Fun fact, and nice attention to detail by Blizzard: Your zealots, both model on the field as well as their portrait, will visibly lack nerve cords, while Amon's corrupted zealots retain theirs.
Yep, all khalai units in the campaign have their nerve cords cut. It's more noticeable with the zealot and high templar because you see them with nerve cords so much, but the whirlwind zealot and even the portraits of protoss ships have the nerve cords gone
That's would be actually pretty silly if they wouldn't change their portraits and models, don't you think? I mean, Blizzard isn't a cheap indie game company.
LowkoTV Well... how do we know that ship wasn't buried halfway to the planet's core? And the tip that's visible is just where they decided to build a temple over it? Blizzard works in mysteriously (explainable) ways lol
I recall (maybe incorrectly) that the ark ships were also put to rest and never used because of the amount of firepower they had, and could therefore be abused if they fell into the wrong hands?
The Blizzard site have their lore and reason why they are hidden. TL;DR, they are not needed ever since their inception as Protoss Empire is at their height and they haven't met enemies necessitating use of Arkships, and by the event of SC1 the Protoss are too focused in evacuating Aiur and never really had the chance to reactivate the Arkship. In the other hand, if the Arkship was activated by the Aiur invasion, chances were Amon's plan would be flawless, since no Nerazim forces are strong enough to oppose the Arkship. Khalai and Tal'darim under his hand, and Nerazim obliterated, the galaxy would truly fall.
According to the same story cited by OP, they were actually sealed away so that they wouldn't be lost in battle before they were needed. They only needed one to survive.
Yeah, Rohana and her sisters saw the greatest flaw of the Protoss would be their undoing: pride. She knew the arkships were the most powerful weapons the Protoss had ever built, and although they were created to save their people, to flee out into the stars when there came a time when an enemy arose that the Protoss could not beat, but they would instead be the first weapons brought to bare against such a powerful enemy, and they would fall in battle, dooming her people. Instead, they were all buried underground, only to be activated in the protoss' greatest time of need. The conclave thought themselves to be winning the war against the Zerg, right up until tassadar slaughtered most of them and then took killing the overmind into his own hands, and by that point it was too late to activate them.
The Arks are suggested by the preservers in case the protoss race's existence is threatened, then they realize that the ark ships will not serve that purpose if left in active use during whatever conflict that may threaten protoss civilization since protoss tend to fight till last toss standing (toss prefer die in battle than ran away in dire cases.) especially in the case of Spear of Adun (most heavily armed of the 3 arkships, Artanis got lucky). 2 other arkships get eaten by zerg and Tassadar was blowing up korshakal (where Spear of adun is burried) during the great war so it probably couldn't launch.
If I recall correctly, dragoons are zealots that have been severely injured and can no longer fight on their own (I remember Fenix talking about it in SC1 after he was mauled by a hydralisk when his psi blades failed) Immortals are Protoss spirits that have been "resurrected" (I guess) and renew their pledge of valor to fight (think it has to do with their line "I return to serve")
After the fall of Aiur the technology to produce dragoons was lost, so they heavily upgraded the remaining ones to something near to unkillable hence their new names of Immortals. "Before the loss of Aiur, crippled Protoss warriors could volunteer to continue their service by transplanting their shattered remains into Dragoon exoskeletons. Tragically, the technology to continue this practice was lost in the rubble of their fallen homeworld. The remaining Dragoons, now known as Immortals, have been refitted with Twin Phase Disruptors and hardened energy shields. These heavily armed and shielded fighters give critical support by eliminating enemy artillery and ranged attackers, although they are vulnerable to rapid assaults from lesser foes. These ancient warriors are a dying breed willing to sacrifice everything for their people. Soon none will remain." From -us.battle.net/sc2/en/game/unit/immortal
In the development of st2 they decide to create a new game unit based on the dragun, that's how one of the team thinked in create a drak dragun, that how the stalker was created. Also the inmortal is based too on the dragun idea. Basically both inmortal and stalker was created by the idea of the dragun. You can look that on the wiki if you want bro =D
The stalker and immortal both descend from the dragoon. IIRC they were originally conceived as splitting its all-purpose role in SC:BW into two distinct styles.
