From the GUI, you can host a server, or join a game that is either your friends/own server or an existing lobby on a dedicated server. Extract the map cache contents into the root of your Starfriend folder.Extract Starfriend anywhere on your computer.
If you do this method, make sure you login to the game once, and then log out back to the Desktop. You can login to the service, and download a free copy of the Starcraft 2 Starter Edition. The main forum tutorial link will be at the bottom of this post as well. I recently did a video tutorial on this topic, and I will summarize high level what is involved to get Starfriend to work with your copy of Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm. If you are not familiar with Starfriend, it is an emulator that originally came out for Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty that will allow you to play the game online via dedicated servers outside of Blizzard, or even let you play on your own hosted server online or through LAN!įor those that don’t know, the game does not support LAN so of course this is a major breakthrough! With the third game coming out this Winter, I thought it be fun to get back into Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm and investigate the Starfriend method for the game.
