5.0.17 Patch Notes - October 7, 2026

Economy

• Worker Start Count increased from 8 to 12.
• Default Large Mineral patch resource count increased from 1,600 to 1,800.
• Default Small Mineral patch resource count decreased from 1,100 to 900.
• Default Vespene Geyser resource count increased from 2,000 to 2,250.
• Total Default Gas per base increased from 4,000 to 4,500.

Terran

Command Center

• Cost increased from 300 to 400.
• Supplies increased from 13 to 15.
• Planetary cost reduced from 250/150 to 150/150.

Widow Mine

• Attack launch delay increased from 0.85 seconds to 1.07 seconds.

Reaper

• Build time reduced from 34 seconds to 32 seconds.

Ghost

• Health increased from 100 to 125. 
• Attack damage changed from 15 to 10 (+10 vs Light).
• Attack range reduced from 7 to 6.
• Movement speed increased from 3.85 to 3.94.
• Steady Targeting:
  • Damage reduced from 170 to 130 (+40 vs Psionic).
  • Energy cost reduced from 75 to 50.
  • Cancels upon taking damage.

Protoss

Nexus

• Supplies provided increased from 13 to 15.

Warpgate / Gateways

• Researching Warpgate no longer speeds up production time of units from Gateways.
• Warp-in Time is determined by "slow power fields."
• Universal warp-in Time split from 4 seconds to 11 seconds in slow zones and 3.6 in fast zones.
• Warpgate cooldown values:
  • Zealot: from 22 to 20.
  • Adept: from 22 to 20.
  • Stalker: from 22 to 23.
  • Sentry: from 22 to 23.
  • High Templar: from 35 to 32.
  • Dark Templar: from 35 to 32.
• "Transform to Warpgate" ability now costs 0/(0) down from 25/(25).

Shield Battery

• Starting energy when placed near a Nexus will be 100, otherwise 50.

Sentry

• Forcefields now only take 1 bile to destroy, down from 2.

Colossus

• Colossus damage decreased from 12(+3 vs Light) to 10(+5 vs Light).

Mothership

• Shields increased from 200 to 350.
• Life decreased from 400 to 350.

Adept

• Adept damage modifier per attack upgrade decreased from 2(+2 vs Light) to 1(+1 vs Light).
• Train time reduced from 33 seconds to 30 seconds.

High Templar

• Psi Storm Damage increased from 100 to 110.

Disruptor

• No longer has phantom weapon.

Zerg

Hatchery, Lair, and Hive

• Supplies increased from 4 to 6.
• Cost reduced from 300 to 275.

Creep

• Spread/Recede delay reduced from 0.55 seconds to 0.45 seconds.

Larva

• Periodic spawn rate increased from 9.9 seconds to 10.7 seconds.

Spore Crawler

• Damage against Biological reduced from 20 (+15 vs Biological) to 20 (+10 vs Biological).

Carapace Upgrades

• Level 1 cost increased to 150/150 from 100/100.
• Level 2 cost increased to 200/200 from 150/150.
• Level 3 cost increased to 250/250 from 200/200.

Infestor

• Microbial Shroud range decreased from 12 to 9.
• Microbial Shroud must be researched from the Infestation Pit.
• No longer has a weapon.

Viper

• Abduct can no longer be cast on Siege Tanks.

Overlord

• Base speed without Pneumatized Carapace increased from 0.85 seconds to 0.9 seconds.

Mutalisk

• Mutalisk Glaive targeting no longer obeys attack priorities.
• Weapon arc bonus reduced from 180 to 45.

Bug Fixes

• Archon merge completion sound volume reduced slightly.