This feels a lot like watching diamond games on fast forward. Nobody can micro, reaction times are slow, producing workers consistently is hard, massive throws and counterthrows multiple times per game. Top level content.
God, I need burn cream just offhand listening to that. “If this is what he came up with after thinking for awhile… I would maybe recommend just not thinking and going with your natural instincts”
thanks for this idea haha! its perfect he sounds so drunk and tired and slurring all of his words. i can imagine his eyes going crossed while trying to make this video
New series idea: The small brain guide Basically you cover some of the worst builds you have ever seen either in a match OR submitted by viewers. However you gotta cover them as if they are the best build you have ever seen. Perhaps you could also make it a part of the BGMwSS series, where you'd always cover the build from the previous episode and talk about how imba it was.
It sounds nice, but it actually wouldn't be that great. The game would take too long (or most mineral patches would never be touched) and an army that size would be too unwieldy to control. It would be far better to have a 4v4 than 1 person controlling 1000 supply.
Seems like static defense would be much more valuable than normal due to the response time issues against harass as mentioned in the early part of the video.
1:18:43 : After loosing banshees to biles. "clem is so pathethic, he loses banshees to biles. I never loose banshees to biles", says the protoss player lol
I watched a lot of this at 50% replay speed. These guys are still good. Pretty sure they'd crush the competition where I am 2500 MMR, if we somehow came up with time warp technology and decided to use it to slow down SC2 pros to see how they'd do on the ladder.
I generally watch all videos on youtube between 1.8 and 2.6 speed because of how slow the vast majority of content is, once you get used to quick speech it's much more engaging, watching regular speed media becomes so tedious. This game speed is perfect and the announcement speed is still 2x, I wish all SC was played this fast!
It would be interesting to see a mod where the cost and production time of everything is halved but time moves normally. So you do get everything twice as fast, but micro is normal
I paused the video for a while and switched from my tablet to my PC 1 hour later. When I started watching, I thought for a minute that you and Lambo were watching the replay at a higher speed and discussing it :D So confusing...
My first intention of this mod is that any composition that requires less micro would be more viable, since the speed is 2x, meaning the apm required would be 2x, something like 1000 apm in average, which is too hard even for pro-players. As zerglings chasing cars, because cars need more micro to kite lings than lings to surround cars. In general, melee units are more powerful than usual comparing to range units imo, players can put their apm into more other things.
Due to the fact that responding time is reduced, I was thinking skipping tier two units into higher tech units would be easier than usual because the opponent might be too late to scout. In zvz, while being behind, using lings against early few roaches by defending, catching reinforcements, or either harassing, while teching into lurker behind might be better than producing roaches same as opponent to defend.
What I want to see are pro tournaments at normal speed (ie. not the fastest in-game setting) and see what they can do with the micro given larger timeframes. I always feel everything in the game suffers because the goddamn battles are over in ten seconds.
This was massively entertaining. I also agree with the other players that the speed mod wasn't quite right. Replaying the video on 1/2 speed the drones looked totally normal, but the movement animations still looked ridiculous, I had to turn it down to arround 1/4 speed before the unit movement looked normal again. My conclusion is the drones move and mine at 2x speed but the units were on ~2.5-3x speed. I think harstem needed to either put normal game speed with the 2x mod (he had faster game speed set) or he needed to turn on fast mining.
Odd choice there at the start for goblin with his proxy. Spirit's mineral line was pretty much completely undefended. Personally, I woulda dropped a line of cannons and just killed as many of his SCV as I could get with those voidrays. :)
41:15 "But then again the banelings roll so fast. How do you even respond to this?" - Welcome to the world of salty terrans. This is what regular speed banelings feel like for us plebs. :D
This was very fun to watch, how much did it cost to fund this? I'd be interested in being the patron for a new one of these focused around mirror matches.
This was a series of Harstem realizing, 1 unit at a time, that EVERYTHING is sped up by 2x ;p Love how he clowns on player, suggesting he thinks only his units are sped up, but doesn't realize until game 20 that Overlords are sped up, not just Queens. Yes, EVERYTHING! xD
Suggestion: get two top players like Serral and Maru to play at 2x speed, then watch it back at half (aka normal) speed and commentate viciously. "ANOTHER blunder by Serral! He just doesn't seem to have it today."
