LOL i cant believe this -_- i just got home today to do the offline thing, i watch one replay, and it starts dling the patch.. this is just cruel.. : (

KoveN-

Australia503 Posts

February 26 2010 00:42 GMT

Does it still download the patch if you don't login?

Leoj

United States396 Posts

February 26 2010 00:42 GMT

It's weird because they just changed it to work not too long ago.

Leoj

United States396 Posts

February 26 2010 00:42 GMT

On February 26 2010 09:42 KoveN- wrote:
Does it still download the patch if you don't login?

Yes, it did for me.

shindigs

United States4795 Posts

February 26 2010 00:43 GMT

I think we're jumping to conclusions.

Legit key holders can't even log in since the latest patch, and I get the same error as them while trying to watching offline replays. I say give it time to really see if the update disabled offline replays.

Deleted User 50491

721 Posts

February 26 2010 00:46 GMT

1. Go to your replays folder. In Win XP it's "C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\StarCraft II Beta\Replays" In Vista/Win7, it's located in a similar place in "Documents", just look for it, it will be there.
2. Enter either "Recent", "Multiplayer" or other folder here to find the actual replays.
3. Double-click on a replay, this should open the Windows dialogue called "Open with..."
4. Do not pick any item in the list, "Browse" for your StarCraft II installation folder (XP standard: "C:\Program Files\StarCraft II Beta").
5. Select "Always use this program" and then press "OK".

http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=23425633734&sid=5010

Leoj

United States396 Posts

February 26 2010 00:51 GMT

Yeah, even doing that won't let you view them atm.

I guess we can hold off and see what happens.

Mohdoo

United States15721 Posts

February 26 2010 00:52 GMT

Yes, brilliant. Lets make judgments before there are even patch notes or a working Battle.net server.

Nenor

Bulgaria4 Posts

February 26 2010 00:53 GMT

#10

Doesn't work currently. We'll have to see after patching is done.

Leoj

United States396 Posts

February 26 2010 00:53 GMT

#11

It makes sense that if you don't need BNet to verify and the game is reading local data that you shouldn't need to have the server up to watch replays.

At least to Joe Schmoe, anyway.

TheAntZ

Israel6248 Posts

February 26 2010 00:53 GMT

#12

wow, thanks blizzard, im sure it was harming you so damn much having people who cant play watch replays
what the fuck

Toxiferous

United States388 Posts

February 26 2010 00:56 GMT

#13

chill even us with beta can't get online

bongjwa

United States199 Posts

February 26 2010 01:02 GMT

#14

i would until people with the actual key can get online before saying anything is final

i cant really see blizz doing this especially since during the cracking process to get the replays they left stuff in there as a type of joke almost since they knew crackers would be raping it

in other words, they expected it to be cracked so i dont see this actually happening

Dspike

United States18 Posts

February 26 2010 01:03 GMT

#15

I'm curious how this all worked. When StarCraftII.exe starts up, I assume it checks to see if it can reach some blizzard website to check for updates, and if there has been an update it will then try to download and install it. Unless there is a sc2 background downloader that was added to your pc startup (in which case you could remove this anyway), I assume people who don't have a legit beta key and want to watch replays can just disable their internet connection and then try and load the replay in StarCraftII.exe. I'm not certain, but I thought I was able to watch some replays while offline (no network connectivity) a few days ago...someone confirm or deny?

deth

Australia1757 Posts

February 26 2010 01:03 GMT

#16

My "play as guest" battle.net button which allows me to go into the replay menu still works.

hoborg

United States430 Posts

February 26 2010 01:13 GMT

#17

On February 26 2010 10:03 Dspike wrote:
I assume people who don't have a legit beta key and want to watch replays can just disable their internet connection and then try and load the replay in StarCraftII.exe. I'm not certain, but I thought I was able to watch some replays while offline (no network connectivity) a few days ago...someone confirm or deny?

I have pulled the plug on my internet every time I opened SCII to watch replays, since I didn't want it phoning home for any reason. There's no reason for this not to still be able to be done unless you download the patch.

Although, now that I think of it, replays from the new patch might be incompatible with the old version :/ we'll see.

AtlaS

United States1001 Posts

February 26 2010 01:27 GMT

#18

still works for me. when i load a replay from the old build, it asks me if i want to reload and open the replay in the old build, i click yes, it loads and then i'm in the replay.

i'm pretty sure it was this website that I used to do the crack.
http://www.gamereplays.org/starcraft2/portals.php?show=news&news_id=584031

GsOne

Poland164 Posts

February 26 2010 01:30 GMT

#19

Just watched a rep with no beta key, had minor trouble with updating (had to revert Battle.net folder to original form, and then copy SWF folder back). I created a Replays folder with Multiplayer subfolder and stored replay files there. Now dragging a rep over SC2 executable enabled Open With function of Windows which started the game and bypassed logging in but didn't start the replay. I could open the replays submenu however, and after selecting one replay the game detected that the replay was from previous version. Big surprise - it asked if I wished to logout from battle.net and boot up previous SC2 version to watch it, and one OK button after that and a game reboot the replay worked.

cornwell

Germany19 Posts

February 26 2010 01:31 GMT

#20

On February 26 2010 09:39 LUE.Leoj wrote:
At least currently after you DL the patch you cannot watch replays without logging in. I assume everyone else is experiencing similar difficulties?

no i was automaticaly noticed that sc will load an earlier version

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