Watching you grind out a Terran with Sentries was epic. You could feel the frustration and the "WTF"'s coming from the opponent every time you send in a wave of sentries, or he finds a hidden base.
you are the only content creator on all of youtube that wouldnt spread this out into 8 different 15m in videos. Took me a few days but i got through it all. You really are a gem in this dark world thermy
so what exactly is better in a 2,5hr video you watch over 5 days instead of 5 30min videos you also watch over 5 days? it has literally no benefits and people are more likely to not start the 2 hr video at all
i would start them but if i get bored in between because content is not fun enough or too tedious to watch for long i would skip or watch something else after x amount of time. so if you don't spam 5-10 vids with stupidly uncreative intro + outros, always the same style that's when i stop watching at all because it's too annoying to skip every time in short increments... i want to lay back more than 5 min. :D@@rigdigwus
Watching you grind out a Terran with Sentries was epic. You could feel the frustration and the "WTF"'s coming from the opponent every time you send in a wave of sentries, or he finds a hidden base.
29:57 MaNa plays mass sentries, and yes: You should definitely get attack upgrades for them. and chrono them. Attack upgrades make a really big difference for sentries.
I saw that the Mothership is greyed out and it gave me a terrible idea for a mothership rush. Use the motherships recall ability to recall a bunch of probes and warp prisms into the enemies main. Use the warp prisms to rapidly setup cannons (skipping the pylons) and protect the structures with the mothership's spells and cloak until you have a fortress in their base.
@@zerkmerk8257 exactly what avatar did tbh. But you really have no rights to call these grandmaster players noobs if you wouldn't be able to beat them with at least a normal strategy
@@aleksandrssprogis8895uthermal is not a noob, I would never call him one. But he beats up on people way under his level and then brags about it for views. If you want to cheer that on that's totally fine, but it's true.
@@zerkmerk8257 he doesn't brag about it at all, some of them could beat him and you need to play against better player than you to become better. Stop being so sensitive. He know they are good and never insult them.
wow, im super impressed that whichever "monobattle" you're playing, you always manage to keep your unspent low. except for the gas heavy units, but even then you spam out cannon+battery and expand like a madperson. WP! awesome stuff!
Would love to see a sentry + high templar to GM. Imagine throwing a bunch of hallucinated archons and real archons at your enemy and they don't know which is which XD
I think my favorite thing about all of uThermal's videos is how EXCITED he is about the strats, SC2, just everything! Thank you for the energy and positivity :D
Hooooly crap, I know this has been requested a few times but I didn't expect it so soon! This is an INSANE accomplishment, can't believe you brought it home. GG WP Marc, you legend!!
That Sentry game made me cry with joy..😂 Best thing I've ever seen. The Oracle game was cool too, I use a similar build at times, and I know how devastating mass Oracles can be..😂
You have somehow captured all the nostalgia for playing single player Starcraft, all the strategies we would have loved to have tried out ... but you doing it at a professional PvP level 😂
I think the reason mass sentries are surprisingly good comes down to density. They don't do a lot of damage individually, but you can pack a lot of them into a relatively small area. Combined with forcefields, they get the job done.
Yes I think you are right, seeing as you can use the FF to take a series of fights where you heavily outnumber the forces that are able to return fire. I think their stats are also not as bad as people think because we see the sentry as a "non combat" unit.
You don't understand at which point sentries are bad, beating GM with sentries is insane. I was diamond 2 5 years ago, and I could only beat platinium 2 with mass sentries. This is super hard. For example I could beat easily diamond 3 with mass stalkers. Sentries just die against everything. You need to do so much damage to the economy, this is insane, and he didn't even use a prism or observers like beasty 🤯 This is just insane
The skill and adaptability.... with commentary and explaining your intentions and thoughts as well as ways to defeat your strats ..... all while kickin' @$$ .... Ultra Bangin'.
I knew how the Immortal game was going to go before watching it because I've done it before. This is a massively underrated when unit when played. When opponents see you commit hard with a ground unit that initially beats their army, they often make the mistake of getting base defense to stall. Problem is that is exactly what Immortals rip through so they lose even harder. And the proper way to play immortals is recognizing that you kill buildings so fast so you should be looking to shut down production and tech/upgrades as a minimum to effectively trade. Of course pylon depowering is huge too and you should always spot it and do exactly that to stop the inevitable switch to Zealots from gateways.
cannot believe this channel's growth it's tripled since i subscribed, congratulations to you! also if you've never seen beastyqt's sentry to grandmaster series, it's definitely worth the watch!
