Patch 1.5.3

[e][h]Patch 1.5.3

Patch Information

Version:

23260

SEA Release Date:

September 18th 2012

NA Release Date:

September 18th 2012

EU Release Date:

September 19th 2012

KR Release Date:

September 19th 2012

Highlights

• General
• Bug Fixes

Chronology

1.5.2

1.5.4

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty - Patch 1.5.3

General

Battle.net

• The Current Season snapshot has been added back to the Profile summary.

StarCraft

• Burning Tide has been republished and is once again available for play in the custom games section of the StarCraft section.

Bug Fixes

General

• Asset loading performance has been improved.
• Fixed a number of crashes, desyncing issues, and file corruption that could occur when attempting to play games on Arcade.
• The AlternateLowTextures variable has been re-enabled in variables.txt.
• Manually-bound hotkeys now properly override grid hotkeys.
• Bonus Combat Attributes that use negative values now work properly.
• Increased and decreased weapon speeds effects are now displaying their proper red or green text color.
• Using triggers to change ownership of Protoss buildings no longer results in some buildings remaining unpowered.
• Rich Vespene Geysers now properly return 6 gas per trip instead of 8.
• The Graphics Options Changed indicator now properly displays next to the Options menu item.
• Fixed a UI error that would occur when viewing the Load Menu.
• The frame rate value displayed in the CTRL + ALT + F overlay and the Menu display are now consistent.
• Fixed an issue where shadows on the Hyperion appeared in lower resolutions in the background of the Battle.net UI
• Fixed an issue where item stack amounts would not increase or decrease properly.
• Fixed an issue where damage shield buffs were not displaying a status bar if their buff duration was zero.

Battle.net

• BattleTags now populate in the real name section for BattleTag friends.
• Chat that is entered into the Party chat window now displays as a whisper to members of the party that are in-game.
• The count of bookmarks that have been used or remain available for use now properly appears in the Arcade Bookmarks page.
• Republishing a StarCraft map as an Arcade map without changing the map name no longer causes the map to display in the wrong area.
• Date formats now display in the proper format according to region.
• The league icon displayed in the Quick Match page is now centered.
• Fixed an issue where the Show More button would stop functioning when navigating between the Create Game and Join Game tabs.
• Fixed an issue where logging in with a Starter Edition account would sometimes cause the client to become unresponsive.

Races

Zerg

• Units that are morphing no longer have a chance to become stuck and frozen in their cocoon state if they are beneath a Hatchery.

Mac

• Textures on the Mar Sara tileset no longer paint improperly in the Editor.
• CPU usage is now optimized while streaming data.
• Fixed an issue in certain localized clients where special characters would display improperly in custom hotkey profiles.

Balance Update

• On 4 December 2012 Blizzard released a balance update which required no patching.

Balance

Terran

• Raven upgrade requirement removed for Seeker Missile.

Zerg

• Infested Swarm Egg health down from 100 to 70.
• Fungal Growth range down from 9 to 8.