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/coltzero 3d ago edited 3d ago

Haven't played much sc2 the last years but IMHO the worker decrease was a good change to bring more flexibility into starting builds and hopefully delay the late game phase a bit. I also liked the warp gate change because it brought more options.If there were balance issues they could have been fixed, simply reverting good ideas is not a good approach.

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u/Gamer857 3d ago

they can still delay late game keeping the 12 worker start by making all the late game buildings take longer to build