Warcraft 2: Beyond the Dark Portal - Full Human Campaign Gameplay & Story (Speedrun / Walkthrough)
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- Опубліковано 20 чер 2024
- This is a complete playthrough of the Human Campaign, spliced together from individual recordings of each level. Played on Battle.net Edition v2.02 with Fog of War enabled.
0:00 Opening
Act 1 A Time For Heroes
1:30 I. Aleria's Journey
5:45 II. The Battle For Nethergarde
15:07 III. Once More Unto The Breach
Act 2 Draenor, The Red World
25:30 IV. Beyond The Dark Portal
35:23 V. Upon The Shadowed Seas
44:12 VI. The Fall of Auchindoun
Act 3 War in The Shadows
47:04 VII. Deathwing
50:14 VIII. Coast of Bones
1:02:25 IX. The Heart of Evil
Act 4
1:11:00 X. Siege of Vanguard
1:18:49 XI. Dance of The Laughing Skull
1:26:07 XII. The Bitter Taste of Victory
1:32:17 Outro - Ігри
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Ah yes. Back when an expansion was basically a full game with new features - heroes - new maps and missions, and expanded the story. It was like dlc and microtransactions, but well worth it.
@Kamari Jaxxon no i dont care
@Kamari Jaxxon f*ck off creep
I thought you could turn the fog off remember that. Everything you explored would stay visible
@@tompurchase7466 You can, though to be fair I learned that yesterday lol
I just wish they had added they units and buildings. It felt more like a mission pack, rather than a true expansion pack…
This game's difficulty is no joke, this is from a time where sometimes not even developers were sure if some of the maps were fair or beatable. I struggled a lot with it as well considering how clunky the game is from a modern RTS standpoint. Absolutely amazing work.
Kind of funny considering the base game is mostly a complete pushover
I don't think I'd be able to beat it with the fog on and without "on screen" 😅😅😅
Especially in those days, "balance" was often just what 1 person thought was okay. Nowadays they playtest measuring thousands of players. This is why games seemingly have become easier and handhold-y, because who could have known that most players aren't as good as the developer that played it day in day out for months/years on end.
Like the final mission of Jean d'arc on AoE II... Man, what a suffer play that level...
I was so proud just to actually get to draneor in this game.... Meanwhile in heart of the swarm you can literally beat the last mission without using a single unit other than kerrigan
It actually felt like an accomplishment getting past part 1. Of course back in those days campaigns were much more important compared to multiplayer than they are now, but also games have gotten easier.
Dat "GG" was a nice touch 12/10
Glad I scoured the previous comments before making this observation myself. "GG" was *chef's kiss*
Blizzard creative team was something else. The music. The sounds. Everything was just crisp.
@@josephbrewer3877 No. WCII sound is really gorgeous
@@josephbrewer3877 Eh?
And the box was pretty, with a map and stuff. Blizzard was so mature, different, fast and creative back in the day. They dropped Warcraft 1, one year later Warcraft 2, one year later Diablo, two years later Starcraft, two years later Diablo 2, two years later Warcraft 3 and these were all highly polished. After that, both Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3 took 12 years to complete. WOW changed everything.
When I was a kid, I thought it was the coolest thing ever to see a hero unit with better stats than a normal unit. Nowadays Blizzard is like Oops All Heroes!
This came out when I was 25 :(
Heroes inflation
@Oren Black I was 7 in 1996, he must be 51 now, +-.
I feel like this still be the best looking Blizzard game to me. These hand drawn sprites and character designs just can't be messed with.
agree 100%
True
The great chris metzen. He nailed it on that part. True mastermind
Warcraft 2 happened to be very hard. Especially the expansion pack. Good thing you’ve got all the briefings, intermissions and pre rendered videos recorded here too. I was mostly watching this for the lore before I’d get my hands on Warcraft 3. So I really do appreciate your effort in recording everything without cutting anything out. Now It’s safe to say I’m ready for Warcraft 3 now after having to learn some lore… especially one thing about Ner’zhul
@Over Shantae'd good thing I’m sticking to Normal difficulty
@Over Shantae'd yep. I’m currently playing through the alliance campaign on Frozen Throne. The story is well written btw
@@overshantaed3952 I've finished War3 and its expansion in hard mode. Also WC1. In m opinion, WC2 campaign, specially the expansion, is the hardest game of the series.
man I had no idea you could hold the base initially on the final level, that was impressive
Seeing that Balista kill on your own units at 19:08 made me happy for I am not the only one who does that. I do that in a very, very dumbed down way tho lol
"You never touch any of the other elves like that... Do that again and you'll pull back a stump."
*Knight* "For the king!"
Not even 4 minutes in and I'm laughing my ass off. Can't wait to watch it all. Thanks for the nestolgia.
