StarCraft II: Campaign Collection - Nova Covert Ops 04 - Trouble in Paradise

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My definitive playthough of the StarCraft 2 Campaign Collection trilogy and Nova mission pack. Each mission video will be a walkthrough explaining and executing strategies to succeed and obtain most achievements on Brutal difficulty. All dialogues, cinematics, and story-related material will be at the end of each video.
In some cases I omit completing Mastery achievements that would require a separate playthrough detracting from a full showcase of the mission in question.
Achievements completed this video:
Somebody Call For An Exterminator? - Destroy at least 3 hatcheries before zerg reinforcements arrive in the Trouble in Paradise mission.
Paradise Not Lost - Prevent the Defenders of Man from losing more than 20 structures in the Trouble in Paradise mission on Normal difficulty or higher.
[Mastery] What Mothership? (In Spirit) - Complete the Trouble in Paradise mission without letting the Tal'darim mothership fully power up on Hard difficulty or higher.

[@knavishknight]

Reigel: "Your skill is truly admirable." Nova: "Say again!"

[@jeru_jj1161]

Funny you didn't found any SOLARITE yet, that shit is everywhere.

[@AceofShadow]

Imagine if they gave that Mothership with interceptors to Alarak in co-op.

[@IMMORTALChaosShadow]

Oooh! I really want this! (Google translator. Russia)

[@kennyrlarsen]

Imagine if they gave real air units to Alarak in co-op.

[@niko386]

i want my boys destroyers

[@durshurrikun150]

@@kennyrlarsen Alarak P3 exists now. The problem is that the Taldarim have only destroyers and the mothership as air unit variants, that's it, they have no version of Phoenix or carrier.

[@kennovafastforward8460]

I love the background music of the taldirim when they come in! And you know when they arrive with that kind of music you know they ain't fucking around. Though i know theyre the enemy, can we take a moment to apprieciate how badass they are??

[@drfreeman3908]

Remember how this mission was bugged initially and you couldn’t build goliaths which made a heck of a lot harder.

[@inkedseahear]

Mass marines and missile turrets again : P

[@KillerOrca]

Im still having a hard time understanding the scale of the psi-emmiter the Defenders used. So the big canister houses a bunch of smaller canisters that launch OTHER canisters that are psi-emmiters?

[@AzureIV]

Permanent cloak Banshees? Awesome.

[@Poputrash]

1:21 If they're already following here, it means the psi-emitter is already activated RETCON AVERted....wait, don't you need an SCV for that? 1:36 In this context, the psi-emitter is the American Dream 2:14 What is the radar cross-section of a cilinder?.... I mean, are you serious? They even look like meteors! Someone should have notice- you know what? Nevermind 2:55 Zerg will be Zerg. 4:13 Hope they fucking work this time 7:10 Seems Tyrador IX used to have a moon... must be a bitch to get off world 7:26 Zerg attacking a beach resort? Time Convergence did it first. Also I take back what I said. Who the hell would put a radar dish on a resort? 10:17 "The Death Fleet descends" 10:38 Ji'nara wants Alarak-senpai to notice her. Also, the recicled Ma'lash's portrait. Cheap but effective 11:19 Sonic approves 12:48 Hiten Mitsurugi-Ryu: Amakakeru Ryu no Hirameki! 14:57 Ittoryu iai: Shishisonson 16:08 What a brainwashed dumbass 17:29 Getsuga Tensho! 18:31 No shit Rogger 18:40 kzbin.info/www/bejne/qaXPi3iBpK-aZ5I 19:29 Soru! 20:41 The Terran Meme: Stuck SCV 22:00 Blondie: "That's a nice ship you got there. It would be a shame if someone....NUKED IT!" 22:36 At least Val knows 23:07 In spirit? Ok NEXT ON BLONDIE COMMANDO: Where and how to obtain drugs feat. The Stoned Asshole and crew

[@limeangelo6019]

7:10 if you look closely, you will notice they're in fact, overlords

[@bolg892]

CRINGE.

