StarCraft II Patch 1.3.3 Now Live, Check Out What's Changed

by Harry Monogenis, posted on 12 May 2011 / 908 Views

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty has received its latest patch which consists of a bit of bug squashing and game balancing.

Described by Battle.net as "small," the patch brings the game to version 1.3.3 and contains a couple of much-asked for bug fixes such as the fixing of an issue where by unplugging your USB headset, StarCraft II would crash if another player was talking. Also, on the balancing side of the patch, Zerg Infestors have had their speed decreased from 2.5 to 2.25.

The full patch notes can be found below. The patch is live.

General

The default hotkey to toggle in-game music on/off has been reverted to its hotkey prior to Patch 1.3.0. The hotkey to display APM in the observer stat panel has been changed as a result.

Balance

PROTOSS
- Archon
  - Now a massive unit.
  - Range increased from 2 to 3.
  - Cybernetics Core
    - Research Warp Gate time increased from 140 to 160.
  - Gateway
    - Sentry train time decreased from 42 to 37.
    - Warp Gate unit train times remain unchanged.
  - Pylon power radius has been decreased from 7.5 to 6.5.
TERRAN
- Bunker
  - Salvage resource return reduced from 100% to 75%.
  - Ghost
    - Cost changed from 150/150 to 200/100.
  - Thor
  - Thor now has 200 max energy, and starts with 50 energy.
  - 250mm Strike Cannons now cost 150 energy to use (cooldown removed).
ZERG
- Infestor
  - Speed decreased from 2.5 to 2.25.
  - Spore Crawler
    - Root time decreased from 12 to 6.

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue where Ghosts could not quickly EMP the same location.
Fixed an issue that allowed players to stack air units when issuing a queued stop command before the units reached the end of their patrol point.
Fixed an issue where unplugging your USB headset while another player was talking to you could cause a crash.
Fixed an issue where the APM statistic could be artificially increased.
Fixed an issue where 3D unit portraits were not animating smoothly at slow game speeds.
Fixed an issue where, when viewing a replay, no text message was displayed when a player left a game.
The Taiwanese hotkey to display/hide the game UI while in Observer mode now works correctly.