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2 new hero classes! (not 1 but 2!) Medic and Spectre are now available for play

• Third person mode has been redesigned to provide more WOW-like gameplay. It's abit stuttery, but it works better on hills, cliffs, and in indoor zones like mine. You can still disable it by typing -unlock, and enable it by typing -lock
• the Minimap has been updated to show only the playable map area, the minimap changes when you -repick,
• All heroes and characters have had their size reduced by 50%
• Mouse zoom levels have been adjusted for third person mode. (Zooming out still looks like default camera, but you can zoom WAAY in)
• Computer AI is much more strategic, bot players will more actively try to cover 3+ nodes.

• The Medic is an Intelligence based combat support and sabotage expert. None can match her healing skills
• The Medic can lay down spider mines, dealing moderate damage.
• Chrono Rift Device altars time, trapping units inside a vortex, reducing their movement and attack speed
• Irradiate causes a unit to deal heavy damage over time to any of the medics enemies. You can put this on an ally or an enemy, since it will only harm targets hostile towards the medic.
• Rejuvinate is a smart cast heal over time that stacks on the target up to 5 times
• Replentish Shields is a remodulated emp grenade that recharges shields by 140 for all friendly units in its area of effect
• Greater Heal is a mana efficient big heal with a 3 second cast time.

• The Spectre is well trained assasin, with a huge arsenal of weapons & utility.
• Capable of calling down Chemical Missile Warheads that deal moderate damage initially, but leaves a deadly toxic cloud behind
• Psionic Lash deals heavy damage to a single target, 3sec cast 30sec cooldown
• Experimental Plasma Weapon hits up to two targets, medium range repeatable autocast ability
• PSI Shield heals the Spectre for 300 shields and increases maximum shields by 300 for 10 sec
• Consumption converts a small amount of an allies Life to energy for the Spectre
• Mindblast stuns enemies in an area of effect, dealing light damage
• Kill Field generator is a weak force field generator that has a 50% chance per 0.6sec to deal damage to nearby enemies
• Cloak vanishes the spectre but the spectre cannot attack untill he decloaks

• Minor/bug fixes
• Vortex (High Templar) damage has been buffed. its just didn't work well enough as an ultimate.
• Fixed a bug where on unlock mode, the camera would sometimes pan to the wrong place entirely after resurrecting a hero.

Previous Updates changelog (0.91)

• Hero pick screen will no longer spawn 2 heroes for each computer player
• You can now type -lock to return to third person camera mode
• Fixed an issue where -repick was not working for players 9-14
• Computer players will select random hero at the character screen when the game loads, no more waiting for your bots at the character screen
• Players now start with 130 minerals, up from 100
• Heroes now award 14 minerals per kill, up from 13
• The cost and cost increment of the non-hero specific talents (infused healing, empowered stamina, improved shields, reforge weapons) has been reduced by 1/2.
• South team (horde) players are now colored red, North team (Alliance) players are now colored blue.
• Players now have a different shield glow color depending on what team they're on. North team players are protected by a blue forcefield shielding, South team players are protected by a red forcefield shielding.
• Computer players are even smarter, and will try to push for control of at least 3-4 flags
• (battle.net only) Computer player difficulty levels implemented. Depending on the difficulty chosen for the computer player, their hero is given a certain amount of default talents. Computer players on very easy have no upgrades, easy players have rank 1 shield upgrade, medium players have rank 1 life/shields/healing/weapon upgrades, hard players have rank 2 life/shields/healing/weapon upgrades, very hard players have rank 3 life/shields/healing/weapon upgrades and rank 1 regeneration upgrade, insane players have all possible talents.

Class changes

• Ghost - Shield recharge uplink redesigned, regenerates 35 shields and life per second for 5/7/9/11 seconds, regardless if in combat. Regenerates additional shields while out of combat
• Ghost - Nuclear Strike cooldown and preparation time reduced to 1minute
• Ghost & Dark Templar - Cloak cooldown reduced

• Marauder - Recharge Health is now autocast, and kicks in whenever the marauder drops below 75% Life

• High Templar & Archon - Revitalize is now autocast, and kicks in whenever the hero drops below 75% shields
• Archon - Meteor cooldown and preparation time reduced to 1 minute

• Roach, Infestor, Ultralisk burrow cooldown reduced
• Ultralisk Warbringer Pull is now autocast

minor

• High templar - Feedback now has a cast bar. If a player orders their high templar to place a psi storm while casting feedback, the high templar will wait until their feedback cast is done and then cast psi storm. Feedback no longer plays the ghost sniper sound when executed.
• Background objects and units in the character screen will now fight with eachother
• Changes were made to the starting conditions (after hero pick). Players begin at their teams start point behind a fence and a barrier. The barrier is destroyed when the battle begins, unleashing the heroes upon the battlefield.
• a new -help function has been added

Previous versions 0.90

• Fixed an issue where if player 1 or 8 left the game, the score counter would stop. (players 1 and 8 are now automated computer players that cannot leave) Now supports 12 players (down from 14)
• fixed an issue where the unlock button was not doing anything for players 9-14
• players who can't see the modal stats dialog can now disable third person mode by typing -unlock
• Stables res point is working for north team, farm res point is now working for south team
• All forms of experience/level gain has been abolished. Some players simply can't see the stats dialog on bnet games, (and therefore can't select their stat points if they level up).
• All heroes start with 2 points of their most beneficial stat, players no longer need to distinguish between agil/int/str heroes.
• Bots (computer heroes) don't always pick Infestor anymore
• When a player drops out or leaves, their hero becomes an automated bot, and continues to fight for their team.
• Killing blows now award 13 minerals (up from 3)
• Bot players AI improved slightly
• Minor terrain details
• The Ultralisk hero's ability Ram now applies a bleed effect as well as its original effect. Bleed effect stacks up to 3 times
• Curse of the Weakened (infestor) damage over time reduced slightly

• Computer players are pretty brutal on very hard/insane difficulties.