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StarCraft - Now Free!

StarCraft and StarCraft: Brood War are now free to download:

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StarCraft: Brood War Patch 1.18 Patch Notes

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

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Thanks for the news.

StarCraft and StarCraft: Brood War download link:

https://battle.net/download/getInsta…gram=STARCRAFT

One of the greatest games of all time.
Have my doubts about getting value for your money on the upcoming enhanced edition but we'll see I suppose.

At least Blizzard see the value of having both old and new versions available to the public separately. A classy move.

Well they can always kill the classic later on via battlenet; I think this is more of free advertising for the new version.

StarCraft is one of the few RTS games to have a great single-player campaign to go along with great multiplayer gameplay. I found the campaign in SC2 very disappointing by comparison.

Well, I've got my free copy now, wewt :D Time to test my friend's theory of "it's in your blood to love SC".

This is really free? Like, no online junk or account information required? If so I'd be amazed.

Best RTS I've ever played

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Originally Posted by Silver (Post 1061446913)

At least Blizzard see the value of having both old and new versions available to the public separately. A classy move.

Which other version? SCR is not free.

Nothing like StarCraft/RedAlert LAN parties back in early 2000s :)

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Originally Posted by luj1 (Post 1061447005)

Which other version? SCR is not free.

SC:BW is now free and it will be left free = version one (or old version)
SCR is not going to be free = version two (or new version)

Unlike how Beamdog does it, SCR will not replace SC:BW.

The most amazing thing is that its backward compatible.

We can play the same game, I can play with BW , you can play with SCR

Or you can play SCR, I can cast/observe using BW and vice-versa