Scarlett: In the past, did I ever give you Canadians to experiment on? Abathur: Yes. Very bad. Small population, minimal competitive scene. Scarlett: I was born Canadian. Abathur: Rare Canadian individuals, high APM potential. Overcome flawed origins.
@@zsoltbota1990 I too have no idea... the only thing that it accomplished for the story is that it made me (and all my friends who played the campaign) hate Kerrigan.... I feel like Warfield should be done into a commander in CO OP mode But instead we get Arcturus, who was a goddamn antagonist and Stettman, who's just plain annoying
Fuckologic I don’t see what the problem with having Mengsk is. He’s a popular character and certainly more iconic than Warfield. He also has more to work into a commander I feel. That said I’d be happy to see Warfield as well.
@@zsoltbota1990 Simply..... he was in the way. It makes sense he would be the one in charge of Char..... its unfortunate yes.... but he had to leave char or die defending it. We know Warfield rather die there than run back with his tail between his legs. And after seeing Warfield slaughter the zerg forces without mercy even making THE BONE FIELD or whatever the fuck it was a mission back..... He might have survived the encounter even with all of that..... but he pissed her off mentioning Raynor and that sealed his fate
I won this mission by making around 250 banelings and right clicking on Warfield's compound. When I attacked a marine said "Too many banelings..." lol it seems blizzard developers considered this strategy to be useful too xD
General Warfield is still on Char because Mengsk ordered him to keep the remaining Zerg in check, if not eliminate them completely. Izsha is not the brain of the Leviathan. Leviathans follow the orders of the Overmind, Cerebrates, Brood Mothers, or Kerrigan just like most Zerg. Izsha is inspired by the Terran Adjutants and was created to store Kerrigan's memories and act as an advisor.
Yes. Unfortunately that information is from one of a couple short story published in magazines that I've never gotten ahold of so I don't get too detailed with it.
"The unessenced life is not worth living." "Life is like a box of essence, you never know what you're going to get." "You must be the essence you wish to consume in the world."
Actually an interesting plot moment in the end of the mission. There were a heavy speculation that good old General Warfield had a very hard talk with Mengsk after WoL campaign, maybe even resocialized (read brain-washed) so he refused to withdraw from Char even in the direst situation (despite him being actually pretty benevolent to his men back in WoL). Sad part to me, good character just good killed. Now about the mission: very exciting for me, because it felt like I was playing the final mission from WoL in reversed order. Now we are commanding the never ending Zerg assault while Terrans do their hardest to survive. Good job here again, Blizzard! But honestly, the Nuclear Option part is *too easy* even on Brutal. Do you remember "Emperor's Fall: Ground Zero" mission? Every time the nuclear lauch was announced I was like: "Oh shi, oh shi, oh shi..." while storming the camera across all my positions and then "KA-BOOM!" and there goes my siege tanks or anything. And in this mission it still has the full marker on the ground and the mini-map. And the last thing (joke): - before the mission - Kerrigan: "We are not going to experiment on humans anymore!" - in the beginning of the mission - Zagara: "Here comes the Abberations! They are humans who were heavily exposed to the Zerg virus and turned into those terrible mutants! Oh, what did you just said, my Queen?"
emperors fall made me rage quitted sc 1 those nukes you didn't know where it came from and having a hard time finding the ghost my 8 years old brain can take it
Let's see, forced out of retirement, helps Valerian in his plan to deinfest Kerrigan (in essence, committing treason in the process), brought _back_ into Arcturus's half of the Dominion armed forces, and dies to the very person he risked both his life and freedom to deinfest. Let's face it: Warfield's life _really_ sucked, especially if you completed Media Blitz and exposed Mengsk--and Warfield was actually _part_ of the Sons of Korhal, and helped the serpentine bastard rise to power, likely not knowing what Mengsk did to Tarsonis. Last game: Raynor: "Good to see you back on your feet, General." Warfield: "Yeah? We'll see how long that lasts." Then _this_ story happens. The end cutscene also has a version for non-Primal Kerrigan, as well. Nice bit of foresight on Blizzard's part.
Strange, I thought it was _always_ in there. I had the thing on preorder download, unless they had some type of patch. Hell, a snippet from this cutscene was used in one of the pre-release trailers. You might have been unfortunate enough to find a bug in your playthroughs.
