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Hey, its another of those times where I sit around typing stuff as the video uploads.
Ive been putting a lot of effort recently into creating content for the Starcraft 2 community to play, it's been really fun.
The honest fact is that there isn't a whole lot of space for difficult challenge runs in RTS,. My options were to do the typical KZbinr thing where you do progressively easier challenges while pretending that they are hard, or expand my content. I am trying my hand as a creator in other parts of the scene and I am very happy with the results so far.
I hope you enjoy the video!
0:00 - Intro
0:59 - Liberation Day
1:30 - The Outlaws
2:19 - Zero Hour
2:35 - The Evacuation
3:52 - Smash and Grab
4:39 - The Devil's Playground
5:24 - Welcome to the Jungle
7:26 - The Dig
8:49 - Whispers of Doom
9:00 - Cutthroat
10:10 - Safe Haven
11:16 - The Moebius Factor
11:27 - A Sinister Turn
12:13 - Breakout
13:09 - Ghost of a Chance
13:33 - Echoes of the Future
14:26 - Chungus Among Us
15:50 - Media Blitz
16:37 - In Utter Darkness
17:12 - Piercing the Shroud
18:57 - The Mom of the Void
21:28 - Shatter the Sky
22:44 - All In
24:38 - I Love You

[@DeniableWhistle]

I remember a comment on the HotS Real-Scale testing on the other channel that said that with this mod, Kerrigan's fear of the Golden Armada coming to get her at Kaldir makes MUCH more sense.

[@zebjensen4251]

Well it's like seeing a feel of star destroyers flying towards you she would have to be stupid not to be scared.

[@512TheWolf512]

Yeah. It's also like that feeling when you see the opening experiment from half-life in the absolute zero mod, and it all makes much more sense

[@zebjensen4251]

@Amber Wolf oh ya I forgot about that. So not only was she not at full power but she may as well have had Darth Vader's entire fleet with him. No wonder she was scared.

[@wolfclaw3812]

If the Golden Armada had shown up during HotS or LotV, it wouldn't be HotS or LotV. It would just be reverse In Utter Darkness.

[@sepg5084]

@@zebjensen4251 yet Zerg thrashed Aiur, the home base of a supposedly very advanced civilization.

[@philip8498]

mothership cloaking in the game: i project a cloakingfield that prevents my allies from being seen mothership cloaking in real scale: the voidrays hide under my gigantic body

[@bluesbest1]

My chicks are safe beneath my wings.

[@yuukiritotrinh6567]

When Starcraft NPCs realizes that if God cannot see from above so do the enemy

[@jarskil8862]

:33 bird mothers be like

[@eadbert1935]

i've mentioned this on another video ALL of the mothership abilities are actually just passives: cloaking field? i hide allies from god vortex? that's just gravity. whenever i spin, you spin recall? gravity, maybe magnetism.

[@velaroniasunstryder6014]

So, basically: Mommyship too dummy thiqq. pls nerf.

[@Chyrre]

Everyone: "Protoss OP" Protoss: "Hold my Lore-Accurate Units"

[@oshkiv4684]

Fr, they could've just walked a voidray onto char and avoided this whole mess lol

[@headshothunt3r414]

@@oshkiv4684 dont forget about the corruptors that melted Grants elite BC on shatter of the sky

[@dodojesus4529]

@@headshothunt3r414 get a couple phoenix in there and its fine

[@Junebug89]

@@oshkiv4684 Until you realize how big leviathans are haha. A leviathan could swallow a void ray whole.

[@diamondmetal3062]

@@oshkiv4684 Just imagine that: even for all that power, the Zerg are still able to match them through sheer, mind-numbing quantity. For this to be truly accurate, there would have to be more Zerg on the map than any computer could reasonable process!

[@user-yf5mn8uy8h]

Even though Grant laughs at the hybrids and their size, I think it's rather impressive. All this power and strength in such a small package. The ability to tear ultralisks apart...

[@philip8498]

even crazier when you think about tiny tiny kerrigan who can implode a goddamned battlecruiser with a single snap of her fingers

[@JarmamStuff]

@@philip8498 'Judge me by my size, do you?'

[@eadbert1935]

i mean, what makes these units so strong is their efficiency. We also laugh at the size of 1MB in 1950 compared to 1TB today.

[@user-oz7ne4tb4i]

@@JarmamStuff "The ability to cover the whole map is insignificant next to the power of Hybrids."

[@lanterncalmness6277]

Правильно, сила не в размере, а в пси возможностях

[@CsubAzUrmedve]

It would take A LOT of time to make, but the maps really need to be bigger for this mod.

