

Even without the fancy new graphics, the original game will also be getting some pretty nice enhancements in patch 1.18 that should mean good news for its still-healthy online scene.

Oh, and at the same time Blizzard also just made StarCraft free to download, which is pretty cool.īlizzard promised StarCraft would go free when it announced StarCraft Remastered, an upcoming 4K-enhanced edition, last month. 01 better than what we thought we were getting. We’ve had to wait a bit since then, but today’s the big day: patch 1.18 has arrived, the first update in eight years, and a whole.

It would’ve been the first patch for StarCraft since 2009, but it mysteriously never went live. In 2016, a StarCraft patch surfaced on Blizzard’s FTP site with the version number 1.17.
