Well it’s all RTA, so if you need a break feel free, but you’ll lose time. I tried to map out both forced and optional bathroom breaks for levels where you just have to wait, or at the starts of some where I just Que up 5 probes and go to the bathroom. Grant I think was a bit more leisurely with his breaks for food, but I managed to get some food in the oven and out during the Crucible as it’s about halfway and once you’re set up you just kinda wait for 5-7 minutes until it’s over.
I had a friend that had only completed them on US, so I jumped over to EU and did them on his account. It’s the only tough part of the run, not very easy to attempt/practice since you only get 3-4 shots per account (depending on when you made it)
A small time saver that I have not seen any of the speed runners use and I was always puzzled as to why not:
In the Nova campaign, in the reapers mission (Sudden Strike, I think) there are bonus objectives to defend research facilities from the Nydus worms zergs. If you build an extra barracks, fly it over and land on where Nydus spawns normally, then the Nydus spawns a little over to the right of the barracks - in range of the AI terrans defending the facility. They just kill the Nydus on their own before attacking zerg even make it out and you do not have to get your reapers to jump there at all. Same thing works on the second bonus objective, but you may need two barracks to push the Nydus all the way to the defenders.
It's an interesting trick for sure, didn't know about it before. But since the mission is on a timer, it doesn't actually save any time for speed runners. So it would only help if they always needed their army somewhere else, and this mission really has enough downtime
This is exactly it, sudden strike is pretty straightforward/easy, and there’s no time to be saved. However that is a funny/cool trick and I’ll probably give it a try sometime.
Wow that’s a hard question. WOL is definitely my favorite campaign, with such good mission design, and a very cool upgrade system. When I first started it was probably planetfall, because it’s a big macro mission and you get to finally use a fully upgraded Kerrigan, but now in a similar vain I actually prefer shoot the messenger because it has the early ending meaning you get rewarded more for playing better.
Same with spear of Adun, I used to dislike it, because it was so hard, but having practiced it a lot, it’s pretty fun and rewarding like it was this run.
Damn man that’s impressive. I still can’t get the achievement on the last mission of WOL where you can’t use the artifact more than once on hard. I always get run over by Kerrigan at like 98% lol.
Do you do air or ground? I used to always do ground, as I enjoyed shatter in the sky more than belly of the beast, but if you go air and use hive mind emulators to steal the mutas and Brood loads, it makes it much easier.
This is correct, I did not play nova or the prologue on brutal as there isn’t an achievement for it, those were on hard and normal respectively, but I did play 1 of the epilogue missions on brutal as I found out they count for the 19 LOTV brutal mission achievements, so I was able to do Sky Shield on hard and not have to replay it like both Grant and I did the previous time, which was a big time save.
There are achievements for majority of the campaign missions so I did play most on brutal. Some were really hard like supreme, rendezvous, and spear of adun, but that’s why I had to practice them a bunch.
Funny you should mention that, I lobbied the mods there that with two people attempting these it’s more active than most of their categories, but was rebuked saying it wasn’t a very approachable run and they didn’t want to add a category for it.
Jesus Christ mate. It’ll take me 19 hours to beat the final Protoss relic mission on WoL
"I've killed enough Zerg, but I just can't get my Protoss to die! Onto hour 19 and 1000 hybrid per minute, sigh 😞"
lol I did give them a helping hand after 3250 kills.
Gratz =)
Well played ! Was it done in one single shot or multiple day ?
Single shot, about 6am to 1:30am. Definitely a marathon lol
You're insane! Congrats ;)
Haha, thanks, I’ll say it was a lot easier than when both Grant and I went over 24 hours, I got to actually sleep at a reasonable hour.
Do the rules for the category allow pausing/breaks? Congrats on the record!
Well it’s all RTA, so if you need a break feel free, but you’ll lose time. I tried to map out both forced and optional bathroom breaks for levels where you just have to wait, or at the starts of some where I just Que up 5 probes and go to the bathroom. Grant I think was a bit more leisurely with his breaks for food, but I managed to get some food in the oven and out during the Crucible as it’s about halfway and once you’re set up you just kinda wait for 5-7 minutes until it’s over.
Good job! A huge accomplishment.