They needed to do that? Maybe. If this is the case, I'm glad they patched Primal version in. I think this cutscene ("Conscience") has more emotional impact after visiting Zerus than before. It hammers the fact that Primal Queen of Blades =/= to old Queen of Blades.
he sure is a cool guy, but a terrible general, failed to deter the zerg on all fronts, failed in the first assault on Char, fail to defend Char, pissed off Kerigan and got himself killed
In story, Warfield is _supposed_ to be a great general. But just like Edmund Duke, he has the misfortune of always being on the opposite side of yours (meaning him losing is inevitable). Plus, Gameplay 101: _everything_ is up to the player. If Warfield could pull off the assault on Char without a hitch, there wouldn't be a reason for the player to be present. That said, he _was_ smart in suggesting you take out the Orbital platform over Char as opposed to the Nydus tunnels (All In with enemy air on Brutal is considered by many to be the hardest mission in the game). Not to mention that he completely curb-stomped Zagara--it's heavily implied that he would have succeeded had Kerrigan not come to direct matters personally. Possibly justified by the fact that he might be used to taking on individual Broods under the command of Broodmothers, who only use limited tactics--facing off against Kerrigan herself when she's the one leading is a different matter.
Absolutly right. At this point, I really find it hard to symphatise with Kerrigan anymore. Warfield was right with every point he made; Kerrigan killed houndrets of innocents, just think of the Protoss on Kaldir. At this point, I actually wonder if she was more humane under Amons influence...
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I mean,he failed to destroy a highschool,you think he could have any chance with a Leviathan with Kerrigan,Dehaka and Zagara in it? Not counting numerous Zerg units in and around it....
But failing to destroy high school is normal. I mean it's literally the place where the strongest beings reside. Anything from super heroes in U.A., Karakura and its shinigamis, Kuou and its demons, North High and its god, alien and espers. The list goes on and on. Bloody hell, high school is THE scariest place on Earth! This evident by the fact that Voldy succeeded in overtaking the government yet failed taking a high school. High school, the TRUE seat of power.
He did that on purpose. It's basically so no one would send a rescue team after him, that would waste time for other survivors an probably get killed too. Even if he said he was injured but refused help, there was a chance his men would disobey and attempt to rescue him anyway. Warfield definitely knew what he was doing: letting himself die so that more of his men could make it out.
Lowko bro, I have played through all of the SC and SC2 campaigns several times each, yet I always love watching you play through them more than my playing them. I wish you only the best!
2:40 Izsha is connected to the leviathan she was put there by Kerrigan she’s the librarian of the Zerg the same way abathur is the scientist if the Zerg she is physically connected to the leviathan and uses it as her body she basically is the captain of the leviathan.
not realy.. she is more like an terran adjutant. She is there to stor the memoriest and all that... but is not like Matt for the Hyoerion. Kerrigan controls the leviathan.
Also known as "Bargain Sale Ultralisks" and "Poorman's Ultralisk". Not to be confused with Pygalisks - they're known as "Deadly Cuteness Proximity Ultralisks" and "Awww look he's nibbling their knees off!"
2:50 pretty sure the term you're looking for is pilot. theres a b grade scifi show i adore called farscape. the main crew fly around in a giant sentient transport oddly enough also referred to as a leviathan (transport), and she guide by 'pilot' its kinda like Izsha
That was indeed the initial concept, then BlizzCon 2011 had her backstory changed to having once been a Terran medic named Amanda Haley. Neither is alluded to in the final product, so Izsha's origins are still up in the air. I'd like to think that the latter is true.
I love that idea. It would make sense to have some terran influence to enhance her intellect. Not to say that zerg beings can't be intelligent..... but even Zagara needed several "alterations" from Abathur before she was "Co Op partner ready"
I heard the story about the infested medic Amanda Haley too. The story got a little muddled in Heart of the Swarm in regards to the Zerg infesting Terrans, because the original reason for the Overmind infesting Terran worlds was because he saw their psionic potential as a stepping stone to becoming equal in power to the Protoss. I have my own theory, sort of backed up by Abathur's comment about Terrans having limited biological adaptability... "Purity of form" is Terran, not Protoss - it's just that the ancient prophecies were made by young Protoss who might have been a little bit vain. And a minor spoiler for the Legacy of the Void epilogue... Kerrigan is both Terran and Zerg... the unification of Purity of Form and Purity of Essence.
@@WaterCrane The rotoss ARE the purity of form intended by the xel'naga; they are all psionics after all, while only a very few select terrans are, and no terran ever appears in xel'naga prophecies. Terrans are a wild card: the xel'naga never tampered with them at all. Kerrigan is a special case: her psionc potential qualified her for the purity of form, and her zerg qualities gave her purity of essence: she was the ONLY being non aligned to amon to combine both qualities. Usually though it seems like the xel'naga wanted to ascend entire species at a time; that wouldn't have worked with terrans, which on the whole have neither.
I agree with your opinion on aberrations for multiplayer. Zerg already has the least amount of different units, even counting overlords. They would have to be balanced though, I think 275 heath is a lot for what they cost.
So for anyone playing this mission, and for you too Lowko :), the nukes are mostly targeting Kerrigan. So the best thing to do is make sure that Kerrigan is not near your base once Warfield starts launching the nukes. Just one of those things that can help you not have to micro your "pokey boys" and spores away from the nukes.
