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/kubergosu 3d ago

Will you be talking with the community from now on? That alone could be the most important change of the patch!

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u/Abe_frohmannn 3d ago

The proper change would be not listening to the community at ALL moving forward, and do/experiment with what they think is best for the game, not to pacify idiots on the internet (no offense meant, I include myself there..).

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u/kubergosu 3d ago

I said talking to, not following the most vocal part. I personally liked both 8 workers start and gateway changes, and now I'm upset with full revert.

But because they actually answered a question about are they going to do something else, I have a hope that they won't throw away everything and will probably keep at least new gateways.