Zero-K v1.10.11.1 - Down to Earth

Dirtbag cannot go to space, commanders deal a little less damage, and economy coordination is smoother. New music tracks by the player Superintendent are now available ingame in the track list under Settings/Audio. Conjurer cloak has the largest nerfs since its inception, core cloakbots have small nerfs, and the assault vehicles are tankier. Paladin is a little harder to manoeuvre and Krow has a lot more damage, but with Krow being niche for so long it is hard to say how the balance will shake out.

Balance

**Dirtbag **hits slightly less hard and can no longer create very steep terrain.

• Health 580 -> 560

• Damage reduced by 13%

• Dropped dirt now has a slope limit (5x normal terraform slope).

• In particular, maximum thin spike height ∞ -> 700 elmos.

Conjurer is easier to find when area cloaking.

• Movement speed reduced to 66% while area cloaking.

• Area cloak cost 8 -> 10

• Jamming and area cloak radius 184 -> 175

• Decloak radius while area cloaking 184 -> 220

Ronin has reduced survivability.

• Health 420 -> 400

• Turn rate reduced by 15%

Reaver is worse at dodging and shooting.

• Turn rate reduced by 10%

• Range 270 -> 265

Mason is slower to slow down Rover expansion.

• Speed 72 -> 69

Ravager is tankier and better at hitting mobiles.

• Health 1920 -> 2000

• Projectile velocity increased by 5.7%

**Minotaur **is also tankier and better at hitting mobiles.

• Health 6800 -> 7200

• Projectile velocity increased by 2%

Krow bombs are easier to target and its laser now demands respect.

• Manoeuvrability while bombing 25% reduction -> 25% increase

• Speed while bombing is still reduced by 25%

• Reduced cluster bomb spray angle by 6.6%

• Increased laser fire tolerance by 10%

• Laser range 383 -> 395

• Laser DPS increased by 19%

**Paladin **is less manoeuvrable.

• Speed 46.5 -> 43.5

• Turn rate reduced by 10%

• Torso turn rate reduced by 10%

• Head turn rate reduced by 20%

Commanders

**Strike **chassis gains a unique attribute at level 1.

• Added innate jamming with 175 radius (matches Conjurer)

**Guardian **loses the free battle drone as it is too powerful.

• Removed free battle drone on level 5.

**Morph ** is slower but cheaper at higher levels.

• Morph costs 75/100/650/200/300/400/500... -> 50/100/650/200/250/300/350...

• Morph rate 10/15/20/25/30/30/30... -> 5/5/7.5/7.5/10/10/10...

• Basic weapon cost 5 -> 25

The most common weapons mostly have damage nerfs while Flamethrower has a buff.

• Beam Laser DPS reduced by 4%

• Light Particle Beam DPS reduced by 8%

• Disruptor Beam DPS reduced by 6%

• Riot Cannon reload time 1.63s -> 1.8s

• Riot Cannon range 300 -> 285

• Rocket Launcher projectile velocity reduced by 6%

• Rocket Launcher area of effect 96 -> 90

• Flamethrower DPS increased by 13.6%

Team Economy

Constructing your economy as a team is easier as shared projects now generate shared payback.

• Temporary payback for constructing mexes and energy is now proportional to the amount of resources spent on each structure, rather than only paying the owner.

• Mex payback increased 50% -> 80%.

• Energy payback increased 50% -> 60%.

• Energy maximum payback rate increased by 6%.

• Fixed a bug that caused the old mex payback to be closer to 35-40%.

• Fixed payback sent to AFK players simply disappearing.

Unit AI

Some units gain the Ronin Lotus-fighting AI and other units shoot less at hidden mexes.

• Added Lotus and running away on firing to Moderator and Scalpel.

• Ogre only shoots at nearby hidden mexes, not though at max range.

• Crab doesn't shoot at hidden mexes.

• Krow now skirmishes everything to avoid enemies walking under it.

• Tweak move clumping to be slightly more lenient for large units.

Music

• Added a work-in-progress alternate music track by Superintendent.

• It can be enabled ingame under "Settings/Audio/Track list".

Campaign

Zhurou (DRP) is a bit easier on Easy.

• Shifted Detriments later on Easy.

• Added an allied antinuke on Easy.

• Added a player Fusion on Easy and Normal (for some energy leeway).

Hibiliha (Funnelweb) is also a bit easier on Easy.

• Added Ultimatum temporary unlock.

• Hampered initial enemy income on Easy by removing backline mexes and the remaining Fusions.

• Thinned out initial enemy army on Easy.

Features

• Improved Pyro firing animation.

• Ctrl+Click formation move now obeys *current *maximum move speed.

• Merged unit spotter widget improvements from rollmops.

• Adv Geo blast radius shows while placing Geos.

• Tweak the antinuke range lines to be slightly thinner.

• Placing a morphable structure with Ctrl held now queues the morph after completion.

• Antinuke now gains one level per nuke interception.

• The stealth tag is now supported for modding.

• Right clicking on a unit in a factory now guards the factory. This avoids accidentally repairing rather than assisting. Queuing a command after guard cancels the guard, so the common use case is preserved.

• Self destructing a large portion of your stuff now blocks the command and prints a warning, rather than automatically resigns. Note that resign is bindable for those that want it.

Fixes

• Saved 10% or so of allocated Lua memory.

• Limited the commands created by large area attacks for performance reasons.

• Reduced the complexity of Dirtbag animation at high unit counts.

• Fixed overwriting existing guard commands with Shift sometimes not removing the command.

• Fixed Caretaker guard order dropping logic.

• Fixed rare build ETA crash for spectators.

• Fixed a crash for mods that try to set fractional stun times.

• Fixed some changes to the ingame menu for player based hosting (Skirmish and Steam Coop).

• Fixed a mixup in skirmish behaviour between 2D and 3D range.

• Fixed a value in the terraform raise/lower tooltip.