StarCraft II beta patch

StarCraft II beta patches contain balance changes to StarCraft II beta.

Patch 1
StarCraft II Beta - Patch 1 (version 0.3.0.14093), posted February 25, 2010.

BALANCE CHANGES

TERRAN PROTOSS ZERG
 * Viking
 * The armor value for this unit in Fighter Mode has decreased from 1 to 0.
 * The damage done by this unit in Fighter Mode has changed from 6 (+8 armored) to 10 (+4 arm
 * Reaper
 * The damage done from D-8 Charges has decreased from 40 to 30.
 * The delay between attacks for D-8 Charges has decreased from 2.5 to 1.8.
 * Orbital Command
 * The build time for this upgrade has decreased from 50 to 35.
 * Observer
 * Gravitic Boosters: The cost of this research has decreased from 150 minerals and 150 vespene gas to 100 minerals and 100 vespene gas.
 * High Templar
 * Phase Shift: This ability has been removed from the game.
 * New ability: Feedback - Drains all energy from the target unit and causes damage equal to the amount of energy drained.
 * Colossus
 * The building pathing radius for this unit has decreased from .75 to .5625.
 * Mothership
 * Vortex: The energy cost of this ability has increased from 75 to 100.
 * Vortex: The target radius of this ability has decreased from 3.0 to 2.5.
 * Temporal Rift: This ability has been removed from the game.
 * Wormhole Transit: This ability has been removed from the game.
 * New ability: Mass Recall - Teleports all of the player's units in the target area to the Mothership.
 * Nexus
 * Chrono Boost can no longer target allies.
 * Gateway
 * The build time of this building has increased from 50 to 65.
 * Infestor
 * Fungal Growth: The damage done by this ability has decreased from 48 to 36.
 * Fungal Growth: This ability now prevents affected units from burrowing.
 * Neural Parasite: Functionality changed - The Infestor now channels this spell, which lasts 10 seconds or until the Infestor is destroyed. You can now target all units with this ability.
 * Terran Infestation: The ability’s energy cost has reduced from 50 to 25 and Infested Terrans now spawn 1 at a time.

BUG FIXES


 * Addressed an issue causing people to receive an “Internal Battle.net Error” message with their game client.
 * Muting your microphone will no longer cause your microphone to be turned off in the operating system once the program has exited.
 * Please note that the voice chat functionality has only partially been implemented. There are many known issues with voice chat that we expect to address in a future patch.
 * The “Medium” graphical settings were reconfigured to work better on appropriate machines. The video settings “auto-detect” functionality has been reset as a result.
 * Added a frame rate limiter to the game menus to prevent some graphics cards from running at higher frame rates than necessary.

Patch 2
StarCraft II Beta - Patch 2 (version 0.4.0.14133), posted February 26, 2010.

Balance Changes

Terran
 * Banshee
 * Cloak: This ability no longer requires Fusion Core to research.
 * Barracks
 * The build time for this building has decreased from 65 to 60.
 * Factory
 * The build time for this building has decreased from 65 to 60.
 * Reactor
 * The build time for this building has decreased from 40 to 25.
 * Reaper
 * The build time for this unit has increased from 30 to 40.
 * Nitro Boost: The build time for this upgrade has increased from 90 to 100.
 * Starport
 * The build time for this building has decreased from 55 to 50.
 * Tech Lab
 * The build time for this building has decreased from 30 to 25.

Protoss
 * Mothership
 * The build time for this unit has increased from 120 to 160.
 * The food cost of this unit has increased from 6 to 8.
 * The number of shots fired by this unit has decreased from 8 to 6.
 * The shield of this unit has decreased from 400 to 350.
 * The health of this unit has decreased from 400 to 350.
 * The acceleration of this unit has decreased from 1.3125 to 0.3125.
 * The deceleration of this unit has increased from 0 to 1.
 * Nexus
 * Chrono Boost: The duration of this ability has decreased from 30 to 20.

Zerg
 * Corruptor
 * The damage done by this unit has increased from 12 (+8 massive) to 12 (+10 massive).