StarCraft 1 - Full Protoss Campaign Gameplay & Story (Walkthrough / Longplay / Speedrun)

[@hexkwondo]

In the lore, the cerebrate that was killed in this campaign was actually the cerebrate the player character controlled in the zerg campaign.

[@stoywarshockofficial9984]

Wow I never realized that

[@crackshack2]

Lp

[@warrioroflight6872]

How can that be? The purple cerebrate of the Jorgamund brood was protecting the Overmind along with Daggoth and wasn't one of the ones the protoss killed earlier. When the Overmind was killed, both cerebrates returned to Char and began the plan to create a new Overmind but the purple one was then taken by Kerrigen to be her general.

[@JohnnyCasey]

@@warrioroflight6872 It's probably the same lore from one of the novels about SC universe that puts Artanis as the Executor of the original Protoss campaign --- which doesn't make any sense at all, but has been selected as a lore for SC2 anyway.

[@tomplays4732]

Do you mean zasz?

[@resistancerat]

Fenix: "I hunger for battle" Raynor: "This is Jimmy...."

[@TheRogueminator]

Humans are so grounded compared to Protoss :)

[@donniebrasco1364]

@@TheRogueminator no they're not. They smoke too much crack. Humans on social media are even worse. Social Media is a fake lie. The protoss is what I aspire to be like.

[@donniebrasco1364]

Raynor sounds so scared to fight while the grounded Fenix doesn't fear death or fighting. Terrans are so ungrounded and stupid.

[@tudorrenegade7052]

Love the combination of the full story with speedrun.

[@rahulshah1408]

56 seconds to complete the mission I am currently on. Jeez.

[@cranapple3367]

"Not all of us may survive the coming conflict" "Tassadar, Raynor, and Zeratul must survive"

[@eu29lex16]

It's probably just a warning that the battle will be very hard. But yeah, tassadar didn't really survive.

[@Spectans1]

The best RTS ever made.

[@tht14t42]

I love how protoss's and the humans are working together to defeat the swarm

[@brianmayabella5992]

after Char, only a rugged band of Raynor left. they were driven out of Char

[@DWiens421]

Tassadar's complete meltdown after Mission 7: Homeland is very funny given you only destroyed a single unit and single building (52:18).

[@Salted_Fysh]

It's even funnier if you consider how many more Protoss had to die to free Tassadar than if he hadn't surrendered on the verge of victory.

[@kaledivh]

Not to mention the unit he killed is literally just a machine, so no lives lost in it's destruction.

[@eu29lex16]

@@Salted_Fysh yeah, his surrender was pointless, they continued to battle even after he surrendered. I mean, safe for his life he has a greater purpose and not tmention that why would have never spared him. So he basically also renounced on trying to save aiur by this surrender.

[@breathstealer5486]

I laughed a bit, my first thought was oh do you start with enough troops to kill the base? Nope just clearing the objective by any means necessary

[@akeyrtainment8507]

It took me for a while that Aldaris is kinda arse in 1st game & realized his mistake in brood war. Protoss is my fav race in StarCraft franchise!

[@kylethomas9130]

When I first played Starcraft, I didn't care for expansive storytelling, I just wanted to play the Protoss. Campaign was still very tutorial in the beginning, so I still made it through with enough knowledge passed on from playing WC2. But I look back at all the characters who've had development with the first two campaigns, and my first playthrough they were just kinda there.

[@doc6]

i just beat the original campaign, thank you for the walkthrough, i struggled with the protoss, your strategy is the fastest and the best to beat every mission

[@ricardocasimiro6424]

this game is totally magic, I've been listening to this for months looking at the stars, the result was that I invented a new type of thruster for low orbit satellites, no kidding, I'm preparing a paper

[@gearingisez]

Games like StarCraft are very rare, but for a reason. I haven't seen as good game as this since 1998.

[@Patrick-qj8qv]

I had a big tug of war on mission 7 I tried to follow the ign strat with 6 shuttles of archons trying to maneuver south then east. Your method was not only easier but it was the only way I won that mission. It makes you think about what they were thinking when they put you with overwhelming odds. There’s no way you can out economize that many protoss set with arbiters, carriers, and multiple death squads (reavers and infantry). Thank you!!!!

[@nguyenhaiduong9400]

Man, i took the base up north and flushed them down with gateway units. Brutal game, took me 30 mins because once i hit one base, the other bases kept pouring in reinforcements, i had to launch multiple attacks

[@Ramusculus]

Tech up to archons quickly, build a bunch of those, scouts, and dragoons, and clear the red base. Then you get three bases and barely have to defend them.