I think the way zerg works makes it built better for this mod. All units are from the same building, zerg already used rapid fire to spam out units, a lot of the units are A moved and zerg will always has the better eco to make up for unavoidable macro mistakes. The only thing that they lose is the ability to transfuse and it's harder to spread creep
Only a couple mins in but storm/disruptors would be mad in this game mode. Anything that requires good micro or splits to fight against, maybe banelings too. Widow mines would suck to play against for sure
I can not beleaive i just watched 3h video with the content of 6h. Nice tournament though. Harstem, did you consider to use your Patreon to raise funds for more tournaments like this? With mods or 2-v-2. I think comutiny might interesing in donating for this :)
ok, now I want Winter to watch the second game of Skillous vs Elazer on 0,5x speed (so it cancels out), because I feel that would be worth competitor in Bronze League Heroes
Harstem massively increasing the difficulty with 2x speed then commentating as harshly as if it's a normal game is extremely good content
3 seconds late while trying to multitask at 2x with all my mental timings completely out the window. I am shame
Double the amount of APM and were talking shit about floating 200 resources in the early game lol
I was expecting a prank where harstem just hosts normal tourney, casts like normal, and then uploads everything at 2x speed for some reason
that would have been pretty hilarious tho
other way around would be better XD
I watched a good part of the video at .5 speed and it's pretty great haha but the video is too long. Harstem sounding like a drunk Eeyore is a bonus.
@@Samantis45 lmao this dude cannot abide at that speed
I think Harstem is right, recasting these at 1x speed would be hilarious. I might have to rewatch some of the games on 0.5x or 0.75x
oh my, i took your advise and watched at 0.5 speed, and it is the most cursed thing, it sounds like harstem is comentating while having a stroke
@@ariebaudoin4824 Rightfully so, after seeing Skillous vs Elazer
@@ariebaudoin4824 lmao! Now I have to do it! That sounds hilarious. I'm expecting him to sound very drunk
@@ariebaudoin4824 Rofl hahahahaha cant stop laughing (7:46 ooooooh, whhhhhaat's hiiim doing there in granpa voice)
They need to have a .5X game but cashed in normal time to show epic micro splits lol
This feels a lot like watching diamond games on fast forward. Nobody can micro, reaction times are slow, producing workers consistently is hard, massive throws and counterthrows multiple times per game. Top level content.
Yeah,
Watch it on 0.5 speed and its litterally that
you're the wyrmhole from the IIIODIS Episode?
I am so impressed with the interview at the end. So friendly and positive. Amazing players, amazing personalities.
This is the most fun I've had watching SCII in years. Absolutely hysterical. Thanks Harstem!
God, I need burn cream just offhand listening to that.
“If this is what he came up with after thinking for awhile… I would maybe recommend just not thinking and going with your natural instincts”
Skillous Vs Elazer is the series of the decade for me, my sides are in orbit.
Now, watching this video on 2x speed is bigbrain xD
You mean .5
@@NoName-qf2gs nono, watching the x2 video x2 again - the ultimate time saver
@@Urono you must be a very efficient man
Do you also set your laundry on 2x speed?
@@StrigWilson yeah xD I do everything at 4x speed Kappa
Watch it 0,5x and listen to drunk Harstem casting a normal game
At 1:09:34 a larva dies because it moves off creep, but how did it get there in the first place!?
it had bigger dreams than just being another ling, and it died for them
@@xxilysunxx dark
"I wonder what Elazer's gonna do on the toilet?" 3:08:24 he's not going to use it, he's getting a build out of it.
I would love to see more simple but impactful mods played in a tournament by pros! This content was awesome :)
"This is to dumb for us, you're out" - this really got me
its nice seeing harstem do some custom matches, maybe he will fall to the darkness of the arcade... = )
Watched a game with 0.5x speed
Looks normal, but harstem sounds super drunk
LOL
🤣 true that
Definitely the best way to watch XD
True!
thanks for this idea haha! its perfect he sounds so drunk and tired and slurring all of his words. i can imagine his eyes going crossed while trying to make this video
That Skillous Vs Elazer 2nd game was an absolute work of art. What a game! XD
This was so much more fun to watch than I expected. Would watch another 3 hour vid!
New series idea: The small brain guide
Basically you cover some of the worst builds you have ever seen either in a match OR submitted by viewers. However you gotta cover them as if they are the best build you have ever seen.
Perhaps you could also make it a part of the BGMwSS series, where you'd always cover the build from the previous episode and talk about how imba it was.
Think Harstem copied gold league builds before.
this would get old quick I feel
It was IMBA - just not in the good for that player kind of way lol
I don't know what's harder, playing this mod or casting a game using this mod
Haha ya I was thinking the same thing
Nukes would be crazy. Imagine looking for the small red dot of a nuke at this insane speed.
