17 December 2023

Designer's Notes

Patch goals include:

Forthcoming.

NEW: Massacre
- Earn 3 vespene gas from any units created or killed
- Vespene nodes are destroyed on map start
- Commissioned by Btyb!
Omnipresence:
- Omnivale:
  - Can now spawn Larva (c. Veeq7)
  - Can no longer train Droleths conventionally
Faction Wars:
- Faction selection is now synchronized for replays and multiplayer

Starting resources now display instantly, instead of counting up from zero or from previous match total (c. DF)
The Ackmed custom advisor, commissioned by 3crow, is now available!
Added a minimum delay for custom advisor lines
Implemented custom advisor handling for the following events:
- Protoss structure completion

Stability:
- Protected against a rare client-side nullsprite crash (r. Veeq7)
Gameplay:
- Fixed mnemonic hotkey conflict between Analogue and Architect (r. DF)
Audiovisual:
- "Addon complete" notifications now correctly play for Lodestones when players have no custom advisor set
- Player colors now correctly randomize in replays on ice tileset maps (c. Veeq7)
- Lanifect remains now correctly inherit player color
- Corrected tooltip for Talos Fusion Sealers
AI:
- Prospectively fixed AI Droleths getting stuck inside structures
- Improved consistency for repairing damaged structures (still needs work)
- Improved ratio of Terran production-to-unit requests
- Improved timing of static defense requests, attacks, and more in the early stages of the game
- Fixed preferences for Pazuzu, Zealot, and Dracadin (r. Baelethal)
- Fixed Zerg attack requests not always taking into account the correct tech structure
Tileset:
- Fixed height flags on sandy sunken pit tiles, ramps, and doodads (r. TheBeaver99)