Blizzard Entertainment began planning StarCraft in 1995 with a development team led by Metzen and Phinney. The game debuted at the 1996 Electronic Entertainment Expo and used a modified Warcraft II game engine. StarCraft also marked the creation of Blizzard Entertainment's film department; the game introduced high quality cinematics integral to the storyline of the series. Most of the original development team for StarCraft returned to work on the game's expansion pack, Brood War; that game's development began only shortly after StarCraft was released. In 2001, StarCraft: Ghost began development under Nihilistic Software. Unlike the previous real-time strategy games in the series, Ghost was to be a stealth-action game. After three years of development, work on the game was postponed in 2004. Development of a true RTS sequel, StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, began in 2003; the game was announced in May 2007 and was released in July 2010. StarCraft II continued with the StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm expansion, which was released in March 2013. The third and final StarCraft II installment, Legacy of the Void, was released in November 2015. In 2016, a single-player nine-mission pack, Nova Covert Ops, was released in form of DLC.[2]
StarCraft: Brood War is the official expansion pack for StarCraft, developed by Blizzard Entertainment and Saffire. Released for Windows and Mac OS in the United States on December 18, 1998,[29] the expansion directly continues the events of StarCraft. The expansion's story continues only days after the conclusion of the original game. It starts with the Protoss' struggle to ensure the survival of their species and continues with the intervention of the United Earth Directorate into local Terran affairs. The livelihood of both the Protoss and the previously silent Earth government is then threatened by the ever-increasing power of Sarah Kerrigan and her Zerg broods. In addition, the expansion introduces new features and improvements. A total of seven new units with different functions and abilities are included, the artificial intelligence behavior was modified, new graphical tilesets for terrain were added, and the game's level editor received improved scripting tools to facilitate cut scenes with the in-game engine. The expansion received critical praise for fixing various balance issues with the original game,[30] development attention on par with that of a full game,[31] and for continuing with single player campaigns that were heavily story-driven.[32] In April 2017, Starcraft received its first update in over 8 years, and Brood War was released for free to both PC and MAC.[33]
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However, it is by all means still possible to use Air Power to approach this level, if you are willing to overcome the obstacles mentioned above. To do this, though, you would need to conquer both expansions on your island quickly. A force of 48 Hydralisks should do the job. Attack one base after another, and mine out minerals and gas vigorously. Make sure your Hydralisks are actively defending all bases. In the meantime, you can pump out mass air forces thanks to your surplus of resources. Prepare about 24 Guardians and 18 Devourers to attack the Orange base. You must upgrade to level 3 in order for your attack to work. If you micomanage carefully, you can actually get away with minimal losses, which may rather save you money than if you had chosen to build the Hydralisk Hammer with Ultralisks. Once the Orange base is gone, turn your attention to White's starports and his existing fleet of Battlecruisers. You may want a few more Devourers for this, so let your air force heal at your base and prepare the assault. The White base will actually go down fairly quickly, and you might still have a large surplus in resources.
Build up some defenses as above, though you may want to save some money for your attack force. A small force of Hydralisks with the movement upgrade can cover a lot of ground, and a 6-pack of Scourge will greatly supplement your air defenses. Also claim the free expansion to the east quickly. Tech as quickly as you can to Ultralisks and Defilers, and build 12 Ultralisks, 2 Defilers, and 8 Dark Templar, plus the Overlords to carry them. Also research the Ultralisk Cavern upgrades, and carapace and melee damage upgrades; they will help immensely. Fly them to the eastern continent, moving along the south edge of the map to dodge the enemy bases. There's an unguarded peninsula on the Overmind's plateau that will be your landing zone.
StarCraft II was the first game to natively support the new revamped Battle.net online interface. It was split into three installments: the base game with the subtitle Wings of Liberty, expansion pack Heart of the Swarm, stand-alone expansion pack Legacy of the Void and downloadable content mission packs Nova Covert Ops.[8] The new Battle.net was planned with a marketplace for StarCraft II which would allow players to download both free and paid maps, but this feature has not yet been implemented. Instead, regular and custom maps are available for everyone and sorted by a popularity system based on total playtime. The new interface includes a chat service which is similar to that of Instant Messengers which allows players to interact across different games. Initially not having been shipped with regular, channel-based chat rooms, this was later added in a patch after both community and gaming media noted the lack of the feature.[9] 2ff7e9595c