StarCraft 2 Co-op Brutal +6: The HARDEST Difficulty!

It's time for the hardest difficulty in co-op in StarCraft 2 called Brutal +6. This difficulty system was recently introduced with the new Mengsk commander patch that arrived a few weeks ago. In this video I group up together with CtG. We try several Brutal co-op missions, with Mutators added on top of them to try and complete Brutal +6. In this end we play with the Karax and Mengsk Commanders.
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[@luischavez2088]

6:30 Artanis: The enemy has cloaked units, we will need detection SCV: yea whatever

[@exitioregem8466]

I like the sass the SCVs give

[@SleepLessThan3]

Hahaha

[@AndrewMellor-darkphoton]

he hate this job so much that he does not care if he dies

[@KaneCiticani]

Luis Chavez no Starcraft Mobile :(

[@jimmynguyen8551]

I bet most of the time he thinks "This is your plan?" in his his head

[@ErikaWeiss633]

Now this, THIS is how I'd like to think how the Great War against Amon went out: full of absolute chaos, anarchy, and the different commanders facing insurmountable odds all to destroy Amon completely.

[@ErikaWeiss633]

@Manannan anam Where it's just total war, armageddon with everyone fighting for their lives. Suffice to say, Void Rifts and Void Reanimators both make that image look glorious, especially if despite all of that, you still manage to win.

[@avsbes98]

Why not make a "Presence of Amon" Mutator that would be basically all other (permanently available) mutators that exist, combined into one Mutator...

[@theamnesiasquad3425]

@@avsbes98 yeah that would literally be impossible

[@RyanMHolcomb]

@@avsbes98 straight up not possible without a gamebreaking cheese

[@xanderbackus447]

@@RyanMHolcomb zeratul intensifies

[@xXMemelord]

enemy siege tanks were blinking forward while in siege.... ok then. this is fine.

[@DatBoiChucklez]

Ryan Orth please don’t make it worse lol

[@fusioncore9997]

If Terran used Protoss technology, I think every other race would die

[@Danish_raven]

reminds me of early LOTV when sieged tanks could be moved with medivacs

[@leonm9231]

Don't forget the hots beta where they thought burrow move banelings would be good

[@meeperdudeify]

@@Danish_raven Swann lol

[@dubiouscollector9763]

"60 seconds per frame" damm i feel that

[@boartank]

You can tell CTG has been through hell and back with that statement. I saw his Stukov + Dehaka mass Swarm Host videos. 60 secs per frame

[@omnipoticus9908]

1 frame per minute lmao

[@aredub1847]

too bad he pussed out on that one.

[@W4vy__]

Sry im a newbie wat does that mean ?

[@dubiouscollector9763]

@@W4vy__ essentially the screen freezing because the pc its a potato

[@Ireonox]

56:55 he says its ironically much less than doing a brutal mutation, however retry brutal+ is only 100% bonus while brutal+ 6 is 300%. I don't know what the bonus is for a brutal mutation, however its looks like they're rewarding you more for doing brutal+ 6 first try rather than strategizing for the retry brutal+. I know the comment is late as hell but I've only just saw this today.

[@Lilwo0olf_69]

“Put on Meng thumbnail and then play Swann”

[@skylark306]

With the public's full support, he can use any method that is neccessary

[@thecommentguy9380]

@@skylark306 Tarsonis flashbacks

[@heartbreakmanNo1]

Atleast the other guy was playing Meng :t

[@Truck_Kun_Driver]

That's what Emperor Lowko would do lmao

[@savior679]

Thanks for warning.

[@xanderbackus447]

"You're rewarded for having low actions per minute" Laughs in 1 APM

[@nixjariksons9755]

Lowko: Beats a co-op on brutal +6 Me: cant even complete Wings of Liberty on casual

[@Choppytehbear1337]

I seriously hope you are joking.

[@cubecrasher7606]

@@Choppytehbear1337probably… but WoL is at least the hardest campaign (in my opinion)

[@xXMemelord]

Cube Crasher oh it certainly is. hots was a joke.

