31 July 2023

Designer's Notes

The selection extender is now live! Praise be upon DarkenedFantasies.

A menagerie of bugfixes and balance changes are also present, alongside the deployment of a lovely new Quazilisk sprite, courtesy of Solstice!

Latest content

On the radar...

The infamous Hippogriff max-range bug has been known of for some time, but we are committing to fixing it before next week's release version.
Clarion-Analogue interactions are currently bugged. We will be revising the internal handling of the Clarion behavior to fix other issues.
Morningstar explosions are no longer projecting damage as widely as they ought to. This (and other splash interactions) will be investigated and resolved before the next release.
Transport UI is not good, but we might have a way to improve it now that the extended selection UI is a thing...

User Interface

Selection: (c. DarkenedFantasies)
- Selection is now capped at 252, from 12
- When selecting more than 12 units, selections are collapsed, showing the quantity of units by type - at which point:
  - Left-click selects all units of that type
  - Shift-click deselects one unit of that type
  - Ctrl-shift-click deselects all units of that type
- Added a new config option for always showing condensed selections (c. DF)
Game modes: (c. Veeq7)
- Added "Competitive Mode" to once again display "kills" on combatants
- Renamed "Use Map Settings" to "Scenario Mode"
- Restricted multiplayer game mode selection to only that which is currently-supported
  - Modes that had limited (and buggy) utility can be reimplemented more completely; please message us for specific requests!

Bugfixes

Stability:
- Cancelling Zerg Eggs after the Larva-producing structure has been destroyed no longer crashes the game (r. Mystery Meat)
- The Diadem's damage overlay has been disabled again to prevent freezing (r. HelltRYKS)
- A very rare Anchor-related crash has been fixed (c. DarkenedFantasies)
- A movement-related nullsprite crash has been fixed (c. DarkenedFantasies)
- An ai-related nullsprite crash has been fixed (r. beriso)
Gameplay:
- It is no longer possible for units to retaliate against attackers that are out of range via hold position or other methods (c. DarkenedFantasies)
- Combatants on hold position no longer "freeze up" when attacked by out-of-range targets (c. DarkenedFantasies)
- Ascend status (from e.g. Protoss Vassal) now correctly clears for flingy units (e.g. Panoptuses)
- Edge cases with workers returning to inefficient town centers have been addressed (c. Veeq7)
- Units suffering from a Crisis of Faith have the debuff cleared when not within 8 range of a Demiurge allied to the original attacker
- Lakizilisks will no longer become unresponsive when receiving an unburrow order while already unburrowed (r. exosus & fagguto)
- Zarcavrokors no longer have their main weapon put on cooldown when launching Bones of Reflection
- Towers no longer require manual retargeting once unloaded from a transport (c. DF)
- While garrisoned, Harakans now attack far more consistently (r. Mystery Meat, c. Veeq7)
- While garrisoned, Olympians can no longer occasionally attack with Titant's Fist (r. Mystery Meat)
AI:
- Reduced the resource bias for expansion selection to prevent unwanted edge cases on some maps
Audiovisual:
- Player color randomization is now more robust, selecting colors with better contrast and being more foolproof even at high player counts (c. Veeq7)
- Fixed an issue preventing Magister Stellar Enforcement overlays from being created on any unit that didn't have a turret
- The attack overlay for Anchors is no longer created facing the wrong direction when turreted combatants (i.e. Goliath) attack
- While garrisoned in Cinder Mode, Matadors now create the flamethrower overlay (still WIP) (r. Mystery Meat)
- Dying eggs hatching into units now play the egg's death animation (c. DarkenedFantasies)
- Tooltip display for weapon range is no longer inconsistent based on height level (c. Veeq7)
- Aquifers no longer display "unpowered" when out of range of Pylons
- Order line colorization for turreted units is now more consistent
- Fixed the Empress's training string not displaying costs (r. The Shambler)
- Fixed a typo in Empress - Anodyne Annex passive description (r. The Shambler)

Audiovisuals

The delay between "ally under attack" notifications has been increased by 50%
New sprite for:
- Quazilisk (c. Solstice)
Improved sprites for:
- Aurora, Panoptus (c. Solstice)
New wireframes for:
- Pythean, Wyvern (c. jun3hong)

Terran

Cyprian:
- Projectile speed reduced by 25%
Anticthon:
- Gas cost now 350, from 400
Quarry:
- HP now 400, from 500
- Mineral cost now 125, from 100
Treasury:
- Mineral cost now 250, from 200
Sentinel:
- Projectile speed reduced by 25%

Protoss

Engram:
- HP now 220, from 200
- Armor now 3, from 4
- Transport space cost now 12, from 8
Legionnaire:
- Shields now 50, from 60
- Armor penetration now 0, from 1
Herald:
- Weapon cooldown now 0.92, from 1
Sycophant:
- Armor penetration now 3, from 2
- Now splashes targets in 0.25/0.5/0.75 radii
Optecton:
- Transport space cost now 8, from 10
- Skybond Ray weapon damage now 8, from 10
Idol:
- Shields now 45, from 65
Golem:
- Now splashes targets in 0.25/0.5/0.75 radii
Accantor:
- HP now 140, from 160
- Shields now 70, from 80
Positron:
- Mineral cost now 150, from 175
- HP now 100, from 120
- Shields now 50, from 40
- Armor now 3, from 2
Analogue:
- Gas cost now 200, from 150
- No longer a detector

Zerg

Mortothrokor:
- Now splashes targets in 0.75/1/1.5 radii
Hydralisk:
- Mineral cost now 75, from 100
- HP now 90, from 100
- Weapon damage now 8, from 9
Izirokor:
- HP now 120, from 140
- Armor now 2, from 1
- Armor penetration now 0, from 1
Skithrokor:
- Armor now 1, from 2
Rilirokor:
- Now only collides with structures and other Rilirokors
Larvosk Cesiant:
- Mineral cost now 100, from 75

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