Co-Op Mutation #394: Scary Scavengers

Your resources run thin as the outbreak continues to ravage the planet. You and your ally decide to end this once and for all. Destroy the enemy buildings to stop the infested.

Outbreak - Enemy Infested Terrans spawn continuously around the map.
Slim Pickings - Player worker units gather resources at a reduced rate, but resource pickups spawn throughout the map.

Rating:

Video Replays on Brutal difficulty:

Player 1                                   Player 2
[CtG Backwater Marshal] [Twotuuu Apex Predator]
[CtG Network Administrator] Nostrebor Best Buddy
[CtG Folly of Man] Evilling Principal Proletariat
[CtG Infiltration Specialist] 조하르 Infested Admiral

[Reddit Post Link]

Notes:

  • Infested spawn from enemy buildings continuously. Aberrations start spawning at 20 mins.
  • Workers gather 1 resource per trip on Brutal difficulty.
  • Each pickup give 50 resources to both players [mineral or gas].
  • Air units do not pick up the resources.
  • Infested from Outbreak do not burn during day time.

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Links:
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Mutation overlap 209 this week 2nd
1st clear Nova P3+Swann P2
Mutation (Scary Scavengers) play list

This mutation requires early resource hunt and division. One must defend, the other must clear out Infested structures both day and night. Recommended commanders:

  • Kerrigan P3
  • Raynor P1
  • Tychus P2
  • Karax P1
  • Swann P2
  • Vorazun P3
  • Stetmann P2
  • HH P1

#209 Scary Scavengers – Currently 15/18 SOLO CLEAR

Mutators: Slim Pickings, Outbreak

This is just a regular DoN mission, but you have less money. Outbreak doesn’t come until after 2 minutes, so send 4 workers out to collect money in the early game.

Later on, after you clear an area, leave a worker there to collect resources. Stay away from infested spawn points and the paths where the infested walk.

For duos: One defense commander and one offense commander

For solo queue: Nova p3

Failures [and why I failed]

Artanis, Fenix, Vorazun [haven’t tried; Vorazun is 100% cheeseable, so that’ll be happening if I can’t beat it regularly]

Successes [and key points]

Most of the runs are just regular DoN runs but with limited resources

Abathur (p2) https://youtu.be/2MocIN5bL-4

Abathur (p3) https://youtu.be/aoJIB_PHW8Y

Alarak (p3) https://youtu.be/tEpnvbM4Vxo

Dehaka (p3) https://youtu.be/Wer7C6ykMVM

Karax (p1) https://youtu.be/yQwn_Z8fZ6s

Kerrigan (p3) https://youtu.be/CbKmu4SFYds

Nova (p3) https://youtu.be/oFA5NTZyCHM

Stetmann (p3) https://youtu.be/wwerpD9HdjQ

Stukov (p1) https://youtu.be/-r-ZcjRjqe0

Swann (p2) https://youtu.be/VjF9n-exrEk

Tychus (p2) https://youtu.be/XSG1fHrQ9YM

Zeratul (p2) https://youtu.be/5XY4MwPSoIM

Zeratul (p3) https://youtu.be/t0YOMIsOaIk [no mining]

Cheese

Raynor (p3) https://youtu.be/x46qPSYNgu4 [I know it can be done without cheese, but I didn’t want to bother]

Zagara (p3) https://youtu.be/SrGubxd5-3Q

HH (p1) https://youtu.be/Cf1KjgGGkuM

Mengsk (p2) https://youtu.be/P_owo3P_bNk

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

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Cleared it with P3 Nova with a random P3 Stukov. Didn’t bother making any workers and just had them running around the map. Stukov ally also made bunkers on areas that I cleared so we had a good income train trickling in due to our roaming infested passively picking up resources. Income was mineral heavy so barely had gas for upgrades and siege tanks to help guard our base. If I had failed this one my next bet would probably be Stet P2.

I don’t see gas going to both players from pickups, only the player picking it up.
Cleared on first try as Lone Wolf, but it was rough at times.

Finally an easy one I could play.
Was made way easier by the fact “Random Commander” picked Tychus, it would have been more of a pain to manage resources allocation with other commanders.

Zeratul P3 with random Karax ally. I thought it should work well with a defender and a DPS… nope.

I ran a probe around outside the base to pick up resources at the start, which actually gave us quite a bit by the end of the 1st day. But my ally didn’t seem to care much about building a defense. Thanks to the two photon cannons that my ally placed at the entrance, I had to use Zera to defend the first night instead of running around the map for free resources.

I didn’t pay attention to my ally during the next day so when the 2nd night came I took a look. Instead of building up the front and back, they built two huge walls at the two side entrances… where nothing was going to come through. They added nothing to the two cannons at the front, and built only two pylons at the back. I was able to scrape by between using my calldowns and army to defend both entrances.

Day 3 I again didn’t pay attention to my ally. So that 3rd night I took a look. They doubled the defense of the sides and, again, built nothing at the front and back…

Anyway, despite the bizarre choices by my ally, I was able to finish clearing during the 3th night before any big waves overran our bases. So we made it. But it was waaaay more stressful than it needed to be. They gave me a “gg” at the end and it took every moral fiber I had to give them one back. Lol

this one is easy but OOH boy the randos make it 2 times harder…

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It’s nice of you to carry your either clueless or trolling ally. I would’ve just quit when I realize what they’re up to.

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Went from really brutal last week to really easy this week.
Good mutation to level up a Prestige.

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Yea. I like a good challenge but. Last week. Man. Hate propagators? Lets go with that, lets make them move super fast and oh. Lets also make them cloaked. Its like they were trying to think of the most noob unfriendly mutation combo available.