Can you beat Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm without losing a unit?
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It's frustrating that there wasn't a unit lost tally on 19/20 score screens. After this I will be glad to be back into the realm of being able to have definitive proof of the run.
Deathless Heart of The Swarm is significantly more polarizing than Wings of Liberty, some missions were challenging puzzles that had to be executed perfectly, other missions are freebies.
I don't know which is harder, honestly.
Mission Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:18 - Lab Rat
3:10 - Back in the Saddle
4:10 - Rendezvous
6:02 - Harvest of Screams
7:30 - Shoot the Messenger
9:32 - Enemy Within
12:05 - Waking the Ancient
13:41 - The Crucible
15:17 - Supreme
17:52 - Domination
19:21 - Fire in the Sky
20:28 - Old Soldiers
21:56 - Infested
23:37 - Hand of Darkness
25:19 - Phantoms of the Void
26:24 - With Friends Like These
28:09 - Conviction
31:40 - Planetfall
33:08 - Death From Above
33:54 - The Reckoning - Ігри
Imagine being a multiplanetary empire and not being able to kill one zergling
so basically what hapens if an overmind decides that the empire is too weak (and has poor vision) and decides that he can invade without losing anything.
Terran: wtf is this swarm doing?
Zergling be like: I'm too fast to die
in some alternative universe , this happened
Imagine being funny
Deathless with Zerg. The Army that consists of:
Suicide Units
Suicide Units that split into more suicide units
Timed Spawns
Zerglings
Don’t forget the suicide units with acid
@@tristand7722 That's already included in the Suicide Units that split into more Suicide Units
And buildings that create suicide units
@@Toastmaster_5000 kerri spawning said suicide units
broodlord throw suicide units
swarmhost that spawn suicide units
roaches that also spawn units
You forgot "Weak/Timed Reinforcements" and "Buildings that spawn timed spawns upon death"
"We're mere zerglings my queen, we're meant to be expendable."
"Not to me."
Plo Koon
When Karigan becomes Smiggle: All are my PRECIOUSSSSS!
awww, that felt like a mother talking to her children. lmao
Makes Abithur the most dangerous part of this whole thing.
@@KianaK0423 It would make more sense for his name to be written Plou Kuun
"Sergeant!"
"Yes Sir!"
"How many did we get?"
"Sir?"
"How many enemies did we get?"
"Well Sir the thing is..."
"How many, Sergeant"
"None..."
"None?!"
"None... Sir..."
"You are meaning to tell me, that our enemy attacked us with waves of thousands and thousands of things to shoot at. And you didn't even kill a single one?"
Sir... they just burrowed underground whenever we try to shoot at them
Sir there’s this crazy hot girl that kills all of our detection devices before we can kill her and I kid you not, she’s too hot to not shooting at
Well, we killed some spine crawlers
"Sir, the emperor is dead! We don't know how, the fort just collapsed on its own!"
that's remarkably close to that Sergeant of Australian Army in war on Emus :D
Broodlings and Locusts : We were born to die!!
Kerrigan : Then you will never be born at all!!
And Bane too :v
We're 'lings, we're disposable.
Grant: Not to me.
@@Yao-fz6ie *Clone Wars theme plays*
The Spirit of Plo's Bros lives with us.
Lol.
@Khai Do INTO THE FUTURRREEE
Blizzard: HoS doesn't need a casualties counter cause dying is a mechanic.
Grant: Hold my beer.
I think you are correct about Blizzard.
Honestly, I don't think that's a good reason not to include that counter. I like being able to go "Holy shit, I lost *how* many units?" after a mission.
@@TheStargateNerd Hearts of iron exists if you like a shitton of your men dying on your path to victory
@@antoniodelaugger9236 New objective. Win HoI Ragnarok mod without losing a single soldier.
@@antoniodelaugger9236 Mass assault doctrine intensifies
"No zerg was killed in the making of this film"
grievously wounded and maimed, but not killed.
LMAO
@@rorymaclean6848 but they will live
:D
You're forgetting Zagara's brood and the Primal Zerg, silly! Zerg were totally hurt in the making of this film.
@@codyreimers8585 hurt but not k-i-l-l-e-d
I imagine in an alternate universe where Kerrigan is an overprotective mother that refuses to let any of her forces died
Why does this feel true
sounds like something Carbot would make XD
wholesome helicopter mom
@@Meridiu5 Aside from the whole killing entire planets things...
