Burn EVERYTHING! - Tychus Edition: Nightmare Difficulty WoL - 02 

The engineering upgrade cache seems like it will make later missions a lot easier once you're done spending minerals. Sure, -400/-400 per outlaw for full gear is nice, but 25% more outlaw on your dps bois and 2 range is absolutely massive. Since you will eventually cap at 5 outlaws and wish you had more to do in relatively short order.

Fun fact: Fully equipped Blaze can solo the Dead of Night co-op mission, so I think Grant should delay Outbreak until he unlock his ultimate gear to AFK the mission and wait for the infestation to slowly disappear from the map. Edit: oops, he got there.

Mengsk locked Tychus in the suit because he knew Speedo Tychus is the most powerful being in the universe and wearing clothes weakens him.

Go for the permanent upgrade to the outlaw range and some of their attack speed! Having them all be better across the board, with a few getting even more buffed, seems like it'll be really important for the late stages of this campaign

"Miles 'Blaze' Lewis. You gotta go full name every time." - Grant "Am I a joke to you Grant?" - Kev "Rattlesnake" West

Miles 'Blaze ""If you kill one man you are a murderer, if you kill a thousand you are a war hero"' Lewis

i love how nikaras model is broken because she tries to do something thats not learned yet. she is just frozen half the time when she doesnt have to heal.its hillarious

Thanks for explaining Tychus- I don't play Co-Op at all, so these mods and desert strike are my entire engagement!

Here we are on Evacuation and Outbreak! My Least favorite mission in this mod then paired with my favorite mission in this mod! Woohoo! (I'll comment things as I get through the video) - Evac is absolutely horrible, if you didn't know, because I actually made the unified command card that makes the Outlaws abilities be put in the right place from scratch! And No-Build mission really hate that! Since you don't have a base and Tychus isn't the first unit out of the Bar like he normally is, then the whole command card system has a shit fit, alot of work to get it to work. - He found Betty, isn't she a beaut!? I orginally had a design for a flame turret on wheels or tracks that could be created along with the custom outlaw army that could accompany the actual Outlaws, but I didn't really know what I was doing so it and the outlaw army never made it off the drawing board, but Betty remains! - I made the little second base up top because 1. Some players may get to the mission later and need more mins for upgrades, and 2. I originally wanted to design the mission to require the Starport and the main base needing defending from infested and Zerg so you'd have to split your forces. Again as is the theme, I didn't know how to do that at the time, so I settled for teaching the player how to utilize blaze by making the infested march out and clump up to be good enflame/oil spill targets. - Top-bar UI has been a bane of my life since literal day 1 of this mod sadly, I don't have the foggiest on how to get it setup, there's plenty of mods that do it but I've yet to learn the secrets of others. - Feel a little bad on the difficulty for Grant in Evac lmao, I usually suspect people going to Monolyth first and then Agria so Rattlesnake makes the mission far more of a breeze. Once again turrets are king. - Grant is quite correct and understands the system. You buy access to the upgrades from the armory, you then buy the ult gear from the Cantina, and then in mission you buy them all like normal and it plays like it would in a normal mission of coop. - I just saw Crooked Sam with some busted looking textures on him, yucky, I'll double check that later. - I also feel real bad for Grant in Outbreak lol, I almost always get Black Market Bunkers to fight this mission full force. (I really hope he doesn't make a command center on the left when he noticed the base -Edited- Oh thank christ he got the message before he did lol ) - Blaze on Outbreak is godly with his wildflame additives, it's absurd how crazy it goes in this mission, I've seen so many players have 1000+ kills on him in this mission alone with the clumped infested going bonkers. - Aww, Grant made turrets down south, if the colonists have the chance to then they'll build bunkers and perds on the south side and defend it pretty well for a long while. They just got shy when they saw turrets everywhere lol - Nikara never really had a good mission to put her on design wise (other than the obvious The Outlaws, but they hadn't left Mar Sara yet) so Outbreak seemed like the good pick to support the roster with, a strange pick either way but getting 2 Outlaws back to back in Smash and Grab/Dig and Evac/Outbreak seemed to be the right call on progression. - Hell of fun episode! TO ANYONE THAT WOULD LIKE TO PLAY THE MOD: PLEASE JOIN THE CCM DISCORD THAT CAN BE FOUND IN THE DESCRIPTION OF THE VIDEO. YOU CAN THEN GO TO RELEASE NEWS AND I'LL BE THE NEWEST ENTRY THERE! (I'll put this at the end of my comments for the next videos too)

+2 Range Outlaws is certain to break more than a few missions and Tychus attack speed would be able to solo all the air in the entire game at once and make you rely a lot less on Vega than you otherwise would eventually 5 Finger is a reduction of 2000/2000 in savings if you're full gearing all 5 of the boys

The cheaper gear is good, but the better units will help a lot more for the later missions. Also, strangely enough that is usually how you play Blaze on that mission in co-op - oil up some of the leading infested, and burn them all.

