The Blizzard code monkies are hard at cranking out patches and now we get patch 3. Check it out.
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.
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.
Looks like the guys at Blizzard are hard at work and have applied patch 2 to the beta. Here’s a list of changes. Looks like small Terran buffs and small Protoss nerfs.
StarCraft II Beta – Patch 2 (version 0.4.0.14133)
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).
You gotta hear this update to the Blizzard podcast. It’s a Starcraft 2 Beta special so you’ll dig it I’m sure.
You can listen here.
Finally after lots of waiting on the parts of all the Starcraft fans out there Blizzard has opened up the Starcraft 2 multiplayer beta. This means we’re one step closer to release which is awesome.
Hopefully we’ll get access here at baneling.net soon and can provide some awesome live stream games for you guys to check out.
It looks like invites are going out in waves so if you haven’t gotten one you still may just keep crossing your fingers. And make sure you’ve signed up at battle.net to be considered for beta. More info on that can be found here.
