Insect Swarm news & patch notes

• Added total kills display
• Fixed errors in the mecha descriptions

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Steam Deck Support

• Removed the new Fuel Consumption mechanics
• Removed the new Mecha Fuel upgrade option
• Damage and HP growth rates of Swarms are reverted to the numbers before 0.7.5
• HP of Swarms and Elites are no longer doubled when Doomsday Protocol is active

Important Changes

• Mecha mode now consumes fuel. You refuel your Mecha by obtaining crystals. Fuel is now a separated resource and will cause no more crystal loss.
• Added Mecha Fuel upgrade option.
• Fixed a bug that caused Mjolnir’s damage lower than intended.
• New settings option: Maximum Swarm Size. You may set the number to increase or decrease the maximum swarm size. Bigger swarm would be more satisfying for you to hack and slash, but also require higher spec.

Global Difficulty Changes

• Increased crystal ore reserves for early game.
• Increased resources obtained from killing elite insects.
• Decreased resources obtained from killing Guardians.
• Increased resource obtained from killing Insect Lord.
• The growth rate of global Crystal Concentration will gradually decrease according to game progress.
• Increased health growth rate of the insects from 0.7 to 1.0.
• Increased damage growth rate of the insects from 0.1 to 0.15.
• The HP of swarms when Doomsday Protocol is active has been increased grow faster.
• The HP of elites, Guardians, and Gargantuan Eggs when Doomsday Protocol is active has been doubled.

Other Changes

• Fixed a bug where the Chainsaw sometimes failed to trigger special effects.
• Fixed a bug where reloading weapons too quickly would exceed the ammunition limit.
• Fixed a bug where there was no sound effect when teleporting back to the base while using the Mecha.
• Pressing the B button on the controller now closes the in-game menu and settings interface.

New Weapon for Mecha: Beam Saber

• A light saber equipped on your arm at your service. Can strike from afar and burn its target.

New Weapon for Mecha: Laser Cannon

• Shoot a beam of thick laser that will penetrate anything on its way.

Other Changes

• Fixed the Reloading Speed algorithm when the Reloading Speed upgrade is too high; removed the previous Reloading Speed limit; expect significantly faster late-game Reloading Speed
• Slightly increased damage and initial firing rate for Heavy Machine Gun
• When hitting the insect eggs on abandoned mine carts, more blood will burst out for better hit feedback
• Fixed a bug where Orbital Bullet Storm and Flamethrowers couldn't damage the Swarm Lord VI
• Fixed a bug where Mecha transformation was not possible when lacking Crystals
• Fixed a bug where holding the fire button while equipped with a Nuclear Missile Launcher would interrupt the reloading process

New Weapon for Mecha: Mjolnir

• Swing the hammer of Thor to summon lightning strikes

New Weapon for Mecha: Orbital Bullet Storm

• Launch a salvo of bullets to the marked location by sending a beacon signal to the orbital weaponry; you may use your melee weapon while channeling the salvo

Other Changes

• Implemented multi-monitor display settings; players may switch between monitors if there are multiple
• The special effect when insects are hit by the Energy Whip is now more visible
• Increased tracking range for auto-tracking weapons
• Increased attack range for Chainsaw and Energy Whip
• Fixed a bug where the floating explosion insects would go underground
• Fixed a bug where the Gatling Gun would keep spinning even when not firing
• Fixed a bug where the melee weapons of the Mecha would sometimes attack on their own after transformation
• Fixed a bug where the missiles might sometimes explode indefinitely when launched by a ship moving in high-speed

New Mecha Weapon: Antimatter Energy Whip

• Low direct damage dealt on hit, extremely high damage over time; smaller insects will become weightless when hit

New Mecha Weapon: Nuclear Missle Launcher

• Consumes all ammo at once to launch a mini nuclear missle, dealing extremely high damage to all enemies within a very large area; can be launched only at full ammo; the more ammo it consumes, the higher the damage

Other Changes

• HP of smaller insects doubled during Doomsday Protocol
• Fixed a bug where the Wormhole texture would flicker when stacked with obelisk ground

Optimization

New Weapons for Mecha

Chainsaw: Deals damage over time. Drags lighter targets towards the chainsaw.

Flamethrower: Deals damage over time in a large area and ignites its targets.

