Version 1.6

Version 1.6
Among the Forgotten Ruins
Release Date	March 12, 2025
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Among the Forgotten Ruins

Zenless Zone Zero Version 1.6 "Among the Forgotten Ruins" Special Program-2

Release Date: March 12, 2025

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Previous: 1.5 - Astra-nomical Moment

Next: 1.7 - Bury Your Tears With the Past

Version 1.6 is the seventh major release of Zenless Zone Zero.

Confirmed Details

Playable Agents

• Soldier 0 - Anby (,  Electric,  Attack)
• Trigger (,  Electric,  Stun)
• Pulchra Fellini (,  Physical,  Stun)

W-Engines

• Severed Innocence (-Rank, Attack)
• Spectral Gaze (-Rank, Stun)
• Box Cutter (-Rank, Stun)

Drive Discs

• Shadow Harmony
• Phaethon's Melody

Signal Searches

Exclusive Channels

• Phase 1:
  • Electric Reflection (Soldier 0 - Anby)
  • Born to Burn (Burnice)
• Phase 2:
  • Sights of Asphodel (Trigger)
  • Unswerving Bullet (Zhu Yuan)

W-Engine Channels

• Phase 1:
  • Dissonant Sonata (Severed Innocence)
  • Vibrant Resonance (Flamemaker Shaker)
• Phase 2:
  • Dazzling Choir (Spectral Gaze)
  • Dazzling Melody (Riot Suppressor Mark VI)

Events

• All-New Program
• "En-Nah" Into Your Lap
• Hollow Zero: Shattered Edge
• Shiyu Defense/Critical Node
• Deadly Assault
• Silver Soldier Song
• Zero Point Calibration
• March On, Tiny Titan!
• Little Knight's Big Charge
• Virtual World: Battle Storm
• Delivery Cat Woes
• Data Bounty: Combat Simulation
• Advanced Bounty: Routine Cleanup
• The Final Callback, first half
• The Final Callback, second half

Commissions

• Phaethon's Story
  • Bury Your Tears With the Past (A)
• Agent Story
  • Echoes of Silver
  • Out of Sight

Locations

• Private Suite:
  • Temporarily available during the Main Story "Bury Your Tears With the Past (A)". The Private Suite is located on the 2F of Lumina Galleria, offering an upscale space for hosting important events.
• Scott Outpost Update:
  • After progressing through the Main Story "Bury Your Tears With the Past (A)", the platform area in Scott Outpost will be removed, allowing Proxies to better observe the state of Hollow Zero from Scott Outpost.

Enemies

• Abyssal Enforcer
• Doppelganger - Abyssal Enforcer
• Palicus
• Specialized Assault Bomber
• Geppetto

Gamemodes

• Expert Challenge: Lumberjack
• Hollow Zero: Dancing on Strings
• Adds Burnout Mode to Expert Challenge:
  • For selected challenge targets, Expert Challenge will periodically activate Burnout Mode, where Proxies can consume double the Battery Charge required to receive double rewards. Burnout Mode will only be active for those challenges that provide the Higher Dimensional Data materials required by the current limited S-Rank Agents.
• Routine Cleanup: Gunslinger vs Guardian

Other Additions

• 3 new generic Inter-Knot Avatars will be added.
• Partner Archive and Trust added for Soldier 0 - Anby, Pulchra Fellini, and Trigger.
  • Soldier 11's final Trust Rank will also be made available.
  • Soldier 0 - Anby and Anby share the same Trust Events. If you've previously reached Trust Level 4 with Anby, you can claim the wallpaper reward from the Partner Archive after obtaining Soldier 0 - Anby through Signal Search.
• Adds new Achievements related to A Ridu Journey, Phaethon's Story (Achievement), Agent Story (Achievement), Agent Trust, Inter-Knot Hot Topic, Lost Void (Achievement), and Hostile Targets, including some hidden achievements.
• Adds new Titles related to Agent Trust and Hollow Zero: Lost Void.
• Adds new collectibles, including W-Engine models Severed Innocence, Spectral Gaze, and Box Cutter.
• Adds a controller vibration function when completing the Help the Bangboo mini-game.
• Added a quick access shortcut to Challenge Mode in Compendium - Hollow Zero.
• Adds an "Anisotropic Sampling" setting function for the PC client. Proxies can adjust this option in Options - Graphics.
• Adds a new trophy set to the PS5™ and PS5™ Pro platforms: Zenless Zone Zero - Among the Forgotten Ruins.

Adjustments & Optimizations

Agents & Enemies

• Optimizes the invitation events for Agents Ellen, Zhu Yuan, Qingyi, and Burnice. The Invitation Events for these Agents have been upgraded to Quality Time Invites.
• Optimizes Agent Astra Yao's hair animation effects when switching pages in the Enhancement interface.

