Co-Op Mutation #393: Aggressive Recruitment

The Tal’Darim has enhanced the malevolent sludges to improve their ambush potential. He knows that the commanders can keep defending, but they only need to slip up once to be utterly defeated.

Propagators - Reality warping sludges are crawling towards you. Anything they touch is turned into a copy of the sludge.
Speed Freaks - Enemy units have double their normal movement speed.
We Move Unseen - All enemy units are permanently cloaked.

Rating:

Video Replays on Brutal difficulty:

Player 1                                   Player 2
[CtG Akhundelar] [Twotuuu Wing Commanders]
[CtG Broodbrother] Herman Legendary Outlaw
[CtG Soldier of Fortune] Dr Lila Renegade Commander
[CtG Scourge Queen] WDFaith Evolution Master
[CtG Heavy Weapons Specialist] [Lowko Scourge Queen]

Poopagator Spawn Timings

Time Poops
3:28 1
4:58 1
6:28 1
7:58 1
9:28 1
10:28 1
11:28 1
12:28 2
13:28 2
14:28 2
15:28 2
16:28 2
17:28 2
18:28 4
19:28 4
20:28 4
21:18 4
22:08 4
22:58 4
23:48 5
24:38 5
25:28 5
26:18 5
27:08 5
27:58 5
28:48 5
29:38 5

Anti-poopagator wall

Poopagator shooting range

[Reddit Post Link]

Notes:

  • Propagators have 450 health, and transform any unit they touch into one of them, effectively killing the unit.
  • Propagators hit ground units, air units, heroic units, and buildings.
  • Poopagators spawn from enemy buildings, including suppression tower spawn points, which you cannot destroy.
  • Objects that turn into the propagator have the exact same HP as the propagator that infected it; so a 1-HP Propagator can only make more 1-HP Propagators.
  • Spider mines, toxic nests, and banelings can connect with the poopagator before it poopagates them.
  • Crooked Sam’s Detonation Charge, Abathur’s Disabling Cloud, and Vorazun’s stuff can all prevent poopagators from poopagating.
  • Buildings are not cloaked.
  • Enemy suppression towers are not cloaked.
  • Speed Freaks does not affect enemy attack speed.
  • Time stop delays poop spawns by 20s.

Commander of the Week: Commander of the week [Aggressive Recruitment... - Online Poll - StrawPoll.com
Mutation difficulty: https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxS7BnaS62FvTUfSUsLgyg2SkRhLm_7WlC
Do you like this mutation? https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxAbsF59CgiPh7zf89Z7ABQkvREvQq4tas

Commander of the Week winner of last week:

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

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Mutation overlap 208 this week 2nd
1st clear Zagara P1+Nova P1
Mutation (Aggressive Recruitment) play list

This mutation is gonna be the worst of them all, Propagators and speed freaks may rapidly overwhelm your forces. Also, cloaked units and structures are everywhere, so ready your detection. Recommended commanders:

  • Fenix P1
  • Zagara P1
  • Raynor P0/P3
  • Tychus P2
  • Stukov P3
  • Dehaka P3
  • HH P2
  • Alarak P3 (Ascendants may outsmart Propagators with Mind Blast and Psionic Orbs.)
  • Karax P3 (Supporting allies with SOA abilities.)

Huh… I thought this would be the Brutal+6 one. I guess it is manageable (despite how much I loathe Props), although the battle plan to attack and tackle them does seem dicey to pull off. I’m wondering if a line of towers behind a wall would work

#208 Aggressive Recruitment – Currently 14/18 SOLO CLEAR

Mutators: Propagators, Speed Freaks, We Move Unseen

https://youtu.be/S3uqWgqmanU (easy solo for bragging rights; uses dead base cheese)

Possibly the most difficult official mutation has come. Be prepared to suffer in the pub queue.

If you don’t know how to make a worker wall, don’t use that commander

It’s hard to explain what to do for each commander, so check out my runs for details on how certain commanders deal with props and the objective.

Clear the entire left side so that the props only come from the right.