[@s.m.2523]

So I realise it's pure fridge logic and obsessing over small lore details it but I just realised one small plot question: exactly how do these psy emiters work ? And why ? I mean in SC1 they were psy amplifiers which boosted the signal of a ghost. In fact if you look in mission 2 of this campaign you cna find a cloacked ghost near an amplifier so it seems to still work that way, and in mission 6 it's Nova and pierce setting thel so presumably they activated it with their powers ... but these dropped by the viking here don't have ghost near them, so how does it work ? And even more importantly.. why do psy amlifiers or emiters even still work at all at this point ? I mean in SC1 the reason the zergs were atracgted to psy was because the overmind wanted to assimilate some psionic human so he could get some anti protoss psionics , was litteraly the whole point of the zerg ever invading the teran inthe first place (or with SC2 retcons I guess it wanted a powerfull psionic to be it's successor, whatever) But now, both the overmind and kerigan are gonend those are feral zegs so.. why ? Maybe slightly more interesting writing point is Nova "they're not heroes, we are". Now Nova is a ruthless stone cold assassin who snapps necks like nonobyes buisness, who worked loyaly for the dominion including when it was controled by daddy Mengsk and show no remorse in the elimination of targets. Am I the only one who feels it's a bit weird that she's talking like she has that hero complex on the side. Right now it's not a huge deal, it's a single line but it does get weirder by the end. with the whole 'if you shoot me you'll be like me' scene.

[@MaskedImposter]

My guess is the feral Zerg still have some remnant imprint of wanting to find ghosts left over from when the Overmind wanted to find them.

[@reginaldsafety6090]

Gonna do my best to answer these questions: 1. Psi-emitters work (according to Human Kerrigan in SC1) by projecting the neural imprint of a ghost on a galactic scale. Its like a recording of a ghost's brainwaves, I guess, played through loud speakers. This would not require a ghost to function (beyond the device's initial construction) and I think that the ghost in the second mission is there just because he was deploying the device with his trademark stealth, the sneaky bastard! 2. It makes no sense that psi-emitters would attract feral Zerg. You are correct, the Overmind was only attracted to the psi-emitters in the first place because he was looking for some psionic firepower to back him up during his invasion of Auir (Although Kerrigan is never used for this purpose and stays behind on Char to track down the Dark Templar, which is important, I guess?) However, in Broodwar it was established that feral Zerg were attracted to psi-emitters in the second Zerg mission where Kerrigan uses Dominion emitters to rally feral Zerg forces and destroy the Psi-Disruptor, so even the original games are inconsistent on this point. 3. Nova's character feels very strange to me. I find it extremely difficult to believe that she would give a damn about civilians being a cold, heartless assassin who crushes a man's skull in the first cinematic of the game when she is confused about who to trust and honestly unsure of her enemy. The man is uncooperative, to be sure, but she just smashes his face and makes a snappy one-liner. Not really the type I would expect to get misty eyed about civilian casualties. I expected her to let the Protoss wipe out the Defenders and then burn down a cigarette as she nuked the feral Zerg into radioactive ash. "Somebody call an exterminator?" 4. A more interesting arc for Nova would have been to portray her as a truly heartless killer in the beginning. She kills people for small slights and makes no effort to save the innocent. Then something happens on Tarsonis as she recalls the fall of her world and the death of her family. It re-kindles a tiny spark of humanity in her. In the end she get the chance to kill the evil general, who truly is an irredeemable monster, but she doesn't. She learns the value of human life, even one so miserable, The End.

[@kennyrlarsen]

The psi emitter in this cutscene was already activated, since the zerg was already chasing the viking. I assume a ghost at a Defenders base activated the emitter before the viking departed.

