HC: how to avoid finishing SC?

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I managed to convience my friend to return to D2 🙂 He wants to join me in
my HC playing, but doesn't like the idea of finishing Normal on SC first
before the game allows him to create HC character.
Is there any trick to avoid that and have the HC possibility right after
installation?
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Jaroslaw Banachowicz wrote:

> I managed to convience my friend to return to D2 🙂 He wants to join me
> in my HC playing, but doesn't like the idea of finishing Normal on SC
> first before the game allows him to create HC character.
> Is there any trick to avoid that and have the HC possibility right after
> installation?

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Blizzard Entertainment\Diablo II]
"AllowHardcore"=dword:00000001

 

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Koile wrote:
> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Blizzard Entertainment\Diablo II]
> "AllowHardcore"=dword:00000001

Thnx!
Does it work for B.Net accounts, too?
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Jaroslaw Banachowicz wrote:

> Koile wrote:
>> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Blizzard Entertainment\Diablo II]
>> "AllowHardcore"=dword:00000001
>
> Thnx!
> Does it work for B.Net accounts, too?

Yes

 

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"Jaroslaw Banachowicz" <banjar1_spam@lido.net> skrev i melding
news:lm7e72-8sj.ln1@airbus.lhsystems.pl...
>I managed to convience my friend to return to D2 🙂 He wants to join me in
> my HC playing, but doesn't like the idea of finishing Normal on SC first
> before the game allows him to create HC character.
> Is there any trick to avoid that and have the HC possibility right after
> installation?

With version 1.10 you can make hc characters without completing normal sc
first.

Agin

 

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Aginrikr wrote:
> "Jaroslaw Banachowicz" <banjar1_spam@lido.net> skrev i melding
> news:lm7e72-8sj.ln1@airbus.lhsystems.pl...
> > I managed to convience my friend to return to D2 🙂 He wants to
> > join me in my HC playing, but doesn't like the idea of finishing
> > Normal on SC first before the game allows him to create HC
> > character.
> > Is there any trick to avoid that and have the HC possibility
> > right after installation?
>
> With version 1.10 you can make hc characters without completing
> normal sc first.

But only if you have accessed at least one account with a HC character
in it beforehand, or if you have changed the appropriate registry key.

And to quote the patch.txt:
| - Once a player defeats Diablo, all Diablo II Battle.net
| accounts accessed from that computer may create Hardcore
| characters.