[@Rio-gf3ez]

This needs way more likes and views

[@shanej.w4822]

Back when StarCraft was not just a hit, but an era living in one of the most badass centuries towards crossing the millennium that we, especially those who lived through the intensity of possible Y2K & have witnessed its greatness & achievements! The old StarCraft series including Brood war was so way of its time, finely and violently made to introduce its brutality and impressive graphics at that time, & I was 6 years old back then, my cousin brothers introduced me (they've played way earlier than me since I'm tye youngest of them all) to this game, running through campaigns, especially when it came to the Zergs, the gameplay, sound effects and the theme music, all were just so terrifyingly executed, which I remember freaking out to the overall StarCraft universe, which they've brilliantly brought out the way darker atmosphere & splendidly written story telling. My point is besides the Zerg, no matter which faction you choose be it playing as Protoss or Terran, it somehow managed to frighten & make you scared or terrified to its story, gameplay, cinematics & music! The whole StarCraft universe was enough to play mind tricks on your mentality, like dragging you into the worlds of cosmic battles and events which was all whole new mind blowing experiences back then! Back when video games, movies & music were so dark, mature & terrifying; just personally gotta admit that I was fortunate enough to be a kid that matures through such badass era to have had terrific experiences & exposures. Miss it already, watching & still playing StarCraft until today is one of the best things in my life! Wish I could just go back & get them feels once more with my cousin brothers & siblings.. I can just keep going on & on non stop like no enough facial expressions or words can describe how beautifully made games, music & movies were back then, & how they've become sentimental gems in their own rights! Ah, old times ..😊 PS - Protoss themes sound so godly pleasantly heroic!

[@Ph.90702]

I've played this game so much, playing as the protoss was great! But the death of Tassadar was a bit sad for me, at least he died as a true hero. En taro tassadar!

[@MrNintoku]

The fact you can win the first mission with the forces you had at the start scares me. Well I suppose every 8 year olds strategy was max out and then swarm the enemy.

[@donniebrasco1364]

No the ai has been adjusted if you play the most updated version of 2023 as opposed to the 1998 version. Much harder when I played it in 1998 it was too easy..

[@5000Seabass]

@@donniebrasco1364 No, they’re basically identical except for the parhfinding

[@TacoBlend]

Remember: The Executor that is the Player is actually Artanis.

[@myers228]

But we see artanis in broodwar

[@mizoreyoroizuka4178]

@@myers228 The Executor player in Brood War is a different Executor.

[@Quetzen]

As much as a jerk as he is, I give the following props to Aldaris. -Casual and calm in the middle of a full scale planetary invasion -Calls a new Executor to replace a traitor -Sends off to track said traitor off-world -Brings him to justice and manages to imprison him -Still lives to see the fall of the Overmind

[@TBUK4]

I like the probes when they say "meow"

[@hisdudeness8328]

Anyone else feel like the Protoss four legged tanks are shouting 'fuck you!' when they die?

[@123TauruZ321]

Hahaha, Jim to Aldaris: "The name's Jim Raynor PAL!!" in that tone, that's too funny xD

[@dakure907]

Protoss and Night elves are the best races ever created. Blizzard made masterpieces.

[@tassadar9623]

and the undead and the zerg

[@akeyrtainment8507]

Terran & humans as well

[@akeyrtainment8507]

Orcs? Idk. Xelnaga maybe?

[@dakure907]

@@akeyrtainment8507 Nothing original in that though lol

[@Salted_Fysh]

Zerg > holier than thou Protoss > Terrans. Terrans are boring. Night elves are pretty neat though. They also had some of the best missions in Reign of Chaos.

[@Xsifilad]

I wish you would make a Starcraft 1 remastered campaign playthrough!

