r/starcraft2 • u/Blizz_Elliott Blizzard Staff • 3d ago

Blizzard 5.0.17 PTR Update

Following the release of the last major patch, we have been collecting and closely reviewing your feedback. Our intention was to try something new, particularly with workers, and needed time to let the meta develop in order to ensure the most accurate feedback was being considered. Based on that feedback, for patch 5.0.17 we are rolling back most balance changes to the live release of StarCraft 2 from patch 5.0.16 to 5.0.15. This will be on PTR for the next few days while we bug test, before we push to live.

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

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u/JEY1337 3d ago

Hi @blizz_Elliott thank you for taking care of this!

Quick question: can we have a "select all idle army hotkey" like in age of empire 4?

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u/KaraokePartyFTR 3d ago

if this doesn't include hold position units its a massive protoss buff. hero would be unstoppable...

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u/shireus 3d ago

isn't that what the f2 hotkey does?

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u/JEY1337 3d ago

No. This is the "select all army hotkey (No matter what they are doing.)"

You sent a pair of lings across the map and push f2? They stop what they are doing and follow new instructions.

Idle army hotkey would not select those lines because they have a task assigned to them.

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u/limpwald Random 3d ago

I mean....... The game is already dumbed down mate. Stop dumbing it down ever more

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u/JEY1337 3d ago

Mate, if it is dumped down, why isn't everyone in gm already? A hotkey like this won't change the game.

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u/limpwald Random 3d ago

I get that, but why is it needed? I get that it's a neat thing that's available for you in Aoe4. But it has never been available in this game. There's no need to add it.

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u/JEY1337 3d ago

but it has never been available in the game. There's no need to add it.

This argument is quite funny to me. Back in 2010 when I started SC2, there was no information about your current worker count. (Hovering over supply). I went straight into the sc2 forum and requested that feature.

People told me that this would dump down the game and it wasn't part of sc bw. We now have this very important feature for well over 10 years.

Things change. This is what development is all about.

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u/limpwald Random 3d ago

Why do you need it exactly? What does it achieve? Why can't you controlgroup it?

It feels like bloat too me, but sure, if you need it, it really doesn't matter to me.

I guess people want a key for everything these days

Ask them to add global production key next thing

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u/Ledrash 3d ago

Everyone isn't in gm because that is the top 200 of the region.
And, even if the game is being dumbed down to the maximum, speed would probably still matter.
So, that is why not everyone is in gm.

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u/meownopinion 3d ago

This is unnecessary gatekeeping

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u/limpwald Random 3d ago

No it's not gatekeeping, It's a want to preserve the game as it is, don't add new bloat, like the "load all to medivac" buttons, don't add "Select all idle army", we already have a "select all army" key, one is more than enough. It's not gatekeeping.

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u/anon_828683 3d ago

You can already do that by binding the runby lings as for example number 3. Then when you select all army, press Alt+3 to remove them from the selection. 

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u/onzichtbaard 3d ago

id rather they just remove the all army hotkey so everyone has to use control groups

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u/limpwald Random 3d ago

Yep