[@cubecrasher7606]

@@xXMemelordtrue. While HotS was great Story-wise, the gameplay was only OK. It was too easy and the missions were a lot less fun I thought. On the other hand, I dont like zerg, so that probably had an impact. WoL is my favorite campaign gameplay-wise, while I LOVE LotV for the great cutscenes

[@gollese]

@@cubecrasher7606 Agree, the other 2 was decent.. Tried to go back and do some brutal missions on WoL, ouf.... :p

[@SeriousApache]

"Stop microing, Lowko!" Winter said in Angry Coach: "micro is a rookie mistake, you do better if you just F2 A-move" I think we need to add "Micro-Transaction" in multiplayer for those who overmicroing.

[@Noplayster13]

Seems like zagara would be pretty good on these maps. A scourge swarm could take every objective without having to leave the base. Also her bile launchers would actually be useful for once.

[@two_pointy]

25:15 Swann is a dwarf. Easy explanation. May Durin be with you all!

[@septumhyacinthe2053]

I love it when you play coop, especially with such a strong coop player like CtG

[@Moshthun]

21:22 "A simple life we lead, as an SCV, working side by side, for eternity."

[@Tyranda49]

This was amazing ! Lot of fun to watch, and you seemed to enjoy yourself a lot as well :D All these mutators pile up though, and become sooo crazy, honestly scaring (and scarring) (T_T) you did so well to manage all that ^^ The fact i came back to watch this video again a year and a half after is proof enough of how enjoyable it is :)

[@mrfriskers564]

Lowko: we have some peace now :) 2 seconds later- Adjadent: OUR SCVs ARE UNDER ATTACK

[@victorholmlund6480]

''you wanna have detection before you need it'' so true.

[@Doomgutt]

"Our Allies/SCVS/Forces/Base/Ally's base is being attacked"

[@dayafters1]

The true skill ceiling in co-op, was your computer specs all along.

[@spyrosmantas1846]

Now we know, Swan practices engineering but Karax teaches it.

[@CtG-Games]

EZPZ 1 try Kappa

[@kodylima]

@26:10 LowkoTV: "These mutations are annoying, I hate all of these." CTG [in chat]: "This is one of the most doable ones." LOL

[@tickoman273]

CtG is one of those guys who would keep calm and casually comment on his survival strategies while falling into a snake pit or something

[@prestonknight2485]

It would be nice if Karax had orbital assimilators and Swann had automated refineries

[@michaeltreat4000]

53:03 "I could use my Void Thrashers..." 53:19 "Lowko uses Void Thrashrs confirmed"

[@lucasmerkert1172]

Hey Lowko, I really like the recent coop-videos with CtG. Keep up the good work :)

[@JG-ti7id]

As always thank you for your hard work and dedication

[@eltonazevedo1361]

man its amazing how you play this, i have being startcraft since lil kid, and i will never reach the game play you have! you do stuff so fast damn... its really comfortable and awesome to watch some one like you! my favourites heros are Fenix and Dehaka! i would like to see you playing any one of them!

[@Konkajou]

would definitely love to see some more brutal +6 missions ^^

[@radusilion4954]

This was super nice

[@MonsterGAMING-gf4bz]

Love the content and it helps me get gud at sc2. Keep up the good work

[@tomyi8409]

Hey Lowko, it's always important to clean up the void rifts as soon as possible so the defense pressure will be much smaller. As Swan, finish the upgrades in BE helps a lot (you've notice that!) Another priority is the drill upgrade, you can use upgraded factory(which is really tanky) for vision and clean the rifts with your drill.

[@hijiriyukari]

Yay more Lowko x CtG!

[@DKMperor]

27:00 *Laughs in 60 APM* gold gang

[@craftedincursusknight2580]

80 apm lurker gold 1 gang

[@raziel29a]

These are the noises Karax always does: - we have not enough minerals - we must construct additional pylons

[@alfianna2578]

The microtransaction one really screwed me over. I couldn't get myself to not micro and lost way too many resources. It basically said fight a habit that you have had 0 reason to fight until now.

