Can you complete Warcraft 2: Beyond the Dark Portal, with only Grunts?
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- čas přidán 8. 08. 2023
- Now that we've done Tides, its time to venture beyond, in to the land of tough levels and broken AI. See for yourself how I accidentally completely break the game multiple times, and discover whether its enough to beat this titan of a campaign.
Huge shout out to MFromAzeroth for helping me figure out what was going on with some of these levels! His channel's here, and he has some really cool videos on it!
/ @kopfschmerztv
I'm definitely leaning towards doing a follow up video to see if I can beat this campaign without saves, but it will probably be a while before I get there. Hope you enjoyed! - Zábava
Fast forward fights are the way to go. Anyway, this gave me flashbacks of spending so many hours losing because I was way too defensive and didn't do a lot of resource denying on the AI. Took me forever to change my playstyle and beat the game.
All right, thanks for the input!
Also, yes. That's something I learned as well while playing this challenge. Aggressive plays early just gives you access to so much more gold in this campaign, which is the key to beating a lot of these levels. This will definitely prove to be the case in Footmen Only Beyond.
I happily binge watched all your War2 videos and I still keep waiting for a "thank you for watching" at the end of the video hahahaha it would be the cherry on top of the epicness cake 🤣🤣
Thank you for watching! I'm glad you enjoyed the videos! :D
Great video, subscribed! I don't think I've ever seen Warcraft 2 gameplay going to have to check this game out myself.
Thank you! I hope you enjoy! Warcraft 2 is fun, but its also a product of its time. Compared to games like Warcraft 3 and Starcraft 2, and even Starcraft, it is incredibly unrefined, with massive pathfinding and UI issues, and AI that occasionally breaks. The mission design is also relatively basic, and the races are essentially mirror images of each other with different graphics. Essentially, the game just doesn't hold up super well compared to what came after it.
However, despite its flaws, there's just something about it that I find really fun, so I still enjoy coming back to it occasionally. The voice lines and music are great, the campaign narrator is simple but effective and very cool, units are easy to identify and distinguish from one another (its a good example of why stylization is more important than detail) and the game is pretty fast paced, which keeps it engaging for me. Units may move everywhere except for where you want them to go, but at least they get there quickly! Its definitely an experimental piece of rts history that paved the way for Starcraft to take what worked here and build on it.
Hope you enjoy it!
A screen full of grunts is actually terrifying.
By the way, you've missed an opportunity to play Cirno's theme during extremely genius strategic moments 🙂
Haha yeah :)
I don't actually know all that much about Touhou, I just really enjoy the music! I was also honestly a bit lazy with the music this time. In a couple of videos I've targeted specific music for specific parts, but in this one I just grabbed a video of someone's 15 best touhou boss themes and stuck in in there with very minor editing.
@@redwings13400 Well. this turned out pretty well!
"Necrofantasia" followed by "UN Owen was her" while you were playing the most chaotic map with biggest fights.
Proves that touhou music fits everything.
🙂
Nice! Waiting for the next part! My fav game!
Thank you! :)
Bro, you jumpscared me with 2hu music at 0:17.
I thought I have it running in another tab or something for a moment.
i like your channel :) and videos
Aw, thank you! Glad you're enjoying it!
Very nice. Looking forward to Warcraft: Orcs and Humans footman/grunts only.
Thanks! I doubt I'm going to do the original warcraft, simply because I've never actually played the game before, and don't have too much of an interest in actually playing it. Maybe someone else can take up the mantle for that one. :)
Idk, I tried once years back, very difficult to mass the footmen/grunts on various levels. The last orc level would be insane, or orc 9 when the humans get invisibility. There’s a reason spearmen/archers op in that one. I could try again tho..
