Starcraft 2 Updates Beta Patch 3

StarCraft II Beta - Patch 3 (version 0.5.0.14219B)

Balance Changes

* TERRAN

Engineering Bay

+ Infantry Armor: The time required for each upgrade has been reduced by 30 seconds, decreasing each upgrade time from 190/220/250 seconds to 160/190/220 seconds.
+ Infantry Weapons: The time required for each upgrade has been reduced by 30 seconds, decreasing each upgrade time from 190/220/250 seconds to 160/190/220 seconds.

Armory

+ Vehicle Plating: The time required for each upgrade has been reduced by 30 seconds, decreasing each upgrade time from 190/220/250 seconds to 160/190/220 seconds.
+ Vehicle Weapons: The time required for each upgrade has been reduced by 30 seconds, decreasing each upgrade time from 190/220/250 seconds to 160/190/220 seconds.
+ Ship Plating: The time required for each upgrade has been reduced by 30 seconds, decreasing each upgrade time from 190/220/250 seconds to 160/190/220 seconds.
+ Ship Weapons: The time required for each upgrade has been reduced by 30 seconds, decreasing each upgrade time from 190/220/250 seconds to 160/190/220 seconds.

* PROTOSS

Zealot

+ The maximum shield capacity of this unit has been decreased from 60 to 50.


SC2 Bug Fixes

* Fixed a bug where the Infestor's Neural Parasite ability could cause Reapers to lose the ability to move.
* Fixed an issue that could use an incorrect HDR format on some ATI cards.
* Fixed a crash that could happen on some ATI cards.

Starcraft 2 Updates Beta Patch 2

StarCraft II Beta - Patch 2 (version 0.4.0.14133)

Here's the 2nd SC2 patch from Blizzard.

Balance Changes

* Terran

Banshee

+ Cloak: This ability no longer requires Fusion Core to research.

Barracks

+ The build time for this building has decreased from 65 to 60.

Factory

+ The build time for this building has decreased from 65 to 60.

Reactor

+ The build time for this building has decreased from 40 to 25.

Reaper

+ The build time for this unit has increased from 30 to 40.
+ Nitro Boost: The build time for this upgrade has increased from 90 to 100.

Starport

+ The build time for this building has decreased from 55 to 50.

Tech Lab

+ The build time for this building has decreased from 30 to 25.

* Protoss

Mothership

+ The build time for this unit has increased from 120 to 160.
+ The food cost of this unit has increased from 6 to 8.
+ The number of shots fired by this unit has decreased from 8 to 6.
+ The shield of this unit has decreased from 400 to 350.
+ The health of this unit has decreased from 400 to 350.
+ The acceleration of this unit has decreased from 1.3125 to 0.3125.
+ The deceleration of this unit has increased from 0 to 1.

Nexus

+ Chrono Boost: The duration of this ability has decreased from 30 to 20.

* Zerg

Corruptor

+ The damage done by this unit has increased from 12 (+8 massive) to 12 (+10 massive).

Starcraft 2 Updates Patch 1

StarCraft II Beta - Patch 1 (version 0.3.14048)

The 1st Starcraft 2 beta patch has been released.


Balance Changes


* Terran

-Viking

+ The armor value for this unit in Fighter Mode has decreased from 1 to 0.
+ The damage done by this unit in Fighter Mode has changed from 6 (+8 armored) to 10 (+4 armored).

-Reaper

+ The damage done from D-8 Charges has decreased from 40 to 30.
+ The delay between attacks for D-8 Charges has decreased from 2.5 to 1.8.

-Orbital Command

+ The build time for this upgrade has decreased from 50 to 35.

* Protoss

-Observer

+ Gravitic Boosters: The cost of this research has decreased from 150 Minerals and 150 Vespene Gas to 100 Minerals and 100 Vespene Gas.

-High Templar

+ Phase Shift: This ability has been removed from the game.
+ Feedback: New Ability. Drains all energy from the target unit and causes damage equal to the amount of energy drained.

-Colossus

+ The building pathing radius for this unit has decreased from .75 to .5625.

-Mothership

+ Vortex: The energy cost of this ability has increased from 75 to 100.
+ Vortex: The target radius of this ability has decreased from 3.0 to 2.5.
+ Temporal Rift: This ability has been removed from the game.
+ Wormhole Transit: This ability has been removed from the game.
+ Mass Recall: New Ability. Teleports all of the player's units in the target area to the Mothership.

-Gateway

+ The build time of this building has increased from 50 to 65.

* Zerg

-Infestor

+ Fungal Growth: The damage done by this ability has decreased from 48 to 36.
+ Fungal Growth: This ability now prevents affected units from burrowing.
+ Neural Parasite: Functionality changed. The Infestor now channels this spell, which lasts 10 seconds or until the Infestor is destroyed. You can now target all units with this ability.
+ Terran Infestation: The ability's energy cost has reduced from 50 to 25 and Infested Terrans now spawn 1 at a time.


Bug Fixes


* Addressed an issue causing people to receive an "Internal Battle.net Error" message with their game client.
* Muting your microphone will no longer cause your microphone to be turned off in the operating system once the program has exited.

Please note that the voice chat functionality has only partially been implemented. There are many known issues with voice chat that we expect to address in a future patch.

* The "Medium" graphical settings were reconfigured to work better on appropriate machines. The video settings "auto-detect" functionality has been reset as a result.
* Added a frame rate limiter to the game menus to prevent some graphics cards from running at higher frame rates than necessary.
* Added GRB rating tags to the login menu for the Korean version of the Beta client.

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