Balance

• Disarm now interrupts bursts (in the same way that EMP does). For example a Catapult can start firing, get disarmed and finish firing when the disarm wears off.
• Djinn obeys disarm.
• Commander area jammer and area cloaker modules now drain energy. Not draining energy was a bug.

Interface

Added selection filtering, as requested here: http://zero-k.info/Forum/Thread/23954.

• All units have a Selection Rank state toggle that ranges from 0 to 3.
• Structures have rank 1, constructors have rank 2, and combat units (commanders included) have rank 3.
• When selecting multiple units the units without the greatest rank in the selection are filtered out.
• Hold Shift to ignore rank and create selections of mixed rank.
• Hold Ctrl to ignore rank above a certain (configurable) threshold. The default ignores rank differences above 1, this means that Ctrl+A will select all units with rank at least 1.
• Selection Rank is a state toggle so you can configure your unit defaults in ‘Game/New Unit States’, just like any other state toggle.
• If you don’t want selection filtering then disable it in ‘Settings/Interface/Selection’.

Hotkeys for setting a particular unit state are now configurable in the ‘Game/Command Hotkeys’ menu. Previously the only state hotkeys available through this menu would toggle the state. With these new commands you could, for example, bind a key to set your units to hold fire by binding “Fire State: 0”.

Improved the state toggle icon for overkill prevention.

Chickens

• Fixed to White Dragon behavior.
• Removed Spidermonkey weapon lighting and reduced impulse.
• Tweaked some timing values. Lategame chickens occur slightly earlier and small chickens become obsolete sooner.
• Added savegame support for chickens.

Fixes

• Fixed command hotkey visualization for de-disabled commands during tutorials.
• Fixed night view in missions.
• Fixed Hacksaw description.
• Fixed unit AI command for non-transports.
• Fixed some shader errors on strict drivers.
• Fixed slow mex glow update when overdrive changes.
• Fixed Convict animation.

Peruse the galaxy map and join a faction: http://zero-k.info/Planetwars

Keep track of the time with this countdown timer: https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20170407T17&p0=1440&msg=Zero-K+Planetwars&font=cursive&csz=1

Main Planetwars Changes

• Artifacts victory works on victor point production. Capture and power artifacts to accrue points.
• Each faction has a well defended homeworld. Capturing an enemy homeworld is an alternate path to victory.
• Battles near your homeworld produce slightly more battle. If you fight disconnected from your homeworld the battles will produce much less metal.
• Warp Core Fabricators is replaced with single use Warp Gate structure.
• Structures have more ingame effects: factories produce a few units, defense structures spawn drones, energy generators produce a little energy.
• Structures can be evacuated if you have a functional wormhole. Losing a defense no longer means all your structures will be disabled.
• Structures now have wrecks which can be reclaimed for a reasonable amount of metal.

Interface

• Sniper shot finder widget no longer works. A good visualization design for Snipers is pending.
• Added a proper icon for the overkill prevention unit state.
• Fixed some tab playerlist glitches.
• Added option to not show FacPanel selected factory build panel.
• Added Blastwing as an exception to the cloak firestate widget.
• Attrition counter is no longer minimizable (removes the ugly minimization bar).
• Added game-wide colour blindness correction shaders, configurable through ‘Settings/Graphics/Accessibility/Color Blindness Correction’.
• Added multiple team colour selection settings to a dropdown menu on the bar in the top left.
• Standard embark command now works for Jump, Guard, Reclaim, Repair, Resurrect and Construction.
• Embark command now works automatically for constructors. Constructors with auto-transport are now automatically transported between their tasks. Good for taking mexes over a large area.
• Selection window groups unit types together when in unstacked mode.

Fixes

• Blocked attack commands near Defender, LLT and HLT maximum range to prevent most cases of manual attack ground overshoot.
• Hawks reduce their engine thrust when slowed.
• Fixed construction priority issue with calculating energy used for overdrive when low on energy.
• Fixed a chicken spawn error.
• Scorpion wreck blocks unit movement.
• Redudant unitdef tag cleanup.
• Fixed Barren mex config.
• Fixed Rogue failing to skirmish Scalpel.
• Wreck -> Debris should now be consistent for all units. Some units had two levels of wreckage for legacy reasons.