As promised a few weeks ago, Blizzard Entertainment has made the RTS classic Starcraft and its expansion Starcraft: Brood War available for download for free. The system requirements are ridiculously low by today’s standards, and don’t really need to be mentioned. For example, 16 MB of RAM is required. Modern operating systems up to Windows 10 are supported, of course.
Parallel to the free release of Starcraft and Starcraft: Brood War, Blizzard has also released patch 1.18, the first update in over eight years! Among other things, it adds a windowed fullscreen mode, an observer mode and a display for the number of actions per second. The complete changelog can be found below. Patch 1.18 must be installed as administrator. As usual, you can find more news and information, also about the remaster, on the Starcraft topic page.
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Patch Notes for Starcraft 1.18:
General
- Added window mode and window mode (full screen); Uses Alt+Enter key combination to switch between settings.
- UTF-8 is now supported.
- Added option to change the keyboard layout.
- Added mouse cursor bound to the window when running the game in windowed mode; free mouse cursor once game menus are opened.
- Added popular cards to make it easier to search for games and game types.
- Added options to display APM.
- Added observer mode.
- Added display of opponent information when entering a game lobby.
- Added automatic saving of replays.
- Added option to display a time in the game.
- UPnP support added.
- OpenGL backend updated.
- Speeded up gameplay responsiveness in multiplayer by increasing unit rotation rate and aligning it with LAN speeds via Battle.net.
- Improved user interface within Battle.net sections.
- Improved behavior of available lobbies in the game joining section.
- Compatibility with Windows 7, 8.1 and 10 improved.
- Anti-cheat system improved.
- Performance during installation and patching improved.
- Mac beta support available for OSX 10.11 and later.
Fixed bugs
- Fixed bugs with the color palette that caused “rainbow” colored water, 80s kerrigan and other image errors.
- Fixed bugs in LAN game search.
- Fixed input errors and other text artifacts in Battle.net menus.
- Fixed LAN and Legacy issues in Battle.net.
Known bugs
- The profile section is currently unavailable.
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