Hey Grant, Don't forget the Medical facilities!

Our blaze boi be doing strategic level of burning with how he burning thousands as he sits at base. Of course after blazing time we better go to redstone with purple sam. And I think go for the +2 range ugrade. Seeing medium range blaze would be very very amusing. Or tychus artillery gattling.

Blaze committing sudoku to set the map on fire is probably living his dream

Take right upgrade. There always be more money

The allies in outbreak build defences in my playthrough so you stunted their growth by building those turrets

I love when mod makers introduce their own easter eggs into missions! Upgrades that change the functionality of units always sound more interesting to me than upgrades that just let you build something faster or build more of it, so my vote for the lab upgrade is the engineering upgrade cache.

18:30 The Swann flavour texts are great.

26:04 Taking a page out of the Junker Mod's insane interaction this mission! Also Redstone and the DPS increase for the Lab Upgrade please!

10 minutes ago? Bruh it literally just showed up on my screen, what is this? 1:42 That pathway straight to your mineral line is a nightmare. Here's to hoping that if anything comes out it's only 'lings. 1:58 Oh, nevermind. You take it with you. 8:15 Well, that's awkward. 11:36 Everywhere, Grant. They come from everywhere. 16:41 Yet. They don't have Frenzied _yet._ I wouldn't put it past Nightmare. 18:52 Lmao. I prefer her original shield though. 19:06 Crooked Sam ready to boogie on the battlefield. 23:52 Grant: "There's always room for more meatshields." 35:22 You'd be surprised at just how many problems you could just by having enough dakka. 36:00 "I'mma just walk over here, don't mind me- ah, shit." 39:20 You do you, cheaper upgrades or stronger units always good. I love how Blaze is capable of lighting units in a line like how the cartoons light a fuse or line of gunpowder.

upgrade cache is more fun because we get to see the outlaws be stronger + Grant's "we need more gas" is almost as iconic as "you must construct additional pylons" at this point

You did it, thank you. Two missions in one video

The Evacuation has the perfect opening for this mod. being introduced to a new hero via them getting dropped off at the start of the map with a pair of medics and plowing thru the enemy to get to your base where ur given control & he's met by the other hero(es) is like, perfect

Grant: “I fear no man… But _that_ thing?” Blaze: *Exists* Grant: “It scares me.”

I did not find the secret betty on my playthrough >< hilarious Blaze on outbreak is always a firebugs wet dream Redstone and Engineering Cache (discount is fine but more pew pew is more pew pew!)

Further Tychus Explanations (coop version). Tychus only has heroic units to fight. He has autoturrets for static defence, but that's it. He recruits Outlaws from Joeyray's bar. These Outlaws become available every 4 minutes with the first one becoming available alongside Tychus spawning. Tychus spawns for free at 3 minutes, and the other Outlaws must be recruited for 1000 minerals and 200 vespene (first one is half price after level 7). Outlaws spawn instantly upon being recruited. If Tychus or an Outlaw dies, they must be re-recruited for 250 minerals. It takes 30 seconds for an Outlaw to respawn. All recruitment choices are permanent, so you have to think about what you want for the misssion/mutation (ex: Blaze who is good on Infested missions because of his gear that makes enemies set each other on fire, but not very good on other missions because of his low damage output and no anti air).

Thanks for the description of how Tychus works! I have only played through the campaigns once, so I have no clue how things from other game modes work and barely any clue how the normal things work 😂

regarding the medivac pickup - it serves 3 roles: global map presence, 50% heal over 10s for all of your units in the effect area, and a cloak for the same amount of time.

Great video, grant! I don't know if you found this out yet, but the armory screen is a bit bugged. Tychus's upgrades are where the marine upgrades are, however the marine upgrades overwrite them the first time you go into the armory. What you need to do is open the armory, back out of the computer screen of the armory, then click back on it. It should show Tychus's abilities after the second time of clicking on the computer screen.

haha the complete silence when he saw the almost double kill count of his predicted "insane amount" xD

I am 100% on board with this series! What a unique take on the campaign! It's like an even more intense version of that "raynor's raiders" mod with the pilots / population cap.

This is absolutely amazing. By far my favourite of the current archive series.

Ooo what kinda Blaze portrait is that? Is that the HOTS portrait?

Just thanks for showing this to us!!! Great series again

Tychus is my favorite co op commander, like when you are not good at RTS so you only have to control 5 units which are very strong and almost immortal (if you aren't an idiot like I am), he and his friends are very flexible and also mobile, moving around the map is easy with Medivac Drop ship which acted like a jump for your whole army (of five or more if you have mind controlled units). It always fun to play with this guy for me.

