It's been a few weeks since a PTR update, while we fixed some build errors and a UI crash that was causing delays. Meanwhile, balance refinement and localizing tooltips has been underway.
[FFA] Big Gate Hunters
[Custom] Voidlife Heroes RPG
[Custom] Storm Scourges RPG
[Custom] AutoGate Co-op
[Custom] Winter Triangle Tower Defense
[Custom] Obelisk Offensive
[2v2] YinYang
[2v2] Split Ends
Some existing maps have also been updated based on player feedback.
We've updated the spectrum of team colors and expanded support for different player configurations. We now have distinct colors for each player in the following multiplayer modes:
1v1, 2v2, 3v3, 4v4, FFA (up to 8 players), 2v2v2, and 2v2v2v2.
It's possible to create and play other configurations like a 16 player FFA, but colors will start to repeat. In these scenarios, the friend vs foe color scheme is also an option.
A long time coming, Vanguard & Infernal workers on Luminite now saturate more intelligently. They will prefer to populate 3 on each far node, so there is a more linear income falloff starting from 8 workers up to 12.
Additionally, workers always search for the best of the 4 available Luminite nodes now after returning cargo each time. So if you pull 6 workers off one side, the rest will automatically redistribute.
The suggested worker count over Therium was reduced from 8 to 5, as that is the number of workers needed to match the Therium replenish rate. No mining speed changes were made, this simply will help guide players to more efficiently distribute their workers.
Frost Giant Data and Trigger editors are now available for everyone by default. No more Easter egg clicking the Yeti required!
We've implemented initial support for playing the campaign offline through the map editor. Players should be able to load and customize official FG maps through the editor.
The hotkey for changing player colors was changed to shift+ctrl+alt+C in order to not conflict with toggling auto-cast on abilities set to C
Observer music changed to a Co-op music track which mashes up all three faction themes into one song.
Argent, Seraphim and Animancer have had their team colors re-painted for readability.
Powerstone
Health gained changed from 200HP + 25% HP to 250HP + 10% HP.
Vanguard
Overcharge
Overcharge duration decreased from 45s to 40s
This was to ensure that Overcharge expired for any Sentry Post rush on almost all rush maps. Recent changes to Royal Gardens and Holodeck have had rush distance increases to ensure the buff expires on time.
Overcharge upgrade movement speed bonus reduced from 50% to 25%
Scrapyard
Cost decreased from 100 luminite to 50 luminite.
Servo
Outer radius reverted from 0.6 to 0.45
Atlas
Mobile Atlas range increased from 4 to 5
Plasma Arc Infusion requires Central Command instead of High Command
Plasma Arc Infusion research time increase from 60s to 90s
Evac
Skysprint Retrofit upgrade now requires High Command instead of Central Command
Hedgehog
Reposition added in deployed mode
Hurricane
Hurricane Bombers require Covert Bombers for Veterancy.
New Upgrade: Covert Bombers
Bombers gain Stealth and 20 health and 5 armor for each level of Veterancy.
Costs 100/100
Research time 60s
Prometheus Engine:
Now requires Covert Bombers upgrade
Cost 100/100
Research time decreased from 120s to 60s
Bombing Run cooldown increased from 15s to 25s
Infernal
Shadowfall
Duration of vision reduction decreased from 30s to 15s.
Imp
Outer radius reverted from 0.6 to 0.45
Added +3 damage vs structure
- Enflamed Imp
Damage increased from 50 + 30 vs heavy to 80 + 30 vs heavy
Hexen
Cost increased from 75/75 to 75/100
Magmadon
Trample damage from 125 (+50 vs Light) to 150.
Dominari
Death March
Energy cost reduced from 40 to 25
Movement speed bonus reduced from 25% to 15%
Attack speed bonus increased from 25% to 30%
Health lost per second reduced from 3% per second to 1.5% per second
Dark Oblation: ability removed
Fel Grasp: New Ability
Requires: Dominari Master Training
Channels on a target for 6 seconds. Whilst channeling the target takes 40% of the target’s max health as damage over time, is slowed by 95% and has a chaos mark applied.
Fel Grasp cannot be dispelled while channeling.
At the time of impact, any enemy units near the target with Chaos Mark are also slowed. Units must be at the same height plane as the target (if target is air, root air, if target is ground, root ground).
Chaos Mark is dispellable, but the Fel Grasp slow is not even if the Chaos Mark is removed.