Getting to late game is probably the hard part
I've always wanted to see a pro game on a massive map with like 100 mineral spots for bases. 1000 supply limit. It would be epic.
It sounds nice, but it actually wouldn't be that great. The game would take too long (or most mineral patches would never be touched) and an army that size would be too unwieldy to control. It would be far better to have a 4v4 than 1 person controlling 1000 supply.
2:23:35
Starcraft II: watch pro matches to learn new strategies
Pro players: march the queens
Harstem watching a game of 2x speed mod: "It's like watching a replay at 8x speed!"
This might have already been the greatest video for the year!
This was AMAZING. Great job casting, Harstem. I was laughing the whole way through at the pure madness of it all.
Would love to see more
Seems like static defense would be much more valuable than normal due to the response time issues against harass as mentioned in the early part of the video.
Harstem: "this is the worst opener I've seen in my life."
IODIS: "Am I a joke to you"
2x speed mod? Zergs: time for queen march
Loved this so much! Many thanks to whoever sponsored this!
28:17 Tank and Turret are best friends... Harstem, we're still waiting for the SC2 nursery rhyme album to drop. I search spotify every week.
1:18:43 : After loosing banshees to biles. "clem is so pathethic, he loses banshees to biles. I never loose banshees to biles", says the protoss player lol
that 2 base skytoss losing to 1 base queen is just lmao
My god, this is a thing of beauty! I'm so far only 30 minutes in and dying laughing/crying. We MUST have more of this!
Watching this at half speed is hilarious! Normal SC2 speed, but Harstem sounds super duper drunk. xD
All of the tournaments should be played like that :D
I watched a lot of this at 50% replay speed. These guys are still good. Pretty sure they'd crush the competition where I am 2500 MMR, if we somehow came up with time warp technology and decided to use it to slow down SC2 pros to see how they'd do on the ladder.
35:45 love that reference to the IODIS 'easy walls' complaints
Watching this on 2x is a GIGACHAD move
“Unless of course one of you is into speed walking, in which case keep going.”
Yup, that’s what they do.
I wonder if these games can have the 2x speed mod taken off in replay.
If so we could have the ultimate troll games for Rank Roulette season 3 :P
Bly's builds are so good, they no need to be changed in case of 2x speed mod ) Bly plays his "normal" game against Clem and wins )
8:36 "Unless one of you is of course into speed walking, in that case: *keep going* " LMAO I see what you did there cap
This is the single greatest piece of content I have ever watched in my entire life.
Yes please! 40:24 Series highlights, but at normal speed, lol
If you host any more fun tournaments like this. Maybe an off-race tournament. Does Clem have a Protoss? Maybe! I’d like to see it
Love the idea.
I generally watch all videos on youtube between 1.8 and 2.6 speed because of how slow the vast majority of content is, once you get used to quick speech it's much more engaging, watching regular speed media becomes so tedious. This game speed is perfect and the announcement speed is still 2x, I wish all SC was played this fast!
13:06 I feel very called out as I lay in my bed, just now waking up.
Now I hope he does a tournament with Scion Custom Races, would be amazing to see
I habitually watch youtube on 1.5X speed, so for this video i'm actually seeing the gameplay on 3X speed...very interesting!
I saw the 3 hour timing for a tournament WITH BEST OF 5s.
I watched the first 3 games and it all made sense lmaooooooooooooo
that queen shuffle
I like how you can live cast an entire tournament in a 3h video
I believe that it actually makes timing and build order harder that they are so good at the game, because it's so ingrained in them.
It would be interesting to see a mod where the cost and production time of everything is halved but time moves normally.
So you do get everything twice as fast, but micro is normal
40:26 you really should do a highlight reel, or cast a whole 2x speed game on normal speed.
I paused the video for a while and switched from my tablet to my PC 1 hour later. When I started watching, I thought for a minute that you and Lambo were watching the replay at a higher speed and discussing it :D
So confusing...
My first intention of this mod is that any composition that requires less micro would be more viable, since the speed is 2x, meaning the apm required would be 2x, something like 1000 apm in average, which is too hard even for pro-players. As zerglings chasing cars, because cars need more micro to kite lings than lings to surround cars. In general, melee units are more powerful than usual comparing to range units imo, players can put their apm into more other things.
Due to the fact that responding time is reduced, I was thinking skipping tier two units into higher tech units would be easier than usual because the opponent might be too late to scout. In zvz, while being behind, using lings against early few roaches by defending, catching reinforcements, or either harassing, while teching into lurker behind might be better than producing roaches same as opponent to defend.