"I fear no man" "But that THING" 37:38 "...It scares me..."

38:55 props to the mod maker for adding flavor text to research projects.

Grant is really cranking up the heat with Miles 'Blaze' Lewis on the field.

Tychus? Tychus? TYCHUS

Really liking this series Grant!

I am a big fan of these double features, I love waking up to your videos for the past 3-4 years

"I fear no man, but that thing" *looks at blaze* "it scares me."

Heavy: "I fear no man. But that thing... it scares me."

I really thought you were dead around 13:00, well done! Hot damm

Go Redstone :) And I really appreciate the extra info/explanations on how things work and what you're doing. Makes following what's happening easier.

Thanks for the video, Grant!

Only partway through the video amd already laughing so hard at the flaming betty joke 😂

"Everything's on fire around them, and that's usually a way to indicate that everything is fine. I mean, we've all seen the dog meme, and he says this is fine and I believe him." well, you can't fault his logic

"I fear no man. But that... thing... it scares me" - Heavy Weapons Carrying guy about Flamethrower-wielding guy in a Sequel game

"It's a Zerg infestation. The only thing we can do is burn it down." "That's gonna take long, doesn't it?" "Are you kiddin'? Blaze already halved their numbers overnight in a forest fire!" "That's a city, Tychus?" "I know, but you got a better description for what he did?"

As a Tychus main, I had to try the mod. Just finished a Hard run (was just done with a Brutal run and I wanted to chill) in a few hours. It's ridiculously busted. I always go for the same team, same order (I'm used to their abilities in each places), Tychus, Rattlesnake, Sirius, Nux and the last depends on the mission. I've finished most of the campaign with only the first 3, you can rush missions incredibly fast. Really fun mod, and it felt really easy in Hard, far easier than default Hard. Not sure about Nightmare, but I think it'll be an easy time overall. Bought everything and still have 260,000 credits available (with a buggy Armory with empty slots, might be missing a few). For upgrades, the only thing I heavily suggest would be the 3 medivacs. Allows to defend and go back, vital for some missions. Also, Technical Recruiter doesn't work. Neither cd reduction nor increased cost. No idea if Lone Wolf works. Psi-Miners doesn't work either. Still get 5 minerals per trip and mining isn't faster either. I assume Advanced Automated Refinery works fine though. At the very least, check that they work when you get the upgrades and maybe reload if they don't.

Me: "Uhh, Blaze has _2_ HP." Grant: "Don't talk about his HP please." Me: baffled by a videos ability to respond to me in realtime, "Okay?"

I love how Tychus's ult is just normal modern tech...also normal for them too now that I think about it: there's a reason they have no issues using eachother's vision ranges.

EIGHT THOUSAND! (That’s a lot!)

That fire spread ability is just such a cool mechanic, I bet other abilities could use this for some fun possibilities

I see the Junker Mod gave Grant a taste for chain reactions in Outbreak. Personally I vote for the range booster because man that's always going to be handy, especially for Blaze.

Upgrade cache seems the best in the long run, also really happy to see auto-turrets getting love in this campaign, I love their model and generally like small turret buildings in RTS games.

53 buildings in one night, Miles 'Blaze' Lewis has become death, destroyer of zerg there.

Grant: You ever kite an Ultra with a Firebat before? Me: Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight? And I still want Welcome to the Jungle ASAP. So I want Redstone next.

I can't wait to see Grant suffer in the dig, train, and all-in.

1:42 how did you know that there is Flamingbetty ? Oo

Echoing the sentiment for the right hand range upgrade - money is almost never an issue in WoL. Also remember you can use buildings to form mini-chokes. Blaze seems like he'll be epic in Gates of Heck.

I dont play co-op so you explaining it helps a lot

Lol the firebat that was left behind survived at the end

20:40 love that bio muffin

Dominion? Raiders? Grant just wants to Grill.

I think you mispronounced Nikara's name at least 3 different ways lol. Always do her heal burst before tossing tychus grenade as it also boosts ability damage. Works with Nux Storm and Sam's Demolition Charge. Heal Boost with a LarsCorp G7 Charge upgraded Crooked Sam can deal 1500 damage and wrecks the mothership level.

Wow, that's such a cool strategy with Blaze on the second mission! That was amazing to watch (or rather not watch) how everything was chain burning and triggering more waves to create even more of chain burning!

I don't think Grant mentioned it, but it's good that he didn't pick up the "bonus burn damage to light units" upgrade, or the flames would kill units before they could spread them to other buildings. I think.

