Deep Among the Swarm news & patch notes

• Added tabs onto the right side UI to contain crafting, equipment lists and augments.
• Hovering over equipment now shows the stats and gives comparisons.
• When you have no valid starting units, the game will notify you immediately.

• You can now queue orders for your units.
• Added "Patrol" unit command.
• Slightly improved unit movement to not get stuck when moving in a giant ball.
• Added Supply Placement Helper - When placing supply towers the game will find the closest position that keeps the supply chain going. This will allow you to rapidly place supply towers and never accidentally place them out of supply range.
• Holding ctrl will cancel supply placement helper and allow you to place anywhere, you can also disable it in the game options.
• New supply overlay colour for supply towers that are not yet built.
• Each time a unit or turret attacks their icon on the minimap will flash yellow.
• Ctrl Clicking units/buildings will now select all of the same type.
• Ctrl Shift Clicking and pressing a control group will add those to that group.

Patch 1.0.54

New Features & Improvements

• Remade the Drill UI to make it simpler to use, faster to compare and require less clicks to do what you want to do.
• Crafting core equipment (Miner & Generator) now have separate crafting buttons.
• Crafting all supports is 1 part cheaper, while crafting equipment has been increased by 1.
• Crafting drone equipment now costs 5, while supports cost 3. (Great deal!)
• Added lock cursor to window setting.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug where the run difficulty would not be what you chose.
• Heavy Projectiles / Instant Reload augments now properly only apply to units.

• Ordering units to move/attack move off the map should still work and try and path to the nearest open tile
• In the leaderboards your name/stats will appear bolded
• Leaderboard global tab will now show the top 20 (Was top 21)
• Clicking the minimap should be more precise and center the camera on the exact tile clicked
• Fixed the text "Play TIme" to "Play Time"

• Added drone strikes -> New Drill module called Drone Launcher can be equipped with different drone strikes. Activate them in game on the right side of the screen for a cost.
• Added select all units hotkey (Default "~" key)
• Added building picker tool (Default "T" key) -> Pressing this while hovering over a building will put you in build mode with that hovered building type selected
• Ability to target craft certain types of upgrades in the forge, but costs slightly more parts
• Fixed screen shake slider not working
• Slightly improved pathfinding (Though still not where I want it to be)
• Fixed spread going negative
• Fixed fog of war bug where visibility was improperly being calculated

• Added steam cloud saves
• Added partial fog of war
• Readjusted how depth affects map generation and when it spawns special swarm monsters.

• Fixed soft lock where game gets stuck frozen
• New graphics for enemy Massive, Insane and God Swarm units
• Reduced game difficulty and scaling
• Made the Discord button larger

• New blueprint unlocking system, unlock upgrades by finding blueprints in missions
• 2 new Drill Modules (Forge and Core).
• Each module on your Drill will be upgradeable giving bonuses.
• The new forge module will be focused around improving your ability to craft upgrades, increasing their power and will be where you view/scrap your unused upgrades.
• Upgrades (Weapons, armour, turrets etc) will now have a tier associated with them, which can only be crafted once your forge has been upgraded to that tier.
• As upgrades get higher tier, they are more powerful but cost more.
• Can now upgrade miners and generators
• A bunch of new support upgrades for your units and turrets
• Unlockable bonuses that are randomly rolled on your upgrades
• Plus a bunch of other changes

• You can now select enemy units and buildings to view their stats
• Added Death Nests
• Increased health of the more powerful enemies
• Added a few new upgrades
• Fixed bug where upgrading health wouldn't affect currently alive units
• Fixed various other small bugs

• Meta Progression revamped, Total of 69 meta upgrades available now.
• Drill now starts with 250 maximum radium storage, must be upgraded to get more
• Loot crates are now given instead of upgrades when destroying Wrecks / enemy bases. Loot crates are opened after the level and give you a choice between multiple upgrades.
• Melee units now cost 0 copper, and your initial starting unit is melee
• New Melee weapon sword does aoe damage
• Unit armour / head colours can be changed between levels
• Difficulty heavily changed, Near impossible to clear the full levels at the start until you have meta progression upgrades
• Tons of other minor changes

• Keybindings can now be changed!
• Mine production now increases speed by 20% instead of +1 resource gained
• Reload time and Spread now properly show as Green when the value is negative
• Added new setting for camera speed which affects speed when mousing at the border, or using the arrow keys
• Unit names should always be unique now
• Added another tick mark at the top to identify the minimum amount of radium required to begin fueling
• Added some special events that can happen, only a few now but the infrastructure is there for more
• Added enemy turrets at spawners and hives
• Added a new short ranged enemy after beating the first few missions
• Units / Turrets can now be ordered to attack a specific enemy by right-click/attack-move on them
• Game now properly pauses when on victory or defeat screen
• Minor text changes in a few places
• The first mission will automatically start after launching as you don't have any upgrades to use anyways. (Unless you were cheesing it)
• Difficulty formula slightly changed, ideally around the same difficulty.