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StarCraft 2 Receives Its Biggest Update in Years. Blizzard Prepares Game for Game Release

Two weeks before StarCraft 2's Game subscription release, Blizzard began testing a new update. The patch focuses mainly on balance improvements.

Martin Bukowski

October 22, 2024 06:19

StarCraft 2 Receives Its Biggest Update in Years. Blizzard Prepares Game for Game Release Source: Blizzard Entertainment.

During the September Tokyo Game Show, Microsoft officially announced the addition of the StarCraft series to Game . This will happen exactly in 2 weeks, i.e. on November 5. Blizzard is clearly gearing up for this launch, as it just released the biggest update for StarCraft 2 in years.

StarCraft 2 - update 5.0.14

Version 5.0.14 is currently only available on the test server. It was released about 7 months after the last patch and mainly focuses on improving balance. 14 units and 10 buildings have undergone changes, but 2 new skills have also been introduced. The goals that guided the creators during the development of the patch were:

weakening of defensive and so-called "camping" playstyles for all races at every stage of gameplay;
reconstruction of Protoss tools for high-level players;
ensuring strong, alternative gameplay styles for various clashes;
general gameplay improvement and addition of quality of life changes.

The introduced modifications are largely purely mathematical and many of them boil down to reducing or increasing health, shield, armor or other statistics. For this reason, I will not list them all here, and interested parties can familiarize themselves with the full list on Blizzard's website.

Among the bigger news, however, it is worth mentioning two new skills. The first one named "Energy Overcharge" replaced "Shield Battery Overcharge" in the Protoss Nexus. It costs 50 energy and restores 100 of it to the targeted allied unit or structure within a specified range. The second skill pertains to the Zerg race, more specifically the Hydralisk. It is named "Dash" and after use, it provides a 60% bonus to movement speed for 0.71 seconds.

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