Chainsaw

Flamethrower

Mecha Mechanics Overhaul

• Stats of the Mecha are no longer adjustable. The Mecha now has fixed, doubled base HP and 50% Damage Resistance, with other stats set to the previous highest level by default
• The Mecha no longer needs Crystals to work
• Movement speed of the Mecha now benefits from 20% of your Movement Speed Bonus
• Greatly increased the animation speed of jumping landing strike of the Mecha

Other Changes

• Slightly increased HP growth rate of insects
• Fixed a bug where the player might be defeated by nearby Swarm Lord(s) even after entering the hanger
• Fixed a bug introduced along a previous update which caused HP decreasing effect to be disabled
• Adjusted key/button display effect
• Enhanced the effect of Gatling gun hitting the ground for Mecha

• Fixed interface options bug

New key settings

• Add Key Settings in the Pause Interface to customize the mouse and joystick configuration scheme

Other Modification

• If the right stick does not have any operation during use, then the Crosshair will keep the original direction, and will not follow the direction of movement.

• Controller Support

Now Available: Doomsday Protocol, Part 3

Swarm Lord VII

• Shoots threads of web to limit player movement
• Shakes its body to release spiders
• Fore leg attack: High damage and wide range
• Can perform rushing attack

Other Changes

• Adjusted Maximum Mecha Main Weapon Damage Multiplier from 30 to 60
• Adjusted Maximum Mecha Sub Weapon Damage Multiplier from 300% to 600%
• Swarm Missile: Ammo consumption decreased from 2 to 1
• Gravity Trap: Ammo consumption decreased from 4 to 3
• Arc Sphere: Ammo consumption decreased from 3 to 2
• Muzzle flash of Light Machine Gun and Shotgun is now more visible
• Trajectory of all kinetic weapons is now more visible
• All Guardians now have same Max HP
• All Wild Swarm Lords now have same Max HP
• Decreased spawn distance of Doomsday Swarm Lords (Swarm Lord V spawning inside of your base is the intended design and not a bug)
• Swarm Lord VI will now stop releasing minor insects when dead
• Fixed a bug where the description of the first Sub Weapon was blocked

Now Available: Doomsday Protocol, Part 2

Swarm Lord VI

• Elephantine size
• Constantly moving
• High movement speed
• Deals damage by crushing and clashing
• Minor insects will spawn on its movement path

Other Changes

• Increased max pursue range of Swarm Lords
• Decreased HP of Swarm Lord V
• Decreased HP of Gargantuan Eggs
• Significantly decreased HP and exploding damage of the floating insects found around Gargantuan Eggs
• Minor adjustment to Crystal requirement for Swarm Lord Detection

Now Available: Doomsday Protocol

• Doomsday Protocol consists of a new series of missions
• More missions will be available in the coming updates, together with new Swarm Lords

Swarm Lord V

• Emerges from underground
• Can spit out numerous insects
• Will constantly attract Swarms
• Immobile

Other Changes

• Changed basic Crystal Concentration and Risk Level modifier after killing each Swarm Lords for the first time as follows:
  • Swarm Lord I：5
  • Swarm Lord II：10
  • Swarm Lord III：20
  • Swarm Lord IV：40
  • Swarm Lord V：80
  • Modifier for Swarm Lords to be added in the coming updates will follow the same pattern
• Your next target will be marked with an exclamation mark (!) in the Targets panel
• Heightened default viewpoint
• Changed how viewpoint become heightened: The viewpoint will now be heightened 1s after the ship starts to speed up (was instantaneous before) to ease the dizziness some players had experienced

• Crystal shards have been optimized to reduce the number of crystal shards shown for insect kills, with the same benefits as the previous version.

• Optimized the serious frame dropping problem caused by loading Special Region

New Special Region: The Gargantuan Eggs

• When exploring in the desert, you will have a chance to find a region covered by piles of flesh and blood, with a gigantic egg silently sitting there
• You may find this region only after defeating the third Swarm Lord
• The Gargantuan Egg will be marked as a question mark (?) on your Radar HUD before it’s actually found
• A previously defeated Swarm Lord will be hatched from the Egg when it's broken
• The hatched Swarm Lord, although being a wild one, will grant the same reward as Mission Swarm Lords; the reward will also scale to the Risk Level
• Upon entering the region, you will face suicidal, non-stop attack of insects from one direction; it will stop when the Egg is broken or until you have left the region

Gargantuan Egg

• Each contains a Swarm Lord

New Blood Insect

• Floating
• Self-destructing explosion attack
• Its explosion deals high damage to a large area
• They will come pouring out of underground when something needs to be defended

