cosmonarchy-bw-release/patchnotes.md

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

• Pr0totype 016
• Ascension #3
• Five new castovers

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
• 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
• Optecton:
  • Transport space cost now 8, from 10
  • Skybond Ray weapon damage now 8, from 10
• Idol:
  • Shields now 45, from 65
• 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

• 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