A little late but it actually makes sense. Part of the domination of the Zerg is through this hierarchy: Amon ===> Overmind ===> Kerrigan // Once the Overmind was killed, it was only Kerrigan while under the influence of Amon. This 'void energy' that Amon exerted from beyond the void was what allowed him influence/control over the Overmind and Kerrigan. The artifact specifically targeted this energy. This same energy would later be used to bring Amon back into the physical world and into a new body. The Psi-Disrupter hijacks that psionic link, severing the individual Zerg from Kerrigans control - also severing their connection to Amon and the void energy he exerts psionically. Without that, the artifact leaves them untouched. Of course, this is just a theory - but I think it is sound. Amons influence / touch / void energy is what the artifact targeted. The Psi-Disrupter severs that link, leaving them unaffected by the artifact.
@@Novocane23 How it works is there is no "mind control" or taking over/overriding anything. How it works, and you can read this in the lab, it literally just uses the same types of signals the Overmind uses to control them. So the Zerg think the tower is the Overmind.
gotta love that you can use all the fliers against the enemy. I can just imagine Warfield thinking "that mad man did it, he somehow took a tactical disadvantage and turned into our key to absolute victory"
most hilarious way to win I've seen yet. The mind control towers are very micro intensive so not everyone can do it, but using the infinite number of mutas to kill Kerrigan is absolutely priceless 😂
Kerrigan, destroyed by a massive swarm of mind-controlled flyers Also Kerrigan: You fools. You're playing with forces beyond your comprehension. Haha Terran overmind goes brrrr
Matt: the artifact is peaking. just hold on... Adjustant: Sir, we have already control all Zergs on this planet. only one hostile Zerg bio signature detected. Jim: it is now or never, general. Hit it. (Artifact kills: 0) Jim: well that is a big disapointment. OK, let get out to get the queen.
@@tichondrius4215 Maybe if all the races start fighting again. The Zerg wants more territories and planets, the Tal’darim are pissed and want to purge the dominion, some Protoss are beginning to form congruency groups that are against Artanis and his leadership, while the Valerian slowly and ever so slightly is becoming the second Mengsk, all of this causes a massive war which ends with nuclear annihilation on most planets................Then the U.E.D returns being lead by Helena (Dugalle’s wife) and take over the koprulu sector, then..........we have the return of Jim Raynor one last time, he’s now a bit older blinded one eye and is with Talandar (Fenix) trying to find a way to put an end to the U.E.D one.....last.......time.
Nah. UED was loosing control against the new Overmind once its started to mature. That's what Dugalle mentioned in his last message that the creatures are untameable.
Now I wonder, what are the differences between mind-controlled Zerg and Kerrigan's? Why does the Nova destroy only the enemy ones? Why does it not affect your own, even though they share the same biology? Is it the heart, or the soul? Does the artifact, probably just a powerful toy, actually discern it? Hell man, I came here to relax and have a great time, I didn't want this!
If it weren't for brothers in arms, I'd say the artifact cuts the connection to Amon. Violently. But since it also can be configured to harm Terrans unrelated to Amon, it's just space magic.
I found this tactic during giantgrantgames' 3coop campaign run through of it through nightmare. Holy crap, fighting 11 terran against 33 zerg is nuts... until you fight with 33 zerg
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This is the definition of a Flying Blitzkrieg, using enemys strengths in numbers againts them. Ive always invisioned someone could conquer the corners of that map. This vid is just Gamer Ambrosia for me👌
i never used control towers, used psi disruptors instead paired with lots of bunkers (i had the nydus worms one because killing the worms before they spat out zerg was a lot easier imo)
I was wondering how you were going to destroy everything with just the Terran units but then i forgot you weren’t Grant, honestly no one is as crazy as him.
25:28 Miss "care again" was crashed by the tonnage of Jim's armor...trilogy ended prematurely Dude, you did what I always want to do. I tried many times to try to kill everything but found zerg rebuild things and I don't have enough time. I remeber a tower control one zerg unit. I must be wrong...
after mission, Jim Raynor go with a group of mutalisks (not marines) to find naked Kerrigan. then when Tychus is about to shoot her, a viper abduct and neutralize him.
