Today, Blizzard revealed the first details of the upcoming patch 1.1 for StarCraft II in their " Situation Report." Expected to hit in mid-September, patch 1.1 will include a suite of updates for the game, including new features, bug fixes, and, most exciting of all, balance changes.  If you've been avoiding StarCraft II altogether, or you're just not that interested in the multiplayer side of the game, then you'd best find another news story, because the following changes and balancing described below won't make any sense to you.
 
Let's start with the changes that probably aren't going to affect your high-tier 1v1 play. The StarCraft II 1.1 patch will add support for NVIDIA's 3D Vision tech and glasses. Yep, that means 3D StarCraft. While it's tempting (and frankly, preferable) to ignore this feature, along with all other attempts to force stereoscopic 3D into consumers hands, think about this: a 3D UI. Imagine if the StarCraft UI was floating on top of the action. Floating text. It's going to change everything.
 

General Changes

• Friendly units will no longer provide vision after they've been killed. Enemy units previously revealed in vision cannot be targeted.

Terran Changes

• Reaper build time increased from 40 seconds to 45 seconds.
• Bunker build time increased from 30 seconds to 35 seconds.
• Siege Tank damage decreased from 50 to 35, +15 against armored.
• Siege Tank upgrades decreased from 5 to 3, +2 against armored.
• Battlecruiser damage against ground units decreased from 10 to 8.

Zerg Changes

• Ultralisk damage decreased from 15, +25 against Armored, to 15, +20 to armored.
• Ultralisk Ram attack is being removed.

Protoss Changes

• Zealot build time increased from 33 seconds to 38 seconds.
• Warp Gate cooldown time increased from 23 seconds to 28 seconds.

Today, Blizzard revealed the first details of the upcoming patch 1.1 for StarCraft II in their " Situation Report." Expected to hit in mid-September, patch 1.1 will include a suite of updates for the game, including new features, bug fixes, and, most exciting of all, balance changes.  If you've been avoiding StarCraft II altogether, or you're just not that interested in the multiplayer side of the game, then you'd best find another news story, because the following changes and balancing described below won't make any sense to you.
 
Let's start with the changes that probably aren't going to affect your high-tier 1v1 play. The StarCraft II 1.1 patch will add support for NVIDIA's 3D Vision tech and glasses. Yep, that means 3D StarCraft. While it's tempting (and frankly, preferable) to ignore this feature, along with all other attempts to force stereoscopic 3D into consumers hands, think about this: a 3D UI. Imagine if the StarCraft UI was floating on top of the action. Floating text. It's going to change everything.
 

General Changes

• Friendly units will no longer provide vision after they've been killed. Enemy units previously revealed in vision cannot be targeted.

Terran Changes

• Reaper build time increased from 40 seconds to 45 seconds.
• Bunker build time increased from 30 seconds to 35 seconds.
• Siege Tank damage decreased from 50 to 35, +15 against armored.
• Siege Tank upgrades decreased from 5 to 3, +2 against armored.
• Battlecruiser damage against ground units decreased from 10 to 8.

Zerg Changes

• Ultralisk damage decreased from 15, +25 against Armored, to 15, +20 to armored.
• Ultralisk Ram attack is being removed.

Protoss Changes

• Zealot build time increased from 33 seconds to 38 seconds.
• Warp Gate cooldown time increased from 23 seconds to 28 seconds.

cool
 
sorry to be that dude, but FINALLY

There will be many, many more patches after this one.  It's best to just try the patch out for yourself before having some knee jerk opinion about it.  To me the changes seem fair but we'll see how they play out.

Matt Kessler

At least Terrans are getting nerfed, I can live with that.

They're removing a whole unit?  The Ram?

 Fuck! I'm bad enough as it is, without the Terrans getting Nerfed! 
 
And I'm no expert, but those siege tank nerfs sound downright crippling. Not happy.    

soo...now as a zerg will be easier to rush a protos? :D

Haven't played this yet, but did that map where Zerg's creep doesn't reach the ramp ever get fixed?

Interesting. Though increasing the Zealot build time seems to only make en massing Stalkers even more encouraging.

GGHF BLIZZ, YOU RUINED IT. CANCELING MY SUBSCRIP-
 
oh wait.

"[...]and if that don't work, use more gun"  
 
-The Engineer. 

i'm totally down to see some rebalancing...
 
a little miffed that gateways are getting a 5 sec cooldown increase but i think it's about time that terran were brought down just a little bit

Loving the siege tank nerfs, hopefully it'll encourage terran players not to turtle as much and to expand more. At the same time though, this'll also mean more Mauraderer/Marine attacks which lots of players have trouble countering.

Well on the plus side I don't have to worry about BC rushes... at least not as much :\

Ouch - my terran siege tank and bunker turtle :(

its kind of  understandable....from the matches ive seen ...protos and teran did more rushes the zerg did

Sounds promising!

As much fun as it was to gleefully rape people with BCs, I do have to admit they were overpowered. Get enough of those things and nothing stops them.

Seems good, although I have more problem with huge Terran blobs being unkillable than reaper rushes. Ultimately, I think more Zerg units need some kind of useful bonus ability, maybe have Hydra spikes deal small poison damage over time to bionic units and the same for the Roach's acidic attacks for mechanical units.
 
I guess it's too much to ask for Lurkers and/or Defilers to return just yet (maybe Heart of the Swarm will bring them back), but I'm curious how that happened in the storyline anyways. After 4 years of evolving Hydras just forgot how to morph into Lurkers?