+LowkoTV Izsha is Kerrigan's personal diary/Adjudent from when she was the old Queen of Blades. She made Izsha to store her ideas, strategies and memories while also providing a source of perspective and alleviating Kerrigan of managerial duties. Kerrigan only made one of Izsha's Zerg Variant and she integrated her with the nervous system of Kerrigan's personal Leviathan. Think of her like an Adjudant with more personality, she's your secretary and she keeps things on the Leviathan running.
Btw, Izsha is actually an Zergified terran, in the same vein Zerglings are actually based on Dune hoppers. Alot of, if not every zerg unit has a base species. For example, the zerg infested Dune Hoppers, assimilating their essence, and those dune hoppers became the first Zerglings.
or won, who knows.. it may be the sentence that convinced Kerrigan to pull back and spare Warfield's injured soldiers. He already was a goner anyway (gravely injured, told his men he was fine so they wouldn't attempt a rescue)
16:18 during replay: "oh no, at least drop off the gold minerals at the hive before you build something D:" during campaign: Doesn't even realize or doesn't care about the . . . like 28 minerals he lost
At 20 minutes you mention that you're surprised you lost your whole army. That engagement is always difficult, but it becomes easier when you snipe tanks with carrygan (with kinetic blast or spawn banelings). Most of the time carrygan was shooting at buildings instead of being useful. That said, you have the macro to win these missions without any micro, so its all good.
Abberations are actually the 'Tank-Colossus', they can walk ontop of ur zerglings and take dmg 1st be4 ur banellings and zerglings below, a powerful meat-shield and effective against siege tank; deny splash dmg while only abberations alone took it.
This was the most beautiful cutscene, because it shows Kerrigan's restraint is rooted in her own pain- she's been backed into that corner in the past, and when she needed help, she didn't receive any, though she didn't deserve to be neglected. Her decision not to reciprocate the violence that she was given shows she is more human than most non-infested terrans ❤️
I'm actually really enjoying this playthrough. I beat this campaign on normal very quickly in 2013 and then didn't touch StarCraft II again until early 2016.
it looks like upgrades the terrans have are the same ones that you got in the Terran campaign. the missile turrets have the scatter missile thingy, and the buildings have the anti fire drones.
Well around Blizzcon 2011 there was a backstory that Izsha used to be a terran medic by the name of Amanda Haley. She used to have some psionic potential, so when she was captured by the Queen of blades and attempted an escape, Amanda impressed Kerrigan enough to be mutated into her personal memory-stock-advisor-noseless-creauture rather then simply killed and\or eaten by the zerg. Unfortunately none of that is really mentioned in the campaign itself.
Abberation for the multiplayer would be avesome. An anti thor like units what the zerg can only kill by zerling, because they overwhelm them. They would need an infestation pit in my opninion.
I think the names are Terran given after the invasion of Char from WoL. I also think this campaign is very well designed in making the player play to the Zerg strengths. Adaptation and war of attrition.
Lowko plz try the summon baneling skill, with the upgrades you getting soon, it’s really helpful for all type of missions. Free units every afew secs, and you can summon them right under a pack of enmity’s feet.
Lowko, remember that Char used to be a Confederate Mining Colony before they where kicked out by the Kel-Morians, and they never bothered to re-establish mining bases in the planet.
One of the best cinematics in my opinion. There are far more epic, flashier, fighty ones, but Warfield being awesome and Kerrigan's struggle is really cool.
Have Lowko noticed that Izsha not only doesn't have nose, not only she is connected to the leviathan but she also has human-ish arms which are kinda grown to her torso and she uses her hair as her limbs?
If you're using mass mutas, wild mutation is your best friend since air units can stack up nicely while ground units can't. Also tankier mutas with buffed attack speed and glaive bouncing on 6 targets is pretty deadly.
Creature Izsha, original creation of old Queen of Blades. Based on adjutant, equivalent to Protoss Preserver. Lack of legs, replaced by long tail. Tape worm genes allow her to navigate Leviathan and tap into neural net. Effective. Original grabbing appendages fused to main body due to lack of doing.
Izsha is a Zerg Advisor, a unique, one of a kind zerg type created by Kerrigan herself. She has been physical grafted into the Leviathan to help support hive organization.
When you go for an attack with a big flock of mutas, use Kerrigans Buff ability on them first. Then they can easily go attack ito turrets and the attack speed helps them clear a lot of units
Finding a job where no legs are needed seems hard lowko. But becoming a Ishalike beeing seems convienient. You even get to controll zerg. I think you have some experience with that
Hey Lowko zerling reconstitution make this mission so much easy, is for far the best ability, is painful just see you make more zerlings when you can have them for free
The reason why Warfield stays in Char may be because it has valuable minerals and other resources that are abundant because of its volcanic nature. The Dominion would greatly benefit from mining operations, just as the WOL mission where you help Tosh in Redstone. It may also have the best zerg barbecue of all Koprulu.
