I agree when it comes to these speed runs without commentary, Far too often they do some kind of specific strat that I don't understand and they never bothered to explain why they did what they did. And then when there is commentary I find that they tend to drown on about the Intricacies of what they're trying to do. And I get bored when someone spends 10 minutes explaining a trick they're doing when they can explain it in a 3 second text bubble.
God your micro is incredible, I'm always fighting against WC2's disastrously bad pathfinding and attack interruption systems but you're moving through it like quicksilver. Very efficient run, and I love that it's literally just playing very competently and with exactly the right amount of risk taking, no glitches, just tactical and strategic skill.
Thank you for uploading this game. It brought back nostalgic memories from my younger days. I hope the BTDP expansion set (DLC) will be uploaded as well!
I know it's a lot of work, but I really do appreciate the text explaining what you're doing while you're doing it. An excellent demonstration of a speedrun, and with the influx of new players I cannot wait to see how these strategies will change and evolve over time, and how many of them will have started with you here. Good work.
I am astounded that levels I struggled with almost 30 years ago are easily handled by just rushing the Orc base with two footmen, a knight, and a ballista.
I think in Warcraft lore there should be historians who write about how the Human Alliance won the war with the brilliant strategies of "move the boats out of the way of the cannon balls and bait out all their peons"
In the final mission, I don’t destroy all the orange structures so their dragons don’t come at me. Then, I build some farms near them so they cast Death and Decay on me, because they won’t attack themselves.
Mission 10 Prisoner Peasants: "Well, we may be prisoners, but at least we got here alive! Now that we're out of the danger zone, we don't have to worry about anything bad happening here in Stratholme!"
It's so cool to see speed run strats for this game, because I still remember playing it and struggling so much on the missions as a kid lol. Edit was auto correct spelling error.
when it takes me 1.5 hour to finish a single mission, this man beats the entire campaign even faster... Will you upload the remastered expansion missions?
Sprites having a mismatch occasionaly when chopping wood is one thing. It can be fixed. But what I spot at 9:55 saddens my heart. There was a good reason why groups had 9 members. Not 6, nor that cursed 12.
That's a very specific and pointless thing to be upset for (the amount of units you can select), because I don't see any issue, it's literally an improvement so you may just be nostalgic about the old limits the game had
There's a generic bug in the game that the AI will sometimes stop gathering wood when you load a save and then they run out and can't build anymore. I don't think they fixed it for Remastered, but it doesn't happen in my videos because I don't save/load during the missions.
I have never thought you can knock out purple at Tyr`s Hand too with the initial army. I always started with red base and after that purple was just too much. Great play
On mission 11, you could have started off by upgrading your units instead of trying to build farms. It would be far more efficient since you already start with a large army.
Funny to see the difference in difficulty between the original and expansion campaigns, although if the AI got an update, some missions would seem impossible!
I find it interesting that while Gryphons destroyed the Dark Portal in 14th level Khadgar was shown in ending video. They could have made it like expansion where Dark Portal only takes damage from Khadgar (or Mage to keep non-expansion hero free). Then the ending video would have aligned with game.
Darrowmere also be like "I blinked again. Uther made it safely?" Funnily enough when I was a kid, Darrowmere took a bit for me to finish. Some levels I just couldn't speed through or I didn't feel confident enough to do so. Tarren Mill was easy enough, Darrowmere required a slow push with siege weapons... Which is funny because the previous level, I am confident enough in my starting forces to go defeat the Red Orcs. Not the Purple ones though; I wait until I get a siege weapon or two. But after watching you do it, I'm like... "Huh, so they can also disrupt Purple as well?"
Do you remember a turn based strategy game from the late 90’s to early 2000’s. It was high fantasy and you could hire mercenaries then pay them with beer. I cant remember the name.
the start of last human mission is pretty bs, if you take any time what so ever you gonna get swamped in dragons, also killing orange buildings is trap, to make 3 orange dragons attack you
On mission 13, I cannot figure out how you don't get attacked by two waves of three ogres. I also don't know how you defend the middle island with that small force, since I get an immediate Ogre counter attack that just demolishes me. This mission just completely baffles me.
