Engine Update

An update from Spring 104.0.1-287-gf7b0fcc to Spring 104.0.1-901-g89b4773 is now live. Benchmarks sent in by users indicate that the framerate of the new engine is slightly more stable, and that performance is overall quite similar. The main advantages of the updated are the new features and fixes, with the possibility of more fixes to come.

The engine and AI devs have put in quite a bit of work into fixing the bugs found in local and multiplayer testing. However, we don't have the testing volume to find all the issues so please be patient and report any issues.

Back we go to 104.0.1-287-gf7b0fcc. The new AI version was not being applied to campaign missions, and my test for this was to see if the campaign crashes. Unfortunately the old AI fails to instantly crash on the new engine version (which was its behaviour a week ago) so it was not caught. The new AI version instantly crashes on campaign missions.

Good work so far keeping the game playable while making progress in delevoping it further :)
Never give up, one step back will be two steps forward!

Here's some rainbow text to congratulate you on a job well done and to keep you motivated. I hope the kinks will be ironed out soon so that we can have the bug fixes in the new engine.

If you are using the Steam version, you can opt-in to the "test" beta to have Zero-K use the latest engine. Keep in mind that you won't be able to play multiplayer if you're not using 287 though.