cosmonarchy-bw-release/patchnotes.md

24 May 2026

Year 4, month 5, patch 1

Patch goals

• Continue balancing for all races, in preparation for the Gauntlet Stage!
• Continue Askosi development
• Further improve audiovisuals
• Tweak balance for all factions
• Subscribe on ko-fi to get a sneak peek of the incoming changes!

Editor features

Triggers

• disable_units action:
  • Now takes %bool_hidden as a final optional arg.
  • When unset, unit buttons are disabled (greyed out) as usual.
  • When set to true, unit buttons are instead hidden from the command card.
• set_unit_behavior action:
  • Now accepts infrastructure_burrow for %behavior arg, making AI units ignore the "don't burrow near allied structures" rule.
• issue_order action:
  • Now handles order id 72, building liftoff
• NEW: is_multiplayer condition:
  • Takes %bool as arg, compares to whether the game is in multiplayer mode (i.e. was made in a lobby instead of through the singleplayer menu)
• NEW: set_burrow_infrastructure_override action:
  • Allows AI players to ignore the "don't burrow near allied structures" rule.
• NEW: set_ally_alert_blacklist action:
  • Allows "ally under attack" alerts to be ignored for specific players.
• NEW: disable_tactical_ai action:
  • Sets whether to disable tactical AI for specified computer players.
• NEW: disable_extended_waves action: (c. Veeq7)
  • Sets whether to disable extended AI attack waves for specified computer players.

Bugfixes

• Stability:
  • Resolved rare Nydus-related crash (r. Concealed Organic)
• Gameplay:
  • Fixed Egocent not proccing Mimicry (r. shopkeeper dog)
  • Fixed Histrion not having energy (r. jakulangski)
  • Fixed bad animations for Hotshot, including attack animation (r. lolrsk8s)
• Audiovisuals:
  • Custom alerts, such as "ally under attack" alerts, should now respect the "mute non-trigger sounds" trigger action (used during e.g. campaign dialogue)

Audiovisuals

• Updated sprites for:
  • Matraleth (player color fixes c. NimoStar)
  • Witness (corrected orientation)

Balance changes

Askosi

• Cardinal:
  • Inoa Twinaxe:
    • Damage 2x10 » 1x15
  • Sustaining Sermon:
    • Healing 5 » 10
• Aphorist:
  • Now has Impact Dissipation
• Doronin:
  • Time cost 25 » 30
  • HP 240 » 220
• Silversoul:
  • Now a detector
• Petract:
  • Now a detector
• Phontis:
  • Resource costs 200/150 » 200/200
  • Build time 30 » 35
  • Warring Winds:
    • Proc cooldown 0.12 seconds » 0.25 seconds, matching the cooldown of e.g. Zerg Fan of Teeth