#Starcraft remastered biting the bullet for free

Warp prisms are allowed as long as he only uses them like a Shuttle I first I believed it would be an easy victory for me, but up until this point I had not built Overseers so Dark Templar kept him alive. You can theorycraft all day about what the ideal way to play under these limitations would be, but the circumstances we found ourselves in was Hydralisk Lurker vs Zealot High Templar Archon.

One of the few times I’ve used Hold Fire on Lurkers The Protoss is forced into basically Zealot Archon High Templar, all produced without Warp Gate. Meanwhile, I’m allowed to build Hydralisk and Lurkers which arguably capitalizes on his lack of Robo Tech perfectly. Immortals, Disruptors, Colossus, and Warp Prims are all off the table. On the Protoss side of things the entirety of the Robo bay is nulled. On my side of the table, while my early-game ramp is shaky I would argue my mid-game is much stronger. He could use Cannons for defense initially with his economic advantage, work up to Archons and Storm to defend off the Mutalisks, and then start adding Carriers which could take Mutalisks in a direct fight and begin to push towards my base. This meant his Probes built fairly quickly and his own economy ramped up faster than mine. Conversely, while he didn’t actively use Chronoboost, he couldn’t disable it entirely so he left it on all of his Nexi. If I tried to go Mutalisks I simply wouldn’t have the Larva to both harvest that much gas and minerals and build Mutalisks at the same time. The lack of inject means I can’t ramp up my economy very quickly. But looking back, I’m not sure that’s the case. After seeing he wasn’t going to Zealot cheese me, I decided to treat him with the same respect and not rush Mutalisks, which, I theorized, would easily crush him when he couldn’t build Stalkers, Phoenix, or even use Overcharge for defense. Now, let’s take a step back and look at both of our strategic options. Needless to say, I decided the best course of action was to be insanely greedy but have excellent map vision with Zerglings near any possible attack rout so if he did decide to do that I could build as many Spine Crawlers as I could and pray for the best. Having seen that he was indeed playing along with my idea, I sort of presumed he wouldn’t cheese me. Regardless of the unit limitations, how on earth was I going to get enough Larva?įor the early-game, my largest concert was he would kill me with pure Zealots since I couldn’t build Roaches, Queens, or Banelings. Despite having played primarily Protoss for years, in this case I was playing Zerg and I was inclined to believe that it was worse for me to lose both Creep and Larva Inject than it was for him to lose Warp Gate. However, at the 3 minute mark I scouted him building Zealots out of his Gateway with no Warp Gate on the way, so I moved on to my next-largest concern. As in any game of StarCraft, scouting is very important even if you have supposedly made a gentleman’s agreement with your opponent.

#Starcraft remastered biting the bullet for free

While there were some initial fears the game might just be broken when played with these limitations without the units that existed in Brood War that we didn’t have, my first fear was that my opponent was playing me for a fool for free ladder points. This is about as close as we got to establishing ground rules. However, since this was not a premeditated game but something we did on the fly on the ladder, we didn’t have the time to establish a set of limitations. How strictly are we limiting ourselves to Broodwar? Are upgrades that didn’t exist in Broodwar allowed? My opponent got Charge for his Zealots, and there were points I chose not to get certain SC2 upgrades such as Chitinous Plating or Pneumatized Carapace that did exist in Brood War simply because I felt like they would be unfair in this context.Ĭonversely, at a certain point I realized this wouldn’t work if I didn’t cheat and let myself use Overseers. Of course, we have to establish the ground rules. I did this with random ladder opponents not in custom games with a friend, so I had to face a lot of rejection as unsurprisingly a lot of ladder players aren’t playing SC2 to have a fun time and fool around. But it still seemed like a fun idea, so I hit the ladder and got to work! I tossed a few ideas around, but ultimately decided I wanted to try a game of StarCraft II where both players only used units that exited in Brood War.īefore you stop me, yes, I’m aware this is nothing remotely like actually playing StarCraft Remastered. With the excitement surrounding the announcement of StarCraft Remastered I wanted to write a post that paid homage to the original. Playing Playing SC2 with only Broodwar Units!