cosmonarchy-bw-prerelease/patchnotes.md
2025-12-18 20:34:59 -05:00

4.6 KiB

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

Options menu

  • Added additional latency options to the latency menu (c. Jesse)
    • We will eventually retire DBC thanks to these new options!

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

  • Stability
    • Protected against a rare crash related to issuing orders via minimap (r. Newt, c. DF)
  • Gameplay:
    • Prevented Anodyne Annex from applying to allied units (r. Moonpaw)
  • Audiovisual
    • Fixed missing construction SFX for Ogun
    • Corrected Olympian Titan's Fist weapon range (r. GreenEggs'NSpam)
    • Corrected Herald wireframe (r. TheBeaver99)
    • Corrected tooltip for Corpse Cocoon (r. Concealed Organic)

Audiovisuals

  • New advisor: Bloodsummon (b. Hamster)
  • New sprites for:
    • Cleric (c. DeltaCadmius & Solstice), incl. Futurist Federation variant
    • Simulacrum (c. DeltaCadimus). incl. Astral Omen variant
  • Modified sprites for:
    • Mason, Maverick, Harakan, Cyprian (c. Solstice)
  • 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
  • Added visuals for:
    • Adrenal Frenzy

Balance changes

Notes in italics are from Pr0nogo

Terran

  • Cyprian:
    • Resource cost 50/50 » 75/50
    • Acknowledgement of early-game power-to-cost ratio.
  • Cleric:
    • Nanorepair:
      • Each target can now only be healed by one Cleric
      • Now increases target armor by 2, from 1
  • Apostle:
    • Armor 2 » 1
    • Death and revive animations vastly lengthened
    • Reducing stackability
  • Autocrat:
    • Death and revive animations vastly lengthened
    • Reducing stackability
  • 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
  • Magnetar:
    • Yamato Cannon:
      • Weapon damage 250 » 75
      • Now applies Apollyoid Adhesive for 10 seconds
  • Stockade:
    • Time cost 45 » 50
    • Slight nudge-back to first-unit timings in bio openers.
  • Tencendur:
    • HP 450 » 600
  • NEW: Quadriga:
    • Factional Valkyrie replacement: reinforced gunboat for the Golden Republic
  • NEW: Serathiel:
    • Factional Seraph replacement: combat specialist for the Hecaton Coalition

Zerg

  • Adrenal Frenzy:
    • Used by Quazrokor and Nathrokor
    • No longer procs when attacking allies
  • Zethrokor:
    • Collision size reduced by ~10%
    • Also applies to Sovrokor
  • Quazilisk:
    • Now has Adrenal Frenzy
  • Bactalisk:
    • Corrosive Acid:
      • Attack cooldown 1.5 » 1.33
    • Experimenting with Bactalisk cost-efficiency
  • Lakizilisk:
    • HP 130 » 140