no i have not tried to beat my record recently, i did get notified that my record did get beaten. As for your question about 4th crystal, I just let it be, as the crystals themselves have dot, and without sufficient amount of mutas, i'd risk losing them all without even destroying the crystals. but then again, I never actually tried doing that. Maybe i will watch the one that beat my record and learn from there.

what explanation do you need? the speedrun itself is, pretty self explanatory. If you are trying to just finish the mission you absolutely are not required to do it in a speed run style. If you're trying to replicate exactly what I've done to attempt the speedrun, I could explain further, but then the whole game is pretty self explanatory. Spread creep, macro hard, abuse teleport. You can just ask me what's going on and I can give you brief explanations.

@@iILuZioN oh sorry i didn't explain myself well : when i say "comments on what's going on" i was referring to the timing of things, namingly the timing of spire upgrades, when to build drones and how many and especially when to produce mutas (i admit even at 0.5x speed i still struggle to follow, your apm must be insane). i say this because i wanted to beat this mission without suffering too much and as quickly as possible since it's really not enjoyable for me, although i'm new to SC but this mission is on a whole other level of "let'em players suffer". I tried several times and very often got obliberated in a matter of minutes. By following your steps i'm able to complete it in just 11 minute on the 5th try ( massive thanks to you, hats off ); but i'm late on EVERY crystal except the first 2 so when i arrive for the rest 5 crystals i got decimated by those defensive stone things each time and i'm mad about it lol maybe i don't make any sense by making a game such a big deal. i guess i'm just a stubborn idiot XD

​@@ritsukitogawa8267 no worries, and I get it. look I've played starcraft franchise for at least good 10+ years, so a lot of things are almost second nature for me. Nothing wrong with taking a game seriously, some people are competitive by nature. I mean if you really think about it, speed-running is essentially the end-all of try hard lol. Since you've already completed the mission, it doesn't seem necessary that I should explain what I did. But the gist of it is creating economy upgrade keep making muta spread creep be attentive with kerrigan for defense/offense. Glad I was of help to you for your endeavor. have fun and take it easy.

@@iILuZioN thanks; yeah i must've been competitive for no reason there by myself lol don't even know why i'm like this in a game but when things ain't perfect i'm pissed XD was trying to copy your exact steps but i guess my micro is too weak anyway, can't manage 3 bases and spread creep in 2 directions at the same time while producing n controlling an army :) anyway your speedrun is of huge help n i'm glad i could keep up at 50% of your tactics :) cheers

if you give me exact instance (time) to which unit im microing, then I'd be happy to tell you what I know about it. off of the top of my head, mutalisk is the only unit that I'd be giving commands in the middle of attack, but that's for different reason

@@iILuZioN thank you. That's a what I was seeing. Like at 16:30

@@guardianv5846 so 2 reasons. first i need the mutas to be always moving at full speed - muta is very short range unit (3) while an un-upgraded marine is 4, upgraded is 5, inside bunker is +1, turret is 7, etc, which means if I just let them attack, they slow down to a stop during attack, and must start moving again from stopped speed (which takes a good 1 second to ramp up) reason 2 is to synchronize the flock's attacks. all starcraft unit have some rng that causes randomness in their attack speed - if you let any two same unit attack each other, you'll notice sometimes a unit fires quicker or slower. this is pretty much impossible to micro properly with 11 mutas in a group all having different attack speeds. so it's just better to have them all attack at once, to a prority target all at once (+1 x 11 mutas can 2 shot a turret), then it is to consistently try to make all 11 mutas fire at their fastest rate - which theoretically is better, but isnt humanly possible (if you see some sc ai, they can pull it off with 2k apm lol)

@@iILuZioN thanks again. I've played hours and hours but never new a bunker have increased range. Is there something/somewhere to learn that kind of information?

@@guardianv5846 hmm. I mean these are just minute information that, for the most part only have niche applications. ranged marines inside bunker can outrange ranged goons and lurkers, but, no real other uses id say. ive gained a lot of the knowledge i have watching pro players play in korea, and lots of playing.

sc is pretty easy game even on brutal, so ye quiet right

it's called input overlay, i used obs, and this is an obs plugin.

Also, couldnt tell. Did you get 2/2 or 3/3 for hydras?

perhaps might be worth adding on your final macro hatches a lil earlier too

NEVERMIND! Just saw your update! I'll post suggestions under that vid :)

it is because of 2 reasons. First, i have parasited them - grants me vision of their whereabouts so if I need to move my units for defense I'll know ahead. Second, if I attack them but don't kill them, they need to spend time being repaired. This means less frequent dropping. eventually it is ideal to kill them as im about to commence the attack to make terran unable to send units from the second base.

​@@iILuZioN Second question! In mission 7 (The culling), you are attacked by a significantly fewer amount of hydras than I am in my practice runs. Is there some kind of AI manipulation or unit positioning/timing that lowers the amount of units they try and reinforce with? I've done a lot of work on this mission but seem to get overrun every once in a while. I'm struggling to even get within a minute of your time for this mission (PB is low 13 minutes right now). On another note, this run is disgustingly good. Your muta control on mission 3 is very impressive and overall army control is constantly saving you time. My PB is around 1:25 right now so I'm looking to get a bit closer to this run.

@@7thAce I just saw this right now, sorry for late reply. For mission 7, I'm assuming the ai trying to defend base at 7. As you can see I just use mutas to clear out sunkens-- and any hydras that try to approach to defend I kill them first. After you're done wiping most of them that are already in base, there's maybe about 4~5 waves of 1~2 hydras that approach to defend... that's all I know, and that's always how it was for me so I'm not sure what could be the difference between your run and my run. Maybe how fast you're wiping out the base at 7 causing reinforcements to arrive before sunkens are killed? That's the only thing that I can think of. I've done maybe 200 runs before I got this one so, it is definetly a grind haha. I... am kinda perfectionist so if I don't like something I'll immediately forfeit the run, which resulted in the first 3 missions to be near perfect, and as the run progresses, the run becomes less honed haha. looking back, I think of more ways to improve the later missions. Maybe I'll get around to it someday. Thanks for watching and good luck on your run!

@@iILuZioN I started wiping out the base a bit faster by just sacrificing a hydra to the sunken while attacking with all 8. Since that allows the hydras to move in earlier to clean out the base, the AI doesn't reinforce with hydras as much (they don't have overlord speed and just don't send as much). It does seem to be a speed thing. I've beaten your gold times on Among the Ruins, Eye for an Eye, and Agent of the Swarm and I'm not nearly as practiced in both skill and run number (I've done maybe 10 runs?). The risky strat in the 8th mission can save nearly 2.5 minutes, and Among the Ruins seems to have an easy build that wins faster. I could see your time coming down another 3 minutes or so without too much stretching. Would be really interesting to see some new runs (I'd definitely watch)!

the original starcraft does not have a difficulty setting unfortunately.

@@iILuZioN i think it had something similar

@@codmac-n-cheese_boi4782 afaik there isnt. there may have been some people extracting the campign files to artificially change ai parameters, but as an official campaign there isnt a difficulty setting.