XX May 2024

Post-Acropolis #1 // May Royal Invitational

This patch will include bugfixes, audiovisual improvements, and balance changes.

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Internals

Cleaned up some sound randomization, which may have contributed to sync issues
Prospectively fixed 'debug' being the default game mode on first run
Minimap:
- Minimap sizes are now scaled more granularly (c. DF)
- Minimap camera now updates much more swiftly (c. DF)
Config:
- New: preferred colors! (c. Veeq7)
  - Specify a list of preferred player colors, common or per race
  - Set 'shuffle' to 'true' to randomly receive a color
  - Colors are only selected if available on a given tileset
  - In the event of preference conflicts between players, the lower player ID gets the color

Computer AI

Priorities:
- Slightly increase Zerg tech priorities
- Set addon priorities to be 1 less than factory priorities, prospectively resolving a Terran softlock
Kiting logic:
- No longer runs for Dilettantes

Bugfixes

Stability:
- Resolved three rare nullsprite crashes (r. climois, lolrsk8s, and Krankendau)
- Fixed an issue where building placement and targeting states were not cleared when selection changed, causing bad UX and rare crashes (c. Veeq7)
- Fixed potential randomseed issues with certain ability casts
Gameplay:
- Units which need to decollide are now prohibited from processing orders (c. DF)
- Rally points attached to units are now cleared if the unit exits vision (r. Hupsaiya)
- Improved performance of Zoryusthaleth Swarming Omen (c. Veeq7)
- Konvilisk and Cherbrathalor attacks can no longer bounce more than once (r. lolrsk8s)
- Crushing Tide attacks are now properly capped at 3 targets, from 4 (r. lolrsk8s)
- Disconnecting from Quarries now cancels any units queued at the Quarry (r. The Shambler)
- Disconnecting from Lodestones no longer unloads their cargo (r. Londier)
- Strigas no longer try to use cliff advantage (r. Hamster)
- Successive Sevenstep attacks no longer reset Mind Matter handling (r. lolrsk8s)
- Zerg Larvae can no longer die by wandering over cagra-free terrain, as long as their parent structure remains alive (r. Krankendau, c. DF)
- Treasuries now leave behind rubble
- Ezigrisant regression can no longer break gas node harvestability (r. TheBeaver99)
- Ocsal Gosvileths no longer pass on Ocsal debuff to structures (r. TheBeaver99)
Audiovisuals:
- Irradiate overlay is now properly inherited by regressing Zerg (r. TheBeaver99)
- Olympian Mythical Might SFX no longer plays more often than intended (r. lolrsk8s)
- Improved player color contrast when picking random player colors (c. Veeq7)
- Fixed Tyrannized and Worshiping statuses remaining on armor tooltips after expiry
Triggers:
- Restored 'Set Next Scenario' trigger action functionality
Computer AI:
- Prospectively fixed Terran AI not repairing units and structures under some conditions
- Prospectively fixed general AI responses to cloaked and hidden threats

Audiovisuals

Replaced sprites for:
- Hierophant (c. Baelethal)
- Optecton
Added reads for:
- Maverick Stimpack (inject, proc, expire)
- Savant Breathing Battery (form switch)
- Madcap Cabeirus Feeders achieving full stacks
- Olympian Dishonorable Discharge (proc)
- Magnetar Law of Attraction (proc)
- Gladius Binding Plasma charge (visuals) and proc (audio)
- Vengeful Ascension (buffs)
- Herald Triumphant Rise / Patriarch Astral Rule (debuffs)
- Mind Tyrant Tyranny (channel)
- Demiurge Worship (looping overlay on victims)
Added projectiles for:
- Positron
Added weapon impacts for:
- Salamander
- Magister
Added portraits (c. jun3hong) for:
- Striga
- Pythean
- Amaranth
Added banter for:
- Eidolon - successful missile strike
- Hierophant - a nearby enemy dies with full Signify stacks
Advisors:
- Replaced default Zerg advisor
- Achieved custom advisor support for:
  - Missile arming
  - Missile launching (c. DF)

Terran

Cyprian:
- Weapon range now 7, from 6
Shaman:
- Mineral cost now 125, from 150
Eidolon:
- Mineral cost now 50, from 75
Cyclops:
- HP now 90, from 85
Blackjack:
- Mineral cost now 100, from 125
- HP now 75, from 85
Tinkerer's Tower:
- Gas cost now 75, from 100
Salamander:
- Mineral cost now 100, from 150
- HP now 150, from 160
- Weapon range now 6, from 5
Seraph:
- Irradiate cast range now 6, from 8
Paladin:
- Splash radii now 24/48/72, from 12/24/48
- Missiles now move notably faster

Protoss

Legionnaire:
- Time cost now 17, from 16
- Sight range now 6, from 7
Amaranth:
- Shields now 40, from 20
Pariah:
- Now blocks titanic movement (e.g. Penumbra, Optecton)
Patriarch:
- HP now 180, from 200
- Armor now 3, from 4
- Weapon splash radius now 9/18/36, from 12/24/48
- Astral Rule no longer Ascends victims
Optecton:
- Gas and time costs now 250/60, from 200/50
- Collision size now significantly larger
- No longer collides with small units
- Now moves ~14% faster
- Transport space cost now 20, from 8
- Skybond Ray weapon removed
Demiurge:
- Worship:
  - No longer seizes hostile units
  - No longer expires without a nearby Demiurge
  - No longer affects structures
  - Now applies a debuff to all hostile units within 6 range of the Demiurge
  - Units with this debuff are stunned and untargetable upon death, for 5 seconds
  - After 5 seconds, if a Demiurge is still within 6 range, the unit is mind controlled and regains (100 + 33% of max life) hitpoints
Clarion:
- Phase Link damage no longer procs onhits
- This will be revisited later on.
Gladius:
- Binding Plasma:
  - No longer procs immediately on unit death
Gateway:
- Armor now 3, from 4
Lattice:
- Build area now 3x3, from 3x2
Grand Library:
- HP now 800, from 1000
- Shields now 400, from 500
- Build area now 4x4, from 5x4
Ancestral Archives:
- HP now 900, from 600
- Armor now 5, from 4
- Build area now 5x4, from 3x2

Zerg

Vorvrokor:
- HP now 75, from 70
- New: Hidebreaker
  - Attacks now rend 1 armor for 3 seconds.
Nathrokor:
- New: Hidebreaker
  - Air attacks now rend 1 armor for 3 seconds.
Hydralisk:
- Armor penetration now 0, from 2
Izirokor:
- Time cost now 20, from 25
- Weapon cooldown now 0.83, from 0.92
- This unit received an indirect nerf from the Crushing Tide bugfix, so these changes take that into account, while also improving their accessibility.
Vornath Pond:
- Mineral and gas costs now 75/75, from 50/100

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