On Tarsonis, Sarah Kerrigan was betrayed by her allies and left to die by the people she trusted most – but she survived, twisted by the terrifying zerg Overmind. As the Queen of Blades, she controlled the voracious zerg Swarm in a campaign of vengeance and retribution with a deathtoll numbering in the billions.
Now, with her powers stripped and her mind finally free from the zerg influence, how much is really left of the woman who once was Sarah Kerrigan? Can her human side be redeemed… or does Kerrigan’s fate forever lie within the Heart of the Swarm?
Installation Information:
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INFO: This is a standalone release giving access to both Wings of Liberty
as well as Heart of the Swarm
DISCLAIMER: Since parts of this solution requires online activity and
updating the game we can't promise that this solution will work with
future updates.
HOW TO INSTALL
1) Unrar, burn or mount ISO
2) Install the game while online, when asked to Activate select "I've
Already Activated"
HOW TO TO PLAY OFFLINE
Run \Fairlight\flt-sc2hots.exe on the DVD, it must run with administrator
priviledges. (you may need to temporarily disable any anti-virus software
or similar you have)
STEP 1: UPDATE STARCRAFT 2 TO LATEST VERSION
This step you must execute manually.
Let the game update to latest version (2.0.6.25180 at the time of writing
this)
Once game is fully updated (you will see the message 'Game is up to date')
you must press 'Play' and enter the game once to complete the
installation, if you forget to do this you WONT be able to play offline
afterwards. You dont need to do anything once inside, just look at the
impressive Battle.net login prompt and then exit by pressing Escape.
STEP 2: BLOCK SC2.EXE IN WINDOWS FIREWALL
We assume you are using Windows Firewall as your firewall and of course
also that it is Enabled.
Hit the Step2-button and the tool will block 'SC2.exe' in your Windows
Firewall.
STEP 3: COPY FILES
Hit the Step3-button and wait for a little while, this will deploy the
battle.net cache files.
STEP 4: GENERATE LICENSE
Hit the Step4-button and your license is generated and deployed to the
windows registry.
STEP 5: PLAY!
Hit the Step5-button and the tool will launch StarCraft 2 and then shut
itself down.
When you see the 'Connecting to streaming server...' dialog just hit
'Cancel', this happens because of the firewall block.
Once inside enter 'flt@trash-mail.com' as your BATTLE.NET ACCOUNT NAME and
hit 'CONNECT'.
The connection will fail but you will be offered to 'PLAY OFFLINE'.
NOTE:
Once you have everything running you should consider making a desktop
shortcut directtly to \Support\SC2Switcher.exe, this seems to bypass the
Blizzard Launcher and should keep you safe from potential fun-ruining
future updates.
