Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Walkthrough Zerus 1: Waking the Ancient

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Zerus 1: Waking the Ancient

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Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Walkthrough - Starcraft 2-Heart-of-the-Swarm 252

In this mission we have to harvest biomass. Start by the standart droning up.

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Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Walkthrough - Starcraft 2-Heart-of-the-Swarm 253

You also get your second flying unit (after the overlord), the mutalisk. It is a ranged attacker, quite useful when stacked up.

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Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Walkthrough - Starcraft 2-Heart-of-the-Swarm 254

Creep spread as much as you can with the queen.

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Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Walkthrough - Starcraft 2-Heart-of-the-Swarm 255

And start making upgrades from now on.

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Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Walkthrough - Starcraft 2-Heart-of-the-Swarm 256

Make your second extractor early, you will need the gas a lot.

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Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Walkthrough - Starcraft 2-Heart-of-the-Swarm 257

Also, make a second hatchery right after the gas.

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Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Walkthrough - Starcraft 2-Heart-of-the-Swarm 258

Gather your army up and attack the neutral animals near the expansion.

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Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Walkthrough - Starcraft 2-Heart-of-the-Swarm 259

To start harvesting the biomass from the creature, you have to select a drone and right click on it. It will take 60 seconds to gather the biomass.

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Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Walkthrough - Starcraft 2-Heart-of-the-Swarm 260

This here is an essence pool. Be sure to grab the essence in it with Kerrigan, as it will level you up.

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Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Walkthrough - Starcraft 2-Heart-of-the-Swarm 261

After the biomass has been harvested, make a hatchery and 2 extractors. Put 3 drones on the extractors right away.

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Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Walkthrough - Starcraft 2-Heart-of-the-Swarm 262

Do not forget your upgrades while doing so.

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Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Walkthrough - Starcraft 2-Heart-of-the-Swarm 263

The Primal Zerg might attack you from time to time.

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Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Walkthrough - Starcraft 2-Heart-of-the-Swarm 264

Also, they might attack the biomass from time to time. Make sure to stop them.

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Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Walkthrough - Starcraft 2-Heart-of-the-Swarm 265

Make a third hatchery somewhere, doesn't matter where.

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Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Walkthrough - Starcraft 2-Heart-of-the-Swarm 266

Also, remember to get the gas pickups on the ground, you will need a lot of gas.

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Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Walkthrough - Starcraft 2-Heart-of-the-Swarm 267

Your main army will consist of mutalisks and you will make zerglings when you need the reinforcements.

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Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Walkthrough - Starcraft 2-Heart-of-the-Swarm 268

Also, make sure to start the mutalisk upgrades early, don't forget them like me.

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Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Walkthrough - Starcraft 2-Heart-of-the-Swarm 269

When you have a nice ammount of mutalisks, use them and Kerrigan to attack the Quilgor's. Don't gather the biomass until you have completed the optional objectives though.

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Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Walkthrough - Starcraft 2-Heart-of-the-Swarm 270

If you accidentaly made too many drones, you can use them to make spine crawlers, definitely helps.

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Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Walkthrough - Starcraft 2-Heart-of-the-Swarm 271

Mutalisks should be able to take care of most of the enemies, if not all.

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Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Walkthrough - Starcraft 2-Heart-of-the-Swarm 272

Go around with Kerrigan and your mutalisks and kill enemy outposts to gain territory.

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Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Walkthrough - Starcraft 2-Heart-of-the-Swarm 273

You can find the second essence pool far to the south.

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Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Walkthrough - Starcraft 2-Heart-of-the-Swarm 274

This here is a Primal Hive. Make sure to destroy each one you see on the field.

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Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Walkthrough - Starcraft 2-Heart-of-the-Swarm 275

If you collect biomass from 2 or more places at once, you will get attacked with a bigger force.

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Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Walkthrough - Starcraft 2-Heart-of-the-Swarm 276

The last biomass location is far to the east. After you take it, you're free to collect all of the biomass.

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Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Walkthrough - Starcraft 2-Heart-of-the-Swarm 277

After you collect the biomass, you will get to fight Brakk.

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Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Walkthrough - Starcraft 2-Heart-of-the-Swarm 278

He is really durable, but if you made enough mutalisks you should be able to easily take care of him.

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Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Walkthrough - Starcraft 2-Heart-of-the-Swarm 279

After you deal with him, the mission will end.

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