These settings let the AI mine 2 additional minerals and vespene gas per trip without depleting their resource nodes any quicker. Heart of the Swarm added Harder and Elite options on either side of Very Hard, while Insane was replaced with three different Cheater options: Vision (can see your units), Resources (can see your units and mine additional resources later on), and Insane (can see your units and mine additional resources). The release of Wings of Liberty had six difficulty levels: Very Easy, Easy, Medium, Hard, Very Hard and Insane. StarCraft II ĭuring development of StarCraft II, there were five levels of AI script difficulty for custom games: Beginner, Easy, Moderate, Hard, and Insane, with Insane gaining additional resources from mining and extra map awareness. StarEdit gives access to more AI scripts, such as Send All Units on Random Suicide Missions, Send All Units on Strategic Suicide Missions, and Set Player to Rescue Passive, as well as giving units specific orders (e.g. Some custom campaign scripts will follow different rules, such as expanding. The campaign comes with three levels of difficulty. The campaign AI is designed to lose while giving the player some fun. It will attack with periodic scripted forces within minutes, regardless of what the player does. It will generally not expand or build new structures, preferring only to rebuild. It will always use its scripted rushes, regardless of what the player does.Ĭampaign, which assumes the computer will start with a base and is relatively passive. Insane, which makes no assumptions about what the computer will start with. This script has a few preset strategies it will try to use, based on whether he's connected to his opponent by ground, the opponent's race, and just random chance. StarEdit (also called the StarCraft Campaign Editor) was the official level editor for StarCraft and StarCraft: Brood War. Melee, which assumes the computer will start with a town center and four workers. Hallucinated devourers no longer leave acid spores on targeted units. When using the 'exactly' modifier in trigger conditions, incomplete units are no longer included in the comparision. The 'something for nothing' cheat no longer gives Brood War upgrades in normal Starcraft games. There is no denying the game shows its age.AI scripts in StarCraft come in three varieties: 1.03 save games loaded into 1.04 and Brood War. At least for a month or so - after that, who knows. The game should be going fully public soon enough, and with it (and StarCraft: Remastered) the community will be revitalized.
If you have a Blizzard PTR account you can download right away and play, and even if you don't, it's easy enough to make one. StarCraft: Brood War 1.18 is currently in public testing.
(Don't forget games that start with $ are under the "Symbols" category.) It's harder to deal with, but if you know the name of the map you're trying to nab, it's the less messy of the two resources. Unlike Renaka, which offers batch game type downloads, this repository has maps sorted alphabetically. The second notable option is via a massive collection of 's UMS inventory on GitLab. This is the quickest route to get a good chunk of maps quickly - and it's easy to navigate. Last edited by a moderator: Jul 27, 2020. This is the download database link: MEGA. The list was started by Church and continued by Pr0nogo. 11 Heroes, 5 spells per hero, 7 footmen levels, 3 potions at shop including health potion, mana potion, and teleport home. Here you have a list of almost every custom campaign ever made for the first StarCraft and its expansion: The Complete SCBW Fan Campaign Listing. The packs are separated by game type (melee, defense, conquest, RPG, etc.) and have several maps per pack. Footmen Frenzy, an 8 player adaptation of the original 12 player hero rpg arena battle game from WarCraft 3. The first notable option is via Renaka, which hosts a sizable amount of map packs available for download. Where To Get StarCraft: Brood War UMS Maps in 2017 Luckily, there are two particular options that make grabbing up some UMS maps easy enough. The community's old primary resource website,, is dead and not many others remain. There aren't a ton of places you can download classic StarCraft UMS maps these days. But you've got to get your hands on them first.
With Brood War going free, it's time to rev up those UMS maps to induct new players into the wide (and often bizarre) world of custom games. Custom maps really infused the game with the variety it needed to stay active and engaging as long as it did. BGH, Fa$te$t, RPG, and defense maps were my jam growing up and my friends at the time were all dedicated UMS players.
Everyone talks about pro Brood War, but anyone who was actually part of the community from the late '90s to the mid-2000s knows custom UMS games were where it was at.