Starcraft II Dev Tracker

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...

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Congrats to our new WCS Global Finals champion, Serral! It’s certainly been an eventful year for StarCraft, and now that the season has ended, it’s time to continue forward with our post-BlizzCon design and balance changes. Thanks to everyone for testing; your feedback has helped us iterate and make many improvements. Before the changes go live, we have a few more updates we’d like to add in:

Terran

Cyclone

• Cyclone supply cost reduced from 4 to 3.

When the Cyclone had its Vespene Gas cost reduced in a patch prior to 3.8, and we also increased its supply out of caution against mass Cyclones becoming too prevalent at the time. More recently, we have gotten some high-level feedback that this Cyclone could perhaps be too weak due to how the meta has developed. In addition, when we first announced our pre-3.8 Cyclone revert, we emphasized our intention to have them scale better into the late-game. Thus,...

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Co-op

• New Co-op Commander and Announcer: Zeratul
  • Collect Xel’Naga artifacts to power up your army.
  • Customize your abilities to deal with any foe.
  • Learn more in our blog.
• New weekly Mutations have been added.

Versus

• It is now easier to select an SCV that is currently constructing a building using mouse click selection
• Added a button to the “Language and Region” panel of the Options menu that manually refreshes ping time to all game servers.
  • This function is most useful immediately after a connecti...

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Expectations were smashed and history written anew at the 2018 World Championship Series Global Finals at BlizzCon. The paths of eight pro StarCraft II players twisted and turned until we were treated to an unexpected finals rematch of GSL vs. The World, resulting in a groundbreaking, emotional finish.

Even with 20 years of StarCraft behind us, it feels like the story is only just beginning. Follow us here and on ...

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