The Arcanist Update Has Arrived!

Hello Settlement Leaders!

Our second major update: The Arcanist Update has arrived! In this update, you'll get to train a brand new player unit: The Arcanist. That Scorpion hurling attacks from the back of the Swarm will no longer be the threat it once was, not with a firing squad of long-range blasting Arcanists.

Patch Notes 0.2.4524

CHANGES & ADDITIONS

The Arcanist

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• Added the Arcanist, a powerful long-range unit that channels Arcana to unleash devastating attacks.

• Trainable from the Barracks after completing the Stone Tier upgrade.

Base stats

• Attack Damage: 125

• Armor Penetration: 10

• Movement Speed: 3.5

• Attack Speed: 0.3

• Attack Range: 16

Steam post image Anyway, so she started blastin'

Essences

• Overseer: Increases Gas, Wood, and Stone production by 40% for buildings within 10 range.

• Spotter: Increases range of nearby units and defensive structures by +2.

• Penetrating Shot: Attacks pierce all enemies, dealing 10% of total damage.

• Weak Spot: Attacks apply a debuff that increases damage taken by 10%, stacking up to 5 times.

• Ocular Implants: Increases attack range by +2 and vision range by +3.

• Steady Aim: Reduces attack speed by 30%, increases attack damage by 30%.

• Paralyzing Shot: Attacks have 10% chance to stun the target.

• Devout: Grants +2 Arcana when cleansing a Shrine with an Arcanist.

• Inject (Ability): Buffs an ally, increasing health, attack damage, armor, and scale for 40 seconds.

• Mini Nuke (Ability): Throws a small Radiant Nova, costs 1 Arcana, and deals 2000 damage.

Upgrades

Barracks: Accelerator

• Increases attack speed by 10%.

Blacksmith I: Quickstep

• Increases movement speed by +0.5.

Blacksmith II: Truestrike

• Increases armor penetration by +4.

Veterancy upgrade

• Attack Speed: +0.5

• Armor Penetration: +1

Elite upgrade

• Attack speed: +5%

• Armor Penetration: +2

Unit upgrades

• Added Blacksmith and Barrack upgrades so all units now have three economy upgrades:

• Added Priest Barracks upgrade: Greater Healing → Increases the Healing Power of Priests by 0.5.

• Added Pyromaniac Barracks upgrade: Extended Flames → Increases the Range of Pyromaniacs by 1.

• Added Priest Blacksmith upgrade: Rapid Restoration → Increases the Healing Speed of Priests by 35%.

• Added Pyromaniac Blacksmith upgrade: Wildfire → Increases the Impact Radius of Pyromaniacs by 25%

• Renamed the second Blacksmith upgrade for Knights to Bulwark.

• Renamed the second Blacksmith upgrade for Arbalists to Penetrating Bolts.

Armor & Armor penetration

• Armor now reduces damage by a percentage.

• Total damage reduction is displayed in the Armor tooltip.

• Additional armor provides diminishing returns.

• Armor penetration reduces armor before damage is applied, making it more effective than flat attack damage.

• Total stat values are now displayed in unit stat tooltips.

Pathing Update

• Melee units now prioritize targets within attack range before aggro range.

• Melee targeting now uses path distance instead of straight-line distance, preventing units from mis-targeting through walls.

Other

• Updated healing tooltips to explicitly reference Healing Power.

• Healing tooltips now display actual healing values and update dynamically.

• Decimal values now display up to two decimal places when applicable.

• Resource refunds from building removal now use the modified cost instead of base cost.

• Karkadann Relic now also increases unit size.

BALANCING

• Pyromaniac

  • Attack Range: 14 → 13

  • Splash Radius: 5 → 4

  • Armor: 1 → 0

• Increased armor for high-armor enemies, Walls, and Knights to account for the armor system changes.

• Increased armor granted by the Iron Momentum Essence.

• Increased Priest base Healing Power: 1 → 2

• Increased Arbalist Penetrating Bolt upgrade Armor Pen: 2 → 3

• Increased Swarm Armor scaling start level from 7 → 10

• Decreased Swarm Armor scaling per level from 5% -> 3%

• Radiant Nova now ignores Armor.

• Burning debuff now ignores Armor.

• Removed maintenance cost of the Blacksmith.

• Increased Knight base health from 225 -> 250

• Increased Wooden wall base armor from 3 -> 5

• Increased Stone wall base armor from 7 -> 9

• Increased Gates base armors to be identical to their walls.

FIXES

• Fixed some missing or incorrect keybinds.

• Fixed an issue where Blacksmith upgrades were shown as unit orders instead of upgrades.

• Fixed a Trigger System issue where some overlap removal events were skipped (affecting aura removal).

• Fixed an issue where Hold Position could increase attack speed, it now shares a cooldown with normal attacks.

• Fixed dead tree props shifting one tile after loading a save.

• Fixed an issue where the Matriarch could spawn eggs at the edge of the map.

• Fixed an issue where production buffs were applied incorrectly, resulting in less of a boost than intended.

• Fixed an issue where Marketplaces, after the first placed one, would have their buy/sell buttons enabled during construction already

Another update down, which means it's time to focus on the next deity: Yangwhu! Keep your eyes open for the news and teasers for Update #3.

We're also celebrating today's update with a week-long sale! Want to try out the new Arcanist or introduce your friend to the Swarm? Now's your chance at a discount!

Pick up Here Comes The Swarm at 20% OFF during the Arcanist Sale!

As always, thank you all for your feedback and bug reports. It has been a dream to develop Here Comes The Swarm with you. If you run into a bug or have feedback, please let us know on Discord or by using the bug report button in-game. See you in Ulora,

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