Mass Recall (Starcraft 1 in SC2!) UED Campaign - Part 1

[@MrGeorgeFlorcus]

I really like the way the UED presents itself as this overwhelmingly large threat compared to all of the factions in SC1. They are nobody's friends, they are not here to negotiate or to sign treaties, they are here to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and they manage to put the entire Koprulu sector on its back foot in doing so. In a way, they almost feel more like a hostile, alien race than the Protoss do.

[@southpawdevelopment]

So fun fact: the song in the background of that cutscene is ‘Aria’, created specially for broodwar, and it’s lyrics are essentially embellishments on the old Latin saying “moritūrī tē salūtant”, or “Those who are about to die salute you”

[@tezereth]

Based soundtrack

[@RoyalFusilier]

Extremely excited for this one. Obviously the Brood War opening cinematic is one of the best in the entire series. I also agree that the Mass Recall team really put their best foot forward with the new in-engine cutscenes. In this first mission alone, we have the UED landing their Command Center on the bodies, and introducing Duran by showing him executing a line of prisoners. Neither of those were in the original in any fashion, and yet both feel like perfect extensions of the original intent of the devs.

[@BrownsheepBF]

9:10 "press any key to continue" Grant: *pushes button* Also Grant: "you gotta be a speed reader for that quote.

[@imnotreallygoodatanything6084]

which ones the any key?

[@zhenweilai799]

clearly Grant is a not a Marine

[@sintanan469]

@@zhenweilai799 Cleary. Didn't you listen to the introduction? Grant is a UED captain.

[@justincase2053]

I was really disappointed that the UED never showed up in Starcraft II. I figured that they would. The UED expeditionary fleet wasn't their entire navy, and they had just as much time to rebuild between the games as everyone else.

[@micuu1]

I don't think SC2 needed them in the story. I always assumed they were being saved for Starcraft 3, not that that is ever going to happen now

[@sintanan469]

Kinda glad they didn't show up. Starcraft 2's story was a shit show compared to SC1 lore as Blizzard kept having to bend to the Activision executives.

[@jesusbarrera6916]

@@sintanan469 you guys need to stop pretending ACTIVISION was the only one at fault...

[@CrazyJabberwock]

@@sintanan469 What did Activision have to do with the writers just clearly not being on the same level they used to be?

[@durshurrikun150]

@@sintanan469 Press X to doubt

[@Veloxyll]

It's so cool that they introduce all these minor characters for each mission in the UED campaign. Really fleshes out the world. It's a shame Duran never shows up again

[@clanmclaren6647]

He does in Heart of the Swarm, the shapeshifter Kerrigan fights in that one temple. Then shows up again in LotV as a thing stuck to a door that Stukov kills.

[@pablojuarez8430]

@@clanmclaren6647 the original comment its sarcasm, Samir Duran alias Emil Narud is a major character on SC 1 and SC2

[@Techhunter_Talon]

12:00 I'm sure he'll never become a generic mustache twirling villain who merely reverses the spelling of his name as though he's the cleverest person in the universe.

[@ponysrule101]

To be fair he fooled me until now so clearly it’s not entirely pointless

[@Chick3nluvver]

guy must have been hungry like the wolf

[@eadbert1935]

"where's the air support?" *points upward* "i guess that one's on me"

[@SylvisNuvara]

"damn, maybe i should look into Occular Implants..."

[@Wrenling]

9:46: clearly the UED was just thinking of all the missions where the Koprulu Terrans placed their command center away from the mineral lines and just assumed there must be some good reason for doing that out there. After all, if both the Confederacy and the Dominion think it's necessary...

[@durshurrikun150]

The UED doesn't understand logistics very well.

[@Kazaki000]

"...be reminded that if we fail in our mission here, not one of us will be going home." ohhh DuGalle, Kerrigan will see to it that those words are true to the end.

[@TheHalogen131]

This alongside Amerigo and the cutscene after Brothers in Arms are my favourite StarCraft cinematics. 1:51 this guy got jumped at by a zergling, disemboweled by it and then boiled in his combat armour while still alive. That is brutal and I love it.

[@john.darksoul]

Hey Giant Grant, there's a custom campaign currently in development called UED: First Light. It features new units, characters and seems to have a good overall quality judging by the existing information. Can we hope to see your playthrough when it releases?

[@robertwaimer9863]

I've seen the trailer, and it's probably the most promising custom campaign I've ever seen. I would love to see Grant play it as well when it comes out.

[@mullerpotgieter]

I'll admit the unit assets look like they come from a CnC game, rather than Starcraft, it does look incredibly promising

[@UM96lol]

'Probably yes, but the project is so ambitious that it might never release' - Grant, something along those lines.

[@Viperclarkx01]

We need Grant to play it. It looks so legit. And it releases so soon!!!

[@comentnine1574]

It’s actually a remake of a SC1 custom campaign called Legacy of the Confederation, same sort of concept from what I’ve seen but due to time the creators decided to change the name to UED first light when making a SC2 version of the campaign.

[@dimbasz]

2:09 Man how much I miss gauss rifle sfx from the OG Starcraft. I pick it over SC II anytime. The only effect I miss even more - Siege tank's Shock cannon. This is the most intimidating sound in the whole SC universe to me.

[@SuperBleblabla]

20:01 that tank was also having a difficult time with identifying what a ramp is

[@bronzefather5426]

I echo the UED campaign is the best one in all of Starcraft, but I never played it; I look forward to this section of the playthru. Also, after all these years, *that cinematic* continues to give me chills, just like Mengsk's speech at the end of the Terran campaign.

[@offthedeepend3996]

I always had a soft spot for the Zerg campaigns. The Zerg in game and in lore in their campaigns curbstomp all of their enemies.

[@MomirViggwilv]

11:35 I don't know if it was intentional or not, but I love how the half of Stukov's face that gets infested by the Zerg is in shadow in this cinematic. Very ominous.

[@merrja]

I love the BW opening cinematic. When I was younger I would watch it nearly every time I opened StarCraft - it blew me away with how incredibly photorealistic is was at the time.

[@FiftyStates5]

Except how bugeyed the marine is, lol

[@tankiesgotohell1399]

this is my favorite campaign, so hyped for this!

[@onnol917]

UED campaign vs sc2 WOL Such a hard choice

[@valoskii8773]

@@onnol917 ued every time

[@onnol917]

@@valoskii8773 yeah atmosphere is out of this world. Ending cinematic is the best ever

[@TheHappy115]

You only had 89% completion for the Protoss Original Campaign because the game took some it as a loan so when you finished the Broodwar Protoss Campaign, it repaid the missing 11% with an additional 1% as interest.

[@ViridianVictoria]

Still owes him for the % on the Terran campaign though.

[@Alexgaby15Channel]

Jokes aside, you might be right. It's possible one of the Vanilla Protoss mission is counted towards the Brood War Protoss percentage and because both of them get rounded up you get to a total of 201%. It's possible for the Terran and UED campaigns to be something similar.

[@hadarc01]

As a kid(about 6yo) I have played only broodwar on a cracked copy. The base game was damaged somehow and was not available. Anyways, this mission was one of the few 6yo me could beat and I have enjoyed it greatly. The way you beat it is: you build up 40+ siegetanks, you slowpush, you vaporize anything and everything. You do not take alternate routes, thats not wide enough and is a noobtrap. On later missions where the ai gets air units my strat did not work tho and sadly I will never know why but Im sure there is no correlation.

[@alexwong3365]

10:50 not sure if Duran's forces just executed some dominion soldiers or the real resistance force. Either way, that's a cool little detail.

[@Bliss467]

he would have to lead a real resistance force. i don't think he'd be capable of keeping up the ruse with a bunch of idiot terrans.

[@Weigazod]

I remember bursting the front of that base back when I didn't know I was supposed to use the back door. Thing was pretty much WW2 stuff with the siege tank as artillery while the marines as infantry try to secure the bridgehead for the tank to siege up. Definitely a fun mission.

[@Kilmori]

The first time I played this mission, I had no idea you were supposed to sneak behind the back. I actually busted the damn front. It was difficult, but I managed it by tedious leapfrogging. Don't know how I ever afforded it with 1 gas.

[@amplesstratleholm7609]

It's really slow, but possible with 12 or so tanks, multiple ComSat stations and a flying building for spotting. Duran's gas has around 8k after all (though gathering is slow).

[@mullerpotgieter]

If memory serves, you can infinitely mine gas in og starcraft. So just waiting 2 hours could still fund you

[@collindwebb]

Yeah. I tried this for fun once. It does work but is slow. I think I had marines guarding leapfrogging tanks and just 2 comstat. I have also found Mass Recall harder on some missions, so that could be an issue here.

[@estellebright2579]

It is totally doable with front line assault, just leapfrogging tanks like others mention. Not easy, but not impossible. Do need to have at least 8 tanks before moving out though.

[@BoaPython]

The "Bwoo-oop" Editing at 5:23 absolutely cracks me up 😂

[@Blazinflea]

Wow this Samir Duran seems like an interesting character. Just noticed his name is Narud backwards. Wow clever writing at its finest.

[@ominousspecter9623]

Yeah, can't believe I never noticed. 😭

[@MichelCarajo]

Mandatory comment saying I love this playthrough and thank you so much for all the content you provide.

[@momom6197]

Thumbs up for including the best cinematic of its time! I'm in love with this intro! As a kid, it's what taught me that war was hell.

[@Owlr4ider]

I love how from the opening cinematic we're told we're not actually playing as the good guys. After all DuGalle and Stukov are discussing unleashing the Zerg onto humans, and of course abandoning the colony to die by the hands of the Zerg despite having ample firepower to support them if they wanted to. Funny how in all 3 Broodwar campaigns you play as the bad guys. The Protoss indivertibly so due to being manipulated by Kerrigan, the Terran as I just said and as Kerrigan, well she's the Queen Bitch of the Universe as she herself put it, you know back when Blizzard could actually use such language...

[@jarynn8156]

The Protoss ultimately did what Kerrigan wanted, but as Artanis pointed out during the campaign, its not like they had a choice. Whether it helped Kerrigan's plans or not, it was still their only way to victory.

[@Rannos22]

that brood war opening cinematic gets me every time I think it and the kerrigan speech one at the end are the best in all of star craft

[@luckybuns7628]

That transition from Remastered to Mass Recall is amazing! I loved that :D

[@JayborinoPlays]

Project Black Flag begins!

[@niteman555]

That cinematic has big Aliens smartgun energy

[@Evan-mt7bc]

I think the extra little doodads and mini cutscenes in the UED campaign are the best in Mass Recall, I think the best overall one is the opening of the final mission in all of Brood War but this one is consistently the best and has the most good ones.

[@zaxtonhong3958]

Grant won the last mission twice, so he had to play the starting campaign cinematic twice

[@KhasAdun1990]

Probably the coolest video game cinematic I've ever seen.

[@lixnix2018]

I remember it one of the first cinematic I really remember ( Starcraft was my first computer game I bought from my own money) I love Starcraft 1 You can bust the base but not fast build a tank line and scan (took me over an hour (tank marine scan)) without recruiting Duran.

[@TheTurtleOfDarkness]

That sound effect you made to transition from Starcraft one to recall got me so hard.

[@Acrysalis]

God, that brood war cinematic was so good. It still is so good. Seeing it again makes me feel a bit sad though

[@elonstruths1475]

I love this cinematic. It's my favorite cinematic of any campaign.

[@Avyernan]

What timing, i literally caught up on your Mass Recall series like 10 minutes ago.

[@rock1145]

I think this proves that Terran has the best cinematics in Starcraft 1. Mengsk's speech in Rebel Yell, The Amerigo, this, the UED ending, and DuGalle's half of the ending cinematic. Tassadar blowing up the Overmind is the only cinematic to come close. EDIT: Like another commenter said, the in engine cutscenes are good as well, and the UED has some great ones. The one at the end of Emperor's Fall stands out to me.

[@taldarim807]

dude is obsessed with all of it. this obsessions is good for all i think

[@demonhunter2282]

when i heard Donny Vermilon getting second in popularity the laughter caused me to go into coughing fit. Worth it

[@momom6197]

The lyrics of the aria are in French: "Les soldats reviendront, reviendront victorieux ! Donnez tout pour l'honneur !" Which can be translated to: "The soldiers will come back, they will be victorious! Give it all for honor!"

[@TheDinofou]

on est d'accord que DeGalle c'est De Gaule ?

[@demilung]

First time me and my brother played this mission as kids, we stayed on that minerals only base, making marines and vultures until the enemy mined out. We tried to yo break the enemy head on several times, even landing a factory north of the main base to attack from a weird angle with vultures. And then we found Duran by accident. Though really it just was my brother, I was cheering him on.

[@BullYo12]

That cut after watching the intro cinematic was amazing. I am in awe if your editing skills

[@theshambler6814]

The secret to breaking the base from the front is a slow creep with mass siege tank, dragging out the defenders and only moving when you force them to unsiege some of their own tanks (which they will eventually just throw at you). Once you break through the first wall it actually falls pretty easily.

[@luckylarry71]

Having Duran rock on stims, with that flipped down bi-pod on his rifle, along with the fact that he seemingly waited for the Directorate forces to arrive before he ordered his men to execute those poor Dominion fools for show, makes it more beliveable that Stukov was convinced to enlist him as an auxilary for the UED.

[@yutuvefan4ever]

I can see why Donny Vermillion is very popular, the way he has an extremely biased speech pattern makes him a hilarious and fun character xD

[@Keirfire]

Best part of the brood war intro is watching the lightshow on Grant XD

[@Raizan-IO]

Did no one else notice the command center was off position because it decided to land on 2 marines? That was a nice touch to explain the quirky position on SC1 by MR team.

[@Kerberus262]

The transition at 5:22 got a hearty laugh out of me!

[@divine1448]

5:22 is pure art

[@Znwarp]

I remember trying to bust through the front of that base on my first play through. The ground was buried under vulture debris.

[@mcdog1117]

Leggo GGG! Brood War Terran and Zerg easily the campaigns! Hope you get to feeling better if you aren't already brother.

[@seven2864]

Dude, you are the Best, i was so sad you didn't watch BW opening cinematic, but you made it even better! As I said, you are the Grantest of all Grants

[@JinFreeks]

@19:19 - Giant Grant finds the Giant Ramp. My day is complete.

[@knpark2025]

Boxer would do some crazy things time to time. He's normally famous for mastering the Vietnam War style TvZ dropship spams but if you search deep enough there is a clip where he micros sc1 marines and dodge lurker spikes.

[@CongaYT]

It always felt kind of weird that very high ranking UED individuals casually let a stranger they've never known of before into their ranks, even weirder that they let them into their meetings.

[@ulfjohnsen6203]

I assume Duran is using psyonics to affect Gerard

[@AC3handle]

"Yeeees. YES, I am PRE PARED to go...ALL DE WAY with this. My GOOD and DEAR friend..."

[@TheDinofou]

Degall is based on De Gaule who was a very important general that lead the resistance, negociated with the brit and later became president. Seeing him in starcraft is... unsettling

[@SquaredSmith]

"We do not have the tools required to bust this nut" - Alternate Universe Grant

[@DarkinPunk]

I know it's been said on the cutscene for when Fenix dies at the battle of Antioch, but imagine that UED cutscene redone in SC2 like New Gettysburg was.

[@HellecticMojo]

Every time I play Demoman in TF2 with festive grenade launchers I think of the marine from this cinematic rocking back and forth after one shoting two zerglings

[@davidburnett5049]

Good vid. Nice humor here and there. Your eye got all goofy when the blue? Green? the whatever started filtering out your left eyelid. Good times.

[@MrNicoJac]

I once got so sick of the pathing that I decided to break down the front entrance instead. Took me *one hour and twenty minutes* of money cheats and sending endless waves of marines in (each wave being 10 control groups of 12 units, haha). Most of the map was covered in Barracks to max out quicker by the time I finally wore them down, lol

[@MyNamesJeff493]

Oh yeah. Time for probably the best Starcraft 1 campaign. Also, 5:21 good transition Also also, 23:07 seems your camera decided it's break time a little early ;P

[@omegavulture8379]

This Stukov guy seems to be twice the man the rest of us are.

[@asddasdasdasdadsa]

Samir Duran desceves everybody and than goes undercover by reversing his name

[@MrHikagemono]

Remember as a youngster, sitting on that mission for ages, trying to bust the front, and i actually got it to happen ONCE, but that was because the defenders basically slaughtered themselves with siege tank splash, more than they did slaughter me... That, of course, was in the actual SC1:BW tho, so in recall, i suspect it to be even more impossible.

[@trndrd]

Duran being Narud is as much of a spoiler as Alucard being Dracula in Hellsing.

[@mihalypeti]

Eyy lets go. Love this series. Hope youre doing well GGG

[@LordChip]

Busting the front is pretty easy in the original Brood War. Siege Tanks crawling forward in siege mode with marines to back them up and flying barracks for scouting.

[@JessWLStuart]

They should have had Russian like music for Terran when playing as the UED.