@@omppusolttu5799 wholesome for the Zerg, nightmare for the Terran and Protoss
*The Swarm* "But sir we're Zerg! we're meant to be expendable"
*GiantGrantGames:* "Not to me"
That's a clone wars reference?
maybe
@@ignacioflores5723 Yes, Plo Koon
@@GRRStarcraft The Clone Wars in general and that episode in particular made Plo's death in Episode III like a dagger in my heart.
I understood that reference
Me: Watches "Can you complete Wings of Liberty without losing a single unit"
"That was cool, I wonder if they made the sequel"
_Sees this came out 4 hours ago_
"OH"
I watched the first Video yesterday and were sad that there is only one Video yet, now I'm happy.
Exact same thing.
Legacy of the Void deathless is going to be a nightmare
He's going to use rule number 3 a lot lol
Thanks UA-cam Recommendations! Same here, but only a day later now that is already out.
GiantGrantGames: "Buildings are not units"
Drones: "Am I a joke to you?"
no you aren't, that's why he couldn't even lose a single building. That mad lad...
@@duyson5632 wrong. He was allowed to lose spines and spores. That's it though
@@johnlucas463 He was not. Did you even watch? He was saving them because of this reason right in the beginning and explained it.
any buildings that die and spawn broodings couldn't die... but think spines and spores were saved as well more for the sake of the drones
“Spinecrawlers are not alive”
*Spinecrawler gets up and walks around*
”Their orbital defences will kill millions of us before we even hit the ground.”
Jesus, Kerrigan... Can’t leave you alone for a second...
That would have been a better intro
@@user-dh1wn6bj4p Eh, I like the current intro, as it's a wonderful subversion of everything. However, it deserves to be a skit in this video, that's for sure.
Well at least it exists somewhere
I would say almost 80% of drop pods were empty, but unfortunatley, drop pods also live ):
Kerrigan: When this is over, let us ALL come back to Char and live in peace.
The Zerg: My queen, that is a death flag.
...19 missions later...
The Zerg: Holy shit, she actually did it!
@@elithefloridaman8952 No zerg left behind!
@@elithefloridaman8952 No Lenny left behind.
All zerg lives matter
@@SephirothRyu is that a lowko tv reference
@@pissheater3k Its a carbots reference (the recurring zergling in his animated series is named Lenny).
2:21
"The boys at the mineral line will never believe this!"
But the bois were no longer at the mineral line D:
@@zaxtonhong3958 NOOOO
This got me XD That SCV became the next Emperor
Valerian: Kerrigan, call off your... drones? You're attacking with drones?
Imagine playing a faction based off of the fact that they can't die when their main strategy is dying so that more can come.
When the Faction's de facto second name is literally the Swarm.
Ikr
The Zerg main in me is irrationally angry over how this run misses the entire point of the Zerg but other than that I gotta respect the shit out of it all lol
It doesn't "miss" the point. The challenge is REMOVING the advantage of Zerg, which is endless reinforcements.@@badopinionssquid1735
Jesus christ... not only did he perform this feat with the weakest, most suicide prone army...
He did it with a completely unevolved swarm.
Achievement unlocked: Purity of Essence.
He swapped races to protoss
"He'll never complete the Baneling Evolution Mission. That means half those missions gone, so it might be too difficult."
*Proceeds not to complete any Evolution Mission whatsoever and still finish the run*
I completed the campaign without doing any evolution mission and that was easy
@@Universalaud This video isn't about just completing the campaign. It's about completing the campaign without losing an unit.
@@Leon_Ryu and brutal
@@argonhammer9352 not brutal, only hard
Don't forget the roach mission; can't pass it w/o the corpser.
That was incredible.
Every time I thought "Well that looks impossible" you found a ridiculous way around it.
for some, the way around is to not do them.
I love how he casually just gives an awesome intro to the last level then goes “it’s a shame that you can borrow and kinetic blast the objective from this corner of the map”
Love the references lol
“Belial”
“Like a deadly green land mine”
"Banelings, banelings, banelings woooooo."
Man.. remember when Husky was relevant?
Good old days😁
@@Jacobstx Remember Bronze League Heroes? Those were the good times.
@@Jacobstx it's really sad that he deleted his old channel just because for him it was the only way to devote 100% of his attention to his new channel
His wc3 campaign let's Play where great
That took me back an entire decade 😭
Other Zerg: One for all, sacrifice for the swarm!
Him: All for one, no losses allowed!
Each Zerg is precious and unique. We can't afford to lose even one of them!