This was awesome and great job thermal! I also did an all-in sentries push once myself except I instead used all my energy on making it look like I had a like 6 Archons and 10 Colossus with all my Sentries they just insta GG'd and left the game without actually trying to defend against it lol.
That sentry game was beautiful. Insane that you pulled it off without allowing warp prisms. The oracles game reminds me of the ZvT tactic where you wait for the Terran to move out and then backstab with mass ling bane. Terran loses a game losing amount of workers and need to do counter damage. But if they look away at the wrong moment to defend at home, their army evaporates to banes.
well done!! I really enjoy your content.. I played SC many years ago but it was too hard.. once in a wile I like watching still some videos of pro players and since I discovered you It's been fantastic! thank you!!
Also about 54:18, Oracles did use to be stronger, they had a bug which made them better against unit concentrations (which Zerg are prone to do) by dealing damage instantly after killing the last unit (due to the code of it being an ability and not an attack) instead of waiting for the cooldown.
Ah yes the legendary Trippin’ Balls build. Straight from the hay day of Novawar Says on LAGTV. A build so absurd and so undeserving of victory, but so satisfying when it happens anyway!
Sometime in the night I opened this video in my sleep and I had very Starcraft themed dreams. Most prominent was cheesing with photon cannons but putting them on the sides of cliffs so people wouldn't see until they went over or around the edge. Was quite strange but not unpleasant. Video is better a second time now that I am awake.
40:06 The force field over the minerlas hahahaha, too good, like the weekly mutation in Co Op 🤣🤣🤣 . I need to see this challenge with Zerg, I hope you do it one day.
@uThermal I saw a streamer named Maximus Black from LifesaGlitchTV, I think that's where the vid was, had a sentry only build he called Trippin Balls. It was pretty funny. Congrats on this challenge completion! :D
Amazing content, wow! These games are so awesome. (I think you should release challenges like this one game at a time by the way - I'd be excited for the next game every day.)
Great run! I've noticed one thing in that sentry only match, that terran units tend to derp (or dirp?) if caught between force fields, so I think it would be viable to use hold position, so that they shoot more before they die.
the sentry targeted the closest marine so its better to just hault them and let them move up on it self, if you use hold position they'll stay there and miss out damage if the frontal marine dies
Protip: not only can you see the shape of the unit being built in the Stargate, you can look at the light blink pattern for Terran buildings to see which units are being built from the starport, barracks, and factory.
30:01 I ain’t a Starcraft 2 player, but I would theorize that attack upgrades would be the higher priority for mass Sentries. Guardian Shield can be thought of as an effective +2 armor upgrade, and when enemies are split up by forcefields for defeat-in-detail they need to be killed as fast as possible. Their high attack speed gives a strong theoretical return on investment for every attack upgrade. There’s an argument to be made that defensive upgrades could be prioritized to negate low attack damage values, but I subscribe to the idea that the best way to keep from getting hit is to kill the other guy.
holy crap that sentry only match was beyond epic. even though you (more or less) implied that you were going to win, I still felt that this was extremely impossible throughout the match .Man... what a rush!
Who wins : A few Sentry bois or Stimmed Bio with Medivacs Tanks Liberators and Ghosts?
crazy game fun to watch
Be honoust, did you expect to win before starting the game??
tickle beam OP
Watching you grind out a Terran with Sentries was epic. You could feel the frustration and the "WTF"'s coming from the opponent every time you send in a wave of sentries, or he finds a hidden base.
LOWKO WORTHY 😂😂😂 Absolute fucking legend Thermy ♥️♥️♥️
you are the only content creator on all of youtube that wouldnt spread this out into 8 different 15m in videos. Took me a few days but i got through it all. You really are a gem in this dark world thermy
totally right!
the thing is, with some creators its like "oh no a 1hour video..."
with uthermal it's like "YES a 2 hour+ long video!"
so what exactly is better in a 2,5hr video you watch over 5 days instead of 5 30min videos you also watch over 5 days?
it has literally no benefits and people are more likely to not start the 2 hr video at all
@@rigdigwusi have to save 5 videos in Watch later instead of 1, It s more efficient for me
i would start them but if i get bored in between because content is not fun enough or too tedious to watch for long i would skip or watch something else after x amount of time. so if you don't spam 5-10 vids with stupidly uncreative intro + outros, always the same style that's when i stop watching at all because it's too annoying to skip every time in short increments... i want to lay back more than 5 min. :D@@rigdigwus
What do you mean, I constantly see creators do 1+hr challenge content, literally on the daily.
