cosmonarchy-bw-prerelease/patchnotes.md

8 August 2026

Year 4, month 8, patch 1

Patch goals

• Initial balancing adjustments post-Acropolis #4!
• Deploy factional variants for Augustcrap, a Mapcrap event!
• Continue technical improvements and bugfixes
• Further improve audiovisuals
• Subscribe on ko-fi to get a sneak peek of the incoming changes!

Core

User Interface

• Added more desync logging (c. Veeq7)
• Added user-configurable window flash for when another player joins your lobby (c. Jesse)
• Reorganized replay options to Misc tab (c. Jesse)
• Added user-configurable Askosi player color preferences

Bugfixes

• Stability:
  • Lardfix: Fixed rare crash from AI attack force handling (c. DF)
• Gameplay:
  • Group casting now correctly issues orders to selected units in cases where some selected units did not have enough energy for an ability (r. shopkeeper dog)
    • Caveat: Still throws an error message and some abilities will issue move orders to units with insufficient energy
  • Flying workers and Dyads now use iscript-based movement, removing acceleration and eliminating rare visual and harvesting bugs
  • Flyers can now correctly be loaded into air garrisons (e.g. Askosi Grandstand)
  • Scrapworld: Gold Rush now correctly accounts for the resource cost of dual- and triple-birth units (r. shopkeeper dog)
  • Skryokors are now appropriately treated as Broodspawn for timed life and incubation purposes (r. jakulangski)
  • Lardfix: Protected against rare AI breakage from niche town configurations (c. DF)
  • Nydus Trinity Eidolons now correctly regenerate life at a higher rate when cloaked (r. jakulangski)
• Audiovisuals:
  • Fixed Endbore weapon name (r. Concealed Organic)
  • Fixed "dead pixels" in Askosi UI
  • Fixed bad gas puff coordinates for Installation Vespene Ridges (r. BtyB)

Audiovisuals

• Updated Askosi UI to be GREEN! (c. DF)
• Updated background graphics for Options and CrownLink Join menus (c. Jesse)
• New models for:
  • Inzorthrokor (Imicren), Iziralisk (Zorthos)
• New death SFX for:
  • Striga (c. Milia)
• Updated selection circle size for Epigraph

Balance

Neutral

• Neutral garrisons (e.g. the Tencendur on Magnetron):
  • Now eject units when taking fatal damage, heal to full life, and become stunned for 10 seconds
  • Can only be destroyed if they take fatal damage during the 10 second stun window

Terran

• Vulture:
  • Vision range 8 » 7
• Phalanx:
  • HP 240 » 275
• Aion:
  • Transport weight 8 » 12
• Wraith:
  • HP 110 » 120
• Quarry:
  • Build time 45 » 35
• Palladium:
  • Resource costs 300/150 » 300/100
  • HP 900 » 800
  • Armor 4 » 3
• Mantle:
  • Resource costs 200/150 » 250/125
  • HP 1000 » 900
  • Armor 3 » 4
• Starport:
  • Resource costs 150/225 » 200/150
• Broadside:
  • HP 300 » 335
• NEW: Camazotz:
  • Nydus Trinity: Harakan replacement. Sustaining infantry.

Protoss

• Artisan:
  • Movement speed 4.16 » 4 (~4% reduction)
• Cantavis:
  • Build time 33 » 30
  • Hallucination:
    • Projectile can no longer be intercepted by hostiles
• Charlatan:
  • Fervent Blaster:
    • Splash radius 12/24/32 » 16/24/32
• Mind Tyrant:
  • Malefactor:
    • Tyrannize procs no longer drain energy
    • Mind Tyrant must still have energy to proc Tyrannize
  • Maelstrom:
    • Movement speed slow 50% » 66%
• Idol:
  • Prismatic Blasters:
    • Splash radius 12/18/24 » 16/24/32
• Lattice:
  • HP 400 » 500
  • Shields 250 » 300
• Stargate:
  • Resource costs 200/200 » 200/150

Zerg

• Bone of Reflection:
  • Armor pen 0 » 1
• Corpse Cocoon:
  • Allied corpses now spawn Rilirokors for consumed ground units and Rililisks for consumed air units
• Blissful Embrace:
  • Infested units now incubate Rilirokors on damage taken (like Zoryusthaleth)
• Plague:
  • Now reduces HP and shield healing by 50%
• Malkothrokor:
  • Structure gestation now occurs 50% faster
• Nathrokor:
  • Adrenal Frenzy (movement speed on attack) removed
• Sovroleth:
  • Now considered a Sire
• Zarcavrokor:
  • Vision range 9 » 7
  • Bisecting Blades:
    • Weapon cooldown 0.42 » 0.67
• Sovrokor:
  • Now considered a Sire
• NEW: Rozirokor:
  • Imicren Tendril: Izirokor replacement. Has Saber Siphon.
• NEW: Zytryleth:
  • Zorthos Tendril: Structure mutated from Scrylyleth. Has Omnispores, acts as a town center, and gestates Larvae.

Askosi

• Impact Dissipation:
  • No longer heals
  • Now blocks the next weapon attack
• Missionary:
  • HP 75 » 80
• Cardinal:
  • Sustaining Sermon:
    • Now heals the proccing Cardinal
  • Rapid Rendevous removed
  • NEW: Ashbind:
    • Leaps to an enemy target, applying Ash Heap to enemies within 3 range
• Mimic:
  • Scrapworld: Vital Remains removed
  • Mimicry:
    • Mimicked attacks now apply Scrapworld: Gold Rush
• Aphorist:
  • Resoure costs 50/25 » 100/25
• Insurant:
  • Elxe Twinshot:
    • No longer attacks air units
• Rove:
  • HP 90 » 100
  • Elre Scaleshot:
    • No longer attacks air units
• Endbore:
  • Irko Octorshard:
    • Weapon damage 8x10 » 8x8
    • No longer attacks air units
• Radix:
  • Build time 65 » 60
• Function:
  • Resource costs 150/25 » 125/25
  • Build time 75 » 70
• Cosmoscope:
  • Build time 90 » 75