[@Rachnee-san]

UED is great. I love him

[@wilkatis]

"Busting the front is basically impossible" *Me as a kid playing SC in russian without speaking russian or english not realising there is a backdoor:* 2 teams of 12x siedge tanks covering each other, brrrrrt go the canons through the front gate. There may or may not have been a goliath team for AA, don't remember

[@jackcoleman5955]

Final CC: “I’ll poke it and pull back.” or…”I’ll stim and kill it outright.” Dominion DGAF…

[@Krasioletto]

Hey Grant, I'm relativly new at this channel. Just wanted to say, that I realy do enjoy your content and hope there is coming much more of the strange campaign stuff like real-scale or legacy of the taldarim. So to proof myself a real StarCrafter, here some random facts about Starcraft, and some of the voice-acting out of germany. Many players don't know, that cklicking every unit a couple times, they say somethig different than the standard quotes. As an example, in the mission in wich you're playig artanis for the first time, he's saying, that Starcraft isn't Warcraft in Space. In the german version of this game, Jimmy isn't just the voice-actor for himself, but for many more chars. In SC1 he's talking as Jimmy, the marine, the wraith and Tassadar. The same voice-actor, named Kai Taschner, is synchronizing Rick from Rick and Morty. Got me a littlebit confused as I heard Jimmy burping and shittalking. That's it for my first comment on youre channel. I apoligize for my terrrible english, as I said I'm from germany, this language isn't the most popular in this country. Thx for your nice content and have a nice day. Looking forward to tomorrows Brutal+ :)

[@cancerguy5435]

Ah yes, Duran, the legendary Michael Jackson guy.

[@anonnymousperson]

Grant, you are correct in your opinion on the Dylarian Shipyards

[@Sound_Tech]

Hell yeah! My boy, Stukov

[@killerzer0x74]

This is easily my favorite campaign for brood war from a story standpoint [and possibly all of Starcraft] and I won’t spoil why but it gets really tragic

[@MrGeorgeFlorcus]

UED campaign also has the best accents in the series; from Stukov's Russian, to Dugalle's French, to Duran's... I don't know, but it sounds lovely

[@CsabaGamings]

This will be a blast to watch.

[@skeptic_lemon]

I think I actually busted the front of the dominion base once in brood war. I went full mech with some marines for support, and it took me a lot of time and a lot of units but it wasn't particularly hard, it's just that I'm horrible at this game and I lost a lot of units to spider mines. And siege tanks. And firebats. And everything else they had.

[@bogdandamaschin9381]

In brrod war when I was a child, because I never liked the fact that the backway had high ground next to it, I busted the front. Very slowly, lots of tanks, advance line by line, scans and goliaths to support

[@alexandrdmitrievich550]

Bro, in vanilla brood war you can easily take the base North of your start location and bust through the main entrance with siege tanks, goliats, 3 comsats and a bit of patience. And knowing that the chokes are mined... I always do it this way bcs it makes me feel better....

[@y2kplus9]

One of my favorite things to do on this mission when I'm just screwing around is to use cheats for tons of money, then max out on marines and send them in a huge wave and see how many waves until I crack it. Lol, let's just say I made the Normandy landings look like a tea party. XD

[@MrStanDoesStuff]

Hey Grand, the double victory happend to me to on the mission were you need to get tassadar and 2 zealots to a point. i mannaged to trigger the victory 3 times resulting in 125% winrate! Have a good day

[@RonnocFroop]

I don't know why, but I always found this to be the hardest mission in all of SC1. Every time I play it there's like a 70% chance I'll have to reset before even reaching Duran, even now while working my way through SC2 on Brutal.

[@skrv8588]

Duran Duran, and I ran. I ran so far away. I just ran. I couldn't get away.

[@Niyucuatro]

"crack this area" would have been a really weird phrase, yes.

[@nesurame]

Samir Duran is my favourite sc1 character, his character throughout brood war is incredible, and then his arc mysteriously ends and isn't ever followed by the least interesting possible version of that character archetype

[@mirado8738]

Is noone going to mention, that he watched "the tapes" a hundred times? :D I just love older Sci Fi.

[@samueljohnson5405]

Glad your back seems to be doing better. No mention of it, at least.

[@TheKsalad]

Glory to the UED, glory to Earth!

[@dwlang001]

Apocalypse now is a great film.

[@stylesrj]

21:50 Probably one of Stone's trucks, right?

[@APZachariah]

Full credit for saying anything during the cutscene.

[@jur2159]

I love the UED