cosmonarchy-bw-release/patchnotes.md

16 November 2025

Year 3, month 11, patch 1

Patch goals

• Implement some factional units
• Continue balancing for all races
• Continue Askosi development
• Further improve audiovisuals and AI
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General

• Reordered multiplayer connection options to put CrownLink at the top (c. DF)
  • Caveat: Battle.net gateway selection currently displays improperly
• Desync logs and replays are now automatically updated to our server for easier investigation (c. Veeq7)

Game Modes

• NEW: Ranked (c. Veeq7)
  • Auto-uploads replays to cosmonarchy.com!
  • Will eventually track stats, report match outcomes behind a spoiler screen, show hype scores, and more...

Editor

• New custom trigger action: disable_transmission_waits (a. DF)
  • Global flag! Disables waits when using transmission trigger actions. Pair with crig waits for multiplayer-compatible transmissions.

Bugfixes

• Stability:
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when a new Protoss unit plays its warp flash while cloaked by a Didact (c. DF)
  • Fixed crash & desync cases related to cloaked structures (c. DF)
  • Fixed crashes in The Turning and Deathmarch (r. gabitron9000, c. Veeq7)
  • Fixed a rare crash related to Oguns in Smithy Mode (r. Daedrid, a. DF)
• Gameplay:
  • Misc target priority bugs have been more robustly fixed (c. DF)
  • Fixed weapon range bonuses being improperly rounded (r. jakulangski, c. Veeq7)
  • Fixed debuff inheritence with Agrileths (r. GreenEggs'NSpam)
  • Turreted units like the Goliath can no longer have wobbly turrets after unloading from Anchors (r. Vilius, c. DF)
  • Control groups featuring Agrileths are now properly preserved when making Eskigants and Excisants (r. mixu)
  • Fixed Gosvileths being unable to mutate into Kethraj Keep (r. GreenEggs'NSpam)
  • Fixed Ocsal Larvae being unable to morph into Kethrostalor (r. Art_Of_Turtle)
  • Fixed failure to create Facade, Mantle, Apothecary, and addons for Captaincy and Iron Foundry at right-most edge (r. Newt, c. DF)
  • Enabled Burrow for Kethrostalor
  • Improved zombie spawning in The Turning and Deathmarch (c. Veeq7)
• Audiovisuals:
  • Structure work animation overlays will now be correctly hidden while cloaked (c. DF)
  • Fixed shield overlay error for Aspirant (r. TheBeaver99)
  • Fixed bad building preview for Future Station
  • Prevented Arhaun from turning improperly while the turret still had a target
  • Fixed offset SFX for Gorgrokor death, Kethrostalor weapon SFX, and Ultrokor corpse consumption

Audiovisuals

• New models for:
  • Talos, Ancile, Centaur, Phobos, Starpad, Positron, Unar, Anthelion (c. DeltaCadimus, wireframes c. jun3hong, Blender help c. Solstice)
• Cloaked structures now have green box fog-of-war sprites instead of revealing their unit id (c. DF)
• New birth animation for Kethrostalor
• New unit responses for:
  • Cannibal, Pazuzu, Azazel, Magister

Terran

• Cyprian:
  • Armor 0 » 1
• Cyclops:
  • HP 95 » 110
• Shaman:
  • HP 120 » 140
• Madcap:
  • HP 80 » 90
  • Danaan Autogun:
    • Damage 7 » 8
• Goliath:
  • Build time 25 » 22
  • HP 200 » 240
• Blackjack:
  • Resource costs 75/0 » 50/0
  • Build time 16 » 18
• Matador:
  • HP 160 » 180
  • Build time 18 » 20
• Ancile:
  • HP 80 » 100
• Centaur:
  • HP 400 » 450
• Minotaur:
  • HP 500 » 600
• Hippogriff:
  • HP 250 » 350
• Phobos:
  • Argent Capacitors:
    • No longer drains energy passively while active
    • Now drains 10 energy per shot while active
• Cyclops (Futurist):
  • HP 110 » 120
• Arhaun:
  • Resource costs 150/75 » 175/75
• NEW: Triton:
  • Specialist walker with Lobotomizing active ability; Trained from Mantle

Protoss

• Legionnaire:
  • HP 60 » 80
• Amaranth:
  • HP 120 » 140
• Herald:
  • HP 160 » 180
• Atreus:
  • Shields 80 » 100
• Vagrant:
  • HP 80 » 100
  • Also applies to Vagrant Shade
• Cabalist:
  • Shields 30 » 60
• Aurora:
  • HP 80 » 90
  • Shields 35 » 45
• Panoptus:
  • HP 150 » 160
  • Shields 70 » 80
• NEW: Simulacrum (Astral Omen):
  • Cheaper, more split-focused Simulacrum variant for the new Astral Omen faction

Zerg

• Zethrokor:
  • HP 40 » 50
• Nathrokor:
  • Resource costs 75/50 » 50/50
  • HP 75 » 85
• Liiralisk:
  • HP 90 » 115
• Protathalor:
  • Resource costs 100/75 » 125/50
• Mutalisk:
  • Resource costs 150/100 » 100/75
  • HP 140 » 120
  • Armor 1 » 2
• Hydralisk:
  • Resource costs 75/25 » 50/25
  • HP 95 » 80
  • Movement speed 6.4 » 6.8
  • Needle Spines:
    • Damage 10 » 8
    • Armor penetration 0 » 1
• Izirokor:
  • Resource costs 100/0 » 75/0
  • Energized Bioplasma:
    • Damage 7 » 5
• Bactalisk:
  • Movement speed 4 » 3.6
  • Corrosive Acid:
    • Attack cooldown 1.25 » 1.5
• Skithrokor:
  • HP 140 » 160
• Kagralisk:
  • Repeating Venom:
    • Weapon range 6 » 7
• Evigrilisk:
  • HP 280 » 350
• Okrimnilisk:
  • HP 600 » 800
• Algoztalisk:
  • HP 170 » 200
• Lakizilisk:
  • Resource costs 100/75 » 75/75
  • HP 150 » 130
  • Subterranean Spines:
    • Damage 15 » 12
• Zobriolisk:
  • Rapid Spines:
    • Weapon range 7 » 8
• Akistrokor:
  • Resource costs 50/175 » 100/200
  • HP 200 » 180
  • Movement speed 5.83 » 5
• NEW: Azanthrokor:
  • Factional replacement of the Gorgrokor, for the Orkoti Tendril
  • Bountied by Lucifirius!
• NEW: Sovrokor:
  • Factional replacement of the Zethrokor, for the Goszirith Tendril
• NEW: Garvrokor:
  • Factional replacement of the Vorvrokor, for the Goszirith Tendril