For those of you who may not know, Blizzard Entertainment is one of the largest, if not the largest computer gaming company currently. Their biggest held prized gaming titles include the WarCraft Series (perhaps you have a friend who is addicted to World of Warcraft, maybe?), Diablo Series, StarCraft, and the current StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty which was just released on July 27th world wide.

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The Low-down:

Well, Blizzard has decided that its time for a new patch. The new patch will soon be arriving, and it seems as though two races might be screwed out of a good position currently.  Basically, Blizzard decided ramp up the build time for Zealots, Marauders, and Reapers, while allowing Zerg build times to remain the same.  This is just an opinion, but it seems there will be a huge disadvantage now in early game battles once this patch is released.  Zergling rushes will now be more powerful due to a greater number that can be produced in the same time as they are currently, while the Protoss player and Terran player may struggle to build one Zealot or Terran unit to defend their choke point at their bases.

Its said that Zerg are currently the most “unbuffed” class in the game, however with this patch that may soon become a complaint of the past.  Siege tanks are looking great currently in open battle against ground units in late game; provided you have enough of them.  However, they are going to get hit with a bit of a debuff on their armor value, this way other ground units from Zerg, and Protoss stand a better chance against them when meeting for combat.

As for the Zerg, not to much has been done to their race stats for this patch other than the Ultralisk having the “ram” capability taken away.  Posters from their forums however, say this can be a buff since they will be able to do greater aoe dmg with their attacks against buildings, when used in greater numbers.

That is the quick rundown for this new patch, but you can view more by going here to the StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty “Situation Report”

Gamers and Designers, leave your comments let us know what you think!

Until the next post, “glhf” to my gamers out there… and keep on designing with those mad skillz gang!

-JiveMug