[zuqbu]

StarCraft Broodwar has just been updated to 1.16.0

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Feature Changes

- In-game chat is now saved in replays. Note: whispers are not saved.
- Hitting the Escape key while in the chat room will clear your typed text.
- "/reply" (or just "/r") will send a whisper to person who most recently whispered you.

Bug Fixes

- Fixed localization issues with "from" and "to" in whispers.
- Starcraft now only uses as much CPU as it needs to run smoothly.

Exploits

- Fixed an exploit which allowed Zerg players to gain minerals through mutations.
- Fixed an exploit which allowed Zerg players to recycle an upgrading building.
- Fixed an exploit which allowed Zerg players to extend their creep with a drone.
- Fixed an exploit which allowed Zerg players to move Drones over impassable terrain.
- Fixed an exploit which allowed Terran players to drop a nuke anywhere on the map.
- Fixed an exploit which allowed players to pause the game while in the pre-game lobby.

It's not on the homepage yet, but you can download the patch by accessing Battle.net. The reduced CPU-usage feature sounds awesome, I'm sometimes playing on battery and I guess this saves some charge live

EDIT: Out of curiosity I just fired it up after installing the update and ran it in a window while having activity monitor open. The reduced CPU-usage feature is currently PC-only I guess…

[Janichsan]

zuqbu, on November 25th 2008, 03:09 PM, said:

EDIT: Out of curiosity I just fired it up after installing the update and ran it in a window while having activity monitor open. The reduced CPU-usage feature is currently PC-only I guess…

Keep in mind that on Intel Macs StarCraft has to run through Rosetta. That alone is pretty CPU intensive.

[zuqbu]

Janichsan, on November 25th 2008, 07:32 AM, said:

Keep in mind that on Intel Macs StarCraft has to run through Rosetta. That alone is pretty CPU intensive.

Thanks, I forgot about that totally. I wish a Universal Binary of Broodwar would happen, but I don't think Blizzard will ever do that.

[Janichsan]

Neither do I: Starcraft just runs too well under Rosetta and moving the whole code to XCode (required for UBs) is just too much work to make it worthwhile.

[bookman]

Maybe they can work that into the Mac version of Starcraft 2.

[Thain Esh Kelch]

Im pretty sure we'll see a mod for Starcraft 2, depicting all the Starcraft 1 campaigns. Its gonna be awesome!

[Bill Ramey]

The only problem I run into with Starcraft on the Mac is with the Protoss missions. The mouse cursor gets a little laggy with the Protoss. Otherwise it runs fine.