The answer to the impossible Spear of Adun gap paradox lies in warp technology of the Protoss. Spear of Adun didn't have to fit through the gap - it only needed to remove forward supports to warp away.
Protoss architecture allows building stuff in the planet's mantle. That's how do you fit an arkship somewhere underground. The main reason the spear of Adun is not launched is because Fenix and some templars are laying siege to the judicator complex (during broodwar, i think) and they coundn't launch the arkship.
I love how here and there Artanis and Amon use lines from Zeratul's vision of the future like "Even the ground beneath your feet carries the seeds of your destruction."
Phase-smiths are not part of the Templar caste or the Templars (Which is more of a faction inside the protoss) by default. However most of em are rumored to be Khalai (Protoss who follow the Khala - Nerazim / Dark Templars are not Khalai, for example).
The Khalai are actually not really a caste, they are more comparable to a religious group inside the protoss, but as they are the majority considering the Protoss from Aiur/"normal" Protoss, you could say that most castes have a huge amount of members, who are in fact Khalai. Phase-smiths are generally speaking what we would call engineers. Highly skilled engineers to be specific.
Lowko, concerning your worry about the Spear of Adun gap's width - perhaps it is like an umbrella - starting as the ship you see there, compressed and dormant, and once it's activated and in the space, it opens up, generating the enormous force fields. If you look at a picture of it, there is not that much Ship at all, but those "wing" structures are veeerry big, and well, with the shields they have, they make it even bigger looking. ^^
Part of me hopes you'll blow Shakurus off as long as possible so you can get the cooler version of the Spear of Adun's weapon system activation cutscene and so you'll have enough power to get all the Solarite on Shakurus this time. But I know everyone else will tell you to go to Korhal last now that Fenix's dialogue about Raynor will actually mean something to you/getting Vorazun's dialogue about Korhal.
This is one of the most difficult missions in the campaign on brutal, definitely will test your chops. Like many missions it is way easier with proper sim city and walling ramps well.
-Actual- lore: Artanis died this day while trying to activate the spear of adun. He then got resurrected in the Heroes of the Storm and got accompanied by resurrected Zeratul and Tassadar and they fought happily ever after.
The mission with the rip fields and battlecruisers in Wings of Liberty has a similar ship like the Spear of Adun. An arch-ship of Xel-Naga making. The ship itself is the map to play on.
considering the size comparison of xel'naga and protoss physiology it is not surprising that a xel'naga ship would be larger than even the largest protoss ship.
I brought it up in the "Fridge Logic" section of TV Tropes on Legacy of the Void... given the length of the Spear of Adun and how it's stored essentially standing upright, the stern would be embedded in Aiur's mantle.
About the Spear of Adun, do keep in mind that everything is smaller as i seems, because zealot in-game run the same way as they did in the trailer but if they would literally implement that it would get too fast. If they would have made the ship big enough the map should 10 times its current size.......just scaled down....
from the brief looks of it, Spear of Adun may be folded during this mission and it will expand to the maximum size (as wiki says) when it take offs to space. So it may be possible for the Spear to look a little smaller than it should be during this mission.
Ok Lowko, you get this mission 2 minutes earlier then last time (2 years before). Congratulations. Now starts serious and danger missions when you be really conected to the Khala to quick finished them.
19:20 maybe Amon is just like us, he just wants to reformat his PC because of all the bugs, and reinstall fresh and clean. I can kinda understand him, LOL
Lore time! Khor-shakal, also known as the Great Forum or the Heart of the Conclave, was the capital city of Aiur and, by extension the Khalai Empire. It is here that Tassadar had a confruntation with the Conclave for the first time and destroyed the nexus of the city before he was detained by Aldaris. It is not told in canon exactly what happened to the city after that, however, we do know that it was destroyed by the Zerg Swarm very close before the death of the Overmind, possibly at the same time as the action in the mission Eye of the Storm was taking place. There is a very good original StarCraft custoom campaign called "StarCraft: Inconsummate" made by Pr0nogo which is a great lore decorator and decides to explain in detail the fall of Khor-shakal. In the headcanon of the campaign, the city is destroyed by cerebrate Tuzor (The cerebrate you play as in the original StarCraft zerg campaign.) at the same time as the last battle against the Overmind takes place. The mission concludes with the cerebrate sensing the death of the Overmind right after the destruction of the Great Forum.
