[Achievement] Hurry up: It's Raid night!

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.

On August 01 2010 07:32 CruS wrote:



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.

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.

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

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.

On August 03 2010 19:48 ChickenLips wrote:


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

On August 03 2010 22:34 Craton wrote:


That is not how that works.

You only have the upgrade and tech that you had when you first played that mission.

On August 04 2010 00:27 Starfox wrote:
Is there a list of mission you can you skip and still invade char?

On August 04 2010 06:59 Poobah wrote:
I would do the first three Zeratul missions asap because they are all really fast, and then ditch the fourth one because In Utter Darkness takes ages.

I would skip Tosh all together. None of the three units you get for his mission line are any good and the first two missions take quite a while to do as well.

Something like this seems like it'd be fast. Giving some aproximate times based on how fast I did these on my hard play through and on brutal if my brutal time was better which was mostly the case since I knew what I was doing on brutal. Rounded some of the times down a little cause I know they get dramatically easier on normal:

Liberation Day (5m) -> The Outlaws (5m) -> Zero Hour (20m) -> Smash & Grab (10m) -> 40m total aproximately

-> Evacuation (20m) -> Outbreak (25m) -> Train Robbery (20m) -> Safe Haven (10m) -> The Dig (takes ages, on hard and brutal, dunno if it's much shorter on normal because I guess there are a lot less things to shoot with your laser beam, call it 35m but maybe a lot shorter). -> 115m total

-> Whispers of Doom (20m) -> A Sinister Turn (20m maybe a lot less on normal) -> Echoes of the Future (5m) -> The Mobius Factor (10m) -> 170m total

Cutthroat (20m) -> Supernova (20m) -> Maw of the Void (30m) -> 240m total. That's 4 hours to get to Char.

On August 03 2010 19:58 orgolove wrote:
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On August 04 2010 06:59 Poobah wrote:
I would do the first three Zeratul missions asap because they are all really fast, and then ditch the fourth one because In Utter Darkness takes ages.

I would skip Tosh all together. None of the three units you get for his mission line are any good and the first two missions take quite a while to do as well.

Something like this seems like it'd be fast. Giving some aproximate times based on how fast I did these on my hard play through and on brutal if my brutal time was better which was mostly the case since I knew what I was doing on brutal. Rounded some of the times down a little cause I know they get dramatically easier on normal:

Liberation Day (5m) -> The Outlaws (5m) -> Zero Hour (20m) -> Smash & Grab (10m) -> 40m total aproximately

-> Evacuation (20m) -> Outbreak (25m) -> Train Robbery (20m) -> Safe Haven (10m) -> The Dig (takes ages, on hard and brutal, dunno if it's much shorter on normal because I guess there are a lot less things to shoot with your laser beam, call it 35m but maybe a lot shorter). -> 115m total

-> Whispers of Doom (20m) -> A Sinister Turn (20m maybe a lot less on normal) -> Echoes of the Future (5m) -> The Mobius Factor (10m) -> 170m total

Cutthroat (20m) -> Supernova (20m) -> Maw of the Void (30m) -> 240m total. That's 4 hours to get to Char.

On August 08 2010 11:51 heronz wrote:
how are people able to get haven's fall in 10mins? i just did it and it took a wooping 25mins.

i took out initial infestation with provided troops. then mass units with transport and whip out 2 other infestations and protected 3 other settlements.

On August 09 2010 06:18 Kazastankas wrote:
Being paused during a mission and/or reloading a mission to do it again will both count against your 8 hours in your short playthrough, so do beware.

On August 06 2010 15:28 Brannigan wrote:
Hi guys,

After I finished the whole 29/29 missions on brutal, I started a new campaign to get the armory achievements (saved up my money, saved, bought all of a kind, loaded, bought all of the next kind...and so on).

On August 09 2010 15:58 Doc Daneeka wrote:


slightly off topic, but i'd just like to point something out in case no one else has: you can replay missions, collect the research, and sell it again for ridiculous amounts of credits. infinitely. i got the master mechanic on one runthrough cos i was replaying missions to get acheivements and realized i was getting paid over and over and over for the research i picked up...

