# 30 September 2023

## Designer's Notes

Patch goals include:
- Adjust balance after Kinetic Penetration changes
- Improve role identity and synergy for a few problem units
- Further improve audiovisuals

## Summary
- Fairly minor changes were made in this update, with a few nasty bugs finally quashed!

## Latest content
- [Crash Course: Micro!](https://youtu.be/pgrVDYiMzeM)
- [Pr0totype #25 - Titans Walk Among Us!](https://youtu.be/2ZZ7i1CmAz8):

## Internals
- Terrain height has been extended by DarkenedFantasies, allowing tilesets to have significantly more height levels!
	- This required some changes to vision range and weapon range; be on the lookout for any related issues!

## Tilesets
- The following tiles now provide a height difference:
	- Desert: Sandy Sunken Pit (both variants)
	- Iceworld: Ice

## Bugfixes
- Stability:
	- A null unit crash related to updating unit speed has been fixed (r. greeneggsnspam, c. DF)
- Gameplay:
	- Changing selections after units die no longer occasionally breaks selections (c. DF)
	- Reclaiming Terran addons no longer sometimes sets the parent to neutral (r. neblime)
	- Psionic Storm now correctly damages the caster (c. Veeq7)
	- Iroleths now correctly regress to Ovileths
	- Group-selecting Lakizilisks and other units no longer occasionally shows a disabled attack icon
	- Fixed a rare issue with Olympians becoming unresponsive when moving after a melee attack (r. lolrsk8s)

## Terran
- [Vulture](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=terran/vulture):
	- HP now 85, from 90
	- Now moves 6.25% faster
	- Now visibly shoots two projectiles for better visual clarity

## Zerg
- [Nathrokor](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=zerg/nathrokor):
	- Vestigial Strike armor penetration now 0, from 1