Never thought of requesting this, but thanks ! I started doing the 100% completion brutal runs a bit ago. Did fine on WoL until In Utter Darkness, where I got stuck. Ran over the entire HotS campaign, came back, still can't get halfway through... I'll see if immortals were the answer, thanks !
The answer is either dt walls until overseers are too much to manage, or collosus into void ray into carrier. Mineral dump cannons. You don't have to expand.
On The Reckoning you don't have to defend Jim at all, except for the scripted special attack waves. He might lose a bunker, but will rebuild it, as long as you don't cover that spot with creep. My advice is to just rush the other side. To save Jim from scripted attack waves, save your ult. If you fire it at the attack wave, it's guaranteed to be off cooldown before the next scripted attack hits. Another advice is to take it slow (unless you go for achievement). Mass your army at home and spread creep, only push when you're bored of massing army. Once all 3 allies are unlocked, as long as you don't mess up your defense against a random attack wave, together with Jim they can win this without your help (though it takes them a very long time, so consider helping).
Main question, why were you able to count up to 23 with your fingers and toes?! How do you have three extra digits?! Also thanks for the video, enjoyed it a ton, can't wait to see your next video in 3 months!
_"I lost count after 23, when I ran out of fingers and toes to count on."_ Grant, I think I finally understand how you micro so well. That 8-fingered left hand can do a lot of hot-key work.
One thing about the bouncy purple banelings on brutal: the Brutal AI, if I recall correctly, tries to kite away from banelings. This makes the bouncy banelings jump at the enemy but not detonate since the enemy has moved away. The bounce also causes the baneling to pause awkwardly for about half a second, during which time it'll likely be killed without its explosion causing substantial damage. So, I think splitter banelings are better than the bouncy banelings on brutal exclusively because of this AI behaviour.
If you want to really use banelings, yes, use splitter. But if you don't, get a few bouncing boys and it makes enemy AI run about instead of attacking half the time, letting your actual army kill them much easiesr.
@@admiraljohnny1017 I'm trash at zerg and I beat it on brutal, turns out zerg is really easy when you have kerrigan and 9 larvae in every hatchery by default.. Now inject timings, creep spead, and controlling the swarm outside of f2 on ladder on the other hand...
And Remember to take your sweet ass time, this is not multiplayer and this is a singleplayer campaign that you can abuse Saves and it's not a speedrun either, you are not punished for being too slow, no one's stopping you from maxing supply and attack move
Fun fact: in Waking the Ancient, the difficulty of the attack waves are dependent on how much meat you've turned in, but the primals can't destroy harvested meat globs, so if you just burrow your drone before it tosses the meat in Zurvan's mouth, you can pile all 7 up in front of him, never face anything harder than the initial enemy encounters, and once you turn in all the meat, trigger every voice line one after the other before Brakk comes out. Also, Critical Queen Mass finally got me the "Premature Evacuation" achievement after quite literally 2 years of attempts, so major thanks for that
12:50 In case anyone doesn't understand what Grant is saying here (took me a bit of time to figure it out): 'danmaku' (弾幕) is Japanese for bullet hell or artillery barrage (the two kanji mean 'bullet' and 'curtain' respectively).
The Temple Jesus cameo is the highlight of this video :D. Love that guy, he used to stream SC2, with GM zerg, to cool tunes, and he is a drummer, and sings on stream, lovely ambiance with a heartwarming community. Also did some 1on1 coaching from him, didn't know he was a campaign defense master :D But Big Big fan of Grant of course the lost viking achievement is preventing me from 100% WOL achies so many thanks!
Selendis is looking like alien lizard-ish female must look - cool, magnificent, but almost totally inhuman But Adept on the other hand is confusingly cute and cuddleable. They even have sus breast armor
They built Selendis up to be a good Protoss protag or companion, and even went so far as to say she would play a prominent role in LotV before it was released.... then had Amon take her as his avatar her in the opening of LotV :/
My brother and I beat the lost vikings by taking turns jamming the space bar into oblivion, pausing when are hands cramped, and then did it again...wish I had seen this 9 years ago
This video came out right as I just started my “get all achievements” run since I have a bit of free time before my job starts in september. I love being the main character in life
I have a funny one for the stukov temple mission. If you wait for a few minutes with kerrigan during the very beginning, and you have her ultimate abilities, you can summon the primals or the leviathan and start the mission with those, giving you a ton of extra early firepower.
