StarCraft 2: The Fourth Race - HYBRID vs Protoss & Zerg! (1v1 Multiplayer)
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- Two games of StarCraft 2 from "The Fourth Race Contest" organised by Alex007. In this video I cast the Hybrid going up against Protoss and the Hybrid versus Zerg.
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Can’t wait for Harstem to get the imba complaints about the hybrid race
they have patreon to support to fix balance and other improvements =) networkhybrid
I would love this. The first ever game where Harstem finished by saying "It's imba!"
I agree, players are gonna flock to this since Imba league was fun to watch. It provided variety in ways. But this introducing a new race will make them boycott the leagues untill they add this.
i think they did an amazing job, it needs tweaks but wow super impressive
that would be awesome to see XD
A couple of things about the Hybrid:
1) Their shields are a little bit different then the Protoss` ones: they work as armor against abilities as well (storm, snipe shot etc.) The white part on the Hybrid units healthbar represents those shields.
2) Their Energy (light blue bar) is called Network. Most of Hybrid units` powerful attacks or abilities have the Network price. It regenerates naturally, but very, VERY slowly. The regeneration rate is greatly increased when in range of an Ionic Pylon, which makes them great in defending. The only unit who can restore Network in the field is Screamer, also it`s the only unit with "classic" Energy bar.
3) You can play for the Hybrid very easily! In "Custom" menu click "Melee". Choose any map. Click the "Create with mod" button. In the search bar enter "Hybid Network Race". Set the A.I. opponent as you wish it and you`re good to go!
P.S. I highly recommend playing/casting the Keiron race. It`s the winner of Alex`s "Fourth race Contest".
Can't seem to find it
Thank you kind sir for bless us with such information~!
I didn't know about the hybrid shields part
So that means you can bring some ionic pylons with your army for extra spell energy? They don't even need to "burrow" again, looks like the aura is still displayed when they're mobile.
has the mod been removed, I can't find it there
@@stroborobo I could easily be wrong but it seems like the pylons need to stay burrowed to reach full power. There's a 60-second channel that Lowko showed a few times. My guess is that the pylon is much less useful until that finishes, and that moving resets it.
Hybrid seems a bit overloaded. I think sticking to the theme of "insanely powerful but very few units" would have been a bit more balanced. I also don't think things like cloaking fit the Hybrid theme. They're supposed to be powerful enough to not need any cloaking shenanigans. And besides, all the second Hybrid player did is run around with his cloaked army; that's not very fun.
My criticisms aside, though, it really is impressive how someone created an entire new race with its own production, building and tech systems out of bits and pieces from around the campaigns and actually managed to make it not completely one-sided.
Revenants Multi didn't make it into top 3 because only one hybrid mod could make it, but it does exactly what you're saying.
Sounds like you hate the protoss element of the hybrid. Lol
Actually it is not hybrid , but cloaked protoss race.
Cloaking etc skills are fine in my opinion but should require research (and some nerf like, unit can't get cloack for xxx amount of time since last aura etc.), I think those units just come out with abilities without any requirements, without any need to research which made them OP at many levels.
Overall they should add more research dependent skills, like move their buildings, shouldn't be available from the beginning etc.
Also I feel like too many hybrids can attack air and ground, which also adds the next brick to imbalance.
But, yeh really impressive how they made this race overall :D
Also for me those units are to flashy, it make sense in campaign etc to have this flashy unit, to make it feel "strong" or "ancient" or whatever, but when we have many of those on screen it is just mess :)
If u see star trek romulans and the other races cloaks too
This caught me off guard, am incredibly stoked! Have not been this excited for a new race since the *Scrin* ! I like to think that the Starcraft Intern pulled some strings to make this happen... Thank you for sharing this!
that Profile picture tho, riot should make this a skin...
I would honestly prefer they dont add a fourth
This is a fan creation and isnt official.
play mental omega Yuri's Revenge Mod Try the Foehn Revolt Really futuristic imba and fun
Lowkey would love to see Hybrid as an official, polished race.
