Starcraft II

BUG FIXES

Co-op Mission

• General
    - Fixed an issue where Commander Mastery and Ascension levels are not gaining experience.


• Commanders
    - Mengsk
        - Fixed various tooltips and icons for the Mengsk commander.
        - Added missing lift off and landing sound effects from Mengsk’s structures.
        - The Orbital Drop Pods upgrade now affects Dominion Troopers.
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GENERAL

• New Co-op Commander and Announcer: Arcturus Mengsk
    - Control the battle with an iron fist as Arcturus Mengsk, the newest Co-Op Commander for StarCraft II.
    - Feed an endless stream of cheap troopers into the meat grinder, softening your enemies for your Royal Guard to go in for the kill.
    - Learn more in our blog.


• A new Winter Announcer is now available.
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Greetings! Now that BlizzCon is behind us and the post-show patch looms, we’d like to take one final opportunity to examine some tweaks we could make to our initial proposals. As we’ve received generally positive feedback on the direction of the changes we’ve proposed, we intend to make these tweaks as small as possible while we wait for games to play out that will showcase these changes—for instance, at HomeStoryCup XX next week. Below is the list of final changes we’d like to make:

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Hi all! In the excitement before the culmination of this year’s WCS finals, we think it’s a good opportunity to revisit the proposals made earlier in the month with a fresh perspective. Special thanks to Wardi and his Balance Test Mod Invitational, which showcased these new changes in action. After further watching games and following feedback, below are a few changes we’d like to make to the testing queue:

Adjustments to Old Changes:

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• A Geoff “iNcontroL” Robinson Commemorative Bundle that we created in his honor will be granted to every player on log-in, for free, forever, beginning on October 22, PDT.
    - “iNcontroL: Legend” portrait
    - “iNcontroL: Caster Invitational” portrait
    - “iNcontroLTV” spray
    - “iNcontroL” announcer
  
  
  
  • Home Story Cup XX bundle has been added for purchase.
      - “HomeStory Cup XX” portrait
      - “HomeStory Cup XX: TaKe” portrait
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Hey everyone,

Each year, we take a step back to evaluate what improvements we could make to the game for a post-BlizzCon design patch. As we come closer and closer to stability with each passing year, for 2019, we’ll be focusing more on tweaks and refinements to existing units. Some themes in this year’s patch include:

• Introducing new upgrades designed to gate the full power of certain units and improve late-game usage for others.
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