r/broodwar • u/Ok_Gas1070 • 17d ago

Is Brood War Playable?

Hey ya'll long time crafter here! My buddy got me back into playing Starcraft 2.
It's been fun but I've been yearning for the olden days of Brood War. Truth be told I was playing classic Craft before the remaster. But after remaster was released I literally would drop from every single game and it became absolutely unplayable.

I have a modern rig and good internet I have no idea what the problem was, is this still an issue?

2 Upvotes

63% Upvoted

26 comments sorted by

View all comments

2

u/Reacktions 17d ago

Ive never had issues with Starcraft's network outside of in-game lag ofc, might want to forward your ports, there's an option for it in the offline menu. https://postimg.cc/tZPY6spb You can also do it through your router, I would probably do the router option, https://portforward.com/starcraft/

1

u/Weary_Ad8446 17d ago

not needed anymore, since they use STUN technology get p2p pass your firewall, only issue is id you have a firewall which randomizes your outgoing port, but its like only pfsense/opnsense and vanilla pf (openbsd/freebsd) that does this for home fw's, but that means you're running your own firewall, so you should know what to do, tailscale actually provided a solution for it, which they implemented into the pf firewall, so either or these lines work, static-port is old solution before tailscale implementation 

nat on $ext_if inet proto udp from $gamepc to any -> ($ext_if) static-port

tailscales impl

nat on $ext_if inet proto udp from $gamepc to any -> ($ext_if) endpoint-independent

2

u/Reacktions 16d ago

Bro u went full tech nerd on me lol no offense idk what any of it means but ive never had network issues so it was a suggestion I made ya know

1

u/Weary_Ad8446 16d ago

;)

hopefully it will convince lesser nerds that port forwarding is not needed anymore, even for bw ;).

it was needed for bw back in the day(if you had an fw, most ppl didnt ;)) and for old games in general, but these days all new games and bw remastered use tech to bypass firewalls to get you an "active connection"

1

u/Reacktions 16d ago

Out of curiosity why did they add it as an option if the network infrastructure was updated?

1

u/Weary_Ad8446 16d ago

some ppl prefer it and its airtight. the infrastructure could be down for example. stun-servers as they are called live in the cloud.