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Starcraft and Starcraft: Brood War Free Download for Windows PC and macOS

Starcraft and Starcraft: Brood War Free Download for Windows PC and macOS

By Rishi Alwani | Updated: 19 April 2017 16:59 IST

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Highlights

Starcraft is available for free via the official website
The game pioneered the real-time strategy genre
A remastered version is out this quarter

With Starcraft Remastered announced earlier this month for a summer release, developer Blizzard also stated that the original Starcraft, and its expansion - Brood War, would be available for free soon.

On Tuesday, Blizzard flipped the switch, making the seminal real-time strategy game a free download for Windows PC and macOS. You can download it via the official Starcraft website. If you have a PC and haven’t tried out Starcraft - there are no more excuses. It’s the reason for the emergence of the real-time strategy and multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) genres. Its single-player campaign holds up well and if you’re up for it, there’s a rabid multiplayer community to show you the ropes in online play.

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What’s more is that it’s got its first patch in over eight years. Details are as follows:

General

Added windowed fullscreen or windowed mode; Alt+Enter switches 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 game time
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 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
Some chat commands are still being updated to play nice in the updated chat system
Friends location is being improperly displayed
Password games will often return bad password trying to join

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