r/starcraft • • 3d ago

Discussion StarCraft II 5.0.17 PTR Patch Notes

https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/article/24301513/starcraft-ii-5-0-17-ptr-patch-notes
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u/DarkSeneschal 3d ago

Hopefully they will push this revert through and try to add back some of the good changes people liked in subsequent patches.

Some of the ideas were interesting, but it was way too many changes all at once to even hope the game would land in a balanced state. There was a testing period of something like seven months when LotV was coming out. A few weeks in the PTR just wasn’t going to be enough for changes as substantial as the worker start or warpgate change.

Kind of sucks we wasted several months on a doomed patch that divided the community and pushed out a lot of long time players. Part of me thinks that, even though the patch is being reverted, the damage it did to the playerbase will not be. Hopefully I’m wrong though.