Just an FYI Lowko, Karax is not a Templar. He is the lowest class of the Aiur Protoss: the Khalai caste. They are the workers, while the Templar are the warriors, and the Arbiters are the ruling class. The faction of Protoss that remained connected to the Khala were simply known as the Aiur Protoss.
Lowko if you like Blinked stalkers now just wait till you get to choose custom upgrade for them and make sure you choose the green emblem ones same for the Zealots
Lowko Maybe all we see of the spear of Adun was the tip and when it took off it probably just warped into space. There are many gaps in the structure of the Spear of Adun.
Karax is not a templar, he is of the khalai cast. The written khala divides the protoss into three castes: judicators, those who rule and manage the law, templars, the warriors who defend the rest, and the khalai, workers of all skills and trades
All Protoss from Aiur were part of the Khala through their nerve cords, whether they were Templar (warriors) or Khalai (civilians). The Nerazim (dark templar) severed their nerve cords at birth to be free of the Khala, and were exiled for it. And the Tal'darim never had the Khala, whether they had nerve cords or not.
Ever notice how only the Protoss have heroes that die? The closest you get for Zerg or Terran heroes that bite the dust is like Tycus or Warfield if you can call them a hero or maybe Tosh and Dr. Hanson which are minor characters and optional deaths. Everyone else is a villain like Arcturus, Amon, Zurvan and the pack leaders, Dugalle, and Ma'lash.
you can always assume that the rest of the ship was deep underground. and it actually WARPED out from in there, and only the top bit had to be uncovered for that to work. :D
I basically said this on the last video but I'll say it again here: please go to Shakuras first. Amon is even now sending a torrent of Zerg through the warp gate from Aiur to extinguish all Protoss life on the Daelaam's capital world. In the face of such a massacre, Raynor and the Keystone must wait. Go to your people's aid, Lowko, I beg of you - you are their only hope!
To be able to jump to light speed, it is possible that the Protoss have figured out how to remove the mass of the spear of adun allowing it to not interact with anything in the ground. This would allow it to pass through the planet without damaging it.
Hey Lowko, remember in SC1 when Duke's ship crashed and was roughly the size of a Siege Tank on the ground? Don't think so hard about the scale of things on the map Kappa
Two possiblities with the spear of adun: it could have been put there and extracted using warp tech, or it might be in a more compact form while dormant and during launch. I found the LotV campaign a lot harder than the previous ones. I recommend going to Raynor first, as Shakuras is really hard with only standard gateway units and DTs, although with how much better you are at micro than most players you might have no problems at all :D
Given how spindly the Spear of Adun is (and how super-advanced golden age Protoss tech was), I wouldn't put it past the ancient Protoss to design the thing to fold itself up for storage.
For the next Choice, Liberating Shakuras, and then the Ice Planet and Korhal finally is my preferred playthru choice, if you want the most of the story.
The Spear was mostly underground, only the tip was poking above ground. When reactivated, it didn't fly. It teleported out. Why the tip was exposed when it was supposed to be hidden is beyond me.
I think if you want to make the Ark Ship more realistic, the map designer can put it on the back of the base, so the Spear control room could be seen behind the mineral lines. IDK, just my opinion.
Its possible that the ship didn't actually fly through that gap and literally just warped out of its position in the planet. They have that sort of technology so its believable at least to an extent.
Lowko "I'm starting to think that Executor Selendis is not necessarily the nice gal" No, she's not. Remember, she is the one that was going to cleanse the human-Zerg infestation on Haven.
lowko... you realize if they made battlecruisers in multiplayer realistically sized, they would be massive aswell as the spear of adun. instead, they scaled the battle cruisers to about ultralisk size so they could show it in game.
