Greetings all -

We will be bringing the 베타 down shortly to make the following balance changes. Thanks again for all the great help you have contributed in testing Swarm; we look forward to receiving more of your input on the changes listed below. Hop in there, play a bunch of games and let us know!

Protoss

Mothership Core

• When Purify is cast on a player’s Nexus, it now also grants detection to 13 range.

• Energize has been removed.

Oracle 

• The cost of Entomb has been lowered from 100 to 75, while the duration has been increased from 50 to 60 seconds.

• Revelation has been changed to the following:

• This ability will now also work on buildings, granting 3 vision around every unit it hits.

• The duration has been increased from 45 seconds to 60 seconds, and the cost has been increased from 50 to 75.

• This ability will no longer grant detection.

• This ability will not affect cloaked targets, even if you have detection of them at the time.

• The button arrangement for this unit has been adjusted to list Void Siphon first and Entomb last.

Tempest

• This unit’s native bonus damage to massive units has been removed.

• This unit no longer requires a Fleet Beacon.

• We have added a new weapon upgrade called Quantic Reactor at the Fleet Beacon which will grant Tempest attacks +35 damage to massive units.

• Quantic Reactor costs 200/200.

• The cost of this unit has been changed from 300/300 to 300/200.

• The supply cost for this unit has changed from 6 to 4.

• The scale of this unit has been lowered from 1 to 0.9.

Sentry

• Hallucination no longer requires research.

Zerg 

Viper

• Viper acceleration has been increased from 2.125 to 3.

• The radius of Blinding Cloud has increased from 1.5 to 2.

Spore Crawler

• This unit no longer requires an Evolution Chamber.

Terran

Widow Mine

• The setup time for this unit has been increased from 2 seconds to 3 seconds.

Battle Hellion

• This unit has been renamed to “Hellbat.”