On August 01 2010 11:31 sob3k wrote:


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

or something like that

On August 10 2010 08:43 Ingraved wrote:
Which missions did you do this on?

On August 10 2010 09:15 Lobo2me wrote:

It doesn't matter. Get over 25 research in zerg or protoss(both is best), then replay any mission and you will get whatever amount you are above 25. Doesn't need to be a mission where you get research at all. If you're right before Char and have got all research you'll get 250k extra each time.

On August 06 2010 19:32 ghen wrote:


Following this path I got through easy peezy. I'm a silver player in multiplayer so it doesn't take much skill
With the dig make sure you are aggressive and take out their bases. Then just go afk until the laser cuts through. I put in about 20-30 extra minutes to get to char. I did the anti-air mission as well. Probably ended up around 6-7 hours total.

Critical upgrades: marines, medic healing efficiency, banshees, viking range, siege tanks, bunkers, scv repair, CC reactor, orbital command, and PF

I did not have to re-do any missions. I suspect that doing anything in the archives screws up the achivement so be wary.

Mission times are the only ones that count. I frequently went AFK on victory screens and in the hyperion. Also, I did this over the course of 3 days so real time doesn't matter at all.

On August 11 2010 10:33 Freezard wrote:
Is there a way so that you can keep all your brutal times when you create a new campaign? Load an old save or something?

On August 12 2010 02:19 dave22222 wrote:
Anyone have a save for this achievement?

On August 01 2010 07:13 CruS wrote:
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.

On August 01 2010 07:13 CruS wrote:
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.

On August 23 2010 04:11 dfgdfgf wrote:


What? Are you sure that's now it works? I assumed normal meant normal - so if there were two achievements one on hard and one on normal, I would do the map twice and do the achievement on each setting.

On August 23 2010 05:01 Barook wrote:
All In Speed Run Save

Just googled it to as it was the last achievement I needed. For those who don't feel like wasting 5+ hours for such an stupid 10 point achievement and investing it into something more fun, like the multiplayer.

But respect to all those who have the endurance to do all the stuff again.

On August 23 2010 05:01 Barook wrote:
All In Speed Run Save

Just googled it to as it was the last achievement I needed. For those who don't feel like wasting 5+ hours for such an stupid 10 point achievement and investing it into something more fun, like the multiplayer.

But respect to all those who have the endurance to do all the stuff again.

On August 04 2010 10:05 btlyger wrote:


You sir are a god among men. Finally got my kerrigan, but most missions were like 30 minutes or something crazy.

On August 23 2010 08:25 Ownos wrote:
You can repeat the same mission over and over to get a better time. Just do it before you beat All In.

On August 23 2010 20:20 Piou wrote:
weird thing happening.

i sumed up all the time i got at the end of each mission done. i have a total of around 1h48min but on my save file when i look on the "load menu" it's written 1h20-ish... 30 minutes just vannished...

Don't get me wrong, that's 30 min free to get the 8hours achievement but i'd like to understand what clock does the achievement is based on...

On August 25 2010 07:42 Carnac wrote:
but is simply an actual time stamp.

On August 24 2010 03:37 Piou wrote:
ok, i continued,

mission 7 : the outbreak ==> 32 min because i only attacked during the day and i was lazy
mission 8 : The train ==> 24 min 24 sec because you can't go any faster :-/
mission 9 : the dig ==> 32 min 22 sec because it was my lunch break and i wasn't really payin attention lol
mission 10 : Safe Heaven ==> 12 min, could have done it in 10 but i wanted to gather more viking

10 missions and 2 hours 57 minutes played in total (game time), i also didn't dare changing the game speed because i don't want to finnish the game and not get the achievement because i changed the settings (dunno if that would change anything but didn't dare ^^)

gonna do the 3 first mission of the prophetie, shouldn't take more than 30 min.
mobius factor took me 15 min on hard, i get it'll take 10 on normal.

i hate supernova (the whole wall of fire thing stresses me ^^) and i tend to fall asleep on the mow of void... :s

On August 23 2010 19:11 virusak wrote:

you can but you won't get the achievement, got total time under 480 minutes and still no achievement

On August 23 2010 05:01 Barook wrote:
All In Speed Run Save

Just googled it to as it was the last achievement I needed. For those who don't feel like wasting 5+ hours for such an stupid 10 point achievement and investing it into something more fun, like the multiplayer.

