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Features \ Patch 1.12 - Updates and changes

Patch 1.12 - Updates and changes

» Patrik "Raistlin" Hellstrand
1st February 2005 - 12460 hits, 153 coms

Blizzard - "We have been working on a new patch for StarCraft"! Here it is today, the 1.12 patch has been released! GosuGamers has gathered it all, from updates to bugs, improvements to competition consequences! Found a bug? Report it to us and we will list them all!



- Drones harvest ability is not changed.
- Replays are not working 100%.
- Hotkey-issues can be fixed without 1.12b.
- Patch 1.12b released.


"Changed Speed from "Fast" to Fastest" for Ladder Games."


A change of course welcomed, but unfortunately about three years too late. Unless the abuse of the public gateway ladder is fixed, it probably still won't increase in popularity.

"You now can preview your map in the Multiplayer chat screen"


When joining a game, it is now possible to see what the map looks like before the game starts. There is now a line of text above the "game speed" and "map size" info on the right side that reads "Map Preview". Putting your mouse over this text reveals a very sized down image of the map you are playing on. While this image certainly is not large, it is still crisp enough to let you clearly see all of the terrain and expansion info on a given map, thus reducing the confusion of playing on a map for the first time.




"Added a Friends List Feature and button that allows you to keep track of your friends"


The most glaring difference is the addition of a new button on the battle.net chat window - bringing the total to six. This new "Friends" button makes it much more convenient to see who from your friends' list is online. When you click the button, your list of friends appears on the right side as if they were all in a channel together. If they are online, the box where ladder ratings/stars go will appear empty by their name. If the friend is offline, nothing will be by their name. You can also double click on any of your friends' names and view their profiles, regardless of their online status.

For those who enjoy chatting on battle.net, this feature will certainly be of use.

"Added minimap ping"


Instead of telling your ally/allies to go at '8 o clock or to gather just outside his base, you will now be able to set a minimap ping that they will be able to see. By pressing ALT+rightclick and by choosing where on the minimap to place it, your allies will hear a sound and see the attention icon on their own minimap.

This an extremely good tool when playing team games, just press a short key combination and you won't have to explain exactly where to gather your forces. This is also useful when observing a game and you want the other observers' attention for a fierce battle, a surspicious mistake or something.







"When a building is selected and if a ground rally point is set the rally point will briefly animate"


As the screenshot shows, I merely selected my Nexus, and it showed me where my rally point was previously set. Note that the green circle created looks exactly the same as the one that appears when a rally point is first set.



"Added Friend mail feature that enables you to email your friends"


Another nifty feature for the confused ones. Creating a new account in WarCraft III, and in Diablo II for that matter, you are asked to enter your e-mail adress this because if you should forget your password. By entering a valid e-mail address, you will be able to press Password Recovery where you fill in your account name and the e-mail address.

Blizzard will not do anything with your entered e-mail address. As said on the Battle.Net Technical Support Site: "The email address is only registered for password recovery and the Battle.net Mail Features." It will not be sent out to any callers, firms or anything else that may cause your e-mail to be handed unwanted mail. Have a look at » Battle.net/mail for more information on Battle.net mail and password recovery features.

"Lost Temple has been updated"


Dire Straits and Rivalry has been tweaked as well. But why? Yes, we all had that same question. Since Blizzard seems to be hoping for increased popularity in their Battle.net ladder (game speed change), the maps must also be updated since they have some obvious position imbalance. The maps have now been updated making the mineral increase flow stay in pace regardless of your starting position, and more. This update was made so that you do not longer have to look at all your 100 Lost Temple versions and try to think which one was the best - simply choose the one with the Blizzard icon in your ladder maps folder.

No ingame bug fixes!


As a suprise to many, including myself, there were no ingame changes in StarCraft for patch 1.12. There are several bugs currently known, including dragoon stack bug, building crush bug and many, many more. Why these have not been fixed we are not yet aware. The suprising is that the original reason we belived patch 1.12 was coming was because it indeed would correct the ingame bugs so that the Blizzard StarCraft events would run smoothly. Now, however, they will have to continue listing the not-allowed bugs in their event rules.

