StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty - Patch 1.1.1

[Dr Super Good]

Patch 1.1.1 is up and here to round off the minor problems introduced with the last patch. The most major of course was the dreaded insane Ultralisk splash damage to structures which left many players defeated and others rolling on the floor laughing.

Patch notes in English.

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty – Patch 1.1.1

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where Ultralisk cleave range was being unintentionally extended by larger targets.
• Fixed an issue where the Phoenix's Graviton Beam was automatically canceled if you used it just after the Phoenix reached 50 energy.
• Fixed an issue where queuing Return Cargo on a worker would cause it to ignore the built-in delay after it finished gathering.
• Fixed an issue where players watching older replays or saved games would experience stuttering.
• Fixed an issue where some Mac users were unable to join games properly.

Full patch notes in all languages...

 

[Grey Nightmare]

Good to hear, I saw a youtube vid, those ultralisks were horrible! D:

At least blizz hasn't dawdled in fixing that right up =)

 

[Ralle]

StarCraft II Patch 1.1.1

A small patch for StarCraft II has been released. These are only fixes so no, your strategy has not been nerfed yet! I am glad Blizzard is so fast to improve things!

Read the release notes below:

Patch 1.1.1

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty – Patch 1.1.1

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue where Ultralisk cleave range was being unintentionally extended by larger targets.
Fixed an issue where the Phoenix's Graviton Beam was automatically canceled if you used it just after the Phoenix reached 50 energy.
Fixed an issue where queuing Return Cargo on a worker would cause it to ignore the built-in delay after it finished gathering.
Fixed an issue where players watching older replays or saved games would experience stuttering.
Fixed an issue where some Mac users were unable to join games properly.

 

[TKF]

I was kinda disappointed, only a few bugfixes. I excepted a few counter balance changes, for example 1 or 2 sec shorter build time for zealot.

 

[mrzwach]

No, counter balace changes are a bad idea because frequently, it takes time for people to adapt to balance changes in the first place, making them constantly means its harder to achieve overall good lasting balance. :|

 

[Dr Super Good]

Are you really the only active moderator who takes interest in what happens with Starcraft II? I would have thought that one of the constantly active staff members would have posted the patch notes up pretty much as soon as the patch went live.

Anyway, atleast they fixed the nonsense ultralisk splash damage. Killing SCVs that walked near an attacked building might have been funny, but sure as hell was unballenced and made no sense for the art type used.

I still have problems with the battlenet 2.0 interface, including games not ending properly (frozen score screen wih logout as only fix), getting stuck unable to join games (sends message that I cancled join to party despite not doing so) and that it takes about 1-2 minutes after first starting the game (on a freshly started computer) before I can join anything.

 

[PurplePoot]

Especially since Zealots needed the nerf. Not sure if you have been following PvZ lately, but 2gate is really stupid in it.

 

[Mooglefrooglian]

Turns out Ultralisks are actually nerfed compared to the old versions pre 1.1.

They now have an AOE of 2, period. Before, they had an AOE of 2 + target's radius (now removed because they were too idiotic to realise that when it hit buildings it would cause a HUGE splash).

End result: When every single zerg player is crying IMBALANCE IMBALANCE, Blizzard nerfs zerg for epic lulz. I approve.

 

[Dr Super Good]

I would have imagined that blizzard would have readjuted the ultralisk splash to match the average target unit size + AoE when removing the cause of the bug to keep it ballenced. Otherwise they should declare it as both a bug and ballence change.

 

[PurplePoot]

There was no "bug" per se, just an unintended consequence of the fact that splash was unit radius + 2 and for certain buildings that was really absurd.

 

[Vengeancekael]

Nice, that was a fast patch.
Maybe you should also post about patch 1.2 coming in the end of 2010, there was an interview somewhere, need to find it...
Basically, it will features chat channels and more balance changes.

 

[Rui]

There is a new bug with the Phoenix's Graviton Beam. It keeps channeling even after the target has been killed. It's really annoying. I hope Blizzard launches another quick patch to fix it soon.

 

[Xarwin]

I hope that they'll implant the chat feature soon <.<

 

[The World Is Flat]

Finally! glad to see these are all up!

 

[Dr Super Good]

Blizzard needs to rework their auto launch system for custom games. It is annoying that the only way you can leave a starting custom game is by logging out (or quitting) the game. Especially since many games are unclear singleplayer or low player traps so are getting disproportional popularity due to people being forced to play them.

Additionally it is annoying if people leave a custom game during the forced starting time as you might end up alone in the game or with unballenced teams with no way to stop the count down.

The solution is pretty simple. Everyone should be able to quit during launch sequence (espeically auto launch sequence). However when someone does quit during the sequence, it should abort the countdown allowing replacement players to refil the slot. Once the slot is refilled the countdown resets and starts again.

I do not see a reason why blizzard is using the current system over the one described above as there is no down side to it (atleast a brief evaluation shows).

 

[Mooglefrooglian]

I do not see a reason why blizzard is using the current system over the one described above as there is no down side to it (atleast a brief evaluation shows).

The same reason they thought sorting maps by popularity could ever possibly be a good idea, or why you are allowed to search for a custom map when creating a game, but not when you are joining it.

 

[The World Is Flat]

I gives them total control over custom maps, inviting people who want a popular map to make it incredible, and hope it gets featured.

 

[Rui]

Indeed, I've wondered about the absence of a countdown abortion system ever since I found out of the existence of this auto-start. In addition to that, I think auto-promoted hosts shouldn't be allowed to start the game without a confirmation check of other players. Some really dumb people will start a game with unfair teams.
But aborting countdowns upon the disconnection of a player from the lobby will fix this issue as well.

 

[The World Is Flat]

Yes, Thats a problem i've been thinking about recently.

 

[Grey Nightmare]

I gives them total control over custom maps, inviting people who want a popular map to make it incredible, and hope it gets featured.

So more can have the potential of reaching "premium" status and getting blizz more $$ -.-

 

[The World Is Flat]

Basically.

The entire system is rigged as fok.