studied. I'll check the language issue with the F12 menu.
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DEFILERRULEZ May 11, 2012 at 14:01 UTC - 0 likesThe F12 menù is broken (i see onlyPARAM/VALUE/ etc...) on online EU
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- #15
DEFILERRULEZ May 11, 2012 at 09:32 UTC - 0 likesWhat do u think about a Khala tribe-Dark (Templar) tribe and a shadow tribe (as the one with the hybrid).
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DEFILERRULEZ May 11, 2012 at 09:11 UTC - 0 likesAnd the L2D Stank???
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- #13
SoulFilcher Apr 23, 2012 at 16:43 UTC - 1 like@Terhonator: Go Questions answered on the Map Feedback thread.