[@RMJ1984]

Yeah bigger maps and zooming a bit more out. It would be pretty need. lets call it Starcraft 2 REFORGED :P

[@derv7978]

@@RMJ1984 Starcraft 2 ReZoomed

[@Marcusaralius76]

Or just scale EVERYTHING down?

[@ScBroodSc2]

I agree but sc2 is limited to 256x256, you would have to fake size by making everything tiny and what is "big" making it normal or a bit bigger. It's alot of modifications, like your normal marine would have to be scaled down and change its 6 range to like 2. And ofc there are issues with very big scaled units, same can be said with very small units, just different issues.

[@luggy9256]

It would be awesome, but I’d rather like 20 full campaigns in the same time frame

[@bobbyferg9173]

Artanis: -Appears at the final battle of the Protoss race -Gives a speech about hope or something -Dies -Refuses to elaborate

[@thequestionguy6695]

🗿

[@arcthechef1758]

@@thequestionguy6695 based

[@SireAymeri]

Just as planned

[@Benjamin1986980]

Well, everyone dies anyway. Having his last speech the only moments before death works thematically

[@The_whales]

He can’t really elaborate if he died

[@gna104191]

"It's somewhat manageable before Selendis, but once her girthy carrier has arrived the entire screen is just orange..." Imagine hearing this sentence out of context

[@shingshongshamalama]

This feels like it's just a couple steps away from turning Starcraft into Total Annihilation.

[@XochiCh]

Makes... sense... SC2 is over 10 years old, games like this, with these dedicated communities tend to blow things out of proportion... I remember in DoW when Shadoswords, Bane Tanks and Blood Thirsters were the GG button, now they’re mid-tier trash with multiple variants and you now can summon map-wide colossi and Exterminatus.

[@nadarith1044]

Awesome game that created an entire RTS subgenre that the world needs more of? yes please

[@whiskizyo2067]

now i wanna see Total Star Annihilation Craft

[@kiloneie]

Man do i wanna see a Sup Com 3/4(the actual 3rd installment was... NOT Sup Com, back to Forged Alliance).

[@shurakronos3219]

or a movie.... if god exists

[@ianp1012]

5 minutes in I went from, "OK that makes sense lore wise." to, "Holy shit that void ray is 80% of the map. Good god".

[@selectivepontification8766]

It's hard to believe from the regular game models that Void Rays are canonically 600 meters long. For reference, the biggest aircraft carriers in the world are just over half that length.

[@ianp1012]

@@selectivepontification8766 Holy shit that's massive...

[@MaddieFrankX]

I finally understand why they have always been so OP.

[@roknor9815]

13:09 "After Tosh, I do Nova, which isn't that exciting at first, but it gets a lot better once I can dominate a Raven and bring it in on the fun." Phrasing, Grant!

[@LotsoOP]

Best moment

[@nnathan1874]

🤣

[@rory8182]

I, you, give me a minute

[@ryoumakoushiro7447]

I mean who doesn't want to do her? Sans the assassin thingy and the fact that she's a goddamn Ghost

[@Ellwe2000]

I think that amazing phrasing was the point

[@Twidgie]

Geez, the biblically accurate mothership really is the destroyer of worlds.

[@honourabledoctoredwinmoria3126]

We need to see the Spear of Adun real scale. It just keeps coming out of the ground.

[@M4RCi92]

​@@honourabledoctoredwinmoria3126 It's impossibly gargantuan. It's at least 10 times the size of a leviathan. It'd be hilarious.

[@Jpeg.g]

@@honourabledoctoredwinmoria3126 congrats, your screen is now a gold.

[@evanboll4651]

@@honourabledoctoredwinmoria3126 The Spear Of Adun is canonically somewhere between 75-100 Kilometers long. It can hold literal FLEETS of Motherships and Carriers.

[@sepg5084]

Where in the bible is the mothership described? 🤦

[@HORoundhouse]

Artanis in Real Scale: -arrives -praises the glory of the (dying) protoss -refuses to elaborate -dies

[@breckandolley8904]

It has always bothered me how the Starcraft lore makes the Protoss sound like they really are the chosen Xel'Naga race, but the gameplay makes them seem human. This solves that! Lots of fun, great video. Edit: Just got to the Leviathan part of the video, and remembered that the Xel'Naga also chose the Zerg as the other purity. Legitimately forgot that.

[@runtergerutscht4401]

What I personally love is the strength increase to zealots. Whereas marines and lings got weaker in real scale (although admittedly lings got more spammable), Zealots gained stats. They legitimately feel like superpowered alien warriors that have been training for ages and are a legitimate threat to your forces, with them eating tons of marines or lings if you don't give them the attention they deserve.

