I can't imagine playing Starcraft with anything but a keyboard and mouse. I can't even play it with a trackpad.

I've actually played SC1 over VNC while on a tablet, casually. With the exception of the noticeable click lag from the network, it was actually very enjoyable. I would definitely buy a version made for that form factor.

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Interesting, I can't imagine you can get the same apms on that setup.

Not that I'm very good (or any good, really), just that on SC2 my numbers are terrible with a trackpad relative to my numbers with a mouse.

It's definitely not a feasible setup for playing against humans. You absolutely need a keyboard to play SC1/2 seriously. The use case, if I remember correctly, was the height of laziness-driven innovation for me: I wanted to play a bot match while lounging in a hammock and didn't a laptop at the time.

What really struck me, though, was how suited for a smallish tablet the original game is. If you dumb down the interface just a little it would be flawless. I've played around with a few mobile or tablet-based MOBAs trying to get my starcraft fix, but I can't find an equivalent in that or mobile RTS realm.

I'm more disappointed that there won't be an official Linux release. The 1998 version works fine with WINE so I can still hope that they don't break anything with the remake.

Since it won't even be using a 3D engine (let alone any modern APIs like DX 12) I would think that any tweaks needed for WINE to run it well should be pretty minor.

Using that same logic though, I would have thought that making a Linux release would have also been pretty trivial for Blizzard to do, but given their history I suspect they have a policy of avoiding this.

Isn't their history with Linux about making their games wine compatible? I think that was the case for wow

I used wine for a bit but feel its important to mention warzone 2100 its what seems to satisfy my starcraft urges. At one point i feel that it was more in depth. they have online servers ip play very detailed and still being updated muilti platform.

once I got my head around the game I am addicted to it. https://wz2100.net/ They have many AI modes for the computer. Its very popular in the Linux world.

I had to mention it. I too would like there to be a Linux version available for the latest Starcraft. but until that happens I feel this is the best alternative.

note here is a tree of sorts that show what you need to build research to have said weapon or tech. with out this it was just a crazy world where you start playing the computer and all of sudden they have hover then planes and you are like how did they get to that.

https://betaguide.wz2100.net/Research.php?tree=1