I didn’t buy Reforged. I just tried to play the game normally and it started an update. I clicked “cancel” and it seemed to load fine, but I decided to exit for some reason before playing at all. When I tried to play again it wouldn’t let me play without updating and the update stopped at 65%. Apparently I have to go through the Battlenet program and download 27 GB of Reforged data that I don’t want.
My plan now is to reinstall from the disk and manually apply an old patch. I’m only playing single player anyway. The problem is I don’t know which patch is best or where to get it. I want to get the latest patch before they forcibly rearranged game files. But I don’t know which patch that is as none of the patch notes seem to describe that at all. I’m guessing the patch I want is 1.26a released in 2011, but I’m not sure. I also want to avoid the inventory glitch in the campaigns, but I think that’s pretty recent anyway. I also want to make sure that The Founding of Durator campaign is installed and I recall there being separate full and incremental patches depending on whether you already had that. I also don’t know which website I should get it from. Some websites are offering the same patch file with different file sizes, which is very confusing.
I’m also interested in StarCraft: Brood War’s 1.16.1 patch.