[@MegaOgrady]

I was once playing brutal plus as Nova. Got micro-transactions. I gave up on the idea I'd ever have enough resources for troops so I soloed it with Nova. Fun times

[@andrecordice8479]

Holy cow! That second match was insane!

[@TheChnecht]

These bodyfat percentage estimations sounded shockingly accurate. Lowko did his lifting homework properly.

[@sieghart7156]

Well done lowko and ctg, proud to be a fellow Filipino for ctg. 😆

[@Powerkatharina]

I think this vid is awesome. PLZ do more of this if this is possible! Love from germany ;-)

[@user-yo4vz7jv5t]

good work! This it so hard.

[@bartomiejchorazyczewski3380]

Congrats, nice commandering ;)

[@kenjifox4264]

2019: Lowko plays SC2 in Brutal +6. 2020: World fighting pandemic on Brutal +6.

[@somedude4087]

lowko bout to have a bad time? sans **sweats in skeleton**

[@Homieathomee]

Welp.

[@thelukedankwalker]

Love you Lowko

[@MrLich07]

I guess you're right on Swann shooting something since he was 7, but I think it is stimpacks, not stereoids. the 35% and 9% body fat is a normal side effect.

[@robbinxu230]

"You enjoy losing a lot" Wow...

[@badass6300]

I do.

[@ja3482]

36:17 perfectly timed.

[@chron874]

You absolute madlad.

[@84kch]

Ctg and lowko - what a team! 😀

[@lohengrinoath9906]

Just take Zagara and provide "Char Akbar!"

[@XDawg19]

The main difficulty of the Brutal+ levels isn't just in the difficulty of the enemy it is facing random mutators without having a plan ahead of time. "The enjoy losing a lot" bit becomes more true if you play their game instead of rerolling. Awesome gameplay and obviously still very difficult.

[@cloud999yt]

i like watching gameplay like this cause me personally I cant even do anything above hard in co-op in campaign I can do some missions on brutal but not all of them yet but I will never be able to do that like you guys did. I couldn't even follow what you were doing when you were macroing like 100 things at once lol I see you just sending units everywhere and was like but he didn't click on anything lol

[@Lycam]

38:51 his face man KEKW

[@zxKAOS1]

Lowko goes "lowko", which we shall dub.. lowko+6!

[@shunkim6543]

Void Reanimators: Revive Void Reanimators, Infinite Revival.

[@SquirrelGamez]

Defensive Swann , my favorite... I can barely play in Brutal 1 though XD

[@Goremize]

The amount of effort and luck required for this new difficulty, that is no where NEAR the amount of EXP that you should get. Half of it came from boosts. It should be like 1mil exp with boosts.

[@michaeltreat4000]

Using abs to deep tunnel to snipe the void rifts is the way to go!

[@RedfalconNr1]

nice warm up before

[@pooyataleb2514]

Nice Christmas tree

[@zekeanevlym1064]

Lowko: Lets go do Brutal +6 his PC: he did not like that, and will remember that

[@SoccerBoyAP]

This is why I play hard or less, I don't need an aneurysm over a game in brutal

[@turtlelol2411]

Jeez, and I can’t even get past hard!

[@Zhangmengxing3236]

ultilizing science vessel is quite important, didn't see you make any :d

[@rockerknight25]

"Ok, Lowko, don't micro. Stop microing, Lowko, don't do it." *The quietest Lowko play video ever*

[@TheRyepoog]

The only thing i beat lowko on, 50 APM baabyyyyyyy hahaha

[@Lazarus_Finley]

That Futurama reference, though

[@rmisionero]

Holy shit! This is utter insanity!! I still am struggling to pass the first goomba from Super Mario Bros. I couldn't even begin to dream to play like this. Jesus Christ, this play was maddening enough that I need to schedule an emergency visit with my therapist. Fuck, that was impossible.

[@snakuvudu]

I appreciate you.

