cosmonarchy-bw-prerelease/patchnotes.md

7 October 2023

Designer's Notes

Patch goals include:

• Complete tileset updates to use the more height levels

Latest content

• Ascension #5 - Imminent Growth

Tilesets

• The following tiles now provide a height difference:
  • Jungle: Swamp, sunken jungle

UI

• Scrolling with middle-mouse button is now buttery-smooth, complete with a config option (c. Veeq7)
  • This sometimes creates pixel artifacts, which will be addressed in time
• Joining a lobby now plays a sound (with help from DF)

Bugfixes

• Gameplay:
  • Partially-resolved an issue with regression on burrowed units (r. lolrsk8s)
  • Resolved hotkey conflict between Analogue and Architect (r. DF)

Terran

• Savant:
  • Armor now 2, from 1
  • No longer has energy
  • Entropy Gauntlets now always provides Kinetic Penetration
• Madcap:
  • Cabeirus Feeders now provides 15% attack speed per stack, from ~10%
• Vulture:
  • HP now 85, from 90
  • Now moves 6.25% faster
  • Now visibly shoots two projectiles for better visual clarity
• Cataphract:
  • Weapon range now 9, from 8
• Gorgon:
  • Weapon cooldown now 0.79, from 0.83
• Azazel:
  • Defensive Matrix:
    • Timer now 10 seconds, from 30
    • Heal now 10 HP per second, from 5
• Magnetar:
  • Max energy now 150, from 250
• Fountainhead:
  • Mineral, gas, and time costs now 250/500/45, from 200/400/30
• Tinkerer's Tower:
  • Mineral and gas costs now 100/50, from 75/75

Protoss

• Cabalist:
  • Shields now 30, from 20
  • Now decloaks on teleport
• Positron:
  • Weapon now has Interception
• Clarion:
  • Now a Detector
• Ancestral Archives:
  • Mineral and gas costs now 450/400, from 500/500

Zerg

• Nathrokor:
  • Vestigial Strike armor penetration now 0, from 1
• Bactalisk:
  • Armor now 2, from 3
• Matraleth:
  • Parasitic Excision:
    • Cast range now 2, from 8
    • Now has a 1-second channel