To those thinking about this scene remember this: Kerrigan was left surrounded by the Zerg, and she was abandoned, by her commanders wishes. In this scene, we see the polar opposite. Kerrigan gave these shuttles the respite and rescue that she should have gotten, and it was the same escape that their Commander, Warfield, wanted for those under his command. She recognized he was a better man than Mengsk, and that the wounded on the shuttles did not need to be left to the zerg, as she was.
units benefitting from the wild mutation most are air units - especially mutas if you clum up like 20 mutas on one spot and then wild mutation them . they go crazy
Scarlett: In the past, did I ever give you Canadians to experiment on?
Abathur: Yes. Very bad. Small population, minimal competitive scene.
Scarlett: I was born Canadian.
Abathur: Rare Canadian individuals, high APM potential. Overcome flawed origins.
RIP General Warfield, he was pretty darn cool.
I really don't get why he needed to get killed off...
@@zsoltbota1990 I too have no idea... the only thing that it accomplished for the story is that it made me (and all my friends who played the campaign) hate Kerrigan....
I feel like Warfield should be done into a commander in CO OP mode
But instead we get Arcturus, who was a goddamn antagonist and Stettman, who's just plain annoying
Fuckologic
I don’t see what the problem with having Mengsk is. He’s a popular character and certainly more iconic than Warfield. He also has more to work into a commander I feel.
That said I’d be happy to see Warfield as well.
He was a pretty cool guy
@@zsoltbota1990 Simply..... he was in the way. It makes sense he would be the one in charge of Char..... its unfortunate yes.... but he had to leave char or die defending it. We know Warfield rather die there than run back with his tail between his legs. And after seeing Warfield slaughter the zerg forces without mercy even making THE BONE FIELD or whatever the fuck it was a mission back..... He might have survived the encounter even with all of that..... but he pissed her off mentioning Raynor and that sealed his fate
I won this mission by making around 250 banelings and right clicking on Warfield's compound. When I attacked a marine said "Too many banelings..." lol it seems blizzard developers considered this strategy to be useful too xD
Haha nice, showed that planetary fortress, nuking pleb!
??? ??? Good to see you here. How are you liking W3lfar3's playthrough of Celeste?
I always feel bad for uncle warfield :( loved that guy
Yes he served a regime, but once you get to know him, he seems like a pretty nice guy.
Why is General Warfield a bronze league hero?
He has a planetary fortress in the middle of his base
Also he's spamming nukes, like that terran from the last video
That guy was silver :P ... Warfield must be moving up in the world
Seeing his lost limb,you could say he got handled
She doesn't have a nose, but at least she has a mouth, that's better than a protoss
Who needs mouths if you don't have to eat and can speak telepathically?
for kissing
Preserver Rohana considers Terrans primitive because of "communication through orifices."
Special EDy and Protoss females still have some very important features
@@Revanbzn Which ones? You cannot possibly be referring to the most important features of alien girls (tiddies)
spores are "sneezy boys" (bless u good spors, bless u) ^^
SerenityC I was thinking just that and came to type it
SerenityC Pukey bois?
Ladies and gentlemen, the official name is hereby decided! Let's give a warm welcome to the Sneezy Bois!
i would say they are the "barfy boys"
This video was really Char-ming.
J.F.L. Bousquet
Char-ming?! Char-qing?!
General Warfield is still on Char because Mengsk ordered him to keep the remaining Zerg in check, if not eliminate them completely.
Izsha is not the brain of the Leviathan. Leviathans follow the orders of the Overmind, Cerebrates, Brood Mothers, or Kerrigan just like most Zerg. Izsha is inspired by the Terran Adjutants and was created to store Kerrigan's memories and act as an advisor.
She was also a downed Banshee or Dropship pilot that Kerrigan picked up during the Brood War. So Izsha is also a former Terran.
David, that is actually true...
Miesha88
Indeed she was!
Miesha88 kerrigan may have found her, but she didn't find her nose
Yes. Unfortunately that information is from one of a couple short story published in magazines that I've never gotten ahold of so I don't get too detailed with it.
blizzard should release a book entitled "the life philosophy of dehaka"
rosiodo
*and Abathur
Wisecrack channel should do both!!!
yeah yeah
"The unessenced life is not worth living."
"Life is like a box of essence, you never know what you're going to get."
"You must be the essence you wish to consume in the world."
perfect, one from primal and one from the swarm
Actually an interesting plot moment in the end of the mission. There were a heavy speculation that good old General Warfield had a very hard talk with Mengsk after WoL campaign, maybe even resocialized (read brain-washed) so he refused to withdraw from Char even in the direst situation (despite him being actually pretty benevolent to his men back in WoL).
Sad part to me, good character just good killed.
