cosmonarchy-bw-prerelease/patchnotes.md

16 September 2023 -- prospective patch notes

Designer's Notes

Patch goals include:

• Smoothing out costs and stats in the wake of the Protoss and Zerg revisions
• Adjusting advanced workers to be more relevant in the overall game state
• Pulling the trigger on the "shroud piercer" Kinetic Penetration revision
• Revising the last of the multi-purpose late-game air units (e.g. Hippogriff) to be more fair in large quantities
• Making additional progress on the custom advisor implementation

Summary

• Advanced workers are now available in tier 2, and move ~16.5% faster than before
• Protoss production structures have had their time costs increased
• The Pythean and Clarion have found new homes (Nanite Assembly and Synthetic Synod respectively), while the Parthenon and Strident Stratum were removed

Latest content

• Pr0totype #21 - The Hammer Falls!
• Pr0totype #22 - A Story About My Ackmed
• Pr0totype #23 - Cartographic Crapcast

Game modes

• Added a 'Debug' game mode that maxes out starting resources and significantly speeds up build times.

Bugfixes

• Stability:
  • Fixed a crash related to Demiurges (r. benno & The Shambler, c. DF)
  • Fixed an extremely rare crash when at the unit path limit (r. The Shambler)
• Gameplay:
  • Sycophants no longer "donate" shields for free (r. Mystery Meat)
  • Ascending corpses now enchants allies instead of enemies
  • Cagra spread by Omnivales now correctly recedes when the Omnivale dies (r. Btyb88)
  • Recalling a saved selection no longer culls unavailable units (e.g. stunned, in transport) (c. DF)
  • Fixed default hotkey collisions for: (r. neblime)
    • Larvosk Cesiant: Control Strains and Ocsal aspect
    • Argosy: Epigraph and Empyrean
• AI:
  • Fixed request processing for Alkajelisks
  • Zerg AI no longer overbuild Ovileths in the early game
• Audiovisual:
  • Rally lines no longer show when the structure's rally target is not visible
  • Terran and Zerg tech-up advisor transmissions are no longer swapped
  • Units protected by Ancile Providence now correctly send an 'under attack' notices
  • Axitrilisk birth anim now uses Hydralisk as a placeholder, instead of Talos
  • Ocsal Cesiant now has a wireframe
  • Kills string has been reinstated
  • Durendal shadow offset has been corrected
  • "Unit's waypoint list is full" can no longer display in replays (c. DF)

Audiovisuals

• Updated sprite for:
  • Ocsal Cesiant (placeholder)
• Updated weaponfire SFX for:
  • Patriarch, Demiurge, Protathalor, Tosgrilisk, Gorgrokor (secondary), Zarcavrokor (passive)
  • Magister, Epigraph (c. lolrsk8s)
• Updated weaponhit SFX for:
  • Cataphract, Claymore

Terran

• Talos:
  • Now trained from Quarry
  • Now moves ~16.5% faster
• Sundog:
  • Time cost now 35, from 30
• Salamander:
  • Time cost now 35, from 30
  • HP now 175, from 180
• Pythean:
  • Now trained from Nanite Assembly
• Hippogriff:
  • Mineral cost now 250, from 300
  • Chimera Cannons:
    • Weapon damage now 4x10, from 4x15
    • No longer targets air units
  • Now uses Pegasus Missiles when targeting air units
• Quarry:
  • Gas cost now 75, from 50
• Parthenon:
  • Removed
• Stockade:
  • Time cost now 40, from 35
• Mantle:
  • Time cost now 45, from 40
• Starport:
  • Gas and time costs now 150/50, from 125/45
• Rotary:
  • Mineral and time costs now 200/35, from 125/20
  • HP now 750, from 700
• Commandment:
  • Gas and time costs now 150/35, from 125/25

Protoss

• Artisan:
  • Now trained from Embassy
  • Now moves ~16.5% faster
• Clarion:
  • Now trained from Synthetic Synod
• Atreus:
  • Now has Interception
• Sycophant:
  • Idolatry no longer procs on allied Sycophants
    • We will attempt to implement this more elegantly later!
• Vassal:
  • Time cost now 14, from 12
• Idol:
  • Weapon splash radii now 12/18/24, from 12/24/36
• Analogue:
  • Time cost now 40, from 35
  • Shields now 80, from 60
  • Max energy now 150, from 100
  • Cylindrical Blaster weapon re-added, targeting only ground
  • Empathy Core:
    • Now drains flat 10 energy per hit taken
    • Retaliation attack is now a phantom strike, dealing half damage
• Empress:
  • Time cost now 50, from 60
  • HP now 200, from 180
• Aurora:
  • Time cost now 20, from 22
  • HP now 80, from 75
  • Armor now 1, from 0
  • Armor penetration now 1, from 0
• Lanifect:
  • HP now 100, from 90
• Panoptus:
  • Shields now 70, from 50
• Exemplar:
  • Gas and time costs now 125/50, from 100/40
  • Weapon cooldown now 1.13, from 1.08
• Empyrean:
  • Armor penetration now 2, from 3
  • Weapon splash radii now 12/24/36, from 12/24/48
• Embassy:
  • Gas cost now 100, from 75
• Strident Stratum:
  • Removed
• Engram:
  • Weapon splash radii now 12/24/36, from 24/36/48
• Grand Library:
  • Time cost now 55, from 45
• Rogue Gallery:
  • Time cost now 50, from 45
• Prostration Stage:
  • Time cost now 60, from 50
• Ancestral Archives:
  • Time cost now 70, from 60
• Ardent Authority:
  • Time cost now 55, from 45
• Synthetic Synod:
  • Time cost now 70, from 60
  • HP now 850, from 750
• Stargate:
  • Mineral, gas, and time costs now 200/150/55, from 125/125/50
  • Shields now 350, from 300
• Argosy:
  • Time cost now 60, from 50
• NEW: Potentate:
  • Flexible supportive ranger; trained from Prostration Stage

Zerg

• Gosvileth:
  • Now requires Irol Iris
  • Now moves ~16.5% faster
• Protathalor:
  • Mineral cost now 125, from 100
  • Weapon damage now 1x15, from 3x5
  • Armor penetration now 0, from 2
• Ghitorokor:
  • Gas cost now 75, from 50
  • Weapon damage now 1x8, from 2x8
  • Weapon armor penetration now 2, from 3
• Mortothrokor:
  • Now moves ~7.5% faster
  • Whetted Appetite:
    • Now increases lifesteal
    • No longer increases movement speed
• Alkajelisk:
  • Now moves ~22% faster
  • Weapon range now 8, from 10