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StarCraft 2 Gets First Update in 6 Years (and It’s a Big One)

StarCraft 2’s massive 5.0.16 PTR patch drops starting worker counts, reworks Protoss Warpgates, and completely alters the economy.

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After a long period of quiet and normal maintenance updates, the StarCraft 2 community is finally getting a major new patch focused on extending the early and mid-game experience.

StarCraft 2 Drops 5.0.16 PTR Patch Notes

StarCraft 2 launched all the way back in 2010 and slowly grew with a few expansions in the following decade. Major content additions wrapped up with 2020’s final Legacy of the Void additions and the popular RTS has remained in balance and maintenance mode since then.

That said, fans were very surprised to see a major update pushing to the game’s Public Test Realm this week. Blizzard is currently testing out update 5.0.16 with some significant changes that will seriously shake up the meta and require a lot of strategy adjustments if and when it hits the production branch of the game.

According to Blizzard, “We’ve tried to make this PTR focus on extending the early and mid-game experience, allowing players to remain competitive on one to three bases for longer periods. We’ve introduced........

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