Those nerfs seem kind of harsh. Especially the Zealot time.

I think if it wasn't for Idra vs Morrow than Marauders would've gotten the nerf over reapers

I have not played the game, but watched many replays and have heard much talk about the game.  With as much grief as the Zerg have gotten, i'm surprised nothing was increased on that side

I can hear Brad's squees from here.

Man the zealot and warp gate increase is a kick to the nuts but glad there's no other 'Toss changes though Warp gate time increase is pretty significant. Time to use more void rays I guess.

Finally, OP Turtling Terran is getting nerfs on Tanks.
 
ATM Tanks>Hydras. 

Every warpgate unit has it's own cooldown time, I'm assuming the 5 second increase is only for zealots from the warpgate.

I'm glad that the Zerg got off light in this one. Just one unit, and not enough to impact things too much. Honestly, I don't know enough about balance and high level play to say how this will affect things. I'm sure there'll be a lot of complaining on the Blizzard boards, though.

nice, much needed

Meh, Reaper Rushing stopped working on higher level anyway, besides Zeolet rushes are now out of the question!, hurray!

Not entirely happy about the siege tank changes, but I can certainly understand the reasoning. Other than that I don't think it's going to effect my play style much.

" They're removing a whole unit?  The Ram? "

Loving the siege tank nerf, now I can totally destroy terran with my collosi :D Also I can get out my first stalker just before their reaper now with a 15 cyber.

Hey now what did the Ultra ever do to anyone!
Leave him alone!

I am confident in Blizzard's ability to properly modify each faction.

No matter the changes they're making, I am still going to suck ass at this game. 

as  zerg player i approve this patch

The reaper's increased build time makes me happy. But increasing the Zealots makes me a little worried. Maybe they are trying to make Zerg more popular now by making them even more rush friendly.

Terran nerf, lol.

"  Fuck! I'm bad enough as it is, without the Terrans getting Nerfed!  And I'm no expert, but those siege tank nerfs sound downright crippling. Not happy.     "

" as  zerg player i approve this patch "

Seems kinda harsh to Terran at first glance, but it's actually totally understandable. it is definitely going to change the high-tier play.

I still don't see how this help the Zerg at tier 3 against the other races at tier 3. And then they nerf the Ultralisk? Well see I guess.

lol poor siege tank.

" @Matthew said:

" They're removing a whole unit?  The Ram? "

"Ultralisk Ram attack is being removed." "

Blizzard's balance changes seem really out-of-touch and sort of illogical. Battlecruisers are almost never used in high level play anyway, and they've always been easy to counter. Why nerf their damage?
 
Why take away the Ultralisk's ram? It was a neat animation, it was fun, and it had extremely little impact on the game.
 
The Zealot nerf concerns me, because this is all about proxy rushes, yet it's also hurting the unit in standard play.
 
The siege tank change is probably justified, and will balance out Terran a lot. It might be a little too much of a nerf, but we'll see. The Reaper nerf is very justified, but a smarter change would be to require an initial tech lab time investment to unlock them.
 
I love the dead unit vision change, though. That's going to improve the game tremendously, in subtle ways.

Wow, some of these balance changes are pretty weird. I know this probably isnt the whole list but some of the stuff doesnt make much sense. Here we go, lets run down the list 
1. Reapers suck at everything except early game harass so if you start to take that away, that unit might as well not even be in the game so thats sorta weird. 
2. I dont really understand the bunker time increase. I mean, the only thing I see this doing is making it significantly harder for Terran to defend against proxy gateways/pylons. That is really balanced out though with the increased time it takes to make Zealots. So in the end, I actually think this could hurt the Protoss proxy. So if that was their intention I guess it makes sense, but the Protoss dont really need any kind of nerf so...yeah.  
3+4. This right here is the big one that actually makes some sense. Seige tanks were waaaaayyyy too good against Zerg, well lets just say way too good in general. There wasnt anything Zerg could do against them. 50 to 35 is a gigantic hit though, it might make the seige tank too shitty, but it seems like it might be okay. 
5. This is another one I dont understand at all. In my opinion, Battlecruisers are a pretty pathetic unit for being top tier. The damage they deal is pathetic for the amount of supply and resources they cost, not to mention they are slow as fuck. Yamato cannon is the only good thing they have and even that isnt that great unless you have a bunch of them. I have never seen a high level game where the person that gets BCs wins. Maybe I'm not watching the right games, but I have never seen them used effectively. I'm just saying I would much rather spend those resources and supply on Thors any day. So yeah, I really dont see a need for a nerf because as of now they are pretty shitty.  
6+7. I actually thought Ultras needed a little bit of a buf but what ever. I dont play Zerg so I am not exactly sure how good they are. I havent really faced them much, and I dont see high level players using them that effectively so I'm not sure. 
8+9. I honestly think this is the worst thing they could have done. I thought Protoss were perfectly fine the way they were. I just really dont understand where this is comming from. There is no reason for making these things take longer. In the end, this is just going to make it way way way easier for both Terran and zerg to compile big armies in the early game and crush the Protoss before they even get a chance to get enough units, or high enough tier units to stop them. 
 
In the end, I feel like these things are making the Protoss significantly weaker, while the Zerg is staying the same/getting better because of the seige tank nerf, and the Terran only feel the effect of the loss of an early game cheese and the nerf of a way way way overpowered unit to begin with. I just dont understand this. I play Terran and I am not nearly as worried as I would be if I played Toss.