This Mass Raven Strategy Is Incredibly Strong... (Raven Mine to GM #2)

[@Butcho22]

You've reignited my interest in SC2. I love your positive outlook and it has me watching and playing again. Keep up the great work man!

[@appliedphysicist]

If anyone didn't know, you can cycle through all the individual units to see their kills by repeatedly clicking their icon in the units tab of the replay (top left corner)

[@Butcho22]

I'm so glad I stumbled across your comment

[@robertkocmirowski3166]

Hey Marc, I got into starcraft 2 because of your videos. I love your challenges, you're way more entertaining to watch than other players.

[@healingvisioner1]

Not gonna lie, the "Barracks Scout Bait into Bio" challenge sounds like it could be a lot of fun lol. Though I always love your videos no matter what, so just keep doing what you enjoy

[@scira7295]

I don’t even play sc2 but played when it first came out and bw. I watch your stuff consistently! It’s amazing you’re able to talk through the game while playing you’ve got an awesome thing going 👍🏼👍🏼 Nice to be about to feel like i understand what’s going on lol

[@lukewilton9525]

Hey Marc. Long shot but would you play the campaign on the hardest difficulty. Be cool to watch

[@momom6197]

Nightmare, not brutal!

[@eclipseeffigy]

Idk if it's his cup of tea, but some of the maps on the modded hardest difficulty could be fun, if it's not just too easy for him as a 1v7 insane veteran 😂

[@MagnificientLlama]

Not nightmare, one of the super nasty gauntlets prepares for GiantGrantGames

[@lukewilton9525]

I can imagine him breezing through it but the story is really good

[@testeagles6347]

Speed run?

[@michaelleone8476]

Hope you’re feeling better Thermy! Fun games to watch as always.

[@KambizSayari]

Thank you for making this Marc memories of my childhood come to life watching your replays

[@Nekoyashiki-san]

Thanks for the fun experiments with drones and sentient mines! ^^

[@hamburgers7817]

Hey Marc after watching a bunch of serious pros at Katowice, it is nice to see some clownery 😂 thanks for the content such a nice change of pace. Would you ever consider casting viewers submitted replays. Maybe with a theme or challenge? Think it would be fun for the uthermal community.

[@inthefade]

That sounds like Patreon content.

[@hamburgers7817]

@inthefade I've been a member for over a year sounds great 👍

[@TheGeniusZingo]

I would say: After watching some clownery at Katowice, it is nice to see a serious pro... xD

[@TheOriginalElkstone]

Definitely check out the raven turret hotkey thing btw, something about select target being the same button and it lets you just hold down the autoturret button and it will spam as many as you have energy and space for

[@ChristofferFlensburg]

it's called ""rapid fire". As you say, you double bind select target to your auto turret hotkey (as well as default left-click), and then just hold down the hotkey to spawn at the mouse location. You can assign that button to abilities of other units as well to do the same trick, but you can only assign one spell for each unit to rapid fire. Typically you also want to change your system settings to maximum repeat-speed when you hold down the button, if you haven't already. It's been around for ages, I'd be surprised if marc isn't aware of it. In particular in the infestor-BL era it was very commonly used for spamming infested terrans when you wanted to spawn like 50+ of them essentially instantly, but it has uses for a lot of other spells as well. Not sure how mandatory it is when you have the APM of a pro, but definitely useful and a big quality of life trick for mortal players.

[@CrimzonClover]

WOOT, more SC!

[@trondjacobsen3973]

This is superior implementation of Ketroc strategy + pro tactics and micro + entertainer

[@TheDuckHasArrived]

It's always fun to watch You having fun :)

[@craigcombes]

About time we get some raven play... Raven planetary was the reason I fell in love with you. Mass turrets was insane 😂

[@wyllice]

Love the name Birdwatcher for this challenge 😂

[@ironsilk6634]

You username cracks me up! 😆

[@karacho1]

"I saw an explostion, I have no Idea what it was - lets just pretend it was an ultralistk." ... :)))

[@Cheesycake-sc9co]

What happened to episode 2 or is it a typo for episode 3

[@Schwabenteurer]

Always cracks me up when he says "turd command center". I really enjoy your vids. Keep up the good work.