I don't think Blizzard wants to spend their resources on SC2 content tho.
Same!
That would be awesome. I would also like to see a UED faction like it was planed for BW.
I dont want this unit in game
@@LowkoTV We need a hybrid campaign!
Tbh at the actual state Blizzard is in, no thanks. They would Ruin Their best Game and celebrate in the cosby suit After that.
Lowko, there are even 3 MORE extra races that I would consider to be even higher quality in terms of asset polish and balance, Solstice 245's Scion Custom races. He made two of those races, Genetron (Terran Mech inspired) and Xayid (Zerg inspired) over some years, and just finished his Protoss inspired race, the Keiron, for Alex's contest. Please check them out and showcase them on your channel!
during the contest it was desided that Keiron will be developed further. Currently that faction feels a bit underpowered, but that is going to be fixed
@@WindLighter I played the version submitted for the contest in a custom melee and they seemed very interesting and well made. And I feel like since it's a totally new race it will take time to unlock its full potential, people aren't used to playing it yet. I'd rather a race seem underpowered at first than OP-- people will improve with it over time.
How can i play hybrid or the other mentioned facrions? Can i find them somewhere?
@@ottootto8568 Search "Scion Custom Races" for Xayid and Genetron, and "Keiron" for Keiron in custom melee (select create with Mod). They work on the NA server. However, Hybrid is only on the EU server for now.
@@user-wb8iu1hl6i found them already and tried them out. Thx 👍
Would be cool to have those all in one mod so you could battle all races vs😋
18:10 Continuing the weirdness of English from last time's "sheep" and "deer", the plural of "nemesis" is "nemeses" ("NEH-muh-seez"). Words derived from Greek or Latin ending in "-is" (excluding "-polis") become "-es", like "parenthesis" to "parentheses", "crisis" to "crises", and "axis" to "axes".
That's not the weirdness of English, that's the kleptomania of English on display. :D
@UCz_lQKljur028_R0LF7norQ English has shittons of words from not just Latin and Greek but by many routes. French-derived Latin competes with Germanic Latin competes with Anglo-Saxon derived words and so on.
For example, in French, you have beef (boeuf) which refers to both the animal and the meat. English got separate words because of the Norman invasion.
English colonialism brought back new words, new phrases, new ideas and thus English expanded to use them all. It's the largest language in terms of vocab AFAIK.
lots of these are assets in the editor, but much of them are custom-made either by people on sc2mapster or the mod maker. lots of them, too, are made by combining existing and custom models, like the hybrid head on the infested terran body with the zealot wireframe to create the "warrior."
Добрый вечер всем любителям второго старкрафта и Алекс таки запустил волну!
So…. It can out-rush a zerg, out-deathball a protoss…. And apparently defends even better that terran…. Seems balanced
What do they have that's equivalent to a siege tank on defense?
I'm sure it's always perfectly balanced to anyone playing the Hybrid. People only complain about balance when they lose. :P
@@sandsalamand3763 its ground unit with attack switching
@@sandsalamand3763 imagine rushing static defense with a moving pylon!!!
you should have seen the other races in the contest. There was a Mech terran race that had a unit which had a range of basically 2 and a half screens (around half of a standard map). Its easier to make an OP race so that everyone plays it and slowly nerf it until people start going back and thats when you know you have a good race as opposed to noone playing it cuase its too weak and then you get no real feedback on the race so in terms of design that is a better way to do it.
any chance you would try this mod yourself, looking in detail into the Hybrid race Lowko? something like what you did for the Real Scale mod, or the SC:Remastered units?
Lowko, as an active Alex007 subscriber, I really hope that you have some replays of the Keiron race being played against vanilla races. That race is much simpler in the gameplay, though still has some pretty fun gameplay features. You must cast them. I really want to hear your reaction on the Keiron race, because your thoughts on hybrids actually matched the complains about them - too confusing, and hard to follow when spectating, and thoo many effects. And they were also MUCH stronger in some cases where they must not have been.
