Starcraft II Dev Tracker

Versus

• Adjusted the threshold at which mineral nodes visual change as they get mined over the course of the game. As a result, the starting 900-value mineral nodes should look more visually distinct from the starting 1800-value mineral nodes.
• Removed the “stop” and “attack” buttons from the Pylon’s command card in the hotkey menu.
• Fixed an issue where the Neosteel Armor upgrade was not affecting Refineries built on rich vespene geysers.

Maps

• General
  • Updated tournament logo position and orientation on all 1v1 maps and prevented foliage from appearing over them as well.
• Arctic Dream LE
  • Fixed an issue where units could be hidden by certain doodads.
• Ephemeron LE
  • Fixed an issue where a critter had a custom name on the map.
• Everdream LE
  ...

GENERAL

• War Chest 5 Skin Bundles are now available for purchase.
  • Terran Tyrador Units Bundle
  • Zerg Cerberus Units Bundle
  • Protoss Ihan-rii Units Bundle
• All previous War Chest skin set bundles have been made available for purchase in the Featured section of Collection.
  • Terran Special Forces Units Bundle
  • Terran Mira’s Marauders Units Bundle
  • Terran Umojan Units Bundle
  • Terran Special Forces Structures Bundle
  • Zerg Leviathan Brood Units Bundle
  • Zerg Primal Units Bundle
  • Zerg Simulant Units Bundle
  • Zerg Simulant Structures Bundle
  • Protoss Forged Units Bundle
  • Protoss Purifier Units Bundle
  • Protoss Golden Age Units Bundle
  • Protoss Forged Structures Bundle
• War Chest 5 “Classic” unit skins have now been made available for purchase.
  • Classic Marine
  • Cl...

GENERAL

• Added 4 new Console Skin rewards for registering a copy of Warcraft III: Reforged Spoils of War Edition. All of these Console Skins can be used for any race in multiplayer games.
  • Alliance
  • Horde
  • Scourge
  • Sentinels
• Added 8 Portraits based on the War Chest: BlizzCon 2019 comics for players who purchased any of the War Chest: BlizzCon 2019 bundles.
• Added a WCS 2019 Champion Portrait for players who purchased any of the War Chest: BlizzCon 2019 bundles.

CO-OP MISSIONS

General

• Brutal+
  • Lowered the difficulty of Brutal+1 through Brutal+5.
  • Brutal+1 through Brutal+4 is now capped at 3 mutators.
  • All Brutal+ missions are now much more heavily weighted towards having fewer mutators.

Commanders

• Mengsk
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• A Geoff “iNcontroL” Robinson Commemorative Bundle that we created in his honor will be granted to every player on log-in, for free, forever, beginning on October 22, PDT.
  • “iNcontroL: Legend” portrait
  • “iNcontroL: Caster Invitational” portrait
  • “iNcontroLTV” spray
  • “iNcontroL” announcer
• Home Story Cup XX bundle has been added for purchase.
  • “HomeStory Cup XX” portrait
  • “HomeStory Cup XX: TaKe” portrait
  • “HomeStory Cup” spray
  • “HomeStory Cup XX” race banners for each race and random.
• WCS 2019 portraits have been added for each of the 16 finalists and a trophy portrait for all “War Chest: BlizzCon 2019” owners.
• “Classic” worker skins from BlizzCon 2018 Virtual Ticket are now available for purchase.
• Following Console skins are now av...

• Standardized the product purchase flow to use the Blizzard checkout process.

• Screenshots for Disco Bloodbath LE are now properly appearing in game and in the editor.
• Adjusted mineral locations and pathing to prevent mules from getting stuck on Jungle Depths LE.

• Nation Wars 2019 Complete Bundle has been added to the game for future purchase.
  • “Nation Wars VI” Portrait
  • “Nation Wars VI” Spray
  • “Nuke Here” Spray
  • “EZPZ” Spray
• Added six new weekly Mutations.

• War Chest: BlizzCon 2019
  • Proper dance animations now appear for the Tyrador Ghost skin when equipped.
  
  • Maps
    • Disco BloodBath LE
      • Moved a Vespene Geyser at the natural base so that a wall-off...

