cosmonarchy-bw-prerelease/patchnotes.md

4 March 2023 - prospective patch notes

Designer's Notes

Reminder: Get CMBW's updater here! Setup instructions are here!

Note that the editor mpq has recently had its name changed. Adjust your SCMDraft profiles accordingly.

Aside from that: More audiovisuals (thanks DarkenedFantasies and Solstice!), and more balance changes are coming your way!

Gameplay

• All units (including lifted structures, excluding broodspawn and Stewards) now leave behind corpses
• Collision size updates:
  • Matador, Legionnaire (enlarged to fit graphics)

Bugfixes

• Mutated Zerg structures no longer fail to regress properly when killed mid-mutation (c. Veeq7)
• Matrix no longer deals double damage to its primary target (c. Veeq7)
• Legionnaire Blade Vortex: (c. Veeq7)
  • Should now more reliably teleport when it can, and not teleport when it can't
  • No longer has inaccuracies between overlay and actual debuff timer
• Anticthons no longer regenerate as Zerg units do
• Nuking Seraphs no longer continue nuking if interrupted by a Didact Recall
• Ancile Providence no longer appears to redirect attacks it does not actually redirect
• Stim Pack description has been corrected
• Fixed a rare bug that caused corpses to spawn 255px lower than intended

Audiovisuals

• New sprite:
  • Matador, Legionnaire, Aurora (c. Solstice)
• Improved sprite:
  • Bunker: attack overlay is partially-transparent, casts light on the structure, and changes based on the garrisoned unit's race (c. DarkenedFantasies)
  • Ecclesiast: lighting/compositing pass (c. Solstice)
• New SFX:
  • Terran structures play a sound when their landing sequence begins
  • Vulture Spider Mines play a sound when deployed
• New unit responses:
  • Matador (c. Keyan)
• New wireframe:
  • Bunker (c. jun3hong)
• New projectile launch positions:
  • Matrix (c. Veeq7)
• New portrait:
  • Ecclesiast

Terran

• Apostle:
  • Gas cost now 100, from 125
  • Now moves ~10% faster
  • Lazarus Agent now reclaims all corpses within 4 range on activation, and no longer affects units
• Spider Mine:
  • Arming time now ~5 seconds, from ~4.25
• Madrigal:
  • Furia Missile range now 4, from 5
  • Furia Missile armor penetration now 1, from 2
• Pazuzu:
  • Gas cost now 50, from 100
  • Now moves ~11% faster
  • Deconstruction now expires after 5 seconds
• Cuirass:
  • Gas and time costs now 75/35, from 100/30
• Claymore:
  • Gas cost now 125, from 150
  • Now moves 22% faster
  • Kelvin Munitions now expires after 3 seconds
• Anticthon:
  • Counter-Proposal now reclaims all corpses within 3 range, and no longer provides any bonuses to the Anticthon
• Aion:
  • Reclamation Fields now reclaim corpses and no longer affect units
• Atlas:
  • Mineral and gas costs now 500/500, from 400/400
• Sentinel:
  • Mineral cost now 225, from 200
  • HP now 250, from 200
• Daedala:
  • Mineral and gas costs now 1200/1200, from 1000/1000
• Ion Cannon:
  • Weapon no longer follows targets

Protoss

• Legionnaire:
  • Weapon range now 0.75, from ~0.5
  • Blade Vortex can now be procced by a single Legionnaire, instead of requiring two unique Legionnaires
• Barghest:
  • Armor now 1, from 2
  • Sight range now 5, from 7
  • Armor penetration now 1, from 2
• Cantavis:
  • Psionic Storm tick damage now 16, from 12; total damage now 128, from 96
• Patriarch:
  • Astral Rule now expires after 2 seconds, and now heals any attacker's shields, isntead of healing nearby shields every tick
• Panoptus:
  • Time cost now 40, from 35
• Magister:
  • Time cost now 35, from 30
  • Weapon damage now 18, from 16
  • Stellar Enforcement now expires after 3 seconds
• Epigraph:
  • HP now 220, from 250
  • Weapon range now 9, from 8
• Didact:
  • Recall channel time now 5 seconds, from 3
• Warden:
  • HP now 175, from 150
• Matrix:
  • HP now 120, from 100
  • Shields now 80, from 60
  • Damage now 10, from 8

Zerg

• Mutalisk:
  • HP now 120, from 90
• Izirokor:
  • Weapon range now 3, from 2
• Konvilisk:
  • Weapon range now 7, from 6
  • Fertile Spines now spawns broodspawn immediately after the incubation period, and as such no longer stacks
• Matraleth:
  • Parasite now consumes corpses within 3 range of the target, and no longer affects units
  • Gamete Meiosis removed
• Ultrokor:
  • HP now 440, from 400
  • Now moves ~9% faster
  • Weapon damage now 25, from 20
  • Armor penetration now 8, from 6
• Surkith Colony:
  • HP now 275, from 250
• Spraith Colony:
  • HP now 250, from 225
• Spirtith Colony:
  • Weapon range now 9, from 8