When offline, how do you play YABOT single player maps with custom hotkeys?

Question

Alright, I want to practice some new builds with the popular YABOT (Yet Another Build Order Tester). I have downloaded the single player maps and dropped them onto my SC2 shortcut to start them. Now there's the problem that I don't log on to Battle.net but the map starts right away, this causes my customized hotkeys to not be loaded and applied.

How can I fix this?

Basically, I want to start downloaded single player maps from my hard disk and use my normal hotkeys.

Answer

This is because your hotkeys are stored in the Battle.Net server, which you are not connecting to when loading a map directly from it's file. There is however a workaround, quoting:

For those of you wondering if you can run custom maps while online, yes you can, and here's how.

1. Close Starcraft 2
2. Open the map in the map editor
3. Start the map with File->Test Document
4. Wait until it loads up and quit the map
5. At that point, do not close your Starcraft 2, and log into your account
6. Alt-tab back at the map editor and do Test Document again
7. Bam, you'll play the custom map while connected to BNET, and you'll be able to watch replays

This way I'm able to access my hotkeys as I am connected to Battle.Net.

Edit: On newer versions there seems to be a much better approach:

Go to: SC2 Folder \ Accounts \ Account Folder \ Hotkeys

Copy the Custom.SC2Hotkeys to: SC2 Folder \ Hotkeys

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Trouble in Portal The Flash Version Map Pack - 4th Room

Question

I seem to be having trouble in the fourth room of the Portal The Flash Version Map Pack. It's kind of irritating because, well, it's just the fourth room! This one should be child's play!

The second part of the fourth room in the map pack seems as if it's meant to be analogous to room 6 in the flash game, but the same trick doesn't quite appear to work here. Any hints/tips?

Answer

If I've counted correctly, this is a walkthrough of room 4 (and beyond):

It appears to be a couple of those "speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out" puzzles. This means you'll need to use your falling momentum to shoot you out of a wall, over a jump. Also notice that, in this video, the player crouches as they are flying through the air, presumably to make Chell more compact and therefore more likely to make the jumps.

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What is the source of the term Use Map Settings?

Question

I heard the term "UMS" used to refer to a starcraft II custom map, and after looking it up it seems to refer to "Use Map Settings". What is the origin and history of this term?

Answer

The source is the original StarCraft, where the game mode for these custom maps was called "Use Map Settings":

(image from here)

It means the gameplay rules should be derived from the data in the map itself, instead of the regular StarCraft gameplay rules.

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Where do I find custom made maps / campaigns for Elemental: War of Magic?

Question

Been a few weeks now since Elemental: War of Magic released, are there any singleplayer maps / campaigns out there already?

Google doesn't turn up anything useful.

Answer

It looks like there are quite a few user-generated maps on the developer's site at http://www.elementalgame.com/mods/type/maps/sort/downloads.

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