Blizzard’s sorting out your friends list in the latest Starcraft 2 patch

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Awww yiss: “New chat tabs should no longer appear when continuing a conversation with a player who has logged in and out of multiple games.”

Not every Starcraft 2 patch can be thrilling, but if your friends list was looking a little scrappy last week, this week’s 2.1.2 update will see to it that your buddies will arrange themselves appropriately from now on. It’s a bug fix special!

Blizzard is currently playing with Zerg balancing as of the 2.1.1 patch, with Hydralisks becoming a bigger threat to airborne enemies. This most recent update and all its friend list fiddling suggests that they’ve yet to draw their conclusions. Get these patch notes down you.

Bug Fixes

  • Your Friends List should now sort correctly based on friend type.
  • Players set to ‘Busy’ will no longer see Chat Channel messages.
  • The New Messages counter will now correctly update for messages sent from the same player across multiple games.
  • New chat tabs should no longer appear when continuing a conversation with a player who has logged in and out of multiple games.
  • Fixed an issue where players could appear as offline in StarCraft II when logging in and out of multiple games.
  • Fixed an issue which occasionally prevented a player’s presence from updating when logging into StarCraft II from the Battle.net Desktop App.