Shadowflyer
Dive Bomb damage increased from 0 to 5 (5 vs Heavy, 25 vs Structure).
Weaver
HP reverted from 320 to 380
Cost reverted to 125/175 from 100/175
Lash autocast range is set to be equal to manual cast range.
Replace Mistborne Assault with Shroudborne Cloak
Shroudborne Cloak: New Ability
Grant nearby units Shroudborne Cloak for 30 seconds. After remaining out of combat for 3 seconds, they may enter Stealth if on Shroud.
Prism
Outer radius reverted from 0.6 to 0.45
Argent
Longshot Module moved from Tier 3 to Tier 2.
Longshot Module research time increased from 60s to 90s.
Arcship
Arcship auto rally range to 12 from 15 to match auto-build radius.
Arcship Build Collection Array autocast set to initially on
Arcship Build Collection Array autocast no longer resets to on if turned off (available after patch release)
Animancer
Animus redistribution drain amount reduced from 30/s to 20/s.
Animus redistribution restore amount increased from 50% to 75% (i.e. unchanged)
Dark Prophecy range reduced from 11 to 10
Archangel
Avatar upgrade research time decreased to 90s from 120s.
Avatar duration can now be stacked with consecutive casts of Meteor Strike or Censure.
Reprieve added
Stuns the Archangel to heal 30% of the Archangel’s max health for 5 seconds.
Gains 40 armor.
Removes Avatar.
Aether Dash removed
Censure can be used in Archangel Flying mode.
Censure stuns the target for 1s.
Censure can only target ground targets while in Archangel mode.
Censure can only target air units while in Archangel Flying mode.
Gracelight Node
HP increased from 280 to 300
Armor reverted from 5 to 10
Energizer Node
HP increased from 280 to 300
Armor reverted from 5 to 10
Energize autocast range set to be equal to manual cast range.
Energy regeneration rate increased from 2/second to 3/second.
Judicator node
HP increased from 280 to 300?
Armor increased from 5 to 20
Damage increased from 20 to 30
Weapon period increased from 0.9 to 1
Cabal
Therium cost increased from 50 to 75
Debilitate energy cost reverted to 15 from 25
Gravity Flux missile launcher speed increased from 10 to 15?
Mind Shackle (bug fix) no longer possesses the target if the Cabal dies before impact.
Carnivex
Pounce range has been decreased from 4 to 3.
Pounce speed increased from 12 to 15.
Chrono shell deferred damage is now dispellable.
Chrono shell deferred damage is 40% of damage received down from 50%
+10 armor removed from tier 3 upgrade.
+5 armor added to baseline.
Navi
Bug fix on sovereign’s decree range slop, now correctly 20 instead of 18.
HP increased from 300 to 350.
Damage increased from 20 to 24.
Hallowed Ground energy drain increased from 2/sec to 4/sec.
Seraphim
Ground weapon attack changed to be prioritised before air weapon attack.
Windrun upgrade removed
New ability: Winged Dash available baseline
15 sec cooldown, 0 energy cost
Grants 50% movement speed for 3 seconds.
Does not offer damage mitigation
New upgrade: Catalytic Capacitors
Seraphim gain 20 energy and self-cleanse harmful debuffs when they land a killing blow on an enemy unit.
New trait: Energy Shield
Absorbs 1 point of damage at the cost of 1 energy.
Damage mitigated by energy shield ignores armor.
HP reduced to 140 from 180
Saber
Upgrade moved from tier 3 to tier 2.5
Upgrade no longer gives +1 movement speed (i.e. identical to Necrolyte)
Scanner
Scanner weapon no longer attacks air units.
Scanner Descend cooldown from 60s to 1s (Perch cooldown remains the same)
Scanner no longer works on flat grasses (bug fix)
Scanner can no longer perch on the same tree multiple times (bug fix)
Scanner can no longer perch on resources (bug fix)
Scanner deployed mode no longer has energy (bug fix)
Vector
Cost changed to 150/25 from 125/50
Fixed a bug with the Arcship footprint being the wrong size when it lands from different directions.
Fixed a bug: Auto-cast abilities (default on, manually turned off) resetting to on after morphing (e.g., Atlas sieging/unsieging).
Added an Arcstation surge hotkey.
Fixed bug where the Voidheart shrine would heal units infinitely until full health