Patch 16 Notes

Patch notes are below.

I'm not really sure why rallying got changed from "move" to "attack move". I can't see how you'd want "move" to happen more often than "attack move".

I'm scared to ask what "cross-social" features exist between WoW and SC2. Can we not get away from that game ever?

Zerg changes:

WOOT.

Love the buffs. Frenzy was too difficult to use. It's micro intensive and you need a unit to stay alive long enough to have the buff be useful and justify not spending the energy on fungal growth... which basically only applies to brood lords and ultralisks.

Infested Terrans coming back to infestors is neat, but I still doubt it'll see much use.

But the biggest change of all is that Ultras are now immune to mind control and stuns. No more 250mm annihilation. I mean, 500 damage over 5 seconds still hurts like an anvil dropping on your foot, but the lack of stun is awesome. Not for the ultralisks that had 250mm casted on it- that guy is dead. For the OTHER units behind that ultralisk. The problem with 250mm is that if you did it in a line, all the units behind the stunned ultralisks would get pinned back and mess up timings as well as take splash damage.

Sweet change.

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StarCraft II Beta – Patch 16 (version 0.19.0.15976)

General

• Rally points now behave as a move command, instead of an attack move command.
  
• Enabled the ability to manually add a StarCraft II character friend using the player's character code. Character code is a server-assigned numerical code that is displayed within the Add Friend panel.
  
• Battle.net Achievements & Rewards have been updated.
  
• All Quick Match modes are now available: 1v1, 2v2, 3v3, 4v4, and Free For All.
  
• All A.I. difficulties are now available for play.
  
• Cooperative matchmaking versus A.I. players is now available as a play mode.
  
• Enabled cross-game social features between World of Warcraft and StarCraft II.

Balance Changes

• ZERG
  
  
  • Infestor
    
    
    • Frenzy spell removed.
      
    • Infested Terran spell added.
    
    
  • Overseer
    
    
    • Infested Terran spell removed.
    
    
  • Ultralisk
    
    
    • Now immune to stuns and mind control.