Heroes of the Storm Alpha!

[MrTonny]

I'm using the mapswitcher of TOM_RUS

1. Launch stormswitcher in the support folder
2. Launch mapswitcher
3. Select the map using the dropdown list
4. Select the hero using the other dropdown list
5. Click Patch
6. Return to the game
7. Spam tab+f10 / f10
8. Launch the tutorial

The first part of the tutorial is always with raynor, the hero is switched for the second map and the end of the tutorial.

Thank you for the details, I missed the part that Tom has patched and released a new version of his patcher as I had the first release.

[AshleyM]

Please join the following link so we can share our discoveries

https://qchat.rizon.net/?channels=hotswin

[replikant8]

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Can someone tell me what happens ?
I can't go in game, because Blizzards servers couldn't download game data and I should try to check the internet connection.

[Avilion]

Updated MapSwitcher. No functionality changes. I just recompiled it for MS .NET Framework 4.0 instead of MS .NET Framework 4.5 so it can be run on WinXP (requires both .NET 4.0 and WinXP SP3 to be installed at minimum).

Thank you, this version work!

[jim3021]

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Can someone tell me what happens ?
I can't go in game, because Blizzards servers couldn't download game data and I should try to check the internet connection.

contact blizz support and they can probably help you with that...

[CatsNimo]

I've been programming for a year now, do you know if Blizzard's harder bots are in the client right now? I might try to make it.

They are coded, at least partially.

I was looking through some of the code - there are bits in there referencing how only higher difficulty bots will try to line up skill shots, for instance.

[CatsNimo]

How much time does that complete reverse take? Or shall I say, how many days/weeks? :3
Can you explain how this process works and what is required?

It depends on who is working on it. Certainly Curse and ZAM are working on it, but they're not going to release anything except information. Ladik is the public hero when it comes to file formats, so he will probably be the first one to release something working. That said, it could be weeks. The format is ridiculously annoying. Things are hashed repeatedly (hashes are hashed) for no other reason than to be obscure.

Several people have made small tools that can extract files from the format, but they don't have file names, directory structure, or even archive structure (cannot reconstruct MPQs yet) and there is no indication of what any file is except by looking at it. When you're dealing with 37,000+ files, that's not a viable strategy, so we will have to wait.

[zeldalyoko]

new map !

Heroes/StartingExperience/BAS-SE01.StormMap
<3

no ?

[Ehnoah]

Where you found this?

"Heroes/StartingExperience/BAS-SE01.StormMap" ?

[Ladislav]

I can not open a connection error occurs
can someone help me?

[malloc84]

that map is in the play.exe as all others. It doesn't work.

[CatsNimo]

I can not open a connection error occurs
can someone help me?

I would suggest downloading from an alternate source. Use the agent.db/battle.net.config files provided to download straight from Blizzard FTP, or try one of the user links on the later pages here.

I think the first couple of uploaded installations were bad.

Alternatively, somebody suggested that it could be fixed by renaming StormSwitcher to HeroesoftheStorm. I have no idea why, but I've never experienced this error myself (I downloaded straight from Blizz).

[CatsNimo]

that map is in the play.exe as all others.

Huh, you're right.

I ran a search through all 37,000 files and

(that's the extracted version of play.exe)

[zeldalyoko]

Where you found this?

"Heroes/StartingExperience/BAS-SE01.StormMap" ?

Here :
http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/...map-heroes.png
In :
Play.exe

EDIT :
Ok, ingame : "unable to open map"
w_w

[CatsNimo]

Here :
http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/...map-heroes.png
In :
Play.exe

The string is irrelevant - I assure you the map does not exist in the other data files.

I just never thought to check inside Play.exe - if the executable itself has embedded StormMaps, then it might exist.

Edit: I don't see anything map-wise in Play.exe besides the name itself, so we're still limited to these 3 maps for now.