I think we should start giving Grant some feedback on jokes. Me first 7:44 "miner" inconvenience. A solid pun, delivered with confidence and playfulness. That's a 7/10 for me.
My hint for anyone playing Media Blitz Zerg - take Spawn Baneling + Regenerative Acid. THAT works for healing Odin. Also the reward for destroying the science facility is Stukov. As in the hero unit. DEFINITELY worth getting.
You never really see it in the base campaigns, but I love how pokey the leviathans are. When you’ve got a stack of them all poking the same ground target it’s just absolutely hilarious.
9 missions, no time for hesitation. Time for balls-to-walls speedrun strats. 54:13 That's like a kindergartner explaining to the teacher that the fight wasn't their fault. "He started it!"
ya know, after mobius factor it must really seem like an evil clone of kerrigan made by the swarm/amon, fighting actual kerrigan that was purified and got the primal zerg power to fight back..and ythe terrans are just confused af why theres two of them
grant: "i need some healing and anti-air" Queens: "im right here, put me in coach." I know streaming is hard and its easy to forget stuff but I felt bad for his roaches and kerrigan getting rekt when they could be topped off from like 3-4 queens.
31:45 Measuring from the Cape Flattery Lighthouse(or more specifically, the westernmost point of washington, the pacificest northwestest i could find) 2000 miles distance includes: Suburbs of Houston(Texas), most of Memphis(Tennessee), Indianapolis(guess), most of Michigan, and most relevantly, Kansas and even Kansas city(WTF America?). As well as all of mainland Alaska. Someone has definitely "kept on trucking" within 2000miles of this GiantGrantLier (assuming it is a phrase form like kansas or something, all i know is thats the pancake superman is from). If measuring from the southeast corner of Oregon(thats pacific northwest, right?) you can reach florida and almost washington(other one)
Something you said in this video during all-in gave me an idea for a challenge run. No repair or healing wings of liberty. So no scv repairing, medics, biosteel, or science vessels. I'm not sure it it'd be interesting or not, but I figured it was an idea. Also, sorry if this has already been done or suggested.
1:07:12 Reapers Only might be viable in the perpetual randomizer, if you use editsavedata to set every unit unlock to be Reapers and purchase a variety of armory upgrades to buff them. The lack of anti-air might be a problem, though.
@@desfoxofthedesert There are upgrades that give shields to units in the randomizer mod so you could give the reapers shields so they can fight through the rip generator. If not, Grant was able to beat Maw of the Void with just marines as long as you get the drop pod upgrade so reapers should be able to do something similar.
I have always thought the HOTS upgrades should've been switchable evolutions and then you spend a "biomass" resource to get 2 out of the 3 possible upgrades. It would fix the issues with many of the units like Swarm Hosts, would let you pick the evo that fits for each mission, and still get that permanent boost feeling.
What mod was it where the reapers were cheaper and hit air? I think Nightmare? I wonder at what difficulty the Nightmare-reapers could beat the whole campaign. Surely they could on Easy, right?
Nah, not reapers only, modded for them from first mission, battlecruiser only. That aside, this was really fun to watch as a rush-through type playthrough.
Man All In just reminds me of how BAD the HotS unit upgrades are. WoL and LotV upgrades make units go above and beyond, but in HotS you just merely get on par with multiplayer version, and sometimes not even that!
Eh, it depends. Marines literally get just their versus upgrades in the Armory, but the surrounding support mechanics and good base stats make them absurdly powerful. Mutas already are straight up buffed compared to their versus version at the time (bounces deal 9-6-3 in campaign, 9-3-1 in versus, the fast regen wasn't in WoL), and each of their options is a significant upgrade. But mutas baseline are AWFUL! They are close to useless on even army cost, and their primary roles from PvP straight up don't _exist_ in the campaigns. Even LotV has the weird tempest which is less useful than most other versions. I just don't find the HotS army particularly fun or interesting, because the evolution strain choices are very inconsistent (torrasque vs lurker...) and most of it is just bland F2A backdrop for Kerrigan anyway.
A part of me was hoping that you'd use the energy nova and it would just kill all your things too. It wouldn't be good game design any the people playing would absolutely not enjoy that, but by golly would it make me laugh a tiny bit
Zurvan doesn't have the same psionic potential that Kerrigan does (and given his adversion to the hive mind forced on amon's zerg I'm not sure he would assimilate it from her if he won unless he just doesn't have a choice) so assuming for some reason Zurvan would ally with the protoss and terrans to stop Amon in the epilogue he wouldn't be able to absorb the esssnce of the xelnaga and beat amon, meaning at some point in the future amon would inevitably blow up the universe
A little sad about the all in comp. Would have loved to see the full swarm host, corpser, brood lord infinite spawnlings vs the infinite nydus spawns. Think it would have been hilarious. That said, this campaign was a lot of fun and the blitz was great to watch. Looking forward to watching the next campaign.
