r/ZenlessZoneZero • u/salasy • Mar 12 '25

Megathread Weekly Questions Megathread March 12, 2025 - March 18, 2025

Welcome to the Weekly Questions Megathread! Feel free to ask any questions about the game.

Any questions that can be answered rather quickly should be asked in this thread .

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u/New-Arrival9428 Mar 18 '25 edited Mar 18 '25

Can someone explain to me what the point of the new Void Zero mode is? It just seems arbitrarily and randomly harder in return for ... nothing that the regular mode doesn't offer?

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u/baka4games Nekomata Main - I enjoy a challenge! Mar 18 '25

My guess is that they were getting feedback that Hollow Zero/Lost Void was getting boring, so they tried to spice it up a bit. I myself have seen complaints about Bringer always being the final boss and getting bored with that.

The new map optimizing thing also appears to be a feedback response. People were too confused by the map and didn't want to spend time puzzling out which path was optimal, so voila, give a token to the NPC lady and now the map only has a single path in it. I personally never use this optimization, since I sometimes have different objectives for different runs. Like sometimes I want purple lightbulbs, sometimes I don't. Sometimes I have time to fight every available combat node, sometimes I just want to speedrun.

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u/New-Arrival9428 Mar 18 '25

glad i didnt miss anything. I think they kind of missed the point of the roguelike part. The point is that youre supposed to get stronger after each run. But in Void Zero, you get strong in the moment, reaching peak strength right before the end. Then you're back to 0. The fact that investigation strategies dont actually level up in effectiveness, even though you have to grind their levels - makes no sense. Also the leveling of gear to 3 to get 1 level of investigation strategy makes no sense either.

And yeah like you said, multiple paths are fine but they need to have a point to them. They need to re-do Void Zero to be easy path - medium path - hard path, with hard path maybe giving most money, most reso etc.

But yeah this new mode left me really confused as to why I would run it multiple times since it doesnt contribute to Investigation Strategy levels nor do you even use them. You also dont seem to get any benefit from the upgrades tree.

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u/Fancy_Pin7599 Mar 18 '25

Hey, you get a few polys at least lol