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Fun fact, and nice attention to detail by Blizzard: Your zealots, both model on the field as well as their portrait, will visibly lack nerve cords, while Amon's corrupted zealots retain theirs.
Actually high templars doesn't have theirs either in Artanis Coop missions or campaigns.
That's an awesome detail!
Yep, all khalai units in the campaign have their nerve cords cut. It's more noticeable with the zealot and high templar because you see them with nerve cords so much, but the whirlwind zealot and even the portraits of protoss ships have the nerve cords gone
Also, your high templar do not have theirs either and, are also given new lines to remove the lines where they praise the khala.
That's would be actually pretty silly if they wouldn't change their portraits and models, don't you think? I mean, Blizzard isn't a cheap indie game company.
It's a Protoss ship... *obviously* it warped out. Silly Lowko. As a great paladin once said,"You really shouldn't think too hard about these things."
loco lowko.
The answer is don't think about it.
Maybe, still seems tricky to hide a ship that large in some ruins.
well, it's not like the other stuff is to scale in game. see zealot vs nexus...
LowkoTV Well... how do we know that ship wasn't buried halfway to the planet's core? And the tip that's visible is just where they decided to build a temple over it?
Blizzard works in mysteriously (explainable) ways lol
Maybe Auir is a really big planet ;)
Fact:There were also two other arkships called "memory of nezin" and "pride of altaris".both of which were destroyed by the zerg.
I recall (maybe incorrectly) that the ark ships were also put to rest and never used because of the amount of firepower they had, and could therefore be abused if they fell into the wrong hands?
The Blizzard site have their lore and reason why they are hidden. TL;DR, they are not needed ever since their inception as Protoss Empire is at their height and they haven't met enemies necessitating use of Arkships, and by the event of SC1 the Protoss are too focused in evacuating Aiur and never really had the chance to reactivate the Arkship.
In the other hand, if the Arkship was activated by the Aiur invasion, chances were Amon's plan would be flawless, since no Nerazim forces are strong enough to oppose the Arkship. Khalai and Tal'darim under his hand, and Nerazim obliterated, the galaxy would truly fall.
According to the same story cited by OP, they were actually sealed away so that they wouldn't be lost in battle before they were needed. They only needed one to survive.
Yeah, Rohana and her sisters saw the greatest flaw of the Protoss would be their undoing: pride.
She knew the arkships were the most powerful weapons the Protoss had ever built, and although they were created to save their people, to flee out into the stars when there came a time when an enemy arose that the Protoss could not beat, but they would instead be the first weapons brought to bare against such a powerful enemy, and they would fall in battle, dooming her people.
Instead, they were all buried underground, only to be activated in the protoss' greatest time of need. The conclave thought themselves to be winning the war against the Zerg, right up until tassadar slaughtered most of them and then took killing the overmind into his own hands, and by that point it was too late to activate them.
The Arks are suggested by the preservers in case the protoss race's existence is threatened, then they realize that the ark ships will not serve that purpose if left in active use during whatever conflict that may threaten protoss civilization since protoss tend to fight till last toss standing (toss prefer die in battle than ran away in dire cases.) especially in the case of Spear of Adun (most heavily armed of the 3 arkships, Artanis got lucky). 2 other arkships get eaten by zerg and Tassadar was blowing up korshakal (where Spear of adun is burried) during the great war so it probably couldn't launch.
11:45
Don’t flame Amon, he only played zerg and hybrid until this point!
Cannons should be called flashlights because they shoot photons
Michael Iwinski in that case would everything it shoots be leaves, because they absorb the photons?
So a war fought with Photon cannons would be called....a Blitzkrieg?
how high were you when commenting this?
Hojin Cho all of high
Why did I always think they were Proton Cannons?!
In the next episodes let the Korhal missions to the final, with this you can unlock more dialogues for the different characters.
>Attacked by scouts.
>Warps in zealots.
so they can look angrily at those scouts
*yell angrily
Noble Rock yell them down for we are the voice of Aiur!
ıllıaυraтιcıllı logic
Not thhayscouts are particularly worrying
They're protoss. They warped the whole thing out. I mean, WE SAW IT BEING WARPED OUT.
