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In reply to raducu273:

 Have you considered giving actionable feedback rather than just being a baby about it?  These projects are dependent on people like you helping to balance them.  Calling the creator a retard (lmao) just makes you look pathetic.  Further, where has hultmanable compared himself to the difficulty of the originals?  I hope to hear back from you if you have anything actually helpful to say as opposed to just crying into the void, thanks.

Hello all who are interested!  I am creating an updated list of campaigns new and old to be easily navigable and digestible.  Surely, I have made some mistakes and/or left people out.  Please recommend corrections where necessary and also let me know if you feel your campaign needs to be re-categorized.  Warcraft 3 list incoming separately.

EDIT: Added links.  Use TChosen's googledoc or copy/paste this list to share if you feel inclined.

I used common sense when putting something in the "Completed/Near-Completed" list, such as Odyssey and Annihilation.  These are closer to complete than not and also are very high quality.  Most campaigns in stasis have some cool ideas and are definitely worth a play even if many are abandoned.

First off, here is a basic, text installation guide that also contains links to videos if that is more conducive for you.

StarCraft 1 Remakes
StarCraft: Mass Recall (various authors)
Enslavers/Dark Vengeance (opupu)
StarCraft: Enslavers Redux (OmegaWeaponX85)


Complete/Near Complete Campaigns
Perfect Soldiers (EivindL)
Shadow of the Xel'Naga (OutsiderXE) - on the Arcade
Lifeforce (Bilxor)

Annihilation (DudkiSC2)
Odyssey (CooperHawkes)
Subjection (Gradius) - on the Arcade
Marauders! (acidragoon)
Time Convergence (VastanX)
Replicant Episode IV (Hultamanble)
Replicant Episode V (Hultamanble)

Replicant Episode VI (Hultamanble)
Pandora (Hultmanable)
Prime Resurgence (Revolution)
Unification of Purifiers (CybrosX)
Vortex of the Void (CybrosX)
Brood's Wrath (CybrosX)
Shadow of the Brood (CybrosX)
Proditor (nimbusqwe)
The Lost of Aiur (Gangrene) - on the Arcade
The Hammer of Dawn (Edhriano)
Hand of Humanity (Terhonator)
Bio-Tech Company (njordys)
Mapsters (MaskedImposter) - on the Arcade
Antioch Chronicles Remastered (Team Antioch)

Noir: Automata (Edhriano)

Antioch Remastered: Thoughts in Chaos (Team Antioch)
Enslavers Redux 4.0 (OmegaWeaponX85)

Campaigns in Progress
Vorazun Campaign (PowercoreX64)
Shadow of Liberty (PowercoreX64)
Dawn of Conflict (CybrosX)
StarCraft 2 Redux (Operative7646)
Unsung Rebels (aZergbaneling)

Survivors (GnaReffotsirk)


Campaigns in Stasis
A Silent Scream (DatGamesense)
Ignos (njordys)
Evolution of the Swarm (CybrosX)

Wrath of the Tal'Darim (CybrosX)
Ascendancy (Atticuskirk)
Limpid (RodentWearingHat)
Morals (RobustProgram)
Discord (Baelethal)
Revenants (Hybrid Team)
Origins (Gradius)
Legacy of Liberty (RedRookLord)
Xeyed Nascency (Supernova134)
Brood (Debe2233)
Scattered (Daequeous)
Ashes of Freedom (designerdougm)

Anxiously Waiting

everything listed under In Progress above

LifeForce Pt 2

Legacy of the Confederation (MIA, moving to stasis soon)

It's nice to see some long form feedback, I miss the pages of forum threads in the past for other maps.  I've completed this campaign and can now weigh in via text.

I certainly respect your preferences, but there's not much reflective of design critique.  Rather, here was just a bloated comment about how things were too easy for you except for that one time that they weren't because you didn't predict a hold out mission ending in quite a predictable flood-of-units kind of way like they usually do.  WoL casual has enemy units with halved health, that's major hyperbole.  You may also want to avoid saying stuff like "this was good, but I have low standards" when trying to sell your viewpoint.  Anyway, saying most of the gameplay is not engaging is entirely subjective at best, blatantly dishonest at worst.  Easy and Interesting are not mutually exclusive of each other.

That being said, I'm not blindly tone policing.  I do agree with the point you made that bosses having too much health.  To followup on that, the stakes could be higher such that the player can't take as many hits, especially on higher difficulties, and/or removing the tips explaining what all the enemy abilities do.  I do recall a bit of backtracking in the first Terran mission to collect bonus objectives, but otherwise am not sure where else.  I also liked the puzzles during the Moloch mission, that was easily the majority of the playtime.  Avoiding detectors was easy and they could probably just move a bit faster to compensate, but that was just to bridge small gaps between stuff, like you mentioned. 

The hotkey UI changes could be underappreciated, but they outright change the way heroes are used in a simple, concise way that reduces garbage clicks, which most RTS's suffer from.  There's a lot of potential there for any other creators to consider using this system with multiple spellcasters.

I think some narrative moments like two certain characters dying in the latter part of the campaign felt rushed and need a few extra moments to let them sink in - I don't think more lines are necessarily even needed.  Otherwise, the voice performances are easily the best of any usermade campaign I've played.  Shoutout to the actual map launcher, a semi-interactable one at with some branching paths, which is something I've only ever seen from Enslavers Redux.

