Stormgate News

[h3]A quick hotfix for a few issues:[/h3]

• [p]Prism[/p]
  • [p]Health increased from 75 back up to 85 for now. Health was previously 85 before the most recent patch that reduced it to 75, but that created a potential balance issue ahead of an upcoming tournament finals. We'll re-evaluate this change soon.[/p]
• [p]Hexen[/p]
  • [p]Skull of Shedda can no longer enter stealth.[/p]
• [p]Observer camera max zoom distance reduced from 10,000 to 9,000. For reference, normal game camera max zoom is 6,500.[/p]
• [p]Fixed a visual issue where shroud fog elements would pop out around map edges at max observer zoom levels.[/p]
• [p]Shroud visual radius math and edge thickness has been slightly adjusted so that it better lines up with the map grid and gameplay radius values. This makes it easier to correctly place an Effigy within shroud near the edges, whereas previously it was hard to see the real boundary. [/p]
• [p]Fixed a visual issue where shadows would pop out at wider zoom levels. Particularly smaller entity shadows would disappear sooner than other, larger shadows. Now, shadows should all consistently display through all zoom ranges.[/p]
• [p]Fixed a visual issue with the Phantom's tail FX going white when clipping into some terrain and map geometry.[/p]

[h3]Maps[/h3]

• [p]Added a new, re-worked version of Lost Hope: Grave of Hope[/p]
• [p]Added a new custom PvE Survival / FFA tree map: Tree For All beta[/p]
• [p]Frostline Map updates[/p]

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[p][/p][h3]General[/h3]

• [p]Wellspring, Voidheart Shrine[/p]
  • [p]heal increased from 2% per second to 2% plus +2 flat hp per second.[/p]
  • [p]Hid their healthbars, in case the UI option to always display them is enabled. [/p]
• [p]Bug Fix: Celestial co-op heroes now have 300 supply for real.[/p]
• [p]Celestial AI improvements[/p]
• [p]Map updates to Holodeck & Mystic Peak[/p]
• [p]Observer UI now hides the energy resource amount for each player, which was previously tied to topbar energy and is mostly not relevant anymore.[/p]

[h3]Vanguard[/h3]

• [p]Hanger Bay[/p]
  • [p]Return to Hangar (bug fix): Heal now is removed if the source Hangar Bay no longer exists[/p]
    • [p]Return To Hangar (bug fix): No longer works on in construction Hangar Bays[/p]

• [p]Medtech[/p]
  • [p]MedTech (bug fix): Nanoswarm can no longer be wasted on Luminite mines and Therium generators[/p]

• [p]Graven[/p]
  • [p]Model size decreased by 10%[/p]

• [p]Evac[/p]
  • [p]Base speed increased from 6.5 to 7 (down 0.5)[/p]
    • [p]Evac (bug fix): movement speed upgrade now correctly gives +25% movement of base speed, instead of 25% of 6.5 speed only[/p]

[h3]Celestial[/h3]

• [p]Scanner[/p]
  • [p]Tag cannot be cast on buildings[/p]
    • [p]Scanner no longer has energy[/p]
    • [p]Tag now has a 2 second cooldown[/p]
    • [p]Tag now has 4 max charges. It starts with 2 charges and 1 is recharged every 20 seconds[/p]

• [p]Cabal[/p]
  • [p]Debilitate reworked:[/p]
    • [p]Energy cost increased from 15 to 25[/p]

• [p]New Unit: Navi[/p]
  • [p]Hallowed Ground[/p]
    • [p]bug fix: If you click hallowed ground on 5 navi 5 different times you will interupt the same individual navi trying to cast hallowed ground, and the other 4 won't do anything.[/p]

• [p]Seraphim[/p]
  • [p]Hp increased from 165 to 180[/p]
    • [p]New ability: Windrun[/p]
      • [p]Requires Research Windrun[/p]
    • [p]Reckoning removed[/p]
    • [p]Upgrades:[/p]
      • [p]Research Windrun (Ascension Matrix, 60 sec build time, 100/100)[/p]

