patch 1.18 questions

I have questions about patch 1.18. There must be discussion, but I haven’t seen it, so—can somebody pass along the state of affairs?

BWAPI of course supports only 1.16.1, and we’re stuck with that version for a time. Instructions on setting up a bot to play include a step “connect to battle.net and update to version 1.16.1”. It’s a necessary step; certainly my CD came with an older patch. And that ain’t gonna work no more. So... this doesn’t affect me directly or immediately, I’m already set up. But it seems critical for the community.

1. What is the best practical solution?

2. Is 1.16 legally available? Is it free too, or was only patch 1.18 made free-as-in-beer? Are people going to end up passing around bootleg 1.16.1 versions for the newbies?

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Simon Prins on Saturday, April 22. 2017:

The following link was shared on the StarCraft AI Facebook page:
https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/Patching-Classic-Games
It allows you to download the 1.16.1 patch.

As for supporting the 1.18 patch, I think it could be very difficult, since Blizzard implemented some new anti-cheating features which shut BWAPI down.

Jay Scott on Saturday, April 22. 2017:

Thanks! That looks like it should theoretically be all that is needed.

toriak on Sunday, April 23. 2017:

u dont need a CD.
1.16.1 version is portable so u can just copy/paste

krasi0 on Sunday, April 23. 2017:

http://sscaitournament.com/index.php?action=tutorial now mentions some instructions on how one could visit ICCUP to get an old version of Broodwar and update it using the 1.16.1 patch, but that seems cumbersome. Does anyone have a better step by step tutorial that works (at least) for the time being and is more straightforward so that the text on SSCAIT can get updated?

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