RTS is all about estimation. I’m not surprised you are an expert estimator. As a physicist, I’m only okay at estimation. Anyway, if reapers only is no-go, what about Goliaths only?
51:18 In defense of the creeper swarm host I've only played SC2 once and i've simply gone through all of the campaigns on normal. Though i've watched Grant's videos previously, i additionally read up on all units and upgrades as i unlocked them, and when i unlocked the swarm host evolutions i instantly noticed the creeper and was like "WOOOOOO MACRO, BITCH" So on Reckoning i just slowly but steadily spread whole packs of creep tumors and the bulk of my forces was mass creeper swarm hosts which i used to react to whatever attack waves came from whatever direction LMAO It was a rather dogshit strategy, but it was MINE (and i did end up winning (after an unnecessarily long time))
It still bypasses cost and supply restrictions. If you think that's bad, look at poor Archimonde: "Finger of Death" - deals 500 damage. A regular rifleman has 535 hp.
Grant’s first mistake - trying to do it as fast as humanly possible instead of as fast as zergingly possible
He didnt research Grant Speed at the Grant's Pool
Things that beat the Queen of Blades:
* Hats
* Clouds
* The Queen Bitch of the Universe's forces
don't forget ghosts (Rapid snipe strategy from Deathless)
What is she, Superman?
1:33:37 Warfield: "Kerrigan's going underground"
Grant: [burrows Kerrigan]
1:03:20 Zagara facepushing that ultralisk is the meme I didn't know I needed
Zagara's got places to be
Ultralisk was shaking its head like "no I dont wanna leave the tunnels"
I think we should start giving Grant some feedback on jokes.
Me first
7:44 "miner" inconvenience. A solid pun, delivered with confidence and playfulness.
That's a 7/10 for me.
Now THAT's a lot of damage! 😎
1:08:08 Ah yes, "People die if they are killed" level of wisdom has been achieved
That’s right up there with “Life needs things to live.” - Percy
More wisdom for you, if you are alive you are not dead
1:03:17
Zagara be like: "You are my friend now, Mr. Ultralisk. You come with me"
Average suffering fan: reaper only run
Average limit-pushing enjoyer: Wings of Liberty No Repair
3:01 the odin just 360 no scoped that missile turret
My god I’m glad I saw your comment. I didn’t see that when I first watched
1:00:22 that poor hydra getting his face blasted by energy ball and getting pushed into the lava from a fellow baneling to clear the evidence...
Good Find!
My hint for anyone playing Media Blitz Zerg - take Spawn Baneling + Regenerative Acid. THAT works for healing Odin.
Also the reward for destroying the science facility is Stukov. As in the hero unit. DEFINITELY worth getting.
Kerrigan being renamed to QBOTU has to be one of the funniest small things added in this raceswap.
You never really see it in the base campaigns, but I love how pokey the leviathans are. When you’ve got a stack of them all poking the same ground target it’s just absolutely hilarious.
The missions in this video are literally Kerrigan confronting her inner demons through a series of psychotic episodes.
9 missions, no time for hesitation. Time for balls-to-walls speedrun strats.
54:13 That's like a kindergartner explaining to the teacher that the fight wasn't their fault. "He started it!"
ya know, after mobius factor it must really seem like an evil clone of kerrigan made by the swarm/amon, fighting actual kerrigan that was purified and got the primal zerg power to fight back..and ythe terrans are just confused af why theres two of them
1:00:22 Kerrigan feels like she was designed more for an RPG than a highly tuned and competitive RTS's campaign, she's just got that feel to her.
Grant: talks about the taldarim on supernova building gateways just to be destroyed by the fire later
Also grant: build gas geyser
Auto gas, and it got about 5 minutes to harvest a nice amount of gas to do the muta spam
would be really funny if artifact activation on all-in would kill your zergs as well :D
That would have been a hilarious prank!!
Grant: I'm not very good at this game, and I never have claimed to be
Also Grant: Here's me beating all of Starcraft 2 without losing a single unit
grant: "i need some healing and anti-air" Queens: "im right here, put me in coach."
I know streaming is hard and its easy to forget stuff but I felt bad for his roaches and kerrigan getting rekt when they could be topped off from like 3-4 queens.
Funny how Zagara has voicelines for using Nydus worms! That meanst it was cut from HotS afterwards, which is a damn shame.
Zagara pushing that Ultralisk aside like it was absolutely nothing at 1:03:18 sent me, holy shit.
I was wondering which unit will replace the Cattlebruiser. Turns out it's the Levia-chan, the non-canon version of the Leviathan.
53:20 Warfield must be quiet surprised by the Friendly Nydus.
