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.

StarCraft II Beta - Patch 4 (version 0.6.0.B14259B)

General

• Korea
  • Added support to display the game rating information on the F10 in-game menu within the beta.

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StarCraft: The Board Game

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Updated: you can buy it in our store!

“Including a total of 180 plastic figures with dozens of unit types, StarCraft: The Board Game features an innovative modular board which guarantees a new experience each and every game. An exciting card-driven combat system allows players to modify and upgrade their faction with a wealth of powerful technologies. Players can unleash a Zergling rush, use powerful Protoss shields to halt an enemy invasion, or even dispatch cloaked Ghosts to guide nuclear missiles to their target.” - StarCraft2.com

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Basic info:

Builds From: Factory
Armament: Twin 90mm Cannons (assault mode) , 120mm Shock Cannon (siege mode)
Role: Armored Support and Mobile Artillery

“The Crucio has been designed for increased survivability with an enlarged, reinforced turret and hull. The new turret layout also features an upgraded assault-mode armament package so that the Crucio can fend for itself more successfully in an open battlefield. Force deployment costs for the Crucio have increased over the older Arclite, but the increased versatility of the powerful new siege tank more than compensates for the additional expense.”

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• Art assets including screenshots, concept art, hi-res logos, and wallpapers
• Site design elements including borders, backgrounds, fonts, and stylesheets
• Exclusive content: Unit renders and forum avatars / Messenger images
• StarCraft II fact sheet and FAQ
• Sample StarCraft II text content
• Site building tips

Download StarCraft 2 Fansite Kit

Also official information about Carrier unit was revealed.

Carrier (Protoss unit)
Builds From: Stargate
Armament: Interceptors
Role: Capital Ship

“The massive carriers serve as operations centers for leaders of the protoss fleets. Heavily armored and shielded, carriers can punch their way through enemy blockades by unleashing flights of robotic interceptors at vital enemy targets. These maneuverable, computer-guided craft tear through enemy flight formations and relentlessly strafe slower ground targets with potent plasma charges.” - StarCraft2.com

New update StarCraft II Q&A - Batch 16. Read on Battle.net or my compilation.

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Battlecruiser
Builds From: Starport
Armament: Laser Batteries, Yamato Cannon, Plasma Torpedoes
Role: Capital Ship

“Research has led to the development of two alternative weapon upgrades that can be retrofitted into a battlecruiser hull to supplement its already formidable armament.The Yamato cannon is a terrifying weapon that uses an intense magnetic field to focus a nuclear detonation into a cohesive beam of energy. The cannon requires a huge reserve of energy to fire, but its effects on the target are impressive, to say the least. Plasma torpedoes give battlecruisers an armament capable of saturating a target area with a lethal deluge of fire, ideal for breaking up oncoming attack waves or ravaging a defensive position. As with the Yamato cannon, a battlecruiser needs to build up a sufficient reserve of energy to unleash a plasma torpedo bombardment.” [StarCraft2.com]

New parts ( 14 and15 ) questions and answers were added at battle.net forum. Read my compilation all parts or battle.net forum - batch 14 and batch 15.

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Also new parts Q&A at Battle.net were added - part 12
and part 13, I appended both parts to my compilation all Q&A.

Update: If you have problems with downloading gameplay video from official page I found these alternative links: first and second.

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Terran Thor
Built By: SCV
Armament: “Thor’s Hammer” Particle Accelerators, 250mm Bombardment Cannon
Role: Ultimate Heavy-assault Mech

“… the micro-spy images showed a huge bipedal war machine armed with two giant particle beams and a dorsal artillery battery that wouldn’t be out of place on a battleship. Most disturbing of all was the demonstration that this monster could be built from the ground up by ordinary construction vehicles in an astonishingly short time frame …” - read more.

Protoss Mothership
Builds From: Stargate
Armament: Disruptor Pulse
Role: Capital Ship

“… At the heart of each mothership is a huge khaydarin crystal infused with an incredible amount of psionic energy. By tapping into this energy, a mothership can warp or crack the very fabric of space and time itself. The devastating power of a mothership can wipe out squadrons of enemy ships in the blink of an eye or lay waste to entire planets. … The oldest and most powerful weapons of the protoss have been awakened and are prepared to burn the galaxy to avenge the loss of the protoss homeworld … ” - read more.

StarCraft II Q&A Batch 11 - read about map sizes in StarCraft II, StarCraft II Heroes unique abilities and more at my compilation or Battle.net.

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Protoss Dark Templar:
Builds From : Gateway
Armament : Modified Warp Blade
Role : Stealth Infiltrator

“The dark templar are most renowned for their ability to bend light around their bodies to become invisible at will, and a true master of the Void can achieve much greater feats than this. Armed with their potent warp blades, the dark templar are deadly and relentless foes, capable of crippling conventional forces with their devastating strikes.” [read more …]

Terran AH/G-24 Banshee
Builds From: Starport
Armament: Backlash Cluster Rockets
Role: Tactical Strike Aircraft

” As a planetary craft, the banshee wouldn’t need high-powered engines to achieve escape velocity and fight in orbit, so instead technicians fitted it with economical twin turbofans. Any air-to-air weaponry was deemed unnecessary: the banshee would only hunt ground targets. Thus, it was equipped with powerful air-to-ground cluster rockets.” [read more …]

Also new wallpaper was added - NUKE.

Read about Predator, Radar Tower, Thor, phase cannons and leaving player in a team game in batch 10 Q&A at Battle.net.
If you want read all published Q&A you can read my compilation.

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Only quick info

Units:

Marine
Trains From: Barracks
Armament: 8mm C-14 Impaler Gauss Rifle
Role: General-purpose Infantry

Reaper
Trains From: Barracks
Armament: P-45 Scythe Gauss Pistols, D-8 Charges
Role: Raider

Ghost
Trains From: Barracks
Armament: 25mm C-10 Canister Rifle
Role: Stealth Sniper

Viking
Builds From: Factory
Armament: Twin Gatling Cannon (assault mode) MT50 Lanzer Torpedoes (fighter mode)
Role: Air Combat/Ground Support

Building:

Command center
Builds: SCV

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New question & answers on the Battle.net !
Part 6:
1) Are Photon and Phase Cannons 2 different buildings?
2) Will carriers (Tempest) produce more than one drone type?
3) Fans noticed in your art video that thye Colossus ground unit was under fire from missile turrets. Is this due to the Colossus’s exceptionally high attack profile (tall stature) or a ground-to-ground attack feature/option for the turrets?
4) Will there be critters units and can they attack?

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Part 7:
1) Will the look of the siege tank be changed for the final version?
2) Will there be a ctrl-a key stroke to select all your units on screen?
3) Will we get to hear the return of some of the original melodic themes from SC1 (like the Terran themes), or will the music for StarCraft II be completely new?
4) Will the High Templar still be able to create hallucinations?
5) When will you release a StarCraft II Fan Site kit?

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Blizzard and E3: A look at Star Craft 2

Starcraft 2 E3 Combat unit interview and expliquation!

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“Their devastating psionic storms can be unleashed against cowering enemy forces both in the air and on the ground. With the halves of the protoss race reunited, an archon can now be brought into being by the merge of two high templar, or two dark templar, or even the unification of a dark templar and a high templar.” - Starcraft2.com

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