cosmonarchy-bw-prerelease/patchnotes.md

30 March 2026

Year 4, month 3, patch 2

Patch goals

• Continue balancing for all races
• Continue Askosi development
• Further improve audiovisuals
• Tweak balance for all factions
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Notes in italics are from Pr0nogo

Editor improvements

Custom resource areas: (c. DF)

• You can now override default resource areas via this tech from DF! Instructions are below.
  • Draw locations around resources.
  • Name the locations RESAREA_#, where # is a number between 1 and 249.
  • You can use multiple locations with the same name for the same resarea id.
  • When using multiple locations, append + at the end of the location you intend to use for the resarea's center. If not appended, the game will choose the earliest-created location as the center.

Triggers

• Custom triggers which accept unit_id bitsets now accept a new military keyword that filters out workers and non-military units (e.g. traps, missiles, Stewards, etc)
• unit_count now accepts an additional parameter completed (defaults to false) for exclusively tracking completed units
• Functionality has been restored to player_type (r. Kenoli)
• NEW: tyrannize:
  • Applies the effects of the Protoss Tyranny of the Sun cornerstone to designated units
• NEW: highlight_unit:
  • Causes selection circle flickers akin to unit transmissions for designated units.

Core changes

Detection

• The following status effects now reveal hidden units:
  • Apollyoid Adhesive
  • Signify and Hallucination
  • Corrosive Touch
  • Booming Blast and Ash Heap

Game Modes

• Brotherhood:
  • Ground unit split time now 50% of training time
  • Air unit split time now 100% of training time
  • Shielded units now begin splitting on any damage taken

Bugfixes

• Gameplay:
  • Resolved many actions that should have cancelled passive cloak, but didn't (r. shopkeeper dog)
  • Fixed Zonguard not applying Booming Blast with Preylock (r. shopkeeper dog)
  • Fixed various mnemonic hotkey conflicts for Askosi structures (r. Neblime)
  • Adjusted regeneration code so rare combinations of status effects scale expectedly (c. Veeq7)
• Audiovisuals
  • Fixed missing progress bars for Conduit, Bestiary (r. shopkeeper dog)
  • Added missing Aphorist wireframes
  • Corrected Thaumalogue corpse graphic

Audiovisuals

• New model for:
  • Vicar
• New SFX for:
  • Zerg and Askosi cloaking / decloaking (c. lolrsk8s)
• New wireframe for: (c. jun3hong)
  • Autocrat

Balance changes

Terran

• Anvil:
  • Resource costs 200/200 » 150/150
• Starpad:
  • Vision range 10 » 9

Zerg

• Almaksalisk:
  • Resource costs 150/125 » 150/100
  • Piercing Spines:
    • Armor penetration 3 » 4
    • Cooldown 0.83 » 0.75
• Alkag Iteth:
  • Resource costs 300/150 » 250/150
• Chokral Chazsal:
  • Resource costs 750/400 » 750/500

Askosi

• Rematerialize:
  • Used by: Eyelet (Proselyte), Vicar, Emissary
  • Now pulls allies within 3 range of the target unit
• Proselyte:
  • HP 65 » 80
  • Dispatch Pistols:
    • Armor penetration 1 » 3
• Cardinal:
  • Resource costs 75/50 » 75/25
• Mimic:
  • Resource costs 50/100 » 50/75
• Thaumalogue:
  • Resource costs 100/25 » 75/25
• Doronin:
  • Resource costs 250/0 » 225/0
  • Transport weight 2 » 6
• Object:
  • Resource costs 175/50 » 125/50
• Scepter:
  • Resource costs 200/75 » 150/75
• Agonist:
  • HP 95 » 125
• Petract:
  • Resource costs 200/0 » 150/0
• Tirade:
  • Resource costs 150/100 » 150/75
• Crematorium:
  • HP 200 » 300
• Landlock:
  • Resource costs 300/0 250/0
  • HP 1400 » 1250
• Chantry:
  • Build time 35 » 45
• Bounty:
  • HP 1200 » 800
  • Armor 4 » 3
• Bestiary:
  • Resource costs 500/250 » 350/250