cosmonarchy-bw-prerelease/patchnotes.md

20 June 2025

Year 3, month 6, patch 1

Patch goals

• Make small balance tweaks for Acropolis #3 - Battlements & Throneroom
• Continue under-the-hood changes for Askosi implementation
• Add and improve some audiovisuals

Core

• Updated title music (c. Enozlliks)
• Added error handling for iscript-based errors. If you see any debug messages, screenshot them and show them to Pr0nogo!
  • Here's an example error!

Game Modes

• Massacre:
  • Units created from abilities are no longer doubled
• Embraced:
  • No longer applies infestation debuffs (still applies buffs)
  • Now spawns broodspawn equivalent to 10% of the unit's resource cost on death
• NEW: Deathmarch:
  • Massacre and The Turning rules apply!
• NEW: Brotherhood: (b. 3crow)
  • All units split like the Simulacrum! Shieldless units take longer to replicate.

Bugfixes

• Stability:
  • Resolved several iscript-based bugs that could have lead to game instability
• Gameplay:
  • Plague can now correctly bypass Carapace Swarm (r. jakulangski)
  • Units with shields no longer take invalid shield damage through Carapace Swarm (r. jakulangski)
  • Lardfix: Units directly on top of each other (exact same pixel coordinate) no longer prevent each other from firing (c. DF)

Audiovisuals

• New sprite for:
  • Idol (c. DeltaCadimus, a. Solstice)
• Adjusted sprite for:
  • Corrosive Touch death explosion

Terran

• Apollyoid Adhesive:
  • Armor rend cap ∞ » 3
  • Timer now refreshes when attacked by any weapon
• Harakan:
  • HP 90 » 100
• Cyprian:
  • HP 65 » 75
• Harakan (Golden Republic):
  • Shields 30 » 40

Protoss

• Potentate:
  • Phase Saber removed
  • Transcendent Tide:
    • Effect range 4 » 3
    • Now procs when attacking an enemy within 3 range
• Idol:
  • HP 70 » 80

Zerg

• Hidebreaker:
  • Vorvrokor and Nathrokor-sourced Hidebreakers now stack with each other
• Plague:
  • Now consumes corpse on afflicted unit death
• Broodspawn:
  • On death, Corrosive Touch timer 1 second » 2 seconds
• Kagralisk:
  • Resource costs 100/50 » 100/100
  • Movement speed 4.8 » 4
  • Vision range 8 » 9
  • Transport weight 2 » 3
  • Repeating Venom:
    • Weapon damage 4x6 » 2x5
    • Weapon cooldown 1.33 » 1
  • NEW: Miasma
    • Attacks now apply plague to targets for 1.5 seconds. Miasma fields released on death last for 2 seconds.
• Cherbrathalor:
  • Transport weight 4 » 8
  • Venemous Bursts:
    • Weapon damage 4x8 » 4x4
  • NEW: Miasma
    • Same as Kagralisk.
• Okrimnilisk:
  • Transport weight 6 » 10
• Gorgrokor:
  • Resource cost 125/100 >> 150/100