Won’t save him because of the killer suit,but I can definitely picture mutalisks flying like pigeons above Raynor and Kerrigan,walking into the sunset.
If Jim Raynor could do awesome stretegies like this he would've already won over the other two races and make Mengsk, the hybrids and Amon his punching bag lol.
Congrats on finishing your Wings of Liberty runs! Overall, looks like you did amazing! While I dislike the path the story went, I hope you do speedruns of the other expansions. While I prefer the unit variety and upgrade system in Wings the most, I'm gonna guess the more limited(but stronger) options don't matter too much for you.
to be fair, i did the same thing in Legacy of the Void and use Dark Archons to steal the Golden Amanda's forces so this would have been doable for me too
How'd you assign all hive mind control towers to a Hotkey? It seems you don't have any hotkeys assigned, and yet every time you zoom to incoming fliers, you quickly have all towers selected. Do you put it on F3 or something?
So I am very curious about your System spec’s, it looks like you had little to no lag even with so many units on-screen using Ultra graphics! Would you mind sharing your PC details so those of us with FPS issues can dream/aspire to one day enjoy such smooth gameplay? 🥺
This game is a bit special in that it's performance is heavily CPU-dependant and it only runs on a single core, so for the best performance you want a recent CPU, but core count doesn't matter. Fast RAM also helps (don't forget to activate XMP in your bios), and again RAM capacity doesn't matter much. GPU doesn't matter as much as for other games. That said, I dip under 20 FPS in this recording as well. I have: CPU: Ryzen 7 5800X GPU: Radeon RX 6800XT RAM: Crucial Ballistix 32GB 3200MHz
Even with rapid fire, it is still pretty hard to properly manage multiple areas to mind control those units for me. Also, brood lord range is not long enough imo, which both acts as my advantage and my detriment when trying to kill Kerrigan from afar. Also, I am surprised that you didn’t pick the science vessel at all nor raven. I guess barracks drop is just that good to cheese, maybe not so much for fighting. Wings of Liberty Nightmare mode is coming up soon, maybe you could check that one out and see if you could handle increased difficulty properly. Kudos for not using a single control group during the entire run. I use control groups and still manage to let artefact get damaged to low 2 digits. It’s rough.
Matt: sir, we are tracing a group of zerg flyers heading your way.
Raynor: actually it is a ... good news
enemy coming ? more like extra reinforcement slave
Raynor: Good, lets build more hive mind emulators
I try this to pick a lot of Zerg air units and I have pick a lot of mutalisk to Kerrigan
Kerrigan: "The Zerg can never be defeated!"
Raynor, slapping his control tower: "I'm counting on it..."
I love how your mind controlled zerg are just magically immune to the artifact nova.
they gave them magic transponders
Only the naughty zerg.
A little late but it actually makes sense. Part of the domination of the Zerg is through this hierarchy: Amon ===> Overmind ===> Kerrigan // Once the Overmind was killed, it was only Kerrigan while under the influence of Amon. This 'void energy' that Amon exerted from beyond the void was what allowed him influence/control over the Overmind and Kerrigan. The artifact specifically targeted this energy. This same energy would later be used to bring Amon back into the physical world and into a new body.
The Psi-Disrupter hijacks that psionic link, severing the individual Zerg from Kerrigans control - also severing their connection to Amon and the void energy he exerts psionically. Without that, the artifact leaves them untouched.
Of course, this is just a theory - but I think it is sound. Amons influence / touch / void energy is what the artifact targeted. The Psi-Disrupter severs that link, leaving them unaffected by the artifact.
@@Novocane23 How it works is there is no "mind control" or taking over/overriding anything.
How it works, and you can read this in the lab, it literally just uses the same types of signals the Overmind uses to control them. So the Zerg think the tower is the Overmind.
They vibrate at a different frequency now that they are mind controlled
23:16 - Cherry on top; cutscene showing the already-annihilated zerg base.
This is basically how the UED beat everyone in Brood war.
Matt: There's zerg everywhere! Time to use the energy nova!
Raynor: it's all cool, They're friends!
Sarah: don't give up!
Raynor: I'm the swarm, darling
Alternative timeline with a King of Guns (Raynor).
23:20 wow look at all the nothing the artifact took out😆
I mean it killed an Overlord
It's something
Matt - wave of zerg fliers approach!
