PlanetWars season 6

Congratulations to clan Valhalla and Odin for winning PlanetWars season 5! http://zero-k.info/Forum/Thread/314

Season 6 starts now, PlanetWars gameplay changes:

• buying from locals is impossible if you dont have influence on planet already
• militia defends planet with 500 initial influence
• lots of structures are a bit cheaper
• improved mines are more expensive and better

Version 0.8.8.2

After several delays, patch version 0.8.8.2 is out:

• Fixed a general interface crash
• Fixed several issues with Core Selector
• Fixed factory build progress in main menu not displaying
• Fixed high-level comms trying to fit into gaps they can't
• Fixed Companion Drone doing 10% the damage it should
• Fixed cruise missiles (from silo) not counting towards damage dealt
• Jugglenaut no longer attempts to use its gravity guns on gunships
• Shadow works properly when given a fight order while on Fire at Will
• Jethro and Bantha do a bit more damage
• Removed ally comm selection announcement
• Planetwars: Buildings should no longer spawn in lava
• Voting GUI now has a 1s delay between votes (to prevent spamming)

PlanetWars season 5

Congratulations to clan TZI and Drone for winning PlanetWars season 4! http://zero-k.info/Forum/Thread/314

Season 5 starts now, PlanetWars gameplay changes:

• buying from locals is impossible on artifact planets and planets with planetary defense grid
• all planets start with local militia - it provides 50 influence defense preventing 1 influence buying of entire galaxy.
• economic victory now needs only 50% of assets in cash (down from 70%)
• local buy price 10, locals sell price 40
• clans are again awarded free planet after first battle

Version 0.8.8 + new PlanetWars season

Congratulations to clan FL for winning last PlanetWars! http://zero-k.info/Forum/Thread/314
New season starts now!

• Game interface:
• new "selector" bar, shows idle constructors, commanders factories
• ally chat is automatically converted to speech (with Zero-K lobby)
• chat bubbles stack to bottom, only ally chat and point bubbles appear
• go to last alert button for minimap
• only ally chat makes "ping" sound
• changed default layout
• main menu layout tweaks and improvements
• bomber ammo icon displays for specs

• Lobby:
• removed rarely used features - quickmatching, follow, auto ready
• page loading in progress indicator for browser
• settings tab overhaul - easy way to pick one of graphics details presets
• after engine crash, lobby offers to switch to minimal config
• initial game resolution is set to match desktop resolution
• Zero-K lobby now distributes proper default configs with bindings and settings optimized for ZK

• PlanetWars:
• team balancing tweaks
• it is now possible to buy/sell influence from "locals" - at any time, at high (buy)/low (sell) prices

• Unit properties:
• Krow behavior fixed; now comes with a gravity gun
• Stiletto attack run length reduced by 33%
• Dante rocket salvo fires twice as fast (takes half as long to finish)
• Concussion Shell has more AoE and impulse; Disruptor Bomb does a bit more damage
• Plasma Containment Field no longer affects Heavy Machine Gun
• Shadow dives to hit targets under shields by default; can be made to never dive, dive against any target, or to always fly at low altitude.

• Misc:
• replaced commander teleport effect at start of game with a better one
• commanders grow dramatically in size with levels
• fixed Chicken Suicidal difficulty

Version 0.8.7.2

• Fixed gravity guns targeting statics
• Fixed edge-of-startbox bug
• Fixed issue with Cloak Fire State applying to units it shouldn't
• Licho HP 2800 -> 2600, range 700 -> 500
• Ultimatum cloak cost 10/50 -> 8/24
• !PlanetWars: Numerically smaller team gets free comms assigned to best players to make up for the difference
• Chicken
• Burrow wave bonus down
• Burrow queen time up
• Queen
• Base HP increased
• HP reduced on early appearance
• Retains paralyze and capture damage when morphing, can't morph when paralyzed
• White Dragon drops an egg
• AI picks its own comm instead of whatever parent player picked
• Pit Bull uses a gauss cannon instead of the old rocket launcher
• Bantha HP 35000 -> 36000
• Cluster Bomb has a bit more range

PlanetWars rule changes

• unclanned people can play and get their own personal unlocks
• unclanned poeple gain no planet influence
• clanned people must wear clan tag and get their personal unlocks + clan unlocks
• technologies contribute more to influence gained from battle