[@eadbert1935]

@@runtergerutscht4401 i mean yeah, fenix was a special zealot, but i think he killed hundreds of zerglings before dying on antioch(?) others might not be AS strong as him, but one standard zealot should be worth 10+ zerglings.

[@runtergerutscht4401]

@@eadbert1935 and they are. On brutal, standard lings have 25 hp. A zealot has (I think) 8*25%×2=20 attack damage on brutal, so they almost oneshot lings, as well as upgraded 35 hp lings. The only way lings win with any semblance of efficiency is by surrounding zealots. In a choke, these beasts would re-enact the battle of the hot gates.

[@GeorgeMonet]

No. The Swarm were the Chosen Xel'Naga. The Xel'Naga looked at the Protoss as being useful but utterly lacking.

[@ForgedinPrint]

@@GeorgeMonet I thought it was that both factions were needed in order to complete the cycle, zerg were purity of essence and protoss were purity of form.

[@flaviobriggs]

Lore wise I always told myself that rather than actually looking down on a real battlefield you were instead controlling one as a commander. 1 BC might be one actual BC but a single marine unit would instead represent a platoon of marines or more is always how I thought of it.

[@0liver_Clothesoff]

Like how Dawn of War doesn't spawn single infantry units, but squads of units

[@Reavan07]

StarCraft but in Supreme Commander would be interesting

[@danielmahon1589]

@@Reavan07 that would be a cross over episode for the ages

[@sethb3090]

@@0liver_Clothesoff I really liked that in command and conquer 3 too.

[@monicaleonte8913]

yeah there have been a few RTSs that do it that way, it's quite nice. I think that was the intent in terms of the gameplay-to-lore conversion in Starcraft anyway

[@bluesbest1]

I remember watching the vod of Safe Haven and being in awe when we first saw the shadow pass across the screen. SO INTIMIDATING!!! I also remember you losing track of the All In Cattlebruiser only to realize it's living its best life as lore-friendly untouchable orbital bombardment.

[@eydis9554]

If I can, I would suggest a little video idea. "Meme units / techs and why they are meme". You mentioned couple of times that Destroyers, predators and Avengers are bad and basically meme. I would like to see the entire list of every bad tech / unit type and why it is bad. This could include Kerrigan's / Spear of Adun upgrades.

[@thecanuckredcoat4142]

Bonus points of it's done in a how do we improve them way

[@rayyyyyishere]

thats actually the next video planned, weve been discussing it and such in the public discord

[@Santisima_Trinidad]

So, from what i remember Terran Firebats: takes a good second to "charge up" their attacks, means you can't stutterstep with them, and in battles they typically have their targets killed by other units before they actually fire Wraiths: very expensive for a mediocre anti air option, and their anti ground DPS is bassically nonexistent. Scout, getting put here for ease of reference: same as wraith, but worse because it can't cloak. Predator: it's like a big zergling, but really expensive, and thus pretty bad. Doesn't help thag it's designed to counter the zergling, but isn't at all cost effective. Shrike turret: you have the choice between a 0/0 marine worth of DPS or 150 extra life on your bunker. No contest Tech reactor: takes twice as long to build as a tech lab, and is more expensive. You are as well off building 2 factorys or barracks and putting tech labs on them. Vanadium plating: give a tiny bit of extra life, but ultra capacitors guves extra attack speed, killing stuff faster, and so is a way better damage reduction tool, and a fight winner. Regenerative bio steel: gives you about .2 of a life per second. Utterly useless. Onto zerg I Don't really know any bad zerg stuff. Typically with zerg in the campaign it's just "this is good, but the other option is obscene". Good example is the roaches, which gives corpsers or viles. Corpseres mini roaches are pretty good, free units being free units. But viles give a massive attack speed reduction, giving you way more survivability throughout the battle. Exception is stinkylisk, which gives small AoE damage over time effective to the big AoE zerg beasty. It's also against the torrask, the ultralisk which revives in the middle of combat, so also has the other zerg problem. And for protos, Warp in pylon. Pylons already get warped in, theres no need for them to get warped in using energy. Whirwind zealots: gives zealots AoE. Put causes them to become super vulnerable to AoE, such that a single siegebreaker can theoretically wipe out your entire army in a single shot. Instigators: having multiple charges of blink is nice, but the extra cooldown makes them just worse than stalkers. Avengers: if I remember correctly, its thay the other DTs have abilities which let them decimate enemy forces, whilst the avenger is an expendable unit that just doesn't die Destroyer: it trades some of the void rays damage for a 1 damage per target chaining spell effect. Which could be pretty good against marines or zerglings. But it's a spell effect, and so doesn't get affected by attack upgrades, whilst being affected by armour. So it goes from a 1 damage beam against /0 zerglings, to a .25 damage beam versus 3/3 zerglings. Utterly terriblem Thats all the ones i know. Theres probably a couple more.

