SC2 Beta Patch 3 - Yet another Terran Buff, Protoss Nerf
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.
- Engineering Bay
- PROTOSS
- Zealot
- The maximum shield capacity of this unit has been decreased from 60 to 50.
- Zealot
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.
Yet another buff for terran, nerf for protoss, aaaaand nothing new for Zerg. Checking the upgrade times on Terran, I’m surprised Blizz decided to make Terran upgrades 190/220/250 in the first place, seeing as how Zerg and Protoss are both 140/180/200. Still not sure about their rationale to have a +20s on them anyways… but who am I to question the patch.
It’s interesting to see that these patches are such small balance changes though - gives me high hopes that the game will be released on time.
Oh and in other news, Shrews/I are #1 in our Bronze league division, woohoo. We’re not TOTAL scrubs anymore. Beating up Bronze is getting too easy, here’s hoping we get moved to Silver soon. This is, of course, assuming I stop losing to warp ray rush - it seems to be the new cool thing to do as Protoss when they see that roach warren go down. Every match I played today has been against Protoss - and every loss (or close win) was because of early warp rays T_T”
