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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