cosmonarchy-bw-release/patchnotes.md
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# 30 September 2023
## Designer's Notes
Patch goals include:
- Adjust balance after Kinetic Penetration changes
- Improve role identity and synergy for a few problem units
- Further improve audiovisuals
## Summary
- Fairly minor changes were made in this update, with a few nasty bugs finally quashed!
## Latest content
- [Crash Course: Micro!](https://youtu.be/pgrVDYiMzeM)
- [Pr0totype #25 - Titans Walk Among Us!](https://youtu.be/2ZZ7i1CmAz8):
## Hotfix 9 October 2023
- Mortothrokor death animations no longer cause instability (r. TheBeaver99)
- Irradiate now sends "under attack" notifications (r. The Shambler)
## Hotfix 5 October 2023
- Partially-fixed burrowed regression interactions
- Fixed Magnetar max energy (r. Mystery Meat)
- Added initial support for middle mouse button scrolling (c. Veeq7)
- Added lobby join sound (with help from DF)
## Internals
- Terrain height has been extended by DarkenedFantasies, allowing tilesets to have significantly more height levels!
- This required some changes to vision range and weapon range; be on the lookout for any related issues!
## Tilesets
- The following tiles now provide a height difference:
- Desert: Sandy Sunken Pit (both variants)
- Iceworld: Ice
- Twilight: Sunken Ground (both variants)
## Bugfixes
- Stability:
- A null unit crash related to updating unit speed has been fixed (r. greeneggsnspam, c. DF)
- Gameplay:
- Changing selections after units die no longer occasionally breaks selections (c. DF)
- Reclaiming Terran addons no longer sometimes sets the parent to neutral (r. neblime)
- Lobotomy Mine, Claymore, and Gorgon slows now correctly apply to flingy-based units (r. neblime & TheBeaver99)
- Psionic Storm now correctly damages the caster (c. Veeq7)
- Iroleths now correctly regress to Ovileths
- Group-selecting Lakizilisks and other units no longer occasionally shows a disabled attack icon
- Fixed a rare issue with Olympians becoming unresponsive when moving after a melee attack (r. lolrsk8s)
## Terran
- [Savant](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=terran/savant):
- Armor now 2, from 1
- No longer has energy
- Entropy Gauntlets now always provides Kinetic Penetration
- [Madcap](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=terran/madcap):
- Cabeirus Feeders now provides 15% attack speed per stack, from ~10%
- [Vulture](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=terran/vulture):
- HP now 85, from 90
- Now moves 6.25% faster
- Now visibly shoots two projectiles for better visual clarity
- [Cataphract](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=terran/cataphract):
- Weapon range now 9, from 8
- [Gorgon](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=terran/gorgon):
- Weapon cooldown now 0.79, from 0.83
- [Azazel](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=terran/azazel):
- Defensive Matrix:
- Timer now 10 seconds, from 30
- Heal now 10 HP per second, from 5
- [Magnetar](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=terran/magnetar):
- Max energy now 200, from 250
- [Fountainhead](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=terran/fountainhead):
- Mineral, gas, and time costs now 250/500/45, from 200/400/30
- [Tinkerer's Tower](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=terran/tinkerers-tower):
- Mineral and gas costs now 100/50, from 75/75
## Protoss
- [Cabalist](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=protoss/cabalist):
- Shields now 30, from 20
- Now decloaks on teleport
- [Positron](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=protoss/positron):
- Weapon now has Interception
- [Clarion](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=protoss/clarion):
- Now a Detector
- [Ancestral Archives](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=protoss/ancestral-archives):
- Mineral and gas costs now 450/400, from 500/500
## Zerg
- [Nathrokor](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=zerg/nathrokor):
- Vestigial Strike armor penetration now 0, from 1
- [Bactalisk](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=zerg/bactalisk):
- Armor now 2, from 3
- [Matraleth](https://www.fraudsclub.com/cosmonarchy-bw/show.php?target=zerg/matraleth):
- Parasitic Excision:
- Cast range now 2, from 8
- Now has a 1-second channel