New Starcraft 2 Beta Patch (version 0.4.0.14133)

Here are the patch notes for the next little patch hitting the Beta and I am dancing a damn jig right now in excitement. Terrans like me can finally not waste excessive time on building mandatory add-ons with the increased speed. This is monumental. There’s something wrong inherently when a tiny add-on was taking more than half the time to build as a brand new building.

Also you don’t need the Fusion Core to research Banshee’s Cloak ability. That is fucking outstanding. It never made sense to me to begin with, the Fusion Core pretty much revolves around building Battlecruisers and now I think I’m going to get a lot more play time with Banshees and not have to focus so hard on ground battles with Medivacs.

Another sexy change was the nerf bat slam to the Protoss Mothership. The THOR and Ultralisk can’t compete with the endless utility and power of the Mothership, maybe now it won’t be such a terrible terrible threat. Corruptors too are now beefed up letting Zerg have an even more wicked air-to-air (and Colossus) answer to Protoss advances.

Notes after the break!

StarCraft II Beta Patch 2 (version 0.4.0.14133)

The latest patch notes can always be found on the StarCraft II Beta General Discussion forum.

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).