[@shootzmcgootz5894]

This is my favorite video so far.

[@newrandomguy4218]

You can do this strategy like everyday for me 😼👍 I love your field view and field control and stuff. I would consider to bury at least 2 widowmines together. One is distraction - three are making huge damage!

[@inocheckblindspot]

That run-through at 21:10 was disgusting!

[@SD....]

Marc if you see an opponent trying to go mass BC, I'd love to see you just mass overseers and constantly contaminate their starports xD

[@dexiedude]

Is the planetary armor bugged? At 12:16 it shows a planetary with 2 armor, but load space like Neosteel is finished... And if neosteel isn't finished, shouldn't it have 3 armor? Does it not show the base 3 armor?

[@Merkaba85]

The 2 you see on the icon, means +2 armor. Which it got from the neosteel upgrade. If you were to mouse over, it would say 5 armor, as a PF has 3 base armor.

[@eclipseeffigy]

That's the armor level. Same way you can check upgrades quickly on opponents; 0 is no upgrades, 1 is +1 etc. Actual armor numbers vary

[@kungpochopedtuna]

Have you ever considered playing they are billions mr thermal?

[@GruppeSechs]

I'm putting in my request for Excrete Creep and Contaminate to GM. Dunno if there should be unit limitations, but actually finding ways to use overlord abilities would be interesting to see! Who needs to be good at creep spread when you just bring a queen to the middle of the map while an overlord pukes everywhere?

[@__brodul__]

I hope Marc tries out the Beyond All Reason - BAR RTS.

[@uThermal]

I've been trying it out a bit :)

[@Appletank8]

How many Ravens before Anti-Armor missile lets you do more damage vs throwing down another auto-turret?

[@barbecuedchicken2894]

mass raven raven auto turrets do 31.58dps over 10 seconds they are active, this makes it do a theoretical max of 315.8 damage. this is done by an 18 damage cannon, meaning the anti armor missile, costing 50% more energy at 75, will only increase the damage to 20, or an 11% increase, which is quite bad. since it costs more energy, the anti-armour missile should contribute to 1.5 times an auto-turret’s damage, and do more than 473.7 damage( or add 47.37 dps because it doesn’t matter) therefore, the only time where an antiarmor missile will be worth it is when ((315.8 * x) * 1.11) > (315.8 * (x+1.5)) where x is the number of auto turrets currently shooting. Doing the math, x must be > 13.63, so at 14 auto turrets (4 ravens at max energy) , it becomes worth it to anti armour. However, this does not take into account the fact that the 25 energy left over after the missile doesn’t contribute, so you’re technically losing out on 2 turrets, so it’s slightly more than that but i’d say if you had a flock of 15+ ravens going for a dive, it’s worth it to anti armour!

[@0vermind333]

Wonder when matrix to detectors will come to play

[@TheArchivistArchive]

Just a query, I don't suppose you'd consider turning off the XP thing? I think SC2 looks much nicer without that showing up every time you kill things.

[@faithful451]

Yep one of the stupidest and most offputting things they added. Classic modern Blizzard.

[@omerb.5607]

Can you make a Protoss gameplay bro? I enjoy watching good games.

[@patrickhill7084]

What about bane drops.... I feel like it may make some insane vids!

[@Scawtsauce]

omg Iove the new games (in theory) but I feel like you haven't have a great challenge game in like a month!! I'm excited to watch this thank god

[@danielzinn7076]

Zerg-Terran 2 GM. Neural parasite SCV and make it build Terran buildings.

[@SH-os1ck]

Such good content

[@sloanNYC]

When you see mass Ravens, wouldn't you make some Ghosts to just EMP them?