Rainor - new recruits for terran army.
gotta love that you can use all the fliers against the enemy. I can just imagine Warfield thinking "that mad man did it, he somehow took a tactical disadvantage and turned into our key to absolute victory"
Too bad he passes away in Heart of the Swarm.
Matt is right, your base *is*overrun by the Zerg! :) Incredibly fun to watch. Thanks a lot!
Imagine Matt would also articulate "enemy zerg" words, and we would use emulators earlier. 😂
I actually did not know that the control towers had the range to control brood lords!
same lol, never did them, also they work automatically that's nice
@@KpTheFth no, you have to micro them yourself
@@KpTheFth No, you have to micro it yourself. That is why this video is so impressived.
Lol, u can destroy brood lords your hands
This actually
Cause they don't
most hilarious way to win I've seen yet. The mind control towers are very micro intensive so not everyone can do it, but using the infinite number of mutas to kill Kerrigan is absolutely priceless 😂
Kerrigan, destroyed by a massive swarm of mind-controlled flyers
Also Kerrigan: You fools. You're playing with forces beyond your comprehension.
Haha Terran overmind goes brrrr
15:18 Raynor: hold the line!
Stu: how about no
"The artifact's energy is peaking, just hold out a little longer!"
Is Matt referring to this guy's PC?
I think Matt is using internet explorer.
By the Omnissiah! Perform the rights of cooling, tech adept, or else I shall personally lobotimize you into a servitor!
Matt: the artifact is peaking. just hold on...
Adjustant: Sir, we have already control all Zergs on this planet. only one hostile Zerg bio signature detected.
Jim: it is now or never, general. Hit it.
(Artifact kills: 0)
Jim: well that is a big disapointment. OK, let get out to get the queen.
Those cinematic only show us how clean the places are.
Even though it's main purpose is speedrun.
- Sir, we are tracking a large force of zerg flyers coming your way
- Yeah, they need healing
Yknow, this is _exactly_ what the UED would have accomplished, had Duran was not around to sabotage it.
I hope they bring the UED back sometime. Such a great opportunity to make a new campaign from. This time they should bring the full might of the UED.
@@tichondrius4215 Maybe if all the races start fighting again. The Zerg wants more territories and planets, the Tal’darim are pissed and want to purge the dominion, some Protoss are beginning to form congruency groups that are against Artanis and his leadership, while the Valerian slowly and ever so slightly is becoming the second Mengsk, all of this causes a massive war which ends with nuclear annihilation on most planets................Then the U.E.D returns being lead by Helena (Dugalle’s wife) and take over the koprulu sector, then..........we have the return of Jim Raynor one last time, he’s now a bit older blinded one eye and is with Talandar (Fenix) trying to find a way to put an end to the U.E.D one.....last.......time.
Nah. UED was loosing control against the new Overmind once its started to mature. That's what Dugalle mentioned in his last message that the creatures are untameable.
Tychus: Detecting multiple air bogies. ETA, right the hell now.
Raynor: Nice, reinforcements are arriving.
Seeing the engineer at the end reminds me of your converting enemy buildings in Command and Conquer. Here you are taking the units instead. Well done.
That cut scene at the end with your swarm splayed overhead made me happy. Good work sir.
Now I wonder, what are the differences between mind-controlled Zerg and Kerrigan's? Why does the Nova destroy only the enemy ones? Why does it not affect your own, even though they share the same biology? Is it the heart, or the soul? Does the artifact, probably just a powerful toy, actually discern it? Hell man, I came here to relax and have a great time, I didn't want this!
Pretty sure the artifact destroys the psi connection between the zerg so when you take control of a zerg unit they no longer have said connection.
The answer is; it’s a video game and the developers didn’t think too deeply into it. The nova kills enemy units, not just Zerg.
If it weren't for brothers in arms, I'd say the artifact cuts the connection to Amon. Violently. But since it also can be configured to harm Terrans unrelated to Amon, it's just space magic.
Don't think too hard about it, it's just science fiction.
@@Eonflare55 The science part means you're supposed to think about it, lol.
Raynor: we need alot of air fighters
Matt: batt-
Raynor: mutalisks
Fight zerg with zerg huh?
