StarCraft: Brood War Patch 1.18 Patch Notes
Starcraft
StarCraft 1.18 has been officially released today by Blizzard, the first patch in over 8 years. With this patch, StarCraft and StarCraft: Brood War are now free to play. A copy of the patch notes has been provided below.
Note: When patching StarCraft, please use the ‘Run as Admin’ option; it is required during your first client run to migrate saves and avoid issues from Windows system admin changes.
StarCraft: Brood War Patch 1.18 Patch Notes
StarCraft and StarCraft: Brood War are now free. Follow the links here to begin installing:
General
- Added windowed fullscreen or windowed mode; use Alt+Enter to switch between.
- Added UTF-8 support.
- Added cursor clamping in-game while windowed; unclamped in menus.
- Added Popular Maps to streamline finding games or game types.
- Added options to display actions per minute.
- Added Observer mode.
- Added opponent information when joining a game lobby.
- Added autosaving for replays.
- Added an option to display the game timer.
- Added UPnP support.
- Updated to a new OpenGL backend.
- Improved gameplay responsiveness during multiplayer by increasing turn rate to match LAN speeds over Battle.net.
- Improved UI layout in Battle.net sections.
- Improved behavior of available lobbies within the ‘Join Game’ section.
- Improved compatibility with Windows 7, 8.1, and 10.
- Improved anticheat capabilities.
- Improved installation and patching performance.
- Mac Beta support now available for 10.11 and up.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed palette issues to correct rainbow water, 80s Kerrigan face in the loading screen, and other graphic glitches.
- Fixed problems with LAN game discovery.
- Fixed IME support and other text artifacts in Battle.net menus.
- LAN and Legacy Battle.net fixes.
Known Issues
- The profile section is currently unavailable.
See the official Patch Notes for yourself if you'd like.
Battle.net Scheduled Maintenance for StarCraft Patch 1.18
Battle.net
Blizzard will be performing maintenance to the Classic Battle.net servers on Tuesday, March 28, 2017 in preparation for StarCraft: Brood War Remastered (Patch 1.18).
Announcement: https://us.battle.net/forums/en/bnet/topic/20753815644
Evening Adventurers,
Battle.net will be down for maintenance on March 28th in preperation for 1.18 Starcraft.
Expected down time: 60 minsTimes:
- USWest: 0800 PST
- USEast: 1000 PST
- Asia: 1200 PST
- Europe: 1600 PST
Thank you,
Classic Games Team
Additionally, the servers are displaying the following EID_ERROR
message upon entry to any channel in preparation for this maintenance:
[Server Broadcast] Server maintenance at 1000 PST (https://us.battle.net/forums/en/bnet/topic/20753815644)
SC: Remastered confirmed and StarCraft patch 1.18a
Starcraft
A previous BNETDocs article talked about a rumor that StarCraft would be getting remastered. This suspicion was confirmed after Blizzard announced their plans during the "I <3 StarCraft" event which celebrated 19 years of StarCraft:
Furthermore, Blizzard conducted an interview about the development of SC: Remastered that you can watch here:
Recently, an article from Team Liquid surfaced about Blizzard's plans to prepare for SC: Remastered. That article has been reposted below.
In preparation for StarCraft: Remastered, SC:BW will be receiving its first official patch since January 21, 2009—almost 8 years ago. This patch mostly contains bug fixes and added functionality, with only 2 changes to unit bugs.
These changes should have little or no effect on gameplays, since SC:R will allegedly be compatible with BW 1.16.
Patch Will Happen 3/30 US Time. More details soon?
StarCraft v1.18a Patch Notes
StarCraft and Brood War will now be completely FREE.
Specific Changes & Improvements
Please “Run as Admin” during patching; it is required by modern operating systems and your first client run will migrate saves to avoid issu es from Windows system admin changes
* Added windowed fullscreen or windowed mode; use Alt+Enter to switch between
* Added UTF-8 support
* Added Keybind options
* Added cursor clamping in game while windowed; unclamped in menus
* Added Popular Maps to streamline finding games or game types
* Added options to display actions per minute
* Added Observer mode
* Added opponent information when joining a game lobby
* Added autosaving for replays
* Added in game timer option
* Added UPnP support
* Improved gameplay responsiveness during multiplayer by increasing turn rate
to match LAN speeds over Battle.net
* Improved UI layout in Battle.net sections
* Improved behavior of available lobbies within the Join game section
* Improved compatibility with Windows 7, 8.1, and 10
* Improved anticheat
* Improved installation and patching performance
* Native support for Fish
Bug Fixes
* Fixed palette issues to correct rainbow water, 80s Kerrigan, and other graphic glitches
* Fixed problems with LAN game discovery
* Fixed IME support and other text artifacts in Battle.net menus
* LAN and Legacy Battle.net fixes
* Valkyries will fire missiles regardless of population size
* Dragoons will not freeze and require a Stop order before accepting new orders
Known Issues
* Mac is not supported this patch, but is in progress
* The profile section is currently unavailable
I've disabled Cloudflare and started using Let's Encrypt
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BNETDocs is no longer using Cloudflare for any purpose other than DNS right now, and SSL/TLS has been switched from expired Comodo certificates to Let's Encrypt with automatic renewal.
I felt that this was a better solution due to Cloudflare's security issue last week. With Cloudflare no longer sitting as a middleman, Cloudflare was no longer the edge SSL/TLS, so Let's Encrypt has taken its place.
With Cloudflare DNS only and Let's Encrypt in place, so far things have been steady. This change happened earlier this week and I forgot to announce it. There haven't been any monitoring alerts that have come in since the change, and no one's noticed the difference as far as I've seen, which is a good thing.
Cheers.
USWest Scheduled Maintenance
Battle.net
Blizzard will be performing maintenance to the USWest Classic Battle.net servers on Friday, March 3, 2017 from 8:00AM to 12:00PM PST.
Announcement: https://us.battle.net/forums/en/bnet/topic/20753485183
The following games will be down during this maintenance:
- Diablo
- Diablo II
- Diablo II: Lord of Destruction
- Starcraft
- Starcraft: Brood War
- Warcraft II: Battle.net Edition
- Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos
- Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne
Additionally, the USWest servers are displaying the following EID_ERROR
message upon entry to any channel in preparation for this maintenance:
[Server Broadcast] Server maintenance Friday 0800 PST (https://us.battle.net/forums/en/bnet/topic/20753485183)