As a whole, the terrain drips with detail and a fun story left in limbo for 20 years was finished in a way that was not hammy or lame (harder than it sounds...).  The story is fun, particularly with atmospheric start screens, and the gameplay is diverse and accessible, which is not the boogeyman folks that play the game a lot make it seem to be.

In closing (TL;DR): DO NOT PLAY Thoughts in Chaos if you are TChosenOne, I wish I could have written this before it was too late!  The man knows what he likes and that is a wonderful thing; I genuinely hope he finds more of what he is looking for because more and different stuff is good stuff.  DO PLAY Thoughts in Chaos if being maximally challenged is not your top/only priority as an RTS player (to clarify, I'm *not* passive aggressively saying that is a bad thing) because practically every other aspect is quite polished - the quality is multifaceted from many angles - and you will likely enjoy the ride.

New Mapsters?  New Marauders?  Enslavers Redux fully released after 3 years of development?  Antioch Ep 3 released after 19 years?

What year is it?  It's like a little mini-renaissance of single player content!  It's never too late to try your hand at making stuff if you're interested.

Just seeing this now, looking forward to it!  Always happy to see folks who are interested in making things for SC2 and Stranded on Krydon was a fun map.

This community is what gave me a lot of exposure along the way - I hope it was mutual!  To be clear, I'm not just up and abandoning what's going on with SC2, but I have simply played most campaigns so I have to find a replacement for something consistent to record.

I've considered messing around in the Arcade, that has a lot of potential to be great fun.  Just gotta find consistently populated lobbies so it doesn't turn into tedium when finding something to play!

Nice!

Alright folks, we are live with the contest now, we hope you'll consider participating if this is in your wheelhouse.  Join our Discord where there submissions will be posted:

https://discord.gg/wbEPnUr

Loving the story of this campaign!  While I only release 2 videos a week, I couldn't help myself and ended up playing through map 8.  If I could give one major piece of feedback (which you'll hear me talk more about in the videos), it's to utilize the Mission Objective text a bit better to clarify what to do.  In many cases it requires a counter, like Muraveys and Chenkovs in the subway, or sacrificed units - adding a counter to the objectives text would help the player not have to keep track.

Overall, incredibly unique and engaging story that reminds me a lot of the old Legacy of the Confederation story.

I played this yesterday with the creator and Solstice. Overall, I enjoyed it a lot though it felt like it ramped up pretty fast before I really understood what I should have been focusing on. After 5-10 min, I had a solid grasp on the objectives and I crept out with turrets to secure new buildings and resource nodes. The refineries not auto-harvesting seemed to have a very large impact on resource gathering as only your one SCV can get vespene. Otherwise, the only bug I personally experienced was sometimes terrain would appear buildable, but the SCV would refuse to build claiming it was blocked.

Hive Mind Emulators seems a little too powerful IMO.

Great map with a lot of replayability either solo or as a group!

Dude, there is nothing you need to apologize for. Like, at all.

If anything, it is us mapmakers who owe you asset creators for constantly supplying us with the art we need to bring our visions to life.

- New Models Added -

Thanks to VastanX, all Annihilation missions have now been supplied with unique models for several of the campaign's main characters. Thanks to you for making these, Vastan!

This does mean that I have updated all missions with these models, as well as several other changes. See the full list of changes below.

• All Missions: New, unique models and wireframes have been made for Maxwell Reeves, Morganus Krayen, Jared Malrick, Ivan Crowley and Harris Arrow. A new portrait has also been made for Harris Arrow.
  
• All Missions: Loading screen has been updated to coincide with new Hero models. In addition, a brand new loading screen has been created for Mission 01 "Mindless Creatures".
  
• All Missions: Loading screen text has been moved slightly to the right.
• A21, A22, A23: Flashback images for cinematics have been altered to coincide with updated Hero models.

Download the updated missions: https://www.sc2mapster.com/projects/starcraft-ii-annihilation-campaign/files

Currently under review, so they might not be available for a couple hours.

Mission 24 Update:

Almost finished with terraining. I expect it to be done within the next 1-2 days. Once that happens, it's data work (which won't take that long) and then triggers. The final mission shouldn't take too long to fully trigger, but I might need to do quite a bit of testing depending on exactly how things go. So, maybe a release in November or December is doable.

In reply to EDHRIANO:

Only 1 more map to complete this awesome campaign. 

Seems only yesterday I was introduced to Barry Baldwin and the CPG. 

Fight side by side with Haris Arrow. 

Now...  Feels sad man... 

I need to know how it will end,  but...  I also don't want it to end. 

Am I making any sense? 

Mission 23 Teaser:

Progress on Mission 23 is going well, and the terrain is about halfway done, so I figure I'd show off a little teaser, without revealing too much.

This might be the first time in a while where I can release a mission without a 3-4 month gap between them. Stay tuned for any new updates!

 Currently working on version 0.3.2. I am overhauling the Launcher aswell as the mission briefings. Achievements have been added also. Pretty exciting stuff! ^^

Hell yeah

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