They did use zlib... If you decompress the above packet, you get:
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				   0: 6C 73 23 31 32 33 36 37 - 00 72 4E 54 65 62 75 39  | ls#12367.rNTebu9 
  16: 6A 74 4B 65 6D 4A 48 53 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  | jtKemJHS........ 
  32: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  | ................ 
  48: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  | ................ 
  64: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 3E 00 00 00  | ............>... 
  80: F4 FD 13 00 7E 00 80 00 - 00 EC FD 7F 1A 02 00 00  | ....~........... 
  96: 48 F9 13 00 A0 20 15 00 - F8 F8 13 00 00 00 00 00  | H.... .......... 
 112: 6B 15 F5 77 43 00 00 C0 - 9A 11 F5 77 9F 11 F5 77  | k..wC......w...w 
 128: 00 00 00 00 6B 15 F5 77 - 43 00 00 C0 84 FB 13 00  | ....k..wC....... 
 144: F0 FA 13 00 70 FD 13 00 - 05 90 F7 77 A8 D5 F6 77  | ....p......w...w 
 160: 00 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 - 79 A4 E7 77 20 00 00 00  | .... ...y..w ... 
 176: 6B 15 F5 77 DB 17 E7 77 - 43 00 00 C0 00 00 00 00  | k..w...wC....... 
 192: C2 00 00 00                                        | ....
			
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 So... what does that mean? There's no recognisable opcodes... (this is the first packet sent by the client to the server)