Editing Reporting Bugs

To do a basic bug report do the following:
# Cause the bug to occur. This will often involve running a battle. If you can, put some unique sentence in the chat after you observe the bug, and tell people about this sentence later on.
# If the bug is a crash to desktop then skip to step 6, otherwise continue.
# Navigate back to the main menu of the lobby.
# In the main menu click Help, then click Report A Bug.
# Describe the bug, give the bug a title, and click Submit.
# Click 'Ok' on the Automated crash report dialogue that appears.
# Check the bug report tracker found [https://github.com/ZeroK-RTS/CrashReports/issues here] and find your report. It should be at the top of the page and recent. If all the reports are too old, then try refreshing the page.
# Tell someone about this bug, perhaps in #support in Discord or on the forum. Paste the bug report link from step 7 when you do so.
Taking and attaching a screenshot is vital for visual bugs.

For crashes rather than bugs, skip straight to Step 7.

For a more advanced bug report create a GitHub account and open an issue on the appropriate issue tracker:
* [https://github.com/ZeroK-RTS/Zero-K Bugs in the game itself]
* [https://github.com/ZeroK-RTS/Chobby Bugs in the main menu]
* [https://github.com/ZeroK-RTS/Zero-K-Infrastructure Bugs on the website]
Describe steps to reproduce the bug. Attaching images or linking a video is very helpful.

= Reporting Desync =

Reports of desync are made much more useful with the inclusion of a few files. The player who desynced needs to supply these files so that they can be checked against normal files from another player. The files, relative to the root Zero-K folder (found in steamapps), are:
# The appropriate <code>ClientGameState</code> file in the root directory. These don't have a naming convention, but the first line of the file is the map name, and the file creation date should match the time of the desync.
# Your locally saved replay of the game, found in <code>demos/</code>. The file name contains the name of the map.
# Your<code>infolog.txt</code> file, if the desync happened since the last time the ZK menu was opened. Older logs are found in <code>log/</code>.
# The two path cache files matching the map name, found in <code>cache/105dev-BAR105/paths/</code>.

The battle link is also useful. This can be found under recent battles on your home page when logged in: https://zero-k.info/