I kind of wish that the Odin was replaced with the apocalisk, that would have been great
I love that Grant rushed this as fast as poossible due to video schedule and then doesnt release the next video for 2 days.
1:29:36... Scavenger Mod. Reapers. She still has nightmares grant.
31:45 Measuring from the Cape Flattery Lighthouse(or more specifically, the westernmost point of washington, the pacificest northwestest i could find) 2000 miles distance includes: Suburbs of Houston(Texas), most of Memphis(Tennessee), Indianapolis(guess), most of Michigan, and most relevantly, Kansas and even Kansas city(WTF America?). As well as all of mainland Alaska. Someone has definitely "kept on trucking" within 2000miles of this GiantGrantLier (assuming it is a phrase form like kansas or something, all i know is thats the pancake superman is from).
If measuring from the southeast corner of Oregon(thats pacific northwest, right?) you can reach florida and almost washington(other one)
Secret on media blitz gives you stukov himself
Zagra just bulldozing through the ultra at the end of belly of the beast cracks me up
Queens of Liberty was a fun watch. Thank you.
"It'll be 1-30, to 1-35": If you take out the between-mission picking and some load times, it's perfectly spot-on. Good estimating!
19:51 in Romania our capital has 44°C which in F is like in 3 digits this is the worst heatwave I have ever experienced in my life
Same, i feel your pain
Something you said in this video during all-in gave me an idea for a challenge run. No repair or healing wings of liberty. So no scv repairing, medics, biosteel, or science vessels. I'm not sure it it'd be interesting or not, but I figured it was an idea. Also, sorry if this has already been done or suggested.
1:07:12 Reapers Only might be viable in the perpetual randomizer, if you use editsavedata to set every unit unlock to be Reapers and purchase a variety of armory upgrades to buff them. The lack of anti-air might be a problem, though.
Still the rip field level is going to be super tough without the bc blow all generators away
@@desfoxofthedesert There are upgrades that give shields to units in the randomizer mod so you could give the reapers shields so they can fight through the rip generator. If not, Grant was able to beat Maw of the Void with just marines as long as you get the drop pod upgrade so reapers should be able to do something similar.
1:03:16
Ultralisk: Stop!
Zagara: No.
as per the rules of "Zerglings Only" the queen of blades is NOT a zergling. 1:24:44
I have always thought the HOTS upgrades should've been switchable evolutions and then you spend a "biomass" resource to get 2 out of the 3 possible upgrades. It would fix the issues with many of the units like Swarm Hosts, would let you pick the evo that fits for each mission, and still get that permanent boost feeling.
Really expected in All-in the artefact to just destroy Grant's forces as well.
Called an 1:35 completion time, homie hit 1:35 completion time. Nuts.
damn what a blitz of a day, didn't expect all in to go so smoothy. this was a very fun campaign to watch.
Kerrigan has push priority? Man she just REALLY wanted to talk to your manager.
Well next modded campaight to see it complete as fast as possible too
Can't wait to see the speedrun
15:22 Look, it's her pet Zergling sticking right by her!
"You gave up your humanity for _this?_ To kill more people?!"
"I never had a choice, Warfield."
I don't understand, is Grant allergic to building hydras? "Let's hold down the roach button" *2 BCs enter chat* Game over
What is the high pitch noise that comes and goes in the background ? Ive been noticing it a lot lately, is it in the soundtrack or something ?
16:50 Grant looks SO COOL.
...huh I thought Reapers would be pretty good at the train mission specifically
Ziggy Zag pushing that ultralisk.
19:41 just cried
34:33 how is it a bad base? Care to explain? 🤨
"I think the Belly of the Beast crew could beat these four in a fight"
And that's how MOBAs were born
The bonus mission was amazing.
49:19 Izsha, we're at Char!
49:22 Izsha, those are Zerglings not a Bile Launcher!
Curious if you choose malignant creep, what effect that has on enemy creep and its inherent ability.
What mod was it where the reapers were cheaper and hit air? I think Nightmare? I wonder at what difficulty the Nightmare-reapers could beat the whole campaign. Surely they could on Easy, right?
Every time Grant mentions how tall he is, I feel even more validated as a 6' 4" man who likes RTS games
6'7"? i didn't realize the 'giant' in giant grant games was a literal thing. just thought it was big brain or big gamin', haha.
Don't forget he can also walk over smaller units
With everything you've learned, think you might be able to to All In Pacifist now? Giving Kerrigan a hat and all?
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Nah, not reapers only, modded for them from first mission, battlecruiser only. That aside, this was really fun to watch as a rush-through type playthrough.
Reapers only but its mira&horner faction? - Those reapers can sorta viking themsleves up to attack air iirc
Wings of Liberty: Zerg Edition done in about 6 hours... Grant prepping for 24 hour race swap stream? :P
Wait, I thought blinding cloud reduce range to 1. Not disable attack completely
On Gates of Hell if only Grant had that unit, which can deep tunnel on creep..
