All Of My Units Are TERRIBLE - Heart of the Swarm: 1 Shot Edition - 09
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> Nydus worm penetrates the prison ship hull, thus *damaged* it
> The ship died (and so is Jim)
Good plan Kerrigan
It's okay the ship is made of barrels
Nydus do %based damage. Ship has 0.3HP left.
@@maryrosetran5109 There's a 'sir, a second Nydus...' joke here that I'm not going to finish
The bonus 30% hp from Grant's opening paid off =D
Never would have expected the Swarm Host Evolution Mission to look harder than Conviction.
the mission so hard Abathur gave you 2x the unit in the beginning
Just wait for the ultralisk evolution mission
@ Oh I’m absolutely looking forward to that. I want to see who wins at the end of the Noxious Strain part, haha.
Mod Maker here,
1st Mission: I concluded it was not possible (and verified by complaints after Niadra died being F2 in the second sections) so I added a thematic way of making it beatable. I tried to just show the supply limit but it kept on not working as expected so I had to include gas and minerals. Why they are at 1000 *shrugs* either started that way or I changed them while trying to have the hud be supply only.
Evo Mission: The closest way to keeping it vanilla was just giving more units until the player wins and the triggers were basically there already.
2nd Mission: A clocked banshee makes that intro way easier. Kerrigan with summon banelings can clear a lot of missions solo.
"Kerrigan with summon banelings can clear a lot of missions solo." - so basically just vanilla then.
wdym by "Niadra died being F2 in the second sections"?
Hello. can i humbly requeast to have you make a small update for the first mission. It would be a good lol moment if you made minerals 720 and gas 069.
@@FenekkuKitsune some noob F2 attacked with everything and she died, then got softlocked.
Probably didn't have summon baneling, pretty sure I cleared the mission using just that (and saved like 60-80 supplies of units in the back).
@@FenekkuKitsune The Niadra in the second section was added to army selection of the first section and then ordered to its death off screen so that when the player got to section 2, Niadra was dead.
That was the most "Are you seeing this shit?" laugh I've heard - that was so good.
Turns out man with gun is as good in SC1 as in SC2
The Alarm had 1hp and died immediately. Also, that giant gun has 405,240,509 range and has killed about ten thousand leviathans in the time span of the mission.
This swarm host intro was just brilliant. Grant elaborating how good the swarm host will be while one marine slaughters everything...
The "oh no the consequences of my own actions" and being noble about dealing with said consequences is nice. I appreciate it.
Can you imagine what can happen if everyone can quicksave reset though?
Kerrigan Death count: 23
This Episode: +4
The first real update in three episodes!
I just realized how ok valerian is with letting kerrigan infest a bunch of convicts
He’s a Mengsk to his core
Friends let friends commit war crimes.
Convicts are the core of the terran infantry
I mean, she did recently nearly choke him to death, and they really need her on-side to have a shot in hell at taking the capital. Valerian didn't really have a choice but to accept whatever she decided to do.
@@deadlylaigrek You can also spot his hesitation - he doesn't go "great idea, Kerrigan", nor is he very enthusiastic about the proposition.
Every time you fight a small squad of marines it's like Mengsk is using the opportunity to film Dominion propaganda.
"When every problem looks like a nail all your solutions look like a baneling"... or something like that
Honestly.
That take on not resetting is a pretty good life insight.
Cause yeah, sometimes you gotta just live with your own decisions and mistakes. I know its just game, but if we disregard it as a game, the mindset is still solid
Nice one GGG, that really is a good perspective to life
If starcraft units could rank up , this bunker would be 6 star legendary. it singlehandedly defended the platform against kerrigans forces
A group of 6 marines being a game ending threat will never not be hilarious to see 😂
Would be nice to have the cutscene of the thor being told to shoot the coupling, then he does the firing animation, says "Missed" and it resumes with him just standing there like he was.
Who was it that did a ton of great splicing? Orca?
I have to say that seeing you come up with unique solutions to recover from absolute doom scenarios makes these videos far more interesting and enjoyable. Thank you for always sticking it out to the bitter end.
A splitter baneling has functionally as many HP as three Ultralisks, with the difference that they can still kill a bunch of stuff if they die before connecting as long as they're close enough to the enemy.
