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Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Game Guide Umoja 1: Lab rat Welcome to my SC2: HotS walkthrough. I will be playing on Brutal difficulty. You start off with a single drone in a cell. Click on the drone to select it. Drones are worker units. That harvest and build structures. In almost every mission you re going to need a lot of drones. You can move it around my right clicking anywhere. On the bottom right there is a command card. Press on the bottom left button to view a list of building you can make. Select the hatchery and put it on the center of the area you re in. Now wait for it to finish. After it is finished, more drones should arive. Left click on the ground next to them and drag the mouse over them while holding the button down. That way, you select them all. Right click on the blue minerals to order them to harvest. You can select the hatchery and press on the Select Larvae option on the command card. The larvae is where you construct most of your units from. Right now you can only see the drone in the list, but you cannot create it yet. If you click it, it will tell you that you do not have enough supply. Supply is how many units you can create and every unit requires a different 3
ammount of supply. You can view your current supply status on the top right. After a bit you will be allowed to click on the overlord while selecting the larvae. Overlords provide more supply. After the overlord is finished, build 4 more drones. After a bit, you will be asked to create a spawning pool. You can do that by clicking on a drone, bringing the list of building up and selecting the spawning pool. While the spawning pool is building, create another overlord and another drone. After the second overlord is finished, you will be able to create zerglings. Select your larvae and create as many as possible. After they are done the gate should open. You will see mechanical units on the other side of the bridge. You can attack them by either right clicking on one of them (Focus fire) or pressing the A key on your keyboard and left clicking on the ground (Attack move). It is usually advised to attack move instead of focus fire, especially when using melee units. After you destroy your enemies, more zergling will come to help you. Continue going forward with your zerglings, but remember to make more zergling and overlords from your hatchery. If you go south, you will spot a generator and more enemies. If you destroy the generator, more zergling will reinforce you. 4
Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Game Guide Continue going north and you will spot an enemy building. Destroy it to stop your enemy from creating more units. Going forward, you will find a room with 3 enemy units, that release gas. They will deal damage over time to your zerglings. Destroy them as quickly as you can. After you re done, go right to find another generator that will give you reinforcements after it s destroyed. Going left, you will find yet another generator. This will grant you a......significant ammount of reinforcements. Going forward, you will find your mission s objective. the big robot in the middle of the room. It should be easy enough to destroy. Quick tip: If you destroy the Factories before finishing the mission, you will get an achievement. After every mission you will get a mission screen with various stats. 5
Umoja 2: back in the SaddLe This is a mission where you control only your hero unit, Kerrigan. Right in the beggining, you will be introduced to one of your abilities, Kinetic Blast. It deals a heavy ammount of damage for 50 mana. Continue forward, i recommend using Kinetic Blast as much as you can, but never on marines. This item here is a rejuvenation pill, it restores your health and mana. A bit after, you will be introduced to Crushing Grip. It stuns and deals a little ammount of damage in an area. Continue forward, using your abilities often. You will reach a green circle, step on it. After doing so, a lot of zerg units will start flooding. Be especially careful against the banneligs, the little green balls. If Jim Raynor dies, don t worry, he will respawn in a bit. Just be careful to not die yourself. Continue forward to the elevator. After a short cutscene you will be transported to this area. You have to reach the green circle before the timer on the top runs out. 6
Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Game Guide Don t worry too much about your health and mana, there is a rejuvenation pill quite closeby. After stepping into the green circle, a new timer will start and you will need to go to the next checkpoint. You will find an ultralisk behind some rocks, use your abilities on it. You will be able to restore your mana right after the ultralisk. There is another one right after the pill. After defeating the second ultralisk, you will reach the second point. You will find a group of marines, use your crushing grip on them and the Kinetic Blast to the marauder behind the medic. You will find a small green circle, step on it. You will access the camera. Release the zerg, as you will do more damage that way. Continue going forward until you reach the next checkpoint. The next phase of the mission is a defence. You have to defend the tram engines. Use your abilities as often as you can, especially on the medivacs. The rejuvenation pill in the middle will respawn, so you can use it as long as you wish to. After that is done, you will be transported to this area. 7