Challenges?

Recently started playing them. At first, I kind of wrote them off as little 'Zelda-esqe' side games, but later realized that they're actually pretty helpful.....I actually now wish there were more of them.

So....which did you alls find particularly easy/difficult?

While scenarios like "Covert Ops" and "Harbinger of Death" ended up being easier than others for me, I still can't get lower than 16 units lost on "For the Swarm" and I literally gave myself a stroke getting to silver in "Psionic Assault"

While I also had a real easy time with "Rush Defense" - "Opening Gambit" remains a sturdy testament to my horrible, yet slowly improving Macro. :)

Also, you guys have any ideas for future challenge scenarios? I think it would be pretty cool to focus some on the base raiding (reaper, DT, etc) units in the game, maybe even a 'cheese' test or something. :)

Here is SC:L's Challenge guide: http://sclegacy.com/feature/2-encycl...ngs-of-liberty

Written by TRD! :D

Hopefully it can help you out!

~LoA

The psionic assault one was the most challenging for me.

They were fun actually.

I was kinda surprised myself. I took one look at the tutorial and wrote the challenges off because of how basic and simplistic the tutorial was. However, they are a blast to play.

The only thing I wish they would change on them however... is the game speed. Nobody actually plays on "Normal" speed, so even if you can get a gold or higher, it doesn't mean you actually have a sense for the timing in a real game. Plus is really annoying for somebody who is used to "Faster" to play on Normal, it feels like playing molasses...

For me it was just the sentry level that I had to try multiple times to get gold.. I actually ended up taking the easy way and watched a youtube video of someone doing it and copied them =[ It is pretty darn hard, ill give blizzard that. Perferct focefields is an artform, as im slowly learning in games lately where I win solely because my FF placements, and lose games if I mess them up. (it is THE KEY to beating Terran MMM)

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Hopefully it can help you out!

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Nice! - How did I miss all this time?

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Nobody actually plays on "Normal" speed

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Exactly! - It actually throws me off on that 'opening gambit' challenge......or at least adds to my woes. :)

They're fun to do I guess but somehow seem a bit too easy. Only really had trouble getting gold in the ones with picking the right units for each wave. The rest I managed it within 3 tries. Sometimes even on the first try.

I would like some challenges for more intermediate level skills like how to perfectly place forcefields while under pressure, how to micro banelings properly, estimating max siege tank range for terrans in TvT. Not to mention playing zerg is not very forgiving to beginners.:P But i guess ladder, custom maps and practice partners fulfill that role. But I guess at least an intro to how to play zerg well would be nice.

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Not to mention playing zerg is not very forgiving to beginners

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No kidding - However, I have a feeling the next bunch of challenges in HotS will prolly address that :) but yeah, Zerg macro, creep spread, larvae production/management, would make great exercises/scenarios.

I dislike that they are played on normal, other than that it's fine. They were fun to play.

Psionic assault was the hardest, I think I got exactly 225 and that was the limit to get gold :D

Being unable to change the speed sucked. But in conclusion I really did enjoy doing the challenges and wish they included more. It would have been nice if they had a few more specifically designed to train users on the macro mechanics.