Astray

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Introduction

Step into the armor of a protoss hero as you try to protect your crew and rejoin the Golden Armada.
Unleash powerful abilities on your foes as you fight for survival in a hostile environment full of strange creatures and even stranger mysteries.

Map type: Single-Player

Difficulty: Easy-to-Medium

Size: 256 x 256

Features:

Self-contained story set just before StarCraft II Legacy of the Void
Original characters
Custom units and abilities
Bosses

^*There is no difficulty slider, but the overall difficulty varies between easy and medium.

Feedback

I appreciate all constructive feedback, so feel free to share your thoughts on the map here in the comments. This map is also available in the StarCraft 2 Battle.net Arcade in the Europe and Americas regions, so feel free to rate it and leave some feedback there as well.

Thanks for playing!

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Edhriano
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Posted May 9, 2018
Hello there igyman, I leave a pm for you.

Kindly let me know what you think.

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DrIggyC
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Posted May 9, 2018
In reply to EDHRIANO:

Answered. Check your PM inbox.

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Posted Mar 17, 2018
Expanding my feedback.

Much of the map was very good (terrain, cinematics, unit design, storyline). The text when hovering over a unit's icon was a nice touch and a clever bit of foreshadowing.

The map could be a little more compact. Spent enough time moving that halfway through I started using the "move" cheat to speed up the story. Slowing it further was having the game speed being reset to normal after each cutscene.

The final two bosses are a large spike in difficulty compared to what's seen so far, forcing near constant movement while simultaneously controlling your main source of DPS, the scoutruptor. The broodmother is the most difficult because on top constant movement, you have baneling spawns to deal with. It's hard to understand the final's bosses abilities, a bit more clarity is needed. (how many times does he teleport? can i dodge the stun somehow?).

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Posted Mar 17, 2018
In reply to TChosenOne:

Thanks for the feedback. Regarding speed - the map was tested on Normal speed most of the time, not only because that's the speed I play the game at, but also because that's the speed the game runs the map on when you hit Test Document. I do get what you're saying, especially about the boss difficulty - on Normal speed they seemed almost too easy for me, but the few times I tried it out on Faster, their chance of killing the player is a lot more significant. I'll think about if and how I can improve this aspect as I gather more feedback.

I also appreciate the feedback on the abilities you used during boss fights - personally I somehow forgot to summon the Watcher most of the time and relied mostly on the two abilities that would not require me to control an additional unit. Especially during the Ancient Queen boss fight.

Regarding the final boss - it's not really important how many times he blinks around for one of his special attacks. If it helps, the number of times he does it is constant. What's important is that he has several "special" attacks and he periodically chooses one of them randomly. The one with the stun is not something I managed to dodge during my tests.

P.S. Glad someone noticed the unit tooltips/character info :)

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Posted Mar 4, 2018
- You make very beautiful shots in the cinematics.

- It was very entertaining

- Awesome to use Heroes models

Feeback

- Im not a english speaker but the transmitions were a bit to fast.

- This moebius guys says "moebius will raise again" and then the judicator say that the khala permit the information from the pretoria. When Moebius was defeated the khala was no longer avaible for the protoss. What part of time line is this mission?

Keep it up.

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Posted Mar 4, 2018
In reply to VastanX:

The map takes place near the end of the Heart of the Swarm storyline, just before Legacy of the Void begins.

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Posted Mar 4, 2018
Hello. I just played the mission. here is some feedback

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Posted Mar 4, 2018
In reply to VastanX:

Thanks for the feedback - some things are by design, but that issue with certain doodads like the space skybox being visible when it shouldn't is definitely something I will look into.

Can you give me some more info on that one? Did you watch the whole intro sequence and these doodads remained visible, or did you skip the intro at a particular point?

Also, looking at the screenshots, it seems you were running Fraps along with the game. Fraps is a very resource-heavy tool and some issues may have been caused simply by it affecting the game, rather than problems with the map (https://eu.battle.net/forums/en/sc2/topic/169527499).

Thanks again.

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