Brutal difficulty

[RODTHEGOD]

So how many people out there are doing the brutal difficulty setting? I am and it is one tough nut to crack. Alot of the missions will likely result in you losing atleast once.

[TheRabidDeer]

I did a few then realized all of the achievements only really require hard (and are exceedingly difficult to do on brutal), so I will get those all out of the way then reclear on brutal.

[Jdawsman]

My first playthrough i did Brutal difficulty and i found it underwhelming, i could pretty much M&M every level and win. (I didn't every level of course but whenever i did it was extremely easy)

[Asfastasican]

My first playthrough i did Brutal difficulty and i found it underwhelming, i could pretty much M&M every level and win. (I didn't every level of course but whenever i did it was extremely easy)

The campaign never forces you to expand. I think that's a major flaw in its design. With unlimited selection M&M along with no need to research tech at all makes it a swiss army knife tactic.

The whole concept of not forcing a player to expand is teaching the player a bad lesson and that's something Brood War didn't do at all. You had to attack some spot early and secure resources to get good enough footing to finish the level.

[Jdawsman]

The campaign never forces you to expand. I think that's a major flaw in its design. With unlimited selection M&M along with no need to research tech at all makes it a swiss army knife tactic.

The whole concept of not forcing a player to expand is teaching the player a bad lesson and that's something Brood War didn't do at all. You had to attack some spot early and secure resources to get good enough footing to finish the level.

Yup, i totally agree, starting with a bunch of tech and never having the opportunity to expand means i build my 21 or so SCV's and never build another (for minerals at least) with merc building thrown into the mix the only challenge i ever encounter is trying to get all the research opportunities before finishing the main objective.

[hyde]

Beat it on brutal.

I did not M&M much, I usually tried to mix things up since it's just single player. I wanted some flavor in my units. Contrary to the above posts, you do indeed need to expand if you use metal.
A lot of the bases are not adequate if you are going metal. I had to in almost everymap to make my legion of siege tanks and vikings.

You guys just cheesed it out with M&M.

[0mar]

Brutal becomes ridiculously easy once you have access to Sci Vessels. Sci vessels + Mech is the new medic-marine. Once I got the sci vessels, I literally demolished every mission afterwards.

[userstupidname]

Yepp same here, just battle cruiser everything

Else I just did medic marine


Love the missions where you really have to be a little different tough like train robbery

[TheEconomist]

The campaign never forces you to expand.

Never? You sure about that?

[userstupidname]

I think the op is aware of that in some missions you actually do need to expand but overall this negligible or expanding is not a risk or choice but rather something that you will progress into