[@eydis9554]

@@Santisima_Trinidad In Heart of the Swarm, you can extend it to Kerrigan's upgrades. Heroic Fortitude is meme as far as I know for example.

[@thest0mpa]

@@Santisima_Trinidad Other porblem with the avenger is that the other 2 are infinatly more useful where the avenger is a vanilla DT in a campaign balanced around the super powered protoss. The narazim dt has the massive aoe damage that can completly destroy ground forces and then clean up stragglers with their regular attack and the blood hunters have the disable that lets them sneak around cannons, spores and missile turrets to actually be good infiltraitors but the avengers special power is that its so bad it dies and comes back to just die again

[@Sullian_dF]

Also, I think a really good idea for battlecruisers would be to give them the ability to target multiple units, kinda like in NCO. The way I see it, the main problem is that the BCs are so high up and their projectiles are so slow that once they kill their target, it takes like one or two seconds for them to effectively deal damage to another target, wasting dozens of laser shots on a dead Hydralisk, making them pretty ineffective against small targets. IMO the multi-targeting would help alleviate that. Plus, come on, a Minotaur-class BC is like 900 meters long and probably has like dozens of laser batteries, wouldn't it just make sense to have it strike multiple target at once? Edit: Also, forgot to mention it, but the carriers could use the same treatement, in addition to more interceptors. That mod is marvelous, but capital ships that don't have area damage feel like they just are just here for their tanking potential (especially in a mod where there are overall massively more units per mission), which saddens me a bit.

[@eadbert1935]

the main issue with the single target shots of the cattlebruisers is how much overkill there is. the shots takes such a long time to hit, and if you have supporting fire it's easily possible that the BCs deal 0 dmg if they get bad targets.

[@OMIMreacts]

there is some battlecruiser type that just automatically shoots all targets that are close with independently firing canons. i dont know where it appears but i definitely played around with it at one time. might have found it in the editor.

[@Sullian_dF]

@@OMIMreacts The Gorgon perhaps?

[@eadbert1935]

@@OMIMreacts N:CO?

[@Falzelo]

@@eadbert1935 Nova Overt Cops

[@Kerberus262]

The Maw part really shows why I prefer longer "Time-to-Kill" ratios in games. When things don't instantly blow up after a second or two there's a lot more room for tactics and strategy, and it's less punishing if you make a single misstep, however that can still escalate into a loss if you don't recover.

[@danb9460]

“Hey bobby what’s them big air balloons over there?” “Oh that’s the Zerg based overlords, Austin!” “But Billy, doesn’t that make it easy to locate and destroy?” “Nahhh, we are too drunk or incompetent to really notice these things”

[@disieh]

This actually got me thinking. If thors would in the normal game have the colossus walkover property, they would be so much more useful. Obviously this means they need nerfs to keep the game from breaking, but imagine having thors that don't make you want to break your monitor when lings appear.

[@thest0mpa]

right up until the thor has no supporting units then the zerglings have perfect surface area underneith them and kill them in seconds i recoment (at time of commenting) looking at the most recent HotS realscale vid on the archiveswhere he does the zergling evolution mission and see in the swarmling section just how fast he tears through the thor there

[@levisamom5069]

But Thor's have short stubby legs compared to the long spider legs of the long zealots making the Thor not ideal for cliff walking

[@Worochl]

I can practically hear the grin on your face as you talk about this, looking forward to trying this out myself. Cheers!

[@meeszijlstra5426]

I've never really watched a real scale video before, the title didn't make me think it would be too interesting. Just the campaign, but the models are resized. What's so interesting about that? But I now realize a more fitting title might be realistic or lore-accurate. I'm going to have to watch the series on the archives now, because it DOES sound cool now that I understand what the campaign truly is like.

[@willbrolley262]

Grant's reaction to the first void ray on Welcome to the Jungle is absolutely priceless.

[@mateiduma646]

@@willbrolley262 I completely forgot those things are massive lol

[@Duncecap64]

Most realscale mods are like this, not resizing because that would be dumb but also making them real to damage scaling as well. Come on marines ain't gunning down a 900M long cattlebruiser in nothing flat, and a planet cracker the size of a large city is ludicrous to see.

