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Sometimes it's all you can do🤣

Glad I can contribute to the vocal aresenal🤣

Anytime, glad to finally get it off my backlog lol

Appreciate the support!

Game only made me jump once of 5 times.

Thanks, sorry for the late reply! I gotta get notifications turned on or something.

Thanks man! I appreciate the support!

Yeah 4 was boring in terms of what happened. I lost in 5 my first attempt because I didn't get towers fast enough but I pretty much treat every level as "first attempt to scout, second attempt to win, hopefully" at this point. I'm glad to hear the rest of the levels shouldn't be too bad, but I'm sure I'll do something to make them harder lol

@@LaBarBQ haha I’m sure you will. A lot of levels have reasonably tricky or open ended starting positions, so there probably will be several resets as you figure out what to do early.

There are a lot of mage spells that I hesitate to use because I can usually barely handle telling troops to basic attack lol. I do need to use blizzard though. Holy vision is a good idea. I'm usually a little panicked by the time I'm making paladins and forget they have anything other than heal lol. Also that poor ship. The pathfinding just amazes me because one second a dragon is bypassing all defenses to hit my base and the next a ship is, well, doing whatever that was lol

@@LaBarBQ mages have a lot of spells, but not all of the spells are equally useful :D. Blizzard is the best spell, it’s just a ton of damage on ridiculous range in a giant area for a long time, it’s basically just a better ballista once you have tech. The ai doesn’t play around it either, they’ll just suicide charge everything at your mage through your blizzard and take even more damage because of it. Polymorph is also just hilarious fun, you don’t need it to defeat dragons, but it’s always fun zapping them in to sheep. The other spells are pretty meh in comparison (or at least much harder to use effectively) and I pretty much never use them, but blizzard by itself makes mages op. I honestly don’t know if this game even has dragon pathing on some of the levels. Like, sometimes the dragons move via logic and will attack certain areas, but in other levels I’m convinced it’s completely random. Don’t cite this as a fact, I don’t know for sure if that’s true, but that’s certainly what it feels like, with dragons just popping up in the most random places lol.

I wouldn't be surprised if none of the movement is coded properly. Troops are whacky, ships are whacky. But noted on the mage stuff, I need to play with it a little. Should make things interesting.@@redwings13400

I'm starting to realize I need to focus on meeting objectives vs clearing the map. It's been a hard lesson to learn because I just want to raze everything to the ground lol Yeah remembering the footmen strat came in handy. I have a hard time keeping up but the levels get way too long without the game speed being up. It's a hard thing to balance right now.

I hate turtles so hearing that she is the 'Turtle Sniper' makes me just a little happy lol.

always welcome to note other streamers/youtubers here. I like to check related content out in case I get stuck, which I had to do quite a bit playing wc2. Don't remember this game being difficult but also child me was a cheater. I have watched a deathless run so might be the same person. I was perplexed as I struggle to beat the game playing normally lol. Poor Lothar though.

Glad I could miss daneth for you😂 Whole time I was thinking "isn't there supposed to be someone else?" I didn't know that about the 3 red units being enough for victory though. It's interesting that they have a check for 3 red units but also checks for if specific heroes are alive. Blizzard has always been a mess though hasn't it lol. A beautiful mess. I did know about the save bug thing. Actually just learned it recently from watching your videos lol. I have saved in some of the levels but haven't yet had to load them. With that in mind, I'll probably try to do it the correct way unless I'm struggle bussing real bad, then we save scum for the win. I'll have no shame! Edit: okay I just rewatches the catapult thing and I'm pretty sure I was thinking " lol the game broke this guy just wants to be friends" and by the time my brain registered I was supposed to kill it, an awkward amount of time later, I had been hit with a fireball of death. Good times.

Yeahhh I've only done the first level so far in BDP. I can already tell it's gonna beat me down, but I beat elden ring and bloodborne. How bad can this be? Right?! Right!?! But yeah I'm also trying to challenge myself a little bit and keep the game speed up. The game is definitely more fun to me with it up, but it is much much more difficult.

@@LaBarBQ haha. Rts definitely requires a different set of skills than the other games there do, though the experience of beating your head against a wall repeatedly will definitely help. Beyond is an interesting campaign because it’s a rare case where the ai actually plays fairly, they mine all their gold and lumber from the map. This rewards aggressive play because if you don’t expand and take contested gold mines, the ai will, then they will use all that gold against you. This doesn’t apply to every level, but there are a lot of places where you can make levels a lot easier by making heavy use of your starting army or by attacking early, either to free up supply for a better economy, or just outright destroying enemy bases that don’t start out with a ton but build up quickly. It’s definitely a tactical puzzle. You can win by playing defensively too, but sometimes that’s actually much tougher than by attacking, and I think that’s relatively rare for rts campaigns to accomplish.