25:04....*Gives order to attack the wall.*
"A noble quest!!" 😂😂
Insane speed, what took me 2 weeks to finish took him less than 2 hours
The best thing about this game is the sounds, games dont have these kind of brutal sounds anymore.
Wc2 is undoubtedly metal to the core
Year 1995. I remember my dady bought my 1rst pc a pentium. Back then the only game console i had was NES. Then a friend of mine gave me a cd with some sarewares. One of them was Warcraft 2. When i saw it, it was love in 1rst sight. The music, the game play and the atmosphere was incredible.
Those years was perfect.....
42:55 When you sunk the submarine, completely jaw-dropping!!! Why have I never thought of that?
Lol is always wonders what the hell the point of attack ground was. The times you could use it to block off a pathway are few and far between.
I used to do that as a teenager all the time, somehow I forgot when I picked up the game a decade or two later
You could also use this for balistas and catapults if the submarines are close enough to shore.
@@HallyVee I had always assumed that the attack ground was for clearing off trees or something. Not sure if it can actually do that
@@Urza26 No, Attack Ground doesn't clear any terrain but sometimes if something is just outside of your range your ballistas or catapults can cause "splash damage" and destroy buildings or enemies. Or, in this instance, attack the sea area that has an otherwise hidden submarine.
I love the aggressive play style, you surgically strike the enemies and decapitate many of their bases at the beginning with excellent micro.
I still remember playing it on my Pentium 2 system for 8 hours straight. Amazing times.
Another stellar run. Considering the difficulty, you absolutely smashed it!
Could never beat the expansion 25 years ago but with some of the strategies being employed here as well as quite a bit of SC2 ladder experience I finally managed to pull it off :)
In my opinion the understated VIP is the flying machine. Scouting is nice but more importantly it totally counters death knights. Rather than casting death and decay or coil they spam storms. The storm gives the flying machine 5-10 damage before it manages to fly away. Have one on the death knight path a safe distance from home and they will never get the opportunity to do real damage.
Lvl10 is supposed to be really hard but with Kurdran single handedly suppressing the noth base you'll never see a single dragon.
Lvl11 is ingenious how you use Turallyon to suppress the south west base. Seems to be a bit luck dependant. I did lose hime once.
Lvl12 not losing the central base changes it from an extremely hard level to an easy one. The building wall which funnels the units which subsequently get Blizz'ed was brilliant but surprisingly easy to execute.
I had a dream once, as a young kid, that I was captured by a grunt. I was lying down. He had his sword on my heart. He was standing over me, looking straight ahead. He had his foot on the handle of the sword. After a few seconds he slowly pushed down. I jolted awake with pain in my chest/heart.
Believe it or not, I visited Dark Temple while on shrooms back in 2007 or so. I saw everything from a different perspective, saw how massive everything actually is, and the craziest thing -- I felt the air temperature on my skin. It was quite warm! I did not expect that. So it makes me wonder... What happens when someone sits down and starts creating something. Where do these ideas come from? It's a cool and wild thing to think about...
wish they would remaster this game.....what a classic
I wish they would make a sequel 🥴
modern blizzard? btw battlenet edition is remaster
war2combat its perfectly playable in win10.
You can also get the WarCraft 2 mod for the WarCraft 3 engine, at least the old one...
All in all, the game was/is fun, but you can't deny it has some balance issues, like:
- some magic powers are way too much overpowered (Bloodlust or Exorcism, or the Blizzard / death & decay)
- also the square unit/building logic allowed for some cheap movements like auto cornering new units
- AI was kind of poor (but this was more so in Tides of Darkness, the Beyond the Dark Portal AI behavior was quite stronger and more dangerous)
NO! just NO!...
...unless you want another Reforged (REFUNDED) debacle
@@mueezadam8438 why make a sequel tho? the chronological order (game wise) is W1,W2, and W3 ROC then TFT
in 1 hours and 40 minutes I may manage to complete first 3 missions of campaign if I tried hard enough, this guy managed to complete the whole campaign lol
My first Rts game. Had it on the original playstation around 97'-98'. Good times.
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"AYE-AYE SIR"
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okay okay just move already there's a cyclone above you
My favourite RTS
Amazing mouse and management skills
I think the term you're looking for is "ubermicro" 😋
Mission 11 was always a weird one. You get a briefing from the Orcs, but your interface is Human... but rescuing units plays the Orc rescue sound and the adjutant is the Orc one (They're destroying our city!)
Orc units also sound normal so clicking on a Grunt won't make them sound like a Footman and all the structures sound like Orc structures on selection but again, music and interface is Human.
How DID Blizzard pull it all off considering how you can't do that in the Scenario Editor?
With your help, I finally beat this game, for the first time ever (without cheat codes) today! Thank you, Stu!
