ZeroSpace Performance Update - August 19th 2026

General

• Animation optimization for Sentinel, Harbinger, Skrell, Exalted, Dark Disciple, Storm Bringer, Weaver, Shade, Asterion, Chronowarper, Shadow Leech, Cultist, Rageborn, Chas’ki, Heavy Trooper, Sharpshooter, Frog 🐸, Protectorate Extractor, Dinobot, Deadeye, Clackjaw, and Harvester

  • These now use the same system as Commandos and Stingers, so there should be large performance improvements when there are a lot of these on the screen

• Added a hotkey for attack ground - Default: Control + A (If you had attack on quickcast previously there was no way to attack ground)

• Added a modifier hotkey to self cast abilities - Default: Alt (Hold this when you press the key for a self castable ability, like Vynthra’s Life Harvest, to self cast the ability)

• Added ability to mute opponents (select their portrait in lobby or use the info button in the top right during a match)

• Channels now properly end when targeted unit dies

• Fixed some topbar cooldowns showing numbers that were way too high

• Drag scroll speed is no longer dependent on FPS

• Fixed drag scroll sometimes moving when not moving your mouse

• Roller death explosions now properly disappear

• Performance improvements related to bunkers, extractors, destroyed units, and ragdolls

• Fixed surround pathing of flying units and vehicles with acceleration

• Fixed flying units and vehicles with acceleration not moving close enough to shoot at target

• Fixed flying units not pathing around areas that are blocked

• Resolved an issue with communication method to Steam Network backbone that occasionally caused network throttling and player to gain over 1000 ping

• Fixed replay data being read unnecessarily when downloading new matches causing the game to freeze once you had around 1,000 replays saved

• Misc crash fixes

Campaign

• Victory screen now always waits for in progress dialog

• Fixed misc text clipping and layout problems in Ship menus

Galactic War

• Galactic War units will no longer be affected by changes to Versus/Skirmish

• Reverted a few of the previous Versus balance changes, such an Devourers not being able to hit air

• Added Mutator Matchmaking settings so you can prioritize faster queues or the mutators you want

• Updated score screen for Galactic war to track your fastest times, least units lost and more.

• Fixed topbar bonuses not working

Versus/Skirmish/Survival

General

• Resource Warfare and The Stars in Our Reach now work for all XP sources instead of only towers

• Hauler Transport ability now allows unloading when flying

• Fixed visuals for Arandi abduction

• MMR and Rank updates on Versus tab after games

• Updated fog of war visual on some maps

• Spectators can now see unit upgrades, topbar abilities, and tooltips (applies to live games and replays)

• Rewind button is unselectable and shows status until the replay is ready

• Fixed visual issues when viewing old replays

• Updated score screen for Survival

Text

• Fixed localized objective text on Planet Killer

• Updated how text is wrapped in certain languages

• Misc Localization Updates