wings of liberty patch 1.4.3

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We’re pleased to bring you the latest StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty situation report. In this edition, we'll be discussing some of the most notable changes in patch 1.4.3 and shed some light on the design philosophy behind this update.

MULEs now harvest the same amount of minerals on both high yield minerals and normal minerals.
We’ve been looking into the effects that high yield expansions have on gameplay, in particular how the added efficiency of MULEs on these mineral patches can affect matchups. This is also a common piece of feedback we’ve received from both pro players and the community.

We’ve been closely monitoring several sources of information: GSL tournaments which feature maps that do not have high yield mineral patches at all, major tournaments that still use high yield expansions, and our own ladder maps data now that our 1v1 ladder features a tournament-like map pool.

Based on these observations, we’ve made the decision to keep MULE resource generation the same regardless of mineral type, while allowing high yield mineral patches to remain on our ladder maps. This change helps keep the risk vs. reward the same for all three races when acquiring expansions that feature high yield minerals.

Snipe damage changed from 45 to 25 +25 Psionic
We felt the Snipe ability was countering zerg broodlords and ultralisks slightly too well. Especially at the pro level, we were seeing a lot of games where terran players were playing very defensive games while massing ghosts to counter most of the options zerg players had at their disposal.

While we like to see creative and innovative use of units, we felt that in this case Snipe was becoming too effective against zerg’s most expensive units. When adjusting the ability, we tried to settle on a number that would allow using Snipe to remain a viable tactic, though not as powerful as it is now. With this change, brood lords will fall in ten casts of Snipe rather than six (taking into account health regeneration), while an ultralisk will die in 19 casts, up from 11. This also significantly increases the number of ghosts and stockpiled energy needed to pull this tactic off, which we feel confident about because, previously, terran players rarely needed to consider the energy on their ghosts units.

Phoenix now has a range upgrade at the Fleet Beacon
In the past, we’ve discussed whether protoss needed a more immediate change to give them additional ways of dealing with mutalisks in PvZ, or whether it was more appropriate to make changes to that matchup in Heart of the Swarm. After investigating, testing, and reviewing both community and pro feedback, we’ve decided to include a change in this patch.

The phoenix will now have 6 attack range after purchasing an upgrade, which should allow them to more easily deal with a large number of mutalisks. In the previous patch, when protoss players attempted to move their armies out across the map, their bases became extremely vulnerable. Existing options to cope with massed mutalisks were costly and not always effective. This range upgrade should help even the odds by giving protoss players the option to reactively build phoenixes in smaller numbers, and with some micro, allow them to more efficiently defend against mutalisk swarms. Upgraded phoenixes should also offer protoss players the potential for better map control in the PvZ match up.

Still, we also wanted to make sure that producing mutalisks in PvZ remains a viable strategy, and believe that it is. While it might not be a good idea to brute force a protoss opponent with a ton of mutalisks, pairing them with units such as infestors and/or corruptors will help counter the advantage the new range upgrade provides.

APM / CPM changes
There was a lot of concern and debate regarding whether APM should be an accurate number or it should be a fun, play style distinguishing factor like it has been traditionally. After hearing a lot of feedback from both sides, we decided to bring back classic APM, and change our current APM (that doesn’t count spam clicks) to be called Commands Per Minute, or CPM.

This way, pro players who want to show off how fast their hands move can do so, while at the same time players who really just want to know how accurate and efficient their actions are can look at CPM.
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As always, we will continue to follow player discussions on our forums as well as fan sites and beyond, and we look forward to your constructive feedback regarding these changes. As with all balance-related changes, we've made these decisions with great care and consideration to ensure a great playing experience for players of all skill levels.

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Ve lo dicevo che i ghost erano op

Ottimo l'upgrade alle phoenix, non le aiuterà ad aver ragione delle muta da sole (la produzione zerg è troppo superiore e versatile) ma in questo modo muovere sciami di muta intorno al core dell'army protoss non sarà una trollata indolore.
Si sono anche finalmente accorti dei ghost e mule :asd: notevole.
La cosa dei cpm è simpatica, sarebbe interessante a questo punto visualizzare anche il rapporto preciso apm/cpm :asd:

non mi aspettavo change del genere ai terran. quella dei gold mineral ci può stare, quella dei ghost pure (mass ghost countera troppe cose in effetti) però ora faran troppo poco danno secondo me. Dovevano fare -20 vs massive, non -20 vs tutto.

a me le phoenix con raggio lungo puzzano tantissimo. avrei preferito avessero pensato a qualcos'altro per pareggiare le masse di muta. vabbè devo vedere in game..

Da terran volevo whinare, ma poi ho realizzato che al mio livello possono nerfare qualunque cosa e manco me ne accorgo :asd:

da terran nerfare il mule sulla gold è giusto, i ghost mah. Nel senso che si i ghost en masse con snipe ammazzano tutto il t3 zerg con uno scoreggio, forse troppo, però abbassa il danno vs massive non vs tutte le unità.

bah io dal mio punto di vista(di giocatore scarso :asd:) non vedo nei phoenix la vera counter ai mutalisk, sia perchè basta uno switch veloce a idralische e gli aereoplanini di carta venogno soffiati via in uno scontro diretto, sia perchè se vedo che lo zerg va di mutaling, secondo blizzard dovrei reagire con stargate, lasciando completamente la tech scelta, perdendo risorse,tempo e capacità offensiva (il tech switch è lento e doloroso per un protoss, e ovviamente la capaciotà produttiva di uno zerg sempllicemente non ha confronto con quella di un protoss, con un numero di phoenix ridicolo rispetto il numero di mutalisk )
Tra l'altro se uno ha pazienza e cerca su liquipedia o altri forum, vedrà che la counter più consigliata e usata vs mutaling sono blinkstalkers,ht e archon,e anzi molte guide sconsigliano di andare a stargate per counterare un mutaling.p :le phoenix counterano solo metà dell'exrcito zerg, mentre ht archon e blink hardcounterano(in teoria) mutaling

credo proprio che il mio winrate in pvz quando lo zerg va di mutaling resterà a 0.0001% come ora :)

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Originariamente Scritto da Kurtz

da terran nerfare il mule sulla gold è giusto, i ghost mah. Nel senso che si i ghost en masse con snipe ammazzano tutto il t3 zerg con uno scoreggio, forse troppo, però abbassa il danno vs massive non vs tutte le unità.

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Forse l'hanno fatto per gli snipe sui templar? bho, è l'unica cosa che mi viene in mente per lo snipe, anche le mutas ma quello è davvero relativo..