{{ images:ts5he_en.png}} ---- ====== Playing online with the History Edition ====== With the History Edition you can actually only use the multiplayer via ** Uplay **. However, a small conversion makes it possible to use the [[en:multiplayer:help:alternativserver | alternative server]]. There is a normal lobby and it is possible to play together with the players of the Standard Edition. Plus there are a lot of features that you used to only dream of. But for that the History Edition must be modified first. ---- ===== Modify the History Edition ===== To change the History Edition, three steps must be performed, that will be explained accordingly: - The standard edition settlershok.exe is required - The old main menu has to come back - The scripts must be reset ---- ==== The installation directory ==== First, the installation directory must be located. Use the ** Explorer ** and navigate to the folder in which you have the Settlers 5 History Edition installed. This should look like this: \\ {{:multiplayer:help:installfolder.png?|}} ---- ==== Step 1: The .exe of the Standard Edition ==== Open the folder named ** bin ** and then download this file:\\ [[http://www.dedk.de/patch/w10cu.zip|Windows 10 Creators Update]] After downloading, copy the two files contained in the .zip file, ** settlershok_w10cu ** and ** shokmapeditor_w10cu **, into the ** bin ** folder.\\ {{:multiplayer:help:addexe.png?}} Next, the old ** settlersHoK ** has to be renamed. Right click the file for that, click rename and enter ** SettlersHoK_HE **. \\ After that, ** settlershok_w10cu ** must be renamed to ** settlershok **. \\ {{:multiplayer:help:afteraddexe.png?}} ---- ==== Step 2: The old main menu ==== In the new main menu, there is no longer the button with which you can connect to ubi.com. To recapture the button we have to change the main menu. The directory is organized as follows: ** base ** contains the files for the basic game, ** extra1 ** the addon and ** extra2 ** the second addon. We navigate in the settler installation directory to the folder ** base / shr / menu / Projects ** and rename the file ** MainMenu ** to ** MainMenu_HE **.\\ {{:multiplayer:help:mainmenu_he.png?}} Now the following file has to be downloaded:\\ {{ :multiplayer:help:hemodification.zip |}}\\ There are also three folders in it: ** base **, ** extra1 ** and ** extra2 **. \\ open the ** base ** folder and copy the file ** mainmenu ** to the directory where the file previously was renamed. \\ {{:multiplayer:help:mainmenuadd.png?}} This returns the main menu for the main game. Now the same procedure has to be repeated for Nebelreich and Legenden. Copy from the .zip file from ** extra1 ** the file ** mainmenu ** to ** extra1 / shr / menu / Projects ** and from ** extra2 ** to ** extra2 / shr / menu / Projects **. Do not forget to rename the original ** MainMenu ** file first. ---- ==== Step 3: The Scripts ==== Almost done, now the scripts need to be downgraded. In the installation directory there is a folder named ** Script ** in each of the folders ** base / shr **, ** extra1 / shr ** and ** extra2 / shr **. Rename this in ** Script_HE **. \\ {{:multiplayer:help:scriptrename.png?}}\\ Then the ** Script ** folder from the already downloaded file ** hemodification.zip ** has to be copied. This procedure must be repeated for the folders ** base **, ** extra1 ** and ** extra2 **. ** Attention ** In each case the script folder from ** base ** to ** base ** and the script folder from ** extra1 ** to ** extra1 ** etc. \\ {{:multiplayer:help:addscript.png?}} ---- ==== Done ==== Now you can theoretically play on the ubi.com replica. However, the version detection does not work properly with the modified HE and starting the extensions is also tedious, because you no longer start on the Uplay Launcher and therefore you would need to pass a command lines argument "-extra1" or "-extra2". That's why it goes a bit further. ---- ==== Simplified starting and preparation for the alternate server ==== To be able to start the two extensions comfortably, it is sufficient to copy the ** bin ** folder from the installation directory directly into ** extra1 ** and ** extra2 **.\\ {{:multiplayer:help:copybin.png?}}\\ If you start ** settlershok ** from the new ** bin ** folders you should start fogged or legends directly.\\ \\ Now all preparations have been made to install the alternative server. You can find out how to do that on the corresponding page => [[en:multiplayer:help:alternativserver| The alternative server ]]\\ === Questions === If you need help, ask them on the Settler 5 Multiplayer Discord.\\ https://discord.gg/utBbZzh ---- [[en:multiplayer:help|Back to the Overview]]