Lowko blindness at it's finest.
You gotta love it.
5:54 we all saw that
Thank for 50 like
legit keep looking and don't know what i missed
I think it was the fact that the first pylon wasn't in range of one of the photon cannons so he needed to place a second. I may be wrong though...
He clicked on the pylon icon instead of using hotkeys
Komrade Kyev lol what? He misplaced the pylon, so he only powered up the one photon cannon and the shield battery instead of both photon cannons.
kek okay, thanks for pointing that one out
Karax has a beard.Let's just meditate upon what has transpired there....
Fact: The dragoon was the grandfather of the Immortal not the Stalker
If I recall correctly, dragoons are zealots that have been severely injured and can no longer fight on their own (I remember Fenix talking about it in SC1 after he was mauled by a hydralisk when his psi blades failed)
Immortals are Protoss spirits that have been "resurrected" (I guess) and renew their pledge of valor to fight (think it has to do with their line "I return to serve")
After the fall of Aiur the technology to produce dragoons was lost, so they heavily upgraded the remaining ones to something near to unkillable hence their new names of Immortals.
"Before the loss of Aiur, crippled Protoss warriors could volunteer to continue their service by transplanting their shattered remains into Dragoon exoskeletons. Tragically, the technology to continue this practice was lost in the rubble of their fallen homeworld. The remaining Dragoons, now known as Immortals, have been refitted with Twin Phase Disruptors and hardened energy shields. These heavily armed and shielded fighters give critical support by eliminating enemy artillery and ranged attackers, although they are vulnerable to rapid assaults from lesser foes. These ancient warriors are a dying breed willing to sacrifice everything for their people. Soon none will remain." From -us.battle.net/sc2/en/game/unit/immortal
Nathaniel Hagan you deserve a cold beer man, so fucking correct
In the development of st2 they decide to create a new game unit based on the dragun, that's how one of the team thinked in create a drak dragun, that how the stalker was created. Also the inmortal is based too on the dragun idea.
Basically both inmortal and stalker was created by the idea of the dragun. You can look that on the wiki if you want bro =D
The stalker and immortal both descend from the dragoon. IIRC they were originally conceived as splitting its all-purpose role in SC:BW into two distinct styles.
The answer to the impossible Spear of Adun gap paradox lies in warp technology of the Protoss. Spear of Adun didn't have to fit through the gap - it only needed to remove forward supports to warp away.
Protoss architecture allows building stuff in the planet's mantle.
That's how do you fit an arkship somewhere underground.
The main reason the spear of Adun is not launched is because Fenix and some templars are laying siege to the judicator complex (during broodwar, i think) and they coundn't launch the arkship.
I love how here and there Artanis and Amon use lines from Zeratul's vision of the future like "Even the ground beneath your feet carries the seeds of your destruction."
5:55 Lowko thinking ahead, deploying 2 pylons to avoid supply block. Next level Protoss strats!
Amon: I will free everyone from their eternal suffering.
*a wild Lowko apears*
Amon: Screw this, im going back to being dead...
Lowko in the next mision if you wait at the menu screen a few seconds the enemy unitis will start dancing
He should try clicking on them, to make them dance xD
Im curious, did you noticed that the cells have their own power field?
good ol' Lowko blindness (?) xD
You make this game look so easy as a whole, but then I remember that even playing on just hard I had a much more difficult time getting anything done.
Phase-smiths are not part of the Templar caste or the Templars (Which is more of a faction inside the protoss) by default. However most of em are rumored to be Khalai (Protoss who follow the Khala - Nerazim / Dark Templars are not Khalai, for example).
Cheerok There of the Khalai caste, in the normal Khala caste system. That caste consists of the workmen(workprotoss?) of society, craftsmen, etc.
The Khalai are actually not really a caste, they are more comparable to a religious group inside the protoss, but as they are the majority considering the Protoss from Aiur/"normal" Protoss, you could say that most castes have a huge amount of members, who are in fact Khalai.
Phase-smiths are generally speaking what we would call engineers. Highly skilled engineers to be specific.