3:19:23 Finally watched it to the end! Good stuff! Elazer needs a better microphone, but I really enjoyed the theorycraft discussion.
GG. one of the most entertaining things I saw SC2 related ! makes zerg OP :D
On a future map it would be cool to see one of the mid/late game expansion have the speed boost zone covering it.
it's funny seeing colossi shooting 4 lasers at once
I also love how silly the stalkers look while walking in this mod xD
Finally the control is starting to look more like in my games :D
What I want to see are pro tournaments at normal speed (ie. not the fastest in-game setting) and see what they can do with the micro given larger timeframes. I always feel everything in the game suffers because the goddamn battles are over in ten seconds.
This moves so fast, and when Harstem starts speaking fast, my brain starts to speed up and I feel like I'm on drugs
This was massively entertaining. I also agree with the other players that the speed mod wasn't quite right. Replaying the video on 1/2 speed the drones looked totally normal, but the movement animations still looked ridiculous, I had to turn it down to arround 1/4 speed before the unit movement looked normal again. My conclusion is the drones move and mine at 2x speed but the units were on ~2.5-3x speed. I think harstem needed to either put normal game speed with the 2x mod (he had faster game speed set) or he needed to turn on fast mining.
Odd choice there at the start for goblin with his proxy. Spirit's mineral line was pretty much completely undefended. Personally, I woulda dropped a line of cannons and just killed as many of his SCV as I could get with those voidrays. :)
That was a lot of fun!
best moment: if banshies cloacked bly loses the game.
3 banshies: instantly biled down in one volley
41:15
"But then again the banelings roll so fast. How do you even respond to this?" - Welcome to the world of salty terrans. This is what regular speed banelings feel like for us plebs. :D
This was very fun to watch, how much did it cost to fund this? I'd be interested in being the patron for a new one of these focused around mirror matches.
I'm just blown away by how fast those queens move
Video Idea: pro Match where both switch sides every few minutes. As long as you get victory with the side you are controlling at the time, you win.
I put myself in service of Harstem for creating the FunCraft mod, with the most weird enhances
You should host another tournament but at Normal speed
0.5 speed tournament
Harstem you need to get Serral in this mode
To him this would be normal speed.
This was pretty epic to watch on 2x speed ;-)
That's actually how I see the game on normal speed when I play star craft myself
This was a series of Harstem realizing, 1 unit at a time, that EVERYTHING is sped up by 2x ;p
Love how he clowns on player, suggesting he thinks only his units are sped up, but doesn't realize until game 20 that Overlords are sped up, not just Queens.
Yes, EVERYTHING! xD
What about the opposite? 0.5x speed tournament? And then maybe speed it up
X2 speed X2 enjoyment that’s how it works no?
Suggestion: get two top players like Serral and Maru to play at 2x speed, then watch it back at half (aka normal) speed and commentate viciously. "ANOTHER blunder by Serral! He just doesn't seem to have it today."
You'll ruin the lives of halfthe teenagers who watch it. "I can micro better than that... I should turn pro!"
I think the way zerg works makes it built better for this mod. All units are from the same building, zerg already used rapid fire to spam out units, a lot of the units are A moved and zerg will always has the better eco to make up for unavoidable macro mistakes. The only thing that they lose is the ability to transfuse and it's harder to spread creep
Next tournament: Half speed!
That was hilarious, love when you lose it at build orders
I haven't laughed so much in a long time . amazing .
We need to see this again. See if you could get some of the Koreans to join. This the greatest content I've seen on this channel in a long time.
8:36 underappreciated joke. Not sure if the captain himself intended it!
X2 speed just makes everyone sick at micro. B)
Only a couple mins in but storm/disruptors would be mad in this game mode. Anything that requires good micro or splits to fight against, maybe banelings too. Widow mines would suck to play against for sure
Congrats to the winner, well played games throughout
I can not beleaive i just watched 3h video with the content of 6h. Nice tournament though.
Harstem, did you consider to use your Patreon to raise funds for more tournaments like this? With mods or 2-v-2.
I think comutiny might interesing in donating for this :)
Starting off 2022 with a bang!
How about a tournament for the SC2 Randomizer mod? It's an extension mod in the melee section
You should use those replay at normal speed in the next season of rank roulette
Great content!
It's *happening!!!*
Played a game after watching this. Never has starcraft felt so slow in my life.
ok, now I want Winter to watch the second game of Skillous vs Elazer on 0,5x speed (so it cancels out), because I feel that would be worth competitor in Bronze League Heroes
Hypercraft! I feel like reality is 0.5x after watching this
This should be the default speed for the game for now on lmao