I love how well the Warcraft 2 theme fits with this video. It's like the RTS cheese anthem. I was able to get 100% achievements before this with the help of the 24 hour stream "all campaign achievements" run Grant did a while back. So go give that a watch too for extra awesomeness. Thanks Grant!
The correct thing to do is to pick Hanson because then you get to fight-date Selendis. Fighting Selendis is a great way to get to know her, and it shows Raynor has self respect and loyalty to his previous commitments. Selendis will absolutely pick up the phone after smashing dudes together like that. Plus you get to save the colonists and all, that's cool too.
29:28 MegaThicc was his name in highschool the best tips for missions, I've found are in this order: - Which units are best for a mission. Which missions unlocked units you shouldnt use, ex: reapers are bad but unlocked in a good reaper mission, hellions arent. Just because you get a new unit doesnt mean you should go for it, unless you want to try it out for fun and not be more optimal. - What is the build order supposed to look like. Knowing if you should rush an expansion, upfront army, macro one base, attack a location... This is tied to knowing the enemy pattern, so test runs are fine and not a failure. - Which are the hard missions. This is important because the dificulty curb in this campaings is weird and a rollercoaster, sometimes it made me mad or disheartened, and felt is was doing things wrong when it's just a hard mission early on.
Pianist here, currently working on all achievements and just got gold on lost viking a few days before release of this video. If you're gonna insist on actually spamming the spacebar yourself, use your middle three fingers instead of your thumbs! Ctrl really isn't that far away, especially with a little practice, and that way you can get the motion supported from your wrist instead of the awkward and less central thumb joint. Spamming for several hours without pain was definitely possible for me, although not realistic if you don't find a way to relax into it and use the minimum amount of energy necessary for it. No shame in downloading the auto spam though, seriously. Years of both drumming and piano meant that I didn't even think about the spamming as a problem, but please treat your wrists kindly, they're the only ones you'll get 😅
Another Lost Viking tip. The weapon drops will cycle through them over time so instead of picking something up you can let it cook until it turns into a bomb or drone or something you actually want.
After watching this video, i have finally decided to do all missions on Brutal, just to find out, I have already done them in past and completely forgot about that :D But did them anyway again following this guide.
Geez, Grant, you didn't have to call us out for our lack of achievements! We're trying our best 😢 Oh, and that's the reason we watch you. To live vicariously through you. Your achievements are our achievements.
Its funny to look at this video after i completed all campaigns 100%... And thanks to you Grant! A lot of strats and general game knowledge i accumulated from your videos, and you kept my attention to RTS for years now
4:17 - "his spandex is sturdier than it seems" Oh no Grant ruined Tosh for me, I'll never be able to see him the same way. My intrusive thoughts just gave me a picture of tosh twerking with a huge cake kekw
Honestly, I'd like to see tips and tricks for the original StarCraft and Broodwar campaign as well. Missions like Return to Char in Broodwar is still a grind for me. The Combine is too easy as zerg you can clear out the ground with queens and use mutas and zerglings to clear out the rest to collect command centers like they are pokemon.
man why does this have to not exist like a year ago when i got into starcraft 2 and was raging at every campaign mission with only videos from 2013 in 240p for help
In HotS campaign you can also use Kerrigan “spawn banelings” ability as healing with healing mutation for banelings. Splitter banelings probably would do more with that ability.
Seeing the Lost Viking section reminds me I need to get back into playing the Touhou games. I own EoSD, PCB, and IN, but I've only managed to 1 CC EoSD and haven't beaten PCB yet.
Gotta love that random HBomb. Him making accidental cameos in random videos every time anything even REMOTELY related to plagiarism comes up is one of my favorite TH-cam-wide bits.
I haven't beaten everything on brutal simply because I dislike how fast and aggressive the enemies become. I feel more stressed than I feel enjoyment so I stick to hard since I find that a good balance.
I'm excited for this one! I've beaten SC2 on brutal before but I've been wanting to go back and it's been so long I can't remember what the important strategies were.