Maybe with so many surviving zerglings we'll find a treatment for their lemon juice allergy.
@@FlyingDominion wait they had an allergy?
Mine die too quickly... Spamming them is overpowered
Ah yes, zergling #3058327299193776492088473 is my most favorite one. I really love its crooked horn
...
@@dgplayzit4438 its a legit allergy they have according to SC lore
0:18:
- Ultra died to landed viking
- Dp Drop Pods count as units
- This mission is so hard
- How did the Leviathan DIE
I just read that and cracked of laughter
Honestly I wish that HoTS had a "units lost" counter because it'd be very entertaining to see a massive death count at the end of particularly long missions with a fair amount of baneling/squishy spam
I can finally sleep , knowing that this exist .
as can i
I steel cant, waiting for lotv
Wait for the third part!
Isnt the canadian FBI the RCMP?
Name checks out
The swarm: JUST KILL MEEEEE
GiantGrantGames: how about... no.
oh shiiiiiiit~
@@markmonoton6224 yesssss And I am mr. Banngling
Infested terran: What are you doing? Sacrifice me!
Why does he block off his command panel?
terran did not bring enough lemon
29:30 On Conviction, one thing you could have done to keep units alive easier is to infest Medics, which have insane healing capabilities, far moreso than your Queens. With three or four Medics in your ranks, it is nearly impossible to kill your units anymore.
when he pulled the drones in the lab, i lost my shit
When I was watching the Terran video I was like "Sadly Zerg cant be done because of Lings, but I'm looking forward to the Protoss one".
Well played Sir!
The Lab Rat run can basically be summarised as:
"GiantGrantGames this is not a game!!!"
"It never is for the Swarm."
Ahem*
THE BOOOOOOOOOIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS
@@zaxtonhong3958 Lowko references in the wild, nice.
@@Moshthun @Moshthun thats actualy a winter refrence I think lowko is quoting him but its not exactly a unique phrase
Valerian: "Kerrigan call of your... drones?? You're attacking with drones?? Kerrigan this is not a game!"
Yeah I was thinking there will be a WoL and LotV vid maybe but never HotS, apparently just pull the proletariat and blast through the corporate door :P
Dude this stuff is incredible
Nice
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Me: Hows he going to do HoTS without banelings?
Me:
-sees thumbnail
-Subs
Finally, 34 minutes and 42 seconds of my life i can enjoy.
For me it's 17 min and 42 sec and I like my stuff on 2x speed
@@trenttetley2198 21 seconds then :D
Hopefully things get better, my dude
Nice
@@trenttetley2198 21*
Lol at the "Belial"
Thank you, Im not the only one who noticed :D and yes, it totally is a belial fight!
Hahaha, laughed out loud when I reached that point.
Hah yeah saw that too and immediately went to the comments.
@@Galriculus isn't belial like a random hebrew word?? im so confused
@@masondoblanko8283 It's a diablo 3 boss. The fight is almost the exact same.
Kerrigan: USELESS ZERGLINGS GET BACK TO YOUR POOL
Grant, Jun 2020: Niadra herself is nowhere near strong enough to deal with the enemy Protoss [in Enemy Within]
Grant, Oct 2021: Wanna bet?
Also Grant, Jun 2020: "I'm past the point where I can rely on Kerrigan to kill things on her own"
Also Grant, Oct 2021: *relies on Kerrigan to kill things on her own*
I arrive at when he picks the overlord upgrade and just think to myself ”I prefer going with the zergling as it is better for the, oh right”
Does a zergling that gets revived cout as a death?
Twotoohonest i mean, they’ll need to die first in order to get revived
25:36
*Spawn Infested Terrans*
_"Spawn four infested Terran which ruin the run after 30 seconds"_
Easily S-Tier ability for deathless runs. I'm impressed you won without it.
Summoned unit lives matter
nice detail :D
When I saw the wings of liberty version I instantly thought to myself "Good luck doing that with Hots! Haha" ...and he did...super big respect!
The save names at 0:18 are fucking hilarious. Honestly i love your commitment to the jokes that most people wont even notice. GGG you have a great sense of humour and you put a lot of effort towards these videos. I love you Grant :D
Dude, you don't know how much you just saved my evening
I almost had it. Almost...15:08...bottom-right hand of the screen...a flying locust died. I'm sorry man, I really am. But yeah, I was pretty sure Burrow was going to be AMAZINGLY abused in this run. Looking forward to LOTV, not one, not two, but THREE "Hold out against all odds" missions...I feel for you, man.
how the fuck did you see that... and i comfirme there was one death but it was a KI one.