[@s.m.2523]

Geez this mssion really doesn't give a lot of time to breathe. This mothership shield regnerate really fast. So I'm guessing this mission is a lot easier to play this time around when you cna build golhiats and banshees as intended ? (I did rewatch Jay first playthough fo this, it's actualy kind of impressive how he managed to pull it off despite that bug)

[@phantomeye5199]

3:14 So they think Defenders of man are true hero here to protect civilians. But they're not but we Dominion are true strength to support them. Civilians should understand this.

[@Poputrash]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/qaXPi3iBpK-aZ5I

[@MLPDethDealr32]

Ji'nara's voice Actress is Nicole Oliver, whose done alot in Anime and yes MY LITTLE PONY Friendship is magic. As has Grey De'Lisle

[@reginaldsafety6090]

Gonna post this again here because I really like it and crave validation: Nova's arc in these missions confuses me, it seems odd that she, a killer, would give a care about civilians. A more interesting arc for Nova would have been to portray her as a truly heartless killer in the beginning. She kills people for small slights and makes no effort to save the innocent. Then something happens on Tarsonis as she recalls the fall of her world and the death of her family. It re-kindles a tiny spark of humanity in her. In the end she get the chance to kill the evil general who truly is an irredeemable monster but she doesn't. She learns the value of human life, even one so miserable, The End.

[@s.m.2523]

I agree and thank you for voicing so well what bothers me quite abit about this cmapapign plot. I think the problem comes from Blizzard being unwilling to take risks. To a point I can partly understand. Quite a few consider HOTS to be the lowest point of SC2, writting wise, and Kerrigan being shown as ruthless in the start of that game making fairle unsympathetic did not help. I think they wanted to avoid a repeat of that with Nova. But yes, it does lead to her feeling very schyzophrenic in her characterisation instead. On one hand during her brief appearances in WOL and HOTS she's either all buisness, taking in raynor even if she helped him woth Tosh, she show absolutly no remorse for anything she does, she even show a certain amusement when mind controling people. And in the first mission she's snapping necks like twigs. And on the other hand, starting this mission she's like "they're not heroes, we are" and it et really silly by the last mission when Davis does the"if you kill me, you'll be jsut like me" schitck if memory serves. Now her caring about civilians could be integrated in, but rather than caring about them just for the sake of lives, it could be instead that she feel that saving these civilians is about making her emperor looks good and therefeore her duty to the dominion (she was loyal to the dominion even when daddy Mengsk was in charge, and she is now when valerian is in charg having renewed her vows of loyalty just before last mission so her loyalty to the dominion is very well established). (And indeed seeing her old worls covered in zerg infestation then another could trigger some kind of character growth in her. That'd be nice of her to have a reaction to that. Any reaction. . Although I feel ot would have worked better iof the oder had been reversed then. she gos first to Tyrador, she see the infestation, jsut think if another job THen goes to tarsonis and suddenly the whole thing feels a lot more personal.)

[@admiralmurphy1543]

She has been brainwashed multiple times, who knows what that can do to someone's personality. Open for interpretation.

[@lucas-dailymobilegameplay1320]

Have you ever played Age of Mythology/Empires in your channel?

[@Terensworth]

Wow, Alarak is really scared to lose a mothership considering J'nara held back on sending it no less than 5 times cause the ship didn't have big shields. It's probably a deep seeded issue we shouldn't question if we don't want him crying for his mommy for a week.

[@deadwolf2978]

@JayborinoPlays: Jay, are you planning to continue your Custom Campaign restrospect series? it was a an intresting show to watch, and also gave players short preview of what those campaigns brought.

[@SeriousApache]

Big Ji is back. She is my favorite coop announcer.

[@abyssalzei552]

Couldn't they ask Zagara to reclaim he Zerg?

[@bilxor1781]

Excellent timings on your attacks and solid nova build out

[@hub1986]

You have really memorized all of this or most really well done GG

[@antgamer1425]

im first

[@reginaldsafety6090]

What did it cost you?