[h3]Infernal[/h3]

• [p]Shrine, Greater Shrine, Elder Shrine[/p]
  • [p]Lower supply provided to 12 from 15 (up from 10)[/p]

• [p]Brute[/p]
  • [p]Bug fix: Fiends get a speed boost again when Sunder Soul is used.[/p]

• [p]Dominari[/p]
  • [p]Movement speed: 6 (Decreased from 6.5)[/p]
    • [p]Turn Period: 0.18 (Decreased from 0.3)[/p]
    • [p]Damage: 15 (bonus to heavy removed)[/p]
    • [p]Attack projectile speed: 25 (up from 11)[/p]
    • [p]Abilities:[/p]
      • [p]Pandemonium (40 energy, 5 second cooldown)[/p]
        • [p]Range decreased to 9 from 14[/p]
        • [p]Dark Oblation (2 second cooldown, 8 range, 3 slop, cast duration decreased from 0.3 to 0.1, soul travel time faster, generally made more seamless to use)[/p]
      • [p]Pandemonium is now cast in a line in a direction rather than at a point.[/p]
        • [p]This means you can cast Pandemonium out of the Dominari's current range and rather than moving within range and casting, the ability will be casted on the spot as far as it can go.[/p]
        • [p]Pandemonium's range indicator adjusted to 12 to approximately account for the maximum projectile range (10) plus the projectile's own impact radius.[/p]
        • [p]Pandemonium cast times reduced from 3.0 to 1.333.[/p]
        • [p]Pandemonium no longer has bonus damage vs Heavy targets.[/p]

[h3]Stormgate Rewards[/h3]

• [p]Soulforge[/p]
  • [p]Copies are permanent again[/p]
    • [p]Functionality rework:[/p]
      • [p]When used on a unit with 1 supply, 3 copies of the unit are created.[/p]
        • [p]When used on a unit with 2 supply, 2 copies are still created.[/p]
        • [p]When used on a unit with 3 supply or greater 1 copy is created.[/p]

• [p]Sky Hunter[/p]
  • [p]Air weapon prioritized over ground weapon[/p]
• [p]Feyren[/p]
  • [p]Healing per second reduced to 25HP/second from 30HP/second.[/p]

[p][/p][h3]Visual Updates[/h3]

• [p]Material updates to the Graven, Imp, Dominari, Creation Chamber, Guardian Nexus, and Aeon Gate.[/p]
• [p]Infernal Shroud made 10-15% more translucent in an attempt to help readability.[/p]
• [p]Light Forest tree grasses reduced slightly in size to help readability.[/p][p][/p][p][/p]

[p][/p][h2]1/23/26 PTR Update[/h2][p][/p][h3]Balance Changes[/h3][p]Therium Generator[/p]

• [p]Footprint decreased from 3x3 to 2x2 (reverting the change from a few days ago)[/p]

[p]Command Post[/p]

• [p]Supply granted increased from 10 to 12[/p]

[p]Sentry Post[/p]

• [p]Build time decreased from 55 seconds to 50 seconds (note: there was a bug that was incorrectly setting the Sentry Post build time to 60 seconds that has also been addressed)[/p]

[p]Lancer[/p]

• [p]Kinetic Redirection upgrade build time decreased from 90 to 60[/p]

[p]Hedgehog[/p]

• [p]Hp decreased from 215 to 205[/p]
• [p]Armor Shred Missiles debuff max stacks decreased from 90 to 75[/p]

[p]Morph Core[/p]

• [p]Value increased from 50 Luminite to 100 Luminite. This reduces the Luminite refunded when Matter Reallocation is used by 50 Luminite, and decreases the cost of structures when building from a Morph Core by 50 Luminite.[/p]

[p]Carnivex[/p]