Protoss society is divided into 3 caste, the templar (warriors), the judicator (leaders/politicians), and the khalai (workmen and artisans).
Lowko, concerning your worry about the Spear of Adun gap's width - perhaps it is like an umbrella - starting as the ship you see there, compressed and dormant, and once it's activated and in the space, it opens up, generating the enormous force fields. If you look at a picture of it, there is not that much Ship at all, but those "wing" structures are veeerry big, and well, with the shields they have, they make it even bigger looking. ^^
24:00 Lowko, you've seen tens of thousands of warp ins. It shouldn't be that hard to recognize a warp out.
Part of me hopes you'll blow Shakurus off as long as possible so you can get the cooler version of the Spear of Adun's weapon system activation cutscene and so you'll have enough power to get all the Solarite on Shakurus this time. But I know everyone else will tell you to go to Korhal last now that Fenix's dialogue about Raynor will actually mean something to you/getting Vorazun's dialogue about Korhal.
Which Cutscene?
And what will Fenix say to Raynor?
Yeah, I had to reload about 12 times and ended with 8 stalkers focus firing the last power cell down. Lowko is OP.
This is one of the most difficult missions in the campaign on brutal, definitely will test your chops. Like many missions it is way easier with proper sim city and walling ramps well.
i think it just warped out, like a “straight to hyperspace while still in the atmosphere” deal
-Actual- lore:
Artanis died this day while trying to activate the spear of adun. He then got resurrected in the Heroes of the Storm and got accompanied by resurrected Zeratul and Tassadar and they fought happily ever after.
The mission with the rip fields and battlecruisers in Wings of Liberty has a similar ship like the Spear of Adun. An arch-ship of Xel-Naga making. The ship itself is the map to play on.
considering the size comparison of xel'naga and protoss physiology it is not surprising that a xel'naga ship would be larger than even the largest protoss ship.
And thank you for playing it for the story.
I brought it up in the "Fridge Logic" section of TV Tropes on Legacy of the Void... given the length of the Spear of Adun and how it's stored essentially standing upright, the stern would be embedded in Aiur's mantle.
I like how your zealots don't have 'pony-tails' in this mission, but the enemy zealots do, their skins differ slightly
Those are the little nice Details we want.
About the Spear of Adun, do keep in mind that everything is smaller as i seems, because zealot in-game run the same way as they did in the trailer but if they would literally implement that it would get too fast. If they would have made the ship big enough the map should 10 times its current size.......just scaled down....
from the brief looks of it, Spear of Adun may be folded during this mission and it will expand to the maximum size (as wiki says) when it take offs to space.
So it may be possible for the Spear to look a little smaller than it should be during this mission.
Ok Lowko, you get this mission 2 minutes earlier then last time (2 years before). Congratulations. Now starts serious and danger missions when you be really conected to the Khala to quick finished them.
15:59 karax “well done, all the abandoned warp gates are under our control. As he says this one of the gates is destroyed by the Zerg
ridiculous display of defending an attack from all sides. Dude, Lowko ur real good
Pretty impressive bieng able to hide a gaint ship inside a planet
Lowko just remember what size the Mothership and Leviathan was in the real scale arcade mode and what they are in the normal game.
19:20 maybe Amon is just like us, he just wants to reformat his PC because of all the bugs, and reinstall fresh and clean.
I can kinda understand him, LOL
Lore time!
Khor-shakal, also known as the Great Forum or the Heart of the Conclave, was the capital city of Aiur and, by extension the Khalai Empire. It is here that Tassadar had a confruntation with the Conclave for the first time and destroyed the nexus of the city before he was detained by Aldaris. It is not told in canon exactly what happened to the city after that, however, we do know that it was destroyed by the Zerg Swarm very close before the death of the Overmind, possibly at the same time as the action in the mission Eye of the Storm was taking place. There is a very good original StarCraft custoom campaign called "StarCraft: Inconsummate" made by Pr0nogo which is a great lore decorator and decides to explain in detail the fall of Khor-shakal. In the headcanon of the campaign, the city is destroyed by cerebrate Tuzor (The cerebrate you play as in the original StarCraft zerg campaign.) at the same time as the last battle against the Overmind takes place. The mission concludes with the cerebrate sensing the death of the Overmind right after the destruction of the Great Forum.