@@redwings13400 Missed this comment, but thanks for the tip. I still only did the first level so far. Caught between wanting to space out recording to make sure I can get feedback and thinking I won't be able to win in a week lmao.

Haha honestly I doubt you'll be able to win in a week. You could do orc tides in a week, that campaign would probably feel pretty simple for you since there's nothing in orc tides that's nearly as bad as the last human level in tides. Beyond is a different story though, Beyond will take some time for you I think.@@LaBarBQ

@@redwings13400 I just meant one level a week in the BDP campaign, not the whole thing. I definitely can't beat the whole campaign in a week, not without some serious grinding anyway. My problem for beating a single level is that I only have a few hours each day to do 1 of many things, as is the case for most of us. So if I get caught spending 3 hours on a level and fail, I've gotta find time to attempt it again throughout the week which isn't always easy to do for me. I am determined to beat BDP though at least.

so I just looked back at my fail recording and I seemingly had trouble constantly being raided by red and orange in the first attempt and inevitably ran out of resources before I could win. In the second attempt, I tried to blitz the dragon roost island and got overrun by a turtle sub, and then was just frustrated so I gave up for the night. That and I was sick so my patience was very very low when attempting to play that level lol. Admittedly I did not play the best tactically either way and opted to just take it slow and be super cautious.

Neat :) You didn't need it in your final attempt, because you had a ton of gold left over when you won, but there is actually one more gold mine on the map in the fog of war that you didn't see in this attempt! It's in the bottom right corner on red's island. I feel like the challenge of this level is really the start, since the AI attacks way more aggressively here than they do at any point previously in the campaign, so if you are used to just getting a ton of economy and upgrades early without training an army, it's very easy to get overwhelmed. Bloodlusted ogres are pretty terrifying, and it's easy to not have enough to defend against them, especially early on. @@LaBarBQ

Bloodlust ogres are ridiculous. But man missing gold mines just so happens to be my specialty lol. I realize I need to work on finding an extra gold mine ASAP and mining as much as possible. For some reason I thought this game had an army cap like wc3.

Glad I can help. I remember myself being much better, but then I realized I probably cheated as a kid lol

I was awful I just used cheat codes all the time. I had no tactical wherewithal.

You're not alone, but if you want to see some crazy warcraft 2 play, check out Stu. I watch his vids for strategy because he did some crazy stuff imo.

I knew you'd be coming for me🤣 Unfortunately by the time you gave me all the advice, this video and the next were already recorded. So you'll get to see me attempt some of it on the last mission for the campaign.

​@@LaBarBQThe last human mission is a pretty severe difficulty spike on the rest of the campaign (it's much harder than anything in the orc Tides campaign too), so don't be too surprised if you struggle there. It's definitely an interesting mission, you will learn to hate dragons by the end of it.

I actually just beat that mission last night but you are correct. I hate dragons. The first night I spent a couple hours trying the level and could barely establish a base. I ended up watching some videos by Stu, who is clearly a god at warcraft 2, and used his tactic to finally beat the level. Not gonna lie, after the first night I was a little worried I wouldn't beat it lol@@redwings13400

@@LaBarBQ congrats! Yeah, that level is actually just tough. It’s by far the hardest thing you’ll encounter until the beyond campaign, where the levels really get consistently brutal. I’ve seen Stu’s videos, and yeah, his micro is completely absurd. Honestly his videos look as ridiculous to me as they do to you, he just does things and his units don’t take damage. Its pretty ridiculous

Okay so just stumbled onto your videos while I was watching Stu again and geez. I'm struggling to play normally and you're over there beating the game with just archers! 😂 Kudos to you. I need to put on my 'git gud' hat for the next set of levels.

*sigh* ya know I used to think I was good at this game back in the day😂 kinda funny how that memory ignores the fact I for sure used cheats as a kid.

@@LaBarBQ haha. I mean, your skill level hasn’t been the issue for the missions you’ve struggled with in this campaign. You’ve clearly been good enough to beat the levels. You’ve just accidentally imposed a hard mode challenge on yourself due to lack of game knowledge, whether that was not realizing there was an extra gold mine on your starting island, or not knowing you could spot turtles with flying machines. If anything, it’s a credit to your skill that you’ve beaten the levels with these accidental handicaps lol.

