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'StarCraft' & 'Brood War' - v1.13b Patch Available NOW

by Rainier on Aug. 13, 2005 @ 10:35 a.m. PDT

As promised, Blizzard has released a minor updated patch for good old Starcraft, and its expansion pack Brood War. The v1.13b patch fixes a bug that caused certain maps to crash. Read more for detailed fix list and download links ...

Get the Starcraft/Broodwar v1.13b patch off WP (9/23mb)

What's fixed in Patch 1.13b (Includes previous fixes)

  • Fixed a Bug that caused certain maps to crash.

What's fixed in Patch 1.13

  • This revision addresses a few well-known bugs that were used to perform in-game exploits, corrects display issues with the Korean Font and makes adjustments to the Player's in-game minimap.

What's fixed in Patch 1.12b

  • Fixed bugs related to Korean chat on Windows 95/98/Me.

New Features in 1.12

Changed Speed from "Fast" to Fastest" for Ladder Games.
You now can preview your map in the Multiplayer chat screen.
Added feature that allows the creator of a private Battle.net game to make the
game public under the creator's name in Multiplayer Chat screen.
Added full Korean language support for battle.net and in-game.
Added a Friends List Feature and button that allows you to keep track of your friends on Battle.net.
Added Friend mail feature that allows you to email members of your Friends List.
Added Password Recovery and email registration features (like Warcraft 3 and Diablo 2) so you can recover your password via email.
Changed the default race type in single custom games to Random.
It now remembers your last map and folder setting when you create single or multi player games.
Brood War will now show 'mapsBroodWar' folder as your default map folder.
When a building is selected and if a ground rally point is set the rally point will briefly animate.
Added minimap ping (Alt-left-click on minimap to show graphic location.)
Added alliance colors on units - Shift-Tab changes your color to green, your allies to yellow and your enemies to red.
Added right-click feature that will set your building rally point.
Added shift-# to add a unit to a control group.
The mouse cursor stays on the game's monitor in multi-monitor environments.

Updated Maps

Lost Temple has been updated, while Dire Straits and Rivarly have been slightly
tweaked to balance resources and space for building.
All maps have been resigned. If you have moved standard maps to different
folders you must do so again. If you have maps downloaded from our FTP site you must do so again.

Bug Fixes

Fixed bug related to seeing Question marks instead of Korean characters when using /where command in Battle.net
Fixed a bug that hindered Korean text in Battle.net chatrooms and game advertisements.

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