Now about the mission: very exciting for me, because it felt like I was playing the final mission from WoL in reversed order. Now we are commanding the never ending Zerg assault while Terrans do their hardest to survive. Good job here again, Blizzard!
But honestly, the Nuclear Option part is *too easy* even on Brutal. Do you remember "Emperor's Fall: Ground Zero" mission? Every time the nuclear lauch was announced I was like: "Oh shi, oh shi, oh shi..." while storming the camera across all my positions and then "KA-BOOM!" and there goes my siege tanks or anything. And in this mission it still has the full marker on the ground and the mini-map.
And the last thing (joke): - before the mission - Kerrigan: "We are not going to experiment on humans anymore!"
- in the beginning of the mission - Zagara: "Here comes the Abberations! They are humans who were heavily exposed to the Zerg virus and turned into those terrible mutants! Oh, what did you just said, my Queen?"
Pretty sure Aberrations were introduced before the HotS campaign (diachronically). She could have just made modifications on existing Aberrations.
emperors fall made me rage quitted sc 1 those nukes you didn't know where it came from and having a hard time finding the ghost my 8 years old brain can take it
Let's see, forced out of retirement, helps Valerian in his plan to deinfest Kerrigan (in essence, committing treason in the process), brought _back_ into Arcturus's half of the Dominion armed forces, and dies to the very person he risked both his life and freedom to deinfest.
Let's face it: Warfield's life _really_ sucked, especially if you completed Media Blitz and exposed Mengsk--and Warfield was actually _part_ of the Sons of Korhal, and helped the serpentine bastard rise to power, likely not knowing what Mengsk did to Tarsonis.
Last game:
Raynor: "Good to see you back on your feet, General."
Warfield: "Yeah? We'll see how long that lasts."
Then _this_ story happens.
The end cutscene also has a version for non-Primal Kerrigan, as well. Nice bit of foresight on Blizzard's part.
Strange, I thought it was _always_ in there. I had the thing on preorder download, unless they had some type of patch. Hell, a snippet from this cutscene was used in one of the pre-release trailers. You might have been unfortunate enough to find a bug in your playthroughs.
They needed to do that? Maybe. If this is the case, I'm glad they patched Primal version in. I think this cutscene ("Conscience") has more emotional impact after visiting Zerus than before. It hammers the fact that Primal Queen of Blades =/= to old Queen of Blades.
he sure is a cool guy, but a terrible general, failed to deter the zerg on all fronts, failed in the first assault on Char, fail to defend Char, pissed off Kerigan and got himself killed
In story, Warfield is _supposed_ to be a great general. But just like Edmund Duke, he has the misfortune of always being on the opposite side of yours (meaning him losing is inevitable). Plus, Gameplay 101: _everything_ is up to the player. If Warfield could pull off the assault on Char without a hitch, there wouldn't be a reason for the player to be present.
That said, he _was_ smart in suggesting you take out the Orbital platform over Char as opposed to the Nydus tunnels (All In with enemy air on Brutal is considered by many to be the hardest mission in the game). Not to mention that he completely curb-stomped Zagara--it's heavily implied that he would have succeeded had Kerrigan not come to direct matters personally. Possibly justified by the fact that he might be used to taking on individual Broods under the command of Broodmothers, who only use limited tactics--facing off against Kerrigan herself when she's the one leading is a different matter.
Absolutly right. At this point, I really find it hard to symphatise with Kerrigan anymore. Warfield was right with every point he made; Kerrigan killed houndrets of innocents, just think of the Protoss on Kaldir. At this point, I actually wonder if she was more humane under Amons influence...
Q: If Izsha has no nose, how does she smell?
A: Pretty bad.
You are funny. Ha ha.
oh god this pun broke me
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Izsha best Starcraft waifu
the spores ate the spitty bois
Yes, though I also like "spooty bois"
That mission ending cutscene is one of my favorites. There are so much feels in that :')
Lowko, stop discriminating Izsha or her boyfriend Voldemort will send his Death Eaters.
I mean,he failed to destroy a highschool,you think he could have any chance with a Leviathan with Kerrigan,Dehaka and Zagara in it? Not counting numerous Zerg units in and around it....
But failing to destroy high school is normal. I mean it's literally the place where the strongest beings reside. Anything from super heroes in U.A., Karakura and its shinigamis, Kuou and its demons, North High and its god, alien and espers. The list goes on and on. Bloody hell, high school is THE scariest place on Earth!
This evident by the fact that Voldy succeeded in overtaking the government yet failed taking a high school.
High school, the TRUE seat of power.
Just Anoman fucking loved this comment more than I should have. Especially seeing as how you didn't overlook bleach, favorite show!
hahahahahaaha
Victor yarn, hey it was a magical high school
3:50 so zagara has poor eyesight,no big deal just put some glasses eh.
i'm trying to imagine what broodmother with glasses would look like now XD
sneezin'cat sexy
Darth Vader go to abathur he will change you to!
