Improved behavior of available lobbies within the ‘Join Game’ section.

Improved gameplay responsiveness during multiplayer by increasing turn rate to match LAN speeds over.

Added an option to display the game timer.

Added opponent information when joining a game lobby.

Added options to display actions per minute.

Added Popular Maps to streamline finding games or game types.

Added cursor clamping in-game while windowed unclamped in menus.

Added windowed fullscreen or windowed mode use Alt+Enter to switch between.

Full patch notes are included below! Penguin Brood Patch You can download StarCraft and Brood War for PC right here or for Mac right here. Perhaps patch 1.19 is in our near future. Blizzard notes that there is one known issue at the moment: 'the profile section is currently unavailable'. The high points include windowed fullscreen mode, UPnP support, better compatibility with Windows 7, 8.1, and 10, plus improved anticheat. Even without the fancy new graphics, the original game will also be getting some pretty nice enhancements in patch 1.18 that should mean good news for its still-healthy online scene. Oh, and at the same time Blizzard also just made StarCraft free to download, which is pretty cool.īlizzard promised StarCraft would go free when it announced StarCraft Remastered, an upcoming 4K-enhanced edition, last month. 01 better than what we thought we were getting. We've had to wait a bit since then, but today's the big day: patch 1.18 has arrived, the first update in eight years, and a whole. It would've been the first patch for StarCraft since 2009, but it mysteriously never went live. In 2016, a StarCraft patch surfaced on Blizzard's FTP site with the version number 1.17. Naturally, this patch does not change anything in terms of gameplay or balancing, but it addresses a few. This free-to-play release comes with a new patch as well, the first one in over eight years.

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Starcraft and Brood War Patch Information.

Do not use this patch if you only have StarCraft installed (as it has a separate patch).

This v1.16.1 patch fixes a few minor issues with StarCraft: Brood War.

The StarCraft Launcher will open and download and install the patch. StarCraft is now free to download and play! When you open StarCraft, you will be prompted to download the new update before you can play online. Blizzard released an update today for StarCraft Brood War. By installing the latest patch all previous updates will also be installed Blizzard has issued a new patch for Starcraft and the Brood War expansion, upgrading both titles to version 1.16.

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