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On March 30 2017 18:25 niilzon wrote:Show nested quote +On March 30 2017 18:05 AssiRoyal wrote:On March 30 2017 18:00 niilzon wrote:On March 30 2017 16:12 niilzon wrote:
Did Blizzard provide a legal download link yet, since the game is supposedly free with .18 ? I bought SC & BW when I was a kid but don't own the CD's anymore (probably burrowed somewhere in a pile of boxes) and I'd like to play again. Can somebody point me in the right direction ? Thanks alot ! Please help me guys ! its this one https://d8un0y0mnd29o.cloudfront.net/public/Starcraft 1.18 PTR 1202.zip Thank you sir ! Is there any assurance that this is not malware-riddled ? I mean it's hosted on a non-really-official-source, any insight regarding the safety of the binaries ? Since providing inbound and outbound network connectivity will be needed for the game I'd rather take some precautions  Worse case I'll wait 1 or 2 days until Blizzard releases something public, but hell the wait is hard !
It's the link posted by a Blizzard Dev on the Battle.Net Forums and many people have downloaded it already and no one complained. You are fine to download it. I was afraid of the link too, but I trusted it since it was posted by a Blizzard Dev.
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This is running like disaster on my pc. Background menu graphics are blurred, text is like slapped on screen, menu and lobby interface graphics are blocky and ugly. Everything runs super slow, ingame everything is pixelated and mouse lagging all the time.
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haven't played, but from streams/screenshots b.net menu's/chat looks horrendous. it seems like i will keep my iccup installation for now.
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On March 30 2017 18:35 chrisolo wrote:Show nested quote +On March 30 2017 18:25 niilzon wrote:On March 30 2017 18:05 AssiRoyal wrote:On March 30 2017 18:00 niilzon wrote:On March 30 2017 16:12 niilzon wrote:
Did Blizzard provide a legal download link yet, since the game is supposedly free with .18 ? I bought SC & BW when I was a kid but don't own the CD's anymore (probably burrowed somewhere in a pile of boxes) and I'd like to play again. Can somebody point me in the right direction ? Thanks alot ! Please help me guys ! its this one https://d8un0y0mnd29o.cloudfront.net/public/Starcraft 1.18 PTR 1202.zip Thank you sir ! Is there any assurance that this is not malware-riddled ? I mean it's hosted on a non-really-official-source, any insight regarding the safety of the binaries ? Since providing inbound and outbound network connectivity will be needed for the game I'd rather take some precautions Worse case I'll wait 1 or 2 days until Blizzard releases something public, but hell the wait is hard ! It's the link posted by a Blizzard Dev on the Battle.Net Forums and many people have downloaded it already and no one complained. You are fine to download it. I was afraid of the link too, but I trusted it since it was posted by a Blizzard Dev.
Thanks alot Chris and Hide.
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Thanks! I feel like Win 7 64 bits is super common tho, that's weird that they didn't test it on it before the ptr launch.
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So when is this thing going officially live, its already 30/3 in the US right?
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How to make FullScreen not to stretch it to all my screen and keep it 4:3?
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On March 30 2017 19:57 Breach_hu wrote:
How to make FullScreen not to stretch it to all my screen and keep it 4:3?
Turn off full screen windowed.
Mine is just on full screen and is in 4:3
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I use Windows 7 64 bit, and I was able to load up and play the 1.18 beta with no issues at all. I guess I'm the rare case?
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Edit: moved to another thread.
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Is there any ladder yet ? I like iccup way of ranking-up, I feel it fits broodwar better than 4-5 ''pre-ladder game'' to get into a league.
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On March 30 2017 13:15 Radiohead[YG] wrote:
Any other Aussies finding it very laggy? The game is almost unplayable even on the Extra High Latency, and I am sure my 6112 UDP port is open.
Yep... get heaps of lag. I think it's the #L1 default setting. Hopefully they change it to #L2 so we can have bearable games.
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When is 1.18 gonna be out ?
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On March 30 2017 21:06 KoveN- wrote:Show nested quote +On March 30 2017 13:15 Radiohead[YG] wrote:
Any other Aussies finding it very laggy? The game is almost unplayable even on the Extra High Latency, and I am sure my 6112 UDP port is open. Yep... get heaps of lag. I think it's the #L1 default setting. Hopefully they change it to #L2 so we can have bearable games.
Same here from Brazil. Mostly really laggy games. I play normally on ICCup though.
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my pc is overheating too when playing bw lol -_-
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for pure nostalgic experience as well, I even busted out my old crm monitor to play this :D
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ok so i played but the lag was HORRIBLEEEEEEE compared to fish. wtf. like worse than peruvian lag.
on the flip side, the game runs VERY well... like, it feels even smoother than 1.16.1! it feels notably better, and i don't say that lightly because i think blizz is a garbage dev and i don't trust them to not mess up. but for real, it runs really well!
the boxes around text in game is kinda annoying.. also, the fact that i can't block spectator chat while playing is annoying. also, why did they change the create game hotkey on battlenet??? seems like a random dumb change for no reason...
also, while i disagree with hotkeys being included, they need to update the list to something more like sc2 has so that it is way easier to navigate..
finally, aren't they making the game run at 1920x1080? i thought that they were expanding the field of view? or is that only in the HD version?
oh 1 more thing, they need to make the custom games list filterable by melee/1x1/top vs bottom/ums like it was in broodwar. also, option to not have spectator slots
that's my 2cents. overall, very positive though with regard to the game itself.
~edit ohhhhh both FULL CAMPAIGNS are in the download btw, so if you haven't played sc or bw's campaign recently and it's lagging you can go play those! not sure why they're included in the ptr download but okay lol
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On March 30 2017 21:24 Endymion wrote:
ok so i played but the lag was HORRIBLEEEEEEE compared to fish. wtf. like worse than peruvian lag.
on the flip side, the game runs VERY well... like, it feels even smoother than 1.16.1! it feels notably better, and i don't say that lightly because i think blizz is a garbage dev and i don't trust them to not mess up. but for real, it runs really well!
the boxes around text in game is kinda annoying.. also, the fact that i can't block spectator chat while playing is annoying. also, why did they change the create game hotkey on battlenet??? seems like a random dumb change for no reason...
also, while i disagree with hotkeys being included, they need to update the list to something more like sc2 has so that it is way easier to navigate..
finally, aren't they making the game run at 1920x1080? i thought that they were expanding the field of view? or is that only in the HD version?
oh 1 more thing, they need to make the custom games list filterable by melee/1x1/top vs bottom/ums like it was in broodwar. also, option to not have spectator slots
that's my 2cents. overall, very positive though with regard to the game itself.
~edit ohhhhh both FULL CAMPAIGNS are in the download btw, so if you haven't played sc or bw's campaign recently and it's lagging you can go play those! not sure why they're included in the ptr download but okay lol
In windowed-fullscreen the units in the campaign were far more unresponsive from my play through. I did BW mission 1 in both the PTR and BW. The difference was night and day to me.
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On March 30 2017 20:18 Luongo wrote:
I use Windows 7 64 bit, and I was able to load up and play the 1.18 beta with no issues at all. I guess I'm the rare case?
I get all sorts of errors when I try and load the starcraft.exe file, I'm on win 7 64 bit, I actually hope that's the reason because when googling these errors it seemed like I needed a GPU (my laptop just has the basic graphics shenanigans built into the CPU, it's never had an issue running bw before)
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