cosmonarchy-bw-prerelease/patchnotes.md

# XX February 2024
Prospective patch notes

## Designer's Notes

Patch goals include:
- Adjusting mid-game options for more distinct combat roles
- Deploying more audiovisual improvements
- Continuing AI performance and customization improvements, commissioned by 3crow

## Latest content
- Crow's Nests:
	- [010 - Planning for 2024!](https://youtu.be/BWvkcPTc38I)
	- [011 - The Fourth Race](https://youtu.be/uabpstn8QBk)
- Pr0totypes:
	- [#39 - Feathering This Nest](https://youtu.be/0CWT_Qhtmhs)
	- [#40 - Mapcrap: The Revenge](https://youtu.be/yD-VC45-4r0)
	- [#41 - Factitious](https://youtu.be/7p2BUJU8Vck)
	- [#42 - Finding a Voice...](https://youtu.be/v7ecZs_SkdE)
	- [#43 - The Reconstruction](https://youtu.be/ufd-GcSr7Hk)

## Patch summary
- Removed an internal order timer, making unit handling more responsive
- Reduced time costs of many rank-and-file units to promote increased army scale
- Adjusted resource costs and availabilities of many powerhouse units to allow for heavier early-game gas spending
- Revised Terran addons to no require tech, but now be more expensive on average (and have some orders still issuable while detached)
- Revised Stimpack to grant its buff after a short delay (still deals damage immediately)

## General
- **Resources:**
	- Depleted Mineral Fields now provide 3 resources per return, from 2
- **Name changes:**
	- Vornath Pond (formerly Nathrok Lake)
	- Kalkiir Lake (formerly Kalkiir Pond)
	- Skibact Scab (formerly Skithrok Scab)
	- Tethvith Swamp (formerly Bactith Swamp)
- **Internals:**
	- Removed implicit order timer, making order handling more responsive (c. Veeq7)
	- Updated hotloading to fix some cases where file updates didn't prompt mpq regeneration (c. Veeq7)
	- Tilde and ESC are now always used as shortcuts for closing the console
	- Custom trigger recolor accuracy has been improved (c. Veeq7)
	- Reinstated unit responses and other SFX for heroes/neutrals/critters
- **Config:**
	- Added a new grid-exclusive option for enabling extended control groups on R, F, V, T, G, and B (c. Veeq7)
		- **Caveat:** Certain key inputs (ESC, numpad) are not captured while console is open
	- Added an option to move console toggle to F12, freeing up tilde for another control group (c. Veeq7)
	- Added a config option to only show selection lines and circles while ALT is held
	- Added error handling to prevent option mismatches (c. Veeq7)
- **[Custom triggers](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/sites/scenario-setup/#trigger-comments):**
	- **New conditions:**
		- "unit_color"
		- "exit_if", "exit_preserve_if", "wait_if", "wait_until" (control flow actions; c. Veeq7)
		- "wait" (c. Veeq7)
		- "print" (c. Veeq7)
	- **New gameplay actions:**
		- "kill"
		- "move_unit"
	- **New game state actions:**
		- "set_mineral_yields" (c. Veeq7)
		- "set_gas_yields" (c. Veeq7)
		- "set_unit_stat"
		- "set_unit_behavior"
	- **New UI actions:**
		- "set_player_team_ui"
- **Advisors:**
	- Added support for army, base, and ally under attack events
	- Added HADRAL custom advisor

## Game modes
- **Faction Wars:**
	- Protoss and Zerg faction selection has been made available
	- **NEW:** Protoss faction: [Order of the Sacred Saber](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/protoss.php?faction=order-of-the-sacred-saber#fix-scroll)
	- **NEW:** Zerg faction: [Zorthos Tendril](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/zerg.php?faction=zorthos-tendril#fix-scroll)

## Maps
- The Terran tutorial, Further Notice, is now available in the campaigns directory
- HYDRA refurbished -> vz02 is now available in the co-op directory
- [Mapcrap Returns #1](https://mega.nz/folder/7t4THKwK#2vawVyYrst5-tcQUJmgFWg) submissions are now available as a separate download

