cosmonarchy-bw-prerelease/patchnotes.md

25 November 2023

Designer's Notes

Patch goals include:

• Continue to address unintended mid-game air dominance
• Improve weak units and compositions with balance tweaks and ability revisions
• Improve audiovisuals with new unit responses, combat SFX, sprites, and more

Latest content

• Ascension #6 - The New Horizon
• Pr0totype #31 - A Qualifying Statement
• Pr0totype #32 - This Game Is Epic.

Patch summary (so far...)

• Cut top speeds of several air units across all races and tiers
• Refocus mid-game Terran mech towards a slower, more durable direction
• Boost mobility of Terran bio to better deviate from Terran mech
• Revise key units to remove undesired, overly-binary interactions

General

• Improved fog of war reveal on cliffs, from low ground (c. DF)
• Shuffled Protoss structure buttons in construction submenus to improve organization
• Added more debug info to help investigate desyncs, c. DF. Please screenshot and report if you encounter them!
• Opening console now requires Left Control to be pressed when pressing tilde (~)

Game Modes

• Added Faction Wars (a Btyb bounty!), allowing players to select a subfaction.
  • This mode is very much in a "minimum viable product" stage, and only Terran factions exist right now, with very few changes compared to stock Terrans... but it should still be neat!

AI

• Mappers can now set Mineral Field type 1 deaths to control the faction of AI. This is preliminary support as factions continue to receive development.
  • See this page for specific info.

Bugfixes

• Stability:
  • Fixed two rare null-sprite crashes (r. neblime & SYPIAC)
• Gameplay:
  • Fixed burrowed units not transforming/regressing properly (c. DF)
  • Fixed units in Anchors being able to attack if the Anchor was loaded into a Pythean
  • Fixed yet another infinite range hold position exploit case (c. DF)
  • Madrigals can now attack from garrisons (r. neblime)
  • Fixed Sentinel and Sevenstop dealing double damage when not piercing
  • Irradiate and Yamato Cannon targeting has been updated to apply their effects on final bullet position, instead of target position
  • Improved consistency of Kinetic Penetration attacks with Ancile Providence
  • Improved reliability of Legionnaire and Cabalist teleportation (c. Veeq7)
  • Corrected duration of Carapace Swarm (r. fagguto)
  • Durendal Philistine Autogun now fires while inside garrisons (r. GreenEggs'NSpam)
  • Wyverns no longer create two corpses (r. lolrsk8s)
  • Solarions that are preplaced or created with the spawn console command now start with 12 Stewards
• Audiovisual:
  • Multiselecting Terran workers now correctly hides the building submenus
  • Burrowed Vorvrokors now correctly display the burrow mound graphic (c. DF)
  • Added an additional sanity check to prevent displaying passive icons in mixed selections
  • Witness and replay modes now show Nydus Cesiant connections
  • Lardfix: The singleplayer center-view trigger action no longer centers the cursor, nor break drag-selection (c. DF)
  • Fix 1-frame delay in Phalanx deployment animation (r. DF)
  • Corrected group wireframe for Hydrith Den (r. Enozlliks)
  • Player colors no longer fail to randomize properly on competitive maps on the ice tileset
  • Egg spawn underlays now correctly use current player's team color

Audiovisuals

• Replaced sprite for:
  • Dracadin (c. Baelethal)
• Added unit responses for:
  • Ancile, Vagrant, Vagrant Shade
• Updated unit responses for:
  • Blackjack (c. TheBeaver99)
• Updated visuals for:
  • Goliath (overlay offset cleanup)
  • Scribe (materials and attack animation)
  • Aurora (extended attack animation)
  • Quazilisk, Nathrokor (new dual-birth animations)
• Added placeholder reads for:
  • Zerg Ocsal origin
  • Protoss Tyranny of the Sun
• Added unique remnants for:
  • Lanifect (c. Baelethal)
• Added weapon SFX for:
  • Star Sovereign (Intervention Missiles)
• Added icon and tooltip for:
  • Terran Reclamation (Apostle, Autocrat, Anticthon, Aion)
• Updated wireframes for:
  • Charlatan, Anticthon (c. jun3hong)

