Zero-K v1.10.12.1 - Commander Characterisation

Commanders are more diverse and generally a bit cheaper to morph. On top of this, each chassis has more effective versions of modules that align with the speciality of the chassis. Weapon and upgrade costs have been reworked at level 4 to make more sense. Modules were tweaked to buff most types of commander, with nerfs for builds that stack range and speed, as those were a bit too strong. Repeat modules are now limited to 5 rather than 8, and many have chassis-specific buffs. Range and speed modules are more expensive, eating into the cheaper morph cost at level 4, while other modules have the same or greater effectiveness. Campaign commanders can still stack 8 repeat modules, and gain the benefit of most speciality buffs, because that just seems like fun. There are some non-commander changes too, such as nerfs for Cloakbots, buffs for Spider, and greater restrictions on gunships leaving the map.

Commanders

Weapon and upgrade costs were shifted around to make a bit more sense. Level 4 is up to 200 metal cheaper than before.

A "Beam Laser" option is now available at level 2, replacing "No Weapon"
All weapons at level 2 are now free (cost 25 -> 0)
Level 4 base cost 650 -> 150 (now base cost always increases by 50 per level)
Picking "No Weapon" at level 4 actually results in no weapon
Basic weapons at level 4 cost 25 -> 350
Advanced weapons at level cost 100 -> 400

Generic modules now have a limit of 5, rather than 8. Commanders will generally be a bit more powerful earlier as many modules were buffed in some way, however, a few were nerfed. The module limit in the campaign is still 8.

Module Changes

Speed penalties for modules are now a percentage of speed - after flat bonuses - rather than a flat penalty. Overall this increases the speed penalties for commanders that stack High Powered Servos, while often buffing other builds. Damage Booster is more effective and usually costs less speed.

Damage boost 10% -> 15%
Speed penalty flat 1 -> 2% of total speed

High Density Plating costs much less speed.

Speed penalty flat 3 -> 2% of total speed

High Power Servos is denser but slightly less efficient.

Cost 150 -> 200
Speed boost 3 -> 3.5

CarRepairer's Nanolathe is also slightly less efficient, but now it is nice and round.

Cost 150 -> 200
Build power boost 4 -> 5

Adv. Targeting System costs more metal and speed.

Cost 150 -> 200
Speed penalty flat 1 -> 3% of total speed

Personal Cloak usually costs less speed.

Speed penalty flat 8 -> 12% of total speed

Chassis Changes

Some modules are more effective on appropriate chassis. The specialisation bonuses listed below are relative to the newly tweaked modules. Guardian gains 25% more health from modules.

Ablative Armour health 600 -> 750
High Density Plating health 1600 -> 2000

Strike gains more regeneration from modules but loses the buff by level 6.

Autorepair regeneration boost 10 -> 12
Rescaled innate regeneration 5/5/10/16/25/35 -> 5/8/12/16/20/25

Engineer gains more buildpower from modules, turning the module tweak into a buff.

CarRepairer's Nanolathe buildpower boost 5 -> 6

Recon gains more speed and can lower its jump cooldown, at the cost of poor buildpower.

High Power Servos speed boost 3.5 -> 4
High Power Servos reduces jump cooldown by 1 second
CarRepairer's Nanolathe buildpower boost 5 -> 4

Campaign Chassis is generally more powerful, as that seems fun.

Gains all the module specialisation bonuses listed above, except for buildpower.
Gains 5 buildpower from CarRepairer's Nanolathe, to keep its numbers round,
Now has Strike-level innate regen (up from 5 at all levels)
Removed Strike innate jamming, as it was added accidentally.

Weapon Changes

A few less popular weapons have been buffed. A bug that caused Shotgun, Flamer and Heatray to only benefit from every second range module has been fixed. Shotgun regains the range it lost for technical reasons, and fires faster.

Range 264 -> 285
Reload 2s -> 1.8s

Cluster Bomb has more damage in the form of an extra projectile, and more spread.

Projectiles 8 -> 9
Spray angle increased by 20%

Concussion Shell deals a bit more damage.

Damage 750 -> 850

Balance

Ronin is slower when in battle and a little easier to kill.

Health 400 -> 380
Moves at 80% while reloading

Reaver cares more about incidental health loss.

Regeneration rate 20 -> 15 health/second

Flea is more dangerous.

Damage increased by 14.3%

Venom now has an Avoid Bad Targets toggle.

Fixes

Aircraft that go too far off the edge of the map are now "gently" pushed back in.
Shotgun, Flamer and Heatray now gain range correctly.
Fixed Recon's shaky aiming while walking.
Players and AIs that fail to place a start position are now cycled through defaults, rather than selecting the first.
Fixed a few outdated module tooltips on the campaign UI.
Renamed "Save / Load" in Campaign to "Profile".
Improved the AI's commander morph choices.
Speed is now displayed with a decimal place in Space+Click menu, as many units have increments of 0.5.

[ 2022-12-19 13:14:03 CET ] [ Original post ]

Zero-K
Zero-K Team

Developer

Zero-K Team

Publisher

2018-04-27

Release

Indie Strategy Simulation Singleplayer Multiplayer Coop

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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