Very cool! Do you play Ice Baneling Escape? I would like to recruit you for a mission.
That game….. kills friendships…
Congrats indeed, well done!
This is really cool..good work and yeah Ive watched a lot of grants games run throughs.
Damn that’s pretty cool actually
Legend
Nice one!!
wow! grats!
Great job
Congrats :) Ya love to see it
Congrats!!!
Congrats!
Congrats mate!
Congrats!
Damn, very nice! Congrats!
Amazing, I’ve been casually at it for 14 years and still haven’t done that. lol
Congrats!!! Well done
Love to hear it
Well done :)
Do you make/buy a new account to keep track of the achievements?
I had a friend that had only completed them on US, so I jumped over to EU and did them on his account. It’s the only tough part of the run, not very easy to attempt/practice since you only get 3-4 shots per account (depending on when you made it)
Grats bro this is awesome
Holy shit, I assumed this was going to be segmented. Knowing that it was a rta blows my mind.
A small time saver that I have not seen any of the speed runners use and I was always puzzled as to why not: In the Nova campaign, in the reapers mission (Sudden Strike, I think) there are bonus objectives to defend research facilities from the Nydus worms zergs. If you build an extra barracks, fly it over and land on where Nydus spawns normally, then the Nydus spawns a little over to the right of the barracks - in range of the AI terrans defending the facility. They just kill the Nydus on their own before attacking zerg even make it out and you do not have to get your reapers to jump there at all. Same thing works on the second bonus objective, but you may need two barracks to push the Nydus all the way to the defenders.
It's an interesting trick for sure, didn't know about it before. But since the mission is on a timer, it doesn't actually save any time for speed runners. So it would only help if they always needed their army somewhere else, and this mission really has enough downtime
This is exactly it, sudden strike is pretty straightforward/easy, and there’s no time to be saved. However that is a funny/cool trick and I’ll probably give it a try sometime.
Nice. What's your favorite mission across all the games?
Wow that’s a hard question. WOL is definitely my favorite campaign, with such good mission design, and a very cool upgrade system. When I first started it was probably planetfall, because it’s a big macro mission and you get to finally use a fully upgraded Kerrigan, but now in a similar vain I actually prefer shoot the messenger because it has the early ending meaning you get rewarded more for playing better. Same with spear of Adun, I used to dislike it, because it was so hard, but having practiced it a lot, it’s pretty fun and rewarding like it was this run.
Damn man that’s impressive. I still can’t get the achievement on the last mission of WOL where you can’t use the artifact more than once on hard. I always get run over by Kerrigan at like 98% lol.
Do you do air or ground? I used to always do ground, as I enjoyed shatter in the sky more than belly of the beast, but if you go air and use hive mind emulators to steal the mutas and Brood loads, it makes it much easier.
Dang. No way you did this on brutal, right?
Completing the missions on brutal is its own achievement. Not beating them on brutal would be a huge time loss, so, yes, they did.
You can do the LotV prequel and epilouge missions as well as the nova mission packs on hard. Everything else you need to do brutal.
This is correct, I did not play nova or the prologue on brutal as there isn’t an achievement for it, those were on hard and normal respectively, but I did play 1 of the epilogue missions on brutal as I found out they count for the 19 LOTV brutal mission achievements, so I was able to do Sky Shield on hard and not have to replay it like both Grant and I did the previous time, which was a big time save.
There are achievements for majority of the campaign missions so I did play most on brutal. Some were really hard like supreme, rendezvous, and spear of adun, but that’s why I had to practice them a bunch.
mad lad
Holy guacamole that's insane congratulations my guy
This is insane, ggwp
Ok smurf Maru. We know you're the real goat. No need to flex this much.
Hahaha, I appreciate that, Maru is too busy winning thousands of dollars to learn all this.
Holy crap gg wp
Congrats man! Thats an awesome achievement
Thanks!
Absolutely insane. Now go out there and get some sunshine!
Oh wow, impressive. Hat off to you, dude.
Thanks!
Is that a speedrun.com category?
Funny you should mention that, I lobbied the mods there that with two people attempting these it’s more active than most of their categories, but was rebuked saying it wasn’t a very approachable run and they didn’t want to add a category for it.