Watching you grind out a Terran with Sentries was epic. You could feel the frustration and the "WTF"'s coming from the opponent every time you send in a wave of sentries, or he finds a hidden base.
He probably felt going against that one character that when you thought is dead there is still a next form.
that was the most beautiful sentry only game I have ever seen. even better than the attempts professional protoss players have made!
Did u gorget sentry only to grandmaster from beastyqt ? One of the best serie so far
I almost cried imagining 5 blue flame hellions the whole time
@@andrewferguson6901 force fields go brrr
@@Amoeby Motto Motto! »Motto« »Motto« »RIKIBA!!!« =D
Ahh animes :$
Imagine being on the ladder and losing to sentries-only in a macro game. Wild game.
that game was wild XD
Honestly, I would just be impressed.
Mass sentry game was awesome, i expected a quick defeat but that game was wild 🤣
29:57 MaNa plays mass sentries, and yes: You should definitely get attack upgrades for them. and chrono them. Attack upgrades make a really big difference for sentries.
What upgrades to get for sentries? All of them! For such a weak unit you need every boost you can get.
I saw that the Mothership is greyed out and it gave me a terrible idea for a mothership rush.
Use the motherships recall ability to recall a bunch of probes and warp prisms into the enemies main. Use the warp prisms to rapidly setup cannons (skipping the pylons) and protect the structures with the mothership's spells and cloak until you have a fortress in their base.
This! Do this Uthermy!
This is one of the greatest 2 hour videos I have ever watched. Absolutely love it Marc.
Not sure if most people watched all the way, but I did!
SO DID I!! Mindblowing TBH, I don’t think I’ve EVER seen such masterful instruction and performance (all while casting every game’s commentary 🤯🤯)!!
would have been a good idea to use halucinated colosus to draw the tank fire into the mineral line at 40:55
I kept wishing he'd do more with hallucinations and tank splash damage.
He is the master of all units and races. He is the avatar that we have been waiting for a 100 years!
The avatar fights people way weaker than him for views than brags about it?
@@zerkmerk8257 exactly what avatar did tbh. But you really have no rights to call these grandmaster players noobs if you wouldn't be able to beat them with at least a normal strategy
@@aleksandrssprogis8895uthermal is not a noob, I would never call him one. But he beats up on people way under his level and then brags about it for views. If you want to cheer that on that's totally fine, but it's true.
@@zerkmerk8257 he doesn't brag about it at all, some of them could beat him and you need to play against better player than you to become better. Stop being so sensitive. He know they are good and never insult them.
Beating a grand master with sentries only is not an easy feat, he did say he played 150+ games….
What I love about this series is how much it highlights what each unit can and can't do.
Can't wait to see you do this with Zerg!
That pure sentries game was EPIC!
its like a movie, thanks dude
wow, im super impressed that whichever "monobattle" you're playing, you always manage to keep your unspent low. except for the gas heavy units, but even then you spam out cannon+battery and expand like a madperson. WP! awesome stuff!
Wow. Sentries only game was absolutely glorious! Marc - Cheese Daddy!
Would love to see a sentry + high templar to GM. Imagine throwing a bunch of hallucinated archons and real archons at your enemy and they don't know which is which XD
I think my favorite thing about all of uThermal's videos is how EXCITED he is about the strats, SC2, just everything! Thank you for the energy and positivity :D
Hooooly crap, I know this has been requested a few times but I didn't expect it so soon! This is an INSANE accomplishment, can't believe you brought it home. GG WP Marc, you legend!!
I was disappointed yesterday when no video came out, but this more than makes up for it.
Marc spoils us with the amount/frequency of content he puts out.
Be patient, and you will be rewarded! :D
I got scared when there was no video.
@@vikosushonestly, ur right. I definitely got spoiled with the daily uploads on second channel, then his return.
Also, that hero adept in the dt game 😂
That Sentry game made me cry with joy..😂 Best thing I've ever seen. The Oracle game was cool too, I use a similar build at times, and I know how devastating mass Oracles can be..😂
This episode was magnificent. Thank you Thermy!
You have somehow captured all the nostalgia for playing single player Starcraft, all the strategies we would have loved to have tried out ... but you doing it at a professional PvP level 😂
Thank you for commentating this whole video. Great vid.
