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Ride the Current, Hide in the Thickets: Rivers and Thickets

Rivers and thickets now shape the battlefield. Here's how to ride the current and hide in thickets, plus the new Beam Cell and Ink Cell and the Endless event Wetland Overflow.

Cell swarms moving between a river crossing the battlefield and the thickets along its banks

Rivers: read the current

Rivers now run across the battlefield. Ride the current to go much faster, swim against it and you slow to a crawl, and stand still to drift along. Use them to shake off pursuers or to hurry somewhere far away.

Thickets: hide and strike

Step into a thicket by the river and you're hidden from outside. Attacking from inside briefly reveals your swarm, so use thickets to set up an ambush and land the first strike. These days, Special Cell Gardens and Nutrient Gardens sometimes appear hidden in thickets too.

Waterways by mode

  • Endless: rivers sometimes dry up and flow again elsewhere
  • Battle Royale: rivers and thickets dry up as the safe zone shrinks
  • Hive Break: cross the central stream on the bridge in each lane
  • Arena: depending on the duel zone, there are now thickets or waterways

Two new special cells

  • Beam Cell: takes aim, then fires a long beam that pierces every enemy in a straight line
  • Ink Cell: throws ink bombs at ranged cells. Inked cells only notice enemies right in front of them
Beam Cell
Ink Cell

Wetland Overflow

Endless got a new event too. When the wetland overflows, temporary rivers flow across the battlefield for a while and thickets grow lush. Nutrients keep sprouting under the thickets, and large nutrients float down the rivers.

New waterways opened by Wetland Overflow
New waterways opened by Wetland Overflow

Make the current and the thickets work for you.

What changed in v0.8.0

New

  • Rivers: rivers now run across the battlefield. Ride the current to go much faster, swim against it and you slow down, and stand still to drift along
  • Thickets: step into a thicket by the river and you're hidden from outside. Attacking from inside briefly reveals your swarm
  • Waterways by mode: in Endless, rivers sometimes dry up and flow again elsewhere. In Battle Royale, rivers and thickets dry up as the safe zone shrinks, and in Hive Break, you cross the central stream on bridges in each lane
  • Beam Cell: it takes aim, then fires a long beam that pierces every enemy in a straight line
  • Ink Cell: it throws ink bombs at ranged cells. Inked cells only notice enemies right in front of them. Purify Cells can wash the ink off
  • Context tips: short tips pop up at moments when it's easy to mistake rallying for an attack command

Improvements

  • The game switches to fullscreen when you enter a match. You can also choose windowed mode in the settings
  • Player colors are clearer, and the results screen and the screen you see when you fall have a new look

Balance

  • Wall Cell HP greatly increased, and it raises its wall faster against enemies targeting your nucleus
  • Disruptor Cell HP greatly increased
  • Siege Cells now also bombard enemies that come closer
  • The Giant Nutrient Cell is no longer affected by debuffs like stuns or slows

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed Healer Cells healing Husk Cell husks

All patch notes