[@muggs105]

This one is custom but hard as nails, play it only on the dead of night, and it will be hard for your computer and you. 1.void reanimator. 2. Void shards (or the ones the spawn the units) 3. Enemy units after dying spawn more enemies. 4. Enemy units after dying spawn other new enemies. Want it harder? Put the one that when touches any of your units or buildings, creates a copy of itself. Enjoy Hardest difficulty you can. P.S. careful with the lag machine

[@Evil_Aakash]

I think for the void rift mission karax for defense and tychus for offense would work pretty solid.. or tychus and swann..

[@nakosnegireeva1313]

Nyaa~ Super!

[@antonitomasik8946]

Honestly I want the campaigns to have those brutal modes

[@kahldris1228]

That moment when lowko has zerglins and siege tanks as the same thing....lol.

[@ErikChendoTegon]

Well, now we have a real dificult to lowko enjoy

[@Mastervitro]

gota get me some of those "stim packs" so i can be more like Swan!

[@baumanmarketing]

Void Reanimators are the lowest priority targets for your army because they don't deal damage, so always manually select them as targets to kill them first, laser is good for that while your turrets deal with enemy units!

[@spike333s3]

What's the difference between + and +6? No. of the mutations? No. They are always 2-4. Mutations have their levels? No. Immune to a player can be in + or +6

[@OrionoftheStar]

Is reduced cost for vespene drones really all that good? They aren't that hard to get in the first place, but the reduced time on the drill lets you max it out a lot sooner.

[@user-sq7hj6hj7h]

Siege tanks blinking OMEGALUL

[@jasontaylor5729]

when you play karax this of the probe as your hero and crank out the def. buildings. when he bombs an area get in and cannon crawl that map. I even name the probe; probius. bring three or four with and just play keep the drone alive.

[@MrTkentgens]

take a shot every time lowko says "okay"

[@AllrightNOR]

Or when Ctg says "allright". On his Chanel though

[@bean72]

I like being dehaka and of base under attack? Deep burrow orrrr primal wurm or primal pack leader (glev or muv or dak)

[@RyanJosepher]

Should be a repair only buildings toggle or option... same thing with units. A toggle would be nice.

[@doti2864]

Have you guys ever tried to beat WoL Campaign in the Coop Mode in the arcade? Its pretty Hard too, at least for me and my friends XD

[@balazsfenyes3880]

Even though his teammate carried him, he did his part of tower defense.

[@justanoman6497]

The best way to play around micro transaction: unplug your keyboard.

[@gollese]

Ive said this before, why cant they add more enemies and "smarter" and/or more frequent waves on Brutal, call it brutal 2.0.. Idk lol. I like it more difficult but several Mutations, nah :(

[@kelvsyc8676]

In the past, they did try to make enemies smarter - things like making enemies focus down carriers rather than the interceptors, and that got a huge backlash. (Part of why this specific change caused backlash was that, at the time, Fenix conservators were horrible, which forced him to use mass carriers; at the time, you also had to pay for interceptors, and the Clolarion bonus also wasn't that great; this made Fenix almost completely unviable.) The major co-op balance change before Mengsk actually buffed up the enemy by introducing more compositions and tighter upgrade timings. What people are seeing is that the Brutal+ point system really has nothing to do with how hard the mission actually is. (Number of mutators has a more pronounced effect on overall difficulty than the difficulty of each mutator; the only two-mutator Brutal+6 mission is considered to be very doable due to a lack of mutator synergy. There's also the issue of the fact that mutator point values may need tweaking, and the fact that 8 points on Brutal+1 is a huge gap from no points on plain old Brutal.)

[@Nukepositive]

@@kelvsyc8676 Instead of making enemies smarter, why didn't they make them tankier, and go easy on the mutators to decrease variance?

