cosmonarchy-bw-prerelease/patchnotes.md

XX April 2024

Post-Acropolis #1 // May Royal Invitational

This patch will include bugfixes, audiovisual improvements, and balance changes.

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Internals

• Cleaned up some sound randomization, which may have contributed to sync issues
• Minimap:
  • Minimap sizes are now scaled more granularly (c. DF)
  • Minimap camera now updates much more swiftly (c. DF)
• Config:
  • New: preferred colors! (c. Veeq7)
    • Specify a list of preferred player colors, common or per race
    • Set 'shuffle' to 'true' to randomly receive a color
    • Colors are only selected if available on a given tileset
    • In the event of preference conflicts between players, the lower player ID gets the color

Computer AI

• Priorities:
  • Slightly increase Zerg tech priorities
  • Set addon priorities to be 1 less than factory priorities, prospectively resolving a Terran softlock
• Kiting logic:
  • No longer runs for Dilettantes

Bugfixes

• Stability:
  • Resolved three rare nullsprite crashes (r. climois, lolrsk8s, and Krankendau)
  • Fixed an issue where building placement and targeting states were not cleared when selection changed, causing bad UX and rare crashes (c. Veeq7)
  • Fixed potential randomseed issues with certain ability casts
• Gameplay:
  • Units which need to decollide are now prohibited from processing orders (c. DF)
  • Rally points attached to units are now cleared if the unit exits vision
  • Improved performance of Zoryusthaleth Swarming Omen (c. Veeq7)
  • Konvilisk and Cherbrathalor attacks can no longer bounce more than once (r. lolrsk8s)
  • Crushing Tide attacks are now properly capped at 3 targets, from 4 (r. lolrsk8s)
  • Successive Sevenstep attacks no longer reset Mind Matter handling (r. lolrsk8s)
  • Zerg Larvae can no longer die by wandering over cagra-free terrain, as long as their parent structure remains alive (r. Krankendau, c. DF)
  • Treasuries now leave behind rubble
  • Ezigrisant regression can no longer break gas node harvestability (r. TheBeaver99)
  • Ocsal Gosvileths no longer pass on Ocsal debuff to structures (r. TheBeaver99)
• Audiovisuals:
  • Irradiate overlay is now properly inherited by regressing Zerg (r. TheBeaver99)
  • Olympian Mythical Might SFX no longer plays more often than intended (r. lolrsk8s)
  • Improved player color contrast when picking random player colors (c. Veeq7)
• Triggers:
  • Restored 'Set Next Scenario' trigger action functionality
• Computer AI:
  • Prospectively fixed Terran AI not repairing units and structures under some conditions
  • Prospectively fixed general AI responses to cloaked and hidden threats

Audiovisuals

• Replaced sprites for:
  • Hierophant (c. Baelethal)
  • Optecton
• Added weaponhit for Magister
• Added reads for:
  • Maverick Stimpack (inject, proc, expire)
  • Savant form switch
  • Madcap Cabeirus Feeders achieving full stacks
  • Olympian Dishonorable Discharge proc
  • Magnetar Law of Attraction proc
  • Gladius Binding Plasma charge (visuals) and proc (audio)
  • Herald Triumphant Rise / Patriarch Astral Rule debuffs
  • Vengeful Ascension buffs
• Added banter for:
  • Eidolon - successful missile strike
  • Hierophant - a nearby enemy dies with full Signify stacks
• Added portraits (c. jun3hong) for:
  • Striga
  • Pythean
  • Amaranth
• Advisors:
  • Replaced default Zerg advisor
  • Achieved custom advisor support for:
    • Missile arming
    • Missile launching (c. DF)

Terran

• Cyprian:
  • Weapon range now 7, from 6
• Shaman:
  • Mineral cost now 125, from 150
• Eidolon:
  • Mineral cost now 50, from 75
• Cyclops:
  • HP now 90, from 85
• Blackjack:
  • Mineral cost now 100, from 125
  • HP now 75, from 85
• Tinkerer's Tower:
  • Gas cost now 75, from 100
• Salamander:
  • Mineral cost now 100, from 150
  • HP now 150, from 160
  • Weapon range now 6, from 5
• Paladin:
  • Splash radii now 24/48/72, from 12/24/48
  • Missiles now move notably faster

Protoss

• Legionnaire:
  • Time cost now 17, from 16
  • Sight range now 6, from 7
• Amaranth:
  • HP now 120, from 140
  • Shields now 40, from 20
• Pariah:
  • Now blocks titanic movement (e.g. Penumbra, Optecton)
• Optecton:
  • Collision size now significantly larger
  • No longer collides with small units
  • Now moves ~14% faster
• Gateway:
  • Armor now 3, from 4
• Lattice:
  • Build area now 3x3, from 3x2
• Grand Library:
  • HP now 800, from 1000
  • Shields now 400, from 500
  • Build area now 4x4, from 5x4
• Ancestral Archives:
  • HP now 900, from 600
  • Armor now 5, from 4
  • Build area now 5x4, from 3x2

Zerg

• Izirokor:
  • Time cost now 20, from 25
  • This unit received an indirect nerf from the Crushing Tide bugfix, so this significant time cost change takes that into account, while also improving their accessibility.
• Vornath Pond:
  • Mineral and gas costs now 75/75, from 50/100