[@JainZar1]

The "Click to skip tutorial" is the best feature of the HotS Realscale campaign.

[@travisl8979]

"Finding small bugs even when they are not zerg" hahahha I laughed way to hard at that

[@ordelian7795]

00:15 "Almost always." I want the footage of every match where people who won did not build a capital starship.

[@oldgamesplayer2220]

no, he says the one that makes capital ship first almost always win not someone won without building at least one capitalship

[@Ghi102]

Either it's an early game all in, or the person who builds them first somehow did not do enough damage and lost

[@mastersonogashira1796]

Same thing on ladder

[@baron2062]

probably a terran boi spamming vikings or goliaths

[@ordelian7795]

@@baron2062 WOO! Terran numero uno!

[@firockfinion3326]

The contrast between the other Zerg ground units and the beefy ultralisks is great with this mod.

[@alexs5814]

I'm usually thinking about the contrast of the adorably wittle star port and the giant ass BC spawning from it^^

[@danielhale1]

I liked that some ships like Science Vessels were the scene of whole missions. Scale always seemed absurd in SC but I accepted it for balance needs. I'm loving seeing things scaled properly, and the protoss and zerg behemoths being legit scary! But I also like that Kerrigan and Hybrids are so tiny. This is a world where large scale means terrifying power, and yet they have all that at around human scale and that's a different fear. Yes size can impart terror, but there's something impressive to something Goku-sized that can casually destroy moons and devour cities.

[@apawhite]

Incredible. *squeeing voice* WHO's the Heart of the Swarm, terror of worlds, the end of all hope? YOU ARE! YES, YOU ARE! D'awwww, there she goes, eviscerating everything in her path...

[@ghetis396]

You can just hear the joy in his voice while he's describing some of the scenarios

[@SmugLookingBarrel]

...oh man, I'm SO excited for With Friends Like These, the HotS mission where you control the Hyperion and fight a bunch of starships, that would be amazing in real scale.

[@SephirothRyu]

For that mission, its more that all the fighters and small things will just become tiny.

[@vdate]

Oh, this is VERY cool. Takes the feel of the SC2 visuals from what I'd always contextualized as 'WH40K brought to life' (in its scales and proportions especially) to 'Epic 40K (or w/e they're calling it these days) brought to life'.

[@CubeItself]

real scale love for real scale entertainment, thank you subsourian for ur lore knowledge, thanks rhyme for modding and supporting us with content and fun, thank you grant for blessing my ears and eyes in these hards times

[@TheOneWhoReportsForDuty]

The Bunker of Death has been replaced by the Tank of Death. I wonder if this will become a trend.

[@phunkym8]

watching all these 12 year old versions of units makes me really miss the old infestors and ravens. pdd and seeker was so good. as were infested terrans and fungal with no travel time

[@-Raylight]

Protoss are scary lol Meanwhile Tiny Kerrigan so cute, you could put her in your pocket or something 😂

[@Antare5]

watching this playthrough was so cool. It feels a lot like supreme commander in having aircraft fly and engage at different altitudes over enormous godzilla sized siege units surrounded by tiny tanks on the ground. Given that I am terrible at starcraft and haven't played in years I doubt I'll be able to fare very well in the mod, but I want to try it anyway. This looks great.

[@Blundabus1337]

I discovered your wings of liberty realscale campaign a few weeks ago. This video should get you a ton of views on that channel, that campaign is really awesome. Raynors Raiders are actually raiders and can't fight capital ships.

[@heyitzblaster9262]

I love how during utter darkness, it goes from colossus to void ray to carrier to mothership. Just the stages of what your allowed to see on the screen.

[@matthewhartman1855]

It's so fun seeing you go through all these steps figuring everything out during the VODs and then the edited down final product being so clean. Thanks Grant! Hope your back feels better

[@Searom98]

The Archon size is "wrong" if you watch the Legacy of the Void cinematic. Just compare to the size he made the ultralisk, the archon should be a lot bigger.

[@zaxtonhong3958]

The ultralisk in that cinematic is an sc1-sized ultralisk, which is smaller

[@tntaclegrape]

I've been watching your stream archives of this campaign and was wondering when you would make this video. Excellent work!

[@ARCEUS493ZELDA]

17:31 indeed grant, 5 ultras is clearly the best choice XD

[@zswords]

I watched the VoD of this not too long ago, it was tons of fun! :D Thanks for getting me back into Starcraft 2 again, it's been a blast.

