The game also added better compatibility with Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10, which is very important as it is now free to play.

To make it easier to multitask with Starcraft, the game has added windowed fullscreen and windowed modes, which you can easily switch between by pressing Alt+Enter. The news comes courtesy of patch notes for Starcraft, which also mention a number of additions and bug fixes to the game. Since the release of Patch Update 1.18 for StarCraft, both the base game and expansion StarCraft: Brood of War are now free to download and play on PC. For those of you who can’t wait for it and want to play some classic starcraft, now you can have it completely free. They have some more involved steps you can manually follow for the Mac, or I can link to the installer I wrote if you want.Blizzard announced last month that the original StarCraft and its DLC expansion Brood War were being remastered for PC, with a release scheduled for this summer. ~60 people worked on it for almost 10 years (the project started in the WarCraft 3 engine - they shifted it over to StarCraft 2 when that was released). They did a phenomenal job - completely blew me away. It's a fan done project - they remade all the StarCraft and BroodWar campaigns in the StarCraft 2 engine, including levels that were cut, only available on the N64, or only available by download. The 1v1 ladder is the most competitive it's probably ever been, but it'd be nice to have new blood in the lower leagues.If all you want is the original SC campaigns, you should play StarCraft Mass Recall. The campaign stories aren't as good (I would argue) but the multiplayer is a lot of fun and still going strong with the latest expansion that came out a year and a half ago. I'm hoping this might generate some new interest in Starcraft 2. For those who watch the occasional Brood War pro game out of South Korea, Remastered will be a real boon. I'm sure I'll do some multiplayer with my friends who I play Starcraft 2 with now, once Remastered is out, but frankly I'm spoiled by having rally points and multiple building selection in Starcraft 2 and even Warcraft 3. I tried playing a bit of SC1 again recently when they were doing the public test of 1.18, and the ancient UI was a lot more clunky than I remember from my childhood. I will be getting Remastered when it comes out, but mainly just for the campaigns.

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