A standard 8-16 player 1v1 single elimination tournament will be held this Saturday. Sign up in this thread: https://zero-k.info/Forum/Thread/25420In other news, our lingering matchmaker issues have been reproduced, fixed and deployed. The fix of a few…

We have taken a look at games and feedback and come up with a small balance update. Inconsistent, and sometimes drastic, unit interaction with gravity guns and other sources of impulse have also been fixed.Glaive is now slightly less cost effective, bu…

The fixes and features have stacked to the point that it is time to make a content release. The most noticable change is the much improved shield shader, which only just missed out on inclusion in our initial release. A notable fix is to overkill preve…

Ladder play has been so popular that we’ve decided to run a short 1v1 tournament this weekend, just to get into the swing of things. The format is single elimination within pools stratified by rank. Everyone should be able to sign up and have a decent chance within their pool.

The release has far exceeded our expectations and we’ve gained a lot of new players for the community who, overall, seem pretty nice. The servers have held up and, apart from a crash on Friday, everything has gone really smoothly. The campaign and matchmaker are really paying dividends. Currently there are 800 people playing Zero-K and 500 in the lobby and we’re excited to see how far we can go.

We would really appreciate help so spread videos, tell your friends, and leave reviews. With no marketing budget (or really any budget) this is our best way to spread Zero-K and to ensure that Steam shows it to many potential players. It really helps and a big thankyou to everyone who has taken the time to review thus far!

We would also like to clarify some issues and common questions.

Zero-K is out on Steam in less than a day. Here is what you can do to help:

• Ask friends (acquaintances, passers-by) to get Zero-K on Steam, after all, it’s free!
• Get Steam Zero-K and write a review. This tells Steam to tell more people about Zero-K.
• Be as nice possible to new players and help them out. They will appreciate it will help set up a good community standard.

With the Steam release fast approaching we have launched another test Planetwars to fix any lingering issues and ensure that it all works. For stability there are few new features however we have found the time to do some balance changes on the structures. The largest change is that victory points decay at 1/turn if at least two factions have VP, this is similar to the influence decay mechanic for planets.

It would be foolish to run Planetwars over the release as it is not the best place for brand new players and there are potential server load issues. We’ve been running these tests to let us run a full lore-and-all round shortly after the release. Exactly when will depend on circumstances.

Planetwars is now online for testing, with plans to run a full round within the next two months. We encourage you to join a faction and conquer some planets, with the caveat that this is just a testing round. Bugs and unexpected changes are likely and …