## Bugfixes
- **Stability:**
	- Safeguarded against an AI-related nullsprite crash
	- Safeguarded against a rare nullsprite crash (r. lolrsk8s)
- **Gameplay:**
	- Correctly set Larva spawn timer to 12 seconds, from 11.33 (c. Veeq7)
	- Prospectively fixed a rare case where Apostles could continue reclaiming after death (r. TheBeaver99)
	- Fixed Lobotomy Mines not targeting units that had previously burrowed (c. DF)
	- Fixed logic for Stewards returning to Solarions upon taking any damage, instead of the intended 50% HP threshold
	- Improved decollision behaviors for iscript units (c. DF)
	- Fixed Dilettante corpses not being consumable (r. GreenEggs'NSpam)
	- Lardfix: the fading of music no longer slows down navigation between certain menus (c. DF)
	- Prospectively resolved errant unit interactions when restarting maps (r. lolrsk8s, c. DF & Veeq7)
- **AI:**
	- Fixed request handling for Vornath Pond and Skibact Scab
- **Audiovisuals:**
	- Added missing Adrenal Frenzy (Nathrokor) armor tooltip
	- Fixed Wyvern overlays appearing beneath the unit (r. Neblime)
	- Lobotomy Mine tooltip no longer displays the Spider Mines tooltip (r. 3crow)
	- Corrected Star Sovereign Intervention tooltip (r. TheBeaver99)
	- Corrected production icons for Hotshot, Nathrok Lake, Skithrok Scab, Mortothrokor
	- Fixed colors on Pariah walk cycle (c. lolrsk8s)
	- Fixed Anchor shadow alignment (c. DF)
	- Fixed "set_player_unit_name" custom trigger action (c. DF)
	- Filled in missing unit responses for Protathalor (r. jakulangski)
	- Corrected Shaman Visionary Mode death SFX
	- Corrected Luminary Aural Assault tooltip (r. GreenEggs'NSpam)
	- Fixed an order limit error string (r. Pokill99)

## Audiovisuals
- **New sprites:**
	- Quarry, Rotary (c. Solstice)
- **Visual adjustments:**
	- Improved Mortothrokor selection circle, death animation timing
	- Improved Legionnaire shadow, walk and attack animations
	- Marginally increased Goliath scale; adjusted a few minor details
- **Auditory adjustments:**
	- Changed sound flags for Zealot death SFX to allow it to overlap
	- Improved under attack responses for Scribe, Cabalist, Mind Tyrant, Archon, Panoptus
	- Improved Goliath death SFX
	- Removed extra Eidolon revive SFX (r. GreenEggs'NSpam)
- **New weapon SFX:** (some c. lolrsk8s & IskatuMesk)
	- Weaponfire: Matador (Cinder), Scribe, Artisan, Analogue
	- Weaponhit: Penumbra, Dracadin
- **New unit responses for:**
	- Hadron, Prostration Stage, Ardent Authority, Argosy, Izirokor (c. IskatuMesk)
	- Hotshot, Dracadin, Optecton
	- Golem (c. lolrsk8s)
- **New** *(placeholder)* **portraits for:** (many c. jun3hong)
	- Savant, Madcap, Olympian, Dilettante, Sevenstep, Hypnagogue, Cyclops, Madrigal, Cataphract, Claymore, Gorgon, Wyvern, Salamander, Sundog, Phobos, Hippogriff
	- Legionnaire, Hierophant, Amaranth, Herald, Atreus, Vagrant, Pariah, Potentate, Sycophant, Optecton, Patriarch, Servitor, Positron, Empress, Aurora, Gladius, Exemplar, Epigraph, Empyrean, Star Sovereign, Anthelion
	- Cikralisk, Protathalor, Mortothrokor, Izirokor/Tethzorokor, Skithrokor, Kagralisk, Evigrilisk, Keskathalor, Zoryusthaleth, Rililisk

## AI
- **Terran:**
	- Removed old tech checks delaying Commandment requests
	- Improved support for custom layouts which request Treasuries instead of Ministries
- **Zerg:**
	- Increased Hachirosk request count within most Zerg build orders

