Warcraft 2 Orc Campaign Speedrun [4K] 

Bernie da Orc

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But he did get results

"Hey, relax, remember we're the Horde, whoever is not an slave probably will be sacrificed anyway..."

As Napoleon said: to invade lordaeron you need three thIngs: peons, peons, peons

If only that catapult could mine Bitcoins through kills...

I lost that map several times. In the end I had a similar experience of running them dry. Firstly I only barely survived the start because my turrets and troops were all destroyed in a raid. Luckily the Alliance wrecking my base grouped up and I got them with my last Goblin Sappers. I couldn't crack their main base though. And I was out of money. So I parked a few Death Knights on the southern tip of the island. And I then used a fast unit to bait a few things out from the base, into the Death Knight murder trap. Then I went back and baited a few more. I must have done it 50 times, until I ran them out of units and money. Then I took my small and crappy army and cleaned them out. Definitely one of my most memorable gaming experiences.

Thats sounds like my wedding night.

The first time I played the game, I gave up on the campaign at The Tomb of Sargeras because no matter what I did I seemed to be unable to match the relentlessness of the AI. When I returned to the game years later I remember feeling a sense of growing dread for each Horde mission I completed, as I got closer and closer to that one mission I had been unable to beat. Turned out I didn't really have anything to worry about; apparently the one thing I hadn't tried was simply making landfall on the main island. It may seem tempting to bombard the base from the sea, but doing so opens you to a war of attrition against the AI, and the main base is not actually that heavily defended, it's just very big. So, huh.

I can feel that. My strategy in almost all wc2 missions was to max defence and capture mines. Then wait AI run out of resources attacking me, then I mass build most op units atm, like air or mages...

"You see, the secret to beat kill bots is that they have a kill limit. You just have to reach it" ~ A space warfare captain genius

arg?

Brings back nostalgia😅

Didn't think I'd run into you here, hah. RTS afficionado as well, at least to an extent?

@@Magban724 I got into RTS in '97 with C&C and Red Alert, but wouldn't have discovered it if it weren't for boomer shooters getting me into PC gaming. :P I'm mostly a C&C guy though, I love Warcraft and Starcraft but Blizzard RTS games are too micro-y for my monke brain to handle

@@S20TBL It's a funny parallel then cause, well - 97' or 98', I don't even remember exactly cause I was a wee lad back then, was when we had our first PC here, and guess what - Doom and C&C TD were my first and all-time favorites ever since. I have to agree, cause I suffer from the exact same, hah. Warcrafts are close to my heart too, but C&C is just... Less taxing~

​@@Magban724 And thanks to that we now have your amazing Doom mods. :D Personally happy that folks like Stu are keeping the RTS scene alive as well, hopefully it makes a comeback like boomer shooters have done

@@S20TBL Or your super shitposty drawings, which are also amazing, btw. Yeah, I also tend to watch OpenRA shoutcasts - it's good to remind yourself this stuff is sure nurtured and loved. Seeing stuff like Tempest Rising or DORF, I think our wish might come true sooner than later, ha. I hope for that too, fingers crossed!

It's called Nostalgia, it's a wonderful feeling that we can share. Many people feel that nostalgia is a bad thing, but sometimes, just sometimes, it feels good to indulge in our nostalgia's rose-tinted glasses and boot up an old game we used to love. Do the games live up to modern times? No, but we love them anyways

You mean except the last 15 years of world of warcraft and books?

@@Twistedstar0320 Are you thinking of Starcraft?

@@johnnymittle no

Agreed, this game needed a sequel.

@@stefersondigiorgio you mean like warcraft 3? Lol

I actually discovered that strategy (you have to pick up the necklace of spell immunity in the previous mission) in my 2007 speedrun!

Raynor in Jacob's Installation is just like the Cho'gall run. You can easily solo speedrun him to the end beacon.

I'm actually going to play devil's advocate and defend the mission design. The map is unexplored, and if you're playing it for the first time then you don't even know exactly where your destination is (just a rough direction) and you have no idea where enemy ambushes lie in wait. Running ahead with Cho'gall would be an absolutely stupid strategy if you didn't have perfect knowledge of the mission layout. This "exploit" is not the design issue it appears, because the mission was always going to be trivial for someone who already knows the way anyways.

@@drosberg3680 I do not disagree but at the same time it seems that in Blizzard games the missions are still designed to be played a certain way, hence Stu's comment about the level. If you look at a series like Command and Conquer you have similar missions that can be beat instantly once you know the correct way to go but those missions feel like they were tightly designed so there is only one correct way (and it still requires a whole lot of skill to do them at speedrun speeds). The only mission I can think of in the whole C&C series that has a similar "oh...so you can cheese this mission instead doing it the way we designed it" is the truck escort mission in Red Alert, and even then RNG can be your downfall if the bridge gets destroyed.

I use the HD patch so technically it's a modded run and doesn't compete on the leaderboards! (unless everyone agrees to use it)

@@StuGames Fascinating micro and the overall speed and skill. Have you every played any competitive games in SC/WC3? Enjoying your videos, thanks a lot!