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All returning Heroes of the Storm players will be required to re-install the game in order to receive today's patch. Please see the notes for install instructions:

Patch Highlights

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New Hero

• Murky! RWLRWLRWLRWLRWL!!! (see Murky trailer here)

Heroes

• Illidan's ability kit has received a massive overhaul: New Trait - Betrayer's Thirst, New Abilities - Dive, Sweeping Strike, Evasion.
• Arthas's Frostmourne Hungers has been reworked, Frost Strike removed, Death Coil added
• Muradin, Nova, Sgt. Hammer, Stitches, Tyrael, and Uther have received significant talent changes
• Abathur base damage decreased and scaling damage increased across the board
• Gazlowe has a new talent: Extra TNT - Xplodium Charge deals 10% more damage for each enemy target hit by the explosion. This damage bonus caps at 100%.

User Interface

• Rejoin Game added (WIP)
• Inactive player removal (WIP)
• Limits to number of heroes per role rules have been added for matchmaking.
• Quick Cast added
• In-game UI makeover
• Social feature upgrades

Design and Gameplay

• Cursed Hollow Curse no longer reduces building health by 50% when the Curse is active
• The team level cap has been increased from 25 to 30
• Activated Talents can now be self-cast by pressing “Alt” and the associated number key

Battlegrounds

• Haunted Mines has had jungle layout changes, and 2 Towers added to the jungle area.

Read the full patch notes here.

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What do you think of this patch? Do you like the changes to the UI and heroes?

Talent Calculators and Wiki are now 100% up to date on this patch. Enjoy!

where to click the play button? i can't play this game because I don't know where the play button is..

Top Left. Beside 'Shop', 'Watch', and 'Community'.

I think he assumes that he gets to it form this site and not form the heroes website :P

which is the heroes site?

To get the game? battle.net

But for now all you can do is apply for the tech alpha. You can't just get it.