I think you could reasonably get to the 8th levels of each campaign, after that you face annoying wizard tactics with catapults mixed with knights. A baseless level and then 11 and 12 fighting demons or water elementals which will kill all your footmen/grunts while still dealing with knights/Raiders and the still the annoying magic attacks.
so yes save load bug is exists and its me Mistral that mfromazeroth talked about) we fixed this bug in our campanigns)
Hey! Thanks for stopping by! I'll probably take a look at your custom campaigns at some point, but it may be a while, as I have a lot of other stuff I need to do too. For this challenge at least, I decided not to use the patch mfromazeroth linked me because I feel like I want to play an unmodded version of the game for now, but it is super cool that you fixed the glitches. Instead, I'm redoing my footman beyond run, but not allowing myself to save in levels to avoid using the reset glitch. Basically, when I was looking at my footage, I realized I took advantage of this glitch on most of the levels, and the script felt boring as a result. I'm liking the results of my new playthrough more :)
Hope you're enjoying the videos! :)
I think beating the game with only axe throwers/archers would be cooler haha
Never thought I'd hear Touhou music over Warcraft 2 footage.
Good job on doing this with grunts, its so sad how they're basically totally obsolete the instant ogres are unlocked in this game.
:)
Glory to grunts! May they finally get the respect they deserve!
i always thought grunts/footmen should be the ones with the t3 spellcaster upgrade to justify their existence lategame, we're about thirty years too late to speculate unfortunately :c
I've actually found that it sometimes pays off to mix grunts an ogres for two reasons:
* They can draw aggro away from the ogres (and bloodlusted they do quite similar amounts of damage).
* They cost less and build faster, so you can attack/retaliate faster.
So on some maps they pay off, as WC2 isn't always generous with resources. Especially true if wood is low, but I can't remember if that's ever a factor.
EtA: Single player.
Actually, I kinda agree with you. I think defending against the AI with grunts or footmen with tower support can actually be easier than defending with knights/ogres sometimes, simply because their slower speed actually works for them. Ogres are way better at attacking, but have a tendency to leave their defensive positions faster than grunts do, and then get hit more often as a result.
Part of what allowed me to beat this campaign in the first place was realizing that I don't need to tech up to ogres to get an army, and that having a few grunts early for defense actually helps me stabilize a lot in the early game.
That's so funny, I forgot how much the AI can break when it has its army next to the gold mine, blocking in its own gold miners.
Yep. This game, lol
There is no way he will be ably to destroy the Dark Portal without Kadgar!
Wait, what about the first mission where you start with Death Knight and resque Grom Hellscream?
The non base levels in beyond are impossible with only grunts or footmen. No way around that sadly.
Also, that is true, khadgar is the only unit that can damage the dark portal. No way around this one either, which means I'm going to need to clear the map before I can start damaging the portal.
You can actually beat Alterac 19:54 using only grunts and peons (No starting units.). You have enough money to build 1 barracks, 1 grunt (And still have enough for a hall). I was able to get 3 peons past the teal units by sacrificing the grunt and 1 of the peons. Once past building up as normal gets you the win. I personally killed my starting units instead of throwing them at the enemy (Except the dragons, I had to throw them at red towers to kill em off)
Nice! I was guessing it might be possible to get 1 peon past teal, but didn’t think I’d be able to build up in time to deflect the attack waves without multiple peons. I didn’t think three would be possible! Nice work! :)
@@redwings13400 Thanks man! I've been playing through with this challenge and been having a blast. I'm glad you made these vids.
I was able to beat the Eye of Dalaran using the same build spot as you, but without save/reloading. Its really hard, and I was only able to get past the spiral defenses by slowing the game speed down a few ticks and moving units up through the single tile on the right side. I couldn't kill purple before they ran out of gold so I didn't have as much units to throw at the defenses.
Nice! :D
I'll admit I'm very afraid of that level when it comes time to redo this without the save glitch. I'm glad for the confirmation that its possible. Upon testing, it became quickly apparent that my saving grace would be purple's pathfinding, and carefully figuring out how to keep a lumber wall in between our bases, but even with that I think things will be incredibly challenging.
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Not gonna lie, in the Nethergarde Keep mission in the Orc Campaign, the hardest part for me was always just... keeping Teron Gorefiend alive.
Once Blue has Paladins with Exorcism up, they will start charging him from across the map to nuke him with Exorcism _constantly._ I literally setup a massive maze of guard towers to protect him and those f***ers would run that goddamn gauntlet with a bloody single-minded purpose, and despite the size of that goddamn maze, Teron STILL took a few hits.
