Starcraft Brood War - Zerg 07 "Drawing of the Web" in 4:23

This was not done by me. It was done by Blake "Spider-Waffle" Piepho.

Author's comments:

"I have to first give credit to René Kamp for his 9:49 video. When I saw it in the SDA news that it was a 7:46 improvement I was intrigued. After watching the video I wondered if I could come up with some better strategies for this mission as it looked interesting and not one dimensional.

For this mission you must get Duran to all 5 beacons without him dying.

This run came after a lot of new strategies I found. Originally I did a hydralisk strat which I managed to get 6:05 with after some time. After that I wondered if a zergling strat could be faster. After much testing I came up with one that showed great promise. I figured out I could run the beacons in the optimal order too which out many problems. I tried to refine the strat such that Duran could be running from beacon to beacon without having to slow down. I essentially was able to do this.

This strat requires a lot of luck, and has low completion rate (2 times in 5 hours for me). I give the first beacon 70%, the second 95%, the third 50%, taking the bridge 50%. There's some random zealots and DTs which can make you fail. If you get past the bridge at full health I still only give it a 35% chance of completing. You have to get some luck with photon cannons firing slow and being just outside of range and the 4th beacon completing fast with barely touching it."

If you liked this run, check out other missions at http://speeddemosarchive.com/StarcraftBroodWar.html

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Starcraft
• Brood
• War
• speed
• run
• zerg
• Spider
• Waffle

[Trib3000]

What recorder did you use for this? I use Snagit 5.0 because it's free, but it's a PoS and doesn't record sound. Do you use/know any free recorders like this one that record sound as well as video? thanks

-Trib3000

[soulhunger1]

I think most speed runs of PC games are recorded by the full version of FRAPS. You need to pay for it though.

I've never used recording software, but there should be more information about it on speeddemosarchive (linked to in the description).

[rorcon]

shit SUUUCKS

[soulhunger1]

"shit SUUUCKS "

If you feel you can do better, record a run using FRAPS and submit it to speeddemosarchive. Merely saying it sucks is pointless.

[Henryha]

@soulhunger1 You took his comment seriously? Lol!

[soulhunger1]

@Henryha Counter-trolling. I troll trolls, bro. It's too bad he didn't come back for more.

[psuREIA]

Sorry for the bad joke but looks like the protoss made "too much additional pylons"

[Pikapro2]

it would have said "cheat enabled" above it.

[Tamsin53]

you are the greatest celebrate ever.

[Drunkbuddha4]

Wow I just played this level and I didn't do nearly as good. I must have been playing for at least 45 minutes

[Nevermore2790]

I love how did the base destroyed at the end.

[SovietSlayer]

@mentoloshurka the observers run scared from the overlord.

[hnkul702]

@odins1337 lol its 4 seconds for me

[hnkul702]

This is probably the most risk-taking run ever. 6 minerals, 0 gas and 0 units? And all he does is destroy cannons and make Duran consume the units? Boy, this guy was really up for it. It took me 38:32 to beat this level.

[Panzerkommander1]

God, I spent hours playing this mission and I never get through. Respect for that guy!

[mentoloshurka]

Shit this can't be done, there is an observer near every platform.

[caioenzo]

4:33 Hydralisk on LSD

[Legyonaru90]

It took me 1 hour to finish this mission,but I don't complain,I prefer going toe to toe rather than sneaking around,this is war after all,I have a good tactic,the 2 beacons from the north are easy to take,but the others are heavily guarded,I used a dozen of lurkers,hidralisks and some overlords and I started taking taking those outposts one by one,it works trust,but you need to watch out when defending the base.