It’s time for a Matchmaker map pool rotation to introduce new maps (and give some old ones some love too).

To send out 2018 in style there will be a 1v1 tournament at 20:00 UTC on the coming Saturday, December 15th. Click this thread link to see the tournament thread.

There is a tournament in 10 days, so it is a perfect time to fix Archer. The central issue for Archer was physics-based rather than attributes based, which makes solo testing difficult. Thankfully, rooks[vegan], Kingstad, raaar, noobula, and izirayd we…

The issues with the AI from the last engine update attempt have been resolved. This time, instead of applying the latest update, we’re asking players to test the beta branch. Be sure to report any issues and post if you test so we can judge the effectiveness of the beta branch approach.

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.

The bulk of this update consists of technical changes required to make Zero-K compatible with the latest engine version. We aim to update the engine version shortly, if everything goes to plan.

The benchmarking from last week successfully found an effect and we’d like to thank everyone (around 100 people) who submitted a benchmark. The one-click benchmark has been changed to compare the old and new engine versions.