Having problems updating?


One important thing to note is while updating to this patch it updates certain maps in your folders. If for some reason you have removed the folders "ladder", "oldladder", or "scenario" the patch will not install correctly, and an error message will come up. If you have deleted these folders, the easiest way to get them back is merely to reinstall StarCraft. Notice GosuGamers will not supply you with any CD-Keys, illegal installationfiles or cracks, so do not bother asking. However, if you have any other questions regarding the patch update please feel free to ask. You can also grab the patch from » Blizzard's support site.

Third party tools not working


Normally when a patch is released, all third party programs will be out of function. This includes everything from BWChart, BWScanner and other friendly, good tools, to maphacks and cracks. This means that you do not have to worry about your opponent hacking for a while, until a new hack is released for 1.12. Whether BWScanner or the maphackers will update their programs first is something we do not know. Nevertheless, GosuGamers will update you in our news section when the best legal third party tools out there are updated.


Patch update (patch.txt)
Changes for patch 1.12a


  • 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 Password Recovery and email registration features (like Warcraft 3 and Diablo 2) so you can recover your password via email.**

  • Added Friend mail feature that enables you to email your friends.**

    ** Please go to www.battle.net/mail for more information on Battle.net mail and password recovery features.

  • 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 'maps\BroodWar' 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.

  • Bug reports
    Wtih new patches comes new bugs. So has it been before, so will it always be. Here we want to gather all the known bugs that may come up and we ask you to send in all your bug reports to us. Please drop an email to Raistlin[@]GosuGamers[.]net attaching the replay and explaining the bug in details, minutes in the replays if you know them and exactly what happened. You can also make a comment in the comment section below. Please make sure the bug is not listed before submitting your report.

    New bugs for the 1.12 patch


    This section will not list old bugs in StarCraft that was not corrected, but rather new bugs that has come up with 1.12.

  • [Not confirmed] All replays from 1.11 are corrupted. Even though no ingame changes were made and Blizzard informed that old replays would work perfectly, words have now come up that they do not.

  • [Not confirmed] Bug with private -> public games! When you create a private melee game, and than switch that game to public , only the game creator will get credit for the game! All of the other players will neither recieve a loss nor a win!

  • [Confirmed] Hotkeys for multiple actions has been detected in language versions such as German and Spanish. Correcting this bug would not require a new patch, but could be done on the server-side only.

    Drones and SCVs are mining the same speed as previously


    Words have come up that there would be a difference when harvesting minerals for some peons. This, however, is false. The game may run a little faster on Battle.net now, which for some users might make it seem they mining faster. It's a more optimal netcode; unit abilities were not changed.

    Patch 1.12b released


    Patch 1.12b was released and this was the only change according to patch.txt;

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


    Whether other bugs was corrected during this update phase we do not know yet, but please let the reports come in. It is suprising seeing how Blizzard already made this update. Usually the b-patch comes after a while when all the bugs are known by them and how to correct them, meaning they won't have to release yet another one if additional critical bugs are created.
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    3 years ago
    #1 enkera
    Nice work in so short time, just gimme the no cd crack and then i'll kiss you :D
    3 years ago
    #2 J_ghost350
    god im gettin crazy trying to get the patch to work, something wrong with the maps, tryed uninstalling but it won't work
    3 years ago
    #3 Volunteer
    yeah, it's some map that.. well its just weird...
    3 years ago
    #4 enkera
    You too have the problem with the (2) Astral something ?
    3 years ago
    #5 Paradise
    cant understand the mail function :(
    3 years ago
    #6 hack_dgz
    You use mail by typing /mail USERNAME MESSAGE
    but its not working for some reason because it says the person has to elect whether he does or doesn't want to allow incoming mail. And when you try to go to /options it doesn't give you instructions on how to.