Those Power Cells can also be used to warp in units, Lowko.
Just an FYI Lowko, Karax is not a Templar. He is the lowest class of the Aiur Protoss: the Khalai caste. They are the workers, while the Templar are the warriors, and the Arbiters are the ruling class. The faction of Protoss that remained connected to the Khala were simply known as the Aiur Protoss.
Did I hear *H U G H M U N G U S*?
Nice Meme
I remember that meme!
You just abused a woman! This man is sexually harassing me! Don’t touch me! Don’t touch me? What is your name? I have you on camera now.
Is this sexual harassment? No this is *H U G H M U N G U S*
Humongous what?
Lowko if you like Blinked stalkers now just wait till you get to choose custom upgrade for them and make sure you choose the green emblem ones same for the Zealots
Lowko Maybe all we see of the spear of Adun was the tip and when it took off it probably just warped into space. There are many gaps in the structure of the Spear of Adun.
Maybe the stalkers sacrificed them selves to blink the spear.
Karax is not a templar, he is of the khalai cast. The written khala divides the protoss into three castes: judicators, those who rule and manage the law, templars, the warriors who defend the rest, and the khalai, workers of all skills and trades
All Protoss from Aiur were part of the Khala through their nerve cords, whether they were Templar (warriors) or Khalai (civilians). The Nerazim (dark templar) severed their nerve cords at birth to be free of the Khala, and were exiled for it. And the Tal'darim never had the Khala, whether they had nerve cords or not.
Just popped in to pointlessly correct your description; it was never meant for war. It was meant for survival in the darkest hour.
Ever notice how only the Protoss have heroes that die? The closest you get for Zerg or Terran heroes that bite the dust is like Tycus or Warfield if you can call them a hero or maybe Tosh and Dr. Hanson which are minor characters and optional deaths. Everyone else is a villain like Arcturus, Amon, Zurvan and the pack leaders, Dugalle, and Ma'lash.
Amon's story
Amon's hatred
Amon's darkness
would be great if it would become a campaign
or a MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOH!!!
16:08: Maybe no one's perfect at blink micro, but LiquidNazgul VS EGidrA on Metalopolis is where it got big. That was a Starcraft II moment.
you can always assume that the rest of the ship was deep underground. and it actually WARPED out from in there, and only the top bit had to be uncovered for that to work. :D
I basically said this on the last video but I'll say it again here: please go to Shakuras first. Amon is even now sending a torrent of Zerg through the warp gate from Aiur to extinguish all Protoss life on the Daelaam's capital world. In the face of such a massacre, Raynor and the Keystone must wait. Go to your people's aid, Lowko, I beg of you - you are their only hope!
Im glad the spear of adun is the only size discrepancy in sc2 you have an issue with
The atmousphereic pressure and temperature 75 kilometers down must be insane.
To be able to jump to light speed, it is possible that the Protoss have figured out how to remove the mass of the spear of adun allowing it to not interact with anything in the ground. This would allow it to pass through the planet without damaging it.
The Bro cannons
The spear of Adun actually warped into space, it never got out its seal that fast.
anyone else think this and the final mission are the hardest missions?
Well, I also found difficult the one before the final mission.
Yep.
xsenitel4 you mean the one where you've got to protect Kerrigan? Yup that's the hardest one.
if you save periodically you can time the warp prisms and the nydus drops. IT gets stupid easy.
The last mission is so easy put production buildings by karax 1000% faster build for units
Wow, the Spear of Adun dwarfs most stuff in Star Wars and 40k. 75 kilometers? That's INSANELY massive! Good on the Protoss.
Hey Lowko, remember in SC1 when Duke's ship crashed and was roughly the size of a Siege Tank on the ground? Don't think so hard about the scale of things on the map Kappa
Every time lowko makes static defense, an Angel gets Its wings
Actually Selendis isn't under Amon's control. This is just what she's like before she's had her coffee.
