SC2 Beta Patch #8 released and Whatnot

Posted by Puppet Master on April 7th, 2010 filed in (SCII) News, General News, StarCraft 2, StarCraft News

Hey there all! It looks as though blizzard released another patch for the SC2 Beta.  Here are the changes:

General

• Korea:
• Added support to display the game rating information on the login screen.

Balance Changes

• TERRAN:

• • Thor:

• • • Build time decreased from 75 seconds to 60 seconds.

• • Siege Tank:

• • • Build time decreased from 50 seconds to 45 seconds.

• • Marauder:

• • • Concussive Shells now require an upgrade.

• • Barracks Tech Lab:

• • • Concussive Shells upgrade added.
    • Concussive Shells upgrade costs 100/100 and takes 80 seconds to complete.

• PROTOSS:

• • Void Ray:

• • • Changed to only have 2 damage levels instead of 3. Still takes the same amount of time to fully charge.
    • Base damage changed from 2 (+4 armored) to 5.
    • Powered-up damage changed from 8 (+16 armored) to 10 (+15 armored).
    • Armor value decreased from 1 to 0.
    • Cost increased from 200/150 to 250/150.

• ZERG:

• • Roach:

• • • Burrowed move speed decreased from 2 to 1.4.
    • Armor value decreased from 2 to 1.

• • Hydralisk:

• • • Life decreased from 90 to 80.

For the official patch notes, go here:

http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=23094049316&postId=242397824179&sid=5000#9

Also, the Escapist has come out with issue 248, where they look back on Starcraft and some of the great moments they had playing the game.  Check it out!

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/features/issue/248

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