Starcraft II Dev Tracker

About WCS Winter

Serving as a prelude to the WCS 2019 season, this 10-week program will consist of a pair of 32-person online tournaments—one for the Americas (including Latin America, Taiwan, ANZ/SEA, and China) and one for Europe—each with a USD $60,000 prize pool! For more information about WCS Winter, see the ...

War Chest: Katowice 2019 brings two brand new features that we’ve never been able to offer before! You guys asked for it, and we’re ready to deliver: each race is receiving a full suite of custom building skins! Now, you’ll be able to complete your race’s transformation into the Simulant Zerg, the Terran Special Forces, and Protoss Forged.

Secondly, not only can you earn progress by playing StarCraft II, you’ll also be able to earn War Chest progress simply by watching StarCraft II. Spending time with your favorite StarCraft II streamers will now earn you experience towards your War Chest loot. Anyone who wants to stream StarCraft II can help their fellow RTS fans gain experience as long as they install the StarCraft II War Chest Extension. More on that in a moment.

Here are the nitty-gritty details for War Chest: Katowice 2019:

• War Chest initial launch: December 20
• Phase 2: January 17
• Phase 3: February 14
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StarCraft II esports—the competition and the community—impressed and inspired us more than ever before in 2018, and today we are excited to shed some light on what 2019 will look like. We are still working out the details so some of this may be subject to change.  Both WCS Korea and the WCS Circuit will continue in 2019, and we look forward to sharing the full details of both programs next year. In the meantime, we are pleased to announce WCS Winter.

What Is WCS Winter?

Serving as a prelude to the WCS 2019 season, WCS Winter replaces one WCS Circuit stop. This 10-week program will consist of a pair of 32-person online tournaments—one for the Americas (including Latin America, Taiwan, ANZ/SEA, and China) and one for Europe—each with a USD $60,000 prize pool, and with WCS points awarded as outlined below. Each tournament will culminate in a live, winner-advances battle between the top six, one for Europe and one for the Americas. See the full rules, including residen...

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...