SC2Mapster

Terran Half seems more or less unchanged so I'll skip that.

Zerg Half

• Difficulty: Much harder than before. Was more or less fine with the exception of how hard it is to go onto the Offensive. Not sure if you meant for the bosses to reduce all damage taken to 1 no matter what unit was attacking, but that's what I saw happening, even against the Zergling Boss. The result is that if you want to even have a chance of killing a boss (assuming the boss is alone), again, excluding the Zergling. You'd need a pretty big army, at least 50+ units I'd say for the Mutalisk (since only Marines / Hydralisks / the Zerg Air) can hit it, but if you just mass those, your army will fall apart. And I'd say 100+ ground troops for the Ultralisk. I sent in a good 70 marines, 20 medics, and 5 ultralisks; they were gone within a minute. And if you do send in that much of your army, your Psi Command is left vulnerable. Didn't have a chance to see the last boss, but so far I'd suggest for the automatic reducing to 1 damage armor removed from bosses, and instead just boost their regular Defense up / increase HP.

Oh, side note, Terran Infantry Upgrades. The Defense Research goes up to 3, but the Attack one only goes up to 2. Or is that intended?

Tried Mission Three again just now, and the difficulty in the beginning is actually bearable now. Few things I noticed though:

-Terran Half-

• South East Disrupter: Didn't seem to spawn any guards when it was attacked like the other Psi Disrupters did. Unless it was the four or five Hellions who suddenly decided to attack my base from the East?
• Difficulty: First part was hard, but once you get the first Disrupter down, the ball gets rolling and the others are easy to take down (didn't have to replenish my troops at all.)
• Hellions: In this mission, due to the fact that in the beginning, you're restricted to just Marines, Marauders, and Medics; Hellions seem to be extremely overpowered, especially if there's more than one (due to huge damage bonus against Infantry + Splash), maybe spread them out a bit more so you don't run into like 4 at once in the south east who will decimate your lines? Possibly put a few more in the other bases but take away the south east's ability to train Hellions / make them train less.
• Liked how you added in Banshees / Wraiths, was expecting only ground forces and was considering just massing Marauders and Medics, good thing I didn't :P

-Zerg Half- To be honest, I thought you messed up and forgot to make Zerg Hatcheries Psyonic lol, then realized you literally meant "Hives".

• Hives: To be honest, they seemed a bit under-defended until the last one or two. You could just grab a group of five or so Marauders and suicide them into the base and snipe the Hive with your Psi Command, instantly converting the entire base and army onto your side. Maybe a bit more static defense? (I know you're meant to be able to get some structures to be able to train units, but it'd probably be better to just rearrange the terrain slightly so that the player is forced to go through one / two before reaching the others, and have those ones lighter defended as to snipe the entire base.)
• Difficulty: The first few bases are extremely easy, there's a sudden spike in difficulty when all the Zerg Broods start focusing on you though. After you grab another one or two Hives though, the resistance melts away and becomes easy again.
• Suggestion: Maybe make mini-boss units in some of the Hives that have to be killed in order to "unfreeze" the Hives and be able to then Mind Control them? Ultralisk, Hydralisk, and Mutalisk are the three best to use as bases I think, since all three of those are pretty strong against Infantry to begin with. I.E. Copy all the data of the unit, then increase the stats (mainly HP) a ton.

Played mission 1 and 2. Mission 1: It would be VERY nice if the diamondback had hotkeys for its abilities and I'm not sure why you removed the visual cooldown dark tint over the buttons... both of these are important game mechanics that you totally removed that only make the game more difficult through frustration. Also, the part where you have to kill the starport kind of drags on... its not like you even really get ambushed while you slowly widdle down its life. Make it have like half as much life. End sequence is cool visually, but I was a little put off I randomly just get invincibility toward the end.

Mission 2: Between waiting for energy restore, waiting for upgrades to finish, waiting for medivac healing, and traversing basically the whole map to get more units, this map gets really long-winded. Also I had a stupid amount of money toward the end (4k and a 20+ fully upgraded units) the final sequence was sort of a bore. Adjust the income rate throughout the level, maybe put another barracks halfway through, and lower all build/research times. It was also sort of ridiculous that the briefing for this mission says "We are sending our single, most advanced ship!" or something to that effect, and there you are at the beginning with 3 ships.

Edit: after rereading my comments I'm sorry if I come off as overly negative... just trying to help you through constructive criticism. Both missions held my interest the entire time, so that is definitely saying something! You have awesome terraining skills and smart map design.

Some feedback for mission 1.

It's a bit of a crash course in how to control and deal with the vehicle, but I think your handling of the explanation works wonders. You let the play toggle it on and off as they will and that's a great solution, while still introducing a cool game mechanic.

Your wraith wingmen are kinda brain dead at times and without them you have alot of trouble dealing with the zerg units. It there anyway to allow the player to exert a bit more control over them, so they can be taken out of the line of fire when severely damaged?

Frankly though, your mission as a whole is solid. Your terrain is well done (at least by my own miserable standards :P) I look forward to more.

I tried Mission 2, and I actually found it really fun even though it doesn't seem too trigger-heavy. One thing I found annoying though, was the AI kept sending trained troops towards the old starting places (like by the engineering bay and such). It works to some degree at the beginning, but later it's rather pointless, your army becomes big enough to not be bothered in the least by it and it becomes more of a chore. I'd suggest have the AI do something a little more constructive with it. Like have them move onto little guard ramps in the AI's main base or something, making you be forced to try and destroy the AI base before it becomes too well defended (fits in with the plot too).

Only did a quick test, but I think the beginning of the third mission is a bit hard. Especially for people who aren't as good (quick and early attacks from different directions in quick succession). Maybe give like, 15-30 seconds more between the first group of attacks?

I tested your map quickly. You have great idea in your map and it is definately worth to improve. If you are going to make a full campaign this map is good for first mission and then you can make "normal" missions like "destroy zerg base" etc. Add mission objectives! When I start any map without objectives at topleft corner my rage-meter increases ;) Improve camera angle someway. On my screen my unit was bottom edge of screen all the time - not at middle.