cosmonarchy-bw-prerelease/patchnotes.md

8 April 2023 - prospective patch notes

Designer's Notes

Continuing March Madness into April, tweaking the economic pacing some more, and improving AI - plus plenty of bugfixes and unit revisions!

Resources

• Harvest time now 4 seconds, from 4.8
• Worker movement speeds now 10% faster
• You can now return resources to an allied town center (note that your ally receives none of the returned resources)

Gameplay

• Burrowed units are no longer forcibly unburrowed when attacked (c. DarkenedFantasies)
• Sieged Phalanxes and burrowed Lakizilisks are no longer killed by landing structures

Bugfixes

• Maelstrom hits from dead Mind Tyrants no longer crash (c. Veeq7)
• Cancelling Controlled Demolition no longer desyncs
• Basic workers should no longer freeze in place (c. DarkenedFantasies)
• Attack-move no longer causes units to ignores enemies when initially attacking a structure
• Weapons with Prolonged Arms now pierce targets far more consistently (c. Veeq7)
• Zarcavrokor Bones of Reflection now correctly respects weapon range (c. Veeq7)
• Burrowed units are no longer displaced by Striga Fleeting Focus, Magnetar Law of Attraction (c. Pr0nogo), or Anthelion Gravity Well (c. Veeq7)
• Player color randomization now ignores the colors of witness players (c. Veeq7)
• Anthelion weapon fire SFX no longer occasionally fails to play
• Madrigal weapon range is now displayed correctly when tempo is up (c. Veeq7)
• Missile Silo stats display is no longer wucked while arming missiles (c. Veeq7)

UI

• Box selections are now sorted more consistently (c. Veeq7)
• Centering onto control groups when members are far apart has been improved (c. Veeq7)

AI

• Attack logic and mid-game production handling have been cleaned up to be more sensible with the current economic state
• AI "drip-feed" attack waves less often
• Zerg AI now request advanced defenses when at tier 2 and beyond

Audiovisuals

• New sprite for:
  • Zarcavrokor Bones of Reflection projectile

Terran

• Heracles:
  • HP now 140, from 120
  • Armor now 4, from 3
  • Weapon damage now 2x14, from 2x10
  • Armor penetration now 0, from 4
  • Nemean Reactors removed
• Apostle:
  • Gas cost now 150, from 125
  • Last Breath removed
• Treasury:
  • Time cost now 50, from 45
• Ion Cannon:
  • Mineral cost now 1000, from 800
  • Weapon cooldown now 7, from 10 (revert of previous change)
  • Now fires a Hammerfall Beacon at target's initial position, before firing main gun at beacon position

Protoss

• Cantavis:
  • Max energy now 150, from 200
• Charlatan:
  • Gas cost now 150, from 175
• Optecton:
  • Splash type now ally-safe, from unsafe
• Panoptus:
  • Acceleration and halt distance now match the Aurora

Zerg

• Izirokor:
  • Armor now 2, from 1