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- Tychus Spotlight(src)
Tychus Findlay is an upcoming commander for the Co-op Missions mode. In a "what if" scenario, Tychus returns to the sector to reform the Heaven's Devils into a new band of outlaws. Having patched things up with Jim Raynor, he now sends his outlaws in a war against Amon.
Tychus does not operate like a traditional commander, instead fielding four outlaw units (from a total selection of eight) as well as Tychus himself. These Outlaws are split between "The Guns," higher damage outlaws, "The Muscle," tankier outlaws, and the "Fixers," outlaws with support abilities. Each outlaw has one ability, and selecting multiple outlaws will show all of their abilities on a single command bar. Each can be upgraded from a structure that provides upgrades to their role. Outlaws are recruited from Joeyray's Bar, and when they fall in combat, they escape back to the bar and respawn after a short time.
In addition to his outlaws, Tychus can call down the Odin against his enemies, and build medivac platforms to get his outlaws in and out of rough situations. With these at his disposal, the reborn Heaven's Devils can take on any threat.
Overview
- Tychus Findlay(src)
Info
- Recommended for experienced players
- Recruit a band of legendary Outlaws.
- Purchase gear to upgrade their abilities.
Mastery
- Power Set 1
- Tychus Attack Speed: +1% – +30%
- Tychus Shredder Grenade Cooldown: -1% – -30%
- Power Set 2
- Tri-Outlaw Research Improvement: +0.5% – +15%
- Outlaw Availability: -2s - -60s
- Power Set 3
- Medivac Pickup Cooldown: +0.5% – +15%
- Odin Cooldown: -2s - -60s
Army Composition
Outlaws and Structures
Tychus does not field traditional units, rather fielding a number of elite Outlaws to fight for him. Up to four outlaws can be deployed (five at level 2), so picking the right Outlaws for the situation is key.
- The Guns
- The Muscle
- The Fixers
Talent Progression
Tychus acquires the following talents as he levels up.
Tychus has a maximum of 100 supply and can recruit legendary Outlaws from Joeyray's Bar. When Outlaws are killed, they escape death and can be recruited once again from the Bar.
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Unlocks the ability to recruit a 5th Outlaw to Tychus' crew.
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Unlocks the ability to call down the Odin at a target location, picking up Tychus and taking him as its pilot and dealing 150 damage on impact. The Odin is controllable and will fight for 60 seconds.
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One of the Muscle. Adept at supporting friendly units and dealing with armored ground units. Can use Deploy Revitalizer.
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Unlocks the following upgrades at the engineering bay:
- Increases the attack speed of Tychus, Crooked Sam and Sirius by 25%
- Increases the life of Blaze, Cannonball and Rattlesnake by 25%
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One of the Guns. Adept at deploying turrets and imbuing himself and his turrets with special abilities. Can use Deploy Warhound Turret.
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Reduces the mineral and gas cost of Tychus's first Outlaw by 50%.
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One of the Muscle. Adept at taking damage and dealing it back. Can use Heavy Impact.
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Increases the maximum number of medivac platforms from 1 to 3.
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One of the Fixers. Adept at taking control of enemy units. Can use Dominate. Can be upgraded to be a Detector.
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Reduces the cost of all gear by 100 minerals and 100 gas.
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Unlocks the following upgrades:
- Tychus gains weapon damage for each Outlaw on the field.
- Crooked Sam gains the ability to reduce the cooldown of Demolition Charge with each attack.
- Blaze gains the ability to reduce all damage to 30.
- Lt. Nikara gains the ability to cast a defensive shield around friendly units.
- Nux gains the ability to reduce the cooldown and charge up time of all primary Outlaw abilities.
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Unlocks the following upgrades at the engineering bay:
- Level 4 and 5 Outlaw Weapons research upgrades.
- Level 4 and 5 Outlaw Life and Armor research upgrades.
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Unlocks the following upgrades:
- Improves the health and attack damage of Sirius Warhound Turrets.
- Rattlesnake gains the ability to deal area of effect damage.
- Cannonball gains a 30% chance to deal 4x damage on each attack.
- Improves the duration of Vega's Dominate ability.
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Unlocks the following upgrade at the engineering bay:
- Replaces the Odin's Barrage ability with a better ability that allows the Odin to call down a nuke.
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Achievements
Gameplay
 I Ain't Flipping This Bill
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| Points |
10 |
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Purchase the ultimate gear of every heroic unit. |
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 Out-Of-Network Coverage
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10 |
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Heal 50,000 life on allied units in Co-op Missions. |
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 Push In Case of Emergency
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| Points |
10 |
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Kill 1,000 units with the Odin's Big Red Button ability. |
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 Buy Buy Buy (Buy Buy)
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| Points |
10 |
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Purchase 5 pieces of ultimate gear by 20 minutes on Hard difficulty. |
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 Leader of the Heaven's Devils
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10 | ||
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Complete all the Commander Tychus achievements. | ||
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Levels
 Tychus: Level 5
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| Points |
10 |
| Criteria |
Reach level 5 with Tychus in Co-op Missions. |
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 Tychus: Level 10
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| Points |
10 |
| Criteria |
Reach level 10 with Tychus in Co-op Missions. |
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 Tychus: Level 15
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| Points |
10 |
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Reach level 15 with Tychus in Co-op Missions. |
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Videos
Development
Tychus was designed by imagining how the commander would fit had he been in his own campaign, and as such his design borrowed heavily from Wings of Liberty missions featuring Tychus, especially the dungeon crawler “Belly of the Beast.” In this mission, the players control four hero units that you meet throughout the campaign—Tychus, Raynor, Swann, and Stetmann.
The team that designed Tychus was inspired by Tychus's story before StarCraft, where he lead a platoon in the Guild Wars named the Heaven's Devils. With this inspiration in mind, Tychus was designed around controlling a small, elite squad. So in this ultimate “what if” scenario, imagining that he non-canonically survives the events of Wings of Liberty, Tychus reforms the Heaven's Devils into a new group to take the fight to Amon.[1]
Tychus's gameplay style was inspired by heist movies such as Ocean's 11, and around selecting the right team of elite specialists to accomplish a task.[2]
Tychus went through a number of iterations before settling on the small group. Initially, Tychus had a larger army, and his units had a resource named "coldheart," which would increase as he dealt and took damage, based off of the rage mechanic from World of Warcraft. Remnants of this mechanic can be found in Cannonball.
A number of Outlaws were added to fill holes in Tychus's arsenal, as it was found that the small number of units caused Tychus to struggle in the later game. Tychus's Outlaws were initially based off of the classes from World of Warcraft, each covering a similar role. In early builds, Blaze was replaced with a hellbat/hellion based around the druid class.
Initially the Outlaws each had three abilities, in order to encourage more micromanagement oriented players to thrive which Tychus, while allowing less skilled players to pick options with more passive abilities. However, developers found tabbing through the different commanders to be frustrating, and scaled down the abilities to one per hero, then creating the mechanic were if multiple heroes were selected all of their abilities would appear on the single command card.[3]
References
- ↑ 2018-08-20, Co-op Commander Preview: Tychus. Battle.net, accessed on 2018-08-20
- ↑ 2018-08-22, Tychus Gameplay Preview! New Coop Commander & Commentary with Lead Designer . Youtube, accessed on 2018-08-22
- ↑ 2018-26-08, StarCraft 2: THE FUTURE OF CO-OP! (Developer Interview). YouTube, accessed on 2018-26-08