Spear of Adun was built underground. It escaped it's subterranean facility by warping directly to space.
Damn,Artanis aspired to be the greatest barber in Protoss civilization...
3:40 The clouds in the background looks like a puppy
Two possiblities with the spear of adun: it could have been put there and extracted using warp tech, or it might be in a more compact form while dormant and during launch.
I found the LotV campaign a lot harder than the previous ones. I recommend going to Raynor first, as Shakuras is really hard with only standard gateway units and DTs, although with how much better you are at micro than most players you might have no problems at all :D
Karax: "don't touch my do, I got it done in the hood"
excellent pylon placement lowko
If u zoom in on the protos units u wil notice even the looks have changed. they also have the nerve cords removed
Given how spindly the Spear of Adun is (and how super-advanced golden age Protoss tech was), I wouldn't put it past the ancient Protoss to design the thing to fold itself up for storage.
Now that I think about it the Khala is essentially the protoss version of a hive mind.
If I have one request Lowko, do all the bonus objectives, you missed some last time you played Legacy of the Void.
It is war. They don't exactly have time to greave over their fallen friends lowko. Also the protoss view dying in battle as the highest honor.
The spear of adun WARPED OUT of the planet.
For the next Choice, Liberating Shakuras, and then the Ice Planet and Korhal finally is my preferred playthru choice, if you want the most of the story.
But I want to see Lowko stumble thru the temple of the past mission on brutal without the luxury of pylon speed sentries.
1. Deploy another pylon.
2. Instantly get an achievement.
3. The text says: «Getting Deployed».
4. Guess what that achievement was for.
Indeed.
I have complyted the legacy of void . in some missions they attaked from behind the minrerl line & places without defence eg - from the sides etc
I was just spamming refresh on your videos page lol. It took a few minutes more than 24 hours so I was confused why I didn`t see a new video
The Spear of Adun is not hidden below the mountain .. *it IS the mountain!*
Is it me or does amon sound like thanos? Because of all the salvation and ending suffering thing.
Amon was Thanos before it was cool.
The Spear warped directly into space, no need to launch.
Fun Fact: if you look at the Zealots carefully, you'll notice they dont have nerve cords anymore compare to the previous missions
Just what the doctor ordered. Well, that's a lie, he ordered some chemotherapy, but this video can cure cancer right?
Zeratul vs Artanis was like qui gon jinn vs Darth maul
Its a deep hole my dude, they put it in there rocketship launch style.
"Protoss have nipples."
But did you notice they actually breathe? 2:45 Karax breathes in and out despite having no mouth nor gills.
From SCWiki, Spear of Adun is approx. 74Km long. Whereas Leviathan is about 6.7Km
The Spear was mostly underground, only the tip was poking above ground. When reactivated, it didn't fly. It teleported out. Why the tip was exposed when it was supposed to be hidden is beyond me.
So you never wonder how they do pack so many troops in a warp prism, but you wonder how they do hide an ancient ship of kilometers in size. Huh.
Currently, Karax is only Khalai (both the name of the main Protoss faction, as well as their largest caste, which is made up of scholars and workers).
I think if you want to make the Ark Ship more realistic, the map designer can put it on the back of the base, so the Spear control room could be seen behind the mineral lines.
IDK, just my opinion.
Nicely done, Lowko el Loco.
I would recommend to start the campaign on Shakuras, then rescue Fénix and then go to Korhal, would like to see what Fenix thinks of Raynor
Its possible that the ship didn't actually fly through that gap and literally just warped out of its position in the planet. They have that sort of technology so its believable at least to an extent.
Lowko "I'm starting to think that Executor Selendis is not necessarily the nice gal"
No, she's not. Remember, she is the one that was going to cleanse the human-Zerg infestation on Haven.
the spear just warped away
BTW, try and use some Dragoons in some missions. They can be sometimes more useful than Stalkers especially on Sky Shield.
lowko... you realize if they made battlecruisers in multiplayer realistically sized, they would be massive aswell as the spear of adun. instead, they scaled the battle cruisers to about ultralisk size so they could show it in game.