It's why I hate Teron Gorefiend so much. He is worse than dead weight, he is an active liability in any mission where he must survive. And this is me speaking as someone who actively loves to use hero units as much as possible.
And the fact that he got ignored for you all mission long makes me hate with you with an undying fiery jealous passion.
Ahahahahahaha
When I decided to just try to not move him, I didn't actually expect it to work. It just kinda... did. It turns out that's just the way to beat the mission, the enemy just... doesn't attack him when he's in the start area. I've definitely lost this mission many times because of Teron getting exorcised before. He absolutely is a net negative on this mission (and in most of the campaign) even when playing normally, he provides a loss condition while paladin spam prevents him from doing much of anything after you get a base, lol.
This one wasn't the save glitch btw. I did this on trolls only too without the save glitch (and I don't think I used the glitch on this level to begin with) and it worked there too.
@@redwings13400 It's _gotta_ be something weird in scripting. Those assholes can smell him from across the map and charge out of their base on a singleminded mission, literally ignoring everything else in their way JUST to cast Exorcism on him.
There's GOT to be some scripting telling them not to target him until he leaves the starting zone. There's no other explanation.
Yeah those videos are cool
Thank you! :)
Hello! nice challenges!
How about trying some custom campanigns for warcraft2 too?
me and my friends have created some new super cool custom campanigns
they named Alaunter and Stonia, also just this month we released new ultra cool with new tech tree and abilities, its named Mist Turns Red campanign
very recommended to try, guaranteed to get a lots of fun!
Where does one download this mist of red campaign my friend !? im keen as .
@@ZakHumphreys youtube removing links, i cannot wirite them directly.
try googling campanign names i writed you can find them easy.
The mission at 8 minutes only require you to touch green base anyways. Anyways this game is quite weird and I believe the glitches are also linked to where you build your main base. There are a couple mission that I did while building my base in out of the way spots and the enemy never did anything, completely glitched out.
That's true. I generally like to destroy every enemy if I'm able to though.
Also, you probably encountered either the save glitch or a pathfinding error. The pathfinding in this game is seriously awful, and the ai does not know how to get past obstacles like walls, so the ai can get their units stuck very easily if you build in the right places.
Nice video! Please do archers!!
Thank you! I’ve started trolls only tides but with baldurs game 3 and the school year starting again (I work in a school), my pace of videos will definitely slow down for now. So it’s probably not coming soon!
Glad you enjoyed! :)
@@redwings13400 no problen man, do it at your time. You work in a school? Great! Are you a teacher?
Right now I'm a para-educator. Though I'm hoping to become a math teacher eventually! :)
@@redwings13400Nice!! I hope you can do it!! Don t give up!! Maths are the best!!
actually i really recommend try play our new Mist Turns Red custom campanign, we maked footmans stroger by allowing them use shield that blocks 25% dmg )) and hero commander is also footman))
so Ed, wtf
lol danny
Well, Warcraft 2 AI strikes again. Can't say I'm particularly surprised
The recording fails were a little fun to have included I won't lie
I did notice that the walls were all over the place. Knowing they're neutral passive makes it even harder to go through. And cannon towers don't aggro units? Yeah, sure, might as well
The chaos for claiming the expansion gold mine was really interesting. I'm not used to the AI prioritizing expanding this much. Usually, there's one expansion at most it goes for, so it's really something to witness that here
At this point, I'm tempted to make a game out of every time the AI breaks here. I wonder how many more times it'll break in the Human Campaign
I figured this one would be harder than Tides of Darkness, but I can't say I was expecting it to be this much harder. This was very interesting to see, especially considering how much I don't know about Warcraft 2. Although, with all the AI breaks, I can't imagine this was an accurate representation of the difficulty of the campaign. Very interesting to see
The ending sums it up perfectly. In a world where humans forgot themselves and relied on magic and knights, they fall to the heart of the Horde. The Grunts. However, should the Horde forget its roots, and the humans remember their hearts, they will prevail
hehe. Yeah, the AI will often aggressively expand in Warcraft 2, and making sure to aggressively block off AI expansions before they can do it is often the key to beating levels in these campaigns. Its an interesting dynamic that's very different from any other Bliz RTS campaign I've played, and it can create some pretty fun scenarios!