Never tried exploiting that mind control like this, I love it.
I found this tactic during giantgrantgames' 3coop campaign run through of it through nightmare.
Holy crap, fighting 11 terran against 33 zerg is nuts... until you fight with 33 zerg
I get the feeling that Carbot would animate the Hive Mind Emulator as a turret with a can of spray paint. 🤣🤣🤣
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22:05
Kerrigan: YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS TREACHERY!!!
Stu: Nah. Their treachery will be rewarded.
Now that!... Is a Brood war!.... I'll see myself out.
"Sir, you're getting overrun, use the artifact"
Raynor, who's already killed every zerg on the map: ???
- My swarm will destroy you!
- OUR swarm
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This is the definition of a Flying Blitzkrieg, using enemys strengths in numbers againts them. Ive always invisioned someone could conquer the corners of that map. This vid is just Gamer Ambrosia for me👌
thanks for the run it's incredible!
also thanks for tips and little explanations
Marine 1: "All zergs fly... Ally!?"
Zergs: "GuaAaArhghh! (Good noise!)
Marine 2: "Yup!"
Marine 1: "Cool!"
Marine 2: "Yeah boy!"
That is one epic ending. Was waiting to see this final level and see what you would do. Was epic! :D
Summon the Ganthrithor! A new Overmind is growing on Char!😅🤣
23:17 this is some portion of all the flyers that you're intended to kill during mission, it looks crazy looking that way
Great strategy, used it to complete the brutal campaign. Thx a lot
Horner: "You're being over run! Use the Artifact, go Nova!"
Raynor: "You do realize those zerg signals are ours, right? Or soon will be at any rate."
It's like the Terran is conducting a massive recruitment campaign and the Zergs are joining. Kerrigan is pissed. 😂😂😂
I can hear the confusion in Matt voice when he said that we are being overrun.
Kerrigan, we dont need u anymore. we've got new overmind here!
"I am the swarm."
-Jimmity Raynor
i never used control towers, used psi disruptors instead paired with lots of bunkers (i had the nydus worms one because killing the worms before they spat out zerg was a lot easier imo)
Yep, the ground version of the map is definitely easier if you don't have the mind control towers!
Damn, that's cool 👍 nice to see new stuff after all these years, just goes to show how good the game is
Lol, fun to watch. I had no idea this was a thing. Nice touch leaving the cinematic in the video.
Finally, the most effective terran army is found!
What a massive gameplay, Well played. 👏
This is great! It is very difficult to believe, but it is really speedrun. In the final mission!
I was wondering how you were going to destroy everything with just the Terran units but then i forgot you weren’t Grant, honestly no one is as crazy as him.
Raynor becomes the king of blades
23:55 when she tells you it's her first time.
haha, nice one :DDD
Kerrigan: "Your fool! Dead for my babys!"
Raynor: "Hipty Hopty, your babys! My propety!"
Kerrigan:"... #!@! you!!"
Jeeze, that attack with the mind controlled muta's slowed down My PC!! lol
Sarah: "i'am the swarm..."
Jimmy: "hold my gun..."
It's like watching the UED at work.
It sucks that you can't control the Leviathan.
25:28 Miss "care again" was crashed by the tonnage of Jim's armor...trilogy ended prematurely
Dude, you did what I always want to do. I tried many times to try to kill everything but found zerg rebuild things and I don't have enough time. I remeber a tower control one zerg unit. I must be wrong...
Was looking forward for this. Thanks!
I love the fact that the zergs you mind controlled didn't die.
This is artistically beautiful and horrifyingly disgusting all at the same time. I love it.
after mission, Jim Raynor go with a group of mutalisks (not marines) to find naked Kerrigan. then when Tychus is about to shoot her, a viper abduct and neutralize him.
Won’t save him because of the killer suit,but I can definitely picture mutalisks flying like pigeons above Raynor and Kerrigan,walking into the sunset.
This is the parallel universe that UED defeats Kerrigan
Thank you for this WoL series
23:09
Raynor's Zerg:
Artifact? Haha, that tickles.
Jim: Looks like *I'm* the queen bitch of the universe now!
Kerrigan: 😮
Lots of zerg flyers inbound!
Ahh reinforcements!
