I got the Heart of the Swarm Speedrun World Record! [Speedrun Showcase]

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The Heart of the Swarm speedrun is quite different from WoL. The focus is largely on the absurd variety of Kerrigan's abilities. If Wings of Liberty was speedrunning, HotS is more like doing sweet tricks on a skateboard while racing.
If you want to see the full run you can check out the twich vod here: • Video
Be warned, Twitch was being..paticularly bad that day, so the bitrate is horrible
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:40 - Lab Rat
1:17 - Back in the Saddle
2:02 - Rendezvous
3:37 - Domination
4:29 - Fire in the Sky
5:59 - Old Soldiers
7:05 - Waking the Ancient
8:34 - The Crucible
8:58 - Supreme
10:43 - Harvest of Screams
11:45 - Shoot the Messenger
12:47 - Enemy Within
13:44 - With Friends Like These...
14:51 - Conviction
16:08 - Infested
17:14 - Hand of Darkness
18:59 - Phantoms of the Void
20:25 - Planetfall
20:43 - Death From Above
21:39 - The Reckoning
22:48 - Conclusion

Пікірлер: 603

@puny3258 3 жыл бұрын

How often does he mend? I'm here to find out! 9:11 Unlocks Mend 9:12 Abathur tells him to Mend 9:28 Says Mend 9:29 Uses Mend 16:08 Swaps to Mend 16:08 Says Mend 16:41 Uses Mend 16:45 Uses Mend 16:49 Uses Mend 16:51 Says Mend 17:34 Uses Mend 17:35 TheRealRhyme asks if he can start timing out people in twitch chat who are spamming "MEND" 18:03 Uses Mend 18:28 Uses Mend 18:33 Uses Mend 18:37 Uses Mend 18:41 Uses Mend 18:48 Uses Mend 18:53 Uses Mend 20:29 Uses Mend 20:34 Uses Mend 20:36 Uses Mend 20:47 Uses Mend on Dehaka 20:49 Says Mend 21:02 Says Mend 21:02 Uses Mend 21:08 Uses Mend 21:11 Uses Mend 21:21 Uses Mend 21:29 Uses Mend 21:30 Says Mend 21:34 Uses Mend 21:54 Uses Mend 21:58 Says Mend 22:02 Uses Mend 22:06 Uses Mend 22:11 Uses Mend 22:16 Uses Mend 22:19 Says Mend 22:22 Uses Mend 22:28 Uses Mend 22:31 Uses Mend 22:36 Uses Mend Did I miss any? Please let me know! Anyway, this was a treMENDous video! Nice work Grant

@ArariaKAgelessTraveller 3 жыл бұрын

ComMENDable

@carbonbeaker409 3 жыл бұрын

Commander Shepard eh, I truly don’t mend

@carbonbeaker409 3 жыл бұрын

@Wren Alger you broke the chain, you must mend your ways

@carbonbeaker409 3 жыл бұрын

I’ll stick with this train till the bitter mend

@46896936 3 жыл бұрын

Oh mend how many levels you needed to get so much mending

@Aizensama153 3 жыл бұрын

seeing units die in your runs feels wrong...

@bmkorean1 3 жыл бұрын

I was about to say the exact same thing LOL

@natanoj16 3 жыл бұрын

Hmm what about a 'deathless speed run'?

@Xenogrief 3 жыл бұрын

@@natanoj16 oh god the pain

@geniumme2502 3 жыл бұрын

@@natanoj16 haha i think u didnt get the memo :P

@SephirothRyu 3 жыл бұрын

this so much. An upvote to you to honor the death of every poor zergling!

@GiantGrantGames 3 жыл бұрын

As some of you may be aware, the Australian Protoss player Probe beat this time a few days ago, grabbing first place. This travesty has been fixed and I will be returning to the World Record slot as soon as my newest run is verified. Sorry about that!

@kaplislemesis4789 3 жыл бұрын

why cant u play on ladder? whats your rank? silver? bronze league hero?

@zaxtonhong3958 3 жыл бұрын

Kaplis Lemesis 0:00 Top right

@johnnamkeh1290 3 жыл бұрын

@@kaplislemesis4789 What's your age? 14? 13?

