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We’ve deployed version 1.36 to the public test realm (PTR). This upcoming patch features a new Observer Mode UI and Automated Tournaments.

Thank you for your testing and feedback!

Patch 1.36

Observer Mode

• Added new features and Updated UI for Observer Mode.
• All panels can be toggled on and off individually, using hotkeys or the Control Panel.
• Added Statistics Panel: you can now view the Race, Gold, Lumber, Food, and APM of all players in the game at once.
• Added Production queue: you can now view what units each player is currently building at once.
• Added Unit view: you can now view all the units in each player’s army at once.
• You can toggle between seeing the Production Queue or the Unit view.
• Added Hero Panel view: you can now view all the heroes and their items and abilities of up to 4 players at once. You can also click on heroes to center your camera on them.

Tournaments

• Tournaments now accessible via the Versus screen.
• Tournaments will run daily.
• Tournaments are open to all players.
• Each Tournament will have different game rules, maps, and available races.
• Preliminary Phase: play up to 8 games, and earn points based on wins and losses.
• The Top 16 players from the Preliminary will face each other in an Elimination bracket.
• Going undefeated in the Elimination Bracket will win the whole tournament.
• Unlock Unique Portraits by earning points by competing in Tournaments.
• Stats on Tournaments performance are displayed in your Player Profile.

Chat

• In-Game and Global chat can now be toggled on and off in Settings.

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where FX being played in FOW would cause the game to crash on Reforged Graphics.
• Fixed an issue where you would crash while observing a CPU Game.
• Fixed game crashing when becoming an Observer on Defeat.
• Fixed an issue where in-game hotkeys were still functional while your Menus were open.
• Fixed an issue where Replays would be soft-locked if you attempted to watch one immediately after playing a match.
• Fixed an issue where you would see a black screen when observing games with a large number of players.
• Fixed an issue where player’s division icons in the leaderboard were not updating properly.

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A new 1.36 PTR build was deployed a few hours ago. This update includes the following additions:

Balance

• Immolation mana drain per tick increased from 7 to 8.
• Sentinel Research cost reduced from 100 to 50 lumber.
• Arcane Tower Feedback increased from 12 to 18 on heroes (24 on regular units).
• Sundering Blades bonus reduced from 15 to 10%.
• Troll headhunter hit points reduced from 375 to 350.
• Pulverized cost reduced from 225 to 200 lumber.
• Cannibalization cost reduced from 75 to 50 gold.
• Cannibalization research time reduced from 30 to 15 seconds.
• Claws of attack +5 damaged reduced to +4.
• Claws of attack +9 damaged reduced to +8.
• Potion of Greater Mana reduced from 250 to 200.
• Wand of Mana Steal reduced from 65 to 60.
• Lighting Shield removed from the item table.

Ranked

• After the end of each season MMR will now hard reset previously MMR did not fully reset after each season.
• The map pool has been standardized to have 10 maps featuring a collection of well-known classic and new community maps.
• Map vetos have been increased to 5 for all modes.

Observer Mode

• Hotkey to swap to the Production panel is “Alt +P”, and to swap to the Unit panel is “Alt + U”.

Tournaments

• Reduced overall duration of Tournaments.
• Updated Time Zones information in Tournaments FAQ.

Bugfixes

• Fixed issue where selecting Blademaster’s Mirror Image would break the Observer Mode UI.
• Fixed issue where Grand Finalists (1st and 2nd) in a Tournament would not see their results at the end of the game.
• Fixed issue where Ranked icons were missing from the Versus: Ranked Screen.
• Fixed issue where your Highest Rank and Race stats were being pulled from recent Tournament history.
• Fixed issue where Tournament Results screen would show MMR gains and losses for Tournament games.
• Fixed issue where the winner of a Tournament would sometimes see 2nd place in their Tournament Results screen.
• Fixed issue where sometimes you’d crash on log in.
• Fixed issue where you would remain in a Tournaments Matchmaking queue if you entered matchmaking, but then didn’t find a match.

We’ve deployed a new 1.36 PTR build. This update includes the following additions and adjustements:

Balance

• Immolation damage reduced from 7/12/18 to 6/11/17
• Sentinel Research cost reduced from 100/100 to 50/50 gold/lumber
• Arcane Tower Feedback increased from 12 to 16 on heroes (24 on regular units remains unchanged)
• Pulverized cost reduced from 225 to 175 lumber
• Mana Stone mana granted on consumption reduced from 250 to 200
• Circlet Removed from drop table (still available for purchase from the Goblin Merchant)
• Ring of Superiority added to the drop table as a level 1 item (+1 to all stats)
• Ring of the Archmagic added to the drop table as a level 4 item (+3 to all stats)

Ranked

• Map vetos have been changed to 3 for all modes

Observer Mode

• Added the option to disable/enable observer mode UI. This is automatically set OFF by default
• Added click to follow in the observer mode UI by clicking the command card
• Removed the control panel and moved the command card to the far right, hotkeys for toggling menus are available in the help menu
• Production bar progress color is now white

Tournaments

• Added additional UI to indicate when the next tournament is

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue that prevented users from creating 512x512 custom maps
• Fixed an issue where the game would crash when calling BlizHideOriginFrames