teamTV Profile Joined June 2012 France 16 Posts Last Edited: 2012-09-06 16:18:25 #1



If like me, you don't have a beta key, and you are too much impatient to test the new units of heart of the swarm, this tutorial might interest you !



This is a proof that this tutorial works:





1) You have to download and install the HOTS client.

US:

EU:



2) You have to download and extract to somewhere the HOTS modified maps.

http://teamtv.fr/HOTS/hots_maps.zip



2b) If you already know how to use the map editor, you can already play and enjoy ^^. For the others, from this point, the tutorial will take 5 minutes ^^.



3) Open the Starcraft II Beta - Map Editor.





4) Open one of the two HOTS modified maps.





4b) Click yes when the dependency data box appears:





5) Adjust the player properties (e.g. select your race or set a computer).







6) Adjust the preferences (e.g. game speed).







7) Launch the game by testing the document.





8) If an error appears during the game, uncheck the corresponding box.





9) Enjoy !!



9b) AI is set to very easy for the moment ... but you can test all the new units.



10) All the credits go to Vernam7. If you want to use his alternative method, go to this thread:

http://sc2.nibbits.com/forums/29/view/1719/how-to-play-heart-of-the-swarm-with-sc2allin1



11) If this tutorial works for you and you like it, please post a comment. It is always nice to get some feedback and to spread information ^^.



http://www.teamtv.fr/ Hi everyone,If like me, you don't have a beta key, and you are too much impatient to test the new units of heart of the swarm, this tutorial might interest you !This is a proof that this tutorial works:1) You have to download and install the HOTS client.US: https://us.battle.net/account/management/sc2/dashboard-hots-beta.html EU: https://eu.battle.net/account/management/sc2/dashboard-hots-beta.html 2) You have to download and extract to somewhere the HOTS modified maps.2b) If you already know how to use the map editor, you can already play and enjoy ^^. For the others, from this point, the tutorial will take 5 minutes ^^.3) Open the Starcraft II Beta - Map Editor.4) Open one of the two HOTS modified maps.4b) Click yes when the dependency data box appears:5) Adjust the player properties (e.g. select your race or set a computer).6) Adjust the preferences (e.g. game speed).7) Launch the game by testing the document.8) If an error appears during the game, uncheck the corresponding box.9) Enjoy !!9b) AI is set to very easy for the moment ... but you can test all the new units.10)11) If this tutorial works for you and you like it, please post a comment. It is always nice to get some feedback and to spread information ^^.

Cabinet Sanchez Profile Joined February 2011 Australia 1090 Posts #2 You are awesome!



Pre-ordain and a mothership core or tempest is EVIL - 30 seconds of visibility is amazingly long period of time and so easy for my oracle to sneak in and do it because it's so fast.

I suspect they might make the range to cast pre-ordain a bit shorter or drop it to 20 seconds (I'm guessing, I know!)



The sounds for the tempest are AWFUL - it's sounds bad. I do know they fix that kind of stuff but god it's grating and I have a bitching sound system.



I do NOT like the "select enemy units / buildings" being off as default and then the lower right has this distracting message YO BRO, YOU CAN'T CONTROL THIS, ENEMY BUILDING in giant red font. I understand why it's there (newbies) but ugh

Drimacus Profile Joined May 2010 Germany 92 Posts #3 Thanks!

Steelo_Rivers Profile Blog Joined January 2011 United States 1965 Posts #4 <3 i fucking love yew :> ok

Cabinet Sanchez Profile Joined February 2011 Australia 1090 Posts #5 GODDAMNIT BLIZZARD.





Ok so if you use consume on a building and want to stop consuming, you hit the stop command? Fine for us yes, because we know "S" = stop but what does a newbie user do in this case here.



http://members.iinet.net.au/~scottylans/NewUI01.jpg I should totally be a UI tester! >GODDAMNIT BLIZZARD.Ok so if you use consume on a building and want to stop consuming, you hit the stop command? Fine for us yes, because we know "S" = stop but what does a newbie user do in this case here.

Steelo_Rivers Profile Blog Joined January 2011 United States 1965 Posts #6 On September 06 2012 20:59 Cabinet Sanchez wrote:

I should totally be a UI tester! > GODDAMNIT BLIZZARD.





Ok so if you use consume on a building and want to stop consuming, you hit the stop command? Fine for us yes, because we know "S" = stop but what does a newbie user do in this case here.



http://members.iinet.net.au/~scottylans/NewUI01.jpg I should totally be a UI tester! >GODDAMNIT BLIZZARD.Ok so if you use consume on a building and want to stop consuming, you hit the stop command? Fine for us yes, because we know "S" = stop but what does a newbie user do in this case here.

you can disable that in the game options you can disable that in the game options ok

Jochan Profile Blog Joined July 2010 Poland 1704 Posts #7 Thanks for that, works fine. "(...)all in the game, yo. All in the game"

Decendos Profile Joined August 2011 Germany 1325 Posts #8 Thanks!!

teardatAZZup Profile Joined September 2012 United States 1 Post #9 so basically anyone can download the beta but you have to have a key to play online?

EdSlyB Profile Blog Joined September 2010 Portugal 1620 Posts #10 On September 06 2012 21:48 teardatAZZup wrote:

so basically anyone can download the beta but you have to have a key to play online?



That's about it.

That's about it. aka Wardo

Cabinet Sanchez Profile Joined February 2011 Australia 1090 Posts #11 Anyone know how to crank up the AI difficulty? It's very very easy.

ULuMuGuLu Profile Blog Joined September 2010 190 Posts #12 Not possible on that map but i'm all for it! Could u please upload some of the beta maps we see in streams etc? With all AI difficulties enabled :-)



Besides from that i'm very thankfull, could see new units in action now too ^^

CaptainTwig Profile Joined August 2010 United Kingdom 532 Posts #13 Merci beaucoup. very cool.

teamTV Profile Joined June 2012 France 16 Posts Last Edited: 2012-09-06 13:53:20 #14 On September 06 2012 22:16 ULuMuGuLu wrote:

Could u please upload some of the beta maps we see in streams etc? With all AI difficulties enabled :-)





Well, it would be nice to know people who have beta keys that can extract/share beta maps from their SC2 beta cache folder.



But anyway, I will upload if I have got some new stuff .

Well, it would be nice to know people who have beta keys that can extract/share beta maps from their SC2 beta cache folder.But anyway, I will upload if I have got some new stuff

nukkuj Profile Blog Joined March 2010 Finland 402 Posts #15 Oh sweet! Thank you for the guide! :D

Naphal Profile Joined December 2010 Germany 1841 Posts #16 thank you very much, the AI even uses vipers and their pull! XD

NFxJehuty Profile Joined March 2012 United Kingdom 58 Posts #17 Very nice tut, warhound op ^^, zerg expensive, protoss useless. Imo, thanks again

SedativeDev Profile Joined August 2010 Slovenia 316 Posts #18 This is awesome!

Forikorder Profile Joined August 2011 Canada 8840 Posts #19 whenever i try to install the Bet i keep getting "an unexpected file management error has occured please try again"



i can download the set up thing from the website but whenever i try to run it the launcher DL thing pops up then i get the error

Moosy Profile Joined October 2010 Canada 396 Posts #20 To be honest I only care about the beta ladder, but this should be great for people that just want to try new stuff out.

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