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Zero-K v1.9.6.5 - Handicap and Matchmaking Experiment

Income multipliers can now be set for each team under Options to serve as a form of handicap. This is a commonly requested feature for coop games, but to take it a step further we're trying out a new matchmaking queue. The '1v1' queue now generates even matches up to a certain skill gap, beyond which it creates unranked games with an income boost for the lower-ranked side. To stick to even games use the new '1v1 Narrow' queue, and for the best queue times use both at once. The '1v1' queue allows a slightly wider skill gap than previously, while '1v1 Narrow' allows a slightly narrower gap. Update: There is now a '1v1 Wide' queue with the same match range as '1v1', but without the handicap.

Handicap and Matchmaking

Per-team income multipliers can now be set under Options -> Multipliers in battle lobbies.
Added a '1v1 Narrow' matchmaking queue that creates more evenly matched battles than the previous system.
The '1v1' matchmaking queue can create either handicap or non-handicap games. If a match would qualify for '1v1 Narrow' then a normal match is played, otherwise the match does not affect ratings and the lower skilled player receives a small income boost.
Added a '1v1 Wide' matchmaking queue with the same match range as '1v1' where games are always ranked and without a handicap.

Behaviour

Added anti-structure overkill prevention for Lance, Lucifer, Ravager, Crab and Cyclops.
Reef and Shogun try to stay at max range against all targets.

Other Tweaks

Added NW vs. SE startboxes for Archsimkats Valley.
Calayo is back to just being NW vs. SE.
Tweaked metal spots on Battle for Planet XIV and DeltaSiege Island 8 Way.
Tweaked the sun and water parameters for a few maps.
Tweaked welcome text.
Better support for modding a few things related to the economy (fewer files to override).

[ 2021-06-27 16:35:38 CET ] [ Original post ]

Zero-K

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2018-04-27 Release

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Commander wanted! Construct giant robots, build an army of a thousand Fleas. Move mountains if needed. Bury the enemy at all cost!

Traditional real time strategy with physically simulated units and projectiles.
100+ varied units with abilities including terrain manipulation, cloaking and jumpjets.
70+ mission galaxy-spanning campaign to be enjoyed solo or co-op with friends.
Challenging, (non-cheating) skirmish AI and survival mode.
Multiplayer 1v1 - 16v16, FFA, coop. ladders, replays, spectators and tournaments.
PlanetWars - A multiplayer online campaign planned to start in May.
Really free, no paid advantages, no unfair multiplayer.

Fully Utilized Physics

Simulated unit and projectile physics is used to a level rarely found in a strategy game.

Use small nimble units to dodge slow moving projectiles.
Hide behind hills that block weapon fire, line of sight and radar.
Toss units across the map with gravity guns.
Transport a battleship to a hilltop - for greater views and gun range.

Manipulate the Terrain

The terrain itself is an ever-changing part of the battlefield.

Wreck the battlefield with craters that bog down enemy tanks.
Dig canals to bring your navy inland for a submarine-in-a-desert strike.
Build ramps, bridges, entire fortress if you wish.
Burn your portrait into continental crust using the planetary energy chisel.

Singleplayer Campaign and Challenging AI

Enjoy many hours of single player and coop fun with our campaign, wide selection of non-cheating AIs and a survival mode against an alien horde.

Explore the galaxy and discover technologies in our singleplayer campaign.
Face a challenging AI that is neither brain-dead nor a clairvoyant cheater.
Have some coop fun with friends, surviving waves of chicken-monsters.
Cloaking? Resurrection? Tough choices customizing your commander.

Casual and Competitive Multiplayer

Zero-K was built for multiplayer from the start, this is where you can end up being hooked for a decade.

Enjoying epic scale combat? Join our 16v16 team battles!
Looking for a common goal? Fight AIs or waves of chicken-monsters.
Prefer dancing on a razor's edge? Play 1v1 in ladder and tournaments.
Comebacks, betrayals, emotions always running high in FFA.
Want to fight for a bigger cause? Join PlanetWars, a competitive online campaign with web-game strategic elements, diplomacy and backstabbing (currently on hiatus pending an overhaul).

Power to the People

We are RTS players at heart, we work for nobody. We gave ourselves the tools we always wanted to have in a game.

Do what you want. No limits to camera, queue or level of control.
Paint a shape, any shape, and units will move to assume your formation.
Construction priorities let your builders work more efficiently.
Don't want to be tied down managing every unit movement? Order units to smartly kite, strafe or zig zag bullets.

Plenty of Stuff to Explore (and Explode)

Zero-K is a long term project and it shows, millions hours of proper multiplayer testing and dozens of people contributing ever expanding content.

Learn to use all of our 100+ units and play on hundreds of maps.
Invent the next mad team-tactics to shock enemies and make allies laugh.
Combine cloaking, teleports, shields, jumpjets, EMP, napalm, gravity guns, black hole launchers, mind control and self-replication.
Tiny flea swarm that clings to walls?
Jumping "cans" with steam-spike?
Buoys that hide under water to ambush ships?
Mechs that spew fire and enjoy being tossed from air transports?
Carrier with cute helicopters?
Jumping Jugglenaut with dual wielding gravity guns?
Meet them in Zero-K!

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