cosmonarchy-bw-release/patchnotes.md

4 March 2023

Designer's Notes

Reminder: Get CMBW's updater here! Setup instructions are here!

Note that the editor mpq has recently had its name changed. Adjust your SCMDraft profiles accordingly.

Aside from that: More audiovisuals and balance updates are incoming!

Bugfixes

• AI unit reactions can no longer cause a silent crash involving Didact cloaking
• Ocsal Larvae now spawn two Vorvrokors, Kalkalisks, and Ghitorokors per egg
• It is no longer possible to load lifted structures
• Hotkey conflicts between Pazuzu - Anticthon and Valkyrie - Seraph have been resolved
• Aurora selected and order passive unit responses are no longer swapped
• Some incorrect armor icons and unit training strings have been corrected
• Elthisth Mound unit name and Isthrathaleth requirement string have been corrected

Audiovisuals

• New sprites:
  • Wraith, Vassal, Panoptus (c. Solstice)
  • Bunker (c. DarkenedFantasies)
• Updated sprites:
  • Sundog (c. Solstice), Ion Cannon (c. DarkenedFantasies)
• Fix:
  • Centaur engine graphics (still some cropping left to fix)

UI

• When grid hotkeys are enabled, the correct grid hotkey now shows instead of the default hotkeys (c. Veeq7)

Maps

• Sun-Starved, by Pr0nogo:
  • Marked as outdated
• Stardust, by knightoftherealm:
  • Revamped middle terrain
  • Reworked naturals
  • Added more gas to the isolated corner expos

Terran

• Madcap:
  • Mineral cost now 125, from 100
• Heracles:
  • Gas cost now 25, from 50
• Striga:
  • Mineral and gas costs now 200/0, from 175/25
• Autocrat:
  • Gas cost now 100, from 150
• Silvertongue:
  • Gas cost now 175, from 200
• Ramesses:
  • Mineral and gas costs now 225/0, from 200/25
• Pazuzu:
  • Weapon range now 8, from 7
• Aion:
  • Gas cost now 450, from 500
• Wraith:
  • HP now 90, from 85
  • Weapon cooldown now 0.916, from 1.083
• Gorgon:
  • Gas cost now 25, from 50
• Sundog:
  • Armor penetration now 2, from 1
• Azazel:
  • Gas and time costs now 100/35, from 150/36
• Centaur:
  • Artax Cannon weapon damage now 35, from 30
• Minotaur:
  • Weapon range now 9, from 8
• Ion Cannon:
  • Build space now 3x3, from 3x2
  • Weapon projectile no longer takes time to accelerate
  • Transport space cost now 40, allowing it to be transported by Pytheans
  • Can now lift off, though it's... unfinished
• Iron Foundry:
  • Time cost now 50, from 60

Protoss

• Barghest:
  • Time cost now 25, from 20
• Charlatan:
  • Gas cost now 175, from 200
• Mind Tyrant:
  • Now moves ~15% slower
  • Maelstrom projectile now significantly slower
• Archon:
  • Mineral and gas costs now 500/100, from 450/150
• Optecton:
  • Sunsplit Beam no longer pierces targets and goes to max range, instead firing a non-tracking projectile
• Patriarch:
  • Mineral and gas costs now 200/250, from 400/300
• Positron:
  • Gas cost now 50, from 75
• Demiurge:
  • Gas cost now 350, from 400
  • No longer a specialist
  • Gods Made Flesh removed
  • Weapon cooldown now 0.75, from 0.833
• Empress:
  • Anodyne Annex now restores 5 HP per stack and grants 1 second of timed life per stack, from 2.5 HP and 0.25 seconds of timed life
• Aurora:
  • Mineral cost now 125, from 150
• Gladius:
  • Shields now 70, from 80
• Magister:
  • Gas cost now 100, from 125
• Epigraph:
  • Gas cost now 150, from 200
  • Now moves ~22% faster
• Didact:
  • Weapon range now 6, from 5
• Rogue Gallery:
  • Time cost now 45, from 40

Zerg

• Iroleth:
  • Mineral, gas, and time costs now 75/25/20, from 50/50/15
• Cikralisk:
  • Mineral, gas, and time costs now 150/25/25, from 125/50/20
  • HP now 65, from 60
• Ghitorokor:
  • Mineral and gas costs now 150/0, from 100/25
  • HP now 110, from 90
• Tosgrilisk:
  • Weapon splash radius now 12/24/36, from 16/32/48
• Izirokor:
  • Mineral cost now 150, from 200
• Tethzorokor:
  • Gas cost now 0, from 25
  • HP now 200, from 180
• Kagralisk:
  • HP now 100, from 90
• Evigrilisk:
  • Gas cost now 50, from 75
  • HP now 240, from 200
  • Armor now 4, from 3
  • Transport space cost now 6, from 4
• Almaksalisk:
  • Weapon armor penetration now 6, from 4
• Keskathalor:
  • Gas and time costs now 150/40, from 200/45
  • Weapon range now 14, from 13
• Geszithalor:
  • Weapon can no longer target air units
• Matraleth:
  • Parasite:
    • Energy cost now 100, from 75
  • Ensnaring Brood:
    • Now passively applies to all units within 5 range of the Matraleth
• Ultrokor:
  • Mineral, gas, and time costs now 400/0/35, from 300/50/30
  • Now moves 10% faster
• Zarcavrokor:
  • Mineral and gas costs now 250/50, from 200/75
  • HP now 320, from 300
• Tetcaerokor:
  • Gas cost now 75, from 100
  • HP now 240, from 225
  • Now moves ~12.5% faster
• Akistrokor:
  • Gas cost now 75, from 150
  • Armor now 4, from 3
  • Weapon cooldown now 0.666, from 0.791
• Hachirosk:
  • HP now 1200, from 1000
• Gathtelosk:
  • Mineral and gas costs now 250/450, from 450/100