SC2Mapster

Tips for players strugling at mission 6
Put 3 CSV left and 3 CSV right close enough so they can heal themselves
Then mass Armored division tank in front of CSV and artillery behing and Aircraft to defend against air and other things, lose this map 3 times with different strategies and lost these strat give me an easy win for the defense.

I was super excited to play this campaign, knowing all the work that went into it.

However, the prologue and the first one hour long no build mission killed my hype. I hate no build missions, I'm not a fan of hero focus and I think a RTS mission should never last more than 45 minutes. And the high difficulty doesn't help. Sadly it seems that the majority of the campaign is composed of these elements I don't enjoy...

I love the story, custom models, music, voice acting and ambiance. You guys did an amazing job. But I don't think that this campaign is made for me. I'll just watch Jayborino or GiantGrantGames play it.

from a technical and quality standpoint, its impossible to deny the achievements this campaign manages to accomplish. The custom models, custom faction and voice acting are all of high quality when compared to other Starcraft campaigns, how every, UED first light is a product that is hard to enjoy at all at times. Missions are too long to the point where you will be finding yourself saying "Just end already" multiple times, the difficulty takes many ups and downs all throughout the campaign and the player will often feel cheated by surprise attacks that come out of no where or by mission objectives that boarder on absurd, like asking the player to defend a giant area of the map, with zerg coming from all sides constantly whit the player having no choke point to make use of, no high ground advantage, stuck in one base and having to fight, among other things, Guardians that outrange their main defensive structures. 

UED first light is in many ways a disappointment, a product that is too hard for the majority of the Starcraft player base to enjoy and who's difficulty is often not earned, instead coming from cheap enemy tricks or poorly design maps. You will never feel like you are being outsmarted or out maneuvered by the zerg, you will always feel like there is just too many of them attacking from too many sides. Its overwhelming and while that might have been the point from a story perspective it makes for a horrible gameplay experience.  

i also got banned from their discord for saying "i dont like warhammer", no warning, just a perma ban and, despite trying to get in touch multiple times i was unable to re-enter, very profession of them.

The Zerg "AI" is also completely brain dead to the point that it dosent rebuild structures or train units, hell, i dont think i say a single larva turn into a cocoon once in all of the missions, which makes it ever so more interiorizing to lose because you know you are not even fighting against something that resembles a opponent whit some tactics, but instead just a endless horde of units, spawned out of thin air and ordered to attack in your general direction.

In reply to tdl131:

 you gotta admit, it makes me see the blizzard campaigns in a new light after having played through all 11 missions of this. Brutal in the blizzard campaigns is the perfect difficulty sweet spot for me, I am not skilled enough to breeze through it, but if I dedicate a few attempts to it, I will eventually find a good strategy by learning more about proper build orders and enemy attack patterns. Also this campaign has like no spell casters, which really dumbs down the difficulty. the badger bomb is the most retarded ability devised to man, if you can practically use that on the defensive you are a king, and even on the offense, the way its supposed to be used, its a bit questionable because its hard to get it to land where you want.

This campaign is not exactly difficult, I beat it. Its not difficult, its just PAINFUL, ugh the save scumming, oh the save scumming. In blizzard campaigns you are always facing the enemy head on, you wont be surprised since its always announced, and its a matter of precise timings to have the right units at the right time to beat them. In here, the enemy are inferior to you, they only beat you when they decide to come unannounced with an ultralisk in your mineral line. 

Also "defending a large area with no chokepoint" you are referring to the prison mission right? as long as you clump up your units in 4 corners of the map with an mcv in each corner, the mission was the easiest thing ever, you dont start out with any anti air, so thats the first order of business, and eventually you will have so much artillery that the zerg cant even get close, and your antiair truck's range doesnt lose out to the guardian. One of the few missions I thought was pretty nicely designed except it went on for a bit too long. 

In reply to hypernova2002:

 there is also that defensive mission where you do have choke points but the enemy zerg sends defilers that use dark swarm, making all units on the choke point invulnerable, random bullshit also appears out of no where, like brood mothers that make all zerg every where on the map move and shoot faster... this bonus speed is huge and it also stacks, there is even a time during the mission 3 brood mothers spawn at the same time. mind you, its in a mission where you lose if 100 zerg make it past the choke point. 

Idk what it is whit this campaign but it seen to want the player to go fuck himself, because all of the above dont sound like a good gameplay experience, it sounds like a middle finger to the player 

Are you planning on uploading all the missions into the custom campaign tab in sc2 like you did with the prologue?  I have an M1 Mac, and the sc2 editor currently won't run on it, so I have no way of playing custom campaigns that require the editor.

In reply to vastanx:

 Thanks, managed to get it working for me!

I also manually created a shortcut for myself.
Just need to have something like this in the target field: 

"PATH\StarCraft II\Support64\SC2Switcher_x64.exe" "PATH\StarCraft II\Maps\UEDFL\UEDFL_Launcher.SC2Map"

In reply to ksnumedia:

 maybe the triggers broke for you, once you clear the areas, a nydus ambushes your base, and then you rush back to kill it, then dialog is supposed to play talking about how the zerg like ambushes, then you have to clear out the 3 baneling nests and lair, then you have a hold out, once ultralisks start flooding in you are supposed to abandon base (the map is supposed to yell at you to retreat). the map expands. and its a bit finnicky since you dont get control of the big base until you reach the center of it, so your neutral units get reclaimed whilst surrounded by the zerg chasing you. after you clear out the zerg chasing you it tells you to build an airstrip, and after the airstrip is built you should finally be able to build reactors. at which step of the above process did you deviate. 

I had a separate issue where it wouldnt let me get an all clear for the areas because the bastards like to burrow, and you dont have detection, so you cant get the all clear until they decide to unburrow.

In reply to ksnumedia:

I'm having the exact same issue: I can't construct Fusion Reactors. 

In reply to ksnumedia:

 How to use cheats ?

For some reasons, my progress didn't save and I lost all of my progress; Which is quite a lot in terms of time, I played up to the end of mission 2.
What could lead to this? 

In reply to ksnumedia:

 Nonono
I am not about that. 
I have no "continue" button in the launcher which I have seen in youtubers video, like Jayborino; 
The save scumming is already in my muscle memory by this point in my life, so nothing new. But thanks for the advice, I always appreciate the help! 

In reply to Schweinkampf:

 it happen to me too

but i just remember i run the luncher when the normal sc2 game still running so i try and it work