What’s New

Stormgate — PTR 2026-01-23 Update

PTR 2026-01-23 Update

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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