cosmonarchy-bw-prerelease/patchnotes.md

25 September 2023

Designer's Notes

Patch goals include:

• Pulling the trigger on the "shroud piercer" Kinetic Penetration revision
• Continuing to adjust balance in the wake of Ascension #4
• Further improving audiovisuals

Summary

• Kinetic Penetration now deals full damage to the first target, and half damage to all others
• Melee air unit performance has been significantly improved

Latest content

• Ascension #4 - Calm Before the Storm
• Pr0totype #24 - A Psionic Hurricane!

Map Pool

• Competitive 1v1:
  • Removed: Equilibrium
  • Added: Ex Situ

Internals

• Cagra spread now uses a safer random function, which may help with network stability

Gameplay

• Kinetic Penetration now deals full damage only to the first target, and half damage to all other victims (c. Veeq7)
• Stewards now reveal their parent Solarions when attacking from out of vision
• The following Zerg ground units can now burrow:
  • Cikralisk, Protathalor, Axitrilisk, Mortothrokor, Tethzorokor, Evigrilisk, Keskathalor, Vilgorokor

Bugfixes

• Gameplay:
  • Lifted turreted units (e.g. Goliath) can no longer attack from lifted Anchors (r. Mystery Meat)
  • Melee air unit tracking has vastly improved (c. DF)
  • Lardfix: Mixed selections of burrowed and unburrowed units (including selections with Lakizilisks) no longer prohibit basic commands
• Audiovisuals:
  • Terran error SFX can now correctly plays no more than once at any time
  • Phalanx siege transforms have had turret and base relations corrected (r. DF)
  • Vagrant unit responses have been corrected
  • Treasuries now display progress bars while under construction, and no longer display an armor icon
  • Birthing Zerg units now use the correct armor icon
  • Vagrant selection circle has been corrected
  • Custom UI graphics (order lines, transport UI, etc) are now reset between games (c. Veeq7)
  • Lardfix: title music now plays again after concluding a multiplayer game (c. DF)
• Tilesets:
  • Adjusted pathing for default Ashworld dirt and magma cliffs to be more consistent
  • Fixed numerous height and buildability issues on niche Jungle tiles (r. TheBeaver99)

AI

• Increased refinery request priorities to improve gas capping pace
• Reduced number of tower requests per base to reduce clutter
• Madcaps and short-range units will no longer attempt kiting

Audiovisuals

• New sprite for:
  • Goliath (c. Solstice, wireframe c. jun3hong)
• Updated sprite for:
  • Cyclops (c. Solstice, wireframe updates c. jun3hong)

Terran

• Sentinel:
  • Weapon damage now 1x24, from 1x20

Protoss

• Matrix:
  • HP now 180, from 150
• Star Sovereign:
  • Intervention Missiles no longer deal splash damage
• Patriarch:
  • Weapon cooldown now 1.25, from 1.5

Zerg

• Quazilisk:
  • Mineral cost now 75, from 100
• Nathrokor:
  • Time cost now 25, from 22
  • Vestigial Strike armor penetration now 1, from 2