Great video as always! I just can't believe how 20 year old RTS games are still king of the genre 😅 devs suck these days for rts. Long live starcraft, age of empires, warcraft 3 and command and conquer!
As someone who has spent a lot more time replaying Endgame than I should have (though much less than Grant), go mass Marauder (Super stim) & Goliath (Range). ESPECIALLY Marauders. None of the Xanthos' weapons are particularly effective against Marauders. The flamethrower and fighters don't chew through the bulk of superstimmed Marauders fast enough, and you can produce far more Marauders than the Railgun can reasonably kill. Superstim speed makes dodging Missile barrages easy. Marauders are also great for busting bases protected by Siege tank and bunkers, since they can eat the damage and burn down the defenses before too much damage is done. You can also stim and kite attack waves just like with Marines. The only reason Goliaths are here is because you need AA. Going mass Marauder also makes the early game much more approachable and comfy, since you don't have to worry about or spend much resources teching up. Your mineral-to-gas ratio also keeps the production speedy. Marauders are great here.
I wouldn’t recommend the goliath. I had the same idea as you, but when I tried to use Goliaths for anti-air, all of them got Yamato’d to bits before they could fire enough missiles to kill a BC, leaving me with Nova and a sizeable force of marauders.
On the Spear of Adun mission, it's way easier if you slowly clear out the units and spines without activating any of the power cells, and then once they're all cleared out, just activate them all at once. Because each time you activate a power cell, it starts sending more and more powerful attack waves at you.
Fun fact I learned awhile ago, you don't actually have to beat Salvation or the Epilogue on Legacy of the Void to get 100% Brutal win, I'm unsure how it works but I'm pretty sure the Prologue mission count, but the achievement only asks you to beat 19 mission, the length of the actual campaign, so if my hypothesis is correct you can skip 3 missions on Brutal and still get the achievement, possibly 6 but the Epilogue missions were way harder for me than the proper campaign, especially since I never thought of the Mutalisk cheese.
Honestly, the first time I did The Drill, after losing once, I ended up doing the "float a building over and target structures with the drill" trick. Even if you ONLY take out the right-most base, that's one less set of enemies rallying and you can push up your bottom defenders to the door, using them to poke at the top-most rallying attackers. This reduces the pressure on the left side and leaves your secondary base/mineral line pretty safe
I always enjoyed coming back to sc/wc campaigns after watching GGG and using some of the tricks I learned from him, sometimes even if its easy mission, using some cheese or trick just makes it much more fun :D
I didn't played Touhou Games, but the Lost Viking minigame reminded me of another game that I used to play when I was a kid, it's called Demonstar and the remastered version of this game is available on Steam, that's why when I saw Lost Viking for the first time it reminded me of this game.
For infestors in the campaign, bring your overlords with your army to consume them. Overlords are normally useless for anything but supply in the campaign but this gives you near infinite free energy using just the overlords you're making for supply anyway.
17:58 - It is actually Belial's second phase :) But I really appreciate the D3 reference :) Really nice tips and advices. Even though I have completed the campaigns many many times there were some insane things that I never knew and I am eager to try them next time I do a playthrough :)
For the 3rd Protoss Aiur mission, an essential tip is to not clear creep from the power cells right away, as this triggers certain events (nydus & shuttle waves). You can clear them all at once to skip them.
Other people in "one tip for every mission" videos: *rapid-fires one single tip per mission and puts the mission it's for in text in the corner* You: *gives like 1-5 tips per mission and actually explains them; also makes clear when switches happen*
At this point, I need a lesson about resource saturation because: a) I have no grasp how much is enough for what I need b) x/12 and such over command center sounds like a requirement that I have to fulfil no matter what. (which on 1 base missions might not be as perfect)
Basically go for 2/3 of the saturation on minerals and you're good. Campaign and co-op recommends 3 workers/mineral, while ladder recommends 2/mineral which already gives you 90% or so efficiency. Still gotta go 3/3 on gas, though some maps where the gas is a bit far from your CC might want you to go 4/3.
after you buy the orbital command and multi-build upgrades, you sometimes should instead spend your starting minerals and multibuild some command centers. you don't need more scvs, mules mine faster.
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This is by far the most common video request I get, so uhh...enjoy!
We still enjoy Every Every video
Never thought of requesting this, but thanks !
