reinstall while keeping configs

You can back up the config files with the settings and then copy them back in after reinstall. Iirc LuaUI/Configs is the directory that you need to copy.

If you already reinstalled and overwrote this idk what you can do.

Leaving two of the three downloads broken does not send good signals, and the focus on Steam is in my opinion misguided for two reasons:

- there's already a TA-style, Spring-based free RTS on Steam that looks better (something that rarely guided my decisions to try a game, but I guess it is not the same for the average Steam user)

- it doesn't seem to me that ZK gained that much players thanks to Steam (maybe 3X "only" considered the vast userbase of Steam). I don't think ZK can afford to ignore potential new players.

It's also not a good time to leave this as is. Yet another TA-style, Spring-based free RTS is currently in alpha but already looks promising.

FWIW, I might lose patience and just switch to it. To me, the fact that they cannot fix the issue quickly (not to mention that we had just 2 responses and then silence - are they also Discord-only?) is sending bad signals about the code base and/or the dev team.

We depend on old spring for parts of our infrastructure including download and version detection (rapid system).
We should replace it with our own copy of the system to fix these issues.

Tested the test version:
Tried putting in into a separate folder and running it using mono:
(edit) https://pastebin.com/0QaiN0A7
Tried putting the .exe into my ZK folder and running it:
https://pastebin.com/XfuBqKXW

Yeah, it doesn't work. What does the auto-updater even update? I'm sure the lobby can update Zero-k game to the correct version.

By the way, on https://test.zero-k.info/lobby/zero-k.exe my browser returns:

quote: Secure Connection Failed An error occurred during a connection to test.zero-k.info. PR_CONNECT_RESET_ERROR The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified. Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.

I had to use http://test.zero-k.info/lobby/zero-k.exe . Looks like we have more certificate problems.

The test version seems to work now.

Works in a very strange way for me. Connects and downloads, but then the news is from a year ago, on the profile tab I'm more than 20 levels lower than I am in reality, there's nobody in the chat. Needs more work.

quote: Works in a very strange way for me...

Yes, I noticed those things too (except I saw Psaniac and got chat messages from people who wasn't supposed to be there) but didn't mention them because it is a "test version", so I thought it might take its info on some backup server with outdated data that was sampled a year ago from the live server. I'm not too worried about that. What matters is that it does fix the download issue.

It's been released. Download the portable version here https://zero-k.info/Download