[@kelvsyc8676]

@@Nukepositive There are mutators that increase the tankiness of enemies, but even then co-op prioritizes burst damage, AOE, and free units, depending on situation, so it can be said that making enemies that much tankier doesn't really neutralize the wave-clearing and deathball capabilities of some commanders. (It may make Alarak do more 1QE2C, but it really doesn't eliminate the ability for a bunch of ascendants to wipe the enemy clean.) That said, if you are in the co-op community, then you are probably aware of who Maguro is, and why almost every co-op balance change and bug fix in recent years is attributed to him; the enthralled zerg used in Mengsk's Dogs of War calldown is, according to lore, from the Maguro Brood, named after him. In his custom arcade map, he implemented a new co-op mutator called Endurance, which triples all enemy health and shields. It is said that the commander dynamics are very different with this mutator active.

[@gollese]

@@kelvsyc8676 Interesting, was just checking his site and saw his concept about "Challenge mode" Very interesting, such things ive been wondering about myself, hope blizzard picks his ideas up about it :D

[@FBI-ju5no]

Huh, what's that background music at around 27 minutes?

[@adrianmalinowski1073]

Yo what, levels above brutal? Im so going back to sc2 :D

[@attractivegd9531]

Good job man, Karax was the right choice. Do you think Stukov with bunkers + tanks and turrets behind (with SCV to repair) could have do it too? I think they recently nerfed the lower Butal+ levels as I can do Brutal+2 easily 90% of the time now. (don't know if they nerfed Brutal+6)

[@aka_miso]

33:24 hey Nova wanna be like Kerrigan

[@Tooterbooter]

I like how confused the English subtitles are. Half of his words are “taters”

[@MrLuckymica]

i played something like this with my brother on custom game... we added 4-6 mutations and tried to won xD

[@BobBob-kr5wr]

You need to assign 3 SCVs per turret cluster on permanent repair.

[@Elfenastics]

26:30 The Aria starts playing and Hammer whines that they gonna rip her Base apart. Was this intentionals Lowko or just a coincidence?

[@TheMkelley25]

Damn!

[@alexandercarlosandresramir2909]

42:05, wait, that means gateway after firts pylon is ¿wrong?

[@xXMemelord]

Alexander Carlos Andres Ramirez Ruiz its always wrong to disrespect florencio, all protoss should bow down to him as god. :D

[@acidbath3226]

this game is so much more complex than the original SC. I couldn't even get into expanding much less being a good strategist

[@baumanmarketing]

Whoh, man, that last game... Congratulations on the win, but I don't know why you left the scorch upgrade for the end, and you didn't even use the lance on those last two thrashers once you had it! Zeratul would be better for the defense here, he has expendable projections so you would lose a lot less + perhaps some Void Templar against some Heroes, they have insane DPS, but are pretty much underestimated by a lot of people! However, probably the best defender here would be Abathur, because enemy was ground, so if you clamp up several toxic nests, set them off autocast and detonate them right under Heroes when they pass; they should deal with most of them, anything that survives can be dealt with using Brutalisks & Disabling Clouds. Also Swarm Hosts can be very useful for defending, so CtG wouldn't even need to help defending & you would be able to Deeptunnel Brutalisks to help with objectives. Furthermore, if you successfully spawn-camp enemy attack waves, Heroes probably wouldn't even spawn; on this map it's relatively easy to do for the enemies that spawn on the top-left side.

[@jester6819]

Well, while you guys were having a blast here, I was struggling with my horrible skill and rng. Like, I'm not the worst and co-op is pretty easy in comparison, yes. But what the hell, Slim Pickings with Microtransactions is a horrible, horrible combo.

[@kelvsyc8676]

Yet, Slim Pickings with Micro Transactions has been used in a past weekly mutation, and it wasn't considered particularly difficult. (Week 154, Death and Taxes, on Dead of Night; it also had Black Death as a third mutator)

[@jester6819]

@@kelvsyc8676 Yeah, I know, but that was honestly hard for me. Brutal+6 usually don't have only 2 mutators, too. That combined with a few others, like Polarity (Fuck that thing) was insane. Killbots also screwed us over when we were playing a defensive mission. All in all, my RNG is actually horrible.

[@Gigawood]

Omg, I just tried my first game on hard a few days ago and got stomped. 😳