Greetings,
We have just released hotfix patch 1.23.5.8589 which addresses the following:
- Fixed a couple of crashes on startup (one specific to Macos)
- Fixed a random crash (or crash after a certain time) in gameplay
- Fixed crash entering gameplay
- Added new versions of the Ranked Ladder maps: Reap the Storm and Eclipse
Known issues:
- Small number of users experiencing render performance issues.
- Some users experiencing blank web UI panels, preventing access to options menu and Battlenet.
- Some Macos users experiencing crash related to enabling the hardware cursor
- Some users experiencing crash during authentication popup
We’re continuing to run down these remaining issues. We appreciate your patience and support.
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Greetings Cerebrates, Commanders, and Executors,
Patch 1.23.5 has arrived!
Features and Improvements
- Updated graphics backend; adding support for Windows DX11, DX12 and macOS Metal.
- This change is likely to provide (in some cases significant) performance benefits as well as more reliable hardware compatibility as new video cards are released. Check out the PTR forum post.
Others
- Fixed stall on main menu that some players were experiencing.
- Fix for Japanese local tool tips.
- Fixed a nuke exploit that some cheaters were using.
- When a new message is received, the chat log popup will only auto scroll if it is already scrolled to the bottom.
- Updated Season 7 local maps folder with newer versions of Eclipse and Reap the Storm.
Maintenance Patch - June 16
General Discussion
Greetings, We’ve just released a Maintenance Patch today to address a Replay auto-save issue on certain maps. Thanks!
Patch 4.12.1 has arrived. Check out the detail!
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Greetings, We’ve just released a Maintenance Patch today to address a Replay auto-save issue on certain maps. Thanks!
We’re aware of the issue and working on it now.
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Patch 4.12.0 has arrived. Check out the detail!
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Greetings, We’ve just released Maintenance Patch 1.23.4.8414 which addresses the following issues: -Fixed an issue with auto-replay names -Fixed an issue where the Season History map previews cheers, Matt
Thanks for the feedback folks. So far we’ve heard no feedback that should prevent us from moving forward with this in the near future. In fact there has been a lot of positive feedback around this, which is great to hear.
For those who haven’t tried it out yet, I would strongly encourage jumping onto the PTR and making sure it works well for you.
We’ve just released Maintenance Patch 1.23.4.8387 which fixes the following issues:
-Fixed an issue where the Season 7 maps were not present in the maps folder.
-Fixed an issue with map preview images failing to download
-Fixed an issue an issue where the matchmaking screen would sometimes not appear.
-Fix for Ladder map vetos
Thanks all – We do indeed have an out of date Polypoid. We will work on updating this asap.
Updates from the PTR will come soon. They are not in this patch.
The Season Roll is happening now and should be done shortly. thanks, Matt
Greetings Cerebrates, Commanders, and Executors,
Patch 1.23.4 has arrived!
Welcome to Season 7!
- New Wraith portrait rewards for ranked matchmaking S, A, B, and U.
Map Pool Update
- (2) Eclipse
- (2) Match Point
- (3) New Sylphid
- (3) Reap the Storm
- (4) Polypoid
- (4) Fighting Spirit
- (4) Circuit Breakers
Ranks
- S Rank - Top 1% of players
- A Rank - 7%
- B Rank - 21%
- C Rank - 21%
- D Rank - 21%
- E Rank - 21%
- F Rank - 8%
For the first two weeks, ranks will be MMR bucketed based on last season’s data. After which we will switch to the percentage-based breakdown above.
Others
- Additional string related bug fixes for EUD.
- Fixes for our most frequent reported crashes.
2020 Ladder Season 2 brings new 1v1 and Team maps to ladder!
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The Blizzard Launcher will update after a time, but you can force it by closing and re-opening it. Then there will be a dropdown above the Launch button. You can change that to Public Test Realm.
This is live now. Have a great weekend!
No they don’t. They are files that we write to help us match up game state to find the observer desync issue that has occurred in ASL and KSL a couple of times. Unfortunately, nobody has reported the bug happening since, so we haven’t had much luck in tracking it down.