Glasses, human technology. Inefficient. Impractical in battle, high loss chance. Rework ocular strands, more efficient.
Spine Crawler: "Pokie Boi"
Spore Crawler: "Spitty Titty"
That final cutscene was amazing. Bought a tear to my eye.
9:07 that evil maniacal laugh though xD , LOVE IT
Spine crawlers: Pokey boys.
Spore crawlers: Spitter boys.
"Impaled by metal beam."
"I'm fine Lieutenant, just see to those wounded."
He did that on purpose. It's basically so no one would send a rescue team after him, that would waste time for other survivors an probably get killed too. Even if he said he was injured but refused help, there was a chance his men would disobey and attempt to rescue him anyway. Warfield definitely knew what he was doing: letting himself die so that more of his men could make it out.
26:23
The best cutscene in all of Starcraft 2.
Tied with maybe "reclamation" and "fire and fury"
Lowko bro, I have played through all of the SC and SC2 campaigns several times each, yet I always love watching you play through them more than my playing them. I wish you only the best!
Aww man...that was just sad.
2:40 Izsha is connected to the leviathan she was put there by Kerrigan she’s the librarian of the Zerg the same way abathur is the scientist if the Zerg she is physically connected to the leviathan and uses it as her body she basically is the captain of the leviathan.
not realy.. she is more like an terran adjutant. She is there to stor the memoriest and all that... but is not like Matt for the Hyoerion. Kerrigan controls the leviathan.
Isn't she the living brain of the leviathan?
That scene...so much emotions, captured them perfectly man thumbs up!
18:10.got a little excited there lowko.a little too excited.😂🤣
Aberrations, or "Ultralisk light" as I call them
The Android from Aiur They look like a lovechild of Zagara and Abathur
Ship confirmed
Also known as "Bargain Sale Ultralisks" and "Poorman's Ultralisk". Not to be confused with Pygalisks - they're known as "Deadly Cuteness Proximity Ultralisks" and "Awww look he's nibbling their knees off!"
Ghostel3591 I love going mass Aberration with Zagara, especially after the "Baneling incubation" upgrade
2:50 pretty sure the term you're looking for is pilot. theres a b grade scifi show i adore called farscape. the main crew fly around in a giant sentient transport oddly enough also referred to as a leviathan (transport), and she guide by 'pilot' its kinda like Izsha
Isha is a infested terrain adjutant. Just so you know Lowko!
really? i doubt that.
That was indeed the initial concept, then BlizzCon 2011 had her backstory changed to having once been a Terran medic named Amanda Haley. Neither is alluded to in the final product, so Izsha's origins are still up in the air. I'd like to think that the latter is true.
I love that idea. It would make sense to have some terran influence to enhance her intellect. Not to say that zerg beings can't be intelligent..... but even Zagara needed several "alterations" from Abathur before she was "Co Op partner ready"
I heard the story about the infested medic Amanda Haley too. The story got a little muddled in Heart of the Swarm in regards to the Zerg infesting Terrans, because the original reason for the Overmind infesting Terran worlds was because he saw their psionic potential as a stepping stone to becoming equal in power to the Protoss.
I have my own theory, sort of backed up by Abathur's comment about Terrans having limited biological adaptability... "Purity of form" is Terran, not Protoss - it's just that the ancient prophecies were made by young Protoss who might have been a little bit vain. And a minor spoiler for the Legacy of the Void epilogue... Kerrigan is both Terran and Zerg... the unification of Purity of Form and Purity of Essence.
@@WaterCrane The rotoss ARE the purity of form intended by the xel'naga; they are all psionics after all, while only a very few select terrans are, and no terran ever appears in xel'naga prophecies. Terrans are a wild card: the xel'naga never tampered with them at all.
Kerrigan is a special case: her psionc potential qualified her for the purity of form, and her zerg qualities gave her purity of essence: she was the ONLY being non aligned to amon to combine both qualities. Usually though it seems like the xel'naga wanted to ascend entire species at a time; that wouldn't have worked with terrans, which on the whole have neither.
Warfield: "You'll regret this, Kerrigan!"
Lowko, in the distance: "NO I WON'T!"
That end cutscene always makes me shed a tear. Kerrigan shows she still cares and she still has the human element to her thought process.
The attention to detail is stellar. I played this mission before going to Zerus and you get another cinematic with human Kerrigan. Same high quality.
When Kerrigan decided not to kill the injured you looked like a kid who gets socks on Christmas morning lol.
Beautiful cut scene and story telling. It's especially cool how if you didn't go to Zarus first she still impales him as a ghost in human form.
eric horn Cool detail.
If the spines are pokey bois I think the spores are spitty gals.
"squirty", you mean...