About the 1000 minerals/gas at the start, I noticed during a run of the Abathur's Whimsy mod that when building zerg structures with free drones that there did look to be a limited supply of starting resources. It would never come up in a vanilla run of HotS, since those costs are just turned off for morphing units, but it's a neat little detail.
I believe in a different mod (not sure which one) I was able to MC an SCV on that mission and was able to build a CC on that mission. You definitely do have starting resources in normal vanilla HotS
17:57 didn't expect to be getting such a good life advice here, but it's great advice, so thank you!
SC2 alternative endings: When Kerrigan says she will plant virophages to deal with the defenses, jimmy is held there and gets infected.
Grant making 2 cuts to gather Infested for the beginning to deal with each bunker was so funny.
And I thought the Swarm Hosts would be useful with the infinite free Locusts. But I guess the Terrans had the ultimate counter called the Marine.
35:33
The projectile sees where you are by seeing where you aren't
Life lessons from my StarCraft TH-camr is not on my 2025 bingo card, but I’m here for it!
I am so happy that Niadra returned. Give it up to mod makers for stepping up and making use of fun plot elements that Blizzard completely forgot about.
controlling the banshee at the start would've been good coz it can cloak haha, but Grant was trying to make a point so it was funnier that way
18:20 Oh sunk-cost fallacy, we’re really in it now. We are in fact so really in it that if we quit now then everything we did would have all been for nothing and so we have to keep going in!
I tease, but genuinely this kind of thing is my favorite part of these videos. I love seeing when something goes wrong or a mistake is made, because I think watching Grant solve that problem is more interesting than if a problem never happened at all. Those are the moments that Grant's skill as a player and knowledge of the game shine through in more interesting ways, and I feel like I've become a better player from watching Grant creatively recover than from just watching Grant easily win.
It's hilarious watching this while playing a totally different game, because I wind up slipping into the 1hp mindset. I'm frantically dodging incoming fire in a borderline panic... then remembering "Oh wait, I'm basically immortal in this area, why am I dodging?" and proceeding to 1-tap everyone I was just evading.
The upside of having flying swarm host is that it spawns the locusts instantly so it's an instant answer.
The downside is that only slowly attacking enemies are gonna get killed by them
The 1 HP Mod: the mod where every single bunker is the Bunker of Death
23:46 bigger guns tend to have longer range, and I think you’re well-aware of how powerful extra range is.
I would like to see the interaction between Niadra and Zagadra on the Leviathan. Imagine having two yandere waifus keep trash talking each other until the Amon fight
Niadra is tsundere
Pretty sure she's just deredere for kerrigan. Yagdra is more tsundere, cold at first, calls kerrigan a stupud baka at some point probably, then loves her. Neither are yandere as far as i am aware, they aren't violently jealous about kerrigan.
what are these words you use and what do they mean??
@Michael_1979 some brainrot anime character archetypes
@Michael_1979 assuming you're just confused about the anime terms
"Waifu" is Japanese for wife (or just wife in a Japanese accent, been i while since i learned this stuff) . In this context "waifus" means female characters in a piece of media, generally ones that a large part of the audience is meant to feel attracted to in some way/is a love intrest of the main character. Classic waifus include Rei ayanami, Aqua, and Tosh.
Then you get into yandere, tsundere, deredere, and a fuckload of other terms. Which are all essentially just character archetypes in anime, often used in professional contexts to outline how a character is meant to act, in much the same way as "henchman" "hero" "love intrest" and "sidekick" are used in western media, but with the twist of it being a generally romatic coded set kf terms, as "dere" means love in Japanese, and then "deredere" meaning effectively "lovedovey".
Tsundere means i think cold lovey dovey. Effectively it's where a character has feelings for another one, but masks it for a variety of reasons into insults, esspecially when the other character does something they like making them flustered (common phase is "baka", meaning stupid, a go to insult for most tsunderes. "Stupid baka" is then common in translated anime for reasons unbeknownst to man.).
