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Eight years after the creation, Blizzard releases a new patch for StarCraft as a response to the never-ending activity from the community.
The patch contains heavy tools to enable better Battle.netting with antihacking and a new ladder in cooperation with the World Game Tour within 2-3 weeks.
Read more for patch notes, history and details about the antihacking tools.
The new ladder with WGTour in 2-3 weeks - some preparations left
Blizzard's own ladder system at Battle.net is since long abused and torn apart by cheats. Yet we hope it has come to an end as the WGTour administration takes over the ladder. The new Blizz-WGT ladder handle match results automatically but will only work on Europe. It will currently indicates to have support for 1v1, 2v2, team ladder, clan war ladder, nation ladder and nation war ladder. Replays will be uploaded automatically (unless you decline by paying a small penalty fee).
Battle.net has disabled the ladder mode and icon in StarCraft but the top gamers will be displayed at the Battle.net website and at WGTour.com. No prizes have yet been announced nor information regarding how long a season will last.
Update: WGTour just posted an » announcement regarding the new cooperation and confirms most of what is said above, and additionally reveals that the new ladder season will begin in 2-3 weeks time and that some preparations are still needed to be done.
Patch release dates
| | Date | Patch
| 1998, April | 1.01
| | 1998, August | 1.02
| | 1998, October | 1.03
| | 1998, December | 1.04
| | 1999, March | 1.05
| | 1999, September | 1.06
| | 1999, November | 1.07
| | 2001, May | 1.08
| | 2002, February | 1.09
| | 2003, April | 1.10
| | 2004, April | 1.11
| | 2005, February | 1.12
| | 2005, June | 1.13
| | 2006, August | 1.14 | |
Antihacking - Patch 1.14 has codename "The Hammer"
The Blizz-WGT ladder works with Brood War Launcher 3 and PenguinPlug. PenguinPlug in itself includes antihacking features already known to the community. Although the plugin does not enforce the same level of protection that is necessary, and this is why the new antihacking system by Blizzard is being introduced by 1.14.
Blizzard already uses an inbuilt antihacking system for WarCraft III and World of WarCraft. There are only few details available that discloses how this antihack works, yet GosuGamers have been informed that this is the system that has been implemented to StarCraft. In what form and how heavy is not announced.
 Ashur, developer of Brood War Launcher, is involved in the creation of the patch and the Blizz-WGT ladder but in what exact way he won't say. He explains that the new patch will "hurt the cheaters a lot, but it won't kill them".
Ashur further explains that "there are few cheats that the patch cannot remove". One of the examples is the infamous maphack. We are told it is "almost unstoppable", but few of the hackers have far less programming skills necessary to crack the hack protection this new ladder will give. "We shall see, how long it will take them to update their desired cheats." And even if some hackers do, it seems Blizzard have a few other tools up in their sleeves that might make maphacking attempts even harder.
Details regarding the antihacking is not published out of security reasons. As a summary of the antihacking for Battle.net, nevertheless, it has gone from inexistent to strong even if it's not near PGTour's status of as good as unhackable.
“ Everything that has been kept a secret from the entire community the whole year will now be revealed to the public. No more gossip, no more false theories, no more speculations about WGTour’s condition – as you can all see it’s alive and kicking.”
- True_Spike at WGTour.com |
Color text for team games added
Allied chat will now be in a different color than the general chat to all.
Allied Chat enabled by default
In Top versus Bottom games, Allied Chat is enabled by default.
Maps updates
Small corrections to the Lost Temple and Dire Straits maps.
Time system updates
"Screen shots now use a time/date stamp; they are no longer limited to 100" and "Improved version numbering system."
New icon for StarCraft.exe
"The high-color application icon from the Macintosh version is now used on PC."
Bug Fixes
- Fixed Hatchery cancellation crash bug.
- Fixed crash that can occur when SCVs are repairing a unit boarding a Dropship.
- Fixed crash when Mac users very quickly cancel connection to Battle.net.
- Fixed a scoring bug that gave Zerg unit points for building cancellation.
- Users can now take screen shots on Macintosh OS X.
- Updated Battle.net account creation information text.
- Logging onto an account closed for a Battle.net Terms of Service violation will now say the account is closed, rather than 'invalid password'.
- Fixed bug preventing Portuguese StarCraft clients from receiving patches from Battle.net. Portuguese users must still patch to this level manually, but subsequent patches can be obtained automatically from Battle.net.
- No longer displays control characters in Battle.net's map description pane.
- Color codes and control codes are no longer allowed in chat messages.
- Fixed a crash in StarEdit when attempting to save modified Blizzard maps.
- Fixed undesired text wrapping in Spanish and Portuguese Battle.net screens.
- Fixed a rare crash in multiplayer games.
Exploits
- Fixed the Nydus Canal cancellation bug that allowed creating a mobile exit.
- Fixed two exploits that allowed players to gain minerals very quickly.
- Fixed exploit with Arbiter that allowed Zerg buildings to become cloaked.
- Fixed exploit that allowed units to kill themselves instantly.
- Fixed exploit that allowed Command Center infestation without a Queen.
- Fixed exploit that allowed Command Center infestation from a distance.
- Fixed exploit that allowed players to float Zerg Drones over obstacles.
- Fixed exploit that allowed worker units to mine at a distance.
- Fixed exploit that allowed Terran buildings to lift off while training units.
- Fixed exploit that allowed SCVs to repair Protoss buildings.
- Fixed exploit that allowed SCVs to detach Larvae from Hatcheries.
- Fixed exploit that allowed morphing Terran and Protoss buildings.
- Fixed exploit that allowed buildings to be stacked on top of each other.
- Playing against illegally named players on Battle.net no longer results in a
disconnect game result.
Updates of StarCraft tools and links
» PenguinPlug for 1.14
» StarCraft Patch 1.14 executable file
Reported new bugs after the patch
- A few typos.
- Technical issuses. These bugs are normally a result of user's modifying the StarCraft content manually. Try reinstalling with the proper disc and make a clean version. As soon as an ftp link to the patch is available, we will link to it.
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