StarCraft 2 Co-op: Urban Warfare on Brutal! 

I'll summarize what the others have said [and add my own thoughts] that I think will be helpful for the next Karax run: - The enemy AI doesn't target Artosis Pylons. We do not need to overbuild them. - Photon Cannons are more effective than Khaydarin Monoliths because of [1] less cost, [2] detection, which Monoliths don't have, [3] higher attack speed, which is more useful vs mines. - Observers have a surveillance mode that immobilizes them but gives them a much greater vision radius. Kinda like siege mode. This is great for seeing up the high ground, and spotting for your monoliths. - Chrono Surge and Purifier Beam are both cooldown-based and use no energy, so I like to just use them whenever they become available so I can have more of them per game. - Artanis is the undisputed best commander for this mission because [1] Guardian Shell extends your life so much because Mines are burst damage and basically get used up immediately, giving your units free reign after that [2] Tempests (Level 11) outrange both mines and Photon Overcharge, [3] he can warp in observers, giving instant detection. - 52:45 - That was Kerrigan's Nydus. You can use them for your own ground units so the notification is actually helpful. :P Great entertaining video. Can I add your videos to my BNet/Reddit posts for mutations?

This one was *before* Nova was released, IIRC... She would have really broken this mutation.

Lowko, you build way to much pylons :P

@LowkoTv Just a small thing i noticed with your Karax plan. A small fix with dramatically make it better lol. It is critical to get 2 upgrades for Karax asap. #1 is the shield ability for batteries in the forge and #2 is the Shield battery energy regeneration upgrade in the Twilight Council. Those 2 upgrades makes your cannon line super effective at survival because they receive early/mid game shields and super fast energy regeneration from the beginning thus healing your buildings 24/7. (allowing you to spend a little less on cannons and more on Carriers with Air attack upgrades) a Also start grouping better, maximum space usage even with cannon rushing with no space in-between buildings (helps your damage be focused on a common area of defense). A basic setup is pylon with 3 cannons in the front (row 1) towards the enemy direction and 2 shield batteries on the sides of the pylon in (row 2 including the pylon) . You can add 2 monoliths to the back line(row 3). Its how i can be supper effective with karax with maximum resource spending with the goal of not losing buildings. I am no protoss expert at all in normal SC but in co-op I got Karax mastered. Try that idea in a symetrical fasion to just see it then you can adapt it to angles. C=Cannon B=Shield battery P=Pylon M=Monolyth CCC BPB MM

karax is love, karax is life

Bro this was a good one. Nice job man.

Nice vid lowko. I did this with Artanis on brutal on the 1st try using mass tempest and observer since the observer can have the same area of detection as Karax's cannons with it's skill and can move while the tempests clear the way for your ally or even snipe everything from the safety of the sides.

I love your plays Lowko. Khaydarin monolith is a type of defensive structure what best pays off when placed at the back, behind photon cannons. Yet you always place it up front where gets destroyed after one shot. :D

Hey Lowko, may I ask why you didn't upgrade your energizers so they could take control of enemy mechanical? Not an expensive upgrade, and it gives you enemy units for 2 mins leaving their attack weaker and your own stronger. Even after the 2 minutes, the controlled units suicide. Did you simply forget? or is there an other reason?

Cloaked archons are hilarious!

your sc2 lotv videos are very entertaining! keep it up.

Use energizers as Karax to take control of their units

Having Artanis is nice. Tempests' Disintegrate and the Guardian Shell passive are super useful in this. I was able to cheese with just a ton of Corsairs and skirt the outside and take out the shards, plus Vorazun's passive to save cloaked units. Really just abilities that save units are real nice for that last push especially if you have like nydus or recall to constantly reinforce your army quickly.

Carefuk!

Lowko, those big monoliths don't work as detectors. You'll need actual photon cannons for that

COOL VIDEO LOWKO!

Them Widow Mines be brutal this week!

Same here, probably the one I retried the most. Good thing Swann and Karaxx work well together :p

Vorazun seems to be the solution to many of these :P

The flying Hybrids can cast a spell that basically stasifies one defensive structure for a while.

It's good to play a really challanging mutation once in a while. Keeps you sharp.

Hey Lowko, you don't need to make so many pylons. Use the range to save your minerals and make more cannons instead. Put your cannons on the edge of the field and have an energizer following your main probe around to energize whatever you put down.

best thumbnail yet

Karax/Artanis is by far the best combo for this. Artanis tempests outrange mines and overcharge, and the reconstruction beam/guardian combo is overpowered as hell on this map.Karax can easily get detection with probes near the army for cannons, and artanis can insta warp in detection

I think the archons look all messed up is because of a combination of two things; 1) They are like, 99% energy, and even in normal multiplayer, they look like they are. That provides most of their appearance in this game, but 2) When a unit is cloaked, then they gain a silvery appearance. Combine these two, and the archons appearance is a little strange, but not unexpected.

