Co-Op Mutation #203: Resilient Rifts

Co-op Missions Discussion
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Creatures of the void descend upon Augustgrad. They emerge from strange rifts and are unusually durable. Close the rifts to save the Dominion.

Void Rifts - Void Rifts periodically appear in random locations and spawn enemy units until destroyed.
Just Die! - Enemy units are automatically revived upon death.

Rating:

Video Replays on Brutal difficulty:

Player 1                                   Player 2
[CtG (Tychus)] [Lila [The best Raynor player] (Raynor)]
[CtG (Alarak)] [Lila [The best Abathur player] (Abathur)]
[CtG (Kerrigan)] Ancalagon (Stukov)
[CtG (Arcturus)] Ancalagon (Karax)
[CtG (Artanis)] Ancalagon (Swann)
[CtG (Dehaka)] Piky (Vorazun)
[CtG (Han and Horner)] [Hunter (Zeratul)]
[CtG (Stetmann)] [Spohky (Abathur)]

[Reddit Post Link]

Void Rift Spawn Timing

Time Rifts
2:20 2 Rifts
3:50 2 Rifts
5:20 2 Rifts
6:50 2 Rifts
8:20 4 Rifts
9:50 4 Rifts
11:20 4 Rifts
12:50 4 Rifts
14:20; + every 90s 4 Rifts

Other Notes:

  • Each Void Rift has 500HP, and their spawnings are signalled by a minimap ping on each Rift.
  • [Rift spawn locations] in the first 8 minutes
  • Time stop delays by 20 seconds the spawn time of Void Rifts.
  • Units that spawn from Void Rifts neither not drop biomass for Abathur, nor essence for Dehaka.
  • All enemy units revive upon death. Enemy buildings and Void Shards do not revive.
  • Void Rifts do not revive.

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Mutation start AM3:00… but asia server check AM2:00 ~ 4:XX …
hu… i waited an hour and a half.

#203 Mutation Resilient Rifts play list…

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I always thought it rolls around Monday, 2am, PST, but it seems to vary from one week to another

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Hmm, it would appear anybody who can push well should be fine here (“If brute force doesn’t work, then you’re not using enough of it”), but with a Brutal+5 rating, I’m not so sure now.

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Think it’s around Monday, 3-3:30 am Region-Server Time.

For Asia, it’s already rolling. Usually from around @ 3-3:30 am in KR. Today’s may have been late.

Yep.

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I hate rifts, no matter the combo…

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You and me both. I’m going to 100% cheese this one, once it becomes available.

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Easy Pickings With Abathur (Brutals) and Dehaka (WurmS)
But Seriously… The Rifts pop up wayy too early (2:20)

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Zeratul + HnH. The first 4 rifts are the hardest. But once HnH gets their striker platforms up and running, the other rifts are simple to deal with.

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Most of what I’ve seen is it cycles at 3AM PST; though it usually stops you from playing the current Mutation at 2AM, so you have an hour of downtime.

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This one is plain stupid, I’d rather fight speed freak poops that are invisible than this mess

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Is it possible to cheese it with Arcturus?

If so, babysit him for the first minutes and gtg

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I’m thinking Stukov or Karax (both should be able to have at least a bunker / cannon ready by the time first wave / void rift spawns and from there it should be easy game) paired with HH for void rift snipe. Main objectives should be np.

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Played Stuk with solid HH part and it was intense but not too bad. Their call downs for early d and pushing timed well with rifts spawning. Rushing bunk and strikes then spreading bunks across map with most by the bridge was perfect counter to void rifts and waves. I hadn’t realized before how stuk can really defend most of a map with spread bunkers.

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Thx for the tip, artanis makes the game much easier.

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Anybody had this mutation bug out where you’d have random mutations and none of the ones listed for this weekly? I had 4 random ones and when I started playing, I thought to myself maybe I clicked Brutal+ but it was Brutal and after I finished it, it said weekly complete.

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It was due to one of the players selecting brutal+ difficulty for weekly mutation, which will cause the brutal+ mutators to override the weekly mutation’s mutators.

They need to fix that already…

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I’m curious if the developers intended to make the rift spawn time to be 3:20 instead of curent 2:20. I mean aside from Zagrara, Karax, Dehaka, Abathur, other commanders don’t have much breather.

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Karax + Mengsk is another comp that works well. Karax should remember to drop energizers by the ESOs.

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Did it with Dehaka and a pretty good Artanis ally who were very active on the map and not afraid to suicide zealots in order to snipe a rift.
Built 2 lings early, going Warden before gas so I could take out first rifts faster.
Went into mutas with a few wurms and swarmhost as defence against trickles, the latter so locusts could soak up damage and the wurms wouldn’t be ground down. Makes for a nice hands-off defence.

Greater Primal Wurms are nice to take out rifts since they can be spawned in explored fog of war, so I always go with that mastery.
One can easily take out a rift If you channel and then shift attack on rift so it doesn’t get distracted by spawning units.
Really, once you have a small muta swarm up and access to calldowns it becomes almost easy. It’s just getting to that point that can be tough.

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This Brutation is absolutely retarded and I hate it. I’m on my 12th try and the game keeps dicking us with long range rifts that CANNOT be reached, causing a game state where it is impossible to push and the waves overrun the base.
This is why I hate Brutal+ and Brutation on concept. You get stupid stuff like this and it’s impossible.

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