[@sandumihai4405]

Finally beat it. Yes, halucianions on Phenix (4 of them at a time) draw some serious fire power :) several salvos from reavers and some dragoons, scouts that escorts reavers. I built 6 gateways, I used dragoons and archons. I lost about 30 psi from 200 in less than 30 seconds at the bottom base because i atacked it on narrow front on bottom side, It was a choke point, I didn't know it, but it didn't matter. Reinforcements were on the way. When I ran out of gas, i used zealots. Second and 3'rd base built. I send reinforcements on the front side while on bottom side my units stumbled and they were fighting kinda 1 vs 1 and lured enemy units there. Only 1/4 of my units were actually fighting, the rest just ran from left to right :)) And i left them be when i noticed the front side of the bottom base was much wider, Another 20 psi worth of units spent. But the front side assault with reinforcements from my base encountered only turrets and several units on the way to the bottom, where the chaos was at it's peak, including a reaver. The reaver didn't return fire. I kept the nexus intact. 3'rd base on the right side was a joke. I was very wide front i i tried to experiment something but 2 dragoons pulled agro lol and my strategem was killed in it's infancy. I also kept the 3'rd nexus intact. Then i scouted the map for observers and dropships. Then i destroyed the 2 remaining nexus in the same time. I left Nothing living or standing on the map. So dragoons and narrow front don't mix :)) unless one have 3/1 numeric superiority on atack or one is taking time to organize the dragoons. It took 52 mins but it was very satisfying. I didn't use the templars at all, Zerathul had a nasty habbit to die in my previous attemps so i kept him in defence. Zerathul killed 2 reavers and several dragoons tho. Phenix and Tassadar destroyed some scouts, dragoons and a carrier. At the entrance i built a starport as a wall. it has 600 hp and 600 shield. Better than gateway. So the reavers had something to fire at :)) I still have much to learn :)

[@StuGames]

congratz!

[@sandumihai4405]

@@StuGames thx. And thx again for your runs. They were really inspiring! I finished starcraft campaign. Back in te day i told myself i suck too much and i played w cheats... In last mission i used terrans because repairs. Plague on protoss is a dezaster, I send protoss units in bottom left corner and send dropship for them keeping zeratul and templars in defence. Yamato gun, defensive matrix, irradiate did the job. Battle cruiser have better chance of survival against kamikaze stuff of zerg because they have better response time. I'll first play broodwar and after i'll watch your broodwar runs :)

[@willmunoz1638]

2:52 Aww man aww man Fenix is JUICED, look at 'im go XD

[@gathofbaal7849]

he hungers for battle

[@SeoulMan]

To me, Aldaris looked like he had a permanent scowl on his face.

[@mehtWPD]

Amusing

[@Xpwnxage]

He looks like a dog

[@MrNintoku]

55:35 Still the coolest entrance.

[@theUnknown-oz9dh]

As much as I love the Protoss, I really wish they had the ability to repair their structures and mechanical units like the Terrans can! Maybe, lore wise, they treat their machines with a throwaway attitude because they're so easy to replace? Or maybe, gameplay wise, it serves as a balancing feature? I have no idea...

[@Minizemful]

It's really bizarre to me that Tassadar completely forgets to mention the VERY important fact that you need dark templar energies to kill the cerebrates. He only mentions it after they failed once and, presumably, wasted a bunch of resources doing it. Like, of COURSE no one is going to believe him at that point, he did it to himself.

[@mikehebert71]

Absolutely incredible bravo!

[@RyanJumarPantoja]

I learned alot from your gameplay.... you are great....👍👍👍👍

[@TheRogueminator]

HUNDREDS! of worlds together.... damn, even though Fenix is around +350 years old, he must have been pretty busy in spacefaring business :)

[@sandumihai4405]

Halucinations on Fenix are great, 2 per100 mana, 4 in total if i have only Tassadar available. Fenix has 300 energy, 300 shield, so a total of 1200 shield 1200 hp. And that's a lot pf hp and shield to fire at :)) I wander... if i can't just use like 40 halucinations of Fenix ( 9 templars and Tassadar) to charge the base and behind them the halucinations the real troops. That would be... 40x 300hp and shield to fire at lol. And would be a total dezaster with only few losses, maybe none..

[@jackman00110101]

I love this speedy playthru

[@DanielMartinez-nw1pn]

52:47 ... So I guess you just saved me 2 hours and 34 minutes for my next try

[@diegoquesadaq2913]

Watching because i got stuck at the mission of Finding Tassadar haha

[@Andrewf5251]

blizzard really was the company to look up to back in the day . sadly that company is long dead .

[@revildevil2000]

Okay so I cant wrap my head around why you trapped a probe and have it in a group with the carriers. does it cause the carriers to behave differently? I'm having difficulty finding this as a meta or bug lol

[@bogdanleshenko7149]

due to this, his carriers stay in a much tighter formation, which concentrates their firepower.

