Starcraft Master

[Accname]

Blizzard seems to be releasing another minigame soon.
Starcraft Master got several achievements and a portrait right now but the game itself isnt out yet.
But there is a trick to play it though! You can actually find and open the map in the galaxy editor where you can also play it from.
The map is like a micro tester, you have several rounds where you must face certain micro scenarios like stutter stepping marines vs zealots or blink stalkers against roaches.

Comes a little late in my opinion since there are already so many micro challange maps out on the web. I am going to play the map anyways just to see what they did there.
What do you think about it? Will you play it?

 

[Bloodcount]

Comes a little late in my opinion since there are already so many micro challange maps out on the web

Sadly most of them are shit.

What do you think about it? Will you play it?

Yes, blizzard maps are always epic!

 

[UndeadDragon]

I will definately at least try it. Won't do any harm to improve my micro ^_^

 

[Siretu]

It's been available in the SC2 editor since beta, at least I recall finding it somewhere around then. It seems unfinished and there are several trigger errors(at least when I try to play it).

I didn't know about the new achievements and portraits though.

 

[Accname]

It's been available in the SC2 editor since beta, at least I recall finding it somewhere around then. It seems unfinished and there are several trigger errors(at least when I try to play it).

I didn't know about the new achievements and portraits though.

i recently saw a video about it which has shown, that the map is playable right now. Maybe the latest patch fixed it.
I havent tested myself though.

 

[Accname]

The map is out, played it today, finished 27 of 30 stages.

Some of them are rather easy, i think i finished 20 of them on the first run, some of them are extremely hard though and a few of them are really insane. They are kinda fun though.

 

[Bloodcount]

Which ones haven't you finished ? I can't do the ghost baneling one. It took me 3 hours to beat the banshee one, but now I have perfect banshee micro (I did it 3 more times after I passed it, every time I lost less than 50 hp)

 

[Accname]

Which ones haven't you finished ? I can't do the ghost baneling one. It took me 3 hours to beat the banshee one, but now I have perfect banshee micro (I did it 3 more times after I passed it, every time I lost less than 50 hp)

I couldnt beat 7 zealots against 40 (or so) banelings, once i got really close but lost anyways.
Then the sniping round with the 3 ghost + 9 marines (or was it 6?) against waves of lings and banelings. Problem was, i sniped all the banelins very well but the speedlings teared my units apart afterwards.
And then, of course, the final one, i always screwed up with the medivac timing. In my best run i got only a single stalker.

Many were really easy though but some were quite difficult. I struggled with the single infestor against the 10 marines + 2 siege tanks.

What i dislike about the map is the stupid way the camera is enforced when a stage starts, i lost quite often because of the limited vision field or because i accidentally hit the buttons on the right X_X.

How many did you beat?

By the way, i did not get the extra achievement for completing mission 24 in 45 seconds because my timing was always 46 - 48 seconds. i was SO frustrated about that but i just couldnt get it below 46 seconds no matter how often i tried.

 

[Slapshot136]

I struggled with the single infestor against the 10 marines + 2 siege tanks.

I can't do that one either..

 

[UndeadDragon]

I can't do that one either..

There are corners missing from the marine balls. Use 3 infested terran on each marine ball, in the corners of them and then use the rest of the infested terran up evenly on both tanks. I think it only takes 1 each on the tanks.

 

[Slapshot136]

thanks to UndeadDragon I am now done

for the baneling sniping one you need to back up against the wall and then hold position to prevent ling surround, and when it lings get near your marines, pop stim

for the roaches burrow and then unburrow as soon as you burrow, the marines won't switch target from the high hp roach to the low hp roach

and for the ling/baneling, I won by charging my banes first past my lings and taking out their banes with mine