• [p]Weapon Range increased from 0.25 to 0.5[/p]
• [p]Chrono Shell deferred damage max damage over time rate increased from 20 to 40[/p]

[p]Navi[/p]

• [p]Sovereign’s Decree range slop increased from 4 to 6[/p]
• [p]Hallowed Ground is now a targeted ability that moves the Navi to the selected location to channel.[/p]
• [p]Sovereign’s Decree should not go on cooldown or cost energy if the target leaves range[/p]

[p]Dominari[/p]

• [p]Pandemonium width increased from 3 to 4[/p]
• [p]Research Dominari Adept Training (Death March) build time decreased from 60 seconds to 30 seconds[/p]
• [p]Death March radius increased from 3 to 4[/p]
• [p]Chaos Mark debuff duration increased from 10 seconds to 15 seconds[/p][p][/p]

[h3]Visual Changes[/h3]

• [p]Ragdoll impact on kills have been added for:[/p]
  • [p]Incarnate Rampaging Stomp[/p]
    • [p]Incarnate weapon attack[/p]
    • [p]Magmadon weapon attack[/p]
    • [p]Brute weapon attack[/p]
    • [p]Carnivex weapon attack[/p]
    • [p]Vulcan Jump Jets[/p]
    • [p]Vulcan weapon attack when minigun is at max damage[/p]
• [p]Seraphim ground attack receives a new visual effect and sound effect to better represent and differentiate it's higher damage attack.[/p][p][/p]

[h3]AI Changes[/h3]

• [p]The Celestial Bot shouldn’t spam Arcships without expanding as much. There is still work to do to improve their behavior[/p]
• [p]Bots now recognize Rich Luminite mines as viable expansions[/p]

[h3]Map Changes[/h3]

• [p]Breach: fixed issue with missing Therium[/p]

[h3]Bug fixes[/h3]

• [p]Fixed not seeing when other players change factions in a custom game lobby[/p]
• [p]Gracelight Node Tooltip correctly states heal is removed only when taking damage[/p]
• [p]Morph Cores were morphing directly into Judicator and Energizer Nodes rather than Gracelight Nodes first[/p]

[h2]PTR 2026-01-20 Update[/h2]

• [p]Hornet has an enhanced anti-air attack FX and new SFX to better represent the fact that it is more powerful than its ground attack. [/p]
• [p]Added some idle and work animations for celestial structures. We're in the process of iterating through these to add visual interest and polish. [/p]
• [p]Increased emissive values on Celestial structure materials.[/p]
• [p]Therium generators have been increased in size from 2x2 to 3x3, and had adjustments to their selection volume. Hopefully this makes it easier and more intuitive to simply right-click the center of a patch, and workers will find their own nodes.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue preventing AI opponents from recognizing expansions correctly. Vokurka, for example, was rarely expanding.[/p]
  • [p]AI should now use pathing distance when considering a location for expanding their base. Previously, they would use straight, as-the-crow-flies distances when looking for an expansion location, leading to scenarios on some maps where AI would expand to an awkward base, or fail to expand at all. Now, AI should expand to the next closest pathable base.[/p]

[p][/p][h3]Bug Fixes[/h3]

• [p]Fixed an issue where many custom maps were referencing the wrong, darker, lighting preset. Overall the correct preset is brighter at night, brighter in the shadowed areas, and more consistent across maps.[/p]
• [p]ToggleInGameUI cheat now hides all of the replay UI as well.[/p]
• [p]Fixed some bugs with Dominari's Death Mark.[/p]
• [p]Hexen Venom Trap no longer targets air units.[/p]
• [p]Hexen Venom trap no longer triggers on buildings[/p]
• [p]Dominari: Chaos mark now properly applies after Pandemonium damage impact[/p]
• [p]Updated some tooltips.[/p]

[p][/p][p]Map Updates for Stormwatch and Short Circuit.[/p][p][/p][p][/p]