Co-Op Mutation #333: Distant Threat

Co-op Missions Discussion
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The Spear of Your Doom has made its way to Meinhoff, and is beginning to bombard the area around your base. It also has deployed time dilation devices and weapons augments for your enemies. Clean out the infested before mounting your counterattack.

Long Range - Enemy units & structures have increased weapon and vision range.
Purifier Beam - An enemy Purifier Beam moves across the map toward nearby player units.
Time Warp - Enemy Time Warps are periodically deployed throughout the map.

Rating:

Video Replays on Brutal difficulty:

Player 1                                   Player 2
[CtG Artificer of Souls] [Twotuuu Malevolent Matriarch]
[CtG Chaotic Power Couple] Ancalagon Herald of the Void
[CtG Frightful Fleshwelder] Dehakaburger Devouring One
[CtG Infiltration Specialist] 마댰 Lone Puppy

[ [Reddit Post Link]](Will add later)

Notes:

  • The Purifier Beam is permanent for Amon, and spawns at the start of the map. It slowly chases your units, and also [your static defense].
  • A new Purifier Beam spawns on Brutal at 10:30 and after every 10 minutes.
  • The Purifier Beams go past the rear choke point but do not go into the base.
  • Time stop works on the Purifier Beams.
  • Time Warp slows down ground and air units, and even building construction and production.
  • Long range increases the range of all enemy units. This increases the damage output of the infested marines.

Commander of the Week: Commander of the Week [Distant Threat] - Online Poll - StrawPoll.com
Mutation difficulty: https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxNFwgruViNYw63cY6JP_lTpPr73KA4WHd
Do you like this mutation? https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxHiA82GEkZB_PZ9qBlsNmquTLb532LzBO

Commander of the Week winner of last week:

Links:
Weekly Mutation Database
Maguro’s Mutation List
starcraft2coop.com

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Mutation overlap 147 this week 2nd

1st clear Mengsk P3+Kerrigan P1

Mutation (Distant Threat) play list

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Oh look, this week HH won’t rank in its usual tier :rofl:

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Challenge: what would be the hardest commander duo this week?

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We can start with the “meme” ones. HH P3, Abby P3, Stetmann P3, Stukov P2.

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#147 Distant Threat – SOLO ALL CLEAR and then some

Mutators: Purifier Beam, Long Range, Time Warp

Vanilla DoN with some minor inconveniences. Long Range is the most noticeable mutator, as special infested + long range can be quite annoying. This might be one of the only times where you WANT hunterlings (because they don’t get extra range).

Purifier beams tend to get stuck at the entrances. If the beams are in the north, clear the buildings in the south, and vice versa.

Time Warp… is just there. It’s only a bit dangerous when a purifier beam is nearby.

Successes [and key points]

Abathur (p2) #147: Distant Threat - Abathur Solo (p2) [Starcraft 2 Co-op Mutation] - YouTube [get vipers]

Abathur (p3) #147: Distant Threat - Abathur Solo (p3) [Starcraft 2 Co-op Mutation] - YouTube [a few brutas, then all leviathans]

Alarak (p3) #147: Distant Threat - Alarak Solo (p3) [Starcraft 2 Co-op Mutation] - YouTube [manually split Alarak, destroyers, and the mothership at night]

Artanis (p3) #147: Distant Threat - Artanis Solo (p3) [Starcraft 2 Co-op Mutation] - YouTube [dragoons + delayed space archon drops]

Dehaka (p1) #147: Distant Threat - Dehaka Solo (p1) [Starcraft 2 Co-op Mutation] - YouTube [guardians]

Fenix (p1) #147: Distant Threat - Fenix Solo (p1) [Starcraft 2 Co-op Mutation] - YouTube [robo units]

HH (p1) #147: Distant Threat - Han and Horner Solo (p1) [Starcraft 2 Co-op Mutation] - YouTube [hellbats defend; clear as fast as possible]

Karax (p3) #147: Distant Threat - Karax Solo (p3) [Starcraft 2 Co-op Mutation] - YouTube [idef Ă  carriers]

Karax (p2) #147: Distant Threat - Karax Solo (p2) [Starcraft 2 Co-op Mutation] - YouTube [robo units]

Kerrigan (p2) #147: Distant Threat - Kerrigan Solo (p2) [Starcraft 2 Co-op Mutation] - YouTube [lurker defend, broodlord offense]

