Patch downloads should be a bit faster on modern broadband connections than they were on the modem connections so common back when StarCraft's released in 1998.

The information posted to Team Liquid suggests that both StarCraft 1.18a and StarCraft Remastered will maintain compatibility with the older version 1.16 of the standard game.īlizzard isn't ready to talk specifics about the release date of StarCraft Remastered just yet, saying nothing more definitive than 'summer 2017.' The new patch 1.18a has a more concrete date of March 30. The update fixes a few bugs, including compatibility with recent versions of Windows and behavior issues with Valkyrie and Dragoon units. Version 1.18a will arrive soon, superseding the most recent Brood War 1.16 patch from 2009. They also added 64-bit support (if you turn it on in the app options), which is great news for Mac users since Apple is about to kill 32-bit apps with the next Mac OS. On my computer, at least, the mouse was maddeningly laggy before. The original version of the game is getting some attention in the meantime, according to a post at StarCraft community site Team Liquid. The game is far more playable now with the input patch. Note the revolutionary 16:9 aspect ratio. The game's mission briefings are to be re-imagined in a comic-book-style format, and the audio will be upgraded with re-recorded music and dialogue. Not all of these features and updates will be available immediately within the PTR, but we are looking forward to hearing your thoughts and feedback as they do. The full single-player campaign from the base game and its Brood War expansion pack will be included. With the arrival of the 9.1.5 PTR, we wanted to share more information on the variety of new features and updates arriving with the content update.

StarCraft Remastered will let players zoom in and out of the playfield for close-up or eagle-eye views of the action. Meanwhile, the standard versions of StarCraft and Brood War will soon be free to download and getting a new patch.

The game will support widescreen resolutions up to 4K, thanks to re-drawn 2D art. Though it makes perfect sense given Remastered launched less than a month ago, I am somewhat tickled by the notion were seeing bug fixes for a game I played nearly 20 years ago, all the way back in 1998. Blizzard has officially announced that it's re-launching the legendary science-fiction RTS title as StarCraft Remastered. Over the weekend, Blizzard released a patch containing a handful of bug fixes for StarCraft Remastered, following up on the patch from August 21. After 19 years at a maximum resolution of 640×480 and a fixed 4:3 aspect ratio, StarCraft is getting a high-resolution widescreen update.

Starcraft remastered patch notes