TL;DR: Give us some Keiron replays Lowko!!!!! =Ъ
Someone needs to send this to Harstem saying the Hybrids are IMBA.
Protoss: "Who are you?!"
Hybrid: "I'm you, but stronger."
Lowko's so good he gets 0 dislikes without RUclips removing the feature entirely ;)
This reminds me of Warcraft 3 where I spent hours in the map editor to make a series of games for me and my brother where we could play as Naga.
Also the screamers look exactly like the Nether Rays from the Warcraft universe.
Yah came here to say same. Could be lifted almost direct from Outland !
Looks like the same exact model.
Flayers are exact copies too
Last video: “what’s next? Four races?”
Yes
Like watching the Protoss mission from WoL where your objective is to hold out against the hybrid as long as possible, but doomed to failure.
This is actually so sick, you should play around with this mod in another video 😮
also by the way "girth" is a synonym for "belt" or "zone". And plural for nemesis is "nemeses"
This is not how StarCraft needs to be
@@Gigatomic253 Says who? Obviously this is just for fun and won't appear in the ladder
@@user-wb8iu1hl6i i think you right
oddly satisfying and terrifying seeing such a strong protoss army being walked over like nothing
The amount of work that went into this new class creation is beyond impressive!
You can combine different models using the mapmaker when creating assets for units. It's likely that the person who made this race either found models that were only of hybrid torsos, or made them himself and Combined them with other existing units so they didn't have to make their own animations.
You can adjust the shading and hue of models in the editor as well, so the race-maker just did a really really good job of blending the colors together. All around this is awesome.
What's your favorite starcraft 2 ability?
Paralyzing girth
That's what she said...wait no!!
"How do you like it now protoss players?!" Best comment of the first game...
Hybrid in lore is made out of zerg and protoss i think. So it makes sense they look like a protoss. Also cool race!
Werent they made by terran? The terran combined zerg and protoss?
@@sai_darkbu11et61 Yes, they combined the zerg and protoss essence.
@@sai_darkbu11et61 In the original StarCraft, Samir Duran (who we are led to believe was Terran) was working on making Zerg / Protoss hybrid. In SC2 we find out that he's a Xel'Naga working for Cthul'hu...er, Amon, and that the purpose of combining Zerg and Protoss was to make something powerful enough to serve as a body for him.
"You cant scout them they can kind of just make everything... Says the zerg..."
Those screamers are actually nether rays from wow. Nice
The biggest Zerg-like thing from Hybrid is that you only need to unlock tech, and one source of army production makes everything, i guess.
Also, if I understood the game mechanics correctly, Network is like creep for the hybrid, since a lot of their powerful abilities require the unit to have that energy, but it's only charged in range of their pylons. So like zerg, the hybrid player would want to have their side of the map with their pylons covering a lot of the area.
@@TheAmazingCowpig ooo thats a good point actually
this is pioneering work for SC3 4-race setup !
Petition to call an air-based army Skybrid
Petition accepted
its feel like a starcraft 3 is out. I'ave never think of how cool a fourth playable race could be
Really nice, would love to see more of these battles :D
As a casual modder, Seeing this warms my heart. This is clearly a passion project the details it has just shows it. Full credit to the fact it looks balanced too!
I'd love to see more custom race tourneys like this be more common! I really find it more interesting to sometimes see new content like this then to see the same races over and over again.
Great attempt at what a possible 4th race would look like. However, it was disgustingly OP. Balance completely omitted in the brainstorming phase. 😂
that what's hybrid embodies right?
LOOKS LIKE people is taking matter in their OWN HANDS! SC2 will rebirth with the passion of the community! It is a very well made race, and you can tell they remodeled many pre existing structures and units for the race.
Dude haven't even gotten far enough yet to see how powerful the Hybrid might be, but HOLY CRAP that is such an amazing aesthetic! My gosh!
'Your Warriors are engaging the enemy.'