With the power of The Light obviously! The Light is their strength. Have you ever heard of their lord and saviour, John The Light? He invented The Light you know.
@@stylesrj Bill Roper got the song recording from a church song so technically he is in 1 and 2. Technically Jesus is the God the humans have in 1 and 2
@@Trendsthismonth "Deus Gracias" I'm disagreeing on the grounds that it's easier to just crib a few things from Christian mythology and songs when coming up with a fantasy world and by Warcraft 3, they decided to just go with The Light. It's also less offensive to the Christian crowd to do so.
In my opinion the remaster looks quite ugly, more like a average mobile game. I miss the blurry style :D But compared to wciii reforged they have done much better job 😅 But I have to say it's great to see people playing this game :)
Ekhm..... you stiil can only control 9 units at a time? They did not fix that? No production quene? What? ..... I gues we need to wait till Wargus implements new sprites - because I think that is the only thing the did - redraw sprites :/ Port View is also colossal for modern screens. We played on 15 inch crt back then, Now it's 24-32 inch lcd....
Your sound card works perfectly
Lollll im not sure a lot of playars remember that thing with the first version of war2
Enjoying yourself?
It doesn’t get any better than this!
@@vubhutoto8761 I remember it very strongly... Wish they included it as an easter egg nowadays
@@andrewj1754
If you go to the sound settings I think there is a "Test" option which allows you to hear that line.
I really enjoy your style of text-based explanations of the videos.
I agree when it comes to these speed runs without commentary, Far too often they do some kind of specific strat that I don't understand and they never bothered to explain why they did what they did. And then when there is commentary I find that they tend to drown on about the Intricacies of what they're trying to do. And I get bored when someone spends 10 minutes explaining a trick they're doing when they can explain it in a 3 second text bubble.
God your micro is incredible, I'm always fighting against WC2's disastrously bad pathfinding and attack interruption systems but you're moving through it like quicksilver. Very efficient run, and I love that it's literally just playing very competently and with exactly the right amount of risk taking, no glitches, just tactical and strategic skill.
Thank you for uploading this game. It brought back nostalgic memories from my younger days. I hope the BTDP expansion set (DLC) will be uploaded as well!
Thank you so much, this game is legendary and with such grossmeister as you it shines even more
Finally, that's what I have been waiting for!
Thank you for the uploading!
That first level was CLEAN. Perfect timing.
I know it's a lot of work, but I really do appreciate the text explaining what you're doing while you're doing it. An excellent demonstration of a speedrun, and with the influx of new players I cannot wait to see how these strategies will change and evolve over time, and how many of them will have started with you here.
Good work.
This is my favorite game from my childhood. Your video has inspired a pleasant feeling of nostalgia. Thank you from Russia!
I actually did not know you could repair transport ships... you learn something new every day I guess
I am astounded that levels I struggled with almost 30 years ago are easily handled by just rushing the Orc base with two footmen, a knight, and a ballista.
A lot of levels I just go "Artillery Only!" :D
@@werothegreat stu is a pro. Try it yourself you will see its really not easy that way, and sometime a little mistake and you lose all your units
@@vubhutoto8761yeah, many times when I just send my army in I always wonder what the hell happened to all my units
The Captain is, seemingly, on the bridge.
And he keeps saying something about his eye. Must have something in it.
SKIPPAH?
SET SAIL?
I think in Warcraft lore there should be historians who write about how the Human Alliance won the war with the brilliant strategies of "move the boats out of the way of the cannon balls and bait out all their peons"
Oh, yes. Another episode of "Killing Your Own Troops To Sustain The Economy" series.
Tarren Mill be like "Sorry, I blinked. Did I miss the whole thing?"
thank you for playing this game. had great memories with them
In the final mission, I don’t destroy all the orange structures so their dragons don’t come at me. Then, I build some farms near them so they cast Death and Decay on me, because they won’t attack themselves.
I'll remember that trick..thanks!!
The old Metzen art is so sick.
Mission 10 Prisoner Peasants: "Well, we may be prisoners, but at least we got here alive! Now that we're out of the danger zone, we don't have to worry about anything bad happening here in Stratholme!"
