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Thoughts on the entirety of Bio Tech:

1. Not usually fond of this style of gameplay, but this was well-executed and I was having fun the entire time.  A couple things that could use a buff: 
   The missile turret ability seems pretty ineffective, since you have to stop moving for the long attack animation to do full damage.  Stopping has massive drawbacks, including allowing enemies you've left behind to catch up and damage you.  I don't think I used it once in my successful hard playthrough, relying on either the shockwave or just speeding past them to avoid stopping.
   Cloak could use a "reactive" (in-combat) component.  You can't really use it in a lot of combat scenarios because if the way is blocked, you can't move past the enemy, and your damage is low enough that it's unlikely to clear the way.  It would be nice if we could move through enemies during cloak, because right now the best use of it is to combo with the speed boost.
2. Really, really fun.  I love blink spam maps and this is no exception, and the map is designed with blink in mind so you get these really impressive jumps and skips and it feels so great.  And the transition into building up your own army for a final showdown is amazing.  One of my top maps of all time, imo. A couple suggestions that might make this even better:
   Reduce blink cost to 5 energy: when playing solo hero you spend all your energy on blink and you're just starved with energy (when playing with an army you use other abilities more often so blink doesn't really break things there)
   Switch the command center/engineering bay upgrades (but not their costs): By the time you get the bonus energy regen, your army is usually big enough that most of the regeneration is pretty pointless.  The energy regen would be massive for hero focussed play in the early game, so it should be a high cost to make the player choose between making a mobile army that combs their way through the map or a highly mobile one woman army.
3. Just brutal on hard difficulty. The lack of resources (half the guysers, 2/3rds of the minerals) and the strong early agression (second attack wave has the same army supply as your starting army supply) just means it's very hard to do this in one go.
4. Nothing really notable here for me.
5. The terraining is absolutely beautiful, the elevation stuff works wonders, the pathing feels natural.  Just a pretty map to play through.
6. This could use a bit of polishing.  One thing that feels really frustrating is that you don't really get a sense of progress: the rebuilding of the disruptors makes it feel that you're not really claiming territory, and it's hard to defend expansions with them roaming around.  On top of that, their seemingly random pathing means that if you do find a way to sneak around them, they can close that and keep it closed for minutes on end.  In my game, I was planning to sneak into the left base, but the disruptor kept only patrolling in the spots right by the base for minutes on end. 
7. Like mission 5, this features some wonderful terrain.  Shout out to the "path" that trails off after you cross the bridge, that is really well done.  Gameplay is nice as well, but it's a little weaker in the first half when you're only fighting zerglings.  Would recommend lowering the hp of debris for the 2 nydus worms push: it feels easier to just push forward than to kill all that hp for a full heal.
8. Some cool puzzle design here: the 2 tank section is really clever and not something i've seen before.  The download last bit can feel a bit repeitive tho.
9. Ignos 04: once again, a very pretty map.  The gameplay here is pretty good as well, the hero has lots of interesting options and mini upgrades.  I really like the recharge ability: it allows the mapmaker to balance every fight as the player having full energy+shields, and it does this well.  Special mention to the guantlet at the end for denying you the use of recharge, adding tension to the area.
   As for balance, the attack speed boost seems to be a requirement for every combat encounter and trivializes most of them.  The other (crushing grip, kinetic blast) abilities felt so weak that I stopped using them to see how much it'd change and aside from not being able to kinetic blast ultralisks not much changes.

All in all, very good, missions 1, 2, 7, 8, and the Ignos map really feel like the standouts.

Edit (January 6, 2022): expanded more on Ignos 04: it's a very good map.

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6. It does take some time before your zerg units get "infected" by the disruptor, so the idea is that the player sometimes should risk it and send an attack force to destroy disruptors or Nexus even though they are in the disruptor field. Maybe dividing the army so that you have something to defend with if the attack backfires.

 

I could have indicated this during the introduction gameplay part. I should have placed the Nexus as just out of reach of hydralisk attack range so you had to keep them in the "risk zone" while hammering it down, showing that it takes quite some time before the Zerg turns.

  

Played it again, this time beating it.  Frustration comes in a few parts:

1) you run out of gas after building up your first army. This makes it hard to justify building stuff like banelings and ultralisks over the more useful hydras, infestors, and roaches.  I think this is what causes the caution, people don't have easy income (expansions are often destroyed by nexus destruction attack waves), so i would guess that people want avoid guaranteed losses fighting disruptors would bring.

2) The risk of disruptor stealing makes some units less viable: banelings and ultralisks are probably the worst hurt by this.  Infestors are also high value steals, but if not for issue 1 wouldn't be such a big a deal.

As for other stuff in the mission: the protoss is too carrier/colossi heavy, which gives infestors an incredible edge in stealing their stuff.  The attack waves early game are pretty brutal to defend with squishy hydras (I ended up holding position changelings to keep the zealots off of them), culminating in the 2 colossi attack wave at the 6 minute mark, but don't scale as well and their ability to do anything drops off once you get some tech up.

Interesting to see these maps still being updated after such a long time. And seems to be  lot of small bug fixes too! Maybe this is a good time to start replaying this again.

I've made review of your map, here :

Bio-Tech Review

@njordys I did redownload them, no luck.