Can't believe I actually lived to see supply depot overcharge

Karax+Artanis -- Karax builds many cannons to help observation, batteries and carriers to help repair artanis's tempests so they won't die! Artanis builds a whole army of tempests and MOST importantly, produce the ob immediately to detect enemies in the battle field! This combination is just too powerful!!! You don't even need micro-controls and move your army pretty much! As you build a LOT of cannons and batteries along your way, any enemy attack should be detected and delayed. When they come, Karax should be able to use SPEAR OF ADUN to burn them to the ground!

explain why not Colossus+observers to clear (Colossus out range?)

did it with artanis, with vorazun partner, i went dragoon based play reavers, the dragoons outrange mines and auto sweep if u micro observers which u can spam off the robos, but the battlecruisers cloaked spamming yamatos at the end is always rough

i can feel his frustration when zagara died and kerrigan died.. lol

Playing this mutation with you was lots of fun Lowko, even thought I decided to switch to Vorazun because I didn't want you to waste too much time since you were recording xD.

nah Lowko, this one i did first try even tho mines screwed me in the start with getting gas to Vorazun, but Zagara banelings are really usefull here, my partner was also pretty good. and also time stop is amazing

carriers' weak point in this mutation is their interceptors die to widow mine fast, and you have little firepower left

My friend and I had what seemed to be an easier time, by doing Swann Vorazun. Even managed to bonus objective without issue too. Dark pylon, dark archon, with gas drones for Vorazun's archon DT and I don't know Swann personally. Granted this isn't to say there wasn't any issue at all, just that it didn't take us an hour to do so. :P

Finished this one first try with Artanis/Vorazun combo and got both bonus objectives too... Felt easy for us compared to the mutation last week.

I hope they make more missions or open it up to the community for custom missions.

That eletric tetrahedron on your canon at 27:13 is a hibryd ability. It disables static defenses for a few seconds.

Basically soloed this as Swann with Sci-V and Goli. Last weeks Mutator was hard though

"Carriers are soo good." They continuously on 1 attack drone each because all the attack drones keep dying hahaha. So good

Vorazun and Swann the best team for this. Swann for the gas drone, and you can go DT and not to mention that timestop is OP and reveal everything in the map. Literally the easiest mutation for this week

plz do Vorazun next~~~i wanna see one of the most skillful streamer master the strongest co-op hero, and what he can do with her, great video as always, great job lowko!!!!!

Oh snap I've never seen the fail mission quote

I managed to clear this by slow push only with cannons (no unit) so that I can guaranteed my partner's army safety with a detection. Honestly, the last push was such a pain (THOSE HIGH RAMP !!). However, in my opinion the best commander here could be Artanis. His guardian shell can rendered spider/widow mines useless. Artanis+Vorazun combo can almost ignore the mines (Gshell with DT respawn). Only down point is Artanis has to be specialize in controlling the.... err.... Observer.

Great Thumbnail haha

Hey, what camera or app should I get to play games on computer. (Self cam not needed

you should place the shield batteries in front of the cannons... at least for the cannons you put near your bases i don't think the monolith can detect cloaked units also, keep chrono on the solar forge. it will increase the rate of energy regen.

Now i didn't do it on brutal (i am a scrub who can onnly play on coop hard), but another good choice is artanis, because of the dragoon possibility with the upgraded range, And the ability to drop observers anywhere, your coop companion just has to hold the first push and you can rush observers to make the mission alot easier

Karax + Swann = the most powerfull combo

If you cannon rush build more cannons and less pylons. you don't need 3 pylons per cannon. i used artanis on hard and cleared it on the first try.

lowko just doin friendly dmg XD

in my case it was very easy with vorazun cause cloaked units only can get destroyed if they are spotted So you can easily destroy the mines and have the biggest Problems away Furthermore the level 14 ability makes it even much better; if your cloaked units would die they respawn at their building in this case the dt building.

Can somebody explain me how to manage which nexus chronoboosts which building and how to simply manage that? Thanks!

lowko if you activate chrono boost it also boosts your energy regeneration for the spear of adun it really makes a diffrence

You alive bro

1:10:16 disruptor dying in slow motion :D

@Lowko, just started playing SC2. Any tips on a start race and how to get beetter?

this is very hard but thanks to the f*cking micro they rarely use

Artanis with mass tempest is really good for this 1. since it greatly out ranges widow mines and high dps from tempest make photon overcharge useless (most buildings get insta killed with like 20 tempests)

I know this was released before she came out, but Nova would have been broken af on this one.