@kaplislemesis4789 3 жыл бұрын

@@johnnamkeh1290 1413

@ki-youngjang4067 3 жыл бұрын

Congrats on reclaiming your record. No misclicks this time!

@somegeek153 3 жыл бұрын

That hatchery creep thing is clever, I never thought of doing that, might give it a go lol.

@ShjadeNexayre 3 жыл бұрын

It's basically the same idea as Zerg cheese strats in multiplayer with canceling a hatch into building a spine crawler on the small patch of creep it created.

@CongaYT 3 жыл бұрын

It's used in PvP sometimes, you can make a spine crawler without needing sustainable creep to troll people You also do that, then make the spine crawler reroot itself on an opponent's hatchery's creep~

@amgonnabakeyobread 3 жыл бұрын

You can also sometimes use it against Protoss if you Hatchery block their natural for whatever reason, cancelling for an evolution chamber gives you a bunch of extra cockblock time. Scouting P is a giant red flag in itself(since overlords fulfil this role just fine) so be prepared for them to react in an unusual way.

@CongaYT 3 жыл бұрын

@@amgonnabakeyobread "Scouting P is a giant red flag in itself" No, it's pretty common; overlords are slow and you can't exactly play distraction with them; nor prepare any proxy hatcheries if you're in to that

@amgonnabakeyobread 3 жыл бұрын

@@CongaYT I suppose you're right. .I only really encounter this stuff in ZvR personally :D What's your mmr? Maybe we could practise some stuff

@calvinginn1637 3 жыл бұрын

Zerglings: "Hey, GGG is playing campaign again! It must be a deathless ru-"

@tigran010 3 жыл бұрын

3G: "You all will be a great sacreface"

@GnumpStonetoe 3 жыл бұрын

@@tigran010 (fyi: sacrifice*)

@starlord360xy24 3 жыл бұрын

@@GnumpStonetoe *Meat Shield*

@SephirothRyu 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the thing about your little intro, GGG. We weren't upset with you getting only third place because we were still in a state of shock that you killed so many of your own units. *AND NOW YOU ARE KILLING SO MANY ADORABLE ZERGLINGS!!!*

@Toastmaster_5000 3 жыл бұрын

Haha well to be fair, he still managed to kill fewer units than you're normally expected to.

@williamcadenhead6759 3 жыл бұрын

"Then I messed up"... 1st in the world....

@Inqway 3 жыл бұрын

Every sports coach ever: "You can't be the best straight away" 3G: "Try me"

@TDBhCorsica 3 жыл бұрын

Warimano I mean he is Masters 1 on ladder so that helps a little

@chavzone 3 жыл бұрын

He also practices a ton for his videos...

@zes7215 2 жыл бұрын

wronx

@hassanawdi3793 2 жыл бұрын

Any game u can't legit speedrun blind playthrough

@Kerrigan-QOB Жыл бұрын

Yes, sport coaches are like that. Sadly, i forgot my dash ability

@grisus7254 3 жыл бұрын

19:02 when you hear it from far away it sounds like: ”I don’t like Stukov and ultralisks” but up close it sounds like: ”I like Stukov and ultralisks”

@Sh1penfire 3 жыл бұрын

Possibly because the sound waves are being more spread out as they go there for changing the message. IDK whether the effect is strong enough but this is so funny

@caiofleury3924 3 жыл бұрын

Trippy. How did you figure that out?

@grisus7254 3 жыл бұрын

Caio Fleury I thought that him saying ”I DONT like Stukov and ultralisks” was weird in the context so I listened to it again up close

@CGDW2 3 жыл бұрын

I hear him say "I don't like- " the first time. Then I read your comment, went back, and heard him say "I like-" Then the third time I heard "I don't like-" again. It's "I like" but he says it stressing "I" in a weird way, creating this effect. Interesting.

@JotaDeeMeO 3 жыл бұрын

he stretches the I in a "I----ud like..." Way. Which makes it sounds as any of the two things depending on your hearing.