I started doing the 100% completion brutal runs a bit ago.
Did fine on WoL until In Utter Darkness, where I got stuck.
Ran over the entire HotS campaign, came back, still can't get halfway through...
I'll see if immortals were the answer, thanks !
The answer is either dt walls until overseers are too much to manage, or collosus into void ray into carrier. Mineral dump cannons. You don't have to expand.
On The Reckoning you don't have to defend Jim at all, except for the scripted special attack waves. He might lose a bunker, but will rebuild it, as long as you don't cover that spot with creep. My advice is to just rush the other side. To save Jim from scripted attack waves, save your ult. If you fire it at the attack wave, it's guaranteed to be off cooldown before the next scripted attack hits.
Another advice is to take it slow (unless you go for achievement). Mass your army at home and spread creep, only push when you're bored of massing army. Once all 3 allies are unlocked, as long as you don't mess up your defense against a random attack wave, together with Jim they can win this without your help (though it takes them a very long time, so consider helping).
Main question, why were you able to count up to 23 with your fingers and toes?! How do you have three extra digits?! Also thanks for the video, enjoyed it a ton, can't wait to see your next video in 3 months!
"Just like real life, if you need to cross the street, all you need is a couple of Punisher Grenades and Flamethrowers"
Giant "Gargantuan" GrantGames
"Just like real life, you don't have to obey your neighbor's locked doors, you can instead brute force your way through with solar lance"
@@lucasriley1383lmao
_"I lost count after 23, when I ran out of fingers and toes to count on."_
Grant, I think I finally understand how you micro so well. That 8-fingered left hand can do a lot of hot-key work.
he actually only has 1 toe. he has 11 fingers on each hand
@@Nerizwithwhen your hands cover 86% of your keyboard, you just win at SC2.
Edit: 85%, my bad.
I assumed he had some extra fingers or toes in a drawer somewhere. The question is, whose?
(probably Mengsk and the doctor)
"its been 14 years since starcraft 2 released" - its been 8 seconds since video started, and i am already in crippling depression.
time to buy a walking stick
If that makes you old, what about realizing that the release of StarCraft 2 is closer to the building of the great pyramid than it is to today
thats a fucking big amount of time despite being seemingly recently
Yep, I have a child which is younger than Starcraft II
stop caring about the passage of time, nobody can stop it, just live your life as best as you can!
One thing about the bouncy purple banelings on brutal: the Brutal AI, if I recall correctly, tries to kite away from banelings. This makes the bouncy banelings jump at the enemy but not detonate since the enemy has moved away. The bounce also causes the baneling to pause awkwardly for about half a second, during which time it'll likely be killed without its explosion causing substantial damage. So, I think splitter banelings are better than the bouncy banelings on brutal exclusively because of this AI behaviour.
If you want to really use banelings, yes, use splitter. But if you don't, get a few bouncing boys and it makes enemy AI run about instead of attacking half the time, letting your actual army kill them much easiesr.
Also, if you use Kerrigan's "summon Baneling" ability, splitters provide far more bang for your buck.
"you may not even have beaten everything on brutal"
man i couldn't even do it on hard
We all took 1d4 psychic damage from that one.
@@smithied6090poor wizard dead again ehh?
The only campaign that I finished on Brutal is HotS. And that's only because I'm good with Zerg.
@@admiraljohnny1017 I'm trash at zerg and I beat it on brutal, turns out zerg is really easy when you have kerrigan and 9 larvae in every hatchery by default..
Now inject timings, creep spead, and controlling the swarm outside of f2 on ladder on the other hand...
I worry this openning line will just lead to more difficulty elitism in the GGG community 😟
6:22
"Dont forget the secret mission, not that you'd ever do that"
I feel that one is targeted at me, specifically lol
I missed it on my last playthrough despite knowing full well how to get it 8D
I didn't get it until I watched his deathless run
It happens to many of us
And Remember to take your sweet ass time, this is not multiplayer and this is a singleplayer campaign that you can abuse Saves and it's not a speedrun either, you are not punished for being too slow, no one's stopping you from maxing supply and attack move
Other than the Wing's "Done in 8 hours" Cheevo. That's a time limit.
