Starcraft 2

Mittlerweile sind wir schon beim BETA Patch 8 angelangt. Endlich Terra NERF .)

General

• You can now report misconduct or block communication with a player after completion of a game by right-clicking on the offending player’s name in the score screen and choosing Report Abuse or Block Communication.
• You can now view any player’s profile after completion of a game by right-clicking on their name in the score screen and choosing View Profile.
• Updated unit and ability tooltips to be accurate in all regions.
• Improved the visibility of units on zerg creep.
• Improved the visibility of team colors for protoss units using warp-in to help distinguish between multiple protoss players.
• Improved the system that handles promotion and relegation between Leagues.
• Improved the Favored functionality to more accurately portray Even matches and display properly in the score screen.
• Improved 2v2 arranged team matchmaking so games are found more quickly.
• Improved replay functionality so missing maps will be downloaded from Battle.net when you view a replay.
• Korea: Improved the logic for the age gate functionality.

Balance Changes

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  • Pathing has been improved so units can now properly block ramps and choke points.
  • Made a change to how zerg creep affects doodads, such as trees, to prevent players from seeing the starting location of zerg players through the fog of war.
  • Viking
    • Cost changed from 125 Minerals and 100 Vespene Gas to 150 Minerals and 75 Vespene Gas.
  • Ghost
    • Cost changed from 100 Minerals and 200 Vespene Gas to 150 Minerals and 150 Vespene Gas.
    • EMP Round radius decreased from 3 to 2.
  • Factory
    • Cost decreased from 200 Minerals and 100 Vespene Gas to 150 Minerals and 100 Vespene Gas.
  • Tech Lab
    • Cost decreased from 50 Minerals and 50 Vespene Gas to 50 Minerals and 25 Vespene Gas.
  • Reactor
    • Build time increased from 25 seconds to 50 seconds.
  • SCV
    • Life decreased from 60 to 45.
  • Bunker
    • Build time decreased from 40 seconds to 30 seconds.
  • Marine
    • Build time increased from 20 seconds to 25 seconds.
  • Colossus
    • Thermal Lances damage decreased from 23 to 20.
  • Observer
    • Cost increased from 25 Minerals and 75 Vespene Gas to 50 Minerals and 100 Vespene Gas.
    • Build time increased from 33 seconds to 40 seconds.
  • Stalker
    • Particle Disruptors damage increased from 8 (+6 Armored) to 10 (+4 Armored).
    • Weapon upgrade damage decreased from +1 (+1 Armored) to +1 (+0 Armored).
  • Dark Templar
    • Armor type changed from Biological-Psionic to Biological-Psionic-Light.
  • High Templar
    • Armor type changed from Biological-Psionic to Biological-Psionic-Light.
  • Dark Shrine
    • Build time increased from 80 seconds to 100 seconds.
    • Cost increased from 100 Minerals and 200 Vespene Gas to 100 Minerals and 250 Vespene Gas.
  • Baneling
    • Volatile Burst damage increased from 15 (+20 Light) to 20 (+15 Light).
  • Roach
    • Burrowed regeneration rate decreased from 10 to 5.
    • Upgraded burrowed regeneration bonus decreased from +20 to +10.

 

 

 

 

• GENERAL
• TERRAN
• PROTOSS
• ZERG

 

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue affecting the incorrect assignment of arranged teams to certain Leagues.
• Fixed an issue affecting random teams that caused no points being awarded on wins and too many points being removed on losses in certain situations.
• Fixed an issue involving the Bonus Pool display on the Quick Match and Leagues & Ladders pages.
• Korean client: Fixed an issue affecting the ability for Korean players to properly view profiles. They can now see their League ranking on their profile page.
• Fixed an intermittent UI crash on game shutdown.

Polish client: Fixed a crash which would happen any time a “Player is no longer being revealed!” message was displayed.

Gerade eine Mail von Amazon bekommen:

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Patch Nr.3 ist da – diesmal scheinen die Terraner ein bisschen mehr Power zu bekommen und Protoss (leider) auf Tier 1 weniger Power.

Balance Changes

 TERRAN

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  • 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.

Nachdem ich nun ein paar Tage mit dem Beta Patch gespielt habe spüre ich deutlich, dass Protoss abgeschwächt wurde. Mittlerweile ist die Bauzeit eines Gates und der abgeschwächte Chronoboost ein echtes Problem. Vor allem Zerg macht mir schwer zu schaffen im Early Game.

Mittlerweile konnte ich mich von der Bronze Liga Division I in die Gold Division I hoch arbeiten. Interessanterweise muss man NICHT die Spitze der Liga besetzen um nach oben zu kommen sondern man wird plötzlich promoted. Ich hatte 5-6 Spiele hintereinander gewonnen und wurde dann direkt von Bronze nach Gold promoted wo ich jetzt auf Platz 10 bin. Mal gucken wie das weitere geht und ob ich die Platin League noch sehen werde

Gerade ein Interessantes Tutorial gefunden wie man auch OHNE Starcraft 2 Battle.Net Account die verschiedenen Replays angucken kann: http://inquistor.info/darkblizz/wiki/doku.php?id=tutorials

Viel Spass damit!

Gleich vorweg ich bin kein RTS Profi von daher bitte nachsicht Mittlerweile hab ich weit über 30 Spiele gemeistert und ich muss sagen Starcraft 2 rockt wirklich!

Meine bisherigen Erkenntnisse bezüglich Protoss:

• Dark Templer viel zu stark gegen Gebäude
• Colossos  – viel zu schwach von der Rüstung
• Chrono Boost ist leicht overpowered vor allem am Anfang (Probes)
• Archons könnten auch bisschen Kraft vertragen

Die Beta läuft nun schon ein paar Tage. Ich beobachte beim einloggen ständig die ‘live’ Player anzahl. Egal ob morgens, mittags oder abends. Es sind nie mehr als 2000-3000 Player gleichzeitg online. Ich vermute mal für die Starcraft II Server bisher eine eher schwache belastung. Stellt sich also die Frage wann Blizzard eine neue Welle BETA Keys raus schickt?