I got to finish the campaign last night. I have to say that the way it ended has certainly piqued my interest for the first expansion.
I also got to play some multiplayer.. finally. I've been able to play a total of 6 games since the game came out... I think I did 3 or 4 last night. I think I won 2, lost 2. Being placement matches, there is always a chance that the matcher will screw you. that happened ALL of my placement matches! Geebus.
two of my games, I got paired with the same terrible protoss player, who said his strategy was 'going ground', which in both cases involved him making a bunch of cannons (powered by one pylon!) and zealots. He NEVER used the units unless his base was being attacked - if my base was attacked, he would decide to help at a point where his assistance was inconsequential. The first game, I was protoss, and wound up killing both enemies solo with heavy ground forces using warp gate units.
The second game, I was zerg, against a zerg and a terran. me, paired with the same crappy protoss, with the same crappy strategy. The terran decides to go purely thor, with a dozen SCVs chasing behind them. The zerg went 100% roach.
There could not be a worse combination of units for me to have to go up against solo with what i was building My build plan initially was to go zerg air... but initial scouting made me change that strategy, as the terran looked like he was going heavy marines, and the zerg was started teching his hatch when I scouted him.. oh well. After some back and forth where I scrapped their expansions, but couldn't push into the main bases - but lost all my units due to a pincer at the enemy ramp, the enemy counters a couple minutes later with a dozen roach, and 5-6 thors w/SCVs... My partner had maybe 7 zealots, and I was still rebuilding my forces from my last attack.. i had 24 or so upgraded speedlings, and 6 or 8 hydra at that point.. all of which died very quickly. I had infestors, but none had enough energy to do anything useful - neural parasite was still being researched. So.. I lost that game.
Third game, I was tos, with a tos partner against a tos and a zerg. My partner cannoned himself in really heavily, but with only a few pylons, and zero attack units early game. I was going heavy stalker and immortal, with zels mixed in. They hit him first with heavy roach with some lings and stalkers. They took out the cannon pylons, and were starting to kill his expansion, but I was able to kill their attacking force with what I had up, then my partner got his shit together, mimiced my build, and we decimated them.
My final game, I was terran, with a tos partner against two terran who both had the vulture portrait (I think thats 50 or 100 wins...?). Well, my partner was killed in the first 5 minutes by a single reaper. One. reaper. *sigh*.
both ended up making heavy reaper, so I went with marauders with stim and slow. I did OK, all things considered.. i pushed into one of their bases, did some significant damage, but since both of the enemies were good, they killed my attack force before I was able to scrap the base.
They hit me several times with reaper, killing less SCVs than they lost in reaper value. and other units.. I repelled them several times. eventually I think they decided to stop playing around because they saw I had half a chance of winning against their goofy strat, and hit me with a bunch of marauder. I had 4 banshee at that point, and they had next to no AA, but it didn't matter once they broke through - they had more DPS than my banshees, and I lost. After the game, I checked the profiles.. both were high diamond in both 1v1 and 2v2s.
I had BAD luck in my placement matches. Placement matches can eat a dick.
ing smoke. So, um. I think I'm going to stay right here. Away from the smoke.
