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StarCraft II Beta - Patch 5 Available for Download

Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 9:38 pm
by Digital Puppy
The folks over at Blizzard have released another patch for StarCraft II. Besides a major balance change for the Zerg race, there is also video bug fix as well.

The latest patch notes can always be found here.
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StarCraft II Beta – Patch 5 (version 0.7.0.14356)

Balance Changes


* PROTOSS

o Cybernetics Core

+ Warp Gate research time increased from 60 seconds to 140 seconds.

* ZERG

o Hatchery/Lair/Hive

+ Burrow research time increased from 50 seconds to 100 seconds.
+ Burrow research cost increased from 50 Minerals and 50 Vespene Gas to 100 Minerals and 100 Vespene Gas.

o Nydus Network

+ Nydus Worm build time increased from 10 seconds to 20 seconds.

o Hydralisk

+ The delay between attacks has been increased from 0.75 seconds to 0.83 seconds.

o Infestor

+ Neural Parasite has been redesigned:

# The limited duration of 10 seconds has been removed.
# Can no longer target air units.
# Cast range decreased from 9 to 7.

+ Burrowed Infestor move speed decreased from 1.5 to 1.
+ Infestor life decreased from 120 to 90.
+ Infestors that are burrowed now have the same threat level as above-ground units for the purposes of automatically acquiring targets.


Bug Fixes


* Fixed an issue with High graphics settings that could cause particles not to render.

Re: StarCraft II Beta - Patch 5 Available for Download

Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 6:50 am
by KnightRid
just wanted to say - STILL no beta key :p

Maybe it is because I only have the original Starcraft Battle Chest registered :)

Mike

Re: StarCraft II Beta - Patch 5 Available for Download

Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 2:42 am
by Jugin
it starts off working fine and fast, then it starts to get really slow and it just gets an error and stops. anyone else getting this? :cry:

Re: StarCraft II Beta - Patch 5 Available for Download

Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 5:35 am
by hark
Jugin wrote:it starts off working fine and fast, then it starts to get really slow and it just gets an error and stops. anyone else getting this? :cry:
Probably because the beta ended a very long time ago.