I Got Played... - MindHawk's Challenge Gauntlet: Legacy of the Void - pt6 

Have I missed something? Why does he hate Hansen so much?

MindHawks got a massive cranium. He said he didn’t know how to meme a campaign written terribly and still manages to pull out a subtle, tactful and hilarious meme. Well done

"A problem Grant encountered countless times but there's some crazy twist" is pretty much the tagline of the channel at this point

"The objective of this mission is super unique..."

AND he gave up 10 solarite on this mission

unfortunately some modders want him to do his very best, so if he reveals it, it will be required for many mods.

@@Uforianer It will not be required, it will just be blocked, so he won't be able to cheese it later :D

Grant, scratching his head every mission wondering about an extremely cost efficient way to handle all these zerglings He has to rediscover the niche of the Zealot every single time

I'd consider making it low damage beams, with a big bonus to light, so that it's good Vs. clumps of zerglings/zealots/Marines, but not effective at killing buildings and overseers and such.

@@Burred11 sure, but then you'd just not be able to add other things to the game to make it interesting... you'd just be trying to change player behavior through nerfs, and if you did make other things hard on top of the nerfs players would have less agency not more.

TBH, Grant himself said that the Challenge Gauntlet cheese you and you are supposed to cheese it back, so using the Solar Lance is fair game IMO

I remember I played through Synergy’s campaign and Solar Lance is nerfed to have 50 less damage per beam and weirdly enough that’s enough that orbital strike came out ahead in some cases. Point is maybe nerfing needs to be the damage since 200 per with the area it has is insanely strong

@@dipolartech Ther still is an orbital bombardment for singular targets, and it's not like there are no other tools to work with. The problem with solar lance is that it could solve almost anything by itself. Is it fun to play\watch challenges, that all have solar lance as best answer? I think no. Though Blizzard's intention was probably direct buff due to solarite cost as with pylon and pylon+guys, so it would make sense for solar to be stronger, but with higher cooldowns+cost you have to solve at least part of tasks by other means, and if you would have to build your army so you can solve it anyway - solar loses another part of it's value.

How ? Grant won with literally 0 zealot produced here.

@@XayadSC What are DTs if not sneaky zealots?

This mission and the Glacius one, while you can clear the enemy base and grab it for yourself (and I like doing it), they're both short timed missions where clearing these bases is a big, unnecessary time commitment. By the time you build a big enough army to clear the enemy base, then build your own and your workers, you're half-way past victory. Actually for this mission the way you can win with just DTs very quickly, you actually win faster without expanding. So missions you can macro, from very early on, from two bases before the second half: - Brothers in Arms - Last Stand (which you end up spending the money on static defence, not an army) - Temple of Unification Out of 9 missions. For the second half: - Unsealing the Past, though you need to clear an enemy base. I see Grant frequently skipping this base - Purification has you mentioned has a slightly bigger main, so mostly one base - Steps of the Rite needs small clearing, but it's an easy clear. Hard to defend though. Again saw Grant skipping sometimes! - Rak'Shir. Even has some enemy bases you can grab after clearing, but you don't really need to clear these bases - Templar's Charge. You get barely a single base for this mission... - The Host. The big macro mission. Up to 4 bases woo - Salvation. Two bases the entire time So out of 16 build missions, you effectively macro for an army with more than 1 base a total of... 6 to 9 missions?

Also, there are two vanguards in the base on the laser mission. You are going to spend at least 20 supply taking that base, and you really do not have the time for it to pay off. You are usually around 6 minutes in before you get there, and it will take about two minutes to crack. You are looking at it not paying off until the 13 to 15 minute mark. You are just safer winning, although the two thousand or so extra minerals you mine could be helpful.

But you also need to take account of all the ressources pickup on the map

@@mendez6363 Yeah, issue is twofold. On one hand to get a comparable income of a mining base you'd constantly need a lot of extra pickups (~10mineral/2gas per minute). On the other hand on this mission there's only gas pickups. Rather treat the pickups as a way to bridge the gap until saturation is reached with the option for one extra facility as a "resource dump".

With the last thrasher, you have two spores, two overseers, and a lot of reinforcements that are all in different locations so you can't clear them out with one solar beam (pretty sure even two is not enough). You simply can not afford to kill it so it is necessary to rush the objective instead.

@@fare-5174 just did the mission, and yes itcan be done with one solar lance. as you enter last area, you get full vision of it and overseer #1 is near spore #1. it's practically the matter of rushing spore #2 with dt and you're safe.

not in gauntlet

@@quickdraw6893 the shadow cannon yes, not the solar lance considering it's a single instance of 200 damage ( ignoring armor ) .

@@quickdraw6893 one shots don't care about regen

Or even better, deploying pylons to the fight, so not only does he not have to scroll back to his base, but he gets his reinforcements straight into the fight.

Way more thrashers, spawning faster

yeah it shows how good their mobility is at keeping them alive normally, but with the increase in dps from ai targeting, people just can't micro fast enough. However, every unit has less value when the AI focus targets like this.

It is an entity of pure void energy conjured by Amon. As for how they know what to call it... Unknown.

It's a Grant meme, I think he mocks her because her missions are just constantly bailing her out and the one time you don't she has a meltdown, steals the ship's lab and gets herself zerged

she's a tragic character trying to salvage her slice of civilization. But her lines, her plot, and her associated missions suffers from poor writing. Combine pointless lines, silly lines, and unfun missions together and Grant just doesn't like her

Also she does not really fulfill the role Blizzard claimed that she had. Which was being the "angel" on Jims shoulder to contrast Tychus, whom would be the "devil". Matt does the angel role a lot better considering he actually has disagreements with and never trusted Tychus to begin with. Matt only tolerates Tychus because Jim trusts him. Also regardless of your choice for Haven, Hanson leaves. Either on your own free will or in a body bag.