Other Changes

• Marks of Mission Swarm Lords are now yellow, while Wild Swarm Lords having red marks
• The Swarm will now not flee from the player when a Wild Swarm Lord is defeated
• Increased spawn rate of Magma Zones; all special regions now have the same spawn rate
• Obelisk transmutation speed increased by 25%
• Armor repaired upon obtaining Crystal Shards reduced from 0.002 to 0.001
• Energy replenished upon obtaining Crystal Shards reduced from 0.002 to 0.001
  • (Previous updates increased Crystal Shards Yield from minor insects by a considerable amount, and these two upgrades have become too overpowered since, so we are adjusting the numbers here)
• Crosshair is now more visible
• Bolded and highlighted auto-firing mode instruction (Press middle mouse button to toggle the auto-firing mode!)

• New Special Region: Magma Zone
  • When exploring in the desert, you will have a chance to find a zone filled with blazing magma, guarded by a huge gecko emitting flame and heat
  • Insect eggs are pestering this region
  • You may find this region only after defeating the second Swarm Lord

• Added the Magma Guardian
  • This Guardian will only appear in the Magma Zone
  • Fire attacks
  • AOE attacks
  • Slower movement due to its colossal size
  • Has higher HP than other Guardians

• New Blood Insect
  • This type of insect will only appear in the Magma Zone, or be hatched from the eggs in the Magma Zone
  • Higher HP
  • Slower movement speed

• Other Changes
  • Optimized Swarms
  • Increased initial mining efficiency
  • Smart Weaponry now deals 100% Main Weapon damage per hit, increased from 60%
  • Badland region will only appear after defeating the first Swarm Lord
  • Increased despawn range of Guardians; Guardians will not despawn that easily when the player gets too far away from it
  • Increased visible range of HP bars for Swarm Lords and Guardians
  • Fixed a bug that the Landing Strike of the Mecha (when transforming from Ship mode) could deal incorrect damage to the Badland Guardian
  • Fixed a bug where the Arc Sphere would stop following the player upon returning to main menu and re-entering the game

• New Special Region: Cactus Badland
  • When exploring in the desert, you will have a chance to find a badland with gigantic cacti, occupied by a spiky monster

• Added the Badland Guardian
  • This Guardian will only appear in the Badland
  • Mecha Slayer
  • Has pointy spikes covering its body, along with multiple agile tentacles
  • Deals damage to anything that collides with it
  • Attack relentlessly
  • High movement speed
  • Immune to collision damage

• New Blood Insect
  • This type of insect will appear around the Badland
  • Individuals of this insect type vary significantly in size
  • Killing them will yield doubled crystal shards

• Other Changes
  • Greatly reduced HP of Guardians
  • Increased crystal obtained from killing Guardians
  • Size of Guardians now doesn’t scale to Risk Level
  • Crystal drop from killing Blood Insects of smaller size now benefits from 10% of your Crystal Shard Yield Bonus
  • Reduced Mecha resource consumption to 50% of previous numbers (We have received player feedbacks that addressed the Mecha resource consumption being frustrating. We will probably rework the Mecha system, and this change is a makeshift adjustment until the rework)

• New Updated Special District: Oasis
  • When exploring in the desert, there is certain possibility to find an Oasis, and some kind of creature is guarding there

• New Updated Insect Type: Guardian
  • Guardian only appears in special district
  • When approaching the Guardian, sign will be shown on HUD
  • Guardian has lower HP than Insect Lord, but its attacking damage is absolutely higher
  • Killing the Guardian can obtain a huge amount of resources

• New added Oasis Guardian
  • The Guardian only exists in Oasis
  • The size of Guardian can be as large as Insect Lord
  • Low moving speed but high damage per attack

• New Insect
  • This kind of insect appears near the Oasis
  • The size of insect is above average level and it has higher HP
  • They appear in swarm
  • Killing insect can obtain double crystal shards

• Other Modifications
  • Lower the dust degree in the environment
  • Obelisk challenge range increase by 25%
  • Teleporting back to base will be canceled if you switch armor during the process
  • Modified the bug of unlocalized prompt
  • Modified the bug of partially-missed localization prompt
  • Modified the bug of switching armors and triggering off teleport back to the base after stop
  • Modified the bug of overly-intensified light of purple Crystal

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