All-Army is disabled in the HotS tutorial. HotS was when All-Army was first added to the game, it isn't "unlocked" until the game tells you about it in mission 3
I agree that higher-difficulty ai would be more fun to watch than higher-damage units, if I remember correctly, the evil tactics ai can do some funny stuff but don't quote me on that.
+1 on this, Put it on Brutal or higher and enable some evil AI tactics. I'll enjoy watching Harstem get gas blocked. :) And maybe a drop or two in the mineral line..
3:55 Beyond All Reason has been in development for around 10 years now, it started as a different project, on a custom engine (called "Spring") made to essentially port Total Annihilation, a 1998 game, to full 3D. If memory serves, it started as "Balanced Annihilation" I think, which was a mod that aimed to rebalance the game for multiplayer, and slowly evolved into its own game. It went through an art pass or 2 before becoming BAR. If I'm also not mistaken, it may also have been a "Total Annihilation" fan remake or sequel at some point? Not entirely sure on that last one.
Hey one of the BAR developers here :) Nice to randomly see it mentioned on UpATree video :D BAR is indeed a spiritual successor of TA, that evolved from a long lineage of SpringRTS (now Recoil) engine games. BAR's primary objective wasn't to rebalance the game (though that definitely followed) but to remake all art assets from scratch modernizing it and separating from the proprietary TA IP so it can become its own original IP :) Over time it gained a lot of traction both from players and developers and is being improved in all aspects on its way to a proper Steam release (when it's ready). At this time, while being technically in alpha, it features fully playable multiplayer PvP/PvE, scenarios, coop survival modes, and a ton of other content for free. Do check it out!
Sad to say I never played the Co-Op feature when it came out. Wings of Liberty was kind of that shining moment when it seemed the world was interested in SC again and after WoL it just seemed to die again and Co-Op only started during HoTS.
@Squashylemon I could be wrong, but that seems impossible because Artanis has his campaign units. No way those would have been released in Co-op before the expansion itself.
@calebadam2576 it wasn't what you'd consider a fully realized version more of like a beta, it's sort of like how they tested out that orb unit that could mimic any other unit that was supposed to be in HoTs but, was never put in.
Streamdeck is goated for anyone that works on their computer all day. Programmers, editors, digital artists, streamers. Even some pure gamers, you could put the sc2 control grid on it and have it act fully dynamically. If you didn't want to learn the hotkeys. To be honest I did that for hell divers calldowns. Second best thing it does is put back buttons to smart lights while keeping 100% diming and color controls.
10:54 so this game manage to make Raynor and the Dominion team up to beat Sarah Kerrigan on Char but couldn't think before asking her to make a spawning pool😂
If only star craft got a unreal 5 game. We can have a functioning game that looks 1/1 of that cinematic I always wanted a gears of war star craft game. And now its possible
The guy doesn't seemed experience in the lore of sc2, Kerrigan is a psychic soldier, and the overmind ends up using her, need some sc1 back story. So she feels waht the zerg feels, and control is a loose phrase, because the zerg has a dominance and evolution hieraarchy. muc hakin to like the BORG getting a queen that has individual or independent thought outside the collective, allows for determined heiristic appraoch rather than a chaotic hive approach, so a command orietated structure.... I rememeber this mission.. She was a tool used and epxloited over and over, and everythign in realiity is .. its the main characters are in a captivity to teh other shit going on, and so they are reating to and withing a prealigned power strucutre, this has real world related history.. If say, Germany small group of people in their own cult take over governign structure and then commit ot a ocmmand orientated system, to then wage war against random peopel jsut studying nad working, suddenly you are thrown int oa situation of life where you must survive and react and make livable allowances. Kerrigan character arc was soft, intelligent, noble humans that arcs towards revenge, hate, tooled, and bascially a born subject of a realm, and she has ot constantly make concesions against her conscience, because of hte Protoss and the Terrans. The Zerg in the entire cosmos are relatively innocent ,as its doign what life does, aggresive changing adapting leanring new htings and applying it. Zerg is like a breed of dogs wit ha semi goal and drive. verse humans established and have individal goals nad guides superceding their own kin for their own petty goals that are comelptely unnatural as it were to reality... In a sense zerg is a place of freedom... Protoss have a issue of pride... by their hierarchy and traditional design and often come ot late to reality that they concocted amongst their brethern. At this stage of the story... K, is tired of beign a tool, and is attempting ot demosntrate you can't control the zerg, you learn this from primals nad broken off pacts and over minds, yeah somethign that is never hinted at is there is hiden overminds somewhere in the starcraft universe that could be existing in a different evolutionary path.. because the tangental escape from teh protoss experiements and uses.. so Starcraft is all about cults that form out of neglect that form chracters from everyone creating a system exploitation that no one likes, but then all must act in to exist, tis a feedback system of technolgical problems of a command orientated system that locks you into a caste position really... maybe thats to philosphical.
