# X November 2023

## Designer's Notes

Patch goals include:
- Continue to address overdetermined role overlaps
- Improve weak units by revising or replacing their ability sets
- Significantly improve audiovisuals with new unit responses, combat SFX, sprites, and more

## Latest content
- [Ascension #6 - The New Horizon](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLACFHAM2MlxNIdDY8v4PpOKA9y5GrR0z6)

## General
- Added more debug info to resolve desyncs, c. DF. Please screenshot and report if you encounter them!

## Bugfixes
- Gameplay:
	- Fixed burrowed units not transforming/regressing properly (c. DF)
	- Fixed units in Anchors being able to attack if the Anchor was loaded into a Pythean
	- Fixed Sentinel and Sevenstop dealing double damage when not piercing
	- Improved consistency of Kinetic Penetration attacks with Ancile Providence
	- Solarions that are preplaced or created with the `spawn` console command now start with 12 Stewards
- Audiovisual:
	- Multiselecting Terran workers now correctly hides the building submenus
	- Burrowed Vorvrokors now correctly display the burrow mound graphic (c. DF)
	- Added an additional sanity check to prevent displaying passive icons in mixed selections
	- Fix 1-frame delay in Phalanx deployment animation (r. DF)

## Audiovisuals
- New sprite for:
	- Dracadin (c. Baelethal)
- New unit responses for:
	- Ancile
	- Vagrant
	- Vagrant Shade
- Updated unit responses for:
	- Blackjack (c. TheBeaver99)
- New weapon SFX for:
	- Star Sovereign (Intervention Missiles)

## Terran
- [Goliath](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=terran/goliath):
	- Contender Missiles armor penetration now 2, from 0
	- *Further cement the Goliath as a longlasting anti-air option.*
- [Madrigal](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=terran/madrigal):
	- Armor now 2, from 1
	- Furia Missiles:
		- Cooldown now 0.75, from 0.92
		- Armor penetration now 1, from 0
		- Now have a minor delay between each missile, and only goes on cooldown after a salvo is completed (c. Veeq7)
	- *This is a revision we wanted to make for ages! Thanks to Veeq7's contributions, it is now implemented.*

## Protoss
- [Optecton](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=protoss/optecton):
	- Time cost now 50, from 45
	- Now moves ~22% slower
- [Patriarch](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=protoss/patriarch):
	- Time cost now 45, from 50
- [Gladius](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=protoss/gladius):
	- Mineral and gas cost now 200/150, from 250/100
	- HP now 100, from 110
	- Shields now 80, from 90
	- Armor now 2, from 1
- [Exemplar](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=protoss/exemplar):
	- Gas cost now 150, from 125
	- Shields now 80, from 100
	- Splash radii now 8/16/24, from 12/24/36
- [Solarion](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=protoss/solarion):
	- Mineral cost now 600, from 500
	- Now moves ~10% slower
	- Steward launch range now 6, from 8
	- Steward leash range now 8, from 10
- [Steward](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=protoss/steward):
	- Time cost now 10, from 5
	- Armor penetration now 2, from 5

## Zerg
- [Skithrokor](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=zerg/skithrokor):
	- Now moves 10% slower
- [Kalkalisk](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=zerg/kalkalisk):
	- Armor now 1, from 2
	- Now moves 10% slower
	- Armor penetration now 0, from 2