Yeah this one was crazy, my army got rekt a few times. Took a few attempts.

So, if you didn't figured that out yet... you get BONUS time after you finish each bonus objective, so there is no point in delaying first one what so ever. Another strange thing is... it took you 3 attempts to figure out that carriers are bad at this mutation... it's like... mines one-shot like almost ALL of your interseptors and photon overcharge finish off the remaining ones, so you have an expensive unit that does 0 dmg, and you have alot of them, i can understand that you wouldn't figure it out after reading mutations description, but after 1st attempt it was obvious that they were useless, couldn't you see that your carriers had no interseptors in them?.. for like 3 tries in a row?.. And yeah, cannons are way better then monolyths and putting up alot of bateries is a good option too. Personaly i find this mutation pretty easy. The ones with explosive enemies is a nightmare if you're playing against zergs or bio terran, your armies will shrink in a blink of an eye (even though against a protoss it was a walk in the park).

what is the benefits of moving multiple observers together ? have much bigger vision ?

Does lowko know that maximum research on spear of adun energy regen is really powerful? Or that his sentries can mind control enemy mech units?

Reclamation is so good vs enemy mech units but the energizers need meat shields

Have you played LoV? You would know that you can control the Purifier beam's direction, if you've played LoV!

This mission is doable without Karax. Artanis can do wonders on this mutation.

Haha couldn't beat it until a Vorazun came in...

Should utilize a couple extra probes to queue cannons and pylons faster

Lowko next time use an energizer in phasing mode instead of a pylon for your cannons and monoliths.

Nice video, but why don't you use more Shield Batteries?! They are great for keeping cannons alive!

I think if it's me I'll go through tremendous multitasking

Thank the best for this Mission is Karax with pylon and raynor with mass command center and scan

And Lowko doubted the dts lol

He needs to make some AOE 2 videos.

All those pylons and cannons and such just get left behind as you move forward. Isn't that kind of a waste of resources? I guess the alternative is units, which are destroyed more easily, and I guess the satellite firepower does the work of a lot of units. Have you tried using a different hero, and just building up a massive army? I guess those long range tower things with shield battery support are probably the most effective composition element to use against this type of enemy force.

Dat thumbnail though.

how do you put that 1 player campaign soundtrack in your coop missions?

Time to get some Coke and potatoe chips!

Lowko the time is the same if you have 5 mins left after the first and you destroy him then you got 12 min for the second if you kill the first by 2 mins left you have 9 for the second one

I played Raynor in this mission and dont have any detectors beside Turret and Scan. Only can beat it on Normal, any tips?

lol i tought this week is the easiest since i completed it within first time and it was my first succefull brutal mutation as kerigan + Swann in team

nice!

thats karax's colossus are so stronge: 20 dmg per laser (with 0/0/0) and the burn the ground

karax/artanis are op as fuck, mass tempest while karax is pushing, and with invisible observers and range of tempests shit dies before you get to them.

What kind of chair is Lowko using and would anyone recommend it?

Nova would be good there if she was playable there

Any chance you could turn your graphics up?

lowko where did you buy starcraft?

Did he miss the previous mutation?

Wouldn't someone like nova/Arbithr be better here because of novas vision and range and Arbithr for the mend healing

wait...didn't you upload a similar video earlier with this mission but with artanis as a partner?

when is the next nova pack coming out ?

hardest mission yet suuuure. nah, the mission was easy. Voratsun Solo. have raynor as partner and tell him when to scan, and thats it.... Time Stop does the job ;)

I think you are a very good player but karax is just not your kind of commander. You lost so many things due to lacks of vision, karax is so good when you spam out a few more photon cannons instead of the big ones.

and about bonus I don't care if it's 2000 exp I care to make it even more challenging

the kaldarin monoliths or something arent detectors. i think you shouldve gone cannons only maybe a few monoliths to help out but not that many. also they have very low dps compared to two cannons, cannons would be a lot better

Overcharged planetary fortress? What a mess…

I think Artanis is better than Karax. Tempest and observers will rule, plus that oh shit shield before units die will save a lot of them.

We got , I mean , uhhh . Man I didnt even get the first one -_- we lost straight away . I need some tips on how to micro or macro , I get supply blocked each sec

I'm alright if my video buffers, but if I have to wait for an ad to buffer....