    The right-click rally and rally point animation are such 'big' changes, it's gonna take some time to get used to it.
    3 years ago
    #7 Drexxin
    go to battle.net/maik
    3 years ago
    #8 superpenguin
    i'm not sure yet but it looks like they forgot some of the obvious and anoying bugfix
    3 years ago
    #9 TheGoliath
    loader seriously needed...
    3 years ago
    #10 Stik
    go to battle.net and get the patch there, thats how i got it to work. I still do not understand Blizzards updating of ladder maps. Why waste the time to update them if no1 plays ladder unless they are winbotting. Every1 who has a rank in the top 1000 is winbot. BLIZZAD KNOWS THIS BUT DOES NOTHING. I'm writing a nice longer letter to them about their retardedness if I may say. Not that the patch wasnt nice but, I truly do not understand the motives behind updating anything that has to do with ladder.
    3 years ago
    #11 a-game
    heres some help
    in order for your friends to be able to mail you you have to type /o fm and /o cm
    those two commands will allow friends and clan members to mail you.
    3 years ago
    #12 a-game
    uhh and if you ever want to disable that option then just type /o nofm and
    /o nocm

    you can browse these options by typing /? o
    and you can check the status of these options by typing /o
    3 years ago
    #13 BlaznJason
    So sweet... why am I not on playing?
    3 years ago
    #14 Clawson
    Hmm, so far I have looked 10 replays, pvz & PvT, all of them are 1.11 and every single one are corrupted. 1.12 DOES corrupt replays :P Fuckface b.net t.t
    3 years ago
    #15 Clawson
    And what the fuck is the point of it going to "blizzard" folder ^^ Wtf anyone does there ;P
    3 years ago
    #16 Musli
    lol -_-
    3 years ago
    #17 meRz
    #15

    ive looked on several 1.11 replays and none of them are corrupted.
    3 years ago
    #18 SlavV
    i like everything besides the corrupting of replays and the showing of rally points when you click a building (OMG ANNOYING!)
    3 years ago
    #19 pN.berg_zerg
    damn i dont have any of the original map folders :(
    strange strange...
    3 years ago
    #20 pN.berg_zerg
    Hm and i cant reinstall broodwar cause it says you have to install starcraft first..
    Though i can still play broodwar without problems after i deinstalled it !?!
    but cant reinstall it cause it says no original starcraft installed.

    I lost my original starcraft CD about 3-4 month ago but still have the broodwar CD.
    thats why i did download starcraft and Installed broodwar from CD
    then CD key change and everything worked fine.
    But now things become strange.
    PLZ Gosugamers.net make a map pack that allows everyone to play 1.12.
    3 years ago
    #21 pum
    i like the new patch, easyer for toss in the start, with rallypoint nexus =)
    3 years ago
    #22 James
    my reps from 1.11 are without problems... :)
    GJ Blizzard (damned, they never read my post... :) )
    3 years ago
    #23 ZerGPtL
    Hooray !
    3 years ago
    #24 Reveny (GosuCrew)
    :)
    3 years ago
    #25 GTR-2-Go
    some bugs that are from teamliquid

    - Win98 Korean text disconnects some users. (assem)
    - Some chatting doesn't show (hold down kekeke/huhuhu/kakaka button and other letters that DONT actually make words but are still used seperately) Such as typing S T F U (but in korean!) wouldn't work (bad example but best i can think of). (assem)
    - Dire Straits - 5o'clock main: one of the mineral patches is behind the mineral line, so your workers will have to travel a lot farther to reach it. (bill307)
    - HAHA. I dont know if this is every game, but i'm watching eliza practice for his dual league vs nada, and every time he presses shift tab, his colour changes. (he is blue and it changes to purple) quite cute, but really annoying. (its not an alliance colour.) (eliza)
    3 years ago
    #26 Ilvy
    3 years ago
    #27 ZealotiC
    -
    Some people over att TeamLiquid claim that the mining speed for Probes/Drones has been changed.

