This is mostly a small fixes update for the previous patch. It has a few balance chanegs and features though. Most notable are a slight Redback nerf and a sudden death mode. The sudden death mode might see use in the upcoming tournament to put a cap on very long games, but we are still waiting to see what people think of it. In any case, it seems like a useful mode to have.

Balance

Redback is worse at dodging projectiles.

• Increased collision shape width by 11% and length by 25%.
• Reduced turn rate by 5%.

Ogre now ignores terrain and wrecks when aiming and firing. It has sufficient AoE and arc for making the attempt to often be beneficial.

Zeno now homes onto the actual position of a radar target earlier - early enough to hit it.

Features

• Holding Alt while selecting units now filters out rank 3 (ie army units).
• Added a sudden death mode game option, under Map. It causes the game to end shortly after a specified time via a contracting death circle.

Fixes

• Fixed a missile impact indicator error.
• Fixed a pathfinding issue to do with construction orders on terrible terrain.
• Tactical missiles no longer have inconsistent half-prediction of enemy velocity. They now fire exactly where they are aimed.
• Fixed contrast adaptive sharpening scaling with zoom level.
• Fixed moderator tooltip colour in the lobby.
• Improved Pylon collision and selection volumes.

You can manually alter any unit's selection rank on the fly with an option toggle. https://zero-k.info/mediawiki/Selection#Selection_Rank

You might misunderstand. Default behavior is to drag a box and select all combat units if any exist in box selection(tier 3). This new option allows you to hold alt while doing a box select, and it 'inverts' the selection of units, so now if any combat units exist in the box select, they are NOT selected and all lower priority units (rank 1 and 2) are selected. This allows a player to easily do a not action with a mouse and 1 keyboard modifier. Of course, all the default behavior has been unmodified, so this patch shouldn't affect any pre-patch selection behavior. Besides that, I don't understand any new reason to be shifting combat ranks. Don't forget, SHIFT applies the and operator to the selection, meaning all units rank 1-3 get selected, and rank 0 is the special invisible rank that gets filtered out of most selection actions.

Well, my bluff has been called so I'll make a quick stable. You are supposed to be able to set the threshold for Alt interting under Settings/Interface/Selection, with a value of three disabling the feature (because inverting everything above rank 3 is a noop). I forgot to add it to the options list though, but didn't want to make a whole stable because perhaps nobody would notice.

https://github.com/ZeroK-RTS/Zero-K/commit/d1b35dd3c23825822b46c1c48b953180befe50bf

So ZK v1.11.6.6 is out.