Didn’t we agree at the start that units with death timers don’t count?
@@acatfrompoland5230 On the contrary, that's why he said he couldn't use swarm hosts, broodlings, etc. That's why he could only use the "Flying Locusts" ability after he knew that the timer wouldn't expire.
@@yrnehayrneha1019 Honestly, the grace of God, and an eye for detail. I was looking near that side, saw out of the corner of my eye a splotch of purple and then no flying locust. I double-checked to confirm, and yeah. A Flying Locust died.
@GiantGrantGames you had a unit die
Everyone thought it was joke until someone makes it. This is truly inspiring
But the question still remains:
"Do drop pods count as units?"
They die without really spawning so ima say no
Yes, they do live
Me: "Char is gonna be the hardest part of this run."
GGG: 21:52
Casually fights Zagara as Primal Kerrigan xD
Here I was, about to sleep
Me 2 bruh
same here
Same
Same
Something Somewhat same man
They should make a legendary achievement for you.
3:00 so expected to hear "Kerrigan, this is not a game" :(
I like the Zurvan/Belial refference :)
26:30 Good self meme
i laughed so hard at the final mission cause i did same thing (not a deathless run but a normal gameplay) i tried to cheese as much as possible and the last mission was a letdown cause of that snipe HAHAHAHA
I literally spat out my drink that I'd just taken given just how out of no where that was. I was like "WHAT?!" and had to back up the video to see it again to make sure that...yup, I did just hear and see what I heard and saw. XD
Finally, lotv is gonna be so harrdd witht the allies dying part
The final mission is going to be fun, although it should be quite easy past a certain point seeing as cannon/voidrays are quite broken.
Probably gonna be impossible because of the one mission with Kerrigan and the mist that kills her base
I think he will have to scratch that saving allies when possible. There are too many A.I. encounters where they send their units to their deaths, and there's that mission where the void eats Kerrigan's base.
Thought, what do you know? The difference between brutal and hard is quite steep, and my only experience in LoTV is the brutal campaign... So maybe he pulls out a few tricks?
Epilogue is definitely impossible thought.
Dude, I couldn't even get past the prologue without losing tons of guys. XD
It’s torture been playing for fucking two hours now
2:19 perfect transition. I laughed out loud
Edit: the ending too
"Like a deadly green land mine"
Don't think that reference flew over our heads
Banelings, baneling, banelings oooooooooooohhh
also, he called the last boss Belial (A call back from Diablo 3s boss fight which was almost exactly like that primal boss)
Worms reference ?
@@bastionaudio Reference to this song: ua-cam.com/video/AX_FxBSEh1A/v-deo.html
This is super entertaining, thanks
I didn't know you watched starcraft stuff, scott
*nessesary what are you doing here comment*
It is.. godly
Never woulda imagined you as sc watcher
God damn, the absolute madlad actually did it.
Also, I noticed that the overall quality of the video has massively improved v.s the previous one (Especially the audio quality). Kudos to you man!
Cinematic ling dies
“Hm, I think I lost a ling, welp, better start over”
18:08 Ah, memories of old times and old songs.
"Banelings, banelings, banelings, ooooh
Like a deadly green landmine, mine"
Oh, finally! That's why that was ringing a bell in the back of my brain!
Nostalgic!
"spawn infested terran that ruins the run after 30 seconds" ahahahha
17:27 Lol! I remember seeing this fight and going: "Hey, this is just the Belial fight from D3!!!" Glad I'm not alone.
zerling: I'LL DIE FOR THE SWARM
grant: so... you've chosen life.
"Like a deadly green landmine".
Thank you for that throw back.
So make it easy:
-No Banelings
-Zerglings are hell
-Ultralisks are heaven
-Sarah's ultimate must be "300 area dmg"
-No Stukov's W
-No Dehaka's W
Spike333s ultras are very large and can die very quickly.
@@xXMemelord mend and queen heal will outpace the damage of non mech units
mech units are prio number 1 and are kill pretty easy with kerri blast and apocalypse
also no zerg evolution mission because first evolution mission is impossible to beat without lose a unit.
@@thenut55555 oh are the other evo missions blocked if you don't get the lings
i thought the same , "he is not going to get the tarrasques gene is he?"
The fact that the thumbnail is a Baneling really says alot about this video.
lol first time I paid attention to the names of the save files...
"Ultra died to landed Viking"
"Do drop pods count as units"
"This mission is so hard..."