Know the prop timings! https://youtu.be/ZI1CnYoktfY?t=194 Keep a sheet of paper next to you with the timings so you can check. The easy way to remember is that they spawn at xx28 starting from 9:28 all the way until 20:28.

For duos: Zagara p1 and Tychus p0. Zagara defends, Tychus attacks

For solo queue: Abathur, Dehaka, Zagara p3 (not p1)

Failures [and why I failed]

Alarak [haven’t tried yet]

Fenix [haven’t tried yet]

HH [haven’t tried yet]

Karax (p3) [wall kept failing] https://youtu.be/k_SkHfiYJHQ

Zagara (p3) [much more difficult than I thought; it’s hard to reinforce the last area]

Successes [and key points]

No worker wall

Abathur (p0) https://youtu.be/NCNRSWEiXbw [definitely need vipers]

Abathur (p3) https://youtu.be/0CWwHEnB_f0 [definitely DEFINITELY need vipers]

Dehaka (p3) https://youtu.be/fvt9SfOwDLo [120-130 supply (workers and impalers) before making mutas]

Mengsk (p3) https://youtu.be/2ga16q-qO_c [shoot your own dudes to stop the first few props]

Nova (p1) https://youtu.be/6dqGmGtcU0I [early game is pretty tight until tanks are available]

Raynor (p0) https://youtu.be/njbRAf5Gyvw [ten or more orbitals before the going to the second area]

Stetmann (p0) https://youtu.be/6LR3vdwzx-4 [don’t try this at home]

Stukov (p1) https://youtu.be/HIsM0a9aU0Q [two queens can spawn broodling the first prop]

Swann (p2) https://youtu.be/He3A_YMLmtk [early game is very unforgiving]

Vorazun (p3) https://youtu.be/6MEpvonNn7A [easiest run without cheese]

Worker wall

Artanis (p3) https://youtu.be/RQitzh_NDT8 [pray hard]

Tychus (p2) https://youtu.be/rl_6lDFe6_4 [together wolf!]

Zeratul (p2) https://youtu.be/t2y4zOLaFb4 [wall is pretty good]

Dead base cheese (most likely won’t work in pub queue since ally won’t be on board with the idea)

Kerrigan (p3) https://youtu.be/a5KIPB4wWmE [practice that quick double tap]

Stukov (p1) https://youtu.be/Nri5bOKZdeQ [easiest run overall]

Zagara (p1) https://youtu.be/mbTmS0Gq4JQ [harder than it should’ve been]

Questions about any of these runs are welcome. Some runs will be uploaded tomorrow or the day after.

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This must be one of the harder mutations to play with random allies.
Easier to solo than to get a bad ally.

Fast Cloaked Propagators huh. Aight. I’m sitting this one out.

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I’m more concerned about the speedy props than cloaked. But yeah, hard pass on this WM.

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Well done with all those solo runs.
Would be interesting to see you clear it with Han&Horner!

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Karax’s run is up and HH’s will be up in a few hours.

This one is just ridiculous, twenty attempts with another diamond player, zagaraRaynor, couldnt get past 10 minutes. Skill issue im sure but its just mental.

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Updated runs (SOLO ALL CLEAR COMPLETE)

Alarak (p3) https://youtu.be/PGldMPtS-EU [no wall; pretty scrappy run, but was pretty easy overall]

Fenix (p0) https://youtu.be/6AdBSpnH6zQ [wall and mass carriers]

HH (p1) https://youtu.be/7dc7lu15Vd4 [wall]

Karax (p3) https://youtu.be/R1e-md3ZK_E [wall; mirages can outrun props]

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I suppose it’s not possible with some commanders without the wall cheese?

correct. i didn’t use the wall for all commanders that can beat it without the wall (except zeratul and artanis; two godly players found ways to beat the mutation without a wall using those two)

Way ahead of you there :wink: While I could try this if I played a dozen or 2 games, I’m on travel anyways, so may as well just enjoy myself :slight_smile:

One saving grace is you can see Props on the mini-map, but that’s about it

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