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Teams and the like are specific to the arcade map. Usually you can select teams though.

This is something for the community out there and to encourage players who may not have ventured beyond the Campaign, Versus mode or Co-op.Win 10 Arcade games lasting longer than 5 minutes.Additional achievements for 25, 50, 100, 250, 500, 750 and 1000 wins.The idea behind the requirements is that you can't farm the achievements by running the Unit Preloader over and over again, say, and you can't just quit out after 5 minutes and spoil it for the other players (since that will be counted as a loss and not count towards the tally). Additionally, the minimum time etc. helps to avoid problems w…

I admit that one thing did slip my mind. If I'm not mistaken, the Cyclone's lock-on ability bypasses Point-Defense Drones (at least they did in Versus mode back in the day), so Swann has that going for him, but like the drill, they aren't very good if you have to change targets often (i.e. a large number of low or mid-tier units).

What happens if you play and complete one of the campaign missions?

I would personally put Vorazun at a 2. True she has problems with detection, but if your ally can get an Observer out or some other Detector, then she can go to town with the Shadow Guard to clear the mines around your expansions. Additionally, Time Stop is simply wonderful, since it also reveals all of the mines and briefly unburrows Widow Mines as a bonus.

Aberrations and Zerglings are still a problem because the Vipers will be landing Blinding Cloud on your units, although the answer to that is to be a little better with positioning so only one or two units get disabled per cloud.Wraiths still have problems against Point-Defense Drones. You can use the drill to focus-fire them, but it's still a very difficult thing to do, especially if multiple drones have been deployed and you much rather use the drill to focus down a unit.High-Impact Payload wouldn't replace Wraith compositions, but just be a niche option to punch through Point-Defense Drone…

As everyone else has said, the best answer to air as Tychus is Crooked Sam and Vega - their biggest advantage is that they instantly remove a unit from the fight (make sure you get the upgrade that causes Crooked Sam's demolition charges to paralyse units). Most likely, any mind-controlled unit will be instantly killed, but it gives your own units a brief reprieve as the enemy fires on it.Sirius' turrets are good as a temporary distraction and to give the enemy more things to shoot at.As a final measure, Tychus' Shredder Grenade is fairly good against Oracles. It won't outright kill them, bu…

The only thing that Thors really have going for them is their durability, otherwise it's better to just mass Goliaths. However, I like to think that if they had the anti-Massive High-Impact Payload option (possibly tuned to do more damage in Co-op compared to Versus), they can make for a good anti-capital ship choice, especially against the likes of Brood Lords since they can tank the Broodlings, while Goliaths are better against more medium-range units like Void Rays and Oracles (although the Thor's Explosive Payload is pretty good here too).It might also be a better option against enemy Lib…

They share voicelines, and I believe the Mothership Core only exists in Heart of the Swarm multiplayer now.

Changing the hero count based on time instead of wave number still has its problems because, for example, two waves spawn back-to-back when the first research vessel lands, so you still get twice as many heroes as normal. Alternatively, tuning them to the relative strength of the wave has its own problems - on Chain of Ascension, the second attack wave is unexpectedly strong: internally, I think it's level 5 (out of 7) instead of 2.Going by the game time does seem like the solution with the fewest down-sides, but this is something that would need some testing and experimentation.