But respect to all those who have the endurance to do all the stuff again.

On August 25 2010 11:50 Vimsey wrote:

I changed my gamespeed and i got the achievement so dont let that scare you though admittedly i did have plenty of time to spare. It just means the mission time showed doesnt = real time anymore.

The tip for outbreak is to mass reapers they destroy buildings soooo fast but too late now i guess.

The train, assuming thats the great train robbery i think you can do it quicker. I just recently did that on my brutal runthrough in 21.06 because you cant hang around on the train kills or they can spawn when the kill squads are walking on the line. I think they spawn a set time after you killed the previous one if that makes sense. Or maybe brutal is just faster, not that you want to risk doing that one on brutal.

On August 26 2010 17:04 Chawhee wrote:
I beat the entire game on normal mode in 4h 49min, but I didnt get the achievement. Somewhere in that run I got disconnected from battlenet. The reason I didn't get the achievement is because you can't earn achievements while offline. BUT my question is, can I log back on to battlenet and go backwards to get my achievement? Doing All In first, then Shatter The Sky, ect untill I reach the point where I got DCed from battlenet? Or should I just restart altogether?

On August 26 2010 23:51 Draken wrote:
I have all achievements except this one and the two stupid arcade game ones.

I beat the raid time using the archive. When it didn't work, i thought i had to beat all the 29 missions under 8 hours, so i did it in a bit under that. Still no achievement.

Then i search for it on Google and found this thread... I really don't feel like redoing everything (already did everything on hard, then brutal, then normal thru archives... and normal is so easy and boring) and since I know i already beat the time record, I might end up just using the savegame.

My times :

2:35 liberation
7:30 outlaws
20:12 zero
8:45 smash

23:11 evac
14:14 devil (tosh)
10:35 jungle (tosh)
18:59 outbreak
27:33 dig

9:51 doom (protoss)
11:13 sinister (protoss)
13:23 echoes (protoss)
35:32 darkness (protoss)

14:17 breakout (tosh)
15:35 ghost
24:52 train
13:47 cutthroat
20:31 engine

15:01 media
12:08 shroud
8:20 safe
16:06 fall
11:57 moebius

9:50 nova
20:46 maw
11:42 gates
21:54 belly
17:06 shatter
30:08 all in

On August 27 2010 08:52 roninmedia wrote:
I finished the campaign going through normal then replaying a mission on hard to get all the achievements. If I add up all my lowest times in the archive for all 26 missions, it comes out to 7 hrs, 50 minutes, and 39 seconds.But no achievement.

0:02:47 Liberation Day
0:05:32 The Outlaws
0:20:08 Zero Hour
0:08:51 Smash and Grab
0:12:57 Devil's Playground
0:16:00 Welcome to the Jungle
0:23:35 The Evacuation
0:25:13 Outbreak
0:27:47 The Dig
0:11:16 Whispers of Doom
0:10:56 A Sinister Turn
0:06:25 Echoes of the Future
0:43:18 In Utter Darkness
0:24:36 The Great Train Robbery
0:18:53 Cutthroat
0:19:03 Haven's Fall
0:15:33 The Moebius Factor
0:20:49 Supernova
0:17:28 Maw of the Void
0:14:07 Breakout
0:25:20 Engine of Destruction
0:19:15 Media Blitz
0:12:06 Piercing the Shroud
0:13:38 Gates of Hell
0:24:58 Shatter the Sky
0:30:08 All-in
7:50:39

On August 27 2010 16:30 Piou wrote:


yeah it's because they only count the first time i think. I'm no sure, on the french forum of battle.net, people also think that it's the time in game so let's say you do a mission in 20 minutes, they you do it again to have a better time and you do it in 10 minutes. The game won't count the time as 10 minutes (your best time) but as 30 (the time you spent in game).

On September 05 2010 08:33 Offhand wrote:
Does redoing a mission for whatever reason (say to get research points) add to your total time?

