Der erste, dringend gebrauchte Patch für die Starcraft 2 Beta ist da. Wie zu erwarten war, wurde Protoss abgeschwächt, während die Terraner einen kleinen Boost erhielten. Das ganze Changelog könnt ihr unter read more lesen.

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.

- New ability: Feedback - 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.

- New ability: Mass Recall - Teleports all of the player's units in the target area to the Mothership.

Nexus

- Chrono Boost can no longer target allies.

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.