That's right the achievement that requires you to complete the whole campaign in less than 8 hours "live game time". On normal or higher difficulty.

I played the campaign on hard difficulty and got some really slow times on some of the maps. I now intend to replay alot of them just to get this achievement.

The question is, do I have to replay the maps on hard, or will it count my time on normal difficulty if it's faster than the time I got on hard? That is can I mix times from each mission between normal and hard/brutal to get a total less than 8 hours?

Deindar

United States302 Posts

July 30 2010 05:28 GMT

good question. personally, I think it makes more sense that you would have to start the campaign over again and all the failed/re-do attempts that you play count towards the total time.

i'd be interested, though, in seeing if anyone has actually tested this.

CruS

Sweden218 Posts

July 31 2010 22:13 GMT

I´m not sure, but in my experience whenever, in the campaign, they say "normal difficulty" they actually mean "at least normal difficulty" seeing how other achievements works.

Eredia

Sweden47 Posts

July 31 2010 22:20 GMT

What I did mean was that if you look at the mission archive you will see your best time on a map. I thought I could get the achievement by lowering my best time on all maps by replaying them. To gain a total below 8 hours.

Did anyone try this? And if it would work, could it be a mix of times from normal/hard difficulty.

naonao

United States847 Posts

July 31 2010 22:23 GMT

Well you only need to complete 19 maps to completely beat the campaign. Chances are you did more than that and your best chance of getting the achievement is just to restart the campaign and do the bare minimum.

CruS

Sweden218 Posts

July 31 2010 22:32 GMT

On August 01 2010 07:23 naonao wrote:
Well you only need to complete 19 maps to completely beat the campaign. Chances are you did more than that and your best chance of getting the achievement is just to restart the campaign and do the bare minimum.

you can replay your missions from the mission archive. The achievements sum your best time from all the campaign missions, only counting normal difficulty or higher. The question is whether it will count a better hard mode time, if you have a worse normal mode time on the same mission. I think it would.

Ouga

Finland645 Posts

July 31 2010 22:42 GMT

On August 01 2010 07:32 CruS wrote:

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But you can't UNDO missions you could've skipped in the first place. Why reduce your time from 25:42 to 23:22 when you can make it 00:00

I'd restart the campaign aswell if I had done something like 25 missions to begin with. Way less hassle.

CruS

Sweden218 Posts

July 31 2010 22:47 GMT

You might be right, but if I were to create such an achievement, I would make sure it only counts the needed missions

Sfydjklm

United States9218 Posts

July 31 2010 23:54 GMT

just restart the campaign, why be fancy and risk wasting 8 hours of ur life><

t3tsubo

Canada682 Posts

August 01 2010 01:16 GMT

#10

I'm quite you have to start the campaign over again, plus then you can just play casual, skip half of the missions and just get a rapage time on idiot AIs to make the 8 hour time limit not even hard.

Tonyoh

France218 Posts

August 01 2010 02:04 GMT

#11

achievement doesnt work with casual mode.

SC2Phoenix

Canada2814 Posts

August 01 2010 02:12 GMT

#12

I just redid the entire campaign again. Dont risk it imo.

jiabung

United States720 Posts

August 01 2010 02:29 GMT

#13

I'm trying to get this achievement now and just started a new campaign on normal. Is it just me or is the game speed on normal wayyyy slower than on brutal? Is there anyway to increase the game speed on normal? It sucks having to play feeling like its constantly lagging.

sob3k

United States7572 Posts

August 01 2010 02:31 GMT

#14

On August 01 2010 11:29 jiabung wrote:
I'm trying to get this achievement now and just started a new campaign on normal. Is it just me or is the game speed on normal wayyyy slower than on brutal? Is there anyway to increase the game speed on normal? It sucks having to play feeling like its constantly lagging.

Options------>game---->Speed---->Fastest

or something like that

jiabung

United States720 Posts

August 01 2010 02:53 GMT

#15

thanks!!! I don't know how i missed it the first time..

Zzoram

Canada7115 Posts

August 02 2010 23:44 GMT

#16

Can anyone confirm if you can just use the Archives to replay missions on Normal and speedrun them for a lower cumulative time? Or am I wasting my time doing this and need to do a fresh campaign?

semantics

10040 Posts

August 02 2010 23:51 GMT

#17

On August 01 2010 08:54 Sfydjklm wrote:
just restart the campaign, why be fancy and risk wasting 8 hours of ur life><

Well 8 vs 16 ba dum shaa... naw i think just restart the campaign and just do the bare min something like doing the artifact ones first then zertul or w.e to skip most of the other crap.

Zzoram

Canada7115 Posts

August 03 2010 09:43 GMT

#18

I replayed all the missions in Archives on Normal, I added up the time for every mission to be 446 minutes (~7.5 hours) and I didn't get the achievement. I am not amused.

ChickenLips

2912 Posts

August 03 2010 10:48 GMT

#19

On August 03 2010 18:43 Zzoram wrote:
I replayed all the missions in Archives on Normal, I added up the time for every mission to be 446 minutes (~7.5 hours) and I didn't get the achievement. I am not amused.

Kind of obvious that they don't want you to steamroll the campaign with every upgrade and tech imaginable.