Danke!
Thanks for the support!
@@StuGames Thank you for your vids. I've found some very interesting tricks here.
Very awesome. Cant wait for the expansions videos!
Last map of this campaign is hardest from all 4 campaings .
The last human mission of ToD and last orc mission of BtDP were the hardest for me! Beyond the Dark Portal playthrough next?
The true test of any remaster of these titles has to be clicking on the units 25x and seeing if the units say their different quotes
i loved playing this game as a kid
It's so cool to see speed run strats for this game, because I still remember playing it and struggling so much on the missions as a kid lol.
Edit was auto correct spelling error.
Very well done and thank you for sharing.
Love seeing Uther parkour through the Darrowmere blockade.
when it takes me 1.5 hour to finish a single mission, this man beats the entire campaign even faster... Will you upload the remastered expansion missions?
I wish you would have let the mission briefings play, though.
Dude, your micro in mission 10 is really insane, low HP units doding attacks
Sprites having a mismatch occasionaly when chopping wood is one thing. It can be fixed.
But what I spot at 9:55 saddens my heart.
There was a good reason why groups had 9 members. Not 6, nor that cursed 12.
GG Stu, as usual.
26:55 They finally fixed that mission? The AI is building again?
That's a very specific and pointless thing to be upset for (the amount of units you can select), because I don't see any issue, it's literally an improvement so you may just be nostalgic about the old limits the game had
There's a generic bug in the game that the AI will sometimes stop gathering wood when you load a save and then they run out and can't build anymore. I don't think they fixed it for Remastered, but it doesn't happen in my videos because I don't save/load during the missions.
@@somwon916 There is a specific reason. Not the nostalgic. Only those who played 30 years ago know.
I have never thought you can knock out purple at Tyr`s Hand too with the initial army. I always started with red base and after that purple was just too much. Great play
On mission 11, you could have started off by upgrading your units instead of trying to build farms. It would be far more efficient since you already start with a large army.
Funny to see the difference in difficulty between the original and expansion campaigns, although if the AI got an update, some missions would seem impossible!
When I installed the game, I didn't see any cursor anymore in the menu and during gameplay. Did anyone else have the same problem?
I find it interesting that while Gryphons destroyed the Dark Portal in 14th level Khadgar was shown in ending video. They could have made it like expansion where Dark Portal only takes damage from Khadgar (or Mage to keep non-expansion hero free). Then the ending video would have aligned with game.
Your insanely good !
The portrait of the archers makes them look weird lol. GG
good work :) I feel motivation in this segment xDDD
Grim Batol - the shipyard bell edition
When are you doing the expansions?
*Visibly Excited*
Darrowmere also be like "I blinked again. Uther made it safely?"
Funnily enough when I was a kid, Darrowmere took a bit for me to finish. Some levels I just couldn't speed through or I didn't feel confident enough to do so. Tarren Mill was easy enough, Darrowmere required a slow push with siege weapons...
Which is funny because the previous level, I am confident enough in my starting forces to go defeat the Red Orcs. Not the Purple ones though; I wait until I get a siege weapon or two. But after watching you do it, I'm like... "Huh, so they can also disrupt Purple as well?"
Yeah I was surprised at the Darrowmere strat. Love it though.
I love this game
That VooDoo 5 card is purring!
jesus christ it looks bad ... actually i take it back. It looks great as long as you don't look too closely or press pause
They should have changed the gryphon attack to some lightning „explosion“instead of the regular one
Need that gameplay and story version for sure
Amazing gameplay as usual! Great timing, the perfect defintion of a speedrun. Could you tell me where I can find this version?
this is the Remastered version on the Battlenet app
@StuGames Thank you so much!
Back in the day it took us month to complete this campaign.
Thats gotta be disorientating going through two different control groups at the same time.. my eyes barely stand it from the cycling
We need beyound of the dark portal
Parent: You'll only get an hour of playtime.