[@chiejenang5501]

Yep me too am wondering what's the point Stu did it for and I think @Boghan has the answer.

[@prof.finbarrcalamitous]

Makes the units stack better

[@eu29lex16]

I don't get it why tassadar surrendered to the conclave, the battle went on anyway, lol.It's cuz they had to save Aiur and it was also obvious they wouldn't spare him.

[@eu29lex16]

@Salted_Fysh yeah, his surrender was pointless, they continued to battle even after he surrendered. I mean, safe for his life he has a greater purpose and not tmention that why would have never spared him. So he basically also renounced on trying to save aiur by this surrender.

[@donniebrasco1364]

1:31:14 StarCraft has taken everything from me, a social life, my job, but I'll be damned if I let that slide by. Today is the day we destroy blizzard entertainment so that there master computer (the overmind) doesn't destroy all sentience and life forms in this universe.

[@sandumihai4405]

Nice use of halucinations :) i.m stuck at the mission with zeratul, phenix and tasadar :| i might use halucinations to lure enemy defence away.

[@eu29lex16]

Tassadar was the most mature and smart protoss individual , too bad he died.

[@LuciTulcea]

Tassadar was actually Xel Naga. Maybe that is why.

[@eu29lex16]

@@LuciTulcea no, he was a protoss. The one in starcraft 2 is a xel naga faker. .

[@zacharyamnott9958]

In the final mission teched up to seige tanks and won pretty quickly.

[@bsherman8236]

Need some time stamps for each level.

[@MatthewSmith-vc8go]

Around 1:28:00 when the big ships start unloading all those tiny ships or whatever, that start just tearing through all of the enemies. What ability is that?

[@Neondler]

thats a protoss unit called carrier that can be made from stargate and its not an ability its a normal carrier attack but it costs a lot of gas and minerals

[@KanexYT]

Idea for Campaign Speedrun :D

[@bellicose4653]

1:09:00 How come none of the AI Arbiters cast stasis on the carriers? I just played this mission today and the arbiters spammed stasis to no end. Does the AI behave differently in the remastered version??

[@StuGames]

He might not have researched it by this point of the mission. The AI works in mysterious ways!

[@bellicose4653]

@@StuGames ah that could be it. This is my first time playing the campaign in 10+ years, so I spent time taking over the other protoss bases because I did not know about the empty base area. AI probably researched it while I was doing all that. The stasis just made it so annoying. I rocked up, got stasised, waited, killed one arbiter, got stasised, and repeat until all arbiters were dead. So I came here to see how a pro deals with this lol. I think I'll try it again with this new knowledge and see what happens.

[@kylethomas9130]

@@bellicose4653 it's the worst when you're already on the offensive, because they stasis troups get pulled out of your # binding.

[@TheReddinotimeforce]

In the video where the terran kills the dragon what unit doez the terran use

[@alexlinkinparkful]

Looks like a simple tank, I don't wanna say a siege tank, but if it is that tank it must be the oldest version of the siege tank I've ever seen.

[@marticus42]

Love Long Play.

[@xxQrchinaxx]

SC1 Toss > SC2 Toss

[@gearingisez]

May i ask why you always have a probe in your control groups of Carriers specifically? Is it to mess up with the AI aggro?

[@voiceofreason2674]

The first protoss mission went so hard as a little kid. The protoss were so powerful but for some reason everything was burning or didn't work just vibey

[@axelnicholson2604]

I watched your zerg full campaign video

[@Nykoooo1]

That starship strategy is quite amazing. I really am a poor StarCraft player really lol

[@kosmiccharacter7125]

1:14:22 is that a robocop reference

[@bellicose4653]

Dragoons also have a tough time navigating stairs. I like to think that's an Easter egg and not a bug

[@kylethomas9130]

@@bellicose4653 I noticed how we only got Zealots and a Templar on the interior missions, the rest were Terrans because they fit on stairs.

[@bellicose4653]

@@kylethomas9130 you can also get a dragoon as reinforcements. It was on that mission that I discovered the stair thing.

[@GEN47-27]

Keep hearing the dragoon say :" Sub Gyarados".

[@anon9689]

I noticed in "The Trial of Tassadar" you've blocked the proble with a pylon and had it in a control group with carriers. Why?

[@AlFonso-p6p]

It's crazy how all the warring factions mirror the biblical ones. You have your protoss and dark templars (angels & fallen angels) Beneath that the Terran (humanity) And below that the zerg (hell demons) And then the supreme being that created them all the Xel'naga (God)

[@tzeshern]

Someone made custom map called start craft alternate. It is not easy also.. Maybe u can do a speedrun for all 6 chapters?