Yandere means something kike "obsessive lovey dovey", and bassically it's the stalker/overbearing archetype. They are incredibly obsessed with, and jealous over, there love intrest, and even if not in a relationship will be incredibly hostile and even violent towards anyone they view as threatening to take there love intrest away from them, up to and including murderding women who work in the same building as the love intrest. They will even go so far as to kidnap or lock away there love intrest to keep them with them, it's very toxic and people adore them due to being incredible alone or insecure IRL.
And there deredere means lovey dovey. A deredere character loves the main character completely and utterly, in a very healthy way. They are your Gwen Stacy's or Louis lanes, a nice no nonsense love intrest.
There are dozens of other "dere" archetypes, including ghosts, people
who are just dead, and people who have the personality of dogs or cats. It's not the best way of doing characters, but as intial personality or relationship outline it can be rather useful, both when writing or talking about the characters.
All i can think about here is: Reckoning will be HELL. Keeping 1HP Jimmy save while also keeping your base alive.. cant wait to see that slaughter.
Thanks for the laughs and the reminder of the value of sticking around and figuring out how to work through unexpected situations. I needed that today. Sometimes you just have to block a ramp with infestors!
Tbh lurkers would be insanely good for you.. the aoe DMG while being burrowed literally wrecks any ground army
What I meant is choose swarm host mutation to attack air units and use them in combination of lurkers on front (lurkers takes care of ground units with ease and swarm host can take care of air)
I see, you wanted to escape the game crash by the fact that Jim shooting 5 times into the wall, and the first destroys the ship.
18:25 The mentality of "Repair, dont restart" is genuinely healthy and lets you learn in basically all aspects of life. Watching Grant pivot and salvage a run from what would be certain doom for the rest of us is what makes watching these challenges interesting.
Who would have thought that the way to finally convince Grant to use the swarm host was to make the unit bad...
Then again considering his history with wraiths and predators i think it was kinda obvious XD
Wraiths are actually good at their job, which is escorting Banshees. Conversely Predators are bad and Swarm Hosts are terrible.
@@F14thunderhawk Except Vikings do the same for less and are better at their jobs
@@Ricardo_Rick you can't cloak vikings
@@TheGruntMeister why would you cloak vikings? banshees will destroy the ground and vikings are supposed to attract the attention for themselves as to not harm the banshee who is more expensive and important
IMO, swarm host is more or less only useful as a buffer for your spine, spore and impaler. Those generally can kill the enemy, but will also die alongside them requiring continued rebuild. But with swarmhost (and locust) tanking some shots, you lose a lot less stuff.
The evo mission actually kind of demonstrate this--lots of the enemy in the first base were actually killed by the spine as they are busy fighting your locust. Imagine if you had a full line of spine.
Dear Giant Grant Games, I know why the Dominion builds those big cannons!
We know that the big gun in mission 3 is going to kill Jim when he arrives. These must be the ultimate weapon - ultra long range and, as we know and love, vision.
I think the value of the swarm host here is that he gives the marines something to shoot while you flank with mutas or something.
Doesn't work on brutal though.
GF: *texts and reads phone for whole movie*
Me: *oh boy, here we go again*
GF: wait, who is that? whats going on? can you rewind it?
Me: No, GGG says you have to just work with what you got.
niadra is the true queen of blades, infinite banelings beat anything kerrigan can do
The queen of banes
kerrigan's best ability: spawn fewer banelings than niadra
with timed life too while niadra is eternal
"How many swarm hosts does it take to change a light bulb"
when i play tested i found creeper hosts with burrow good for defence , they could delay attack waves and keeping creep can be tricky on some missions
Regarding playing through your (non game-over) mistakes. I think it just makes for better content too. I say this as a person who has very little shame save scumming each and every fight if I don't see another way to do it. Watching you get 90% wiped and say "Well. Guess we'll need a bigger army next time" and build that army off the back of the shambles is so much more interesting than reloading the fight.
I love that Grant got the ground upgrade against the missile turrets
Didn't expect the quality life lesson mid video. Good perspective 👏
I love how Grant tries to save Swarm Hosts, who can move burrow to new locations on creep, by unburrowing them and trying to walk / kite them….
Great use of their new ability bud.
They have a 1 minute cool down, or something.