It's definitely made things more fun at times, others not so much but I do appreciate the way you think lol. Makes me feel better 😁

thanks homie! hope you enjoyed the end of the series!

Yoo finally lmao so where are you finding all these hotkeys because I thought they existed but couldn't remember and then never found them. I can't lower scroll speed in game, it's how my mouse is set up, so I should be able to mess with that setting in my Logitech settings. I appreciate the tips thanks you!

The scroll speed isn't for the scroll wheel, its for the movement of the mouse around the screen; how far it moves over the minimap as you push the mouse to the edge of the screen. Again, nothing to do with the scroll wheel, that's just what its called, although idr if you can do that in WC2. The hotkeys appear on the bottom part of the screen when you mouse over a given command. You'll see the letter for the hotkey in orange. Many hotkeys you can also presume and probably be right, if not just double check. They're much more uniform and predictable in SC and SC2 compared to WC2 iirc.@@LaBarBQ

Forgot to mention, the hotkeys for the groups, if you do "Ctrl + 1", then "1" will reference that specific group again. makes it a lot easier to handle a large multi-group army. idr if it works for buildings or groups of buildings in WC2 as well, but might. It can help you navigate building particular units more easily.@@LaBarBQ

this one is very useful and I never knew about it. That was one of my biggest issues trying to command large groups, basically was just controlling 9 and letting the rest die. As for the scroll wheel, I gotcha. I mentioned it in an earlier video I had to turn it down on my PC and then I just didn't. Idk if you played this version of wc2 but it doesn't let you resize the screen nicely so before messing with the mouse wheel I was messing with the file that controls that. Suffice to say it didn't work lol@@nl817

@@LaBarBQ Worth noting, if you look at the bottom of the screen when mousing over a button, like the "Train Archer" button... notice that the "A" in "Archer" is yellow instead of white like the rest of the word. That's how the game communicates the Hotkey for it. B -> Build Basic Structure. F -> Build Farm, just examples.

Hindsights 20/20. I think by this point I was thinking I didn't have the resources to clear anything that wasnt absolutely necessary. If i didn't miss that gold mine, there's a chance my tactics would have shifted.

Lmao yeahhh. Should put a heart rate monitor on. Who knew a strategy game could get your blood pumping like that. And thanks!

oo these are good tips. I didn't realize they'd never rebuild their ports. I'll have to apply this to the last level. I know they also have a bunch of dragons I'll have to deal with too.

Let's a goo. Just glad to beat it.

Thanks, totally did this before you mentioned taking a closer look for gold mines. Missed the one that would've helped a ton.

That makes sense. I think it took me a bit of time to adjust to the game speed too and aggressiveness of the AI. Ultimately had to turn the speed down a bit.

@AgentFox26 I was going to suggest that too based upon your videos but forgot. The ui is so clunky it's hard to handle that full speed.

yeah, it's a weird balance for game speed because normal speed is 'slow' but any faster and you can't keep up in the later levels. We have gained knowledge though lol@@nl817

The best thing about this is you don't have to kill Blue - just take out his navy. No Navy, no Transports. No Transports, no more Blue Attacks. I mean, unless you _want_ to kill blue. But he's a tough enough nut to crack that after doing so, you just might need to steal what's left of his resources to keep going.

Didn't notice until I beat this mission in the next vid that I missed the gold mine right above my base. It would have helped a ton 😂

@@LaBarBQ Leave no Black Tile unrevealed! Important stuff can be hiding anywhere! Never assume your limits until you have confirmed 100% that there is nothing more available to you.

I think the AI aggressiveness ramped up and at max game speed I was caught a little off guard. Thank you for the support it means a lot!

Thanks! The AI in this game can be brutal sometimes but it's been fun.

Never stood a chance!

episode 4 coming out hot 6AM. Won't keep you waiting much longer!

you're in luck, this game is a movie! (basically)

but wait, there's more!

I was 'so close' to landing one

This game is a movie.

thanks buddy! Love the support. EVERYONE CHECK OUT KRACKEDKISH ON TWITCH!

Thank you for all the love and support!

You should, and then we can do co op levels and die together!

@@LaBarBQ I didn't even know it had co op, even more of a reason to lol

Definitely love randomized cosmetics, and sometimes randomized sounds lol

Yeah boss here was gohma. It's such a simple trick but I just didn't think you could jump shoot. Glad I tried.