• Banshee
  • The health has been increased from 130 to 140.

• Missile Turret
  • The damage has been changed from 7+7 armored to 12.

• Thor
  • Anti-Air damage has been decreased from 10+6 light to 8+4 light.
  • Anti-Air attack now deals splash damage in a 0.5 radius.

Protoss:

• High Templar
  • The Psi Storm radius has been decreased from 2 to 1.5.

• Photon Cannon
  • Life and Shield values have been increased from 125/125 to 150/150.

Zerg:

• Broodlord
  • Damage has been decreased from 25 to 20.

• Roach
  • Organic Carapace no longer grants bonus regeneration to unburrowed roaches.

• Spine Crawler
  • Damage has been increased from 20+10 armored to 25+5 armored.
  • Attack period decreased from 2.2 to 1.6.

• Spore Crawler
  • The cost has been decreased from 100 to 75.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue in which players would desync when matched against others with certain CPUs.

General

• You can now report misconduct or block communication with a player after completion of a game by right-clicking on the offending player's name in the score screen and choosing Report Abuse or Block Communication.
• You can now view any player's profile after completion of a game by right-clicking on their name in the score screen and choosing View Profile.
• Updated unit and ability tooltips to be accurate in all regions.
• Improved the visibility of units on zerg creep.
• Improved the visibility of team colors for protoss units using warp-in to help distinguish between multiple protoss players.
• Improved the system that handles promotion and relegation between Leagues.
• Improved the Favored functionality to more accurately portray Even matches and display properly in the score screen.
• Improved 2v2 arranged team matchmaking so games are found more quickly.
• Improved replay functionality so missing maps will be downloaded from Battle.net when you view a replay.
• Korea: Improved the logic for the age gate functionality.

• GENERAL
  • Pathing has been improved so units can now properly block ramps and choke points.
  • Made a change to how zerg creep affects doodads, such as trees, to prevent players from seeing the starting location of zerg players through the fog of war.
• TERRAN
  • Viking
    • Cost changed from 125 Minerals and 100 Vespene Gas to 150 Minerals and 75 Vespene Gas.
  • Ghost
    • Cost changed from 100 Minerals and 200 Vespene Gas to 150 Minerals and 150 Vespene Gas.
    • EMP Round radius decreased from 3 to 2.
  • Factory
    • Cost decreased from 200 Minerals and 100 Vespene Gas to 150 Minerals and 100 Vespene Gas.
  • Tech Lab
    • Cost decreased from 50 Minerals and 50 Vespene Gas to 50 Minerals and 25 Vespene Gas.
  • Reactor
    • Build time increased from 25 seconds to 50 seconds.
  • SCV
    • Life decreased from 60 to 45.
  • Bunker
    • Build time decreased from 40 seconds to 30 seconds.
  • Marine
    • Build time increased from 20 seconds to 25 seconds.
• PROTOSS
  • Colossus
    • Thermal Lances damage decreased from 23 to 20.
  • Observer
    • Cost increased from 25 Minerals and 75 Vespene Gas to 50 Minerals and 100 Vespene Gas.
    • Build time increased from 33 seconds to 40 seconds.
  • Stalker
    • Particle Disruptors damage increased from 8 (+6 Armored) to 10 (+4 Armored).
    • Weapon upgrade damage decreased from +1 (+1 Armored) to +1 (+0 Armored).
  • Dark Templar
    • Armor type changed from Biological-Psionic to Biological-Psionic-Light.
  • High Templar
    • Armor type changed from Biological-Psionic to Biological-Psionic-Light.
  • Dark Shrine
    • Build time increased from 80 seconds to 100 seconds.
    • Cost increased from 100 Minerals and 200 Vespene Gas to 100 Minerals and 250 Vespene Gas.
• ZERG
  • Baneling
    • Volatile Burst damage increased from 15 (+20 Light) to 20 (+15 Light).
  • Roach
    • Burrowed regeneration rate decreased from 10 to 5.
    • Upgraded burrowed regeneration bonus decreased from +20 to +10.

Balance Changes:
Terran:

Engineering Bay:

• Infantry Armor: The time required for each upgrade has been reduced by 30 seconds, decreasing each upgrade time from 190/220/250 seconds to 160/190/220 seconds.
• Infantry Weapons: The time required for each upgrade has been reduced by 30 seconds, decreasing each upgrade time from 190/220/250 seconds to 160/190/220 seconds.

Armory:

• Vehicle Plating: The time required for each upgrade has been reduced by 30 seconds, decreasing each upgrade time from 190/220/250 seconds to 160/190/220 seconds.
• Vehicle Weapons: The time required for each upgrade has been reduced by 30 seconds, decreasing each upgrade time from 190/220/250 seconds to 160/190/220 seconds.
• Ship Plating: The time required for each upgrade has been reduced by 30 seconds, decreasing each upgrade time from 190/220/250 seconds to 160/190/220 seconds.
• Ship Weapons: The time required for each upgrade has been reduced by 30 seconds, decreasing each upgrade time from 190/220/250 seconds to 160/190/220 seconds.

Protoss:

Zealot:
The maximum shield capacity of this unit has been decreased from 60 to 50.


Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a bug where the Infestor's Neural Parasite ability could cause Reapers to lose the ability to move.
• Fixed an issue that could use an incorrect HDR format on some ATI cards.
• Fixed a crash that could happen on some ATI cards.

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Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime announced a few weeks ago at the Activision Blizzard Conference Call during E3 that StarCraft II Beta would start this summer. Today, the Gaming Press Sites awakened fans with the news that Blizzard has contacted all of them by email to alert them to set up their Battle.net account by Friday, June 19th (deadline). Does this mean beta starts this weekend? A week later?

The answer is not that simple. No date was provided to the press, but it is exciting to know it is gonna frag everyone any second after June 19th. It is interesting how the news got leaked today, which marks the last day of school classes throughout United States. Something fans should know is that, around last month, the media was invited to visit Blizzard Headquarters this June 22nd.

If you would like to sign up all you need to do is log on to your Battle.net account. The requirements are simple all you need to do is have at least one blizzard game on your battle.net account(which requires the cd-key). Once logging in click on "Beta Profile Settings". Then download the beta opt-in application for windows or mac depending on which one you use. Run the program and send it to blizzard and be sure to select StarCraft universe. Here is Blizzards Beta Opt-in Instructions that about sums up how to sign up.

As for when the beta will start there is no official start date. However if you look at the past game release dates four have been released in late June early July. Another four were released in November. Perhaps the beta will begin soon and the game will be out in July? Let's hope so or else November is the next date I could foresee other then July. Just remember this is based on past games and there release dates.

The beta will be done in phases North America will be the first region. Then other regions will follow. So that makes me happy if I get selected(If so that would mean a lot more content for this site). The reasoning behind doing it in phases is that it takes time to set up and configure the testing infrastructure in each area. Once the North American region is up and running the other regions should come quickly after because Blizzard should be able to streamline it.

If you went to BlizzCon 2008 they gave out codes that you can use to gain access to StarCraft 2 Beta. Also if you have an unused beta code from WWI 2008, you will be able to use the code to gain entry to the European phase of the StarCraft II beta. One last thing is that if you made a Battle.net account awhile back and checked a box to indicate you wanted to participate in Blizzard betas. You still need to download the beta opt-in application and run it.

That about sums it up. Good luck with getting chosen. And check back often for more content and news. isplay: