Canceling Foundries no longer uses all of the oil you spent to build it.Flying Machines, Goblin Zeppelins, Goblin Sappers, Demolition Squads now have a Patrol option.Mining out an oil platform completely no longer returns a small amount of lumber and gold to the player.Upper limit of 200 food for each player, like StarCraft.Unit limit raised from 600 to 1,200 for Enhanced games.Maintained compatibility with the DOS version of Warcraft II via local area network or modem.Current food displayed along with gold/ oil/ lumber.Spacebar centers the map on last 8 transmissions (sequential).Ctrl+click or double-click will select closest 9 units of that type currently on the screen.Set maps and game parameters for Ladder Games.Patrol command now sends units to the selected location rather than stopping after any contact.Attack Move command will now function correctly.Ability to choose Random starting race, resources and tileset.Assigning and selection of Groups through # keys.Incorporation of the 3 Pauses per player/per game rule.Game speed is set prior to a game beginning, and cannot be changed.Improved game set-up, game options, dropping of players and inclusion of chat.

Ability for up to eight players to compete over using 'Spawning' technology from one CD.

Other upgrades and enhancements over the original game include: Warcraft II: Edition added support for.

Many players used the paid-for program Kali, which emulated an IPX network over the internet and allowed people to play it easily online. The original version of Warcraft II supported online play, but only through IPX protocol, and not the TCP/IP protocol which became standard after its release. A fix for newer processors was included so regardless of how fast your processor was, the screen scroll speed was consistent unlike the original version which was meant to be run on a 486 processor and when running on a modern processor, the screen scroll speed was too fast. The game was also ported to be natively supported under Windows, unlike the original game which ran under DOS. Features from StarCraft, such as right-click commands for units, and queuing multiple units for production, were implemented. The game features many upgrades and enhancements over the original version.

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