Starcraft II: Dehaka's MAX Essence

Starcraft II Co-Op Mission: Dead of Night
Endarthe's free video redemption involves getting a max essence Dehaka. Even after level 15, Dehaka will continue gaining essence. This video is to check what that limit is, where Dehaka will stop gaining essence and health.
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[@warjlok1037]

31:36 It's over 9000 If I'm the 1st, nova full raven

[@ChaoticNeutralMatt]

Lmao I never watch these soon enough. Wait wasn't that 8000 that was said. Regardless.

[@juliakoenig822]

@@ChaoticNeutralMatt the "its over 9000" is a dragonball meme, the line appears in the sayan saga

[@bokinkain392]

Essence cap is 65535 = 2^16 - 1 because that's the the highest number that can be represented by an unsigned 16-bit binary number. Max hp = 600 base + 0.75 * 65535 essence = 600 + 49151 = 49751 hp.

[@MHAAAAANZ]

nice

[@darthvocrum5719]

🤓☝ you

[@IgnatRemizov]

Dehaka is proud of you for collecting MAX essence. He can now rest. He no longer needs to _kollekt._ Thank you.

[@BorisJensen]

The essence limit is interesting, but actually not super surprising. 65535 is the highest number you can store in 2 bytes (16 bits), since 2^16 is 65536, and you start counting from 0. I'm glad to see that the programmers didn't let the number overflow back to 0, even though I don't think they ever anticipated anyone going that high :D

[@Tyrim]

i was watching this only to see if it will overflow or not :D and to see if a word or int were used. luckyly for CTG the programmers used a word, int would have been 2^32... :D this game would have taken a lot longer....

[@BorisJensen]

@@Tyrim Haha, yep, I don't think even he would have had the patience for that :D

[@Tyrim]

@@BorisJensen they could've just set up some kind of impenetrable defense then try and let it run overnight. I dont believe in such things, but it's ctg we are talking about.

[@edmis90]

Good thing there's limits. I'm not sure CtG, in these experiments, could stop himself without them.

[@brickstacker6533]

Hyped for a new science video.

[@CtG-Games]

Terry approves

[@Thiccoman]

30:48 It's over 9000!

[@tiagomazzon]

Would be funny if Dehaka kept getting bigger and bigger until it filled the entire screen - oh noes!

[@BladeWinters]

It's unfortunate we didn't get to see Max essence Dehaka fight a Stank

[@Lee_Kin_Bum]

Can't wait I love whatching Cheka gameplay

[@ancalagonsc2192]

"So much essence" - Dehaka

[@renkehuang6798]

just wonder whether adding a transmutation mutator will boost the process, since higher tier units drop more essence

[@ChaoticNeutralMatt]

Yes, technically

[@Tyrim]

The limit is the size of the word type in c. thats 2 bytes of data with a maximum size of 2^16. you were lucky it wasnt an int (2^32) :D also i was curious if it would overflow and create glitches, or reset to 0, but it didnt. nice.

[@romanbykov5922]

55:22 -- the overlay belonged to the previous challenge with Kerrigan. Do you still have the one for this game?

[@Tdvtdvtdv]

Maxed dehaka could firebreath zeratul's entire shieldguard army lol, or psionic blast.

[@Krasses]

Vote blizzard to increase to 32 bit so we can see 2m essence

[@bokinkain392]

32-bit is in the billions. 4B for unsigned.

[@ikocheratcr]

Just imagine Blizzard publishes a patch for some other stuff, and without telling anybody they change the int(16) -> int(32) and them someone suggests CtG to retry this mission ... I wonder at what point CtG will just give up.

[@romanbykov5922]

I think the length of a single game is also limited to 65535 seconds which is around 18 hours.

[@brianthompson876]

Oof, imagine brood brother prestige with both hakas maxed out

[@LightModeContradiction]

The essence counter stops at the 16 bit limit

[@iamtassadar9458]

This is ridiculous. What would be more ridiculous would be covering an entire map in Karax P1 cannons. Maybe the rakshir mission?

[@somedude4087]

in todays news a giant lizard slaps alien bugs more at 11

[@romanbykov5922]

Apparently, the amount of essence is initially assigned WORD data type which is 2^16 maximum, 65535 (developers didn't assume there will be such an experiment and no sane Dehaka will ever go for more than that :)

[@Eloryan]

Sick ! Thx for that :D

[@syanouthai]

Hit some cap?

[@nelsonariza4075]

u need kong to fight dehaka now

[@szymongliniecki2098]

Why are you eating those enemies who have low HP? It shall be much easier and faster if you will eat units with full or high HP.

[@Tom_K]

Less hp = faster cooldown with all of the benefits of a full hp unit (health and passive buffs).

[@admiralmurphy1543]

IT GODZILLA!!!!

[@nikrik01]

Max is 2¹⁶-1