cosmonarchy-bw-prerelease/patchnotes.md

X November 2023

Designer's Notes

Patch goals include:

• Continue to address unintended mid-game air dominance
• Improve weak units and compositions with balance tweaks and ability revisions
• Significantly improve audiovisuals with new unit responses, combat SFX, sprites, and more

Latest content

• Ascension #6 - The New Horizon

Patch summary (so far...)

• Cut top speeds of several air units across all races and tiers
• Refocus mid-game Terran mech towards a slower, more durable direction
• Boost mobility of Terran bio to better deviate from Terran mech
• Revise key units to remove undesired, overly-binary interactions

General

• Improved fog of war reveal on cliffs, from low ground (c. DF)
• Added more debug info to help investigate desyncs, c. DF. Please screenshot and report if you encounter them!

Bugfixes

• Gameplay:
  • Fixed burrowed units not transforming/regressing properly (c. DF)
  • Fixed units in Anchors being able to attack if the Anchor was loaded into a Pythean
  • Fixed Sentinel and Sevenstop dealing double damage when not piercing
  • Improved consistency of Kinetic Penetration attacks with Ancile Providence
  • Improved reliability of Legionnaire and Cabalist teleportation (c. Veeq7)
  • Solarions that are preplaced or created with the spawn console command now start with 12 Stewards
• Audiovisual:
  • Multiselecting Terran workers now correctly hides the building submenus
  • Burrowed Vorvrokors now correctly display the burrow mound graphic (c. DF)
  • Added an additional sanity check to prevent displaying passive icons in mixed selections
  • Fix 1-frame delay in Phalanx deployment animation (r. DF)
  • Corrected group wireframe for Hydrith Den (r. Enozlliks)

Audiovisuals

• Replaced sprite for:
  • Dracadin (c. Baelethal)
• Added unit responses for:
  • Ancile, Vagrant, Vagrant Shade
• Updated unit responses for:
  • Blackjack (c. TheBeaver99)
• Updated visuals for:
  • Goliath (minor lighting tweaks; overlay offset cleanup)
  • Scribe (materials and attack animation)
  • Aurora (extended attack animation)
• Added weapon SFX for:
  • Star Sovereign (Intervention Missiles)
• Added icon and tooltip for:
  • Terran Reclamation (Apostle, Autocrat, Anticthon, Aion)
• Updated wireframes for:
  • Charlatan, Anticthon (c. jun3hong)

Terran

• Maverick:
  • Now moves 10% faster
• Cleric:
  • Now moves 10% faster
• Madcap:
  • Now moves 10% faster
• Heracles:
  • Now moves ~9% faster
• Striga:
  • Now moves 8% faster
• Goliath:
  • Contender Missiles armor penetration now 2, from 0
  • Further cement the Goliath as a longlasting anti-air option.
• Madrigal:
  • Armor now 2, from 1
  • Furia Missiles:
    • Cooldown now 0.75, from 0.92
    • Weapon range now 8, from 6
    • Now have a minor delay between each missile, and only goes on cooldown after a salvo is completed (c. Veeq7)
  • This is a revision we wanted to make for ages! Thanks to Veeq7's contributions, it is now implemented.
• Ramesses:
  • Armor now 2, from 1
  • Now moves ~11% slower
  • Weapon cooldown now 1, from 0.92
  • Armor penetration now 3, from 2
• Durendal:
  • HP now 225, from 200
  • Abaddon Flamethrowers weapon range now 2, from 1
  • Now moves ~10% slower
• Wellbore:
  • Gas and time costs now 100/45, from 200/50

Protoss

• Charlatan:
  • Weapon no longer bounces
  • Weapon splash radii now 8/16/24, from 0/0/0
  • Now has Interception
• Optecton:
  • Time cost now 50, from 45
  • Now moves ~22% slower
• Patriarch:
  • Time cost now 45, from 50
• Gladius:
  • Mineral and gas cost now 200/125, from 250/100
  • HP now 100, from 110
  • Shields now 80, from 90
  • Armor now 2, from 1
• Exemplar:
  • Gas cost now 150, from 125
  • Shields now 80, from 100
  • Splash radii now 8/16/24, from 12/24/36
• Solarion:
  • Mineral cost now 600, from 500
  • Armor now 6, from 5
  • Now moves ~10% slower
  • Steward launch range now 6, from 8
  • Steward leash range now 8, from 10
  • Pushing the Solarion into a more committal role, and making it more durable as a result.
• Steward:
  • Time cost now 10, from 5
  • Armor penetration now 2, from 5
• Aquifer:
  • Mineral and gas costs now 400/0, from 300/125
• Engram:
  • Gas cost now 150, from 125
• Stargate:
  • Gas cost now 175, from 150
• Argosy:
  • Gas cost now 350, from 300

Zerg

• Iroleth:
  • Armor now 2, from 3
• Skithrokor:
  • Time cost now 28, from 25
  • Now moves 10% slower
• Kalkalisk:
  • Armor now 1, from 2
  • Now moves 10% slower
  • Armor penetration now 0, from 2
• Ghitorokor:
  • Now moves ~10% slower
• Tosgrilisk:
  • Now moves ~10% slower
• Evigrilisk:
  • Mineral cost now 200, from 250
  • HP now 250, from 260
• Konvilisk:
  • Now benefits from Crushing Tide
  • Weapon no longer splashes
• Tetcaerokor:
  • Now moves ~15% slower
• Ezigrisant:
  • Mineral, gas, and time costs now 400/100/40, from 300/300/45