"StarCraft 2" Campaign-Exclusive Units/Upgrades Quiz

Answer: Firebat

Firebats have the Juggernaut Plating upgrade, which does not actually increase life in the campaign. In co-op, it also increases life by 100.

Answer: 250mm Strike Cannons

Thors can also obtain the 330mm Barrage Cannon ability, which works similarly, but it deals damage to an area, not a single target.

Answer: Hive Mind Emulator

The Thor in "Wings of Liberty" has an energy bar for the 250mm Barrage ability. Medivacs and Battlecruisers benefit as you'd expect. The Hive Mind Emulator is unaffected by Cellular Reactor despite being a pure spellcaster structure.

Answer: Their Lightning Field can't be upgraded

Upgrading vehicle weapons increases the Predator's damage to single targets, but it does not affect their Lightning Field passive.

Predators have the armored tag, can be made without an armory, and move slower than Hellions and Vultures.

Answer: Battlecruiser

In the campaign, Colossi deal full damage to all unit types. However, it has reduced damage to non-light units in versus. Scouts in "Wings of Liberty" and "Heart of the Swarm" have no bonus damage, but they do deal double damage vs light units in "Legacy of the Void" and co-op missions.

Battlecruisers deal greatly increased damage vs light units with their Missile Pods ability.

Answer: Removed Massive Tag

Aberrations in "Wings of Liberty" are only light and biological, while in "Heart of the Swarm", they are armored, massive, and biological. They actually don't have the massive tag in the Terran campaign and gain it in the Zerg Campaign.

Additionally, Aberrations gain increased damage (including double damage vs armored) and +2 base armor.

Answer: Reduced Spawn Rate

Compared to standard Locusts, flying Locusts are faster, deal much higher damage, and have less life. Their spawn rate is unaffected.

Answer: Parasitic Invasion

Parasitic Invasion is the name of the ability you use, both in Larva and in Broodmother form. As a larva, this lets you control the critter you invade, and as a Broodmother, this instantly kills the critter to gain biomass.

Neural Parasite and Parasitic Domination are the Infestor's mind control abilities.

Answer: Hybrid Dominator

Even though these hybrids use the model for Hybrid Destroyers, their in-game name is Hybrid Dominator. They use spells and attacks similar to Hybrid Dominators in co-op and "Legacy of the Void".

Answer: Char - Old Soldiers

The first time you encounter Hellstorm Missile Batteries is in Old Soldiers at Warfield's Fortress. You would need to either go to Zerus to unlock Mutalisks or run Overlords into the turrets in order to see them in action.

Answer: Gateway

In multiplayer and "Wings of Liberty", you need a Twilight Council to make a Dark Shrine. In "Starcraft: Brood War", you need a Templar Archives.

Only a Gateway is required to make a Dark Shrine in the Protoss campaign. The Twilight Council doesn't even exist.

Answer: 1 Mind Blast (Ascendant)

All of these setups deal exactly 200 damage. However, only the Mind Blast hits instantly. Orbital Strike and Shadow Cannon deal their damage over a short amount of time, which gives the Overseer time to regenerate life. You'd need three Orbital Strikes or two Shadow Cannons to kill it.

Answer: Four

There are four ways to increase unit production rate: Chrono Boost from the Nexus, Chrono Surge from the Spear of Adun, Warp Harmonization from the Spear of Adun, and Master Phase-Smith from Karax (You can use Karax's bonus on the mission Salvation by making production structures nearby).

All four at once can increase the unit production rate of a Stargate or Robotics Facility by approximately 2400%.

Answer: Thermal Lance

Both Motherships recall units to defend themselves. The Northern one uses Cloaking Field and the Southern one uses Time Warp. Neither uses the Thermal Lance Ability (despite it being arguably the strongest ability on the player-controlled Tal'Darim Mothership).

Answer: Purifier Tempest

The Aiur Zealot's Whirlwind deals bonus damage vs light units. Alarak's Destruction Wave deals bonus damage to flying units. Karax's auto attacks deal bonus damage to armored units.

The Tempest has two high damage attacks and the Disintegration ability. None of these deal bonus damage against any unit types, and its anti-ground attack deals the same damage as its anti-air attack. (In versus, the tempest's anti-air attack deals bonus damage to massive.)

Answer: Its damage is reduced by armor

Concord Cannons don't deal splash damage, and they can hit all unit types in "Nova Covert Ops". In versus, Concord Cannons can't target structures.

Its damage is reduced by armor like almost all other auto-attacks in the game.

Answer: D-8 Charges

Special Ordinance gives Reapers their D-8 charges which were removed in "Heart of the Swarm". This alternate auto-attack deals high damage but can only be used against structures.

G-4 Cluster Bombs and U-238 Shells are armory upgrades from the Hyperion. Reapers get permanent cloak from the Advanced Cloaking tech option, not Special Ordinance.

Answer: Volatile Infested

HERCs are immune to Volatile Infested. They're the only ground unit that takes no damage from them. Infested Banshees, Siege Tanks, and Marines do regular damage to HERCs.

Even though HERCs are supposedly immune to acid, they still take damage from Banelings.

Answer: Eradicator

Despite appearing heavily armored, the Eradicators have the light tag, which lets Nova's Hellfire Shotgun deal meaningful damage. This is also the case for Blightbringer, and carries over to the coop mission Miner Evacuation.

Answer: "Heart of the Swarm"

During the Supreme mission, you fight small Primal Zerg that detonate into acid. These units are Creepers, not Banelings. They don't explode when killed, and they have a moderate delay before they explode. Among other missions, Banelings can be found in Whispers of Doom, Last Stand, and Flashpoint.