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• For Air, as long as you have sight, Marines in Bunkers can hit the Namien Air Forces due to the Bunkers +1 to range.
• Void Rays, maybe balance out their damage? Instead of 7 vs Armored and 4 vs Everything Else, just 7 vs Everything? Would make them a bit more effective against Marines which is currently the only threat to them (Missile Turrets being disabled).
• Also, the timer on how long you have to destroy the Mass Nydus Worm is a bit low (even rushing out and attacking immediately it can be close if you don't bring enough Marauders to deal heavy damage. And that was tested on Easy, I guess it would be possible on harder difficulties if you waited til you had a pretty huge army, but I'd consider raising the time up to something like 7 minutes?

Tried the second mission, there was quite a big difference in difficulty. Although that might just be because I turned in the 2k minerals earlier then I was meant to. Might wanna have a note pop up warning the player not to turn the minerals in until they were confident in their army.

P.S. I've noticed you added a cutscene skip function. Very nice job on that, that's the main problem with campaigns, the unskippable cutscenes which can become extremely tedious, but you've solved that problem quite nicely.

Edit: I've noticed a bug with that though, if you skip the first cut scene, then the dialogue right after that displays twice, including the Siege Tank help button. The dialogue after that works correctly though.

Second Edit: Found two typos. "The Namiel's won't allow us" or something like that, should be "Namiels" since it shows plural rather than posession. And "the lives of my men are at steak" should be "at stake".

Third Edit:

• The Namien Archon is a bit weak, possibly because Namien stats are boosted by percent of HP? (Archon has 10 HP, so any boost based on percent is kind of......yea. It had a total HP bonus of 1, which made it quite bad at tanking despite being a pseudo-elite troop for three of the Void Crystals. It had 1 Defense compared to the Zealots' 3, and since that was HP defense, that 1 defense was essentially useless, Consider giving it like 4 Shield Defense? Or give it a big HP buff, possibly lowering it's shield HP instead? It's damage was pretty decent though considering that it has splash, and that pretty much everything you would use against it was Biological.
• The Namien attack forces at the end had normal HP though. Maybe forgot to add the buff on them?
• Namien Devotee's speed was 2.25, should probably buff it to 2.75 / 2.95 so it can keep up with the Stalkers and Zealots (low HP + low Shield so they were useless by themselves.) Also maybe make them attack faster / harder, so they're more of a Frontline DPS contrasting with the Zealots Frontline Tank?
• I think Namiens as a whole should be buffed quite a bit though, because after the Zerg, the map was quite easy, and the storyline kinda made the Namien army to be crazy strong, but they were actually quite weak aside from the Squads of Immortals. All ground forces (exception of Immortals) were just butchered by having 3-4 Siege Tanks sieged up by your bunkers, and their air forces were kind of useless (Scouts do almost no damage except against Air. Void Rays useless against Marines + Medics). Maybe lots more HP / Shield and slight damage increase? Like 15% damage, maybe double HP/Shield.

I think you forgot to upload the new mod files, you did take down the old ones though it seems.

Well for the Ultralisk thing, if you have enough marines then yea, the Ultralisks do tend to get mowed down before they can do much damage (Only lost like 3-4 marines through all of Outpost 4 even though I had all my troops packed together like Sardines against Banelings and Ultralisks). I don't think it's matter of them being blocked so much as their meatshields (Zerglings for the most part) are faster, so they run in, they get killed, then there's nothing stopping you from picking the ultralisks off one at a time. {Assuming you have a decent amount of Marines before doing this, and were smart enough to bring Medics).

And an idea for the ending, maybe make the platform for the communications tower bigger, and placing a small/medium sized Zerg base on it? Or if you're going on the idea of there being special zerg breeds outside of the normal zerg (such as Brutalisk), having an extra strong zerg use that area as it's den. Small pack of Devouring Ones from Starcraft 1 possibly? (Zergling with 120 HP and 10 damage). Could probably sneak away with just using normal Zergling and maybe giving it to a separate AI so it shows up as a different color from the normal Zerg.

My review of your campaign:

Bugs I noticed:

● The mineral line is quiet buggy. One of the mineral fields has been misplaced, which causes some of the SCV's to bug out.

● A marauder upgrade research-able. It doesn't affect the gameplay or the map at all, but it's still a bit weird that you can research "Marauder Slow" and not train the unit.

● When researching "Terran Ground Armor" and "Terran Ground Weapons" it seems that Commander Monahue doesn't benefit from any of them.

● While defending the Outpost 4, I noticed that the Ultralisks had a hard time reaching your units. Whether they were blocked by the terrain or their own allies, they were completely useless.

Terrain

I think the terrain was over-all dull and very boring. It repeated itself constantly and it looked like any other "Mar Sara" map. Eventually, I think the lighting was awesome.

Did I have fun, while playing it?

I must admit, I had fun! However, pnce I reached the Outpost 4 Objective "Defend until reinforcements arrive" I sighed loudly. Rest of the map was cool. I played on (Hard) difficulty and it wasn't really a challenge - But again... I massed up, micro'ed abit, even though I sucked and beat it.

My expectations for your future projects

I don't know if it's only me, but I've been fed up with the Wings of Liberty campaign, which makes you (the player) bunker up, lock up your base with siege tanks or/and just turtle-like-a-baws - I hope your campaign won't have ANY of these missions, because they are stripped of creative, dull, boring, cheesy, easy etc. etc. etc. <.<

If you want me to be impressed you need to think different. Go look at the Wings of Liberty campaign - Study the missions well - Make something creative. Force the player to play more aggressive instead of Blizzard's famous "Protect your base for 15 minutes" and "Go get some artifact (3-5 minutes depending on your macro)"

"Good job"

3/5 :)

Tested it out, I found it really fun actually (big improvement from your previous maps, especially with the zooming out with map for more content. Was a bit worried when I first started and saw how small the map was.) Aside from story issues (Why is a Sergeant in command of like 100+ troops? Same with the Specialist but on a lower scale), wasn't too much wrong. The ending was really anti-climatic though. Two Spine Crawlers? The first Outpost fight was way harder with the banelings at the end. Even the random side quest with the Engineers on the road was harder.

Good Job :)

Hello. I played first mission.

You have nice beginning for your campaign. I hope you make more missions. Few things:

• Nice to see that many cinematics in one mission.
• I recommend you to combine your 2 mods into 1 before your data amount grows too much. It may cause trouble for you later. Also include as less data into missions as possible - keep it all in mod unless there are values that are different in only 1 mission.
• I hated custom colored loading screen text and ingame texts. Default font is better.
• I think lighting is too dark
• Disallow level 2,3 infantry upgrades since Armory is disallowed.
• You have lot of projects going on at the moment. Are you going to focus on this one in future?