[@artemirrlazaris7406]

Currious about the energy per kill ratio, like how effective is the turrets per energy cost... would be interesting stat, sc2 needs a better end game stat window, unfortunately you need to then load it into a modded replay watcher, to get better stats, but I think sc2 would benefit from a Replay watcher mod, that has more things you can do. Faster watchign etc.

[@lixnix2018]

It works surprisingly well

[@izenaries]

Do like mass carriers next plss, you can use zealot and adept only early until you get carriers, no mama ship

[@maximk9964]

So if a group of crows is "murder", what do you call mass ravens?

[@michaelallen2472]

A group of ravens is called a jury 😂

[@Parslow195]

A group of ravens has a couple names iirc, but my favorite is a conspiracy of ravens.

[@loreakaaasgeir]

a banger? ... I'll see myself out

[@Abduladilosman]

A genocide of ravens

[@Dead_Videos]

Jurors are a jury. Lemurs are a conspiracy. Ravens are an unkindness. However, here's the trick. English is a screwy language and the collective nouns are made up. If you search out those words in a dictionary you'll find no answers there beyond generic collective nouns like group or flock. Society agrees on common ones, like a murder or crows. Or a business of penguins because they are funny and a common animal. But most people walking down the road wouldn't know the difference between a murder of crows and an unkindness of Ravens. They'd just say "that's a big group of black birds" probably. Anyway, have fun with your new knowledge.

[@wschmrdr]

I'm just glad I'm not an opponent.... gosh darn mass ravens....

[@邵奕虹]

Diamond league? Which region were you in? I'm currently in the diamond league, wish I could meet you unexpectedly and be one of the video participants to be destroyed by your weird strategy.🤪

[@uThermal]

NA server ^^

[@stefanstancu636]

How many of you here tried his challenges? That's so fun....well I was not even close to his speed and IQ but still was fun

[@FlintlockAO]

New challenge: Random, Caster Only.

[@Geek-a-Zoid]

Awesome!

[@DevilWearsAdidas]

I miss seeker missiles.

[@CamiloCBG]

BirdWatchers are OP 😂

[@charlesloyd1898]

Normal players spread creep. Uthermal spreads widow mines.

[@Gtvoao]

Challenge: All CC, nexuses placed wrong.

[@TheZigZiggy]

Do this against Clem !!!

[@elcocodriloazul]

Brutal.

[@tazd3v]

I hope you are still continuing the Noahs Ark :)

[@wyko7450]

I feel like ive played against this. I said "what a play style" and left.

[@AtomicRadii]

Since you live periodically in Mexico. By now you should have a pretty good vocabulary. You should do a commentary in Spanish!

[@uThermal]

Hahaha my Spanish is embarassingly bad for how long I've been here

[@eztvlight1202]

That makes it Even more fun Marc. Pluss 1 billion or so new viewers is Nice 😂

[@tristank1]

You should give teaching courses😅😅😅

[@Zenkujo]

Mind-Games to GrandMaster? :P

[@mustafaduran6685]

Hey try pull the boys(scv) or try 4 vs 4

[@jimboonehallo900]

Cool

[@axeus2008]

123k! awesome

[@nicklindberg90]

🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛

[@EgorPomidor-r7l]

Finally no bullshit Stormgate

[@vitorh3568]

Haha agree. I still wonder how that game is from 2024. It looks like from an old era xD

[@bullpup1337]

proposal: pad your videos to be 1h (just put some image and music at the end) so we dont know how long the last game goes, makes it more suspenseful!

[@freddubius9333]

Bad for the youtube algorithm

[@bullpup1337]

@@freddubius9333 hmm there must be a solution… other channels did this, too, IIRC. I know there are some browser plugins to hide the video length but doesn’t t work in IOS app, and it sucks to know the game is over in two minutes when the game still looks like its up in the air.

[@TomateFouree]

is this bronze league?

[@FelipeMedina-yz5pw]

Huge, not "yuge".

[@Spochy8]

strong? Dia 2? making scvs is strong.

[@jaeyang9540]

1 first lol