cosmonarchy-bw-prerelease/patchnotes.md

11 January 2024

Year 3, month 1, patch 1

This patch will include new features, balance adjustments, bugfixes, and audiovisual improvements.

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Mechanics

• Energy regeneration is now interrupted while the specialist is stunned

Game Modes

• Uprising:
  • Reduced training time of Broodspawn
  • Tweaked the composition of some existing spawners
  • Added many new spawner types in tiers 1 & 2
  • Fixed ground spawners appearing on islands (c. Veeq7)

Editor

• Kill Units at Location vanilla trigger functionality has been restored (r. 3crow/Kenoli, c. DF)

AI

• Star Sovereigns now activate Grief of All Gods more liberally

Bugfixes

• Stability:
  • Slightly reduced selection limit (252 » 246) to prevent action buffer instability
  • Fixed rare crashes at game end (r. TopRamen, c. DF)
• Gameplay:
  • Unloading structures is now more generous (still needs work; b. Londier, c. Veeq7)
  • Units with Interception (e.g. Siren and Cataphract) no longer fail to damage Larvae and Rilirokors (r. TheNightFox)
  • Didact Shroud of Adun is no longer disabled after Recalling (r. GreenEggs'NSpam & Londier)
  • Melee splash units (and the Vilgorokor) no longer deal damage out of sync with their animation (r. Kenoli & Krankendau, a. DF)
  • When Axitrilisks are reclaimed with no weapon, they now restart the Perpetual Wind timer (r. GreenEggs'NSpam & TheNightFox)
  • Auras from Azazel, Seraph, Crucible, Barghest, Sycophant, Manifold, Matraleth, and Sasyrvoleth are now deactivated while the unit is stunned (r. Londier)
  • Hypnagogue corpses can now be interacted with (r. GreenEggs'NSpam)
  • Fixed bad interactions between Tyranny of the Sun and Aurora Last Orders
  • Fixed being able to enter non-mutual ally transports (r. Londier & billy)
  • Fixed being able to load neutral units into transports
  • Fixed edge case turn rate issues with Diadems (r. GreenEggs'NSpam)
  • Ultrokors no longer consume corpses while burrowed (r. Londier)
  • Qilins no longer fail to continue healing after a single unload (r. Londier)
• AI:
  • Fixed Protoss AI sometimes attempting to make structures with Artisans
  • Fixed Terran AI having impossible requirements for training *Silverongue**s and Magnetars
• Audiovisual:
  • Broodspawn spawning SFX no longer plays globally
  • Blackjacks no longer change facing angle when their sprite changes
  • Reviving Centaurs no longer create permanent explosion graphics (r. beriso)
  • Preferred player colors now override racial player color bans
  • Resolved 'invalid shield overlay' error for Tetcaerokor (r. beriso)
  • Fore Castle shield overlays no longer proc when hit by Psionic Storm (r. Londier)
  • Corrected poor fire placements for the Biotic Bastion's damage overlay
  • Witness and replay UI is no longer drawn over ingame menus (c. DF)

Audiovisuals

• New unit responses:
  • Potentate (script a. BladehollowRWL)
• Corpse updates:
  • Phalanx, tank & siege (a. ArbuzBudesh)
  • Gorgrokor (c. ArbuzBudesh)
• Projectile updates:
  • Atreus (bigger projectile)

Terran

• Reclamation:
  • Initial heal for reclaimed units is now granted over 10 seconds, from 3 seconds
  • Reclaimed specialists begin with 0 energy, from full
• Apostle:
  • Charon Rifle:
    • Weapon damage 1x10 » 1x15
    • Weapon cooldown 1 » 1.5
    • Weapon range 5 » 6
• Autocrat:
  • Eminence Rifle:
    • Weapon cooldown 1.33 » 1.5
    • Weapon range 6 » 5
• Valkyrie:
  • Halo Rockets:
    • Weapon cooldown 1.5 » 1.08
    • No longer deal splash damage to units owned by an allied player
• NEW: Harakan (Golden)
  • Fast-moving frontliner with plasma shields; trained from the Stockade
  • Available for the Golden Republic
• Aspirant:
  • Mineral cost 175 » 150
  • Armor 2 » 3
  • Criticality:
    • No longer procs on Aspirant death
    • Now applies a 2-second debuff to victims, and procs on their death if they die during this debuff
• Cohort:
  • New: Servile Vigor:
    • Revives once after death, with a 10-second timed life; consumes a corpse to become permanent again

Protoss

• Golem:
  • Tranquility Array now has a third-of-a-second internal cooldown
• Lanifect:
  • Neutron Flare:
    • No longer deals splash damage to units owned by an allied player
• NEW: Cicatus:
  • Nihilistic frontline vandal; warped from the Gateway
  • Available for the Starbound

Zerg

• NEW: Iziralisk
  • Short-range rending assault strain; requires the Hydrith Den
  • Available for the Zorthos Tendril