SC2: Wings of Liberty Completed

This entry is really for my own personal record. Maybe, just maybe, some geeky gamers will find it interesting too.

Completed the Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty single player campaign in the wee hours today.

Gotta hand it to Blizzard for making great games. Warcraft, Diablo, Starcraft, each a winner that other gaming companies try to clone.

Anyway, first time through the single player campaign, love the smooth gameplay and followed the storyline like a true fanboy. Played the normal difficulty and completed the 26 missions in this order:

01. Liberation Day
02. The Outlaws
03. Zero Hour
04. The Evacuation
05. Outbreak
06. The Devil's Playground
07. The Great Train Robbery
08. Safe Haven*
09. Cutthroat
10. Engine of Destruction
11. Media Blitz
12. (secret mission) Piercing the Shroud
13. Welcome to the Jungle
14. Breakout*
15. Smash & Grab
16. The Dig
17. Whispers of Doom
18. A Sinister Turn
19. Echoes of the Future
20. In Utter Darkness
21. The Moebius Factor
22. Supernova
23. Maw of the Void
24. The Gates of Hell
25. Belly of the Beast*
26. All In

Saw the easter egg Diablo in The Devil's Playground mission, didn't notice the tauren and murloc marines easter eggs though, will keep an eye out on my next run through the campaign.

The secret mission Piercing the Shroud is obtained by destroying a science facility in the Media Blitz mission and taking the data. The science facility is at the lower right corner of the map.

Will also choose the other option on those missions where options are available in my next run. These missions are marked with *, so instead of saving the colony I will destroy them next time, the mission will not be Safe Haven then but of another name. Will side with Nova next time instead of Tosh, and will destroy the aerial base of the zerg instead of their underground nodus.

Yea yea I know I can play them from the archive but I want to play through the champaign with different upgrades and research path anyway.

The following modified screenshots are the upgrades and researches I have as I entered the final mission. I missed the Protoss research opportunity in the In Utter Darkness mission, so I could have 30k credits more and probably another upgrade, oh well. All mercenaries hired.

This is my upgrade path as credits became available, had 125k credits left unused:

01. Infantry > Marine > Stimpacks
02. Infantry > Medic > Stabilizer Medpacks
03. Infantry > Firebat > Incinerator Gauntlets
04. Infantry > Marine > Combat Shield
05. Base > Bunker > Projectile Accelerator
06. Infantry > Reaper > U-238 Rounds
07. Vehicles > Diamondback > Tri-lithium Power Cell
08. Starships > Viking > Ripwave Missles
09. Starships > Viking > Phobos-class Weapons System
10. Base > SCV > Dual-Fusion Weilders
11. Base > Missle Turret > Hellstorm Batteries
12. Base > Terran Building > Orbital Command
13. Base > Terran Building > Fire-Suppression System
14. Vehicles > Goliath > Multi-lock Weapons System
15. Vehicles > Goliath > Ares-class Targeting System
16. Dominion > Spectre > Nyx-class Cloaking Module
17. Dominion > Spectre > Psionic Lash
18. Infantry > Marauder > Concussive Shells
19. Vehicles > Siege Tank > Maelstrom Rounds
20. Vehicles > Siege Tank > Shaped Blast
21. Starships > Medivac > Rapid Deployment Tube
22. Starships > Banshee > Shockwave Missle Battery













Oh, best I did in the Viking arcade game was level 2, not even reaching the boss. =\

Here's hoping I don't have to wait another 10 years for Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm.