Pretending to be AFK... 2.0 | Beating GrandMaster With Stupid Stuff.

[@Harstem]

The first edition for everyone who missed it! kzbin.info/www/bejne/bIvCmYBrrt6ar6c

[@user-fo1jy6dy3m]

All that BS and you lose? Deservedly so.

[@jeremyklein953]

I'm a little slow. Thanks for linking in the comments

[@Solrex_the_Sun_King]

What is this game called? I don’t think it’s Starcraft, but I don’t know what WoL stands for.

[@user-fo1jy6dy3m]

@@Solrex_the_Sun_King WoL= wings of liberty

[@ryokuhasu9699]

Funny enough I did this at a local LAN party last year, not as high level, but it was a fun troll for a cheap win.

[@ryedralisk8620]

you should give your "glhf" after they kill your first nexus.

[@ZC.Andrew]

LOL I love this idea!!!!

[@kaseyh4375]

Lol

[@GuRuGeorge03]

loooooooooool

[@SydusIsHere]

was thinking same thing when i watched the 1st match haha

[@franco2142]

NANI???

[@generic8891]

Harstem really out there critiquing the opponent's build while he's pretending to be AFK as he proxies his entire eco

[@duross101]

Opinions are like assholes brother man, everyone has one.

[@ethanmitchell8626]

I love how harstem gets way quieter as they scout his main to avoid being heard irl

[@marklowry4431]

This video: I can't believe people don't scout Any other video: Do I scout? No. Scouting is for losers.

[@marklowry4431]

If I were as good as you in SC2, I wouldn't scout a lot either. Just making the observation ;)

[@jacobfincher4014]

Dts woulda won it as he dropped his mules in ur main

[@judicatorhurayth1927]

You know

[@judicatorhurayth1927]

when the enemy has nothing to build. i will split up all my army and DEFEND THE FRICKING BASE🤣

[@BikoiFR]

Uzikoti don't play like all people lol

[@trisssssssss]

You should put in the chat “Harstem has rebuilt his base and is not being exposed haha”

[@Anudorini-Talah]

Gosh are you horrible.

[@robbuston9233]

"If I ever play this in a tournament I'll know how to do it" *opponent scouts, looks across stage at Harstem who is busy tapping away* "Huh, that's weird, did something go wrong with the lobby?"

[@ernoti]

Play from the floor so he/she doesn't see you and thinks you went to the bathroom or something, while looking around the stage for you and not playin' xD

[@Rio-un5jl]

The play is to pretend you are sleeping on your chair exactly as the enemy scout first comes in. To make it logical.

[@ToraoTakabe]

Imagine being the comentator of that game. You would have to explain the audience that Harstem decided to afk troll.

[@malenkas3]

@@ToraoTakabe ".. and now let's switch to our floor camera, where Harstem is staying in the fog of war"

[@You-ul8qw]

@@Rio-un5jl yeah hahaha play with one eye closed and only making very small movements with your hands

[@alleycatsphinx]

It’s like one of those jokes that takes 3 minutes to tell, and the punchline is a pun.

[@kivaswander5537]

Chris Birke lol

[@deemp6773]

So basically a Norm Macdonald joke

[@alleycatsphinx]

SmuggEmperor that’s like a C+ at least, right? There’s no guide how to do what he does - it’s fucking hard. Legit but not overly nice props is all.

[@deemp6773]

@@alleycatsphinx I like Norm Macdonald, my comment made it seem like I was bashing him.

[@alleycatsphinx]

SmuggEmperor I apologize for the misunderstanding, fellow hero.

[@AlexMercadoGo]

Harstem: Let’s pretend we’re AFK Also Harstem: I can’t believe he actually continued playing. What a terrible sport. 🤣

[@Jdietz43]

The first two opponents had the same tag so I like to think they met up later and were like: "You'll never believe this, I had a guy pretend to be AFK on me on ladder today." "WHAT!? ME TOO!"

[@Burger19985]

they were talking bout the strat on the forums i think

[@fulldisclosureiamamonster2786]

@@Burger19985 LINK PLS

[@EtanMarlin]

@@fulldisclosureiamamonster2786 too bad we didn't get a link 😔

[@adkawka]

I don’t know what is more funny: your laugh of situations (especially about recall on nightshade) or the main idea of the series.

[@kaz7720]

Pissed myself laughing when he grenaded the nexus

[@backbertiberti5155]

And then the probe recall after it lol

[@fmz4994]

yeah that was pretty good. also explaines why he gunned it down with 1 reep before. He just wanted this buildin to blow up to a g ol grenade. And it did awesomely

[@Sequence322]

Me too! It was so good

[@iamnoteric]

@@backbertiberti5155 wrong move. Sacrificing some probes would buy more time for a collossus rush. He would have gone scouting for a lone pylon had he not noticed the has not rebuilt base message not appearing

[@juniperfrost2096]

"I want to be very quiet" *mouse and keyboard clacking 8000 times in two seconds*

[@matt25675]

I lol’d when he talked about wanting to be quiet so the enemy doesn’t hear him being sneaky... so relatable

[@brockmays3409]

What is he even pressing? Like two of the eight thousand do anything hahaha

[@nialv22]

When they destroy your nexus you should immediately put a stop command on all the probes. That would be very confusing for them.

[@NeroBloodfire]

Yeah its a dead giveaway when the probes auto run to another nexus and you don't type has been defeated.

[@Isseki_Nicho]

this came into my recommendations and I don’t even play this game but I can tell this guy is bad ass

[@swankypant3639]

As someone who knows nothing about this game 18:30 is hilarious. “Ah good he doesn’t know I have my immortal on the way” *battle ensues* “Oh no he has *2* immortals impossible this is broken”

[@darlinn7195]

i also know nothing about this why am i here

[@raksori]

You should type "has left the game" to chat when they kill your nexus :D

[@BananaStand7]

that's exactly my first thought mate :D

[@slimbeatz4125]

Lmfao that’s such a shitbag move, I love it! Can’t say that hasn’t run thru my mind before lmfao

[@repit5014]

@@slimbeatz4125 I know I tried this with terran once, post some kind of error message lost connection to game server or sth at the start of the match, build a cc and float it off the map pretend to be afk, and wait for them to leave the game cause its bugged. Can't remember if someone actually left though.

[@Avenger222]

@@repit5014 That worked all the time in the beta, early WoL days, was fun times. People caught on pretty quick though.

[@delightXD]

Proxy 404 disconnecting

[@TeBThor87]

Imagine you play this in Gold League and you feel like 200 IQ HAS but your opponent will never figure it out because he plays a 2 base turtle without moving anywhere. :D

[@tni333]

"How is it possible to not know anything about your opponent at 4 minutes" he says while knowing nothing about his opponent 😂

[@FinetalPies]

iirc, the old video was the first one I saw from you. Been a fan ever since, this is an excellent throwback ggs

[@wodahSetinifni]

Love the content Harstem! My idea for a BGMWSS video: Everyone always tells me my problem is looking at my army and over microing it while all I need to do is macro. Even Vibe says this in his series that all the way up to Plat you just need to macro and a-move your opponents. I want you to test out if that's still true in GM! The challenge is never look at your army. When you are defending your natural you have to be looking at your main really focusing on that macro and upgrades. When you go attack your opponent just a-click his main while getting extra bases, macroing up etc. Good luck!

[@Harstem]

Let's try this next week.

[@abliviax]

@@Harstem Maybe, every army movement must be an F2, A-click

[@wodahSetinifni]

@@abliviax I think that's too difficult as a simple 2-pronged attack would just lose the game. I can imagine it's possible with 2 control groups, 1 for defending drops/etc, one for attacking and defending main army.

[@abliviax]

@@wodahSetinifni yeah, actually agree but couldn't edit my message. Should be all a-clicks though

[@Yorekani]

Basically, this boils down to issuing unit commands through the minimap, unless the units are probes or the commands are qeued up far in advance.

[@thenomeatathlete2570]

9:15 When you miss-micro the cough covering the fart, and the fart comes out first 😬

[@VirtualCheetah]

bruuh lmao

[@DarchrowTheEnigma]

I didnt even noticed he farted, if not *sharted* lmfaoooo ☠

it happens at 4:17 also hehehe

[@thenomeatathlete2570]

@ true hahaha

[@hansmatos9191]

XDDDDDD

[@severedbeliefs]

"Oh no we have to tell his family" Harstem is hilarious

[@missbelled6700]

4:05 *Harstem sees the marines entering his main* +50 APM *Harstem sees the boys entering his main* +100 APM

[@huntersowards3409]

This is the first time I've seen any gameplay and wow he hits a lot of keys. Is it even necessary?

[@huntersowards3409]

because I've only played or watched mid-level warcraft 3 gameplay and this just seems excessive.

[@missbelled6700]

@@huntersowards3409 Mostly EPM, yes. There is a lot to do in SC2 high-level play (just as in wc3 high-level play) Spamming to get the buildings down ASAP, efficient worker micro and rallying, camera locations, idle spam to check on production timers, keeping up with warp-ins, actual unit micro and rallying, etc. This first game at least was very calm compared to most pros, someone like grubby (to use a wc3 example) is one of those "300APM from the first second" players.

[@Searly]

14:40 that's when we notice harstem have a good taste of music.

[@yaboiyosef7640]

First time coming across one of your vids and I just wanna say you're actually super entertaining in your unique way

[@BananaStand7]

Harstem how don't you know how this build is done. Once they kill your main, you instantly pause the game and type " You have won the game"

[@0xbaadf00d]

I played team games as zerg with 2 of my friends who weren't that good. I would play Zerg and only build drones and bases, then donate resources for them to build actual units. It was fun.

[@wraithcraftgaming6891]

Bro I lost to this strat a few days ago. I died laughing when I found his army

[@jamesperez6785]

I typically tune in to harstem streams because of his humorous commentary during his gameplay...but this has to be one of the funniest things i've seen from him lmao

[@Harstem]

Press F in the chat for all the fools that fell for it.

[@christiandang8695]

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[@brickstacker6533]

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[@Shyguyyyyy]

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[@chumbogrosso5133]

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[@RossRadikSherman]

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[@Pence128]

FFE 2: electric boogaloo. More stuff beats less stuff but you need more money to buy more stuff. Start with 14 pylon, 17 nexus, 20 nexus. Use the first pylon, a gate, a forge and a cannon to wall the largest choke leading into the natural or third. Use a pylon, cannon and core to wall another. This is enough for most maps and you can have them almost completed by 3:00. On nightshade you need another pylon and cannon. On simulacrum you also need another gate.You'll need to cut some probes for those. If the stars align and you start chonoboosting when the -natural finishes- the walls are finished you can hit 66 probes by 5:00. If you're still alive by then it's just a matter of deciding what to spend it on.

[@ZC.Andrew]

I love how humble and badass you are. You can fuck with opponents and have a good time, at a pro level, and yet you know how to say "gg" and call it when that happens. I appreciate that!

[@fuba44]

Was hilarious, best one yet. Had me laughing my ass off!

[@countdracula2533]

Harstem: “How is it possible to not know anything about your opponent in 4 minutes” Also Harstem: knows nothing about his opponent in 4 minutes

[@Guerrilla705]

I laughed a little at "I can't believe these guys that don't scout at all" coming from Harstem haha. Love the content

[@UGoTDZeZ]

"I have good build order if i ever have to play this in a tournament". I would love to see him Fake AFK in a tournament.:D

[@BaufenBeast]

You should make more probes from the main base and hide them in the corner so they aren't seen with an initial scout. Recall them when you're ready.

[@terrinsnelgrove4005]

I have never laughed so hard watching starcraft, not even watching florencio. this was pure gold lol

[@RuinousDrow]

Lovin' this Pretending to be AFK series, Hilarious seeing the reactions from the opposing player :)

[@deianthedon]

"I always feel like I forget to breath" - when doing sneaky stuff , Harstem 2020

[@SeanofAllTrades]

You never do anything to take advantage of the fact that they have their entire army across the map attacking your main Nexus. You should be set up outside their main just as the Nexus goes down to do some economic damage and then fall back before their army gets back to their main to defend. That'd put you in the lead and you should be able to win easily. The way you're doing it they're surprised and then have a full army and no economic damage and then just keep playing as normal.

[@jamescook7206]

I was thinking this same thing. The moment the enemy team moved on his home base, he should have sent something, even if it's just a zealot to disrupt the enemy economy.

[@bobanagram6769]

dude what you just said is ridiculous. The counter to thors is heavy high templar drop harass into heavy probes and finally into an immortal dark templar combo. the hellions he could send across the map are basically obselete when you get to four base, because by then the disruptors have come off cooldown. Truly, truly amateur my friend...

[@leion800]

@@bobanagram6769 what kind of crack are you smoking?

[@casinoroyal93]

Bro he is just good at clicking. Even a brainded could have used this strat better. Why engage the army when you can just walk on the other side of the map and destroy all of their economy.

[@kurt-o0o]

Well he still has an advantage because it’s Protoss. This just guarantees him a safe early game.

[@kirilkirilov6241]

I love these silly strats. How about hallucination pressure? Fake warp prisms pulling attention, (mostly) fake zealot run-byes that still has a few zealots in it to do some damage but makes the opponent overreact, while your actual army hits elsewhere. That sort of thing. The idea is to make the opponent panic and not know which attack is real and which is not or how many units to invest in the defense.

[@danielgloyd4529]

I have done this a few years back as Terran and built a cc across the map loaded the scv and floated it to the corner. I had no intention of playing or winning I was just screwing around. The guy killed my main and after 5 minutes he left the game probably thinking there was a bug or something. I am not sure what they were thinking, but that was the easiest win I ever had.

[@sasbe1852]

I did this with an ally in 2v2 in the old days hback in WoL but not pretending afk. We wrote an error in the chat, killed one scv, load the rest up in the cc and flying in a corner, you can onlyreach with air and be real afk. Opponents left the game, after they found nothing.

[@boreduser12]

Would be fun to see the spike in blood pressure/heaetbeat/neural activity the moment the opponent realizes they were being trolled.

[@Cualquiercosa5049]

5:00 Terran: omae wa mou shindeiru. Protoss: ... Terran: Nani!?

[@glossary90]

That fact that Goody even gg-d amazes me :D What a good guy.

[@setroid8235]

Why no scouting? Scouts no natural, scouts no proxy, scouts main. "Are you you there?"

[@abliviax]

This video was so funny. I was wishing you would recall the probes, and then you listened and tried, but no chrono! lol

[@AKaktusA]

Very nice. I've got a new Challenge: Build a wall and try to split the map. The wall does not have to be runby thight, thats up to you. Only use expansions that are behind that wall and dont push out too far with your main army so you can allways retreat to the savety of shield batteries and cannons. The wall should cover all ramps and chokepoints of your "kingdom". Good luck ;)

[@JoshuaHockley]

Please keep doing these! They are so fun to watch!

[@christhomas412]

I like how not scouting is how to counter this build.. Giving so many lazy players a win! :(

[@pedrowerneck05]

Could you beat a GM after telling him exactly what is your plan at the beginning of the game? Also, the plan should be something kind of stupid. Curious to see how your opponents would react.

[@sylphsylph2118]

to answer as to why the bunker or the slow response is because they tought you had proxied them or cheesed them so they were cheking stuff also around

[@EC123z]

Someone being polite and pausing until you come back would ruin this so hard lmao

[@P_Petkov]

If one person is afk by the time it gets scouted it's already too late. The other person is minutes ahead.

[@supaTortoise]

This is so funny. I love the whispering. Comic genius

[@TheLoreGeek]

05:25 oh man the giggles. Such pure joy!

[@zen8092]

I just watched 30 mins of a game I’ve never heard of played for some reason lol

[@vidasbauzys9091]

Wiorsk try it.

[@paxconsciente3352]

you might find yourself doing alot of that, its very watchable because its so difficult

[@mundaney]

Wiorsk congrats on finding it. This is the best game.

[@lordyoseph53]

agreed. sc2 is practically the hardest game in the world. aside from sc1 of course.

[@paxconsciente3352]

@@lordyoseph53 fps games are getting better, im currently playin escape from tarkov which is really quite fun and challenging but yes bw+ sc2 are the most challenging, and rewarding games out there for sure

[@procon3080]

28:26 was harstem singing tuduk tuduk tum 😂 , yeah I'm an absolute fan now

[@vgetginas4736]

*LOOL love that random bollywood tuduk tuduk ta ra ra at **28:30** hahahah*

[@думатьиначе]

26:42 we indeed use « trick » from English with the same meaning but it also means « boner » in French, so kinda sounds funny « la trique du jour » 😂

[@Marcan78]

26:45 , WE don t say "the trick du jour" but "le truc du jour" YOU ARE AN AWESOME PLAYER AS I SEE. Love yours videos CONTINUE LIKE THAT !!!

[@lukedufaur5368]

28:29 Harstem rendition of Tunak Tunak Tun was the most unexpected thing in the whole video!

