Starbow - Page 110

- fixed Siege Tank (siege mode) bug that prevented firing
- fixed Lurker not immediatly being able to receive attack commands after the burrowing process started
- Arbiter's Recall:
- no units will be teleported, if the Arbiter dies within 2.5 seconds after casting
(before, units were destined to teleport after 1.5 seconds, but teleported after 2.5 seconds)
- reduced shield animation radius of the Arbiter Tribunal

We use a lot of the balance from BW, as a base for Starbow. We found out that some of the core units values were off, which helps to explain why Bio seems so weak vs Z early, and why Goliaths seem weak overall.

-Medic healing rate from 7.5 to 10 (heals faster)
-Firebat damage point set to .05 (more microable)
-Goliath damage point set to 0, attack cooldown set to 1.373 from 1.6 sec
-Goliath starting range set to 5. Range upgrade gives +3.
-Zealot attack cooldown set to 1.373 sec
-Workers attack cooldown set to 1.373 from 1.6 sec
-Lurker attack cooldown set to 2.3 from 2.6 sec
-Ultralisk attack cooldown set to .936
-Reaver attack cooldown set to 3.7450 from 4.3350
-Reaver range reduced from 9 to 8

Apart from this, we also did the following balance adjustements:

- Medics now has Stimpack. Drains 10 energy and no life.
- Viking speed upgrade cost reduced from 150/150, BT 140 sec, to 100/100, BT 110 sec.
- Spider mine Detonate ability range reduced from 5.25 to 4.5

Bio now gains some extra mobility via Stimpack for Medics and can better escape from combats, especially vs Banelings.

Viking speed upgrade seemed very overpriced for the effect it provides.

Spider mine Detonate could outrange Hydras, Marines, and a few other units, which made it very hard to clear mine fields even with detection.

One comment on how we balance the game: As long as there is no apparent reason for not using BW values, we will use BW values as closely as possible. The reason for this is that we do not have a huge statistical database w/ numbers and are not fulltimed employed w/ Starbow. So in order to make life as "easiest" as possible for us, we rely on BW numbers to balance the game.

That doesn't mean we are going into full BW-numbers for everything. For instance, Medi still heals slower than in BW, Stim is still worse than in BW, so bio won't be as cost-effective in all situations as in BW if you just a-move. However, we are attempting to balance bio here by making it more microable.
As we realized that the Firebats was kinda hard to micro (and a bit weak as well), we chose to reduce its damage point. We also thoughts that losing all your Medi's after a battle didn't create the correct incentives for bio as it created a high risk for moving out on the map/attacking, which often times resulted in slightly passive games. We hope that these changes will make bio TvZ a bit more balanced, a bit more aggressive and more microintensive as well.