July Developer Update

Hey everyone it's been a rocky few months since publishing was disabled, thankfully our team is capable of pushing updates for now and thus our team has been working on Balance Patch 1.16.1 for which i hope to release a few new things.

Let's recap what we've been working on over the last month.

Funding

As some of you may have noticed the steady release of models has slown down a bit for a while, i've been working overtime on my job and taking on commissions in order to acquire more funding for the project, thankfully we're about to see the fruits of our labor quite soon.

I want to thank everyone who has been supporting the project for this long with their donations, patrons and even some of you joining the development team.

Art

Despite my reduced work hours i've still been completing the models made by our art team as well as continuing to remaster some of our kitbashed models we've included from other creators.

For starters we've completed the Engineering Bay model made by Leaf_It and Robert and released it not long ago, attached below are the death animations for it which i'm quite proud of.

The Cybernetics Core model by AltJunior has received a final pass to its textures and we've since improved the smoothness of the ring around the core as well as the Team Color being brighter overall, its still being rigged currently but we hope to complete it this month.

For this month we've also done a complete overhaul to the Command Center's Animations, while i'm still not happy with the model, what we have will serve us well enough up until we have the funds to commission a new model, attached are the updated animations and death animations.

Every Particle was replaced and remastered with new textures and animations for the CC.

A long requested effect has also been added for the upcoming patch, the Valkyrie's missiles, this new model is not only for the missile but we've also added an effect that better represents the Area of Effect

Attached is a video of the new effects for the Valkyrie, mind you that video was recorded at a lower speed to better look at the AoE

Finally is a little something that's been in progress for a while.

New Skins

We're adding three new unit skins to celebrate the 15th anniversary since the release of StarCraft 2.

Along with a third unnanounced Zerg Drone Skin, these are scheduled to release for 1.16.1