StarCraft 2’s next co-op commander, Tychus, can use “the largest nuke ever put in the game”

Blizzard has announced the next co-op commander coming to StarCraft 2: everyone’s favourite cigar-mucher, Tychus Findlay. A key character from the Wings of Liberty campaign, Tychus finds himself back on the battlefield as part of StarCraft 2’s most interesting co-op faction to date. Forget buildings and hundreds of units; Tychus is all about small-scale hero combat. “Tychus only builds a faction: a small group of five very elite units that you micromanage on the battlefield,” a co-op designer Kevin Dong at Gamescom 2018 explains. “You recruit four out of eight very specialised outlaws to help support Tychus. In addition you can upgrade your gear to further enhance them.” That means when playing as Tychus you are controlling five units in total: no more, no less. The design takes direct inspiration from Blizzard’s work on the main StarCraft 2 campaign, which features several missions closer in feel to an ARPG than an RTS. Like in those missions, each one of Tychus’s squad will feature their own powerful abilities that more than make up for their lack of battle brothers and sisters.