Portable | Starcraft

A portable StarCraft must integrate with Blizzard’s Battle.net infrastructure. The original game uses TCP/IP protocols with peer-to-peer synchronization. Portable networks (4G/5G/Wi-Fi) are less stable than wired connections.

To support portable play, the netcode would require a "prediction and reconciliation" layer commonly found in MOBAs on mobile devices. Without this, players on mobile networks would experience "lag spikes" that would desynchronize the game state, a fatal flaw in a game decided by split-second reactions. starcraft portable