[@OldManJacan]

Its insane to think that when I first found your channel it was the first deathless run, I had never played any starcraft game and only really watched a few cutscenes. Now only a year later you've become one of my favorite creators and have me legit thinking of playing starcraft.

[@GoldenArbiter01]

When I first saw the shadow on Safe Haven I thought to myself: "This. This is the kind of thematic stuff that really brings you into the game." Truly Awesome.

[@NuclearFury8]

All the mentions of "lore friendliness" make me wonder why the units aren't skinned to their faction like in nightmare edition, especially the tal'darim. Still, thank you for making this mod, guys. Can't wait to try it out!

[@DeltaDaspleto]

Likely because the skins came later (I think in LotV) and Blizzard either didn't want or was too lazy to change them for WoL and HotS.

[@NuclearFury8]

@@DeltaDaspleto true for the original campaigns, but the reskins are one of the nicest touches in WoL Nightmare Edition, so I'm just saying they'd be great here too.

[@BioClone]

because is not possible.. the game is not designed to understand the differences between lets say "2 different zealots, one being taldarin and another being a regular one" It would require a manual editing of each unit on each mission.

[@NuclearFury8]

@@BioClone That's not impossible, that's hard. Again, Nightmare Edition stands as an example of it being done.

[@BioClone]

@@NuclearFury8 Is more than being hard, is just a supertime consuming process that deals little beneficts but that may be a pain the ass not only to get made but to test to make sure every script works... Imagine you have one file in windows named "notepad"... one thing is get a file, name it "notepad" and replace the original... Voila... the other alternative would be to decompose every line in Windows that uses "notepad.exe" and replace that line by hand on every place it ever was used and add your custom one... That is mostly what happens here... Assuming you even could have enough knoweldge for it, you would be developing new custom gamemodes or custom campaigns rather than mess with that...

[@blnichol7]

Some great laughs here. Need to try this out at some point. Thanks for the content Grant. Your stuff is always fun!

[@hiddentw4901]

At first I wasn't sure I wanted to see this considering I'm actually watching this series on the Archives and enjoying it, but this was worth it ! Even tho you say other missions weren't worth it, it was still pretty fun to watch one trying to get through this. Huge props to you and Rhyme, sir! Have a wonderful day

[@Ascendancy-]

This brings a whole new depth of strategy to the campaign. This is absolutely amazing

[@vladspellbinder]

I would think "Lore accurate Protoss" would be them just glassing the planet from orbit and moving on with their lives... . Thanks for the video! And the mod. I'll probably never play it but it's still neat that you made it.

[@theeviloverlord7320]

Idk that doesn't seem in character, even when they are purging an incredibly dangerous infection they only glass specific parts of it,

[@vladspellbinder]

@@theeviloverlord7320 The point is that there is a very clear "story and gameplay separation" going on when it comes to dealing with Zerg infections. The _story_ tells us they glass planets, whole or in part, but that's not really fun _gameplay_ so we never actually see it.

[@zeraphyretrinity2858]

This was really fun to watch the VoDs, hope more of these come out

[@g_eddie]

Your joy at the absurdity of the real scale units was an absolute treat to behold. So glad you shared this with us. Keep up the great work!

[@cheesysealAnon]

I think for safe haven the purifier mothership should have a much longer planet buster charge time and destroying the nexus delay the timer but if you don't destroy the mother ship in time IT WILL DESTROY THE ENTIRE MAP!!!!!

[@manolgeorgiev9664]

Artanis: -arrives -delivers a speech -casually explodes -refuses to elaborate

[@PaKePo]

I love how this man, 10+ years later, still loves this game and keeps finding ways to keep falling in love with it. That's true love for ya.

[@thetaminus2334]

Hey Grant! Saw your description and I want to just say you're doing great! Please don't stress your back too much with carrying StarCraft 2. You're the man Grant!

[@kasothronos4434]

I had wanted this game mode ever since I saw the real scale mod. And it Is Epic

[@a.seecharan6139]

16:08 "And they're able to walk over smaller units like the collosus" Hmmmmmmmm, yes the collosus is definitely smaller

[@WaterAndEarthGirl]

lol, that was my first thought too!

[@jakobeule7]

I want to take the time and thank you for what you do. Not only do I love what you do with Starcraft (all the mods, custom campaigns and challenge runs), but you also reignited my love for this game. I’m honestly not very good at Starcraft, not compared to the stuff that you pull of. But I feel like I learned a bunch of stuff from watching you. It’s often small stuff. For example back when you where teaching Artosis how to speedrun. If I hadn't learned the trick for ‘The Rechoning’ where you drop a Hatchery and Nydus and the backdoor of the Protoss base, I’m not sure if I would have ever beaten this game without cheats. The time limit made this one mission the scariest of them all to me. Just a few day ago I finally beat all WoL missions on hard, and I’m now working on beating all of Starcraft 2 on Brutal. The whole process being much more fun than I would have thought a year ago. So it’s not just that I enjoy to watch your videos, you make Starcraft itself more enjoyable. Thank you.

