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

• FixedBuild time decreased from 55 seconds to 50 seconds (notethere 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

• FixedBreachfixed 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