@@Pizza7478 Hurry up, It's Raid night
Fun fact: in Waking the Ancient, the difficulty of the attack waves are dependent on how much meat you've turned in, but the primals can't destroy harvested meat globs, so if you just burrow your drone before it tosses the meat in Zurvan's mouth, you can pile all 7 up in front of him, never face anything harder than the initial enemy encounters, and once you turn in all the meat, trigger every voice line one after the other before Brakk comes out.
Also, Critical Queen Mass finally got me the "Premature Evacuation" achievement after quite literally 2 years of attempts, so major thanks for that
Ah yes, as someone who has never touched a Starcraft game, this is exactly the content I am here to see! :)
would you prefer he deleted it just to cater to you
@@ExValeFor I was saying that I love the content even though I never touched the series?
@@ExValeFor greetings! We don't want you here.
Same here :)
@ExValeFor
Dude. He's joking. Go touch grass.
now i can finally play a difficulty harder than casual
Ähm Mass Marine/Zergling/Stalker does that toooooo?
Me, looking down at the people who need a spacebar macro for the Lost Vikings achievement: *"Pathetic."*
Also me: [leaves to apply arthritis cream]
Arthritis, leader of the Daelaam?
@@Neopolis3 damn, I had no idea that protoss could cream!
I used a freaking controller for that...
12:50 In case anyone doesn't understand what Grant is saying here (took me a bit of time to figure it out): 'danmaku' (弾幕) is Japanese for bullet hell or artillery barrage (the two kanji mean 'bullet' and 'curtain' respectively).
As a casual Touhou enthusiast, I already knew this :D
Google "Touhou".
@@gyppygirl2021 That section made me pause the video to replay Imperishable Night too.
... Probably exactly as planned.
@@Bluebedo Grant has good taste!
Weird idea for a mod, switch anti-air and ground weapons, incuding melee.
Now zerglings can leap up and chew on your starships.
7:12 overbuild medics? 6-8 of them? okay. *proceeds to build 68 medics*
136 supply down the drain
The Temple Jesus cameo is the highlight of this video :D.
Love that guy, he used to stream SC2, with GM zerg, to cool tunes, and he is a drummer, and sings on stream, lovely ambiance with a heartwarming community. Also did some 1on1 coaching from him, didn't know he was a campaign defense master :D
But Big Big fan of Grant of course the lost viking achievement is preventing me from 100% WOL achies so many thanks!
"Selendis is cuter" ah I see you're a man of culture as well
Selendis is looking like alien lizard-ish female must look - cool, magnificent, but almost totally inhuman
But Adept on the other hand is confusingly cute and cuddleable. They even have sus breast armor
@@AtticusKarpenterI still want to know how the Protoss procreate, also I miss pirate rohanna
Selendis best waifu
They built Selendis up to be a good Protoss protag or companion, and even went so far as to say she would play a prominent role in LotV before it was released.... then had Amon take her as his avatar her in the opening of LotV :/
I can hear Subsourian screaming
No way, Grant actually told us to build the Purple Guy on 20:20, what a crazy easter egg, 100% intended by the author!
It's the zerg behind the slaugther
It's been so long since last I've seen my Jim
13:11 "EVERYBODY KNOW IT IS XT39323" XD
That gameshow was amazing.
the deep deep lore (of two weeks ago)
My brother and I beat the lost vikings by taking turns jamming the space bar into oblivion, pausing when are hands cramped, and then did it again...wish I had seen this 9 years ago
Lol love the Hbomberguy plagiarism reference at 27:50. Too funny!
It's now canon Grant has only 23 fingers and toes.
What do you mean “only”….
@@fluffypuppy43884x6=24, Grant must’ve lost one somewhere.
What do you mean you don’t have 6 digits per limb?
@@AmberMuffin 6 digits on each hand must be why grant is so good at SC2
The best tip for a no build mission:
'As long as you don't die, you win'
I'm glad that everyone agrees that Dehaka is a Yoshi
17:58 LOL "Belial"
Why did he call him that?
Is it the same voice actor as Belial from Diablo?
@@sees250 It's basically the same bossfight
@@Pro_Triforceroh didn't know that, thanks
@@sees250 its almost identical to the Belial boss fight in diablo 3
I just called that guy "Zervan" in another comment. I got pissed off, thinking I'd need to go back and edit it!
