Minor Campaign Bug / Error

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Starcraft: Brood War (Remastered) - Zerg Campaign - 2: Reign of Fire

BUG NOTICE (AI explanation):

In the Brood War Zerg campaign, specifically in the mission “Reign of Fire,” there’s a bug where using both of the initial drones to create a hatchery and an extractor immediately results in mission failure. This occurs because the game registers a lack of drones (supply) as a defeat, even though the mission objectives don’t explicitly state that a certain number of drones must be maintained.
Here’s a breakdown:

The Issue:

The mission starts with two drones. If you use both to build a hatchery and an extractor, the game ends the mission immediately.

Why it Happens:

The game seems to check for a minimum supply (drones) and considers it a loss if that supply is zero, even if it’s not an objective.

Workaround:

To avoid this, ensure you have at least one drone left after creating your initial buildings (hatchery, extractor). You can then use the remaining drone to create additional drones or other structures as needed.

Also …

In Starcraft: Brood War (Remastered) - Terran Campaign - 7: Patriot’s Blood

A marine says: ‘Gimme the damn access codes before I blow an agression inhibitor!’

Aggression is spelled with 2 x G’s.

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The defeat condition isn’t actually a bug. If you open the map in the map editor (shared on the internet) you’d see that a trigger with the extra condition was added to the map triggers.
Interesting typo. Never noticed it.

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I totally forgot about this issue for the longest time and just fixed right now in my map pack.

The thing is that the specific defeat condition happens because the game detects 0 drones and 0 buildings owned by the player.

Note that the game does not detect a building in construction as a proper building which is why this “bug” happens in this bizarre circumstance as this wouldn’t ever happen in a normal game against the AI or multiplayer where the game correctly detects a constructing building as valid.

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The drone thing been that way since the original SC. Using all the starter drones in the first Zerg mission (iirc) will fail the mission. Daggoth even warns the player about it.