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StarCraft II: Starter Edition Replaces Demo

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The StarCraft II Website announces the demo for the real-time strategy sequel has been replaced with the StarCraft II: Starter Edition, which allows anyone with a Battle.net account and an internet connection to play the following content for free:

The first four missions of the StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty single-player campaign, including Mar Sara 1-3 and the choice to embark on Tychus’s first mission or Dr. Hansen’s first mission.
The first two Challenges: Tactical Command and Covert Ops.
Access to the terran race in Custom Games and Single-Player vs. AI.
Access to the following custom maps (map selection may rotate over time):
- Xel’Naga Caverns
- Shattered Temple
- Discord IV
- High Orbit

Word is: "Any campaign progress and achievements you earn while playing StarCraft II: Starter Edition are automatically saved to your Battle.net account, and will carry over should you ever upgrade from the Starter Edition to the full version of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty."

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Re: StarCraft II: Starter Edition Replaces Demo

Aug 4, 2011, 15:13

MattyC

Creston wrote on Aug 4, 2011, 14:20: Bhruic wrote on Aug 4, 2011, 13:08: Plus, what risks? Other than the final map, I never got anywhere near close to disaster on normal difficulty. The maps were designed to be pretty easy on normal. That's why they had the two higher difficulties. I played through on Hard, and there definitely were some points I had to restart because I muffed things up, and the timer meant I didn't have time to recover. I don't really enjoy the timed maps, as I said, so that was annoying. But more annoying was the fact that there was no longer a "normal" speed. You had the choice between "fast" and "faster". Awesome. Some of us don't have the control speed we used to. The final Protoss mission I ended up having to replay many frustrating times, just because I couldn't control the units fast enough to avoid losing them when I shouldn't have. But what you should do is play through the SC1 campaign with SC2. They ported over the Terran and Zerg campaigns so far, not sure if they've finished the Protoss one or not. They're quite enjoyable, and the modern graphics and control systems keep them from feeling dated. That sounds effing awesome. Where do I go to do that??? Creston I think you can find both in this TL thread: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=208996 It is pretty well done though (at least when I played it) the camera glitched out in some of the third person shooter bits. If you haven't you should really check out some of the SC2 mods and custom games. The SC2 editor is really a neat peace of software and people are already doing awesome things with it. E.g. http://www.starcraftuniverse.org/ This comment was edited on Aug 4, 2011, 15:22.

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