I wana see a "Hydralisk to grandmaster" series with the new hyrdalisk...I haven't seen you lose at all with them since the patch, they always dominate
Pure DT chaos. What a laugh. "We are moving across the map with one stalker and two templars" XD
2 hours 18 minutes. uThermal casually uploading a full movie thinking we wouldn't notice
I think the reason mass sentries are surprisingly good comes down to density. They don't do a lot of damage individually, but you can pack a lot of them into a relatively small area. Combined with forcefields, they get the job done.
Yes I think you are right, seeing as you can use the FF to take a series of fights where you heavily outnumber the forces that are able to return fire. I think their stats are also not as bad as people think because we see the sentry as a "non combat" unit.
You don't understand at which point sentries are bad, beating GM with sentries is insane. I was diamond 2 5 years ago, and I could only beat platinium 2 with mass sentries. This is super hard. For example I could beat easily diamond 3 with mass stalkers.
Sentries just die against everything. You need to do so much damage to the economy, this is insane, and he didn't even use a prism or observers like beasty 🤯
This is just insane
The skill and adaptability.... with commentary and explaining your intentions and thoughts as well as ways to defeat your strats ..... all while kickin' @$$ .... Ultra Bangin'.
hut ab. hab diese folge sehr genossen. deine mikrovertigkeiten sind großartig und deine begeisterung ansteckend. gruss aus deutschland
Chef kiss, what episode I love the chaotic DTs
The person playing against the Sentry build: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Holy smokes the mad lad actually f'in did it. Cheers Marc, you absolute omega chad!!!!!
One of the most impressive display of skills I have ever seen, Sentry was insane.
I knew how the Immortal game was going to go before watching it because I've done it before. This is a massively underrated when unit when played. When opponents see you commit hard with a ground unit that initially beats their army, they often make the mistake of getting base defense to stall. Problem is that is exactly what Immortals rip through so they lose even harder. And the proper way to play immortals is recognizing that you kill buildings so fast so you should be looking to shut down production and tech/upgrades as a minimum to effectively trade. Of course pylon depowering is huge too and you should always spot it and do exactly that to stop the inevitable switch to Zealots from gateways.
I love you so much uthermal!!
Holy cow, that Sentry game was amazing! Kudos!
being me back to old Day9 monobattle days
That carrier only made me happy haha. Clean game, mindgames to perfection, and carriers have always been my favorite unit.
very nice video Marc! loved the sentry fight lol. Cant imagine the effort you hard to put into this
cannot believe this channel's growth it's tripled since i subscribed, congratulations to you! also if you've never seen beastyqt's sentry to grandmaster series, it's definitely worth the watch!
nice man!
it took me almost as many sessions to watch the video as it took you to record it :D
really enjoyed it!
This was awesome and great job thermal! I also did an all-in sentries push once myself except I instead used all my energy on making it look like I had a like 6 Archons and 10 Colossus with all my Sentries they just insta GG'd and left the game without actually trying to defend against it lol.
Great vid! I'm a fan of the length, kept me entertained on the can for multiple sessions 👌
one of my fave videos u have ever made for sure, some really eye opening micro here.. like even more than usual
That sentry game was beautiful. Insane that you pulled it off without allowing warp prisms. The oracles game reminds me of the ZvT tactic where you wait for the Terran to move out and then backstab with mass ling bane. Terran loses a game losing amount of workers and need to do counter damage. But if they look away at the wrong moment to defend at home, their army evaporates to banes.
I watched the full video in one go and enjoyed the hell out of it. I was sad yesterday that there was no video but you compensated it tenfold
woooooow i cannot believe the sentry's won (you did). i am still shocked and pauze the video!!!!
well done!! I really enjoy your content.. I played SC many years ago but it was too hard.. once in a wile I like watching still some videos of pro players and since I discovered you It's been fantastic! thank you!!
2.5 hour uThermal Protoss video?! Yes, please! The sentry game is freaking hilarious. Amazing stuff man!
love watching your videos. they really encourage me to keep trying in star craft❤
Also about 54:18, Oracles did use to be stronger, they had a bug which made them better against unit concentrations (which Zerg are prone to do) by dealing damage instantly after killing the last unit (due to the code of it being an ability and not an attack) instead of waiting for the cooldown.
Ah yes the legendary Trippin’ Balls build. Straight from the hay day of Novawar Says on LAGTV. A build so absurd and so undeserving of victory, but so satisfying when it happens anyway!
sentry game was insane! All the games are very exiting.
Queens only, with nydus and prevent base building with creep.
uThermal, how about "Sentry + Warp Prism to GM"? Imagine dropping them and blocking all the resources repeatedly, it would be hilarious.