She didn’t murder billions. If you are not in control of yourself because you were captured infected/changed by aliens against your will, the actions you take can’t be considered yours. Everything she did when she willingly changed back while still being in control of herself she is responsible for with an asterisk because that first changed effected her decisions/choices that came afterwards. That’s what makes it such a great story. The StarCraft story to me is one of the best sci-fi stories period.
It is very ambigious to what extent she was in control of herself though. She outright lies to Valeron at the start when she says "I don't remember anything about being the queen of blades" because the first cutscene was her dreaming about being the queen of blades and taking down Mensk, she also effortlessly remembers how to create overlords and zerglings. She also is obsessed with killing Mensk and destroying the Terran Dominion. She clearly does have large gaps in her memory, but I think it was on purpose that the true extent of just how much she had control of herself is left vague.
@@sevenpolar3483 that wasn’t a lie. Having a dream about something that never happened is not the same as remembering events that actually happened. She said she feels something dark inside of her and is afraid of it. She went from trying to kill Jim, the man she loved and everyone around him to them being together when she was back in control of herself. That says a lot about the influence the Zerg had on her.
@@moety2 the cutscene clearly contains things she does remember, she dreams about the leviathan and being the queen of blades, she later remembers details about her queens and Abathur. If she truly had no memory of her time as the Queen of Blades she wouldn't remember anything past her betrayal on Tarsonis. She also doesn't hesitate to take control of the Zerg again in this mission, every action she does reinforces that she isn't scared of becoming the queen of blades, she is scared of what Raynor or Valeron will do if she appears to become so.
@@sevenpolar3483 the cutscene also had her walking on the downed statue. That didn’t happen. It showed bc crashing to the planet. That didn’t happen. These can just as well be memories of things from before she was changed because they are things not actual events. Yes as she went along she was GAINING memories. That means she didn’t remember. Her saying she didn’t remember anything about being the queen of blades doesn’t means she would never start to remember. The campaign was basically her relearning and remembering things she forgot along with battling with her humanity. Still, none of this invalidates my point. She can’t be held accountable for killing billions. She was captured against her will, her body changed against her will, her mind and personality altered against her will, controlled against her will. Anything she done while under those circumstances was not her choice and thus not her fault. Even if she remembered everything about being the QoB at the start, she would still not be responsible.
@@moety2 The Leviathan was created by the queen of blades after her infestation, I agree not everything in the dream happened, but that doesn't stop the fact the dream is based on memories she retains from being the queen of blades. Also, my point is that it was left vague how much agency she had as the Queen of Blades, the whole point of the Zerg using Karrigan in the first place was that she hadn't been altered by Amon, she was given freedom by the Overmind away from the hivemind so Amon would not be able to control her or the Zerg once she asserted her position as leader of the Zerg. It was her humanity and agency that was useful to the Zerg so stripping it all away wouldn't make sense, any Overmind or Cerabrate could fight the Terrans and Protoss with the swarm, only Karrigan could fight Amon with it.