I got all campaign achievements, yet my greatest campaign achievememt was managing to get the reavers without losing a unit
This video came out right as I just started my “get all achievements” run since I have a bit of free time before my job starts in september.
I love being the main character in life
I have a funny one for the stukov temple mission. If you wait for a few minutes with kerrigan during the very beginning, and you have her ultimate abilities, you can summon the primals or the leviathan and start the mission with those, giving you a ton of extra early firepower.
"The number one player-killer hero" Love that HotS reference ❣
If the Protoss had Tempo Jesus from the start, the Overmind would have just packed up and gone home
I love how well the Warcraft 2 theme fits with this video. It's like the RTS cheese anthem.
I was able to get 100% achievements before this with the help of the 24 hour stream "all campaign achievements" run Grant did a while back. So go give that a watch too for extra awesomeness. Thanks Grant!
Thanks for the shoutout! Love your content
Oh shoot, it's the legend himself.
"You couldnt possibly struggle on" listen don't underestimate me.
The correct thing to do is to pick Hanson because then you get to fight-date Selendis. Fighting Selendis is a great way to get to know her, and it shows Raynor has self respect and loyalty to his previous commitments. Selendis will absolutely pick up the phone after smashing dudes together like that.
Plus you get to save the colonists and all, that's cool too.
You’ve thought about this too much and now I can’t save you
29:28 MegaThicc was his name in highschool
the best tips for missions, I've found are in this order:
- Which units are best for a mission.
Which missions unlocked units you shouldnt use, ex: reapers are bad but unlocked in a good reaper mission, hellions arent. Just because you get a new unit doesnt mean you should go for it, unless you want to try it out for fun and not be more optimal.
- What is the build order supposed to look like.
Knowing if you should rush an expansion, upfront army, macro one base, attack a location... This is tied to knowing the enemy pattern, so test runs are fine and not a failure.
- Which are the hard missions.
This is important because the dificulty curb in this campaings is weird and a rollercoaster, sometimes it made me mad or disheartened, and felt is was doing things wrong when it's just a hard mission early on.
"As long as you don't die, you can never lose!"
Top notch tips.
The Warcraft 2 Tides of Darkness theme got me
It's also the WoW PetBattle theme
I thought I was going mad 😮
I see an RTS, I hear an RTS, but it's not the same RTS 😂
18:14 the chapter title 😂
space😂
But Grant.... You didn't explain how the main menu works, I am still stuck!
Fun fact, it would take 4.5 Grants using all their fingers and toes to count all the tips he gave in this mission!
Hehe, Alarak's Q ability.
I didn't even know "Piercing the shroud" mission existed till yesterday,
I laughed at Dehaka being called Yoshi way harder than I should've.
You don't need an excuse to replay impherisable night, Grant, its just a masterpiece.
Love the Hbomberguy reference in the last stand tip. This is why i never skip a GGG vid.
Pianist here, currently working on all achievements and just got gold on lost viking a few days before release of this video. If you're gonna insist on actually spamming the spacebar yourself, use your middle three fingers instead of your thumbs! Ctrl really isn't that far away, especially with a little practice, and that way you can get the motion supported from your wrist instead of the awkward and less central thumb joint. Spamming for several hours without pain was definitely possible for me, although not realistic if you don't find a way to relax into it and use the minimum amount of energy necessary for it. No shame in downloading the auto spam though, seriously. Years of both drumming and piano meant that I didn't even think about the spamming as a problem, but please treat your wrists kindly, they're the only ones you'll get 😅
“Hello my friend” implies only one of us is his friend ITS TIME FOR A DEATH BATTLE
Bro called Dehaka a Yoshi
Yoshi's dialogue is more varied tbh
I never realised this but that medic you spawn with in smash and grab has full energy.
Another Lost Viking tip. The weapon drops will cycle through them over time so instead of picking something up you can let it cook until it turns into a bomb or drone or something you actually want.
I was not expecting to learn the deep GGG lore that he has 23 digits. What a prize for reaching the end of the video!
After watching this video, i have finally decided to do all missions on Brutal, just to find out, I have already done them in past and completely forgot about that :D But did them anyway again following this guide.
