Starcraft 2

Who's ready for Heart of the Swarm tomorrow?


They made the achievements 10X easier. Now you only have to complete the missions in campaign to unlock the new awesome portraits. I finished the WoL campaign on Hard recently, only portraits I am missing is Valerian and Horner. That last mission on hard, use the artifact no more than once, that is quite a pain. I haven't even attempted Media Blitz for the achievement yet. Out of the entire campaign I have 88% of the achievements according to the data on the login screen. I have yet to go through the game on Brutal. I am missing just 3 missions on Hard mode, as for Brutal, I breezed past some of the missions I have done (only 6) but the major hard ones like Supernova are a big pain.


They also have made the campaign only 20 missions. I will probably finish this in total tomorrow, in just one run since the WoL campaign itself was incredibly easy (except for Supernova, In Utter Darkness, and All In on Hard/Brutal difficulties)

What gets me the most is the Infested Stukov portrait. I want that baby so bad. Won't take me long to get it though. I think it's awesome they brought him back from Brood War. I liked the UED and when he came back infested, I was amazed. I


In case you were wondering, the Swarm portraits for all 3 races WILL count for Team wins this time. All solo/team wins still count for the standard portraits for all races, including Random. The "experience" tab when you finish a game, that is for the Swarm levels and goes towards the new portraits. This is great since team wins will count towards them. I can still play Random and finish off my 1000 Random team wins for the Hybrid portrait and still manage to pick up the new Swarm portraits.


The new Kerrigan portraits, I want all of them, especially the Ghost one. They are certainly the best portraits in the game now, along with Infested Stukov.





Since the achievements are already showing up, one of them is to level Kerrigan to Level 70 to unlock the Kerrigan Ghost portrait, so I am wondering if they took the Warcraft III approach and Kerrigan is a hero unit now that can constantly level up like that.