And you need that ability to relocate to the new base, or else it's dead by the time you get there - and that's when I tried your idea the first time I played vanilla HotS 😆
Actually, widow mine doesn't need detection to deal splash damage. It only need detection to deal bonus damage to primary target.
“Nooo! A marine! My only weakness!”
-abathur, probably
Surprisingly wholesome reason to not reset instantly. Most things in life won't turn out optimally. It is good to learn to deal. Thanks Grant.
A freshly hatched video. Beautiful.
13:30 The Swarm Host Evolution Mission is the hardest mission so far.
Grant, you can probably tell based off the Swarm Host evolution that another evolution is going to be even worse. A lot worse.
Ultra?
The ultra Mission will be hilarious to watch
Hay, one might be fine. The most obvious one. The stinky one. (This not even a joke and if it good depends 100% on how big the area of the aoe is).
@@darmorel549
One small issue: it’s melee. And the opponent fields only ranged units.
Granted, in theory, stinkylisks would be miles better than torrasques in a 1 hp environment, but by that time, you no longer face the enemies you’d want to face with them.
ah yes the ultimate counter to mass swarm host, 4 marines in a bunker.
Never expected locusts to suffer the fire bat curse
Banelings in this mod are just banelings in co-op on P1 zagara
36:20 tbf, i am actually for real wanted to see such dodges on pro scene for long time, i am complaining about Protosses insane stuff, and how much apm zerg requares, but Techicly Zergs are even more insane then i am giving them credit for. And i am just sad about curret state of pro games where it doesnt improve that much.
I can be wrong ,but widow mines have a splash damage, so even if target is lost, you can dodge the main damage, but not the secondary. Also it must work perfectly when dodging banshee and Yamato.
@@jed_i497 Honestly dodging Yamato isnt that hard i think, i were able to do it few times, banshee are really hard tho.
Dodge of main Widow mine damage sounds not so bad... but i dont see a way for zerg to have troubles with this unit. I think my hate for how hard to beat Thor+tanks+snipes aren't that much for insane composition to break, then how it doesnt allow to show dodges.
What you guys are talking about is all really normal in Dota. Disjointing projectiles is such a big thing that some heroes are built around it. Puck even heals based on how many projectiles get disjointed.
There's also an item that you can buy called Manta Style which creates 2 illusions of your hero, but it does so by mimicking the Blademaster's Mirror Image spell. Your hero disappears for 0.1 second before creating the illusions. In that 0.1 sec period you are completely immune. Pro players use this to dodge major spells.
@@pezdispencer113 Bro what are you yapping about, no body is building around disjointing projectiles in dota, its basicly a must know when you buying manta or blink, but its not like someone is building antimage around blink, or puck around shift, if you are doing that, cool, have fun, but its basicly a side effect of this characters existing.
First thing why its not going like that, some abilitys isnt even projectiles, and if you just built around it.. hex/abyssal can controll you and you done...
@@expepem189xl3 what do you mean? AM as a hero is literally built around his blink ability. You take another ability away from him and he will still be mostly the same, but if yiu take away his blink the hero loses his identity.
Puck quite literally is built around disjointing. 2 of his spells allow for it and his innate gives you mana and health for doing it. Being elusive is what the hero does.
Edit: Storm and Ember are also big spell disjointers with sleight, remnant and ball lightning.
I was suposed to go to bed now i have to watch it😂 Its gonna be a great video
the flying locusts auto-acquire new targets super easily, i've found them hard to micro in the past as well
The more I watch these videos by grat the more I long for a starcraft game where the campaign is a full on war not just like 20 missions.
HotS showed us but didnt let us play the war against mengsk. That shouldve couldve been massive.
It's not Starcraft, but there's a mod for Red Alert 2 called Mental Omega that has 100-ish missions divided among 3 factions (and that's only act 1&2, act 3 is in development). It's a full on war with lots of betrayals and surprises.
@@atifarshad7624 might have to look it up
ultra evolution gonna be more terrible :)
Nice input into that great philosophy you have, to go forward with things, even thought they aren't perfect and correct your own actions.
Not gonna lie, kinda happy to finally see my prediction for swarm hosts being too slow come true in the most glorious manner ever: the insurmountable evolution missions!