Who knew that Grant has extra fingers and toes (37:20). I wonder if Grant could teach Dahaka how to grow more than 2 fingers.
1:10 deadass was making beef stroganoff as this video was uploaded.
That mobius factor joke fucking killed me
Geez, Grant, you didn't have to call us out for our lack of achievements! We're trying our best 😢
Oh, and that's the reason we watch you. To live vicariously through you. Your achievements are our achievements.
Its funny to look at this video after i completed all campaigns 100%... And thanks to you Grant! A lot of strats and general game knowledge i accumulated from your videos, and you kept my attention to RTS for years now
why did youtube recommened this to me at 1am and I have to be up at 6 for work x.x
27:56 yes the algorithm will indeed love that 😂
4:17 - "his spandex is sturdier than it seems"
Oh no Grant ruined Tosh for me, I'll never be able to see him the same way. My intrusive thoughts just gave me a picture of tosh twerking with a huge cake kekw
It's honestly distracting how caked up he is
Oh hey, Spectre fan here, i do actually wear sunglasses in doors.
Honestly, I'd like to see tips and tricks for the original StarCraft and Broodwar campaign as well. Missions like Return to Char in Broodwar is still a grind for me. The Combine is too easy as zerg you can clear out the ground with queens and use mutas and zerglings to clear out the rest to collect command centers like they are pokemon.
man why does this have to not exist like a year ago when i got into starcraft 2 and was raging at every campaign mission with only videos from 2013 in 240p for help
In HotS campaign you can also use Kerrigan “spawn banelings” ability as healing with healing mutation for banelings. Splitter banelings probably would do more with that ability.
In Utter Darkness is easily cheesed with Dark Templar walls. All you have to do is pattern recognize the detectors and snipe them with Phx.
This video has really been helping me get all the echivements on Brutal in WoL thanks Mr Games
Seeing the Lost Viking section reminds me I need to get back into playing the Touhou games. I own EoSD, PCB, and IN, but I've only managed to 1 CC EoSD and haven't beaten PCB yet.
11:28 Unexpected Touhou!
Glad it's Mokou, moderate difficulty with interesting gimmicks not unlike Lost Viking
The best kind of Touhou
TOUHOU HIJACK, LOL
It was kinda expected touhou for me since it's exactly how I got this achievement. Just play a lot of TH08 back in 2010
There was this twitch trolls grant or something and grant was like I PLAY TOUHOU THIS IS FINE
These tips are so useful, I started playing Brutal for the first time ever on stream and Welcome to the Jungle has been so frustrating.
"missions you couldn't possibly be struggling on"
Grant, that cuts deep man :D
Gotta love that random HBomb. Him making accidental cameos in random videos every time anything even REMOTELY related to plagiarism comes up is one of my favorite TH-cam-wide bits.
0:07 I think I have 100% on the zeratul missions from legacy of the void. Does that count?
Fighting the enemy: This is tight!
Fighting the enemy after watching this video: Super easy, barely an inconvenince!
I haven't beaten everything on brutal simply because I dislike how fast and aggressive the enemies become. I feel more stressed than I feel enjoyment so I stick to hard since I find that a good balance.
Loving these summer of StarCraft videos!
I'm excited for this one! I've beaten SC2 on brutal before but I've been wanting to go back and it's been so long I can't remember what the important strategies were.
Great video as always!
I just can't believe how 20 year old RTS games are still king of the genre 😅 devs suck these days for rts.
Long live starcraft, age of empires, warcraft 3 and command and conquer!
As someone who has spent a lot more time replaying Endgame than I should have (though much less than Grant), go mass Marauder (Super stim) & Goliath (Range). ESPECIALLY Marauders.
None of the Xanthos' weapons are particularly effective against Marauders. The flamethrower and fighters don't chew through the bulk of superstimmed Marauders fast enough, and you can produce far more Marauders than the Railgun can reasonably kill. Superstim speed makes dodging Missile barrages easy. Marauders are also great for busting bases protected by Siege tank and bunkers, since they can eat the damage and burn down the defenses before too much damage is done. You can also stim and kite attack waves just like with Marines. The only reason Goliaths are here is because you need AA. Going mass Marauder also makes the early game much more approachable and comfy, since you don't have to worry about or spend much resources teching up. Your mineral-to-gas ratio also keeps the production speedy. Marauders are great here.
