StarCraft II Beta is back up, and besides a few technical issues many players have (such as starting or joining games), all is well.
A list of patch notes and all the undocumented changes of the second phase of beta has been compiled for your leisure.
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Hehe, loads of little changes.
If we can start PLAYING soon, that would be awesomer....
Haha nice summary, thanks!
Gosh. Well, it's only for like a few days...
The first bunch of balance changes I didn't like :/
But the AI and cross-game social features looks nice :)