Terran

• Maverick:
  • Now moves 10% faster
• Cyprian:
  • HP now 65, from 60
• Cleric:
  • Now moves 10% faster
• Madcap:
  • Now moves 10% faster
• Heracles:
  • Now moves ~9% faster
• Siren:
  • Mineral cost now 75, from 100
  • HP now 90, from 100
• Striga:
  • Now moves 8% faster
• Goliath:
  • Contender Missiles armor penetration now 2, from 0
  • Further cement the Goliath as a longlasting anti-air option.
• Phalanx:
  • Arclite Shock Cannon splash radii now 16/32/48, from 10/20/40
• Madrigal:
  • Armor now 2, from 1
  • Imperioso Missile:
    • Damage now 20, from 25
    • Cooldown now 1.25, from 1.38
  • Furia Missiles:
    • Damage now 10, from 8
    • Cooldown now 0.5, from 0.92
    • Weapon range now 8, from 6
    • Now have a minor delay between each missile, and only goes on cooldown after a salvo is completed (c. Veeq7)
  • This is a revision we wanted to make for ages! Thanks to Veeq7's contributions, it is now implemented.
• Ramesses:
  • Armor now 2, from 1
  • Now moves ~11% slower
  • Weapon cooldown now 1, from 0.92
  • Armor penetration now 3, from 2
• Durendal:
  • HP now 225, from 200
  • Abaddon Flamethrowers weapon range now 2, from 1
  • Now moves ~10% slower
• Cataphract:
  • Armor penetration now 0, from 2
  • Weapon range now 8, from 9
• Cuirass:
  • Armor now 6, from 8
• Salamander:
  • Mineral and gas costs 150/150, from 200/125
• Anchor:
  • Mineral cost now 125, from 150
• Wellbore:
  • Gas and time costs now 100/45, from 200/50
• Captaincy:
  • Mineral and gas costs now 300/0, from 250/50
• Commandment:
  • Time cost now 30, from 35

Protoss

• Dracadin, Hierophant, Atreus, Optecton:
  • Unit sizes reduced slightly
• Herald:
  • Mineral and gas costs now 150/50, from 100/100
  • Shields now 60, from 40
• Charlatan:
  • Weapon no longer bounces
  • Weapon splash radii now 8/16/24, from 0/0/0
  • Now has Interception
• Pariah:
  • Time cost now 45, from 40
• Optecton:
  • Time cost now 50, from 45
  • Now moves ~22% slower
• Patriarch:
  • Time cost now 45, from 50
• Positron:
  • Weapon damage now 8, from 14
  • Weapon range now 6, from 7
  • Splash radius now 6/12/24, from 8/16/32
  • Particle Annihilation:
    • Now procs explosions every 1 range traveled, from 2
    • No longer damages the primary target, preventing unintended double-damage
• Analogue:
  • Mineral cost now 100, from 200
• Accantor:
  • Armor now 1, from 3
• Architect:
  • Armor now 2, from 3
  • Unit size reduced slightly
  • Turn rate now 20, from 12
  • No longer accelerates
• Panoptus:
  • Gas cost now 75, from 100
• Gladius:
  • Mineral and gas cost now 200/125, from 250/100
  • HP now 100, from 110
  • Shields now 80, from 90
  • Armor now 2, from 1
• Exemplar:
  • Gas cost now 150, from 125
  • Shields now 80, from 100
  • Splash radii now 8/16/24, from 12/24/36
• Solarion:
  • Mineral cost now 600, from 500
  • Armor now 6, from 5
  • Now moves ~10% slower
  • Steward launch range now 6, from 8
  • Steward leash range now 8, from 10
  • Pushing the Solarion into a more committal role, and making it more durable as a result.
• Steward:
  • Time cost now 10, from 5
  • Armor penetration now 2, from 5
• Aquifer:
  • Mineral and gas costs now 400/0, from 300/125
• Crucible:
  • Gas cost now 200, from 150
  • HP now 300, from 400
  • Armor now 3, from 4
• Engram:
  • Gas cost now 150, from 125
• Prostration Stage:
  • Mineral cost now 350, from 400
• Ancestral Archives:
  • Mineral and gas costs now 400/500, from 450/400
• Ardent Authority:
  • Time cost now 60, from 50
  • HP now 750, from 800
• Stargate:
  • Gas cost now 200, from 150
• Argosy:
  • Gas cost now 400, from 300

Zerg

• Iroleth:
  • Armor now 2, from 3
• Skithrokor:
  • Time cost now 28, from 25
  • Now moves 10% slower
• Kalkalisk:
  • Armor now 1, from 2
  • Now moves 10% slower
  • Armor penetration now 0, from 2
• Ghitorokor:
  • Now moves ~10% slower
• Tosgrilisk:
  • Now moves ~10% slower
• Evigrilisk:
  • Mineral cost now 200, from 250
  • HP now 250, from 260
• Konvilisk:
  • Now benefits from Crushing Tide
  • Weapon no longer splashes
• Tetcaerokor:
  • Now moves ~15% slower
• Ezigrisant:
  • Mineral, gas, and time costs now 400/100/40, from 300/300/45