I'm definitely considering an eventual follow up video for this one because of how often the AI broke. After looking at the footage of my human beyond campaign, I also decided to literally replay the run while banning the save glitch, just because of how often I accidentally used it there. Still, just because I banned the save glitch doesn't mean the AI won't break... This game always seems to find a way lol.
Thanks for watching! :D
Also, I actually expected the difference in challenge to be significantly greater than it actually was heading in to Beyond. In a normal playthrough, its hard to overstate how easy Tides actually is compared to Beyond. The last human level in Tides (aka dragon spam simulator) is legitimately really tough, and there are a couple levels that might surprise a player early if they don't prioritize their defenses (last orc level, second to last human level), but aside from that, the Tides campaigns are honestly pretty trivial when played normally (IMO casual to normal SC2 difficulty). However, there are a few sections in the Tides campaigns that really surprised me. Naval landings became so much harder without battleships, and the orc siege of dalaran was absolutely horrifying without the ability to use something like catapults or death knights to destroy towers at a range. These levels went from relatively trivial to absurd with the restriction.
However, in Beyond... The restriction didn't seem to change nearly as much about how hard the levels were! There were a lot of problems I had to solve, but Beyond had some structural advantages that actually made playing grunts/footmen only a much more 'viable' strategy than in the base game. You get A LOT of gold in Beyond, and the difficulty in this campaign is often frontloaded, with surviving early being the most difficult part of a lot of levels. Grunts/Footmen and towers are actually a very good defensive composition that's pretty resource efficient. There aren't as many naval levels in beyond and some of them can be cheesed a bit. Attacking bases still sucks, but you can get so much gold to do it that there's usually just enough to overwhelm the enemy if you secure enough gold in the early game. A lot of my cheese strategies in Beyond also still worked with just footmen, flying machines, and towers.
So, while Beyond is FAR more difficult than Tides in general, this challenge actually increased the challenge of Tides far more than it increased the challenge of Beyond, leading to the difficulty increase being far less than I anticipated going in!
Its a really interesting effect, and its not something I expected at all! That said, I imagine if I banned the save glitch in the orc campaign, that could cause me some real issues. Death knights can be cheesed with flying machines, but mages can't, and there are a few terrifying levels that I save glitched the heck out of in this run. So maybe Orc Beyond will prove to be harder if I do a follow up.
@@redwings13400 Very interesting. The only real experience I have with completing Warcraft 2 is playing a Warcraft 3 custom campaign recreating it in the Warcraft 3 engine, so I didn't know how different it would be with this restriction going in. With everything you've shown, I might just go back and give base Warcraft 2 another try
So what I'm getting is that while Beyond is still harder than Tides, the difficulty spike for Tides was higher than the one for Beyond with the restriction in play. That's very interesting. I remember a problem in Warcraft 3 was the lack of resources, so I see how having a lot of gold can help out in general, even if the game is still very tough
Banning the save glitch... yeah, I can see how that'd make things a lot tougher in general. Should be interesting if you decide to do it
absolutely, Wc3 adaptations are not comparable in any way, you should also try Wc1, it is a great game, even with 4 unit slection limit ; )@@hadiarambashir7659
Props for Touhou music
Out of curiosity, how down would you be on attempting the Rise of the Blood Elves custom campaign for Warcraft 3, with only Swordsmen? How possible (or not) do you think would that be?
I've never played it before, so I can't say for sure. Generally speaking, custom campaigns are pretty difficult, and swordsmen are pretty bad, so I'm gonna guess it would be pretty hard, but I really have no idea for this one.
I'll keep it in mind, and if I play the campaign at some point, I'll let you know!
