StarCraft Brood War – Improve AI in LAN Game

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I really like playing this old game with friends, but even if we usually go for 2v4 which is the max number of opponents we win too easily.

Is there a way to improve the AI to make matches more interesting?

Something like replace some files or add a patch…

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There is an old reddit post

The place for Brood War AI was http://broodwarai.com/ but that site is currently down.

The Brood War AI scripts can still be found at: http://www.entropyzero.org/BroodwarAI.html http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/brood-war/46293-bw-ai-project-gosu-update

The other possibility is using a BWAPI bot. These bots are a lot better than the non-cheating scripted AI, but do require an external tool (Chaoslauncher) to run. You can find out how to run them here: http://www.sscaitournament.com/index.php?action=tutorial

Keep in mind that the BWAPI bots can only be used on private servers like ICCUP or through Direct IP.

I was able to download a rar from the teamliquid.net site, however the files are dated 2006. Based on the information on the entropyzero.org site, that would be outdated for patches that came afterwards, but I suppose you could try it.

However, searching for BWAI lead me to this:

http://sc.nibbits.com/assets/bwai-launcher/

A GUI program that allows you to play against many different AIs in Starcraft Broodwar 1.16.1.

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The solution is to kill the explorer causing these problems:

Open notepad and paste this in:

@echo off
taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe
start /wait StarCraft.exe
start C:\Windows\explorer.exe

Choose all files -> save as WIN7FIX.bat
Copy WIN7FIX.bat in the starcraft directory (where starcraft.exe is)
RUN this bat file. DONE !

P.S. There are other guides on the net, but they miss 1 important thing: the wait switch. We have to wait until sc1 ends, otherwise the explorer won't start!

Extra Credit: If you don't like seeing a command prompt window open up when you run Starcraft, create a second file, however give this one a .vbs extension. Right-Click->Edit and paste in the following:

Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WshShell.Run chr(34) & "scFixed.bat" & Chr(34), 0
Set WshShell = Nothing

change scFixed.bat to whatever you named your batch file. Save and close the editor, and run the .vbs file.

Cleaning up

Create a shortcut for the .vbs file on the desktop (or wherever you keep your game shortcuts) and rename it if you wish
Right-Click and go to Properties->Change Icon
Browse to the Starcraft directory
Click on the original Starcraft.exe (with the Wraith fighter icon) and click Open
Click OK a couple of times

Hey Presto! a brand new (working) Starcraft shortcut that doesn't open a command prompt window

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The W-MODE plugin for launchers like ChaosLauncher will make StarCraft run in a window. Works perfectly, even under 64-bit Windows 7.

With this plugin, you can lock the mouse cursor inside the game window to avoid accidentally moving the mouse outside when trying to scroll, you can lock the window to prevent it from being moved, and you can have it double the window size to make the game take up more of the screen (which may be helpful, since Starcraft runs at a pretty low resolution and it may be hard to see things otherwise).

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