I agree with your opinion on aberrations for multiplayer. Zerg already has the least amount of different units, even counting overlords. They would have to be balanced though, I think 275 heath is a lot for what they cost.
I like that cinematics take into consideration your campaign progress. If you first go on char, kerrigan is in the ghost suit. Love the small details.
So for anyone playing this mission, and for you too Lowko :), the nukes are mostly targeting Kerrigan. So the best thing to do is make sure that Kerrigan is not near your base once Warfield starts launching the nukes.
Just one of those things that can help you not have to micro your "pokey boys" and spores away from the nukes.
There’s nothing better than open RUclips and see that lowko has uploaded a new Hots episode
20:50 I've got a feeling! Ooo-Ooo! That's tonight's gonna be a good night!
18:05 Kerrigan with the offensive GG
If the spine crawlers are called "poky boys", does that make the spore crawlers "blasty girls"?
I believe the proper term is "spitty bois", but someone will have to back me on that.
but spores look like they have a hole ._.
Lets call them "Spitty girls"
I would have gone with "puky boys" it´s closer to poky and "correctly" refers to the way they "fire".
+LowkoTV Izsha is Kerrigan's personal diary/Adjudent from when she was the old Queen of Blades. She made Izsha to store her ideas, strategies and memories while also providing a source of perspective and alleviating Kerrigan of managerial duties. Kerrigan only made one of Izsha's Zerg Variant and she integrated her with the nervous system of Kerrigan's personal Leviathan. Think of her like an Adjudant with more personality, she's your secretary and she keeps things on the Leviathan running.
Can spore crawlers be concidered spity boys?🤔
Aberrations in multiplayer would be sick. I love how they look.
Seems like that would be broken unless it had a unique tech structure requirement that could be scouted out.
They're the same tech level as ravagers.
Btw, Izsha is actually an Zergified terran, in the same vein Zerglings are actually based on Dune hoppers. Alot of, if not every zerg unit has a base species. For example, the zerg infested Dune Hoppers, assimilating their essence, and those dune hoppers became the first Zerglings.
8:47 Banelings: They see me rollin', they hatin.
Ok so Izsha's fail leads directly to Abathur's body on the upper floor. They're like a snake with two ends. Cannot unsee.
warfield: "what if raynor could see you now?"
it was at this moment warfield knew, he fucked up
or won, who knows.. it may be the sentence that convinced Kerrigan to pull back and spare Warfield's injured soldiers. He already was a goner anyway (gravely injured, told his men he was fine so they wouldn't attempt a rescue)
16:18
during replay: "oh no, at least drop off the gold minerals at the hive before you build something D:"
during campaign: Doesn't even realize or doesn't care about the . . . like 28 minerals he lost
'Making pokey boyz and spine boyz'.
I missed when the Zerg hired the Ork Boyz to name their units for their WAAAGH.
At 20 minutes you mention that you're surprised you lost your whole army. That engagement is always difficult, but it becomes easier when you snipe tanks with carrygan (with kinetic blast or spawn banelings). Most of the time carrygan was shooting at buildings instead of being useful. That said, you have the macro to win these missions without any micro, so its all good.
13:02 "The circle is just tiny" ...proceeds to hit 25 units with 1 cast giving them 5k cumulative health as well as double attack speed for 10 sec xD
11:35. There is an issue with experimenting with Terrans, Lowko. Remember? Abathur hates it!
Abberations are actually the 'Tank-Colossus', they can walk ontop of ur zerglings and take dmg 1st be4 ur banellings and zerglings below, a powerful meat-shield and effective against siege tank; deny splash dmg while only abberations alone took it.
Ooooh a Lowko campaign video right after my exam :D
This was the most beautiful cutscene, because it shows Kerrigan's restraint is rooted in her own pain- she's been backed into that corner in the past, and when she needed help, she didn't receive any, though she didn't deserve to be neglected.
Her decision not to reciprocate the violence that she was given shows she is more human than most non-infested terrans ❤️
I'm actually really enjoying this playthrough. I beat this campaign on normal very quickly in 2013 and then didn't touch StarCraft II again until early 2016.
I have to say Lowko using static defense is like when we found out that he's actually got legs. Mind-blowing.
it looks like upgrades the terrans have are the same ones that you got in the Terran campaign. the missile turrets have the scatter missile thingy, and the buildings have the anti fire drones.
that mission was sad.
Lowko, Char isn't the zerg homeworld although it's their main base right now. It used to be a terran settlement until the Zerg arrived.
Izsha is the uvula of the Leviathan.
that cinematic always gets me
Well around Blizzcon 2011 there was a backstory that Izsha used to be a terran medic by the name of Amanda Haley. She used to have some psionic potential, so when she was captured by the Queen of blades and attempted an escape, Amanda impressed Kerrigan enough to be mutated into her personal memory-stock-advisor-noseless-creauture rather then simply killed and\or eaten by the zerg. Unfortunately none of that is really mentioned in the campaign itself.