On September 05 2010 08:42 Zades wrote:

I don't think you can get research points from redoing a mission anyways. And I wouldn't suggest redoing a mission through archives if you are aiming for this achievement. I've heard a lot of problems with people using the archives for this achievement.

On September 08 2010 08:17 Doraemon wrote:
just to confirm, to get this achievement, i have to restart the campaign and go through it in normal. just wondering, if i do start a fresh campaign, will i be able to replay a saved file and lower the times through that too? or it must be done via a single run.

On September 08 2010 08:28 3nickma wrote:


As far as I understand it you must complete this Achievement in a single run. If you beat a mission in 20 min but decide to lower it to 10 min via the Archives it instead counts for 20+10 min = 30 mins!

Don't know if it's true but why risk it? You only need to do 19 missions and if you're decent and somewhat aggressive you'll not surpass 30 min on any mission = easy Achievement.

That's how I got mine earlier today

On September 11 2010 11:15 coko wrote:
PS; shatter is quicker than nydus hunting.

On September 12 2010 14:42 silhouettes wrote:
just completed the campaign again.. and i overshot the timing by 4mins.. OMG!!

On September 21 2010 08:17 skintigh wrote:
Question and an experiment to find out the answer:

I wonder if what the game times is the real time you spend *in* a mission not the game time, i.e. it records the time you start it and the time you finish it and takes the difference. (I highlighted *in* because it seems to be okay to go AFK between missions) So if you save and reload for 4 hours real time to get a 10 minute game time, it records that towards the achievement as 4 hours. That would make sense from a programming perspective, if you wanted to simulate playing 8 hours straight in real time. Or if you pause *in a mission* for 8 hours you automatically lose all hope.

Here's how to test it (if you don't have the achievement yet): make/get a save right before finishing the final mission and earning the achievement, pause in the mission for 8 hours, finish the mission. Did you get it? If not, you could just reload the save.

On October 01 2010 03:37 WellDuh wrote:
Someone has a save file for the new patch? Seems like the one provided here requiers the previous version of StarCraft, thus logging me out of my account and not allowing me to obtain the achievement.

Replays through your mission archive are very useful if you're still over by the end of the campaign because you can, in fact, speed run missions and ignore bonus objectives for a better time. I shaved off a solid 6+ hours by doing so all in the course of a day.

On October 04 2010 01:42 licarn wrote:


Except you can't, unless it's been changed since the start of this thread.

If you play a mission and complete it in 20 minutes, and then redo it through the archive and complete it in 10 minutes the game counts that as 30 minutes. Getting better times through the archive doesn't work.

On October 04 2010 10:53 Terakahn wrote:

Will replaying one on casual to get research invalidate the run? I replayed 2 missions on casual for research, then beat the rest and was well under 5 hours. Still no achievement.

On October 15 2010 15:52 pirsq wrote:
I want to confirm that it is now (as of 1.1.2, but probably as early as 1.1.0) possible to get this achievement via the mission archives. I loaded my "All In Victory" autosave from a brutal playthrough, and replayed some missions on normal until my best times (added up over all 29 missions) was less than 8 hours, after which the achievement immediately popped up.

I'm not sure why some people are still reporting that it does not work (perhaps there's some other hole in the achievement trigger), but in the situation described above, it worked for me.

On October 28 2010 23:14 Drazerk wrote:
http://www.mediafire.com/?fqs7nbpiq9n41jm

works for patch 1.2 enjoy the achievement

On August 01 2010 07:20 Eredia wrote:
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.

On November 03 2010 03:54 IamTheWhiteGuy wrote:


We had a huge discussion about this on the Blizz forums back near launch.

This DOES NOT WORK.

You must start the game, and then within eight hours of playtime without retries, complete the game.

That means you spend eight hours (not counting reloads) to complete the game.

I couldn't tell you anything more specific than that, but suffice to say that you at launch (and I see no reason to believe that this was patched to be different, since no mention of any kind was made about it), you were not allowed to simply drop your completion times below 8 hours.

