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...
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
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
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!
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).
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!
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
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 :/
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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 😅
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!
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.
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.
Thanks for this Grant. I recently beat every campaign on brutal for the first time. Hadn't done any before that. Quite proud of myself for getting better.
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
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 :)
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
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.
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.
Ah yes, as someone who has completed all the campaigns on Brutal with side objectives and achievements, this is also the content I am here to see (I love watching @GiantGrantGames).
Took a look at my achievements when I went back to this game for another playthrough. Crazy how old it is. Lost Viking achievements in June of 2011....... God im old
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.
For a general tip for all 3 campaign regarding base defense. 1 Bunker of Marines is amazing for Wings. Most attack waves will either get slaughtered or so insanely beaten up that even the most suboptimal reinforcement will clean it up, stick a tank behind it and pretty much every single attack with your Marine Bunker will literally not harm you and you never have to go home to defend. For HotS, just creep spread a carpet home, enemy attack waves will get hung up on creep tumors and give you ample time to respond and run back home, it's not worth making static defense. Just be ready to run home when your creep tumors start dying. Build a Queen and get 3 Tumors active to spread creep. Even if you're not good at creep spread just spamming them whenever you remember is enough For LOTV, 3 Shield Batteries are amazing. Get in the habit of making a control group of your main army units instead of F2ing before you leave your base then your reinforcements just rally to your Shield Batteries. Whenever they clean up a wave F2, reset your army control group and repeat ad infinitum. Your base gets attacked infrequently enough that your shield batteries will always have maximum energy for every attack. Don't have to memorize attack wave timings and run home and you can skip Photon Cannons, you can add them if you want if you aren't confident in your macro. For Nova, the Marine bunker again is your friend but this time omit the tank. Your Marines are so strong in this campaign that the Bunker alone is enough.
Regarding the Lost Vikings I'd say: after several playthroughs you will make a note what you usually die to. If it's the boss fights: focus on the plasma upgrades. If you die to being overwhelmed by trash mobs and their projectiles: get the spread laser upgrades. For me the laser spread worked better. It also means that you will get more points on a playthrough which will likely spare you the third terran boss fight.
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.
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.
1. Tosh missions require doing missions to unlock, so do them first when they become available. Perma cloaked specters and ghosts can cheese many missions, and the final tosh mission isn't effected by tech or upgrade choices 2. Do the Dig early to unlock the zeratul ministory and get extra research. The protoss missions are static as well not benefitting from any upgrades or research that other missions benefit from.
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*
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.
Thank you! This is honestly making me want to redownload Battlenet and replay the SC2 campaigns. Btw, I loved you before, but I am absolutely *elated* to know that you're a touhou fan!
After 15 or so tries, I got the hang of lost vikings. Couldnt believe it after I died like half an hour in it wasnt enough. Only accomplishment I dont have and itll stay that way. Thanks Blizzard.
One of the hardest archivments for me (10th birthday) was in the Nova mission 2 where you have to kill a lot of units with mines. You can do this mission on normal but I think its better to do it on hard because there will come more enemies. And you have to streal gas from Matts base.
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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!
_"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)
"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
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.
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.
"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 😟
"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!
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
now i can finally play a difficulty harder than casual
Ähm Mass Marine/Zergling/Stalker does that toooooo?
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
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
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!
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!
7:12 overbuild medics? 6-8 of them? okay. *proceeds to build 68 medics*
136 supply down the drain
Lol love the Hbomberguy plagiarism reference at 27:50. Too funny!
I got all campaign achievements, yet my greatest campaign achievememt was managing to get the reavers without losing a unit
Weird idea for a mod, switch anti-air and ground weapons, incuding melee.
Now zerglings can leap up and chew on your starships.
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!
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
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
Thanks for the shoutout! Love your content
Oh shoot, it's the legend himself.
"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
"The number one player-killer hero" Love that HotS reference ❣
13:11 "EVERYBODY KNOW IT IS XT39323" XD
That gameshow was amazing.
the deep deep lore (of two weeks ago)
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!
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...
Love the Hbomberguy reference in the last stand tip. This is why i never skip a GGG vid.
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.
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
I'm glad that everyone agrees that Dehaka is a Yoshi
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.
If the Protoss had Tempo Jesus from the start, the Overmind would have just packed up and gone home
The best tip for a no build mission:
'As long as you don't die, you win'
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 😂
"You couldnt possibly struggle on" listen don't underestimate me.
18:14 the chapter title 😂
space😂
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!
I never realised this but that medic you spawn with in smash and grab has full energy.
"As long as you don't die, you can never lose!"
Top notch tips.
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.
"missions you couldn't possibly be struggling on"
Grant, that cuts deep man :D
Campaign upgrade and coop commander tierlists would be neat.
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.
