*promosm* 😆

I hate that when casters speed up game, exit video now

Think you needed a lot more of a critical mass rather than 2 halfhearted attacks

5:20 -- Vanadium Plating means infantry upgrades also give the units bonus max health. 9:50 -- the Turret detects on the high-ground, but it doesn't _see_ up the high-ground. So without a spotter, the tank can't hit you and Tosh can snipe the turret from the high-ground. Note Jimmy benefits from the Archipelago upgrades you've found. For you that's just Stabilizer Medpacks, but with all the superstim / magrail upgrades his units can make really good progress with less support from you. (Still doesn't stop me from dying constantly from playing too risky around tanks lol) And the Cerberus Mine upgrade you got at the end increases spider mine trigger and splash radius. It's marked as a Spider Mine upgrade and not a Vulture upgrade because there are many more ways to get spider mines now with all the NCO upgrades in the pool.

7:08 -- if you right-click SCVs on a full-health unit, they'll follow, but on a damaged unit, they will repair it then return to where they were when you issued the order. You can force the follow behaviour on a damaged unit by manually selecting the "move" command with 'm' or selecting it in the command-card. Super useful on Engine of Destruction to get them to follow the Odin. I'd also like to point out the objective text in the top left: "Do a nice job clearing the bunker". Brings a smile to my face every time. What difficulty are you playing on? There wasn't a tank so it doesn't seem to be brutal. My guess is hard?

5:00 / 11:30 -- unfortunately, saves don't work with Archipelago. It's a constraint baked into how it loads the data into the game, so unlikely to be fixed in a future update. It's common for people to use cheat codes or use the Archipelago-side `/send_location` commands to skip the mission entirely if it's getting repetitive or frustrating. Personally I generally exclude no-builds except Breakout. 19:55 -- trust me, people have taken longer on this mission. I generally save the warbot for the brutalisk, meaning I die in the garage a lot. 30:19 -- you hadn't missed anything giving an item, though technically you missed the secret murloc marine. For the pen release, zealots is basically always the correct choice, it's an almost perfect match for the terrans so if you just wait for most of the fight there will only be a couple marines or zealots left. As Mada003 pointed out, there's a big update for Archipelago Starcraft 2 coming in a few weeks, which includes the other campaigns and a ton of QoL updates. For this mission, that includes fixing the issue of the Archipelago console disappearing in the second half, and also allowing you to hit the buttons on security camera cutscenes without having to wait for the cutscene. I think the loading screen art is also updated to the space rock from vanilla rather than the default Bel'Shir / Avalon art.

There are more than 4 hatcheries but archipelago doesn't require you to get them all, the northern ones are definitely easier to get since there's no ramp but yeah best come back when you have better units, even predators would be better than goliaths without upgrades for this particular mission

I wonder, could you or someone make a trigger for these specific side missions; Jimmy will run some guns up to the side objectives so you have to defend the midi convoy and you'll be rewarded with a bigger wave? Or even worse the enemy will start conscripting the prisoners, hmm?

Yeah that baneling section always gets me too.

Wait am I having a Mandela moment? What's the Valkyrie

This game more than any other make me appreciate art direction, because even when its done it'll still look like unity tutorial units. Battles look worse than bloons TD on my phone.

Just so you know, that wasn't the spider mine for the vulture, that was the cerberus mine upgrade for the spider mine unit. Either way looking forward to seeing more, have fun!

What is this crappy starcraft knock off???....

would think for a game this long there would be multiple groups of armies and multiple clashes but the resources in this game are way too scuffed compared to SupCom games and the units arent as unique for the wc3/sc2 style gameplay

Lutemite

Im so confused. You mine out the whole map and what? they built like 1 army? Other then the early fighting, almost nothing happened...

Sc2 archipelago is about to get a major update to include all the campaigns. Please look forward to it. Also the text box disappearing in that mission should be fixed when the update comes out it's because for some reason in vanilla sc2 there was a destroy all UI trigger that was found when blowing up the reactor.

Where is the random part?

Is this campaign in the custom arcade section or is it something you have to externally download?

What is the name of this game?

Thanks for casting this series!!

The catapult looks like it's made of playdoh 🎉

wow no gg?

I enjoy the amount of swearing. (cussing, I guess for you...)

Good commentary! A few points of feedback for future videos if I may. You need to slow down your movement as a spectator in-game. You move the mouse as though you are playing the game. Try to keep movements slow but steady and consistent, avoid zooming in and out without a good reason to. Try to be precise when moving the camera in order to limit the need for adjustments as much as possible. I understand spectating is an art on its own and tournaments have dedicated spectators but it’s important for the viewer not to get dizzy and be able to follow along. Your commentary is in general very solid, maybe try to “hype” the big game-deciding fights a little more. I don’t mean screaming into the make or anything like that but more like trying to convey the importance and impact of a confrontation. Best of luck going forward!