| 6526 | 🙂 | General | Swarm mode is in kind of a weird place for me. The start is fun when I'm fighting off hoards of trilobytes and worms. This is the best part for me. Then there's this kind of bumpy part where, until you get the Hound, you haven't really got a good combat unit to work away from the base, because all are either slow or weak. But if you research toward Hounds the bugs get worse and can snowball to the point the game is freezing from all the spawns.
So I end up having to stop tech for a while and grind through them with cubs, then research hounds when the nests are clear. On the other side of that, it just goes really quiet. There are tougher bugs but no attacks. Just roaming bots skirmishing now and then.
IMO it would be better if the extremes were not so extreme. Spawns getting so bad the game starts freezing isn't fun anymore, but neither is the big attacks going away totally. I think if it gets to the point of the attached save, there should still be occasional large incursions toward you, to try to create an opening for them to reproduce again. That way the player could get some breathing room, but would still need to keep building defences, instead of just pruning the new hives. | | 2026-03-23 13:19:08 |