@philip6557 3 жыл бұрын

For the crucible Mission: The AI gets REALLY messed up if you spread creep around the level. The attack waves visit each creep tumor, both active and inactive, and trail a path around the level. This can delay them significantly, and in some cases cause them to stop spawning up until the final wave. I have no idea why this happens, but i use it every time and its hilarious. it even causes the two fighting armies to stop spawning as well. Note that this bug does not effect flying units for some reason.

@unexpected2475 3 жыл бұрын

Now that is extremely funny.

@CC-tl3zs 3 жыл бұрын

@@unexpected2475 neato

@Thiccoman 10 ай бұрын

I played it this month but the enemy didn't deviate from their attack paths :( I did spread it almost to every corner on the map

@araonthedrake4049 3 ай бұрын

@@ThiccomanMaybe it only works on a specific difficulty?

@subboy1373 3 жыл бұрын

Man just casually sets a world record in his free time while trying to make deathless runs, what a lad

@boshikagebira4753 3 жыл бұрын

Getting a speed run world record for games like this DESERVE respect

@jadusiv 3 жыл бұрын

Agreed.

@neodymus 3 жыл бұрын

Truth is, starcraft 2 is not a game usually speedrun. But even saying that, you must be good at the game and good at speedrun to try the run, so that's quite an achievement to be #1.

@sasinmo 3 жыл бұрын

Idk about you, but there are only 10 records in speedrun website. This means there is no competition. I'm saying this because you said getting a world record in this game as if it's super impressive, but really there is no one else doing speedruns for this game, which is still commendable he got a WR, but isn't as impressive as you make it seem. It looks like your respect is for this niche game because you perceive it as difficult, but that only applies vs human players. VS AI this game isn't that difficult. He doesn't deserve respect for playing this specific game, he should be respected for his effort not for this specific game...

@Krosis_ 3 жыл бұрын

@@sasinmo completely agree with you. The run is far from being optimised either

@johannoas1 3 жыл бұрын

yeah starcraft in normal settings is usually a multiple hour game for even one mission. and he makes the dlc with 10 missions in 2.

@AlexaDoee 3 жыл бұрын

it warms my heart to see SCII being played a decade later

@AmericanCaesarian 3 жыл бұрын

We still do be playing

@spanishprotossstalker7475 Жыл бұрын

i started playing early this year and its just so good man

@JoseGutierrez-jd8ss 9 ай бұрын

Actually watching this youtube channel made me want to play the whole story all over again

@dew9103 Ай бұрын

@@JoseGutierrez-jd8sswings is free

@minscandboo9749 3 жыл бұрын

Congratulations on the world record! It’s awesome to hear you found some nice time saves yourself and the fact that there are some improvements you can make to the way you play just means your time can get even lower!

@meeperdudeify 3 жыл бұрын

He's actually alread moved on to LotV any%, his first practice run was today

@DravenReactions 3 жыл бұрын

It's not the world record though

@gerbenrampaart8042 3 жыл бұрын

“As someone new to speedrunning...”

@matthewsnow9316 3 жыл бұрын

His runs are always about mastering the game. Fun fact though, mastery becomes speed.

@scarletcat4735 3 жыл бұрын

3:35 I am the Swarm. I am Thor.

@DaveyGunface 3 жыл бұрын

I've been trying to catch as much streams as I could with my schedule. Seeing you learn the route, and eventually get this WR on stream was freaking awesome. En Taro Grant

@bottax1936 3 жыл бұрын

I started watching you really recently cause of your 0 deaths runs and i thought you were pretty good at the game already. Little did i know that you would get world record so soon. Congrats man you are awesome :D

@skuarf 3 жыл бұрын

"Summoning Salt wants to know your location"

@thaiwin6173 3 жыл бұрын

Keep up the Startcraft Content! I can only watch Pro-casts for so long. Your Starcraft 2 special runs are a great fresh take on a decade old game.

@ghysling 3 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah, grats! Also, thanks for the highlights it's really interesting.

@ChiekChiek 3 жыл бұрын

Congrats man, I enjoyed watching it live last friday :D

@albertlofling7310 3 жыл бұрын

mend?