He:
What's an Elf destroyers favorite animal? ... Aye-Aye
15:20 you see hitting the pigs gives all the units 1.5x speed for 2 frames further optimizing the time
Do you remember a turn based strategy game from the late 90’s to early 2000’s. It was high fantasy and you could hire mercenaries then pay them with beer. I cant remember the name.
Lords of Magic?
@Stu how do you select your army (or part of your army) so quickly? Did you set up some custom hotkeys? Are we able to do that?
I'm just amazed whatever key binds you have because you never click over on the left and everything is so fast. Like in mission 11!
Bro I struggled so hard at the start of the last level and you do it without even building a barracks...
You can now select as any units as you can now right? Like the ps1 port Warcraft 2?
the start of last human mission is pretty bs, if you take any time what so ever you gonna get swamped in dragons, also killing orange buildings is trap, to make 3 orange dragons attack you
Is this some kind of a double remaster version?
Because I don't remember the first one being that good
As soon as I can get a decent pc this is going on along with 3 and StarCrafts
On mission 13, I cannot figure out how you don't get attacked by two waves of three ogres. I also don't know how you defend the middle island with that small force, since I get an immediate Ogre counter attack that just demolishes me.
This mission just completely baffles me.
How do you select all units without a mouse?
I hope this is a weird coincidence, but does the GUILD mean anything to you, Stu?
If you know, you know… GLTTRNG… Back in the day ;)
what dificulty was this on? really nice work you did :)
There are no difficulty options, just game speed - this is the fastest one
very cool dude
Warcraft 2 is better rts then Warcraft 3.
wait, what? you can repair transport ships?
Here I am too worried about making sure my peasants chop efficiently.
People don't realize how much of a defining game this was for PC gaming. I sold my Sega Saturn to play this game (regret it in hindsight)
Where i can Download the Game ?
Beyond the Darkportal wspeedrun soon i hope.
Is the multiplayer working ? If so, the huge nerf to bloodlust might make Humans playable AT LAST !!
Blood lust is so overpowered! How did humans win then??
With the power of The Light obviously! The Light is their strength. Have you ever heard of their lord and saviour, John The Light? He invented The Light you know.
@stylesrj Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior 📯
@@Trendsthismonth
Well, Jesus ain't in the world of Warcraft.
@@stylesrj Bill Roper got the song recording from a church song so technically he is in 1 and 2. Technically Jesus is the God the humans have in 1 and 2
@@Trendsthismonth
"Deus Gracias"
I'm disagreeing on the grounds that it's easier to just crib a few things from Christian mythology and songs when coming up with a fantasy world and by Warcraft 3, they decided to just go with The Light.
It's also less offensive to the Christian crowd to do so.
I played the 14th so many times and had to have at least 10 towers from constant dragon attacks. This mutha has 3 towers and no archers...wtf
That was...commanding.
Bro where do I download this
3:03 : What?! I did not knew !!!
What was the point for him to kill his own soldiers?
yea!
Looks like the graphics have been scaled up by AI. Not horrible, but nothing I would pay money for. Anyway, thanks for the entertainment.
There is no way Blizzard gave this a thorough testing. How else would no one notice the faulty chopping/repair animation...
Yes my lord YES YES yes my lord YES YES YES yes my lord
vs
Aye aye sir AYE CAPTAIN Aye aye sir AYE CAPTAIN AYE CAPTAIN
Holy uour good
Ahh yes, once more my people congregate.
If only there was a delay on some of the unit acknowledgments 🤣🤣
1:03:16 Burn the boats!
In my opinion the remaster looks quite ugly, more like a average mobile game. I miss the blurry style :D But compared to wciii reforged they have done much better job 😅 But I have to say it's great to see people playing this game :)
such a weird game
Your command yes yes yes yes yes yes as you wish
44:44 Alan Moore. 😂😂😂😂😂↖️
красавчик
❤
Machiavellian
Ekhm..... you stiil can only control 9 units at a time? They did not fix that?
No production quene? What? ..... I gues we need to wait till Wargus implements new sprites - because I think that is the only thing the did - redraw sprites :/
Port View is also colossal for modern screens. We played on 15 inch crt back then, Now it's 24-32 inch lcd....
WHY DO YOU KEEP TOUCHING ME