cosmonarchy-bw-prerelease/patchnotes.md

XX December 2023

Designer's Notes

• Make inroads on PVPGN (oldschool battle.net) server support
• Deploy more audiovisual improvements
• Continue improving AI performance and customization
• Make a few small and medium-sized revisions to individual units

Latest content

• Ascension #7 - A Final Ascent
• Pr0totype #33 - Throwing Down the Gauntlet
• Pr0totype #34 - The Heights of Competition

Patch summary

Forthcoming.

Game Modes

• 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

UI

• Starting resources now display instantly, instead of counting up from zero or from previous match total (c. DF)

Bugfixes

• Audiovisual:
  • "Addon complete" notifications now correctly play for Lodestones when players have no custom advisor set
  • Corrected tooltip for Talos Fusion Sealers
• AI:
  • Improved consistency for repairing damaged structures (still needs work)
  • Improved ratio of Terran production-to-unit requests
  • Fixed preferences for Pazuzu, Zealot, and Dracadin (r. Baelethal)
• Tileset:
  • Fixed height flags on sandy sunken pit tiles, ramps, and doodads (r. TheBeaver99)

AI

• The following build orders have received tune-ups:
  • Terran:
    • Armor 1 - Tank Push (formerly Phalanx Timing)
    • Raider 3 - Uprising
    • Orbital 1 - Rapid Starpads (formerly 2Port Wraith)
  • Protoss:
    • General 5 - The Swordsmiths
    • Templar 4 - Initiates
    • Skylord 4 - Exalted

Audiovisuals

• Updated weapon SFX for:
  • Sentinel (weapon fire)