On October 28 2010 23:14 Drazerk wrote:
http://www.mediafire.com/?fqs7nbpiq9n41jm

works for patch 1.2 enjoy the achievement

On November 03 2010 15:18 Reignyo wrote:


Got a copy of this at the END of the mission?

On November 03 2010 04:44 teh_longinator wrote:


So is the 8 hours including cutscenes/conversations? Or just play-time? I don't wanna have to re-play the entire thing to watch the TV newscasts, and talk to people if it doesn't affect anything...

On October 15 2010 15:52 pirsq wrote:
I want to confirm that it is now (as of 1.1.2, but probably as early as 1.1.0) possible to get this achievement via the mission archives. I loaded my "All In Victory" autosave from a brutal playthrough, and replayed some missions on normal until my best times (added up over all 29 missions) was less than 8 hours, after which the achievement immediately popped up.

I'm not sure why some people are still reporting that it does not work (perhaps there's some other hole in the achievement trigger), but in the situation described above, it worked for me.

On November 10 2010 21:46 Condor wrote:
Come on man, the achievement is for doing it, not for loading a save file!

On November 10 2010 11:33 Likuedsnake wrote:
If someone could put up a save file for the "All In" speed run for the new patch 1.1.3 (Nov 9 2010) would be greatly appreciated.

On November 12 2010 15:06 mistokibbles wrote:

Instead of being lame like this, can someone give me some tips for doing Maw of the Void for this achievement? Going on normal but I keep trying to rush this and end up eventually running out of resources

On November 12 2010 15:37 Antiochus wrote:

Build Battlecruisers and science vessels.

On November 13 2010 04:01 mistokibbles wrote:

Too lazy to get enough research for Science Vessels so I've been using Mules and they work quite well. Would a few extra bcs really make all the difference? Especially with teh carriers, the mothership, cannons and stalkers

On November 13 2010 04:01 mistokibbles wrote:

Too lazy to get enough research for Science Vessels so I've been using Mules and they work quite well. Would a few extra bcs really make all the difference? Especially with teh carriers, the mothership, cannons and stalkers

On January 20 2011 10:45 TO_slide wrote:
is there an in game total timer for completed missions?
i'd like to start this one but i want to look at my time when i'm just messing around to see what i need to cut out

On August 01 2010 07:20 Eredia wrote:
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.

On June 25 2011 08:31 DrBeansy wrote:Dont know if sub 4 hours is possible or not.

On June 25 2011 08:31 DrBeansy wrote:
The bold figures are times i have seen people state they have done, so its definitely possible to go quicker. Dont know if sub 4 hours is possible or not. A lot of the missions i feel if i went and did them now, i could do them much faster as the above was all first time

On August 08 2010 11:51 heronz wrote:
how are people able to get haven's fall in 10mins? i just did it and it took a wooping 25mins.

i took out initial infestation with provided troops. then mass units with transport and whip out 2 other infestations and protected 3 other settlements.

On July 25 2011 18:03 Hamlet wrote:


I've been speedrunning the campaign for fun lately. I was actually thinking of starting a separate thread just for speed enthusiasts, but since people were talking about minimum possible times just now, I figured I'd at least chime in. Here are my minimum mission times on Normal (all of them include any research pickups that I make use of in later missions):

Liberation Day 2:17
The Outlaws 2:53
Zero Hour 20:08
Smash and Grab 5:32
The Devil's Playground 4:10
Welcome to the Jungle 4:09
The Great Train Robbery 23:48
Cutthroat 5:43
Ghost of a Chance 5:37
The Dig 22:10
Whispers of Doom 7:18
A Sinister Turn 5:11
Echoes of the Future 2:51
The Moebius Factor 3:34
Supernova 4:52
Maw of the Void 2:41
The Gates of Hell 5:34
Shatter the Sky 2:53
All In 30:05

Total 2:41:26.

Videos of some of these are on my Youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/Arawethion?feature=mhee

I'll probably post a full video series of all the levels in order, maybe with commentary or something, but for now I'm still working on paring some time off of some of them.

On June 05 2012 08:16 Krakmonkey001 wrote:


How in the heck did you do maw of the void so fast?? Normally even when I am being aggressive and not caring about the well-being of my units it still takes me 30+ minutes.