cosmonarchy-bw-prerelease/patchnotes.md

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

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)
• Updated visuals for:
  • Scribe (materials and attack animation)
• New weapon SFX for:
  • Star Sovereign (Intervention Missiles)

Terran

• Goliath:
  • Contender Missiles armor penetration now 2, from 0
  • Further cement the Goliath as a longlasting anti-air option.
• 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:
  • Time cost now 50, from 45
  • Now moves ~22% slower
• Patriarch:
  • Time cost now 45, from 50
• 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:
  • Gas cost now 150, from 125
  • Shields now 80, from 100
  • Splash radii now 8/16/24, from 12/24/36
• 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:
  • Time cost now 10, from 5
  • Armor penetration now 2, from 5

Zerg

• Skithrokor:
  • Now moves 10% slower
• Kalkalisk:
  • Armor now 1, from 2
  • Now moves 10% slower
  • Armor penetration now 0, from 2