LogFAQs > #945674736

I could only clear one and a half missions today. The first was a quick one, where you take on some Protoss on a planet that is slowly being engulfed in fire. You have to keep relocating your base to keep ahead of the flames. It's fine for the most part, but the annoying part is that if you build attachments to your buildings, they can't take off, so you have to keep rebuilding them. I like to build the reactor on the barracks so I can pump out even more marines. It's also the introduction of the Banshee unit, which seems pretty good. It's a flying unit that specializes in attacking ground forces and has stealth. You can really whittle down the enemy forces on this map with Banshees, by taking out the pylons that power stealth-detecting Photon Cannons and then going to town on the helpless enemies. It's not really necessary on Normal though. I mostly just sent in all my forces and cleared the map with the fire a good ways off. After this one there's a big plot twist where Raynor decides to work with the son of the Dominion leader because he claims he can turn Kerrigan back into a human. Without knowing how that shakes out, it definitely seems like a trick to me.

The second one I started is the last of the Zeratul visions, which shows the dark alternate future in which Kerrigan gets killed. Apparently humanity is already wiped out and it's the Protoss' last stand against the Zerg, who are mind-controlled by some kind of hybrid species. In gameplay terms you have a massive army but can only hold out for so long - it works kind of like the endless modes in Tower Defense games. It's not as desperate as it should be on Normal though. I finished all the side objectives and was just waiting to die, but it was taking so long that I had to make a map save and quit playing so I could get ready for work.

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