Campaign Feedback - Rovers, Faraday and Puppy

Ganong (the domi mission) is no longer winnable without serious contrivance, since their damage mechanic changed they're much weaker against minotaurs. Gnats aren't viable either since the ai just spams AA in response.

On missions that require reaching an objective (i.e. Estann All), the mission will count as a loss if your commander is destroyed even after the victory screen has been displayed. The game will not register it as a victory and you will therefore have to replay the mission (albeit with more knowledge and possibly a strategy).

Happika Normal:
Fast and furious, quite a fun one. Finished first run fairly straight forwardly without getting bonus, but really is the first mission to set the tempo for raiding gameplay. Came back after finishing the campaign and did some pause -> command cycles and got bonus, though pure scorcher was probably a bad idea. Probably will redo it with fencer/ravager to see how much of a difference it makes.

Difficulty 4
Learning Mechanics 6


Cadentem Normal:

Easy mission and nothing particularly interesting learned, no impressions a week later

Difficulty 1
Learning Mechanics: 3


Baosezu Normal:

Easy mission but show cases some serious firepower! Learned some basic scout and artillery gameplay, and time pressure makes a interesting as opposed to dull building busting

Difficulty 2
Learning Mechanics: 3


Ganong Normal:

While winning isn't hard, maintaining the tempo to complete all objectives require understanding of domi micro that is beyond me. Also got base flanked by Ogre from the north/south a few times and lost facts result in obvious inability to get bonus. Still working on clearing all bonuses. I am at least better with eco and hotkeys now.

Difficulty 4 (bonus: ?)
Learning mechanics 6



Skokukur Normal:

Other objectives was pretty easy except the 100 puppies. Re-cleared easy after learning about the reclaim thing. Also learned about placeholders, which is a pretty cool unit.

Difficulty 4
Learning mechanics 7



Estann All Normal:

Was really confused by reviving units until rereading briefing after a few restarts. Did shield ball first time without mexes bonus. Really have a hard time getting enough mexes as it take multi-front micro. Will plan out a strategy later.

Difficulty 4 (bonus 8+)
Learning mechanics 4

Hi,

In Happika, I don't think the win by 6 minutes is working.

Love your work.

I just completed it again and this time the bonus objective did count for me.
Not sure what happened the other times, guessing I did something wrong.

Thanks for looking into it.

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Was dominatrix changed to make captured factories unable to build? In my game (steam) I can't build anything with captured Rover fac in Ganong. Kinda makes the mission a mess, as I have to build an extra rover fac.

I've unlocked plenty of rovers. The captured factory shows the unit build selection, however clicking on any selection (or hotkey) does nothing at all.

That seems to be a new bug https://github.com/ZeroK-RTS/Zero-K/issues/4994

Capture used to be based on cost, now it is based on health. This switched the relationship between Domi and Minotaur.

Brutal difficulty missions, and in particular bonus objectives on Brutal, are explicitly not guaranteed to be fair; some of them you might need to return to with more units and an over-levelled commander. That being said, since the character of Dominatrix has fundamentally changed, the mission probably ought to as well.