THE NEW PATCH IS OUT!

[ttaM]

If you haven't heard, there's a patch out for Starcraft 2. The beta servers aren't up as far as I know, but you can download Patch 16.

 

Right now the patch is rolling out to EU clients only. If you live in the USA and want to download it now do the following.

 

Find your Starcraft 2 directory and go to:

 

/support/realmlist

 

change to EU

 

open SC2

 

download patch.

 

change back to US.

 

ENJOY.

[ttaM]

Patch Notes:

 

So far:

- Completely new Sound Effects (major improvement, while the cancel sound is now terrible I think)

- Blue cursor instead of green.

- Blueish look in the option menu

*Option Screen:

- Graphics: page now shows a function for Vertical Sync & Reduce Mouse lag

- Sound page: now shows movements sounds and respondse sounds as seperate tag boxes.

- Voice page: Using voicechat you can seperately adjust sound vs Music in relation to the voice chat.

- Gameplay page: There are more options (atleast for Mac):

1) Disable OS Keyboard Shortcuts

2) Swap Control and Command Keys (CMD instead of CTRL, this is great!!!)

3) Reduced Violence: hehe, less gore and stuff.

 

-Hotkey Page: Well I can still not change my hotkeys, but it shows more different commands to hotkey to.

- There is a new tab called Battle.net:

Shows a list of "blocked Real ID Friend Request, Blocked Communication, they moved the mature language filter to this tab, and there is a button "Logout of Facebook!"

[Doobie]

- Blueish look in the option menu

 

Talk about AWESOME updates!

[RetiredTacos]

Patch Notes:

 

So far:

- Completely new Sound Effects (Good because the sc2 sounds were awful)

- Blue cursor instead of green. (Hopefully that is optional)

- Graphics: page now shows a function for Vertical Sync & Reduce Mouse lag (Cool)

- Voice page: Using voicechat you can seperately adjust sound vs Music in relation to the voice chat. (Finally)

- Reduced Violence: hehe, less gore and stuff. (Dumb)

-Hotkey Page: Well I can still not change my hotkeys, but it shows more different commands to hotkey to. (cool)

 

Hopefully they continue to improve it. I have been playing sc1 even while sc2 beta was out because I got tired of it. I really HATE how the units ball up into one group, but whatever.

[Wingless]

Less violence? Lame.

 

They need to bring up the servers so I can have 4 games I play religiously until I become unemployed.

[RetiredTacos]

Hmmmmm?

 

StarCraft II Beta – Patch 16 (version 0.19.0.15976)

 

General

 

 

* Rally points now behave as a move command, instead of an attack move command.

* Enabled the ability to manually add a StarCraft II character friend using the player's character code. Character code is a server-assigned numerical code that is displayed within the Add Friend panel.

* Battle.net Achievements & Rewards have been updated.

* All Quick Match modes are now available: 1v1, 2v2, 3v3, 4v4, and Free For All.

* All A.I. difficulties are now available for play.

* Cooperative matchmaking versus A.I. players is now available as a play mode.

* Enabled cross-game social features between World of Warcraft and StarCraft II.

 

 

Balance Changes

 

 

* ZERG

 

o Infestor

 

+ Frenzy spell removed.

+ Infested Terran spell added.

 

o Overseer

 

+ Infested Terran spell removed.

 

o Ultralisk

 

+ Now immune to stuns and mind control.

[ttaM]

I don't remember ever seeing players use Frenzy.

 

I don't think the Infestor should have Infested Terran, it already has 2 moves that are always used (mind control and PLAGUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU).

 

I just watched a game today where a player used the 250mm cannons to counter Ultra's and it was ridiculous. If there's creep then Ultra's are very difficult to stop I think(as a terran player, not sure about Protoss, Immortals maybe?)

[Wingless]

I guess this is probably incentive to get my bnet account authenticator reset. Remember to remove your authenticator before wiping your phone.