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 In reply to leftmoss25295:

Central is one of the better marauder missions, imo.  A more  "serious" entry to the marauders series, it has good pacing, atmosphere, terrain, the ability to make the mission easier with that 2k/1.5k superweapon.  The opening section really adds to the mission, adding tension, thought, and turning a boring catwalk into a platformer.

You could get rid of one of the gas'.  Ended up floating thousands of gas.

Major pitfall is that thumpers are just too good.  A lot of the in-mission AoE is just shut down by stimmed thumpers.  The Nano's can be destroyed by a single roaster.

Thumpers seem really strong in general, looking to be the top single-target DPS/cost , as well as being incredibly versatile because they:

• Hit both air and ground
• Have stim
• low char size for their supply cost
• above average attack speed gives them some utility vs swarming enemies
• Extra damage to very high-hp enemies, who likely have the "massive" tag 

  Not sure that 5 range is enough of a drawback, especially when stim+stutter stepping is a great way to close distances.

Hey AcidDragoon,

I ran by Jayborino's playthrough of this campaign and I must say I got very excited by it!  Very cool campaign. I do have some catching up to do for all the missions, but I'm already loving it!

Marvelous

Bug: The cooldowns on Jerkfaces abilities don't match the tooltip, they are 0.

 I understand what sort of idea you were going for with the boss fight, but it's too anti-climatic for me personally.

Good story nonetheless, and the after credits scene made me chuckle.

Can't believe it has actually 'ended'!  Loved the last two maps, really captured the silly spirit of the entire campaign while also revisiting all the fun factions from the previous maps.

I talk about this in my playthrough coming up on Monday - even though the "X" missions are meant to be satirically sad with the piano music and stargazing ending line, it actually was bittersweet in knowing the campaign was ending.  You've got a goofy storyline that is not serious, but it's a storyline nonetheless and it was a nice, heartfelt way to wrap it up.

Sounds like you may still make more maps with the Maw faction plus the previously unknown characters from X1; I'm looking forward to them if they happen!

Great and fun map.  Like how the variety of base defense strategies means that, at some point, your "dream army" will fail (ex. my carrier/subjugator strat fell before centrals high armor+anti-air splash, as well as generally struggling vs air units).

Terraining, sounds, dialogue, and unit designs all contribute to a well-planned atmosphere.

You can overbuild carrier bombers by queueing them up before you hit max, can have 8 per carrier if so.

Now just two small quibbles that I feel detract from this map:

I just wish there was some way to quickly rebuild my army.  Building some weird strat to counter 1 base then getting it wiped on the next base, but I guess you run into the issue of "how to prevent players from rebuilding high tier units instantly while in combat".

Being able to see each base one at a time (ex. see purifiers, kill purifiers, now see brood) would be more interesting in terms of planning an army around them.

Well thats was a sad mission...

Just 2 thinks I found.

- https://ibb.co/eaX6zG he says abberations. Or he speak like that?

- https://ibb.co/gDVODb instigator looks like they have 2 actors. Their models looks duplicated

Ground baneling units just have too large hitboxes to be a useful army, especially since you want most of your units to be able to be able to attack ravagers and ravager alpha's.  Bane Lords are the only real useful unit, making sure you grab a queen to heal.

• Why do worker morphs take 80 seconds?
• Why is getting back up to 100 supply so expensive? 
• Why can you not cancel baneling morphs?
• Why is there hotkey overlap with going back to the main baneling menu

Pros of bane lords

• Outrange everything
• store 2 charges in attack downtime
• can stack

Edit:  1-sentence review: scenario and dialogue thought out, actual gameplay not thought out so well.  

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In reply to VastanX:

 Bane mother not being on F2 is deliberate OK

Menu button vanishes when I use the Coop dependency data.  Ain't got a clue on why. That answers a old question 

The Swarm Host models from the Hots campaign both broke on Blizzard's end in the 4.0 patch.  Damn Blizzard