Could also allow Archers, seeing as the blood elves kept those too in that custom faction. It's a really cool custom campaign, and starts off actually right where WC3 left off - with Kael and Vashj having to escort the gravely injured Illidan back to the Black Temple for healing. @@redwings13400
Ooh - you could make it the same as the Illidan campaign from TFT - you're only allowed to use units that were actually in baseline WC3, and not allowed to use any of the ones added in the custom race (Blood Knights, Hawkstrider Knights, Dragonhawk Riders, any of the heroes that aren't Kael'thas, Arcane Golems, etc. @@redwings13400
It's absurd to hear new touhou music because I am so used to the touhou music from 6-12 that I listened to obsessively so now suddenly I hear music that is similar enough but yet not quite it
Haha. I have no idea which touhou music is new and which is old, I just like listening to the soundtracks sometimes.
I think you missed that other hero grunt because he was in front of some axe throwers
Hmm, that would make sense! I was just laughing at myself when watching the recording, being like, “oh my god I’m so blind!”
i loved this game and love all the C&C and Red Alert games...and recentyl got myself Age of Empires 4.. is AOE even more advanced and better then Warcraft and C&C ?
Honestly… I was a bit disappointed by aoe4. I did get it and I played a few games with my brother/did about half of the campaign. There are some good bits and pieces there, but the pathfinding and unit responsiveness felt kinda lacking. Units also were not differentiated enough to be super easily recognizable from each other, and all in all, I just felt like it just didn’t really come together.
Maybe you’ll enjoy it though! However, if I were to answer your question: no, I don’t think it is.
hey thanx for the answer :) really appreciate it.@@redwings13400 i am still hoping for more RA and C&C games in the future.. (but i have played them so much, i need to try something else for a while :D )..
I commend your patience and the challenge, but it needs to be said, you got this due to in game glitches.
It’s true. I’m planning on doing a follow up eventually, and I banned the save glitch for the footman only beyond run. In retrospect I could have redone this run too, but I had already recorded my script and started editing before I learned about the save glitch, so I decided to finish up the video regardless
Maybe put the fights and lead up to the fights on like 1.5x speed instead of the straight time skip? That way we have a reference of what, when, where and how.
Hmm, ok, I can try that. I did a lot of 1.5x speed on footmen only tides. For this one, I did mostly regular speed because I felt like it better captures the micro struggle when it comes to walls, but did a couple of the longer fights on x2 speed just to get more context. Thanks for the input!
As an experiment, keep in the game audio at a low level with midi music off. Then play the midi soundtracks on their own so they don't get interrupted by cutting the game footage. Your mic quality is good and you sound fine, so the music you added wasn't really necessary to fill air.
Most of these videos are designed to lure/trigger nostalgia, so keeping the soundtrack in would be best practice.
I'm a little confused here, how exactly would I do that? I don't know very much about audio editing in general, and I'm not really sure what you mean by midi music or midi soundtracks, or how I'd separate game audio from the game soundtrack (assuming that's what you're suggesting).
As for the nostalgia portion, in every other warcraft 2 video I did, I used the WC2 soundtrack in the background, but I got a bit bored of that and changed it up for fun here. It was just boring for me to use the same music multiple videos in a row, especially when I used the WC2 soundtrack for some WC3 videos too. Still, I do feel like music and audio in general is something I just don't know much about, and I'm trying to play it by ear to figure out the best way to make it work, so any advice here is appreciated!
@@redwings13400 So when you're recording the game include the audio from the game itself, but have the music turned off. Then add the soundtrack back in as its own audio file. I called it 'MIDI" because that's what the old DOS music format was.
That's what everybody doe: Giant Grant, Spirit of the Law, etc. It really drips the dopamine.
I say try it as an experiment because if you re-release the video in this format and get more views, then you know it works.
Ok, I'll try to set that up. I'm not going to rerelease the video this way, but I'll see if I can do that for my next one! Thank you! :)
Hmm, if I have to split the audio while recording, I might need to wait until later to try that. I've already recorded my next run, so I'll have to play around with OBS and figure out if there's a way to do that next time. Still, I'll keep that in mind for the future!