## Terran
- **Addons:**
	- No longer become disabled when lifted off
	- Cannot train units or arm missiles when detached
- [Talos](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=terran/talos):
	- Now requires Atlas
- [Maverick](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=terran/maverick):
	- Time cost now 11, from 12
	- Inject Stimpack:
		- Now grants the buff 1.5 seconds after activation
		- Still damages immediately on use
- [Harakan](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=terran/harakan):
	- Time cost now 16, from 18
- [Cleric](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=terran/cleric):
	- Time cost now 14, from 15
	- HP now 75, from 80
- [Vulture](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=terran/vulture):
	- Time cost now 18, from 20
- [Cyclops](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=terran/cyclops):
	- Time cost now 18, from 20
- [Goliath](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=terran/goliath):
	- Mineral cost now 175, from 200
- [Blackjack](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=terran/blackjack):
	- Time cost now 16, from 18
	- HP now 85, from 95
- [Madrigal](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=terran/madrigal):
	- Gas cost now 125, from 100
- [Trojan](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=terran/trojan):
	- Increased turn rate to improve responsivity of load/unload commands
- [Ministry](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=terran/ministry):
	- Time cost now 75, from 80
- [Treasury](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=terran/treasury):
	- Time cost now 45, from 50
- [Quarry](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=terran/quarry):
	- Mineral and gas costs now 125/100, from 75/50
	- No longer requires Atlas
- [Anvil](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=terran/anvil):
	- No longer requires Atlas
- [Covenant](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=terran/covenant):
	- Mineral, gas, and time costs now 100/100/25, from 75/75/15
	- No longer requires Atlas
- [Guildhall](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=terran/guildhall):
	- Mineral, gas, and time costs now 200/200/30, from 150/150/25
	- No longer requires Daedala
- [Palladium](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=terran/palladium):
	- Mineral and time costs now 200/25, from 100/30
- [Starpad](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=terran/starpad):
	- Mineral cost now 125, from 100

## Protoss
- [Envoy](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=protoss/envoy):
	- Increased turn rate to improve responsivity of load/unload commands
- [Zealot](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=protoss/zealot):
	- Time cost now 22, from 25
- [Dracadin](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=protoss/dracadin):
	- Mineral and time costs now 125/28, from 150/30
- [Ecclesiast](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=protoss/ecclesiast):
	- Mineral and time costs now 50/22, from 75/25
	- HP now 75, from 70
	- Shields now 40, from 50
	- *A net nerf to durability in line with the unit's mineral cost reduction.*
- [Legionnaire](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=protoss/legionnaire):
	- Time cost now 16, from 20
	- Shields now 45, from 50
	- Weapon damage now 1x10, from 2x6
	- Weapon cooldown now 0.79, from 0.83
	- *Now better versus armor, while reducing its previous DPS ceiling.*
- [Amaranth](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=protoss/amaranth):
	- Mineral and time costs now 150/22, from 200/25
	- Shields now 20, from 40
- [Herald](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=protoss/herald):
	- Mineral and time costs now 125/25, from 150/30
	- Significantly sped up attack animation
- [Atreus](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=protoss/atreus):
	- Mineral cost now 200, from 250
	- Shields now 60, from 70
	- Armor now 2, from 3
- [Vagrant](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=protoss/vagrant):
	- Time cost now 22, from 25
- [Charlatan](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=protoss/charlatan):
	- Time cost now 28, from 30
- [Barghest](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=protoss/barghest):
	- Mineral cost now 100, from 125
- [Simulacrum](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=protoss/simulacrum):
	- Time cost now 16, from 18
- [Manifold](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=protoss/manifold):
	- Time cost now 20, from 25
- [Idol](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=protoss/idol):
	- Mineral cost now 75, from 100
	- HP now 75, from 90
	- Shields now 40, from 45
	- *Reducing durability in line with the unit's mineral cost reduction.*
- [Servitor](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=protoss/servitor):
	- Time cost now 18, from 20
- [Nexus](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=protoss/nexus):
	- Time cost now 75, from 80
- [Grand Library](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=protoss/grand-library):
	- Mineral cost now 350, from 400

## Zerg
- [Iroleth](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=zerg/iroleth):
	- Increased turn rate to improve responsivity of load/unload commands
- [Liiralisk](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=zerg/liiralisk):
	- Now moves ~20% faster
- [Zoryusthaleth](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=zerg/zoryusthaleth):
	- Mineral cost now 175, from 200
	- HP now 200, from 200
	- Transport space cost now 4, from 2

## Factions
- [Qilin](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=terran/qilin):
	- Hecaton (replaces Trojan at Starpad)
	- Nimble transport. Heals loaded units.
- [Auriel](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=terran/auriel):
	- Hecaton (replaces Apostle at Captaincy)
	- Mid-range infantry with a powerful damage over time effect. Incinerates corpses to create Apollyoid fields.
- [Adherent](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=protoss/adherent):
	- Sacred (replaces Legionnaire at Gateway)
	- Durable melee brawler with increased movement speed 
- [Nathrelisk](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=zerg/nathrelisk):
	- Zorthos (replaces Nathrokor)
	- Sustaining fighter strain that releases a short-lived healing field on attack