The StarCraft II Tutorial is a four mission training campaign that introduces the three races and the basics of gameplay for each race. The campaign was introduced in patch 3.0.0. Its story involves the investigation of the planet Taurus IV and the disappearance of a Terran Dominion scientist team there.

The tutorial missions will automatically load when an account is first created or the player goes to a region where they have not previously had an account. For accounts made after Patch 3.0.0, they can be accessed through the menu button in the StarCraft II main selection screen.

Missions

• Basic Training
• Field Duty
• Infestation
• Retaliation

Trivia

• If the mission select screen is left up for long enough, the adjutant will have special quotations.

• If you click on the Replay stage button multiple times rapidly enough, you will duplicate the following cutscene, the objectives, units, buildings and objects spawned.^[1]

• • This is not very beneficial for the terran stage, the zerg stage gets softlocked because the duplicated rocks do not get destroyed,^[2] does not affect the starting stalkers and makes buildings and zerg eggs spawn on top of each other in the protoss stage. Duplicated eggs do not pop.^[3]

• During the infested terran stage the gates are open but you still must kill the infested to proceed, as there is no objective beacon nor do stalkers have the Blink unlocked yet.

• Among all different localizations, English/Traditional Chinese voicelines are in general shortest and Russian are longest.^[4]

• The current tutorial was added in the Legacy of the Void, the previous tutorial is still in the game files and can be played if loaded in the editor.

• • The old tutorial consisted of several tiny segments teaching the very basics of unit control and base management. The only character there is the Adjutant and the only race is Terran.

References

Blizzard Entertainment. StarCraft II. (Activision Blizzard). PC. Mission: Basic Training (in English). 2016-06-20.