14 DAY TRIAL // Blizzard Entertainment has, at last, issued Patch 1.24c for fans of its real-time strategy title available for Mac OS X and Windows. The single-player campaign in Warcraft III is laid out similarly to that of StarCraft, being told through all four of the game's races in a progressive manner. A multiplayer mode is also available.
During the development of Patch 1.24, Warcraft III Mac gamers have been treated to both an alpha release, as well as a beta release, fixing all sorts of issues and adding new stuff here and there. In a similar manner, Patch 1.24c delivers mostly fixes, all of which are detailed in the release notes posted at the Battle.net forums. The notes have been reproduced below for our readers.
- Fixed a problem with the "Chapter Six: The Culling" human campaign map that was preventing it from loading. - Fixed an issue that allowed JASS functions to return incorrect values under certain conditions. - Fixed an issue that caused the TriggerEvaluate native to return incorrect values under certain conditions. - Fixed a minor memory leak when using GroupEnum natives. - Fixed a crash when using the CreateImage native on PPC Mac. - Updated Mac World Editor to work with recent JASS changes.
As usual, Mac users who only have Reign of Chaos installed will only need to download and run the Reign of Chaos Patch. Those who have the Frozen Throne expansion pack installed as well will only need the Frozen Throne patch. Blizzard also asks gamers to note that, if their copy of Warcraft III is already patched to version 1.23, they will only have to install the upgrade patch version 1.24.
To verify your current version, launch Warcraft III on your Mac and have a look at the bottom right-hand corner of the startup screen. Those who have recently installed / reinstalled the game or have not patched Warcraft III in a long time will need to download and install the full 1.24 Universal Patch, according to Blizzard. Download Warcraft III: Frozen Throne Patch 1.24c (Free) Download Warcraft III: Reign Of Chaos Patch 1.24c (Free)