Zero-K v1.11.6.2 - Don't Nuke Your Allies

The 3v3 tournament finished earlier today with an excellent turnout of 19 teams. The results and videos will be posted in this thread in the coming days. The upshot for this patch is that we are free to make a few balance changes. The aim of these changes is to work on a few of the more maligned units, while nerfing some of the most prevalent strategies. This mostly means buffs for Gunships and nerfs for Lance and cloaked Snitch. The update also has some exciting features. A big one for team games is that allied nukes and missiles now automatically show where they were aimed, which should halve the number of people that panic when a nuke is fired. Another is the ability to watch any game while waiting for a different one to start without missing out on the chat, as chat from non-started lobbies is now sent ingame. Superintendent has also added a few more tracks to his alternate soundtrack.

Balance

Snitch is slower to nerf its use with cloaker, without making it worse as a pure ambusher.

Speed 117 -> 108

Iris is a bit easier to find and its area cloak radius now matches area shield radius.

Speed 57 -> 54
Decloak range 180 -> 210
Cloaker radius 360 -> 350

Lance is less effective when set to fire at will.

Reload time 20s -> 23s

Scallop is still the slowest riot but is a bit tankier than average.

Health 1100 -> 1200
Speed 48 -> 51

Emissary can afford to be fast since it takes so long to pack up.

Speed 60 -> 63
Range 1120 -> 1150

Blastwing takes less time to deal its damage and deals slightly more.

AoE 128 -> 144
Fire DPS 25 -> 32
Fire linger 25s -> 20s

Gnat needs more health to survive long enough to stun the juiciest target.

Cost 90 -> 85
Health 370 -> 440

Revenant can be brought back now that commanders are more resilient.

Health 3600 -> 4200
Missiles 8 -> 9
Reduced missile wobbly be 6.7%

Stardust has a small buff to its damage output but might still need a larger change later.

Heat per shot 3.8 -> 3.5

Lucifer can see as far as it can shoot (thanks Majo).

Range 780 -> 1280

Game Features

Added predicted impact time and location for allied nukes and stockpiled missiles (thanks esainane).
Added a new Superintendent music track.
Hovering a unit with the mouse now highlights it slightly. This can be configured under 'Settings/Graphics/Unit Visibility'.
Alt+N terraform preset is slightly higher to block Phantoms firing at Engineer Commander.
Added Set Target (instead of Force Fire) on Right Click option under 'Settings/Unit Behaviour'.
Added time and space leeway settings to make selection easier, under 'Settings/Interface/Selection'.
Added an explanation of selection rank to 'Settings/Interface/Selection' as people find fiddling with it surprisingly useful.
Embiggened cursor hitboxes of Grizzly, Jugglenaut, Cyclops, Shield Factory and Cloak Factory.
Singularity Reactor size now fluctuates.
Impaler fire sound is slightly fainter and only five can play at once.

Lobby Features

Battles can now be watched by right clicking on them in the battle list and selecting 'Watch'.
Chat from any lobby you are in is sent ingame if the lobby is not running.
Added a new Superintendent track that plays when the lobby opens.
Mention Imp burrow in the tips for the Imp campaign mission.
Added a game option to override the names of teams for tournaments.
Added a game option (under Experimental) called Notes that just writes text to a window at the start of the game. Use it to explain unit tweaks or other complicated set of options.

Fixes

Preselection highlight (when hovering over units) now highlights units correctly in edge cases.
Fixed the player count in the battle lobby status box updating slowly.
Fixed units set to avoid radar wobble not firing at identified structure dots that left radar.
Fixed Advanced Geo aim point (thanks dyth68).
Fixed Mariner special build icon size.
Healthbars and Build ETA now draw in front of unit outlines.
Fixed an error that could occur when destroying all the units of the losing team.
Phoenix gibs no longer include a near-complete copy of its fuselage.

[ 2023-06-18 10:38:28 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!

MINIMAL SETUPOS: Ubuntu 13.04 or equivalent
Processor: 2.0 GHz dual core CPU with SSE (Intel Core 2 Duo or equivalent)Memory: 4 GB RAM
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: 512 MB graphics card with OpenGL 3 support (GeForce 8800 or equivalent)
Storage: 6 GB available spaceAdditional Notes: 64bit only. Big Picture mode is not supported
RECOMMENDED SETUPOS: Ubuntu 17.10 or equivalent
Processor: 3.0 GHz quad core CPU (Intel Core i5 or equivalent)Memory: 8 GB RAM
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: 2048 MB graphics card with OpenGL 3 support (high GT 500 series or equivalent)Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 8 GB available spaceAdditional Notes: 64bit only. Big Picture mode is not supported

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