Stormgate — PTR 2026-01-23 Update

PTR 2026-01-23 Update

Added 1
  • Ragdoll impact on kills added for Incarnate Rampaging Stomp, Incarnate weapon attack, Magmadon weapon attack, Brute weapon attack, Carnivex weapon attack, Vulcan Jump Jets, and Vulcan weapon attack when minigun is at max damage
Changed 17
  • Therium Generator footprint decreased from 3x3 to 2x2
  • Command Post supply granted increased from 10 to 12
  • Sentry Post build time decreased from 55 seconds to 50 seconds
  • Lancer Kinetic Redirection upgrade build time decreased from 90 to 60
  • Hedgehog hp decreased from 215 to 205
  • Hedgehog Armor Shred Missiles debuff max stacks decreased from 90 to 75
Fixed 2
  • Fixed not seeing when other players change factions in a custom game lobby
  • Morph Cores were morphing directly into Judicator and Energizer Nodes rather than Gracelight Nodes first
1/23/26 PTR Update
Balance Changes

Therium Generator

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

Command Post

  • Supply granted increased from 10 to 12

Sentry Post

  • 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)

Lancer

  • Kinetic Redirection upgrade build time decreased from 90 to 60

Hedgehog

  • Hp decreased from 215 to 205

  • Armor Shred Missiles debuff max stacks decreased from 90 to 75

Morph Core

  • 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.

Carnivex

  • Weapon Range increased from 0.25 to 0.5

  • Chrono Shell deferred damage max damage over time rate increased from 20 to 40

Navi

  • Sovereign’s Decree range slop increased from 4 to 6

  • Hallowed Ground is now a targeted ability that moves the Navi to the selected location to channel.

  • Sovereign’s Decree should not go on cooldown or cost energy if the target leaves range

Dominari

  • Pandemonium width increased from 3 to 4

  • Research Dominari Adept Training (Death March) build time decreased from 60 seconds to 30 seconds

  • Death March radius increased from 3 to 4

  • Chaos Mark debuff duration increased from 10 seconds to 15 seconds

Visual Changes
  • Ragdoll impact on kills have been added for:

  • Incarnate Rampaging Stomp

  • Incarnate weapon attack

  • Magmadon weapon attack

  • Brute weapon attack

  • Carnivex weapon attack

  • Vulcan Jump Jets

  • Vulcan weapon attack when minigun is at max damage

  • Seraphim ground attack receives a new visual effect and sound effect to better represent and differentiate it's higher damage attack.

AI Changes
  • The Celestial Bot shouldn’t spam Arcships without expanding as much. There is still work to do to improve their behavior

  • Bots now recognize Rich Luminite mines as viable expansions

Map Changes
  • Breach: fixed issue with missing Therium
Bug fixes
  • Fixed not seeing when other players change factions in a custom game lobby

  • Gracelight Node Tooltip correctly states heal is removed only when taking damage

  • Morph Cores were morphing directly into Judicator and Energizer Nodes rather than Gracelight Nodes first

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