@braden459 3 жыл бұрын

Your videos helped me get through a really rough recovery from jaw surgery. Thank you, and keep up the good work!

@marshallgarey2913 3 жыл бұрын

Congrats! I love watching speedrunning and it's neat to see you do so well so fast

@jadusiv 3 жыл бұрын

That was an awesome overview of your speed run. Nice work there Ender Wiggin.

@levuseusz 3 жыл бұрын

This is the best SC channel ever! Love your idea of interesting content and great commentary.

@AlexAshpool 3 жыл бұрын

Congrats on your WR! I've enjoyed your SC2 videos a lot.

@eemiljuvonen1741 3 жыл бұрын

Your videos are insanely high quality, keep up the good work!

@luketalbot2643 3 жыл бұрын

Loved watching this live, was well worth ruining my sleep schedule!

@timt5949 3 жыл бұрын

Congrats! Really nice summary of the run too!

@coyrex1480 3 жыл бұрын

Really like this format. I dont see most world record holders make a summary of their run like this, but I really like it condensed like this. Great editing!

@movingtarget0867 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing run! Welcome to speedrunning, i hope to see more!

@elgatous 3 жыл бұрын

OMG I love these challenge videos please keep uploading them

@theopnerd9902 3 жыл бұрын

i love your content always exciting to see you've uploaded

@temillo4104 3 жыл бұрын

It's so fun watching this kind of videos , keep the good job

@umechrono 3 жыл бұрын

Replaying all the campaigns "with you" and because of you. Thanks

@zhelyazkogrudov6476 3 жыл бұрын

glad i found your channel, so fun :)

@lukasgreef2372 3 жыл бұрын

This is great content SIr Really cool! Keep making more

@Arthrexx 3 жыл бұрын

GG Dude. Looking forward to see you pushing the WR even further by optimizing the routes even more.

@DirtyHarry204 3 жыл бұрын

I love your content. Great editing and very pleasant voice. I hope you do more campaign content!

@melequin 3 жыл бұрын

So stoked for you! Nice work!

@olemanshavadoo7893 Жыл бұрын

I appreciate you. Watching your videos has made me way better at Starcraft. I only play the campaigns but that’s all I’m into

@dudkisc2810 3 жыл бұрын

Very impressive run, Grant! Congrats on the world record!

@dylantippetts1541 Жыл бұрын

I saw your videos on my recommended on KZfaq and really enjoyed the first I saw. I’ve watched a good chunk already and enjoyed them so much that I decided to give StarCraft a try. It’s quickly becoming my one of my favorite games even though I’m trash at it. Keep up the great content!

@duyson5632 3 жыл бұрын

Sometime someone so OP that the whole community shut their trap and cheer in awe at how incredibly awesome he is. That's you my dude GGG, you madlad

@mariusweber4990 3 жыл бұрын

This is so fun to watch honestly. I love it!

@milesbilleter4782 3 жыл бұрын

What a great video editor excellent content dude. Really look forward to you vids.

@Septimus_ii 3 жыл бұрын

This is seriously impressive. Not only have you improved the run, you've done it by so much that even this time seems like it can be significantly improved

@baloonman5 3 жыл бұрын

Congrats dude! That's a great achievement!

@Juulben 3 жыл бұрын

Congrats Dude !!!

@TheJJZeeman 3 жыл бұрын

Very nice showcase of talent and thought process, I love it!!

@edpistemic 3 жыл бұрын

Man! I really admire your incredible ability to analyse and optimise these games!

@Purin1023 3 жыл бұрын

I really appreciate these videos. As someone who has only ever played SC casually and pretty much never touched the scenarios, it is so interesting to have these runs actually explained. After your Wings of Liberty speedrun video, I went looking for speedruns of HotS and LotV, but the runs were all basically without commentary and on very low graphics settings. It was super unsatisfying to watch. I hope we get to see a LotV speedrun sometime soon :)

@TheExplodedGamer 3 жыл бұрын

Congrats on the WR gj

@tassadar101r 3 жыл бұрын

Congrats man!

@carlitosfmc 3 жыл бұрын

Congratulations! very impressive

@thomasbishop4713 3 жыл бұрын

Hey keep up the good work, this is really impressive.

