Zero-K v1.6.9.0

With this update, the Cyclops will hopefully no longer dominate the 1v1 scene. We also have a sizable number of fixes and other improvements to go with it.

Balance

• Replaced Cyclops' combination cannon/slow beam with a single disruptor cannon
• This is intended to enforce its role as an anti-heavy unit, reducing its effectiveness against small units

Graphics

• Added new Strike Commander skins: Chitin, Renegade

Sounds

• New sounds for various weapons
• Zombie mode sounds are back

GUI

• Missile silo has a "select missiles" button

Fixes

• Fixed units sometimes being permanently disabled by lightning
• Save/load now handles morph properly
• Fixed Outlaw (and similar) sphere GFX not appearing underwater
• Fixed lights being cut off when slightly offscreen
• Fixed gaps in blocks of nanoframes started with Q
• Athena no longer appears in gesture menu
• Workaround campaign disappearing terraform bug: restore effects of initial non-building terraform on game load
• Smarter parsing of disabled units string
• Fixed various Lua errors appearing ingame

Misc.

• Mex placement widget can no longer be disabled (accidentally or otherwise)

No, check out the purple blob in the newspost picture - it still has a slow projectile (so now has a weapon like a Buoy, not like a Moderator).

Since the newspost does not say this specifically, the main cannon now does an extra 2100 slow damage (at 3.5s reload, this maintains the old 600 slow DPS).

yeah looks like reaper spam is dominating.. it was always good but it makes me wonder what kills reaper balls

Domi still turns minotaur balls wholesale. Cyclops is still useful here because it's much more domi-proof.

That said, i think it's fair to buff Cyclops' slow factor and overslow duration. The longer reload between shots on its theoretical 600 sDPS meand that enemies get to decay more of it.

Emissary is of course still problematic, seeing how it's faster than Duck, but that's another day's problem.

Changes is bad for me, I think so.
Same is about name, of Goliath to Cyclop, like many other units names.

It was just leaving it with its previous weapon and leveling damage, range, recharge time, etc.

I think that change was good.
Leaving the old gun + slow beam combo made it too much of a generalist. Tune numbers too low and its useless, too high and its OP.

Adding flamer is terrible idea...it makes it good at killing things it shouln't kill like literally just before this patch hit.

its still op