[@adrianmunoz7646]

I made an awesome one where you are Zerg and you’re completely over-powered by the Terrans. I renamed the 3 Goliaths on the enemy base Spartans and they had 10,000 hit points and 20 armor and i tweaked the range of their hellfire missiles so that they attacked your air units the moment you got close to their island. You have unlimited minerals and gas and isolated on your island, and you can’t build queens to make it more challenging. My cousin said that my little cuzin kept getting pissed at how hard it was to beat the goliaths (Spartans) with fully upgraded Zerg Guardians. Lol!

[@MatthewTheSkunk]

Man you BLAZED though these. What's the secret cause I'm planning a Let's Play of this game

[@anthonyaperocho794]

mis those old days...

[@rallykalle8852]

You succeeded to get killed by 2 infested terrans, just great! ;) 45:25 and then his suicide took 3 lives 47:20

[@eu29lex16]

Basically, those who made the starcraft 2 lore didn't read the sc1 lore as kerrigen still had her cerebrate in the last zerg campaign.And the lore says clearly that it's kerrigan who killed the last cerebrate following the brood war because she had a different image for the zerg, compared to the overmind, and she didn't need cerebrates.

[@WisamSafi1978]

40:47 that was quick :D

[@duannekhristopermangampat9608]

Their voices was Awesome like in Michael Bay's Transformers

[@zamiyaFlow]

I've come to reminisce how good Starcraft used to be

[@5000Seabass]

It’s still good. All of it

[@breathstealer5486]

I love that they think the last misson even if you're good enough to destroy everything on the map and have the overmind surrounded by dark m Templar stabbing it they're like nope you obviously didn't do it well enough

[@fabriciocastelozeta4335]

Infancia

[@aznpwr9900]

The judicator is no protoss. he is british

[@oravlaful]

how did you get more psi in the 2nd mission without building a pylon?

[@5000Seabass]

Nexus

[@MC-ri6cc]

Good

[@Ramusculus]

didn't expect macro... neat

[@michaelphelps1000]

Why in mission 9, you to probe with carriers?

[@KungSaanKaPoMasaya]

The carriers are party balloons. The probe just carry them around the map.

[@jetaimemina]

Google "magic box" in Starcraft. Basically, having one unit in a control group (the probe, which is trapped inside the mineral line by a pylon) constantly far away from the rest of the flying units makes those flying units always stack on top of each other. Otherwise the flying units slowly spread out more and more, making focused fire more difficult.

[@JuleZdaFool]

@@jetaimemina I played SC online for years (mostly UMS games though) and never knew this

[@matias371]

​@@jetaimeminaTY!! I looked for that explanation through all comments

[@professorxzaiver5689]

you know you made this in 2017 right?

[@donniebrasco1364]

Why don't you build scouts to support the carrier? That way pesky air units like scourge, mutalisks, and queens can be dealt with severely. I don't care if the herd don't like them. Their missiles fully upgraded does over 30 damage per shot. Enough to rip scourge with one hit and destroy any mutalisks and devourers alike.

[@shawnmurphy9245]

You must construct additional pylons

[@彭信文-f5t]

En Taro Tassadar !

[@피제스]

47:59

[@rodgienroycastillo2871]

Nicanor Cuñado

[@rodgienroycastillo2871]

Yellow Gacea

[@AirKangLocker]

GAWR GURA

[@rodgienroycastillo2871]

Hades Mizas

[@jamesjiao]

En taro Tassadar!

[@mohdshazalishamsudin8446]

En taro adun

[@Salted_Fysh]

En Taro Good Job Kerrigan!

[@Васяжкх]

Мы победетели

[@sandumihai4405]

really ? :-o lool 3:26 time

[@rallykalle8852]

4 min epic failure attacking base, wery boring of you to only build Dragons on level 2

[@scarredable]

Just wondering, this zerg invation to aiur is a metaphore of muslims invading cristianity/occidental world? I mean, Antioch, Scion... zerg are as "swarmy" as muslism are as well

[@5000Seabass]

@Spike16 All this shit talking while ironically using a holier than thou attitude.

[@5000Seabass]

And as for you, use your brainpower for something more constructive. The Zerg invasion isn’t any kind of religious metaphor.

[@피제스]

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