BUG FIXES

War Chest: BlizzCon 2019

• Fixed an issue with the Adept’s Ihan-rii skin when warping in.

MAC

• Fixed a crash that could occur when leaving a match or a lobby.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when launching the Editor.

• Made improvements to in-game network protocol which will result in smoother multiplayer games.
• Chat actions sent through the SC2API can now activate Trigger and Galaxy events.

• Tweaked names and descriptions of various Co-op Missions attack waves.
• Guardians spawned by Amon will now be more consistent with their stats in the original StarCraft.
• Added the Massive attribute to Amon’s Guardians.
• Cradle of Death reworked:
  • Main objective timer starts with 30 additional seconds on all difficulties.
  • Main objective timer gains 30 additional seconds after completing an objective on all difficulties.
  • Reduced the build time of trucks from 20 seconds to 10 seconds.
  • Trucks are no lon...

• War Chest 4 structure skin bundles are now available for purchase.
• Four new announcers have been added, featuring some of the most legendary commentators in StarCraft’s history.
  • Announcer: Um
  • Announcer: Jeon
  • Announcer: Kim
  • Announcer: Um-Jeon-Kim
  • Purchase all three individual announcers or the Voices of Legend Bundle to unlock the Um-Jeon-Kim announcer trio.
• Authentication process has been updated to be consistent with other Blizzard services. Login UI has been updated to support it.

• Amon will now research a larger variety of upgrades for his units. For a full list of upgrades, please click ...

CO-OP MISSIONS

Commanders

• Stetmann
  • Gary now benefits from Stetzones, and his passive health regen icon has been removed from the command card.
  • Roaches Away! now spawns 2 Mecha Roaches, down from 4.
  • Roaches Away! now orders spawned units to attack-move to the target location if it is beyond the Mecha Infestor’s cast range.
  • Mecha Roaches and Mecha Ravagers timed life reduced from 60 seconds to 45 seconds.
  • Mecha Roach damage increased to 12 (24 vs Light), up from 8 (16 vs Light).
  • Mecha Roach max life increased to 110, up from 75.
  • Mecha Ravager max life increased to 120, up from 80.
• Stukov
  • Stukov's Infest Structure now launches flying broodlings when used on flying structures.

BUG FIXES

Co-op Missions

• General...

• New Co-op Commander and Announcer: Stetmann
  • Lead your Egonergized Mecha Swarm army upgraded with best of both Terran and Protoss technologies.
  • Continuously manage your Stetellite deployment and optimize its configuration.
  • Learn more in our blog.
• Vorazun: Nerazim Bundle is going to be available as a part of Twitch Prime offer starting May 23, PDT.
  • Vorazun Co-op Commander
  • Vorazun Announcer
  • Nerazim Pr...

BUG FIXES

User Interface

• Updated description for certain items on the Collection to properly display.

BUG FIXES

Campaign

• Fixed an issue where a mission on Legacy of the Void Campaign or Nova Covert Ops Mission Packs could not be properly saved when the previous mission was saved and loaded.

Co-op Missions

• The Dark Pylon Recall now properly works with Vorazun’s units, as well as allied units.

Versus

• Fixed an issue where a certain location could be blocked off by only two Pylons on New Repugnancy LE.

User Interface

• Fixed an issue where a previously selected homescreen background could briefly appear before loading the new homescreen background.

GENERAL

• Swann: Machined Bundle is going to be available as a part of Twitch Prime offer starting April 11. Stay tuned for more details.
  • Swann Co-op Commander
  • Swann Announcer
  • “Live Now” Terran Banner
  • “Live Now” Spray and Emoticon Pack
• A new Mr. Sheng Announcer is now available.
• 5 new Feats of Strength are added with loading screen race banner rewards for completing all Campaign and Mission Pack achievements.
  • Give Me Liberty: Complete all the Liberty Campaign achievements.
  • Swarming the Castle: Complete all the S...

GENERAL

• Abathur: Evolved Bundle is going to be available as a part of Twitch Prime offer starting later this month. Stay tuned for more details.
  • Abathur Co-op Commander
  • Abathur Announcer
  • “Live Now” portrait pack
  • “Live Now” portrait for Abathur
  • “Live Now” portrait for Swann
  • “Live Now” portrait for Vorazun
  • “Live Now” Zerg Banner
  • Evolved Zerg Console Skin
• A new Lowko Announcer is now available.
• A set of 8 comic portraits have been added for players who own War Chest: Katowice 2019 for at least one race.