Grant is out here dropping some serious WISDOM today 😂😂
24:00 you need a large gun to fire a lot of birdshot over long distances quickly
You didn't show the cutscene, but Jim died by suffering emotional damage
Man, that evo mission sure was something
after legacy of the void one shot, I kinda want to see a multiplayer one shot mod, with retweaked economy to account for how whacked the balance will be
I remember the same pain from the swarm host evo mission. I am so excited for the Ultralisk evo mission....
Lemme gzess it ends with 100 ultras derping around?
@@dodojesus4529 ohhoho just you wait XD
6:59 ready to rock instead of ready to roll? COME ON!
R.I.P. spine crawler family 🙏🙏😔😛
for a reason the tactic is called baneling bust.
Definitely agree on no unnecessary restarts, used to play with them, after playing some roguelikes it changed mine mentality and it's just more fun to salvage situation instead of just repeating singular strat but with better optimization. Feels more fullfiling for sure.
The Hotkey Gremlin strikes again.
Seriously what in the world.
Every version of the Swarm Host had it hotkeys but Carrion Strain is special
Terran Space Marine: A weapon to surpass Metal Gear Odin...
Swarmhost meets the Bunker Of Doom.
GiantGrant: Lord of the Flys
Basically Grant is that type of gamer who doesn't suicide to restart faster
Edit: but I got to say that using swarm host is basically suicide XD
23:00 Grant. Is this a cry for help? 🤣
I beat brutal with mostly Kerrigan and banlings, so this was made for me.
23:48 Because of the range Grant, if they outrange the leviathans, the zergs can't invade now can they ?
Thanks for the video!
congratz !
Grant's lucky the prison ship didn't have 1 HP, or the boarding worm's would've killed it.
I can't help but wonder if the locust range upgrade would have been better than burrow, since the locusts would have a much better chance of getting to engage targets before dying.
The dominion builds those big guns so they can hit that 1 point of damage from REALLY far away.
This entire campaign is just even more evidence that the Marine is the best unit in StarCraft II.
Thanks for giving us 1 HP and a dream! x)
23:54: Easy, mr. Grant, because these guns CAN deal that one point of damage over a 250 tiles distance.
Gosh, I was really betting on the swarm host. It was frankly the fact that the locust needs to think for like a whole second before attacking that kills it. Also feels like ground needs like +1 range.
@giantgrantGames @13:35 you need vision to Abathur go now. 😂
you know I completely agree with your point at 17:57 its like when you accidentally pour water into your bowl of cereal instead of milk, sure you could go through the hassle of emptying out the bowl to put milk in or you can admit you dungoof and adapt by just eating the bowl of cereal with water instead
Are the morph costs of banelings and lurkers removed in vanilla Conviction? If not that's probably the reason behind the starting money.
And it looks like the biggest problem with the locusts is their pre-firing delay. They just sit there for a moment getting obliterated by the marines even after moving into range. Also campaign swarmhosts are just really clunky overall.
GiantGrant should start a philosophy channel. You have some genuenly good life advice.
I think the burrow interaction might be due to the unit you are burrowing transforming into a different unit therefore not inheriting being attacked, but I have only limited knowledge of the editor so I might be wrong.
No, it's tied to cloaking. Weapons require a "Visible" target in order to fire, and by default that condition is checked again when the missile actually impacts the target. In the same vein a viking should be able to dodge another viking's missiles by transforming in the right moment, as that attack requires an Air target which the landed viking no longer qualifies as.
One step further, a _detected_ cloaked unit cannot dodge attacks this way. And having a phoenix immediately lift that landed viking back up before the missiles hit should cause them to deal damage again too.
And yes, this kind of behaviour COULD be switched off in the editor if desired.
Wow, banelings are good. Who would have guessed that the things designed to kill in one hit and be low durability are good when everything kills in one hit and has low durability.
TFW it takes you seven minutes to clear the preliminaries....
13:08
I think literally the only way to make sh viable is to get the flying evolution and the burrow mutation and use them on defense. I think they’d actually be pretty good that way but hard to tell
Nope nvm the enemy walks past them lmao
200/200 swarm host VS 5 marines