Finally finished the whole video, yeah, that sentry game was wild. And I like how you managed to disrupt that terran one base all-in
Epic. The sentry fights were crazy.
u were right that sentry game was the single best game of sc2 i have ever seen
Insane dedication! Well played!
Sometime in the night I opened this video in my sleep and I had very Starcraft themed dreams. Most prominent was cheesing with photon cannons but putting them on the sides of cliffs so people wouldn't see until they went over or around the edge. Was quite strange but not unpleasant. Video is better a second time now that I am awake.
At some point I believe uThermal would win with observers only :D
"no unit, not even probes challenge"
So fun! A highlight reel of some funny moments from the failed attempts could be good too
This series was amazing! So freaking impressive and entertaining!
Ok, that was amazing !!! Thanks for the vid !
Crazy how much work and dedication you put in. Mad respect.
These games were brilliant. Well done and so much fun to watch.
That was very cool, definitely looking forward to the zerg one if you ever manage it:)
The sentry game in particular was incredible to see.
Same here. I dare him to win 10 games as zerg using Ultralisk only. No other unit.
40:06 The force field over the minerlas hahahaha, too good, like the weekly mutation in Co Op 🤣🤣🤣 . I need to see this challenge with Zerg, I hope you do it one day.
I love watching Sentry challenges. That was my favorite series from BeastyQT.
I miss him and Husky sooo much!!!
This is the most beautiful full length motion picture I’ve seen all year
@uThermal I saw a streamer named Maximus Black from LifesaGlitchTV, I think that's where the vid was, had a sentry only build he called Trippin Balls. It was pretty funny. Congrats on this challenge completion! :D
Thank you. Loved every minute!!!
Your vids are so fun to watch! even for someone that doesnt even play SC2 (played SC1 maybe 25 years ago when it came out)
Gotta feel a little sorry for the guy who got beat by mass sentries AND mass disruptors. After those games he probably felt like uninstalling
Awesome thumbnail 😂
Amazing content, wow! These games are so awesome. (I think you should release challenges like this one game at a time by the way - I'd be excited for the next game every day.)
this video was awesome!!! thanks for awesome content and always very happy!
Absolutely fantastic video! That was 2 hours of pure pleasure!
That is an amazing video that must have taken an amazing effort!
I think you are the legend. Watching you play makes me laugh. The stuff you get away with against your opponents makes my brain hurt.
BANGER
dude the sentry game is so epic, wonderful stuff thermy
This was wild! Congratulations 🎉
These longers videos are great, thanks :)
That DT game was a treat. Thanks for that!
Great run! I've noticed one thing in that sentry only match, that terran units tend to derp (or dirp?) if caught between force fields, so I think it would be viable to use hold position, so that they shoot more before they die.
the sentry targeted the closest marine so its better to just hault them and let them move up on it self, if you use hold position they'll stay there and miss out damage if the frontal marine dies
Protip: not only can you see the shape of the unit being built in the Stargate, you can look at the light blink pattern for Terran buildings to see which units are being built from the starport, barracks, and factory.
That's some next level knowledge
Wow more info can be taken from Terran then, as P only has Stargate info
Wait..... WHAT?!
Whaaaat???
Is that legit? I haven't found a source that corroborates it.
Watched the whole video. Love these! Can't wait for Zerg!
30:01 I ain’t a Starcraft 2 player, but I would theorize that attack upgrades would be the higher priority for mass Sentries. Guardian Shield can be thought of as an effective +2 armor upgrade, and when enemies are split up by forcefields for defeat-in-detail they need to be killed as fast as possible. Their high attack speed gives a strong theoretical return on investment for every attack upgrade. There’s an argument to be made that defensive upgrades could be prioritized to negate low attack damage values, but I subscribe to the idea that the best way to keep from getting hit is to kill the other guy.
Love the longer vids, help make boring work days better🎉
Coming from the Terran video. These videos are super amusing :D GG!
holy crap that sentry only match was beyond epic. even though you (more or less) implied that you were going to win, I still felt that this was extremely impossible throughout the match .Man... what a rush!
Insanely good video man!
This is BEAUTIFUL.
Mind blowing!
I enjoyed the amount of “Staulkers” I got to hear so close together
28:44 I love when uThermals accent comes through thick. haha.
That sentry game embodies the quote, "It's not the tool, it's how you use it".
that probe in the hightemplars match absolutely deserves it's name!
This guy beat a GM level player with sentries only. Let that sink in.