Situation Report: Patch 1.1 and Beyond
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  • blizzard: Situation Report: Patch 1.1 and Beyond Greetings, citizens of the Koprulu sector! StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is celebrating its one-month anniversary and we’re extremely excited to witness the amazing community that’s come together around the game. To that end, we want you to know we are hard at work on the first feature and balance patch, and expect to have it completed and available by the middle of September. Patch 1.1 will contain a number of improvements including additional mod features, Editor improvements and bug fixes, some custom game improvements, support for NVIDIA’s 3D Vision, and more. We'd also like to share some specific plans for this patch with you.

    To begin, we've heard a lot of feedback from our global community about standardized hotkey options. We're happy to announce that in patch 1.1 we are going to make the Standard (US) and Standard for Lefties (US) hotkey options available in all regions.

    Balance Changes

    We have several balance changes in store. One general change we're making is that friendly units will no longer provide vision after being killed. Enemy units previously revealed will no longer be targetable. Now let's break down the additional balance changes we're implementing.

    Maps

    We're going to be adding destructible rocks to the Desert Oasis map to make natural expansions easier to protect. In addition, the center map watchtower area is being narrowed.

    Protoss

    We have two key changes in mind for the zealot: the build time is being increased from 33 to 38 seconds, and the warpgate cooldown is being increased from 23 to 28 seconds. Zealot rushes are currently too powerful at various skill levels, particularly those that rely on rapidly assaulting an enemy base from nearby "proxy" gateways. We feel the window players have to scout for and fend off this rush is too small. We also want to address the problem of protoss being able to dump minerals a bit too quickly with the combination of warpgates and Chrono Boost.

    Terran

    There are several changes in the works for terrans. Reapers against zerg are stronger than expected. Due to the zealot build time increase, reapers would be a bit problematic in combination with proxy barracks, bunkers, and/or marauders against protoss. Therefore, we have decided to increase the build time of reapers as well from 40 to 45 seconds. Fast reaper + bunker, or fast marine + bunker rushes are problematic against zerg. Although this rush would never outright destroy the zerg player, we feel zerg suffers too much of a disadvantage from either having to cancel the fast expansion, or getting trapped inside the main base for too long, so we are also increasing the bunker build time from 30 to 35 seconds.

    Siege tanks in large numbers are performing too well in all matchups. In the mid- to late-game, siege tanks are too dominant against all ground units. We want a small set of light and unarmored ground units to perform better against siege tanks. With this in mind, we're changing the Siege Mode damage of the siege tank from 50 to 35, +15 vs. armored; to correspond with this, damage upgrades will be changed from +5 to +3, +2 vs. armored. This change reduces the base damage of the siege tank against light and unarmored units, as well as the splash damage.

    Battlecruisers currently lack good counters from the ground and still perform very well against a wide array of unit types. We're aware that it is not easy to get battlecruisers out for the cost, but at the same time, it is possible in both 1v1s and team games to create stalemate situations to bring them out. Overall, we feel that battlecruisers are too strong for their cost, and the terran-forced stalemate situations are causing less interesting gameplay. We will be lowering their damage against ground units from 10 to 8.

    Zerg

    Ultralisk damage is being decreased from 15, +25 vs. armored to 15, +20 vs. armored. This reduction is comparable to the changes being made to the battlecruiser and siege tank. Like the battlecruiser, ultralisks are simply too powerful for the cost, even though they are difficult to muster. Also, in combination with other units, ultralisks are difficult to counter from the ground. The ultralisk building attack (Ram) is being removed because the damage rate is too similar to its normal attack, which will be used against buildings instead. When ultralisks target tightly packed smaller buildings such as supply depots, the Ram attack is actually outputting considerably less overall damage than its normal attack, as Ram only hits a single target.

    And Beyond...

    We are reading your posts on the forums and creating lists of features and bugs to address in future patches. We have mid- to long-term plans to further evolve the Custom Game experience, and soon, enhance our social features with the addition of chat channels. We will be sharing more specific information in the coming weeks. As with all of our previous games, we will support StarCraft II for many years to come. Your feedback and participation is critical in making this not only the best game it can be, but also the most engaged gaming community in the world. We look forward to the implementation of patch 1.1, as well as sharing our plans for our future gameplay and Battle.net features.

    We'll see you online!

    Source:http://eu.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/554901#blog

    They should focus on making battlenet 2.0 .. not just make a few balance changes.
    SC2 will not be good enough when battlenet 2.0 is looking just like early alfa version.

    I'm quite curious how that terran nerf will affect tanks.

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  • And here I was, thinking battlecruisers were too slow and easy to outmanuvere. I have yet to see a game in which battlecruisers have dominated mostly due to their excessively slow speed, even a carrier could destroy afew simply moving backwards and letting the interceptors do all the work, not to mention other vehicles such as vikings etc.

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  • Im worried that protoss are going to be fucked early game, but we'll see.

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    Posted 2010-08-28
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  • dcramerIm worried that protoss are going to be fucked early game, but we'll see.

    Ling rushes are already so deadly vs toss.

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    Posted 2010-08-29
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  • zerg need more power!

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  • vernam7zerg need more power!

    Vernam7: You're kidding me, right? Everyone but Zerg is getting seriously nerfed in 1.1

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    vernam7zerg need more power!

    Vernam7: You're kidding me, right? Everyone but Zerg is getting seriously nerfed in 1.1

    because ZERG need that extra boost! right now the get fucked up retty nicly :P

    imho terrans are the most powerfull because they compine in lots of units air and ground attack at once!

    zerg do not have that in the more powerfull units :(

    imagin if zerg had an Ultralisk like units able to attack both air and ground! like thor!
    i understand that this is the buty of the game 3 different races, but one thing is deferent an other thinkis the unfair balance and hight gas cost of the zerg units! for 1 thor Zerg player need 2 other units to build that take caps limit AND hell of a GAS!

    zerg should be a little more cheap on gas...

    i am not a veteran sc2 player but that what i feel right now.

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