Wonderful, but finally completely STUCK, lil help?
okay, i've fussed and wrung my hands and pulled a lil bit of hair out over this thing for the past couple of days. a couple of times it just seemed impassable, but each time with tweaking and tweaking i made it through the levels.
POSSIBLE SPOILERS BELOW!
overall it's a fantastic game!! the difficulty is commendable, graphics good (except the slowness factor which has caused some restarts when i couldn't get the marines i needed cause i couldn't get the queen positioned right before my defenses killed them). sound is great and i can feel the amount of effort that went into this must have been tremendous!
i found your picture secret, forget which one it is, and not sure if i know what it's talkin about, hehehe, but i digress.
as i said, i'm officially stuck. after playing level 27 ~30 times and trying every method i could, i'm at my wits end.
i finally have a foolproof method to get to the main boss with everything intact and plenty of energy and full of life and even a reserve of 5 marines to replenish my health. i know i have to kill the interceptors, but whenever i start picking them off the main ship gets there too quickly and nukes everything. my first scheme was to psionic storm directly on top of my hive. which worked and dispatched all the interceptors quite quickly, but after dying too quickly ~10 times i realized that it was also damaging my hive and not just the interceptors! so that was a no go...
next idea is to attempt to pick off the interceptors with the discharge, which works pretty well EXCEPT when enough of them die the main ship starts flying in! and then the interceptors fly off and i can't do anything but watch the main ship come in and again nuke everything. i'm guessing there's a certain number of interceptors that can die before the main ship starts moving, 3? 4?
in that case i'll have to CAREFULLY pick them off and not get too many before they fly out?
augh, if only psionic's wouldn't damge my own buildings i'd be good to go! (i hope, i haven't actually been able to damage the main ship all that much because of the above problems...)
here's my method for the last level thusfar. i have the spire when i start the level, BUT i have enough money to get the elder brain as well. tactic is to hit start, immediately launch a nuke, true sight the wraiths before the nuke hits, AS the nuke is hitting destroy the spire and build the elder, then pick up the marines, make a couple mines, lay a mine on the dark archon right when the other archons are passing which usually takes all three out. lay mines on the other baddies, and then i'm left with just me and the boss with everything intact.
and... i'm... still... going over that last bit... anyone else on here have a good method of destroying that guy without killing yourself in the process?
what's the magic number of interceptors left before bad boy starts in for the kill?
thanks for all your hard work on this thing! makes me pine for the old starcraft days :)
Valis