Thanks for swarming better than the Swarm! ^^
Man All In just reminds me of how BAD the HotS unit upgrades are.
WoL and LotV upgrades make units go above and beyond, but in HotS you just merely get on par with multiplayer version, and sometimes not even that!
Eh, it depends. Marines literally get just their versus upgrades in the Armory, but the surrounding support mechanics and good base stats make them absurdly powerful. Mutas already are straight up buffed compared to their versus version at the time (bounces deal 9-6-3 in campaign, 9-3-1 in versus, the fast regen wasn't in WoL), and each of their options is a significant upgrade. But mutas baseline are AWFUL! They are close to useless on even army cost, and their primary roles from PvP straight up don't _exist_ in the campaigns. Even LotV has the weird tempest which is less useful than most other versions.
I just don't find the HotS army particularly fun or interesting, because the evolution strain choices are very inconsistent (torrasque vs lurker...) and most of it is just bland F2A backdrop for Kerrigan anyway.
No zergling was harmed during this Episode
14:45 you can go out of bounds with HERCS so kerrigan can do too probably.
A part of me was hoping that you'd use the energy nova and it would just kill all your things too. It wouldn't be good game design any the people playing would absolutely not enjoy that, but by golly would it make me laugh a tiny bit
1:02:14 We're reaching new levels of Cheese...
Can you ask Subsourian for me, what if Zurvan won over Kerrigan or Zervus?
And also, what if there was an alt campaign about it?
Zurvan doesn't have the same psionic potential that Kerrigan does (and given his adversion to the hive mind forced on amon's zerg I'm not sure he would assimilate it from her if he won unless he just doesn't have a choice) so assuming for some reason Zurvan would ally with the protoss and terrans to stop Amon in the epilogue he wouldn't be able to absorb the esssnce of the xelnaga and beat amon, meaning at some point in the future amon would inevitably blow up the universe
A little sad about the all in comp. Would have loved to see the full swarm host, corpser, brood lord infinite spawnlings vs the infinite nydus spawns. Think it would have been hilarious.
That said, this campaign was a lot of fun and the blitz was great to watch. Looking forward to watching the next campaign.
I feel like a zerg version of the Mobius mod would be awesome.
Blinding Cloud is how i troll hybrid in Co-op
Damn, it felt its going to be stressful, but the element of Grantium is just too strong
A missed opportunity for Leviathan vs Leviathan.
30:46 Don't be mean to her, Grant, _she doesn't know what a supernova is nor does she know the words for things that are hot._
It's official, Grant has confirmed; Kerrigan is a "Bottom"
Grant, please.
You never go Full Webster.
The Odin constantly being on 5 hp throughout Media Blitz seriously gave me anxiety
Edit: little did I know what comes next...
RTS is all about estimation. I’m not surprised you are an expert estimator.
As a physicist, I’m only okay at estimation.
Anyway, if reapers only is no-go, what about Goliaths only?
"Is Kerrigan always on bottom? I don't think she goes top."
This is the kind of Starcraft hot take I'm here for, tbh
5 Minutes for mission 2, and I had it on a higher speed count, it looked like you just blazed through it.
Are zerg the most environmentally friendly faction in Starcraft?
Question: Heart of the Swarm, static defense only? Just spines, spores, tumors and patience
Can you rush Kerrigan through the supernova and then Nydus the other side?
I was hoping you'd have Kerrigan 1v1 herself in the final mission.
Me having to watch this at at 3 am
Memes of Liberty's version of the reaper only run???
51:18 In defense of the creeper swarm host
I've only played SC2 once and i've simply gone through all of the campaigns on normal. Though i've watched Grant's videos previously, i additionally read up on all units and upgrades as i unlocked them, and when i unlocked the swarm host evolutions i instantly noticed the creeper and was like "WOOOOOO MACRO, BITCH"
So on Reckoning i just slowly but steadily spread whole packs of creep tumors and the bulk of my forces was mass creeper swarm hosts which i used to react to whatever attack waves came from whatever direction LMAO
It was a rather dogshit strategy, but it was MINE
(and i did end up winning (after an unnecessarily long time))
Only illidan is immune to Blinding Cloud
1:03:00 Your guess of 1 hour 35 minutes is pretty close.
This worm hungers
What is the counter to Nydus worms? Greater Nydus Worms!
giant ultra hugs games
I kind of hoped for the energy nova to damage his own units
30:50 Is she tho?? She literally thought 2 Brood Lords and 2 Mutas was a numberless flock
It still bypasses cost and supply restrictions. If you think that's bad, look at poor Archimonde: "Finger of Death" - deals 500 damage. A regular rifleman has 535 hp.