    I quote never[x.P] :

    I actually spent about an hour or so testing this stuff. Apparently, mining/acceleration and so on is considerably faster than it was in 1.11

    For instance, the probe mining time is ~6.40 seconds whereas it was like 8 seconds or something before.
    -

    Since Blizzard haven't reported about any ingame changes, this might be a bug, which would explain why some Replay gets corrupted. Or the game plays normaly but the players has much more minerals in store.
    3 years ago
    #28 ErOs_LaTiNNo
    "Added full Korean language support for Battle.net and in-game"

    It isn't working for me.
    3 years ago
    #29 BoBo[CLF] Denied comment.
    3 years ago
    #30 NiceGo
    "Replays Not Affected" ?? My replays i saved yesterday are now FU*K UP!! :(
    3 years ago
    #31 ZoXXeR
    Yay!
    3 years ago
    #32 sickela Denied comment.
    3 years ago
    #33 Izraphel
    Mining time changed from 8 to 6.40? Damn! If that's true, wouldn't it mean that we need new build orders?
    3 years ago
    #34 GTR-2-Go
    3 years ago
    #35 Bitar
    YAY!!!!
    3 years ago
    #36 Polar-Bear
    i didnt see an "automatic match maker system" in the patch list... That would rox Battle.net Ladder i suppose. Tired of typing "1v1 noob wants ZvT training" and reciving no response at all :P
    3 years ago
    #37 Polar-Bear
    to #6: if that mining thing is not a bug we sure need new built orders :)
    3 years ago
    #38 legion[gamei]
    my replays are corrupted aswell T_T
    3 years ago
    #39 yunex
    Corrupted replays! >_<
    3 years ago
    #40 legion[gamei]
    + i dont have any korean support at all.. still question marks
    3 years ago
    #41 Sajhe
    has annyone tried the AI i think its a bit edited.. atleast the zerg tried to flank me and it did not realy do as it use to do in its build but im not sure.,
    3 years ago
    #42 vaDboRSo
    "Truly, there is a good chance that this is the most important patch in the history of the game." lol, the whole new patch is laughable.. most of the updates are useless or make the game worse.
    blizzard should have made a new ladder system, replays with text, or anything that makes the game better.

    "- Changed Speed from "Fast" to Fastest" for Ladder Games."
    wohoo, it's much better now. i'm happy that i can play in fastest speed on a ladder, which is hacked apart.

    "- You now can preview your map in the Multiplayer chat screen."
    yeah, nice feature, but totally unnecessary.

    "- Added a Friends List Feature and button that allows you to keep track of your friends on Battle.net."
    why is it easier to find your friends if you have one more huge ugly button, than before? i like(d) the old way...

    "- Added alliance colors on units - Shift-Tab changes your color to green, your allies to yellow and your enemies to red."
    It's also a very nice feature. From the Tl.net:
    - HAHA. I dont know if this is every game, but i'm watching eliza practice for his dual league vs nada, and every time he presses shift tab, his colour changes. (he is blue and it changes to purple) quite cute, but really annoying. (its not an alliance colour.) (eliza)'

    so this is truly "a fantastic landmark in StarCraft history". thanks for this 'nice' artical and thanks blizzard for the patch.
    Enjoy it!
    3 years ago
    #43 -=AxYz=- (GosuCrew)
    #30 i hope ur correct
    3 years ago
    #44 Sajhe
    its impossible to wall on 6 expansion on lt x.x
    3 years ago
    #45 enkera
    the file that #27 post works fine, Man you don't know how much i love you!
    3 years ago
    #46 returned[n1s]
    I havnt been on 1.12 yet as im at school, but teh alt + tab, wasnt that in previous versions as well? asi know it changed colours on maps to red and yellow for your allys n shit but whats new to it?
    3 years ago
    #47 NiceGo
    BW crashes!! happend twice to 2 friends of mine..
    When joinging game, it's only says: <From: NiceGo.> etc.. nothing with has joined bla bla bla...
    Replays are corrupted..

    1.13 in a week or so?
    3 years ago
    #48 Sajhe
    The only way to wall on 6 base on lt is with a academy and a rax.. annoying.
    3 years ago
    #49 LeX
    GoGo Blizzard!
    3 years ago
    #50 uggeh
    !!!!!!!! :)
     

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