@DoomDutch 3 жыл бұрын

Congratz!

@KArchine 3 жыл бұрын

Congratulations, fantastic work!

@canebro1 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome run!

@balazsgyekiczki1140 3 жыл бұрын

Nicely done!

@merlockqueen4137 3 жыл бұрын

hope your having fun bro :D

@l3rn465 3 жыл бұрын

Dude i love how you sound and games you play, thanks very much for your videos

@ZebbysGameRoom 3 жыл бұрын

Gratz Grant! Holy crap that's amazing.

@malusdarkhammer5484 3 жыл бұрын

Congratulations man, well deserved 👏

@HolyReality891 3 жыл бұрын

Congrats!!

@TheFuriator 3 жыл бұрын

Congratulations on the WR!!

@someordinaryperson6222 3 жыл бұрын

Nice work and amazing you got the Word rekord

@Freedbot 3 жыл бұрын

Good run, good production quality on the vid. Narration. Editing. Chapters. Nice.

@Solountranseunte 3 жыл бұрын

Incredible, good quality content!

@peffiSC2source 3 жыл бұрын

Wow! Congrats man

@Ishaksonn 3 жыл бұрын

Congratz mate

@volodymyr_budii 3 жыл бұрын

Nice job man!!!

@Murtaskegg 3 жыл бұрын

Your voiceover is so relaxing to listen to :) Nice video and congrats.

@SioxGreyWolf 3 жыл бұрын

I feel like things learned during deathless helped these runs loads.

@Aelfraed26 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing run. Congratulations.

@albertlofling7310 3 жыл бұрын

This was such a fun run, so hype when you won the world record :D

@albertlofling7310 3 жыл бұрын

MENDMENDM;NEDMNEMDNEMNDMENDMNEMNDMENDMENDMENDMENMDNEMDNEMNDMENDMNEMDNEMNDEMNMD

@Froggie122 3 жыл бұрын

Great job dude!! That tactic in Fire In The Sky is genius

@aldenchico1906 3 жыл бұрын

Congratulations on ur WR man :)

@sir.mannington 2 жыл бұрын

Hot damn, a full minute, nicely done man!

@jawnsea4432 Жыл бұрын

GRATS! From a fellow speed runner im proud of you!

@jojameson5264 3 жыл бұрын

So I never heard of Starcraft or your channel until your challenge videos showed up in my feed. And you've made me a fan and I haven't even played the games yet. I spent hours reading lore and guides adn gameplay tips after watching becuase I was fascinated. Congrats on your win! I guess I'm buying Starcraft next paycheck.

@markoth3284 3 жыл бұрын

just so you know its free

@alikay9721 3 жыл бұрын

Great stuff man, keep up the good work! Stay humble, stay hungry!

@yatogami5598 3 жыл бұрын

Wow so proud of you!

@Y0G0FU 3 жыл бұрын

this was impressive. Well done :D

@rocksteady9826 Жыл бұрын

Amazing man, incredible play. So I caught at the end that you are new to Speed running. my friend, when I was speed running DOOM (UV any %), I was new as well. So what I did and I am sure you did the same was watch what these guys were doing. After a few thousand attempts I got my record. I was "new" to speed running as well. It is all about practice makes perfect and those that have the drive to make things happen, well, they make things happen! So congrats dude, it takes a special person to watch speed runs and go outside the box and think of different strats, that is what you did and it is highly impressive.

@SpaceMonke99 3 жыл бұрын

I shit you not, half an hour ago I was thinking about when I could see another video from you. Talk about timing man.

@commandertex4389 3 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah dude good job

@jacobbecker2157 3 жыл бұрын

I think it would be really cool to see a brutal all achievements run of all three campaigns to unlock the one player portrait. Plus it could also turn into a new speed run category that would roughly be 6 hours long lol. Love the videos and hope to see more!

@WiseSam95 3 жыл бұрын

Really cool video :)

@shu41231 3 жыл бұрын

Oh you commentated over this... I loved the live talking better... mostly because there was a pretty solid chunk of time where the word Mend was just about everything