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Introduction

Lead an elite team of Dominion marines as they investigate a mining colony suddenly gone dark. Use each team member to their full potential as you combine their abilities to survive the various dangers that await in the darkness of M-35...

Map Info

Type: Single-Player

Difficulty: Varied (Easy-to-Medium)^*

Size: 256 x 256

Features:

Self-contained story that tries to bridge the gap between StarCraft: Brood War and StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
Original characters
Custom units and abilities
Bosses

^*There is no difficulty slider, but the overall difficulty varies between easy and medium.

What's new in version 2.0

Abilities

Drastically increased the healing rate for Triage's Heal ability. The actual effect should now reflect the ability tooltip more accurately. Triage's Heal ability now also costs more energy per second
Nassana's Psionic Storm can now harm turrets
Widowmaker's Snipe can now target turrets
Overkill's Haywire Missile can now target turrets
Overkill's Hunter-Seeker drone can now target turrets
Fixed Eightball's Titan Plating (now increases armor by 2)
Fixed Eightball's Immolation Gauntlets (primary weapon now deals more damage)

Gameplay and Terrain

Added an optional quest that involves new miniboss encounters
Redesigned a section before the first mining camp into a branching path
Redesigned a section between the second camp and the Zerg base
Numerous minor terrain fixes and improvements (pathing and visual)

UI and Cinematics

Cinematics can now be skipped by pressing the "ESC" key
If summoned, Oldschool's auto-turret will now be removed from the game at the start of any cinematic
All playable characters will be healed up at the start of any cinematic
Changed the keyboard shortcuts for all active abilities on all playable heroes to "Q", "W" and "E" respectively (depending on the slot in the command card) in order to maximize their usability combined with switching between heroes and avoid players having to chase down keys on the keyboard in the heat of battle
Hidden unnecessary UI components (Resource Panel, Idle Workers button and Army Units button)
Hidden the mouse cursor during each Automated Camera Pan event
Made sure only the error sound is played on invalid turret placement
Cleaner list of Main Objectives (any completed main objectives will be removed from the list)

How to play

This map requires StarCraft II Heart of the Swarm in order to play, as it uses several assets that came with the HotS expansion.
To play this map, open it with the StarCraft II Editor and click the "Test Document" button found in the upper-right (green SC2 icon).

Credits

This map uses certain unit models made by members of the sc2mapster.com community:

Eightball uses Brood War Firebat (Firebat Merc) model and textures by: GhostNova91
Nassana uses Xerana model and textures by: Forsworne/Thrikodias

Feedback

I appreciate all constructive feedback, without it version 2.0 of this map would not be possible, so feel free to share your thoughts on the map here in the comments. If you wish to leave a more detailed feedback, here's the feedback thread for this map: http://www.sc2mapster.com/forums/player-zone/map-feedback/70794-colony-m-35-single-player-map/

Thanks for playing!

Colony M-35