I didn't even know "Piercing the shroud" mission existed till yesterday,
You don't need an excuse to replay impherisable night, Grant, its just a masterpiece.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
This is much appreciated 😊
Bro called Dehaka a Yoshi
Yoshi's dialogue is more varied tbh
This video has really been helping me get all the echivements on Brutal in WoL thanks Mr Games
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 😅
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.
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!
Literally started cleaning up achievements yesterday and this video comes out! Thanks grant
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.
why did youtube recommened this to me at 1am and I have to be up at 6 for work x.x
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.
Thanks for this Grant. I recently beat every campaign on brutal for the first time. Hadn't done any before that. Quite proud of myself for getting better.
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
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 :)
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 love how you mix other RTS' soundtracks into those videos
You can count up to 1023 on your fingers using binary, and including your toes up to 1,048,575. Thanks for the tips!
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.
27:56 yes the algorithm will indeed love that 😂
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
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.
I am currently playing through legacy of the void on brutal and this has been so helpful! thanks!
Loving these summer of StarCraft videos!
I say, the tips could include a section about armoury and Kerrigan ect skills/upgrades to maybe clear up any myths.
His speedruns usually mention what he's getting at the armory / Kerrigan / protoss stuff. Many of the options are objectively better than others
I have all achievments in campains, but Grant is so deep in Starcraft 2, that his tips are still usefull for me
Ah yes, as someone who has completed all the campaigns on Brutal with side objectives and achievements, this is also the content I am here to see (I love watching @GiantGrantGames).
Grant Played Touhou? Guess I've got another reason to like him.
Thanks for the video, there was even one thing I didn't knew :) You are awesome! :)
Yo that was actually interesting.
Took a look at my achievements when I went back to this game for another playthrough. Crazy how old it is. Lost Viking achievements in June of 2011....... God im old
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.
For a general tip for all 3 campaign regarding base defense. 1 Bunker of Marines is amazing for Wings. Most attack waves will either get slaughtered or so insanely beaten up that even the most suboptimal reinforcement will clean it up, stick a tank behind it and pretty much every single attack with your Marine Bunker will literally not harm you and you never have to go home to defend.
For HotS, just creep spread a carpet home, enemy attack waves will get hung up on creep tumors and give you ample time to respond and run back home, it's not worth making static defense. Just be ready to run home when your creep tumors start dying. Build a Queen and get 3 Tumors active to spread creep. Even if you're not good at creep spread just spamming them whenever you remember is enough
For LOTV, 3 Shield Batteries are amazing. Get in the habit of making a control group of your main army units instead of F2ing before you leave your base then your reinforcements just rally to your Shield Batteries. Whenever they clean up a wave F2, reset your army control group and repeat ad infinitum. Your base gets attacked infrequently enough that your shield batteries will always have maximum energy for every attack. Don't have to memorize attack wave timings and run home and you can skip Photon Cannons, you can add them if you want if you aren't confident in your macro.
For Nova, the Marine bunker again is your friend but this time omit the tank. Your Marines are so strong in this campaign that the Bunker alone is enough.
Hehe, Alarak's Q ability.
Regarding the Lost Vikings I'd say: after several playthroughs you will make a note what you usually die to. If it's the boss fights: focus on the plasma upgrades. If you die to being overwhelmed by trash mobs and their projectiles: get the spread laser upgrades. For me the laser spread worked better. It also means that you will get more points on a playthrough which will likely spare you the third terran boss fight.
I laughed at Dehaka being called Yoshi way harder than I should've.
Fun fact, it would take 4.5 Grants using all their fingers and toes to count all the tips he gave in this mission!
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.
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.
1. Tosh missions require doing missions to unlock, so do them first when they become available. Perma cloaked specters and ghosts can cheese many missions, and the final tosh mission isn't effected by tech or upgrade choices 2. Do the Dig early to unlock the zeratul ministory and get extra research. The protoss missions are static as well not benefitting from any upgrades or research that other missions benefit from.
Thanks for the tips. Even if I had completed everything on Brutal, this would be helpful for Nightmare difficulty missions
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*
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.
0:07 I think I have 100% on the zeratul missions from legacy of the void. Does that count?
That mobius factor joke fucking killed me
Wow how did I not know about the easteregg carbot lings
Thank you! This is honestly making me want to redownload Battlenet and replay the SC2 campaigns.
Btw, I loved you before, but I am absolutely *elated* to know that you're a touhou fan!
After 15 or so tries, I got the hang of lost vikings. Couldnt believe it after I died like half an hour in it wasnt enough. Only accomplishment I dont have and itll stay that way. Thanks Blizzard.
The Warcraft 2 music was messing with my brain... Well played, sir
1:10 deadass was making beef stroganoff as this video was uploaded.
One of the hardest archivments for me (10th birthday) was in the Nova mission 2 where you have to kill a lot of units with mines. You can do this mission on normal but I think its better to do it on hard because there will come more enemies. And you have to streal gas from Matts base.