by JR Cook - 11 years ago     show comments

Another day, another Hearthstone patch. Following the release of a rather extensive patch at the beginning of the week, there has since been another patch to the alpha build of Hearthstone.

Changes to the mechanics of the game were minimal: only two warrior cards (Grommash Hellscream and Gorehowl) were tweaked. It is worth noting that we discussed both cards during Episode 2 of the HearthPro podcast, and even had a special feature on Gorehowl last week.

The big news about this patch is that there is no big news. This feels like fairly minor housekeeping for a game build that’s as polished as it can be at this point.

The most significant update is the addition of over 900 localized voiceovers, but it is worth noting that localized versions will be released for beta testing in Europe and Asia after the release of the North American beta. Blizzard is already looking ahead to ready Hearthstone for the second phase of the beta roll-out, which may be a strong indicator that the initial beta release is almost ready. Certainly with the Battle.net client now in open beta, one more hurdle has been removed.

Time to move on to “cautiously excited”!