cosmonarchy-bw-prerelease/patchnotes.md

3 May 2025

Year 3, month 5, patch 1

Patch goals

• Finalize balance ahead of Acropolis #3
• Continue under-the-hood changes for Askosi implementation
• Deploy advanced constructors for all races
• Add and improve some audiovisuals

Core

• iscript has been extended!
  • Special thanks to DarkenedFantasies (aka DF) for his stalwart work on this matter!
  • If you encounter red error popups that read "Script [number] does not exist", please share them with the developers so we can fix them ASAP!
  • Click here for an example error!

Bugfixes

• Stability:
  • Made Stewards immune to displacements to prevent rare freeze (r. Londier)
• Gameplay:
  • Kazitrith Cesiant Adaptive Amitosis now correctly clears when the origin is loaded into a transport
• Audiovisual:
  • Added missing tooltip for Apostle - Blood Tithe (r. GreenEggs'NSpam)

Audiovisuals:

• Added several new icons (c. Raenarill)

Terran

• Autocrat:
  • Eminence Rifle:
    • Armor penetration 1 » 2
• Vulture:
  • Build time 18 » 16
• Matador:
  • Movement speed 5 » 5.6
• Phalanx:
  • Arclite Shock Cannon:
    • Weapon damage 60 » 70
• Salamander:
  • Build time 32 » 30
  • HP 160 » 200
• Watchdog:
  • Build time 18 » 15
• Anvil:
  • Build time 45 » 30
• Sentinel:
  • Build time 35 » 25

Protoss

• Sycophant:
  • Idolatry:
    • Now always recharges the nearest ally not at max shields
    • No longer damages the Sycophant's shields
• Archon:
  • Resource costs 350/75 » 300/75
• Patriarch:
  • Resource costs 150/250 » 150/200
  • Build time 45 » 40
• Positron:
  • Antimatter Missile:
    • Splash radius 12/24/32 » 32/48/64
• Accantor:
  • Plasma Shell:
    • Weapon damage 80 » 70
• Lanifect:
  • Resource costs 125/50 » 125/75
• Didact:
  • Movement speed 3.33 » 4.16
  • Stasis Field:
    • Energy cost 150 » 200
• Warden:
  • Armor 2 » 3
• Engram:
  • Armor 3 » 4
• Ancestral Archives:
  • Resource costs 600/400 » 800/500

Zerg

• Regression:
  • Now always creates a corpse
• Broodspawn:
  • Death Cycle:
    • No longer Ensnares targets
    • Now applies Corrosive Touch instead
• Corrosive Touch:
  • No longer stacks
  • Reduces armor by 1 and attack speed by 25%
  • Attacks apply it for 3 seconds; Broodspawn deaths apply it for 1 second
• Tethzorokor:
  • Saber Array:
    • Weapon damage 12 » 9
  • NEW: Fan of Teeth:
    • Retaliates with a short-range piercing bone (same behavior as Zarcavrokor)
• Vithrilisk:
  • Corrosive Spores:
    • Weapon cooldown 2 » 1.5
• Gorgrokor:
  • Serrated Cleavers:
    • Weapon cooldown 0.58 » 0.67
  • Calcification:
    • Weapon damage 8 » 6
    • Now applies Corrosive Touch
• Kazitrith Cesiant:
  • Adaptive Amitosis:
    • Now builds up to max range over 3 seconds