I wouldn’t recommend the goliath. I had the same idea as you, but when I tried to use Goliaths for anti-air, all of them got Yamato’d to bits before they could fire enough missiles to kill a BC, leaving me with Nova and a sizeable force of marauders.
18:19 Okay, to be perfectly honest, I did not know about Valerian's Starports being able to repair the Hyperion. That is actually a really good tip.
I think they say that in the mission? But maybe not
Wow how did I not know about the easteregg carbot lings
Literally started cleaning up achievements yesterday and this video comes out! Thanks grant
On the Spear of Adun mission, it's way easier if you slowly clear out the units and spines without activating any of the power cells, and then once they're all cleared out, just activate them all at once. Because each time you activate a power cell, it starts sending more and more powerful attack waves at you.
“selenis is cuter” such a based take
Campaign upgrade and coop commander tierlists would be neat.
Fun fact I learned awhile ago, you don't actually have to beat Salvation or the Epilogue on Legacy of the Void to get 100% Brutal win, I'm unsure how it works but I'm pretty sure the Prologue mission count, but the achievement only asks you to beat 19 mission, the length of the actual campaign, so if my hypothesis is correct you can skip 3 missions on Brutal and still get the achievement, possibly 6 but the Epilogue missions were way harder for me than the proper campaign, especially since I never thought of the Mutalisk cheese.
I feel REAL called out:
> Not having all achievements
> Not having all brutal runs
Oof.
Honestly, the first time I did The Drill, after losing once, I ended up doing the "float a building over and target structures with the drill" trick. Even if you ONLY take out the right-most base, that's one less set of enemies rallying and you can push up your bottom defenders to the door, using them to poke at the top-most rallying attackers. This reduces the pressure on the left side and leaves your secondary base/mineral line pretty safe
I always enjoyed coming back to sc/wc campaigns after watching GGG and using some of the tricks I learned from him, sometimes even if its easy mission, using some cheese or trick just makes it much more fun :D
I didn't played Touhou Games, but the Lost Viking minigame reminded me of another game that I used to play when I was a kid, it's called Demonstar and the remastered version of this game is available on Steam, that's why when I saw Lost Viking for the first time it reminded me of this game.
This is much appreciated 😊
For infestors in the campaign, bring your overlords with your army to consume them. Overlords are normally useless for anything but supply in the campaign but this gives you near infinite free energy using just the overlords you're making for supply anyway.
Yo that was actually interesting.
17:58 - It is actually Belial's second phase :) But I really appreciate the D3 reference :)
Really nice tips and advices. Even though I have completed the campaigns many many times there were some insane things that I never knew and I am eager to try them next time I do a playthrough :)
For the 3rd Protoss Aiur mission, an essential tip is to not clear creep from the power cells right away, as this triggers certain events (nydus & shuttle waves). You can clear them all at once to skip them.
I love how you mix other RTS' soundtracks into those videos
Other people in "one tip for every mission" videos: *rapid-fires one single tip per mission and puts the mission it's for in text in the corner*
You: *gives like 1-5 tips per mission and actually explains them; also makes clear when switches happen*
Thanks for the video, there was even one thing I didn't knew :) You are awesome! :)
"It has been fourteen years since Starcraft 2 released." Don't do this to us, Grant.
Grant Played Touhou? Guess I've got another reason to like him.
At this point, I need a lesson about resource saturation because:
a) I have no grasp how much is enough for what I need
b) x/12 and such over command center sounds like a requirement that I have to fulfil no matter what. (which on 1 base missions might not be as perfect)
Basically go for 2/3 of the saturation on minerals and you're good. Campaign and co-op recommends 3 workers/mineral, while ladder recommends 2/mineral which already gives you 90% or so efficiency.
Still gotta go 3/3 on gas, though some maps where the gas is a bit far from your CC might want you to go 4/3.
@@amplesstratleholm7609 oh, that is helpful.
I know that in SC1 my gut feeling was to have like 2 maybe mental 1,8 worker per mineral cluster.
after you buy the orbital command and multi-build upgrades, you sometimes should instead spend your starting minerals and multibuild some command centers. you don't need more scvs, mules mine faster.