Starcraft... thy friend.. thy enemy.

PyroWolf · May 2002

<div class="IPBDescription">Prison of zergy...ness... stuff.. yeah..</div>Well, it was only inevitable that after looking around NS so much that I should go back and give Starcraft another go around. Big Mistake. It turns out that I remembered how FRIGGIN' LONG IT TAKES TO DO -ONE- MISSION, but it's so addictibly good I have to bare it and finish it to the end.
I never DID beat Broodwar, so that only made the "have to stick with it" mentality stronger. And so with a week of it, I'm finaly at the acursed last (supposedly) level. I must destroy that blasted Overmind so I can get back to doing something constructive!!!!!!

And .. yeah.. that is basicaly why I haven't had any new comics in a while.. that and school has been.. how to say... "gettin' its choatic all up on my face"

So, seeing how this post has been nothing but an excuse to my lazyness, those that bother to read this, try to post funny and/or memorable freak accidents or what not you've had in Starcraft, just for the pointlessness of it!

Pyro Wolf

*I wonder if pointlessness is even a word...*

coil · May 2002

I've played SC and BW most of the way through 3 times now. The first time, I beat SC (before BW came out). When BW came out, I beat SC again and made it to Zerg-3 of BW where I got stuck. Finally, I went back and made it to the FINAL mission of BW Zerg... after 3 or 4 tries, I gave up. Still haven't seen the final video. That was months ago... I'd have to do the whole zerg campaign over again to have a chance at the last level now.

SmokeMasta · May 2002

starcraft was cool back in the day
now it's not even worth downloading

Ravenous · May 2002

bah ! Me and my friends still play StarCraft : BW on LAN and on Internet it's the best RTS ever made in our opinion <img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>

Banan · May 2002

St4rcr4f+ 0wnz j00!
lol, starcarft rules, I used to play alot on the internet, I dont play as much now tho, I cant remember so much, but I CAN remember the time I met an admin, living in sweden working for blizzard, we played a round (me and him together) and he told me lots of stuff, I asked him about starcraft II and stuff, he said there will be a starcraft II and he said the story and everything is soon finished, and they are on a good way on the main game too but they wont release it in a couple of years or so because they are just about to release wc III and blah blah blah.

sad, wish they would release it soon, the starcraft and diablo games own so bad!

SmokeMasta · May 2002

it's still the best in it's class.
becouse of the exelent online play

RhoadsToNowhere · May 2002

I think Starcraft's a really good game. I like how the three races are all pretty different but still have a lot of common elements. I'm pretty bad at it, though. In the third Terran mission of the original campaign, your objective is merely to survive for half an hour, but the closest I got to escaping was nine seconds. It kinda sucked. I am also one of the few players to earn the dubious achievement of unintentionally nuking myself. <img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>

Kassinger · May 2002

Starcraft, that's a long time ago for me. I used a lot of time in the campaign editor playing around with the triggers and making more or less silly levels.

The_Butcher · May 2002

I still play starcraft quite often (on bnet). I remember when I managed to kill the overmind (at the end of the original protoss campaign) for the first time. When nothing but it was left, I killed all my units except gohsts and built a <span style='color:red'>########</span> of nukes then nuked the scum to oblivion.

Then BW came. I remember the 4 terran mission where you either get annihilated by nukes or constantly attacked by battlecruisers. IMHO, the battlecruisers are easier but I chose the nukes, just for the challenge.

But the most difficult mission I saw is probably the last zerg mission (the 2nd bonus one) : Omega. I had a hard time with that one.

Tzarcon · May 2002

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (SmokeMasta @ May 16 2002,09:22)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">starcraft was cool back in the day
now it's not even worth downloading</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
I'm insulted you would even say that. Starcraft is still a kick-### RTS and is still very popular, and is still my favourite

Scythe · May 2002

But will it be better than NS when its released?

I only played SC MP, never had the patience to play SP.

--Scythe--
the_only_scythe@subdimension.com

Sono · May 2002

Starcraft rul'zz. It's still reference when you like RTS like SC and not like EE. (sorry flay <img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'> )

It's also unbeaten by Battle Realms, also that one has great graphics.

Unfortunately I suck @ SC MP.

Biomechanoid · May 2002

Me and my buds take a break from our UT, CS, and Q3A LANs to have RTS LANs. It usually ends up with a "quick" 30 min game of starcraft (not BW for some reason thou) followed by a brisk 7 hour EE earth session where for some reason I always end up with 90+ cybers (the helicopter type) and just going around in a huge wave wiping out everything I see... kinda like the mutalisk swarm that I do, only with lazers <img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'>

Could you imagine a batty swarm in NS flying around the map taking out every outpost with little resistance?

Lazarus · May 2002

I didnt know there were 2 bonus maps, how do you get to the 2nd one?

Slycaster · May 2002

you know, i think i might start a UMS Natural Selection starcraft map if it's ok with flay and such, and if i have the time, i used to make tons of maps, back in the day.

Space_Marine · May 2002

I love Star Craft! NS reminds me of Star Craft and also the movies and games Aliens!

Vincent · May 2002

starcraft will be my fav rts until and posibuly after warcraft3 comes out in june

and whats this abut bonus missons how do you get them!

Sgt_X · May 2002

i know of one bonus mission. it was talked in the strat guide for bw. U have to beat the mission where the, Matriarch is in the Cryo unit and Zeuratal kills her, with a certain amount of time still left on the clock. 10 min i think. Then u play a mission where Zeuratal is looking for Artanis and picks up the some wierd energy coming from a moon with a terran outpost on it. The end of that mission hints at part of the story for SC 2 me thinks.

The_Butcher · May 2002

Well, I'm not sure if the Omega mission is a bonus mission but it's the last one of all. You have to destroy a UED base, a Dominion base and a Protoss base. You're right in the middle of the map and they're all over the rest of the map. You may have trouble expanding for ressources.

Yeah, the first bonus is the one where Zeratul finds the Zerg/Protoss hybrid created by Duran.

There's a nice dialog when you find the statis cell (that's what I remember from it):
Zeratul:I ... I've never seen a creature like that before.
Computer: Test subject 36, classified protoss/zerg hybrid, in perfect cryon-hibernation. Psyonic emmanations minimal.
Zeratul: No.....
Duran: Magnificient, isn't it?
Zeratul: What? Who are you?
Duran: I've had many names throughout the millenias, young prodigal, but you probably know me best as Samir Duran.
Zeratul: Kerigan's consort. Is this part of her twisted schemes?
Duran: No. Young Kerigan couldn't have engineered this grand experiment. Althought her rebirth in the Zerg has sped up my progress, I can assure you that this endeavour is quite beyond her narrow understanding.
Zeratul: If you are not her pawn, then what are you?
Duran: I am a servant of a far greater power. A power that has slept for countless ages and is reflected in the creature within that cell.
Zeratul: Do you have any conception of what you've created here? Do you have any idea of what this, this hybrid is capable of?
Duran: Of course I do! This creature is the completion of a cycle. It's role in the cosmic order was preordained when the stars were young, behold the culmination of your history.
Zeratul: All I behold is an abomination.
Duran: You violence is typical young prodigal, as well as your inability to comprehend the greater schemes of things. You can destroy all of the specimens here, it will do you no good, for I have seeded the hybrid on many, many worlds. You will never find them all before they awaken. And when they do..... your universe will be changed..... forever.

Starcraft... thy friend.. thy enemy.

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