StarCraft II 0.3.0.14093 Patch Notes

[SinsWage]

Gifted makes an excellent point. I played a tabletop strategy game that recently went through an overhaul. When the first beta version of the rules was released the community went ape crap and all said they were quitting. Several revisions later the game runs smoother, most of the units had the skills tweaked but not removed as people feared and it is generally great. The reasons why things get changed aren't always because they are too strong or too weak, they just need simple data to look at. If they tried to figure out everything at once it would be overwhelming. So as an example they may intend for the mother ship to have both the Mass Recall and Temporal Rift abilities, but they don't want to sift through the data of both of them being used (or not used because of overloading players with options) at the same time.

[Gifted]

Gifted is looking to do a Legacy Observer QA session on the patch notes tonight. You can find it at www.livestream.com/sclgifted. Other members of the starcraft Legacy Staff may enjoy joining the banter on this session.

[pillz]

I would really take a step back and calm down, this is more than likely only a portion of the changes that went in today. The notes only list the changes between an internal build we never saw and the new build. For instance the notes list fungal infection as nerfed

(* Fungal Growth: The damage done by this ability has decreased from 48 to 36.)

However the fungal infect did 20 damage on the version we were playing until this morning. All changes between the beta version we were playing and this internal version we never saw are not documented.


Edit: grammar

[Gradius]

Like what they did with the HT. Not a fan of removing wormhole transit though - that was a cool and useful ability. Now the mothership will be too slow.

Actually after looking at it some more it seems like it might be a slight nerf. Against buildings with armor they would actually be doing slightly less damage since the damage reduction from said armor would apply to a faster attack which would technically be more reduction than before the change.

Not true:

Before it was:
(40 - 1) / 2.5 = 15.6 DPS

Now it is:
(30 - 1) / 1.8 = 16.11 DPS

[Nicol Bolas]

I'm also interested in knowing WTF is "Terran Infestation", which wasn't in our build.

Looks like these patch notes are incomplete. I'm going to have to undertake a full examination of the build to find out what's really going on.

[DemolitionSquid]

Gifted is looking to do a Legacy Observer QA session on the patch notes tonight. You can find it at www.livestream.com/sclgifted. Other members of the starcraft Legacy Staff may enjoy joining the banter on this session.

I'd like to join in on this. My viewer base is pretty decent.

[Gifted]

Like what they did with the HT. Not a fan of removing wormhole transit though - that was a cool and useful ability.


Not true:

Before it was:
(40 - 1) / 2.5 = 15.6 DPS

Now it is:
(30 - 1) / 1.8 = 16.11 DPS

But when you consider 3/5 armor you start seeing differences (example: Terran)

[Nicol Bolas]

But when you consider 3/5 armor you start seeing differences (example: Terran)

Right. Because Reapers were so overpowered in TvT...

Though to be honest, I stopped being afraid of Reapers like a week ago. There was a day of Reaper madness, and now they're just 300/300 that never ever is useful against me.

[DemolitionSquid]

I've learned to get a few Stalks first against Terran before I go Zlots. Its working very nicely I think.

[Aldrius]

Vortex needed a nerf but... why cut out BOTH wormhole transit AND Temporal Rift and replace it with Recall? I don't even mind recall but cutting out BOTH is dumb.

The infestor changes are weird, I'm not even sure I understand them. Fungal Growth is powerful but still has a lot of the same problems. (Low range, low radius)

The removal of Phase Shift makes me so sad. I was just starting to test out the potential of that ability.

I guess feedback is so high templar can counter ghosts or something... mehhh...

Gifted is looking to do a Legacy Observer QA session on the patch notes tonight.

Has Gifted become so deluded with power he's referring to himself in the third person!!?