Loved this game, but I never managed to beat it, so good to see this playthrough
I just rediscovered this game not long ago.... I was so proud of myself for actually making it to draneor... This is back when beating a game was an accomplishment, not a given.
one curious thing, in portugues the audio from "aye" is commonly used for when you get hit and feel pain, so imagine me, as a kid, not knowing anything in english hearing: aye aye sir! yeah I still lol every time till today, when I imagine the captain of the sip getting spanked to go to the location XD
Alleria's range is so op
Thank you so much for this video and the orc campaing too. I recently started replaying WC2 for nostalgia and I always got stuck in the expansion. I usually played it in a defensive way, but I never thought of the idea to just rush the enemy to shut them down. Keep up the good work!
This game sure aged really well. I've been playing it and it's still really fun.
Was about to say "AKA Speedrun" before I realized it was already in parenthesis lol This is impressively quick. Thanks for letting me watch through rather than playthrough it to get the story quickly. I do love me some Warcraft 2, but I've only played Tides. Even making sure to click all the heroes to get all their dialogue, what a champ you are.
I ended up playing through this game again because of these videos, i watched one campaign, then i decided to get it working myself, I've been playing a level and then seeing how you did it afterwards over the course of a week on and off.
I would love to see a remake of this classic.
This is so nostalgically good
It's too bad Khadgar, Alleria, and the other triplet heroes are stuck in the demon wastelands after the destruction of the portal. Hope they can somehow live happily there.
never played burning crusade on world of warcraft ?
@@ViquelOoste i guess, it was a joke :D
@@ViquelOoste I never played WoW as I dislike MMORPG - are characters from Warcraft 1-2-3 appearing in WoW? I thought it's only player-created characters, since, like, it's a multiplayer game? I feel really stupid now '-_-
Waiting to finish off a tower so you can blizzard the peons they send to repair it is pretty clever.
Great run. Love the way you target bases and raze them as fast as you can. Wc2 is such an awesome game. The art style and sound still makes it the best strategy game in my eyes. The 2 factions are really well balanced(yes even with bloodlust, humans can counter that). Wish this game got a remaster or a modern update to bring back the servers and update the ui and make some quality of life changes.
Yep, insane how quickly it can be done. I instead, sometimes played so defencibly and long that AI players goldmines ran out. Then those peons/peasants wander to nearest goldmine, even if its in enemy town-so eventually AI runs out of gold (and peasants). Then it's time to launch counter attack.
We would hate the remake ...
Having two almost identical factions with one of them being a bit stronger seems like a really shitty way to balance things.
@@Tegelane5 That was my go-to strategy when I played Tides of Darkness back when I was 10 :D It wasn't enough to get me through the expansion, though - I only beat that after I gained some RTS experience playing Starcraft )
So many memories with this game man , Absolute classic , War2/Diablo1/2/Starcraft , Childhood and memberberries right there , Back when blizzard was the best of the best. And this came out the year i was born xD
"You never touch the other elves like that."
I love how in the one map with 3 heroes - Stu recognizes how much faster the knights are and goes in further into map getting Catapult zooming past a grunt and are thrower while his other units take care of those units - incredible !
this is my childhood
Great, i was waiting for this one, you play very well.
Will you do Brood War too?
yes, coming soon
this game is a masterpiece
Holy F SHI Stu ! This is so speedrun, I cant lift my jaw off the fracking floor! O.O
I rewatched that level where you start at Dark Portal with a ton of units - I finally saw how the griffon went at edge of rock mountain and took out an ax thrower - then moved right then up to gold mine - it is beyond me how other axe throwers didn't challenge the griffon - keep in mind if STU played map before than he would have aforknowledge; he was able to wipe out peons at the one enemy base while moving units down and building up first base at gold mine - he got his units gathered quickly and built farms and town hall then lumber mill ; some enemy structures left; good job STU
Holy guacamole, that was insane!
And so it ends. The armies of Azeroth flees to unknown worlds. Ner Zul and his council is still at large, with the power to open rifts, although Kadgar hold that power as well.
I wonder is the Laughing Skulls made it through. Though allies for but a moment, maybe it was enough to create a bond between the two. Or perhaps they escaped, and will one day recreate the Horde.
After seeing this game again, honestly, I'm not even holding Warcraft 3 as canon anymore xD.
That first map. Is setup just like Elwyne forrest human starter zone in WoW O.O that church in the top right is where you start as a human in WoW. I didn't know they actually did that.
It never seizes to amuse me how much hp a farm has, compared to the juggernaut.
God do i love the narrator's voice in this game, awesome gameplay too-
I know some of the cheese.
But I have never seen someone combining perfect micro with cheese.
My hero.
Que de bon souvenir, merci
The last level has a bug where the enemy Orcish heroes are on the map near the Dark Portal, but assigned to the wrong player, causing them to vanish.
I actually didnt know this, despite being a lore/trivia junkey for these games.
i love the knights voice and the church sound
fantastic!!