Mengsk (p1) #147: Distant Threat - Mengsk Solo (p1) [Starcraft 2 Co-op Mutation] - YouTube [the usual]

Nova (p3) #147: Distant Threat - Nova Solo (p3) [Starcraft 2 Co-op Mutation] - YouTube [the usual]

Nova (p1 bio) #147: Distant Threat - Nova Solo (p1 bio) [Starcraft 2 Co-op Mutation] - YouTube [add a few tanks]

Raynor (p2) #147: Distant Threat - Raynor Solo (p2) [Starcraft 2 Co-op Mutation] - YouTube [idef Ă  BCs]

Stetmann (p3) #147: Distant Threat - Stetmann Solo (p3) [Starcraft 2 Co-op Mutation] - YouTube [ultras]

Stukov (p3) #147: Distant Threat - Stukov Solo (p3) [Starcraft 2 Co-op Mutation] - YouTube [the usual]

Swann (p1) #147: Distant Threat - Swann Solo (p1) [Starcraft 2 Co-op Mutation] - YouTube [idef Ă  herc/tank]

Tychus (p2) #147: Distant Threat - Tychus Solo (p2) [Starcraft 2 Co-op Mutation] - YouTube [the usual]

Vorazun (p3) #147: Distant Threat - Vorazun Solo (p3) [Starcraft 2 Co-op Mutation] - YouTube [dark pylon wall Ă  DT/corsair]

Zagara (p3) #147: Distant Threat - Zagara Solo (p3) [Starcraft 2 Co-op Mutation] - YouTube [good bile launcher usage]

Zeratul (p2) #147: Distant Threat - Zeratul Solo (p2) [Starcraft 2 Co-op Mutation] - YouTube [the usual]

Zeratul (p3) [No Mining] #147: Distant Threat - Zeratul Solo (p3) [Starcraft 2 Co-op Mutation] - YouTube [no mining]

Least stressful: Nova

Not recommended: Zagara

Questions about any of these runs are welcome.

PS: I’ll be doing the #shorts for each week from now on, so if you want to theorycraft some game plans before the next week’s mutations, you can check them out. They’ll be uploaded sometime during the weekend.

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stet p3 is NOT meme on DoN. it is very strong and probably even better than p2.

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that’s right. Even Mecah Spine Crawlers get in on the action!

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Mengsk eso. Gg. Please don’t to terry

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Stet P3 on maps with lots of enemies (DoN, ME, broodling, infested mutators) is just so FUN.

Definitely try this out. Would be totally fine even as level 1 P3 Stet (if you’re wondering about prestiging the final time).

I think you’re right about Abathur P3 but what is the worst team mate? H&H is too good at clearing even as P3 and Stukov is too good at defense.

Maybe H&H P3 and Abathur P3? Can anyone think of any worse combination?

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Did it in Normal, but since it seemed easy, left the commander up to the RNG.
Ended up with Zagara P1.
Thanks to an ally with H&H (that brought Hard difficulty though), next wave of banelings go collect scraps to fund the one coming after, practical :slight_smile:
I didn’t bother making the Scourge Nest, just ignored the beam and the mutalisks that were killing my army (that would die anyway).
We managed to hold back on the last structure to wait and kill the bonus.

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Well we overcheesed it with Nova P3 and P2 Swann. Even got the worst possible zerg in Kaboomer and spotters. But I guess that doesn’t matter when sab drone go boom.

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P3 Zera with a P1 Stukov ally.

My ally for the most part defended with bunkers and tanks, and also did some Overseer kiting of the purifier beams in areas that were already cleared which kept them somewhat occupied. I did the majority of the clearing.

Not much to say, went smoothly. Just a tad slower than usual.

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P2 Karax (me) + p1 Swann (random ally)
Firstly I was p1, but we decided to remake

Went simply mass carriers. I was too lazy to go robo-builds with colossi.
Pretty simple mutations, felt almost like normal mission)

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Stettman P3 and H&H P3. Maybe underestimated the effect of the range buff on the infested marines and lost a fair few Mecha Ultralisks.

Didn’t affect the outcome. We finished before the optional spawned (accidentally).

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The most amusing part of this mutation is how comically long the reach of static defence become. Funny how +3 range is almost ‘too good’ if hypothetically any CO can obtain such a power :joy: .