Systems

• Optimizes the order of stages in the Routine Cleanup interface. New challenge stages will appear sequentially on the left side of the Routine Cleanup interface.
• Optimizes the Special Training Plan system, where after setting an Agent as a training target, the stage results screen will now display the current progress of material acquisition for the current upgrade target.
• Optimizes the EXP calculation logic of Molded Plating Agent, Crystallized Plating Agent, and Ether Plating Agent for enhancing Drive Discs in the Special Training Plan system.
• Optimizes the recommendation logic for enhancement aspects in an Agent's Combat Readiness assessment.
• Optimizes the UI layout in both W-Engine Equipment and Drive Disc Equipment interfaces.
• Adjusts enemy levels in certain combat stages of the main story "Prologue - Ch. 1".

Others

• Improves the visual assets presentation in the Friendly Talk area of Hollow Zero: Lost Void.
• Enhances the pedestrian behavior in Lumina Square to be more dynamic and diverse.
• Adjusts the scenery and atmosphere of Lumina Square.
• Optimizes the English, Japanese, and Korean voice-overs for certain story scenes and combat sequences.
• Changes the English voice actors for Agents Lycaon and Soldier 11, and replaced the corresponding voice lines.

Issue Fixes

Agents

• Fixes an issue where Agents with Agent Caesar's Radiant Aegis effect would display abnormally during the end-of-stage focus sequence.
• Fixes an issue where Agents Jane, Lucy, Lighter, Burnice, and Tsukishiro Yanagi would consume Assist Points abnormally when using Defensive Assist to parry certain enemies' skills (such as Autonomous Assault Unit - Typhon Destroyer and Dead End Butcher).
• Fixes an issue where Agent Caesar's shield effect would display abnormally after activating EX Special Attack: Overpowered Shield Bash and switching to another agent.
• Fixes an issue where Agent Caesar could become unresponsive when knocked back and continuously attacked while under the effect of Radiant Aegis.
• Fixes an issue where, under certain circumstances, the All-Attribute RES reduction's effect range of Agent Caesar's Mindscape 01: Spearhead Advance was not functioning normally.
• Fixes an issue where the stats of Agent Ellen's Dash Attack: Arctic Ambush did not scale with her Dodge level. (Prior to the fix, the stats of the above-mentioned skill scaled with her Basic Attack.)
• Fixes an issue where Agent Astra Yao's EX Special Attack would not trigger Agent Lucy's Mindscape 06: Fierce Fangs of Fire effect when hitting an enemy.
• Fixes an issue where, under certain circumstances, Agent Evelyn or Astra Yao's consecutive Chain Attacks could be interrupted during combat.
• Fixes the text descriptions regarding Energy Regen in various interfaces such as Combat Status and Proxy Handbook. This is a text-only fix and does not affect actual gameplay:
  • Before adjustment: amount of Energy Agents recover per second in combat.
  • After adjustment: amount of Energy Agents automatically recover per second while in combat.

Enemies

• Fixes an issue where the invulnerability effect of certain Agent's skills or Mindscapes (such as Astra Yao's Mindscape 01 or Tsukishiro Yanagi's Mindscape 01) does not trigger when hit by certain skills of Corrupted Overlord - Pompey.
• Fixes an issue where, under certain circumstances, the enemy Notorious - Dead End Butcher behaves abnormally when attacking.

Systems

• Fixes an issue where story animations would occasionally display incorrectly on some Android devices.
• Fixes an issue where W-Engine effects display abnormally in certain W-Engine interfaces on some Android devices.

Gameplay

• Fixes an issue in Battle Trial: The Last Stand where the Demon Lord Medal Challenge's no-damage calculation will be incorrect when the enemy Corrupted Overlord - Pompey hits the Agent with certain skills.
• Fixes an issue where certain relic icons were displayed incorrectly in Bizarre Brigade.
• Fixes an issue in Bizarre Brigade - Shared Dream where there was a chance for the teammates' Protagonist to be displayed abnormally after they were knocked down.
• Fixes an issue in Bizarre Brigade - Shared Dream where Companions' positions were displayed incorrectly at the Store during the rest phase.
• Fixes an issue where, under certain circumstances, rewards could not be properly obtained in Perpetrator Battle of Hollow Zero: Lost Void.

Environments

• Fixes an issue where sound effects would occasionally malfunction in certain scenes.

Others

• Fixes an issue with abnormal acquisition of the collectible "Shining Moment." After the Version 1.6 update, Proxies who have completed the condition of visiting Starloop Tower in the Special Episode "Astra-nomical Moment" can directly view or display this collectible in the Display Stand.
• Fixes some typos in the in-game text.
• Adjusts, improves, and fixes the in-game text for some languages. These changes will not affect gameplay or functions.

Gallery

Version 1.6 Teaser - "Among the Forgotten Ruins" - Zenless Zone Zero-2

Zenless Zone Zero Version 1.6 "Among the Forgotten Ruins" Special Program-2