Abberation for the multiplayer would be avesome. An anti thor like units what the zerg can only kill by zerling, because they overwhelm them. They would need an infestation pit in my opninion.
24:12 "If the spines are the pokey boys, what are the spores?" @Lowko, the spores are the pukey boys! 🤮
28:01 Well said General Warfield, indeed.
I think the names are Terran given after the invasion of Char from WoL. I also think this campaign is very well designed in making the player play to the Zerg strengths. Adaptation and war of attrition.
Lol the hatchery life @21:30
Who would like to see Warfield as a co-op running around boosting the troops around him "this guy" lol
Lowko plz try the summon baneling skill, with the upgrades you getting soon, it’s really helpful for all type of missions. Free units every afew secs, and you can summon them right under a pack of enmity’s feet.
Lowko, remember that Char used to be a Confederate Mining Colony before they where kicked out by the Kel-Morians, and they never bothered to re-establish mining bases in the planet.
He pushed the Raynor button.
The coop mission you might be thinking of is the Sgt Hammer one since it uses this story missions assets.
"is it me your looking for ? " :D
Dejavu! :O I played this mission last night as well, Lowko! :D
One of the best cinematics in my opinion. There are far more epic, flashier, fighty ones, but Warfield being awesome and Kerrigan's struggle is really cool.
German Lowko fan here, keep the good work going ☺👌
Im german too XD
germans take over lowko B)
Nice... Another german fan. Hallo Kameraden
Wait how does the homeworld of the swarm have no creep anywhere to be seen?
Terrans burned every zerg building on char with the artifact, but i guess primals dont need it
If you mean Zerus the primals don't use Creep, on Char the terrans easily burned it all out
A planet's worth of creep and buildings? Then how did Zagara and her give survive?
Probably only half or so; definitely anywhere they built a base (which is where we are about now)
Have Lowko noticed that Izsha not only doesn't have nose, not only she is connected to the leviathan but she also has human-ish arms which are kinda grown to her torso and she uses her hair as her limbs?
If you're using mass mutas, wild mutation is your best friend since air units can stack up nicely while ground units can't. Also tankier mutas with buffed attack speed and glaive bouncing on 6 targets is pretty deadly.
Its kinda amazing how they have 2 of this cutscene in one where there was the primal queen of blades, and in the other she’s human kerrigan.
Creature Izsha, original creation of old Queen of Blades. Based on adjutant, equivalent to Protoss Preserver. Lack of legs, replaced by long tail. Tape worm genes allow her to navigate Leviathan and tap into neural net. Effective. Original grabbing appendages fused to main body due to lack of doing.
Be sure to do the space missions next. It makes more sense from a narrative and difficulty curve viewpoint.
But then you miss all of stukov's dialogue on the space missions.
That cinematic made me cry back then
Izsha is a Zerg Advisor, a unique, one of a kind zerg type created by Kerrigan herself. She has been physical grafted into the Leviathan to help support hive organization.
I am loving these videos!
It should be fun to see a swarm of hydralisc affected by both theirs and kerrigan's attack speed buff
When you go for an attack with a big flock of mutas, use Kerrigans Buff ability on them first. Then they can easily go attack ito turrets and the attack speed helps them clear a lot of units
Finding a job where no legs are needed seems hard lowko. But becoming a Ishalike beeing seems convienient. You even get to controll zerg. I think you have some experience with that
Hey Lowko zerling reconstitution make this mission so much easy, is for far the best ability, is painful just see you make more zerlings when you can have them for free
So Lowko, you start to embrace the static defense?... So I guess we can expect a perfectly executed crescent cannon moon in LotV soon. Nice!
2:44 I do believe she's the living brain of the leviathan
22:30 the reason is because you didn't choose the first 2 kerri abil that help ur army, u chose the ones that help herself alone, so she'll be alone.
The reason why Warfield stays in Char may be because it has valuable minerals and other resources that are abundant because of its volcanic nature. The Dominion would greatly benefit from mining operations, just as the WOL mission where you help Tosh in Redstone.
It may also have the best zerg barbecue of all Koprulu.
To those thinking about this scene remember this:
Kerrigan was left surrounded by the Zerg, and she was abandoned, by her commanders wishes. In this scene, we see the polar opposite. Kerrigan gave these shuttles the respite and rescue that she should have gotten, and it was the same escape that their Commander, Warfield, wanted for those under his command. She recognized he was a better man than Mengsk, and that the wounded on the shuttles did not need to be left to the zerg, as she was.
units benefitting from the wild mutation most are air units - especially mutas
if you clum up like 20 mutas on one spot and then wild mutation them . they go crazy
No Lowko, Iszha is a snake like advising creature...
Izsha's Terran name is Amanda Haley.