'Surrender the THIS PEAR!'
I love the hybrid race idea. I love it's implementation here. I hope to see more in the future! Blizzard, give the players control over balances, maps, and race!!!
Took us a while, but we finally found the real counter to skytoss 🙏
This is so cool! I know people had been playing around with this concept, but i'm so glad someone made it!
Network Hybrid Race. Currently avaiable only on EU
we needed this like 5 years ago...
At 11:14 the purification nova was canceled due to the disruptors being silenced
Really hoping to see a game featuring Solstice245's Keiron custom race, that guy makes by far the best custom races in SC2
You know that Keiron race actually won the competition? Alex007's next tournament will be played with this race. I legit can not wait to see it. I really liked Keirons, so I hope Lowko got some replays of matches with that race
Will have a look!
@@LowkoTV strongly say competion was little incorrect. Keiron race developed approx 5 years. this hybrid race was developed directly to this competition in 30 days. Guys doing it have a lot of potential.
@@mogadanez It is true, they do have a lot of potential, but you must admit - they do look a little too much - well, on stream they did say "вырвиглазно", which does not really translate in english, but the closest translation (from the translator) is "vomiting", and I would have just said that they have too much disfferent effects. Keirons are pretty simple along those lines.
And they are much more polished for participating in a tournament.
@@velsevuldemiurg4656 that word means "i want to rip my eyes cus of that shiti saw"
Man I hope this kind of thing catches on, would love to see more stuff like this.
Already knew the custom race is gonna be too op. You can't just have units that have high dps and high health that aren't melee
What about Colossi and Thors though?
immortals?
Would be great to see more of these videos with other races!
Network is not a global recourse it functions like energy but regenerates near pylons, so defender's advantage for hybrids is that their powerful abilities can be cast more frequently at home. I think structures also have network and they spend it to speed up production
this was actually really interesting.
I dont think adding this into the ladder pool could ever be an option, but this would fit SO WELL in COOP or custom games.
I would love this.
THE PYLON IS RUNNING!
I never imagined hearing that
amazing what the mod communities are able to do for games. who knows, maybe in 10 years there will be a fanmade Hybrid campaign with lore of each unit's strain/mutation
Wow. That 20 minute engagement, and the Hybrid one shot the entire Interceptor fleet. That's broken AF.
Lowko the white section of the health bars are like shields. That's what Network is, I believe. So each unit gets a growing shield while in Network range.
It seems like the Hybrid race was built around passive/defensive play. Build up an army, build up Network, for one big push.
Hybrid dominator : surrender to this pear 🍐
My thoughts are that early econ harassment would be needed due to the high cost of the army, but if they can get early units on the field too, that makes it tough. Harstem IMBA videos will be great
Basicamente que sean más costosa que la de Protoss pero que sea más eficientes
About your math question regarding the difficulity of balance for adding a fourth race, it is called curse of dimensionality. It is a major old problem in many data science applications.
It's exactly what Starcraft needed a few years ago to stay cool and fresh. Other races to play !
BTW the Plural form of Nemesis is Nemeses (pronounced with a long e and z at the end like "seas")
It's like protoss borg assimilated a bunch of zerg units and map critters.
Is that a- *Clicks on Observer* No that's, Guys I know what it is don't make fun of you. -Lowko 2021
I can already see EMP would be such op against hybrids.
Hybrid units to protoss are like Freddy Kruger to Humans, a nightmarish creature
Hybrid faction is just like Naga faction on WC3
If time warp had involved a rocky horror cut I would have died.
Dude. Imagine a cannon rush with the hybrids. Constrakt from the lowgeound to the highground and the cannons deels splash damage against the defenseve worker attack
really like the appearance of silent, like a hybrid(mix) version of stalker and immortal
32:16 "An oracle with cloaking" I think they are called Banshees
Well, well, well. I visited Alex's channel. Quick info. There are 3 additional races. Hybrids are Protoss like and there is Terran like race and 3th race, they look like robots. Alex had 4h contest on his stream with multiple battles. The viewers were the judges.