Attack range and DPS seems like the more sensible deal, since you'll probably afford everything you need anyway. All you're left with us money for some spare static defence. And we absolutely want the Purple Man on the team!

Fire burns the skin off the bone and the sin off the soul and mama didn't raise herself no dirty boy.

blaze "are you trying to get invited to my next barbecue?"

Every Firebat should be like Blaze. Man this was fun to watch

'I'm guessing 4.2 thousand.' Casual 8k kills '...this man scares me' lol~

I haven't seen any comments about this, but the mod maker added in unique models for some of Tychus's friends. Crooked Sam's unique model is failing to load textures, which is why he's purple-looking. Nikeeta I believe is straight up an Overwatch character with a shield, which I think is why the animations are goofed up as well. Though I understand why because normally Nikeeta and Crooked Sam are just bigger versions of the regular medic and reaper, respectively. I suspect Nux will recieve similar treatment. Hopefully he or she can figure out what's going on under the hood and patch it! : )

damn this mod is so rad not only those litle "side questes?" that pop up like in the 2 mission with 1000 minerals for survivors thats a cool way of adding new stuff but also the reaserch upgrades got theair own descripcions wich are very cool details like that +2 range its explained it uses observers technology even tho its a zerg upgrade grant pick the range +atack speed upgrade

After doing a fair bit of achipeligo campaigns I have found that enginering bays and barrracks can be used as discount bunkers when you need some choke points for the starting fire bat units on this map and the wait for the hyperion mission. Regardless thank you for the fun content. Edit: also I think the ally builds a bunker and mabye some turrets but you beat him to it lol.

2 extra range is huge, going by you having limited units, would allow easier covering

Go Redstone, Grant! WE NEED SOME PURPLE COOLNESS IN YOUR BATTLE LINES!!!

The science bay upgrades have custom descriptions! Its pretty cool.

Engineering bay gives you more than the small discount. Range and attack speed is insane dps

i guess you could say miles went out in a blaze of glory

The grenade was counterproductive about half the time on the first mission stopping the blaze oil chain reaction.

sam being engineer from risk of rain 2 is really funny

Blaze is amazing on Outbreak for sure, but to be honest I had the strongest success with him on All In. With a few turrets to manage air, Blaze and Nikara handily held the top-right side in All In entirely on their own. That oil spread on death ability is just insane when you have constant streams of enemies coming in

The Engi Bay Upgrade Cache sounds much better imo Also, there's new text on the Armory and Lab upgrades! I always love it when modders do that.

I found the continuous explosions happening in the fog of war due to blaze's upgrade very funny

I would advise grabbing Rattlesnake next, he's probably just flat out the strongest outlaw. Really good damage, good survivability, makes everyone else shoot faster, AND does AoE healing. If you remember to use your medivacs and you pair him up with people that can tank (the Warhound guy with his turrets, Cannonball, Blaze) or people that can just remove danger targets (Crooked Sam, the Ghost lady), he is all the healing you will ever need - freeing up a slot that normally would've been wasted on Nikara.

If memory serves, Co-op has Ctrl+z/x/c depending on the hotbar ability. I don’t suppose that would work in this mod? I love the content, Grant! Keep up the good work and thanks for all the laughs =D

On Evacuation, I rushed to get the bonuses and mineral drops before the first truck. Then, turrets on 1st choke, followed by turrets on 3rd choke. After that I got 2nd CC (built at the minerals up top) followed by turrets at the 2nd choke. After that I just covered the weak spots with Tycus, blaze, and more turrets… didn’t find Betty 😢. I didn’t lose a single truck or civilian. On Outbreak, I put all the units on top left choke, then turrets on top right choke. It held the first night. Afterwards I just built turret lines at each choke. Was a super easy hold.

I love this mod campaign, although the auto turrets can certainly be OP, especially with thier upgrade. Anyway, I think this is one of the few mods where you can get every single upgrades long before Char. Also a 3(+2) range Blaze is insane!

Blaze is a lore accurate Firebat. Cranked to 12 on the Arson dial.

i think you should get the +2 range one

The quiet 37:40 *Oh.* was just everything for me 10/10 would GGG again.

Very fun video GGG, this looks like it's gonna be a very entertaining run. I vote Engineering bay upgrade cache, and Redstone

The ally didn't seem very useful because you built turrets on the southern entrance before their base was finished; if you wait, they build bunkers there.

as someone who has prestiged tychus three times i had no idea that the medivac drop heals the units that it drops.

Let the galaxy burn - Blaze, probably.

I believe we should upgrade the classification of this mod from a lightmare to a mediummare as although the player does have some very powerful stuff, it appears that the nightmare enemies may have also been made stronger. I suggest the council of tychus carefully debate this and a decision should be made after atleast 3 rounds of Papsh Beer to ensure proper clarity of mind.