"How did the Leviathan DIE"
I have not even played a single StarCraft game nor am I invested in the story. But for some reason your commentary is so relaxing and entertaining.
"4) Buildings aren't units"
I can imagine a bunch of Sunken/Spore colonies with "colonies' lives matter" banners :D
2:22 that was an awesome hero moment transition.
Calling Zurvan Belial in the card is one of those editing things that is just super cool.
*expects last mission to be extremely hard*
*shortest last mission ever*
*laughing uncontrollably intensifies*
This is everything I dreamed of and more. Way to take one of my favorite RTS strategy games, and go to the next level.
When you get to LoTV, there are some abilities and bonuses you get that basically revolve around teleporting your units to safety at the last possible second when "killed". These will be incredibly useful tools for this particular challenge. You could go above and beyond by pulling this off without using those perks.
(From a lore perspective, the Protoss technically don't usually die when defeated in battle, they teleport home for medical attention. This could lead to some very interesting interpretations of your "rules"
Ah yes, the Zerg, a highly advanced alien race with very powerful individuals that rarely ever perish in combat. If even one Zerg perishes for a thousand Protoss, the Protoss will have won that exchange manyfold.
This reminds me that the first time I played heart of the swarm, I wasn't aware that evolution missions exists until I finished the campaign, it was an interesting experience
Sooo... HOTS without evolution ?
The amount of patience required to pull these runs off is inhuman.
when the easter egg is even more of a valid option. I still think the expiring unit rule is a bit too harsh but its definitely entertaining!
RIP those 3 umojan marines, all those scourge and space fighters.
PS I wont forgive you if you dont let us bask in the glory of alaraks voiced scenes!
Saw this in my recomended and this was so good dude, I didn´t even realise that 30 minutes have passed, glad I found it. Subscribed for sure
Okay, i'm the guy from previous video, who wrote that mission Infestation will be the end of this run.
Honestly, i couldn't even imagine, that you can just destroy all infested buildings before they start spawning infested terrans and finish the mission without them. Bravo, you've outsmarted me
probably would've forgot about the threat/non-threat detecting AI
nice move, sir
Me, watching the wings of liberty video a few minutes ago: "Very cool, but this would be impossible for the heart of swarm."
This video appears in the recommendation.
Me: "Oh."
That editing during the drone push at the beginning is God-tier
Honestly Kerrigan really made this campaign so monotone. I loved how you pulled off the crucible. Without an OP single unit that obliterates everything, it's really nice to see how much problem solving went into it.
Bro I literally just watched the wings of liberty yesterday and now it's out
dude same, I was hoping this video will come out soon and here it is YEAH.
Finally its hear been waiting for this video a long time. Cant wait to see you do more challenges keep it up brother
I knew where the opening cinematic was going, and I loved every second of it anyway.
Awesome! Have been waiting for this since your last starcraft one, excellent content my man, you really put in the work and it shows! Keep up these sort of vids, your really good at them and the community im sure will love it x
Im a big fan of this series, and after your first video I tried WOL deathless too! I still have Supernova and All in left, they are insanely hard.
Given that I always do Char early, I never thought about the fact that there is a separate cutscene with the evolded Kerrigan during Warfields Death
wasnt ever too big into sc2, but somehow your previous vid in this series was recommended to me. really loved watching it, just subscribed and keep up the good work! :)
This is an impressive feat for sure, but your commentary is what makes this video. Brilliantly relaxed and well-explained. Keep it up mate
I love the opening skit so much, "Hmm I think I lost a ling". Cutscene deaths op!
This is hilarious, love the editing.
Loved your video so much, the end kill me :D. Really great work, thank you !
I almost accidentally got recommended your video, and I LOVE them! Keep up the good work.
I'm saying that before seeing the video
I've done the campaign 9 times in brutal, it's not possible in my opinion
Well, nevermind
I honestly don’t know what got me more “Thortette” or “Thor score and seven years ago”
I´ve been waiting for this one! Fun video as always, can´t wait for the next!
"But Niadra cannot fight the protoss forces all on her own." GGG Then
GGG Now: "Oh, yeah, Niadra can 100% beat the protoss forceses all on her lonesome. Wouldn't do it again though"
"We're just Zerglings, we're meant to be expendable"
GGG: Not to me!
That drone trick in mission one was genius.
Daaam this is so incedible to watch. Amazing skill. There really should be an achivement for you in the game. Thumbs waaaay up
The amount of work dedicated to this video is incredible, congratz!