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Starcraft 2 patch 1.1 going live next Tuesday

by Griffin McElroy on Sep 18th 2010 9:00PM

The balancing overhauls and new features outlined last month for Starcraft 2 will be implemented this coming Tuesday, September 21, when Blizzard updates the successful strategy title to version 1.1. These new features include support for NVIDIA 3D Vision displays, left-handed hotkey options and new map editor functionality. The full list of features and balance changes can be read over on Battle.net.

The patch will go live during a maintenance period starting Tuesday morning at 5 a.m. until 11 a.m. PDT, at which time the game's online multiplayer modes will be temporarily offline. If you've got a score to settle with a distant rival, you probably shouldn't schedule your grudge match during that downtime.

Via: Big Download
Source: Battle.net

Tags: balance, blizzard, patch, pc, rts, Starcraft-2, update

Reader Comments (29)

nice

to busy playing to comment more!

@BrianH
And to care care for your grammar it seems.

@pButter

It seems you're to lazy in general to care about grammar. I'll call you captain fragment from now on and also insult your double word typo for the win.

@mistahnuff I chuckle to myself every time I see someone with a less than perfect comment call out someone else for spelling, grammar or proofreading mistakes.

Spoken like a true ignorant, pButter. Well played sir, well played.

@Anakaris

Does it make me dyslexic or something that it took me like 4-5 times of reading his comment to even notice the double word?.. lol
Also to the people correcting... too* :-P

@pButter trolling is a art?

I don't understand why they don't release legitimate patch notes rather than summaries, especially now that it's obviously completed.

@Leon Trotsky TDA

What are you talking about. The legitmate patch notes for the balance changed and such are on the Blizzard website.

@Foetoid

I only see the same summary that they posted last month. Care to share a link?

@Foetoid

Those are only a summary of the patch notes, the full details aren't provided until the actual update goes live.

@Leon Trotsky TDA

Because people make an uproar before they even try the changes, best to just release it when patch is out so they can actually test the changes and not theorize.

@Valient

That's what internal testing is for...
And Blizzard is a smart enough company to know that they're never going to please everyone.

@Leon Trotsky TDA

it's hard to do internal testing for a game with almost infinite strats and millions of players.

cant wait for the tank nerf!!!

@megapixel

uuuuuh no.

The pic should have been a queen trying to desperately fend off a reaper rush.

@Forbizzle
Nah, you can easily see that by simply playing zerg online.
(As random, I hate and love reaper rushes >.>)

Ah siege tanks, I shall miss your ability to absolutely annihilate any ground unit sent against you :(

@KroganBattleMaster88
And I shall miss my ability to defend against 6 pull as protoss or to mass produce from 4 gates and win sometimes.

@KroganBattleMaster88

And I shall miss my ability to defend against 6 pool or to mass produce from 4 Warpgates as protoss and win some games.

(Sorry about double post if it happens)

What about the patch for LAN support? ._.

Maintenance period, what is this WoW? I don't remember SC1's patches having a downtime for Battlenet.

@RogueJedi86 SC didn't have nearly the database that SC2 has to maintain.

In this patch:

Marine/Maurader/Medivac still strong, becomes primary Terran play against Zerg and Terran. Switch to Marine/Siege/Medivac against Protoss due to...

Zealots redundant in early game. Protoss required to block in the early game. Will be hard to counter zergling rushes. Game otherwise does not change other than building more Immortals and Collosus and fewer HT's.

Zerg kind of sucks still. A lack of bonus damage to X unit on their units make them unable to counter specific styles of play.

Are the tanks in that picture firing while suspended in the air?

@Yesterdays Jam

they were probably picked up just after they shot

That's nice and all, but what I'm really interested in are the promised improvements to the abysmal custom game experience. Can't wait to see 'em in action Tuesday.

I just hope they fix the damn crashing issues.

I have yet to play a game longer than 10 minutes without my PC locking up, or blue screening. I've done the framerate fix, and yes, I've updated all my drivers.

For me, the game is still pretty much unplayable, no matter what the settings are.

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Reader Comments (29)

Posted: Sep 18th 2010 9:06PM shadowsneeks said

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Posted: Sep 18th 2010 11:56PM mistahnuff said

Posted: Sep 19th 2010 1:59AM Anakaris said

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Posted: Sep 18th 2010 9:20PM Leon Trotsky TDA said

Posted: Sep 18th 2010 11:28PM Foetoid said

Posted: Sep 18th 2010 11:34PM Leon Trotsky TDA said

Posted: Sep 18th 2010 11:38PM snarfoogle said

Posted: Sep 19th 2010 9:36AM Valient said

Posted: Sep 19th 2010 12:24PM Leon Trotsky TDA said

Posted: Sep 19th 2010 5:14PM BrianH said

Posted: Sep 18th 2010 10:47PM pangit said

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Posted: Sep 18th 2010 10:48PM Forbizzle said

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