More than amazing!!
"Excuse me? You never touch the OTHER elves like that. Do that again,and you'll pull back a stump"....lmfao,classic!!!! :P
really impressive!
So what happens to Khadgar & friends? Do they just kinda chill in the Outlands until the Burning Crusade?
Man this takes me back to the 90s and my first PC XD
I do wish they stayed to this style of art design for WC3 though... I found the character models way too cartoonish and fake (the actual design of the models, not the graphics obviously - if that makes sense)
Alleria's "EXCUSE ME!" never fails to crack me up.
One of the few things I would change in this if remade would be the ranking score
i did most of campaign in max speed but was clearly having a hard time compared to your lighting speed invasion, terrifying
That game was about 43000 won as korea money.43000 won for both Tide of darkness and Beyond the Dark Portal.
awesome! reaalllyy enjoued this!
Holy cow - Act 2 - first map - it was a massive onslaught! Griffon used for northeast portion of map! And Stu slides units past cannon tower; then tons of farms right away! Attack continues to northwest as Stu builds and goes back and forth giving commands at base or managing his attacking force- units and protecting catapult(s); he keeps up attacks and building and adding units to his force; I don't think the enemy had a chance ....
The GG was a nice touch :)
Вспомнил детство своё, настольгия...
Omg, my best years in past..
In Act 1 I was amazed that Stu used 3 catapults and didn't make a 2nd barracks; he made a Stable instead and unit by unit sent Knight reinforcements to first unit group while adding on to the catapults and continuing to press on toward the goal; with 3 catapults I saw units try to 'look' from computer but then be retracted back; I only saw one mistake when catapults clobbered some of Stu's own units when a lone grunt challenged the catapults north of the 2nd gold mine base; incredible that he established new base while wiping out remaining structures; I also like the time when he gets between the gold mine and enemy base with no towers present - peons go from how ever many there are to 0 or nil! Then it's 2 Mage buildings and 6 griffon Averies ! And he still is collecting on first gold mine - that's how fast it is ! And he brought back 3 knights and 1 archer to first base for protection perhaps from other units or dragons - I wonder if he even upgraded 1 tower at all ? And did he only have 1 Blacksmith upgrade or did he add on to that later ??
Ahhh, back when elves were decent enough people, opposed to having a conga-line of misdeeds so insanely long that you're left scratching your head at how the heck anyone could have ever considered them anything resembling good guys.
having played every warcraft game made, I have no idea what you are talking about. The elves as a whole have been a force of good for a looong time and though individual elves may fuck up (Dath'remar, Kael'thas, Sylvannas) the race as a whole is good.
@@alithanar8 He refers to wow.
@@XxXDemonhunter I know, I play wow and the Elves do not have a 'conga line of misdeads', they are a race that have as whole done far more good in the world then bad and what bad was done can be laid at the feet of a few bad apples that every race holds.
Oh I was wondering if you have beyond the dark portal after I watched you play the base game.
Game : You will be unable to maintain this foothold for long against their numbers, so your victories must be daring and swift
Stu: Hold my beer
Man how I struggled with these missions as a kid, played them through as a grown-up man. Back then, if I'd just known to "rush B" all the time. It was a Playstation version though, not great for fast and smooth gameplay. :D
Great gameplay of a great game!
Looks like fun game 👍🏻
gg at the end) love it)
I remember playing this game while jamming to billy joel. I dont recall having as easy a time as you lol
Shocking how good the game holds up. Thats the brilliant artstyle! Doesn`t look dated at all
Gonna take a look at your other videos, really liked this one you are pretty good. Wonder if they had other plans for the Khadgar finale, kinda off it was not addressed in warcraft 3 and was only brought back many years later in world of warcraft
great!!
well play, bro
Stages 11 and 12: You get admiral rank without commanding a single ship.
This is nuts man
I'm playing through this campaign right now and it's a struggle. Mostly cause i dont know the map layouts and which enemies will aggro etc. Honestly, losing each mission has been a much better option for me at least once haha
that massive ballista friendly fire at 19 minutes xd
What epic musics , good times back then...
Draw Steel boys...
I forgot how much of a beast Danath was.
All the heroes really
@@bemasaberwyn55 Step aside, Junior
@@carelesscloud9816 Khadgar is still my favorite (kirin Tor bitches)
How do you tag certain group of units. What hotkeys do you use?
1:31:11 GG
It always surprises me how aggressive Stu is, I'm usually just struggling to survive, much less attack somebody (of course that may be why I lose, I end up fighting 3 opponents rather than 2)
For the kiiiiing~
Nice
Ty
My childhood
You play good.
this some real nostalgia
This is perfect to watch before Classic TBC comes out. Thank you Stu!
Btw, was this a speedrun attempt or are you just really good?