cosmonarchy-bw-prerelease/patchnotes.md

5 August 2023 -- prospective patch notes

Designer's Notes

TBD

Latest content

TBD

UI

• Added a new config option for always showing condensed selections (c. DF)
• When holding shift (or when config - always_show_extended_tooltips is set to true), weapon tooltips now display approximate ranges with a circle
  • This is not 100% consistent with weapon ranges; we will improve this feature in time!

Audiovisuals:

• New sprite for:
  • Liiralisk (c. Solstice)
• Updated icon for:
  • Diadem

Bugfixes

• Stability:
  • Fixed another nullsprite crash (r. Alexhandr)
• Gameplay:
  • Structures can no longer spawn trained units on different height levels based on rally point (c. Veeq7)
  • Attacks with the "go to max range" behavior now calculate max ranges more accurately (c. Veeq7)
  • Hippogriffs no longer miss their target while at max range (c. Veeq7)
  • Anciles no longer protect against friendly "go to max range" projectiles when those projectiles kill their target
  • Fixed Sevenstep projectile movement being slower than intended
  • Town centers are no longer placeable near Vespene Ridges in quasifog (r. Mystery Meat)
• Audiovisuals:
  • Magenta and Patriotic Freedom are no longer rollable as player colors
  • Transport UI now colorizes as green for own units (c. Veeq7)
  • Aura circles no longer show for selected enemy units (replay/witness mode notwithstanding)
  • Fixed Gosvileths not getting the correct shadow offset when cancelling or interrupting constructions (r. Mystery Meat)
  • Fixed error printout related to Sevenstep's passive

Terran

• Cyclops:
  • Mineral cost now 100, from 75
  • HP now 85, from 80
  • Weapon damage now 10, from 6
  • Armor penetration now 0, from 1
  • Weapon cooldown now 1.25, from 0.75
  • Fragmentary Shells removed
  • New: Recursion Rounds:
    • Each Cyclops attack leaves behind a latent shell that detonates after 2 seconds, dealing 10 damage to all enemies within 2 range
• Quarry:
  • Collision size adjusted to make right-side resource returns more elegant
• Treasury:
  • Collision size now identical to Ministry (slightly wider, slightly shorter)

Protoss

• Hierophant:
  • Attack windup now 3 frames long, from 6, increasing responsivity

Zerg

• Quazilisk:
  • Weapon damage now 2x6, from 1x5
  • Now moves ~20% faster
• Izirokor:
  • Attack windup now 2 frames long, from 4, increasing responsivity
• Skithrokor:
  • Armor now 1, from 2