[@catnipcatgod]

I freaking love that this community continues to come together and make things that are cool and the sheer amount of effort that you guys put into these mods for quality of life is just so impressive

[@glennbob5093]

This reminds me of the scale of Supreme Commander and their massive zoom-out. Were there any alterations to the accuracy of larger unit's weapons against smaller units? THe guns of most capital ships are not designed to target individual marines. That might be a fun angle.

[@superjes1712]

I’d love to see a “Meme units only” run. It would allow you to show them off, and explain why they are memes. Won’t be as challenging as the no build runs, but still could be interesting.

[@bronzefather5426]

Congrats on finding a narrative to show-case this mod! Like you, Grant!

[@The-jy3yq]

Real Scale was _astonishingly good._ And it had great reception on your secon channel! What you guys did is masterful! Sure hope to see some NCO mods)))

[@JodyB90]

I'm actually looking forward to playing so many of these modded campaigns myself, heck, I even decided to try streaming just because I've always enjoyed your videos. ...Though maybe not looking forward to Zeratul's head filling the entirety of my screen, it terrifies me to think about.

[@seven2864]

Well, i was so disappointed about only 4 mission being available for RS. Now I can say, Thank you!

[@evronian1129]

I was waiting for this, I'm so happy right now!

[@beetroot3211]

I loved how excited you were to share this ^^

[@Arvidus89]

22:37 Wow... the miniguns on the Jackson's Revenge ain't so "mini" anymore

[@rauno-rainspahkel306]

Hey it finally came to the main channel I wonder if you are gonna bring the HOTS real scale to the main channel someday.

[@SilverHor]

Amazing work man!

[@deadweight2121]

Are you interested in making contents with the Paradox strategy games? Or is that too much of a divergence or too risky?

[@skymangammer]

great sc2 content. Suggestion for mod: Archons should be larger - source lotv trailer

[@zaxtonhong3958]

If you ACTUALLY look at the trailer, the archon isn’t very big compared to the ultra. The ultra is a good 60% larger than it

[@quinnroberts3309]

Thank you for your positivity in your sign off of this video. I really needed it

[@merlockqueen4137]

love seeing new content like this

[@CataStudies]

Zergling are not small at all, they look small compared to everything else. Considered that they are the size of wolves. So a murder machine the sized of wolves and there's millions of them. That's shit can easily tear everything down it's path.

[@zealgaming8161]

Think my greatest disappointment with SC2 was the removal of Scourge. Those lill buggers could take down the mightiest of ships. Not even the campaign let you use them. And AI doesn't use them either much at all. Brutal air maps against Zerg massing hundreds of scourge would been terrifying.

[@ShadowWolfTJC]

For all the awesomeness that this mod brings with its unit scaling, I feel that it should've made every unit even smaller, and leave the massive units, such as Thors, Battlecruisers, Void Rays, Ravens, Science Vessels, Colossus, and Motherships, relatively untouched in terms of scaling, since these supermassive units currently seem far too big for the maps that they're played on with this mod. (When comparing this StarCraft 2 mod to Supreme Commander, one might notice how the supermassive experimental units like the Monkeylord, Czar Mothership, and Galactic Colossus might tower over all the smaller non-experimental units, yet don't take up vast portions of the maps, which were scaled up to several kilometers to fit all of these massive units within a reasonably-scaled map.)

[@asdfqwerty9241]

The small units are already pretty tiny.. if they did it that way marines and zerglings etc. would be basically invisible.

[@ShadowWolfTJC]

@@asdfqwerty9241 ...unless there was a zoom in feature, and/or unless there was a gameplay feature that somehow made tiny units more visible, such as displaying their health bars when zoomed out enough, if not always. I know that Supreme Commander had been given a feature such as this in order to deal with zoomed-out views.

[@Goremize]

I miss Surpreme commander, what a great game that was. No idea why they went and changed it so much for 2 and then just up and left it

[@jacobzeba0137]

19:48 "Cattle Bruisers" sounds like teens making a gang for cow tipping

[@hieunguyenminh5738]

I cannot overstate how awesome this is, I love you Grant and all the people responsible for making this a reality, seeing my boi Battlecruiser fighting high in the sky with Void Rays and Carriers while small little marines fight in what is essentially small trenches below them are so exhilarating

[@jedenasty2226]

Why scouts are so enormous? You can clearly see windshield on it, and it's probably for pilot only. Yet, you can fit like 4 zealots in it.