That said, I don't think we can trust view count as an accurate representation of quality. IMO my best video on the channel has about 250 views right now, while this one has gotten way more views than my last few despite the production value being about the same. Views are a bit random and chaotic, and while I want to make my videos better, I also don't want to make decisions based on potential views. I've gone down that route before, and at the end of that path lies madness. :)
I hear that Touhou music
I hear Touhou, I click like.
Haha. I had been using warcraft 2 music for the last few videos but I figured I'd switch it up here. Glad you approve of the choice!
I was totally not expecting it, and I freaked out when I heard it (in a good way, of course!).
Great video but the load glitch really makes the whole thing kinda pointless.
Thanks. Yeah, I agree. I was already editing the video when I realized what happened, so I decided to just finish up this video and highlight the glitch as part of it. Its at least a very interesting glitch, if a really annoying one.
However, I came to pretty much the same conclusion as you did when I watched footage of my beyond footmen run. The script felt boring as I was basically repeating, "and then the AI might have glitched out when I reloaded, so I won." So, I decided to do a completely new playthrough for that one where I banned saving the game. I actually just finished that run a couple minutes ago, so next time, that annoying glitch won't be there anymore!
I'm glad I did this, because I think the new run is going to be a lot more interesting as a result!
me also tried to play chalenge run, but i not maked videos
i played almost all missions without receiving any damage
No damage run? How does that work, I feel like the start of a bunch of missions would screw you over, at the very least. Does damage on buildings count?
@@redwings13400 yes there is some missions where u 100% cannot do it because u simply receive damage from start u cannot avoid, like human 13 or beyond portal orc 4 missions and some others. yes buildings counts because in this game buildings is techically units too)
i played almost all tides of darknes missions exept human13 without receiving even 1 damage by any of my unit. and also played many beyond portal missions like this.
this depended on many savescumming) there is certain technique in this game that allows 2 any melee units(even 2 peons) to kill any enemy melee unit (like ogre) without receiving damage, it needs many micro and prob only bot can do it without mistakes, but with save loaded after each hit i was able to do it.
@@redwings13400 i also allowed using sappers in some missions like orc10 or orc11 but only if they blow up before taking damage because when they explose they do not taking any damage, they just die by script i checked it directly from game source code.
but mostly i tried playing without losing units too
@@redwings13400 maybe you would want to try beating this challenge too ?)))))))
@@ed_gorod I think I'll pass on the no damage run, it sounds like it would be incredibly micro intensive and played on the lowest game speed (or at least a lower game speed), neither of which are things I'm a huge fan of. I enjoy macro and massive armies more than I do perfect micro, and playing on a slower game speed just sounds painful tbh, lol. I don't think I'd have the patience for it.
Its definitely a cool challenge though, and I'm sure there are a lot of awesome tricks to use for it!
Try to complete "upgraded" wersion of campaign from war2 ru forums, same maps same objectives but ai is WAY stronger but also much more challanging and fun to play
I’ve seen that and thought about it, but I’m holding off on a video because I want the campaign to be familiar to people watching. I feel like a mod would be harder for people to relate to and immediately understand what’s going on.
That said, it does sound really fun and I’ll probably try that myself at some point!
@@redwings13400 Ive finished it but it took me quite long time and many many tries. Orc campaign is quite ok but human is way harder in my opinion. I dont think its doable in a "grunt only" scenario tho xD
That's interesting, because I think the orc campaign is harder in the regular playthrough, mostly because of the later levels. I am curious to see what they did to increase the challenge :)
@@redwings13400 Well, i see it mostly this way... u get bloodlust ogres and u roll over enemy because how broken it is and in later maps u face mostly humans not orcs so ai cannot fight ur ogres with knights, one of the first levels on orcs idk 3rd or 4th map was the hardest for me took me like 50 attempts if not more but im also not a skilled wc2 player myself, human is harder because u face lots of orcs and if thye bloodlust u need to flex a lot to counter it with mages, thats just my opinion tho :) also i hope ill get to see it anywhere on youtube to see different strategies how to beat that campaign
more wc2 challenge runs?? so close together? whats going on here
I work in a middle school, and its summer break right now, so I have a bit more time to edit than usual! Hope you're enjoying! :)
yes touhouu
:)
Can't be that hard if I beat it when I was 13.
