Back to the Future: Zero-K v1.2.6.0 with Spring 97.0

Hop in the DeLorean, we're going 88 mph with no looking back! 1.21 gigawatts, baby!

Balance

Rocko:
Rocket speed reduced by 5%

Gauss guns can now pierce water. This is to make Scrubber (now Dagger) useful in the sea. As a side effect the Gauss Turret is another form of anti-sub and wading Detriments no longer fear submarines.

Scrubber has been renamed to Dagger (to reduce the prevalence of Sc- names).

Gauss Turret can now shoot at aircraft.

Funnelweb:
Replaced Gauss Gun with a dual Glaive Gun.

Commander Gauss has been removed. Shock Rifle now converts from Light Particle Beam.

Duck, Scallop, Scalpel, Crusader (depthcharge), Hunter, Snake and Serpent no longer lead their target. This makes them better at shooting targets near their maximum range.

Duck:
Health 240 -> 340
Range 240 -> 250
Added unit AI.

Urchin:
Health 1000 -> 900
Range 600 -> 520

Other
Significantly increased the performance of the unit selection window.
Minor Unit AI optimization.
Minor Shield Link optimization.
Fixed Initial Queue crash.
Added a modoption to force Commander Junior.
Solars can no longer be forced open.
Reduced Hawk firing sound.

They said they will release 98.0 as the "stable" version when a few more critical bugs get fixed (including anything that very likely gets discovered today and tomorrow).

quote: Funnelweb: Replaced Gauss Gun with a dual Glaive Gun.

this is bs. what makes funnel and other drone carriers op are drones, not their main weapon. this change only makes a single funnel worse and doesnt change much about funnel spam. nerf drones instead, they deserve it.

Thx for da work!!

Yeah... I dont really see the point in removing commander weapon choice. It would have been nice if gauss was buffed up to beam laser/LPB strength instead.


Also bug report: Enemies can see your initial build que.

Skasi
Scrubber(Dagger) now can kill duck and not get hit back (or did them change torp to hit hover now too? ), so maybe that the reason for the bluff, but i can not play so no way for me to test it...

So now commanders cannot shoot anything when under water?
Also I cannot see selection circles on 97.

quote: Also I cannot see selection circles on 97

There's some engine bug causing that (and I don't know any workaround, and apparently the people working on BAR's selection widget have the same problem). From what I can tell UnitShapes default to off for the moment, though Blurry Halo Selections work fine, if a bit slower.

I thought springee will use 97 now... Or it was immediately reverted as usual?

Siege coms are no longer able to use shock rifles because they cant use light particle beams. i assume this is an unintentional sideeffect? will this be fixed?