[@claimyourbrain6586]

Just before the Nexus dies in the 2nd game, you should chrono your expansion ;) Great series though. It's so funny to see their / your reactions to it, and that sneaky feel of it all haha.

[@Artesaani]

this pretending afk series is hilarious to watch

[@LeBeloy]

Funny to watch. What an idea, it must come from a disturbed mind :D still GG

[@kevlon_]

Goody still living the mech dream after all these years

[@sirmrdresqmd9200]

I'm still at around 11:00, and so far this looks like a great episode of "you can't scam a scammer!"

[@judicatorhurayth1927]

Me: uh? the enemy has nothing to build? my ideas: SPLIT THE ARMY AND DEFEND BEFORE WE GET REG IT

[@gerbenrampaart8042]

This is such a cool and fun challenge. You can just repeat these every month or so.

[@ginofoogle6944]

The first game went perfect up until you overextended into his bioball with one immortal and stalker and few zealots.. after killing your whole mineral line it was over from there on out.. fun game's tho!

[@TempGuest7]

hahaha wanting to be quiet when you're doing something sneaky, so good

[@NySuperFly989]

Lmao i swear when the reaper started attacking the nexus i said the same! "even better" xD

[@business_max]

This is the best series ever! I enjoy it so much. Please be so kind and make us a 3.0 version soon :)

[@ccrpalex2456]

As the base dies, a worker comes down sprays, "Yes I'm here"

[@A_Simple_Neurose]

I know basically nothing about SC2 but this was a very funny video and I'm probably going to watch more, good work!

[@Aguyfrom225]

I love Harstem. He even post games he loses. He will always be my favorite protoss.

[@BigBoyJudge]

i can't even process what your selecting or why as your playing its insane to me i only just got through playing the campaign and im not good enough to play the multiplayer but thats just cuz i know everyone else still playing it was and still is dedicated to mastering the game. bravo to you sir i am impressed

[@christiandang8695]

AHAHAHA what a treasure. Thank you so much for the laughs.

[@kai45654]

"hurt me daddy" I'm cying KAJFHDKLJ

[@jasonjjj27]

I'm in gold, not nearly as good as you, but I always scout and 95% of the time the other guy scouts too. It's strange to see that no one was scouting. Especially in grand masters

[@Baleur]

New to your channel. I really enjoyed watching AlphaStar finally do a face reveal. Your strategies are beyond human.

[@kivaswander5537]

Wow man you have great comedic timing

[@seancurtis7359]

to improve this build you can build 5 probes in beginning but hide the extra 2 in your main and recall them to your expo

[@sandrock605]

"I am going to recall my probes" Lets probes die.

[@toxicphreak7456]

When it sounds like you’re typing an essay instead of playing a game…. Way too advanced for me 😂

[@stargheist]

Listening to this man go off on his keyboard and mouse while playing this is my favorite part

[@dantefox6556]

I don’t know why KZbin recommended me this video, but I’m happy it did

[@Hurtone]

Yeay, Harstem doing my build!! Not that I believe he got it from me unless he watched PiG and ICYFAR :)

[@Harstem]

I did get it from PiG and ICYFAR

[@lParoXismel]

afk strat in a tournement this guy is a genius

[@1991mren]

Best one yet. The anticipation was great

[@seanross8534]

All units and hotkeys set for an army of EVERYTHING before you go aggressive. You can't be countered if you have all the counters! Would love to see it because there is no way I could micro that...

[@sufsak]

Love the channel. How about the following challenge: "Slow and steady wins the race" You are only allowed to build a new Nexus every 5 min. Your supply is limited to 50 for every Nexus you have.

[@calebtibai2545]

him: *want to be quiet* also him: click click click!!!!

[@ands1983]

"How is it not possible to know what your opponent is up to after 4 minutes" Well...you can answer that?

[@blueclownman312]

I love your videos and just watched one of your most recent videos..... WTF?? this got half a million views!?!?! congrats my guy. I would still like to see you be a tournament winning player rather than a youtuber, but you have a shot at both. keep up the work on one side or the other.

[@StevenCasteelYT]

Nice content. Enjoyed the video.

[@BigChungusthe3rd]

Very entertaining xD glad I found this channel

[@lupusprobitas]

In game 1 the way he killed your starting nexus was hilarious. He acted like it was hiding an armed nuke :-)

[@Roland7Spajky7]

watching it 3 or 4 years later and its still golden HAHAHAH