BUG FIXES

General

• Queens can now properly spawn a Creep Tumor on ramps in certain Heart of the Swarm campaign missions, and Co-op Missions.

Co-op Missions

• Commander
  • General
    • Fixed an issue where incorrect portrait could ...

Simon "Lowko" Heijnen, a tremendously passionate contributor to the StarCraft community, is not only an amazingly consistent video producer, a charismatic streamer and an enthusiastic caster; he’s also a remarkably upbeat, chill and humble guy you could just be friends with and share StarCraft tips (and cheesy jokes). Lowko often participates in major events and you can always be sure that he’s having fun, either it’s broadcasting from the Blizzard booth at Gamescom, or casting for HomeStory Cup. Reflecting his winning personality, his voice pack is full of energy and positivity, passion for all things StarCraft and genuine Dutch charm.

We are very happy to welcome Lowko to our family of community announcers and would like to present samples of what you can expect to hear:

General

• The first season of 2019 has officially begun!
• A new Trophy Top has been added for those that win Tournaments in the new season.
• New features have been added to the WCS GameHeart Extension Mod.
  • The mod will now automatically prevent skins from being displayed for players.
  • Skins will be visible to Observers.

Balance

Terran

• Cyclone
  • Mag-field Accelerator research time increased from 79 seconds to 100 seconds.
  • Mag-field Accelerator upgrade tooltip updated.
  • Lock-On tooltip updated.
• Thor
  • High Impact Payload weapon range increased from 10 to 11.
• Battlecruiser
  • Weapon Refit research time increased from 43 seconds to 100 seconds.

Zerg

• Infestor
  • Fungal Growth tooltip updated to me...

Editor

• Doodad limit has been increased to 100,000. 
• Added new objects in preparation for the next Team Liquid Map Contest.

Bug Fixes

Co-op Missions

• Zeratul
  • Fixed an issue that caused Shieldguard’s Reflection Shield to prevent Hybrids from spawning on Part and Parcel.
  • Units can now path between the Artifact Reserve and adjacent structures.
  • Fixed an issue that caused Reflection Shield to cause Propagator clones to be friendly.
• The Robotics Bay for Fenix and Alarak will no longer use the default model.

Versus

• Fixed an issue that prevented the fast warp-in visual effect from displaying when placing a Pylon.
• Fixed an issue that caused box-selecting a single Probe collecting gas to select two Probes.
• The Nexus will once again display an animation when it is constructing a Probe.
• Fixed an issue that caused...

General

• When equipping skins, there is now an option to equip all skins of the same set to all units and buildings.
• The Galactic Celebration, Mira’s Marauders, Primal, and Purifier consoles skins have all be updated with custom UI buttons and colors.

Editor

• Co-op Mission dependencies can now be added: File > Dependences > Add Standard

Bug Fixes

Co-op

• Zeratul
  • Malwarfare: Fixed an issue that caused Artifact Fragments to spawn in areas that are not accessible to the player.
  • The Vermillion Problem: Legendary Legion units will no longer attack civilians.
  • Zeratul will now gain benefits from attack and armor upgrades with each Artifact Fragment instead of only at level 15.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented an Artifact Fragment from appearing if Zeratul was standing directly on it.           
  • Zeratul’s command card icons fo...

Today marks the beginning of Season 4 of 2018, as well as the debut of all the new balance changes that we’ve been working on for the last few months. Thank you again to the pros and to the community that gave us the feedback we needed—we couldn’t have done it without you!

General

• New Hydralisk Trophy Top for Season 4.

Versus

TERRAN

• Widow Mine
  • The Drilling Claws upgrade now permanently cloaks Widow Mines when they're burrowed.
  • If Drilling Claws is researched, the Widow Mine will have a visual indicator to show that the unit has the upgrade.
• Cyclone
  • Now requires a Tech Lab to be built at the Factory.
  • Health decreased from 180 to 120.
  • Movement speed increased from 4.13 to 4.73.
  • Tornado...