This is next generation of protoss technologies, after this, you will love playing against skytoss :D
Will you do more Hybrid matches? I love the idea
32:15 it's Banshee with Tempest gun on it
Love this! There are so many interesting custom races out there, I'd love to see you cast more stuff with them.
Yeah you're right I thought it would be a bit if stupid fun but this was actually pretty great and surprisingly balanced for the amount of time being put into it.
Also plural of Nemesis would be Nemeses
i lost it at "Paralyzing Girth".
I really enjoyed this!!! we need more of this creasy content!!!
Hey Lowko. There is something similar to this mod that adds a number of other races, including several hybrid races. I have a few vids on it if youre interested. It is called "The Ultimate Mode of Erls", and has it's own lore apparently. It is supposed to happen in an alternate timeline where Amon wins all races split into separate factions to fight for control of whatever is left of the universe.
Unit are too fast too much range the invisibility is broken and should at least be a T3 upgrade.
The aoe silence shouldn’t be an aoe, he just disabled 3 distruptors with 1 bubble
Unit should have energy even if it doesn’t regenerate the same way so that feedback is possible.
Having the starting unit reach the Zerg so soon and also being so fast that even zergling on creep couldn’t catch up to it is totally OP. It’s already hitting air and ground with damage better than zealots it seems
But yeah for something done in a month it’s nice even if it seems broken in the rights hands
this is actually....a great game! please cast more Hybrid games, maybe a HVH? ;D
The Hybrid has a difficulty attached to his name "--Hard" similarly to the names in co-op, interestingly
Well, well, well. This is the most exciting thing around since the breakout of Covid-19!
I really love all your casting for StarCraft series i always learn alot from you. I have never played the game competitively as i only played campaigns over and over because IT IS that FUN. But your casting make me wanna try playing multiplayer and I don't know where to start in terms of tactics.
11:10 The disruptor balls got canceled by paralyzing girth.
8:39 absolutely killed me.
I liked your reaction. It was really funny )
Network is the white bar, green is health, and blue is shields
Just for your information Lowko, the majority of the races in the mod contest(including the hybrid one) were already made before. And there is a lot of models that aren't in the campaigns nor coop.
This is much better than I expected at the thumbnail. I must say though, as soon as I saw those workers and the Temple, I knew it was going to be great. This looks really promising for maybe SC3? :D
idbecoolif
Proxy Void Rifts + Mass Ionic Pylon + Warbringer Cheese = An infinitely better ravager rush
The hybrid here feel more like Protoss with Zerg themed upgrades and not a separate race with its own strengths and weaknesses
Omg i watch Alex007 and I am so happy Lowko knows about this. There was actually a contest with a ton of races and there were 3 finalists which were voted for by Alex's audience. Please make more videos with Alex007 as I would love to see that.
This looks so cool!
The screamers kind of remind me of the screamers of Tzeentch from Warhammer
"Paralyzing Girth" 😂
8:35
Feels like some units should count as much more bodies than what they are since they are way too OP. The idea of the Hybrid being very depend of their base could be the trade off from their op powers, but would create very turtle game. Seeing the Zerg units getting owned so easily in the early game is very scary....
Looking forward to the development of the race that has always been fear by all of the other races.
In my perspective, it should have not much units, but very op units which takes a long time to create and need a lot of populations points.
When your race designed for defence is always on offence you know you did an OP race.
It was never designed like that
dude, i love what i see, like a few tweaks and it could be a legit official race, wich is what i like the most about that race
8:40 Paralyzing Girth is an amazing name
23:25 Lowko with all these years of salt.
The screamer is litterally the mount of the Shataari
Ahhh, so this is what our lord and master Amon was trying to create - an OP faction to rule them all.
Lowko:i'm getting protoss vibes from the hybrid
*the hybrid literally being a protoss and zerg HYBRID*
I few like I'm gonna be studying this new race for a while