Zero-K v0.9.9

Version number++ because the number bloat was getting really silly.

General

• Fixed smart retargeting of slow weapons
• Fixed marker placement when units are transfered due to lag/AFK
• Fixed solars closing and "under attack" sounds playing when "hit" by a friendly Outlaw
• Aircraft factories float rather than resting on seafloor
• Chicken: Replaced egg AI selections with a single egg modoption

Balance

• Fixed an issue where missile cruiser had considerably lower stats than intended
• Fixed torpedo frigates not having sonar
• Fixed EMP missile homing when it should not
• Screamer missiles are free to stockpile
• Scorpion has a new multi-stunner special attack

GUI

• Jumpjet GUI is drawn for queued orders even if the last order in the queue is such that the start position of jump is not precisely known (construction, area orders)
• Removed the massively annoying blinking of point tracker
• Initial States includes gunship strafe

Graphics

• Bigger Jack model

+1 to initial priorities of buildings.

Yeah but you still will have to set it to hold fire. By the way Hi Jack. LoL how much texture wasted for that! Just now noticed...

v0.9.9.1 is a quickfix to revert whatever KR did to terraform to break it (not breaking it is quite hard) and reverted Jack size because the change was completely undiscussed and has greater consequences than were considered.

The footprint was increased from 2 to 3 which is especially important for a melee unit and also important for a jumping one. It would be harder to maneuver which is quite a bad thing.

Also more changelog:

Lightning (weapons with mixed EMP and normal damage) weapons now deal their EMP + Normal damage to shields. This is because their EMP damage is relatively low and as such had extremely low DPS vs shields. For example Ravager had 40% better DPS/cost vs shields than Zeus and Zeus could not even drain equal cost in Thug shield.

Initial States:

• Added build priority.
• Added land/fly toggle.

Kodachi flame now sets targets on fire with certainty.

settarget added features.

For shieldbots, I would recommend rogue vs zeus. Make sure you have scouting and radar so you can confront the zeus a good distance from your base, and have plenty of room to kite backwards.

+1 to no annoying blinking, there is certainly such a thing as too annoying

-1 to screamer, it is a ffa unit like ddm, dont balance it based on random pub newbie team games

Jeez .. it just shows how people suck at judging balance...

Zeus does not even make COST

Not up, it's assault. Assault is anti porc and sometimes riot, and dies fast to anything else due to low attack speed and slow movement.

It is hard to tell anything from stats because newby games and also endgames where units are just spammed into defense.

For a better sanity check use closed testing.

Oh also Screamer stockpile cost was not removed. It now costs no resource but still costs 20 seconds. This was always the most significant cost of stockpile.

An old tactic, get a gunship behind a HLT to attract the Screamer missile.