Nice, that's honestly pretty impressive. :)
I still stand by my statement that this campaign is essentially hard WC3 or brutal SC2, and probably slightly harder than those campaigns on average. I think all of these campaigns are doable with practice regardless of your skill level (I don't think I'm that good at RTS), but I'd probably still rate the final orc level in this campaign as maybe the fourth hardest level bliz has ever released? I think my top 5 hardest levels would be...
1) All In Air Brutal (SC2 WOL)
2) A Symphony of Frost and Flame Hard (Frozen Throne Scourge)
3) Salvation Brutal (SC2 LOTV)
4) The Dark Portal (WC2 Beyond)
5) Honestly not sure, these are a clear top 4 for me though. Maybe Eye of Dalaran (WC2 Beyond)?
(also, this all assumes fastest game speed. Without fastest game speed WC2 is much easier)
@@redwings13400 OK got me there. I never play fastest.
6:45 i prefer slow, but i am old...then again the game is too, so.... i won't be the only old person here. but that's not the worst. the worst is at 3:54 wher you show some text. i do no expect a text, the text has 15/16 words and i have about 1 second minus reaction time to read it. and you are far from the only person to do this. but why? is there something in the algorithm that rewards videos, that get rewinded or paused? hope so, would be a shame if this suffering was for nothing... ;-)
Thanks for the feedback!
For the text, I know I sometimes show it super quickly, and I’ve wondered about people’s experience with that. When I watch videos, I often enjoy videos with little Easter eggs here and there that require pausing to see, so I think I’ve incorporated that in to my editing style, basically viewing the text as clarifying information or little extra jokes that doesn’t necessarily need to be read for the main point to be made, but is still there for people to see if they want to. Like, my text is essentially stuff that I want to say but also feel like it would lengthen the video too much if I said it out loud. Also, it’s a byproduct of how I write my scripts, as I write and record my scripts before starting any editing, so there’s usually only a small amount of time it makes sense to add my clarifications.
That said, I imagine that can also be annoying if you try to read it in real time. I definitely don’t expect people to do it, and I imagine it’s a bit frustrating in situations where it’s hard to pause the video, or if you just prefer the video without pausing.
The time stamp you gave is a bit of a weird example admittedly because that’s actually footage from someone else’s video, but I know I do this a lot when I add text. I’m basically trying to balance adding additional clarifying information while simultaneously not slowing down the pace of the video, and it’s a tough balance to figure out.
As for the algorithm, I have no idea. I try not to edit my videos around what the algorithm wants (i will never ask you to subscribe, for instance), so I have no idea on that front.
I see an awful lot of peons in this "grunts only." :P
haha yeah. I normally state my rules early on in my challenges, but I haven't for the last couple videos for some reason. Essentially, I'm allowing myself grunts, peons, all structures including towers, goblin zepplins, oil tankers, and transports. I'm trying to use my starting units as little as possible, but I didn't give myself set rules for that for this one, and was kinda playing it by ear to figure out what was doable with that.
Of these, the only thing you could cut out and still beat these campaigns with would be goblin zepplins. They aren't strictly necessary, but its really annoying to scout the map without them, and I just don't like not knowing the terrain of the map. I think everything else is pretty required. Obviously you'd be stuck on naval levels without transports and oil tankers, peons are obviously required to build a base and get gold, and towers are necessary to get rid of dragons and ships. I think towers are also necessary in the early game in a lot of levels, because otherwise the attack waves would just kill you before you''re able to build up, especially when you aren't using your starting army to defend.
@@redwings13400 Actually makes me one what the fewest number of peons/peasants a person could get away with it. :P
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Hehe. I’ll take that as a compliment :D
I defy you to the same in WC1 lol.
I've never actually played WC1 before! The closest I've come to playing it would be playing the first half of the warcraft 1 campaign in a warcraft 3 custom campaign. I've watched enough of WC1 to be extremely wary of it, as everything in that game looks awful to manage lol