Revenant was brought back from the dead just over a year ago, but it lurked in the background until the appearance of combat engineers. Killing these newly-popular commanders in two shots let people really explore what Revenant could do, and most of it looked fine, so the Revenant nerfs focus on early game power. One thing that ended up not being fine was Revenant spires, so its missiles now explode after a short time rather than fall to the ground.

With Revenant moving towards a healthy place, it is time to revive another tricky unit. Scallop is the candidate this time and it is a dangerous unit to buff, so the changes are aimed squarely at it being a better riot. It now 2-shots individual Ducks and can stand toe-to-toe with similar riots. On paper it is still worse than Reaver, but knowing Scallop it will break the game anyway, so look forward to it.

The last release was a bit too recent for many features to roll in. A notable fix is for aircraft wing trails, and a notable feature is the random selection of custom music albums, as well as the ability to play mp3s.

Balance

Scallop is much better against Duck and can even fight Ripper and Reaver.

• Range 264 -> 285
• Aim speed increased by 50%
• Reload time 0.8s -> 0.96s
• Damage 23*9 -> 28*9
• Maximum burst increased by 21.7%, DPS increased by 0.7%
• Spray angle increased by 20%
• Area of effect 32 -> 64
• Reduced area of effect damage falloff

Revenant no longer overshoots and no longer 2-shots Engineer Commanders.

• Speed 135 -> 130.5
• Reload 9s -> 10s
• Damage 220 -> 210
• Missile burn time 5s -> 2.8s
• Missiles blow up when they run out of fuel

Features

• Increased Buoy and Bulkhead auto-float depth to match their requirements.
• Added overkill prevention for Scallop shotgun.
• Renamed Scallop Flechette to Heavy Shotgun to match other shotguns.
• Added an option to choose music albums randomly (thanks Helwor).
• Custom music tracks now can now be mp3s.
• Made Trinity reload time match its animation.
• Tweakdef errors now appear in the infolog.
• Applied forced 60 fps vsync for ATI compatibility, and renamed the vsync option.

Fixes

• Fixed aircraft wing trail emit points shifting around incorrectly based on unit velocity.
• Fixed spectator panel positions when they are loaded while not in full view mode (thanks Helwor).
• Fixed set AI start position game options.
• Fixed final value alignment in graphs that go negative.
• A few campaign fixes (A unit pic, Solar, and Brutal on Old Kam, thanks Mach565).

How long should players spend setting up their base at the start of the game? Zero-K tried to make this phase as short as possible and found other issues to solve along the way.

Read it here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/334920/view/4268931197552327328

Likho has a new model by brunocb, giving it a proper singularity bomb. This update also has many fixes and a few balance changes. Some of the fixes are due to an engine update, such as a decades-old bug that caused reverse-built units to sometimes try to slide off the map. On the balance front, Bulkhead now has a bit more range than Stinger, Duck is a bit better, and Disco Rave Party spins faster.

Balance

Duck is no longer the equal-slowest raider.

• Speed 90 -> 93 elmo/s (no longer matches Bandit)
• Missile range 235 -> 232 (matches Bandit)
• Missile turn rate increased by 16% so it reliably hits Dart.

Bulkhead is more sturdy and can safely shoot at Stinger.

• Stays deployed while mid-air
• Range 600 -> 640
• Sight range 660 -> 700

Crab and Bulkhead can deploy mid-air.

Kodachi is killed in one fewer shots by Dagger.

• Health 680 -> 660

Disco Rave Party has all its bearings replaced.

• Base turn rate increased by 25%
• Maximum fire rate increased by 6.7%
• Spin-up rate increased by 18%
• Increased minimum turn rate by 25%
• Can turn without spinning down so far, as a result of the above.

Features

• Added new Likho model (thanks brunocb).
• Added optional radar colour in LOS and fog stripes, under Settings/Interface/Map/Radar Color.
• Added animation-stun to most striders. They no longer return to a netural stance while stunned.
• Guarding units can now be automatically set to lower selection rank under Settings/Interface/Selection/Filtering (thanks Amnykon).
• Improved overdrive payback tooltip.
• Added metal shared, energy excesses, and energy shared graphs.
• Mods can now include their own modoptions files.
• Reordering factory queues no longer forgets Alt-insert.
• Cloaked units no longer try to shoot at unseen mexes.
• Free-For-All games are now not counted for ranking immediately, rather than being discounted when the server restarts (thanks Shaman).

Fixes

• Fixed rally points of factories with structures right in front of them.
• Fixed overlob prevention vs. jumpjets.
• Fixed a shadow bug caused by UI scaling.
• Slowed Detriment can no longer be stolen by transports.
• Fixed defense range circles for ballistic projectiles (thanks Helwor).
• Fixed Djinn deployment when told to stop while stopping.
• Fixed being able to click twice to start a skirmish game.
• Fixed reverse-built nanoframes sometimes sliding off the map (thanks marcushutchings).
• Fixed queuing dense line moves (recent engine bug, thanks marcushutchings).
• Fixed structure ground decals persisting after death (recent engine bug, thanks marcushutchings).
• Fixed an issue with action registering (thanks Helwor).
• Made UnitLeftRadar more consistent (thanks Helwor).
• Terraform construction can no longer catch fire.
• East-facing morphs no longer result in West-facing units.
• Fixed lingering noammo icon on wreck tooltips.

Zero-K has nukes and missiles that shoot down nukes, but unlike similar games, the system is kept as simple as possible to keep it feeling fair and interactive.

Read it here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/334920/view/4155212770698415116