I’ve never seen the little island behind the base. And that ending scene 😂 Incredible!
Horner: SIR BAD NEWS! A LARGE NUMBER OF ZERG FLIERS ARE HEADED TO OUR WAY!!
Raynor: Ok?... now tell me the bad news.
Matt: "sir we've detected large zerg flyers on your way"
This dude: *happy monkey sounds*
Alright that does it, I have to do another playthrough and use the mind control devices, you've convinced me of their usefulness.
Funny that when the artifact triggers, the camera shows all that nothing being destroyed... with great details
I love that ending cinematic !
"Look at me, I am the queen of blades now." -Raynor probably
If Jim Raynor could do awesome stretegies like this he would've already won over the other two races and make Mengsk, the hybrids and Amon his punching bag lol.
Congrats on finishing your Wings of Liberty runs! Overall, looks like you did amazing! While I dislike the path the story went, I hope you do speedruns of the other expansions. While I prefer the unit variety and upgrade system in Wings the most, I'm gonna guess the more limited(but stronger) options don't matter too much for you.
I much prefer WoL for the same reason, I believe they just had a much higher game design budget for the first campaign!
Simply incredible ...and i thought it was only possible on casual ..GG WP❤️
“The base is being overrun, go nova!”
“I think that’s a good thing, armchair general.”
Yep my computer would have cought on fire with this many zerg under control.
to be fair, i did the same thing in Legacy of the Void and use Dark Archons to steal the Golden Amanda's forces so this would have been doable for me too
Energy Nova : "Am I a joke to you?"
You madman conquered Char. It never stood a chance.
DAMN!
How much supply was that at the end?
Kerrigan: Whee you can get reinforcements, Jimmy? My troops are an endless swarm
Jim: Oh s**t, thanks for idea
Kerrigan : how many force do you think you need to stand against me ?
Raynor : Mind Control tower ...
Who else played All in for the first time without those Op towers and found out later after fckng up countless of times like 👁️👄👁️
How'd you assign all hive mind control towers to a Hotkey? It seems you don't have any hotkeys assigned, and yet every time you zoom to incoming fliers, you quickly have all towers selected. Do you put it on F3 or something?
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So I am very curious about your System spec’s, it looks like you had little to no lag even with so many units on-screen using Ultra graphics! Would you mind sharing your PC details so those of us with FPS issues can dream/aspire to one day enjoy such smooth gameplay? 🥺
I second this comment.
This game is a bit special in that it's performance is heavily CPU-dependant and it only runs on a single core, so for the best performance you want a recent CPU, but core count doesn't matter. Fast RAM also helps (don't forget to activate XMP in your bios), and again RAM capacity doesn't matter much. GPU doesn't matter as much as for other games.
That said, I dip under 20 FPS in this recording as well. I have:
CPU: Ryzen 7 5800X
GPU: Radeon RX 6800XT
RAM: Crucial Ballistix 32GB 3200MHz
Even with rapid fire, it is still pretty hard to properly manage multiple areas to mind control those units for me. Also, brood lord range is not long enough imo, which both acts as my advantage and my detriment when trying to kill Kerrigan from afar. Also, I am surprised that you didn’t pick the science vessel at all nor raven. I guess barracks drop is just that good to cheese, maybe not so much for fighting.
Wings of Liberty Nightmare mode is coming up soon, maybe you could check that one out and see if you could handle increased difficulty properly.
Kudos for not using a single control group during the entire run. I use control groups and still manage to let artefact get damaged to low 2 digits. It’s rough.
Kerrigan : My forces are without number! >:D
Raynor : Good!
Turning the Zerg against their own? What is this, the Brood War all over again?
SC1: betrayals and revenges.
SC2: bro-mance and romance.
500IQ skill play. Great idea brother
lmfao I skipped a lil bit and cracked up when I saw how many mutas you had so early
That was the funniest strategy I've seen! That's genius! I'm laughing kind-heartedly))
Kerrigan: I am--
Raynor: I AM THE SWARM!
Kerrigan: You will pay for this spawncamping!
Jim: What are you talking about? None of the units I'm using to spawncamp cost supply.
Kerrigan : YOU DARE USING MY OWN ZERG AGAINST ME, RAYNOR?
Have to replay this mission this style, awesome ))