cosmonarchy-bw-prerelease/patchnotes.md

26 October 2025

Year 3, month 10, patch 1

Patch goals

• Implement some factional units
• Continue balancing for all races
• Continue Askosi development
• Further improve audiovisuals and AI
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General

• Reordered multiplayer connection options to put CrownLink at the top (c. DF)
  • Caveat: The gateway selection currently displays improperly

Bugfixes

• Stability:
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when a new Protoss unit plays its warp flash while cloaked by a Didact (c. DF)
  • Fixed crash & desync cases related to cloaked structures (c. DF)
• Gameplay:
  • Misc target priority bugs have been more robustly fixed (c. DF)
  • Fixed weapon range bonuses being improperly rounded (r. jakulangski, c. Veeq7)
  • Turreted units like the Goliath can no longer have wobbly turrets after unloading from Anchors (r. Vilius, c. DF)
  • Fixed Gosvileths being unable to mutate into Kethraj Keep (r. GreenEggs'NSpam)
  • Fixed Ocsal Larvae being unable to morph into Kethrostalor (r. Art_Of_Turtle)
  • Fixed failure to create Facade, Mantle, Apothecary, and addons for Captaincy and Iron Foundry at right-most edge (r. Newt, c. DF)
  • Enabled Burrow for Kethrostalor
• Audiovisuals:
  • Structure work animation overlays will now be correctly hidden while cloaked (c. DF)
  • Fixed shield overlay error for Aspirant (r. TheBeaver99)
  • Fixed bad building preview for Future Station
  • Prevented Arhaun from turning improperly while the turret still had a target
  • Fixed offset SFX for Gorgrokor death, Kethrostalor weapon SFX, and Ultrokor corpse consumption

Audiovisuals

• Cloaked structures now have green box fog-of-war sprites instead of revealing their unit id (c. DF)
• New birth animation for Kethrostalor

Terran

• Cyprian:
  • Armor 0 » 1
• Cyclops:
  • HP 95 » 110
• Shaman:
  • HP 120 » 150
• Goliath:
  • Build time 25 » 22
  • HP 200 » 240
• Blackjack:
  • Resource costs 75/0 » 50/0
  • Build time 16 » 18
• Matador:
  • HP 160 » 180
  • Build time 18 » 20
• Ancile:
  • HP 80 » 100
• Cyclops (Futurist):
  • HP 110 » 120
• NEW: Triton:
  • Specialist walker with Lobotomizing active ability; Trained from Mantle

Protoss

• Legionnaire:
  • HP 60 » 75
• Vagrant:
  • HP 80 » 100
  • Also applies to Vagrant Shade
• Cabalist:
  • Shields 30 » 60
• Aurora:
  • HP 80 » 90
  • Shields 35 » 45

Zerg

• Zethrokor:
  • HP 40 » 50
• Nathrokor:
  • HP 75 » 90
• Liiralisk:
  • HP 90 » 115
• Bactalisk:
  • Movement speed 4 » 3.6
• Skithrokor:
  • HP 140 » 160
• NEW: Azanthrokor:
  • Factional replacement of the Gorgrokor, for the Orkoti Tendril
  • Bountied by Lucifirius!