cosmonarchy-bw-prerelease/patchnotes.md

14 December 2025

Year 3, month 12, patch 1

Patch goals

• Continue balancing for all races
• Continue Askosi development
• Further improve audiovisuals
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Core changes

Desyncs

• Disabled celebrations (e.g. Christmas) from appearing in Ranked play, reducing desync count from mismatched active skins
• Enabled desync errors to be reported more than once per session (no longer have to restart client between desync errors)
• ReplayKraken now auto-uploads desync materials and indicates when a game has had a desync, improving our ability to track and triage desync issues

Triggers

• Added set_nydus_link for creating Nydus-style links between two units (b. 3crow)
• Added buttonset to set_unit_stat (b. 3crow)

Bugfixes

• Audiovisual
  • Corrected Herald wireframe (r. TheBeaver99)
  • Corrected string for Corpse Cocoon (r. Concealed Organic)

Audiovisuals

• New advisor: Bloodsummon (b. Hamster)
• New models for:
  • Simulacrum (incl. Astral variant; c. DeltaCadimus)
• New portrait for:
  • Simulacrum (c. DeltaCadimus)
• New unit responses for:
  • Sevenstep (c. The Shambler)
  • Liiralisk
• Amaranth banter can now only play if the Amaranth is above 80% life

Balance changes

Notes in italics are from Pr0nogo

Terran

• Cyprian:
  • Resource cost 50/50 » 75/50
  • Acknowledgement of early-game power-to-cost ratio.
• Dilettante:
  • NEW: Beginner's Luck
    • Dodges an attack every 2 seconds
  • Fun, AND thematic!
• Triton:
  • Resource costs 150/150 » 150/100
• Wraith:
  • HP 100 » 110
• Stockade:
  • Time cost 45 » 50
  • Slight nudge-back to first-unit timings in bio openers.
• Tencendur:
  • HP 450 » 600

Zerg

• Zethrokor:
  • Collision size reduced by ~10%
  • Also applies to Sovrokor
• Bactalisk:
  • Corrosive Acid:
    • Attack cooldown 1.5 » 1.33
  • Experimenting with Bactalisk cost-efficiency
• Lakizilisk:
  • HP 130 » 140