cosmonarchy-bw-prerelease/patchnotes.md

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# 17 December 2023
## Designer's Notes
Patch goals include:
- Making inroads on PVPGN (oldschool battle.net) server support
- Deploying more audiovisual improvements
- Continuing AI performance and customization improvements, commissioned by 3crow
- Making adjustments and revisions to a select few units
## Latest content
- [Ascension #7 - A Final Ascent](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLACFHAM2MlxN8pAhSHiAcq34rUfLiUpXz)
- [Pr0totype #33 - Throwing Down the Gauntlet](https://youtu.be/sAtBPzaKwwQ)
- [Pr0totype #34 - The Heights of Competition](https://youtu.be/iqCUmPU4Vg4)
## 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
- Faction Wars:
- Faction selection is now synchronized for replays and multiplayer
## UI
- Starting resources now display instantly, instead of counting up from zero or from previous match total (c. DF)
## Bugfixes
- 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)
## 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
- Zerg:
- Swarming 3 - Instant Quazeth
- Sunblot 3 - Skittering Duo
## Audiovisuals
- Updated weapon SFX for:
- Sentinel (weapon fire)