HunCraft is maybe the most detailed expansion set for StarCraft: Brood War, by Huncraft Interactive, released in 2001 (in Hungarian language) and an English language pack released in 2019 for it.
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The mod has 3 new campaign episodes with 27 missions and a hidden mission (in the Zerg campaign), 3 new units, new heroes with new portraits, new special buildings in the campaign, new music tracks, 2 new cinematics, more than 40 custom maps and some other minor changes.
Blizzard's publisher, Vivendi Universal, did not allow the game to be published as an official expansion set, due to the low number of Hungarian customers, so it was released as a free game. It was not particularly popular, as many Hungarian Starcraft fans did not know about it, due to the lack of advertisements. According to Huncraft Interactive the making of the game was very difficult, due to issues with some of their contacts.
Though most unofficial expansion sets could only be used in custom maps, HunCraft has its own exe file and a totally new environment (new load screen, new episode characters) with new map file extensions (hcx). After installation, original Starcraft can be used without any changes, because HunCraft has separate files from the originals, but HunCraft must be placed in the same directory. HunCraft is supported until 1.09 patch, but works equally well with subsequent patches.
This is the very first trailer of HunCraft, was made in december of 2000.
Some interesting facts
Some speech of the units were changed. When you click many times to a unit, there will be some funny speech of the units.
- Protoss Psy Templar: "What would you like to choose, psy shock, hashing, dismembering or maybe rugging to molecules? So, A, B, C or D? Is that sure, can we mark it?" from the Hungarian Who wants to be a millionare, by István Vágó who asked many times that "is it sure"
- Protoss observer: "Utcára nyílik a kocsmaajtó" which means Pub door opens to the street is from a Hungarian "mulatós" song
- Protoss observer: "Hi, im Kate, have you got one more Pepsi" is from a pepsi commercial cutted with the part from the Pulp Fiction when Butch's girl confesses that she hasn't brought the wirst-watch
- Terran Phantom: "You sunk deeper than Titanic"
- Terran Firebat: "You can call 105" the phone number of firefighters in Hungary
- Terran Medic: "As I consider your mood, 100 gram of ricunis can help you"
- Terran Siege Tank: "Run Forest, run!"
- Terran Siege Tank: "Hi there, this is the Dáridó, our mood is always good" from Hungarian show Dáridó, with Lajcsi Lagzi about Hungarian "mulatós" songs
- Terran Dropship: "Please take care, doors are closing" from the metro of Budapest, capital of Hungary
- Terran Dropship: "Leaning out of the vehicle is forbidden, because I dont like washing up blood"
- Terran Marine: "Look down me oh my god, look down me, help me" - A Hungarian song by Jimmy Zámbó
- In Protoss campaign, on level 5 the password to a gate is Torgyán villa (villa = rich house). József Torgyán was a politiciah who has some funny videos on youtube:
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Youtube.com - In the early screenshots, Terran Phantom had a placeholder skin from the Legacy of Confederacy mod:
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(if you ever find a HunCraft ingame screenshot with this skin, it would be awesome for me :) )