[@beepbop6542]

Those might be a large cockpit that fits multiple people.

[@davidbodor1762]

They do fit multiple protoss and they're technically an exploratory vessel that wasn't even meant for combat when it was designed.

[@jedenasty2226]

@@davidbodor1762 wiki says, it's only pilot. Also it makes more sense to make vehicle used for scouting that should avoid combat small and agile, rather than big and slow.

[@spearsage]

@@jedenasty2226 we are talking about the protoss here. They tend to make things huge. Compared to their other ships, the scout is pretty small in comparison. Not to mention that most of their air units are actually spaceships. Look at Zeratul's ship and compare it with his size. That ship is only piloted by him alone, and yet look how huge it is. The sizes here are pretty much how they're scaled in the official databook.

[@llSuperSnivyll]

@@jedenasty2226 To be fair, size is all over the place. The Void Ray only has one pilot and yet it's half a kilometer long.

[@Keln02]

Real Scale reminds me of 40k :)

[@pylonialwaffles6944]

Your writing is amazing, it kept me chuckling.

[@Rikai644]

Gonna wait for stable release to play it. Thanks for the video. I appreciate it.

[@michael.finally]

The real-scale streams have been some of my favourites. Plenty of moments that made me cackle

[@killanaut8520]

Grant then: “I’m not going to get to use marines very long in this mod am I?” Grant now: “Let’s find out!”

[@user-ww7yl5rb2i]

I had forgotten how much I enjoyed this game, gotta play it later this weekend.

[@superZvegetto]

I have never laughed this much from just playing or watching any kind of Starcraft game alone. Thank you.

[@cardinal1289]

I had just found the real scale WoL campaign and it's awesome! Then just a few hours later I found this video. Good goin man.

[@FaustIoM]

Literally just finished watching this series on the archives this morning. A timely video release.

[@wolf2403]

Once again showing exactly why I love your content! Thanks for making this cuz damn are real scale void rays low-poly and that got me laughing pretty hard. Now I wonder what the huge unit you fight, that white and orange one in the Protoss campaign is gonna work. After all, its largest axis is its height, which unless it barely hovers off the ground will be extremely hard to pull off. Good luck anyways.

[@lordhamster9452]

I really love how mods like this not only give you a new perspective on the setting, but it also allows you to use new strats and combos, which you´d never think off previously. for example, I play one skirmish based RS mod for a year now, and while some strategies optimal in the base game are very bad, experimenting with stuff like Marine Liberator combo or Predator ruse is really fun and can surprisingly work. only, thing that sucks it that they patched out skytoss for some reason, evendough they have air balanced pretty well.

[@spoot8835]

Everything is great the way it is, when there's huge units on screen, zoom out the screen. Like adding even more zoom out. Marines might end up looking like ants....but ya know they are vs carriers etc.

[@TheAverageNooob]

This is awesome. The fights happening on different levels due to the scale makes the game really seem like the war its meant to be

[@Quecojo]

Just got done playing both Wings of Liberty and Heart of the Swarm Real Scale campaigns! Bloody Epic! Especially the last mission of HoS in which we actually can control the Hyperion around!!!! I almost squealed like a little girl jajaja. Thank you for helping to bring these epic campaigns to us. Can't wait for the protoss campaign!

[@SnancyNegative]

I absolutely love that you could reuse the brutalisk bit for the secret mission. I love it when the strategies for winning are super unique.

[@JohnPetreyMusic]

19:50 Cattlebruisers xD Crazy mod, looks really fun ^^

[@Daemeous]

You appreciate me taking the time out of my day to come and watch your video!? Oh hell no, I appreciate you making this video AND mod far fucking more!

[@thetruegoldenknight]

At 7:00 I never imagined I'd hear someone who was genuinely thrilled at getting much of his ass kicked in campaign. But, I respect your explanation for that sentiment.

[@ocean037]

This looks really cool! I think the way to make a proper leviathan is by designing it as a boss fight, which means destructible body parts (and maybe different phases) that change the rythm of the fight/battle. This can be applied to the mothership too (or any other massive unit). Ofc that would be A LOT to ask for. So far it looks incredible!

[@thesrow1056]

Maybe carrier ships send in fliers for X seconds in several waves? Because the purpose of support ships is to be fair away deploying smaller fighters to support operations