Field update

The whole suburb, at a glance

dWars v0.6.101 · 31 October 2026

A minimap for the entire battlefield, a map you can read at speed, and tens of thousands of units holding sixty frames a second.

New

A minimap shows the whole battlefield. Terrain, supply regions, unit dots and your camera's footprint sit in a panel beside the map. Left-click holds the camera over a point while your hero keeps moving; right-click gives orders as on the main map.
Shift adds a movement point to an order. Hold Shift with a battalion selected and the valid-move highlight turns green. One right-drag drops a waypoint as an X; the next commits the route through it.
Banks, Factories and Sensor Towers can be destroyed. Every structure now phases in, takes damage and explodes like the rest of your army.
Mac players can command with Control-click, so a one-button trackpad is enough to give orders.

Large battles hold sixty frames a second. Around 25,000 live units ran at 14-25 fps before this release and now hold a steady 60 on the same machine.
Fog of war holds its ground before it fades. A cell stays fully lit for 4.7 seconds after your sight leaves it, then darkens over 0.3 seconds, instead of dimming the moment you look away.
The map reads as line art. Roads carry a heavy hand-drawn outline and buildings a thin one, and building surfaces sit flat under the ink instead of embossed.
Damage numbers and +N income pops are twice the size, and they clear the unit or base underneath them.
The base speaks in one symbol. The wallet $ is gone. One centred energy bolt turns red when the base is unpowered or your store is empty, flashes gold when a coin banks, and pulses on every powered tick.
Heroes go down for ten seconds. Elle and Nesa die and respawn at base inside the simulation, so a recording replays their deaths the way they happened.
A unit below half energy keeps hunting. Retreat is decided by energy alone, rather than a separate rule that dropped a hurt unit's target.

WebGPU levels start again. The minimap's render target used a format WebGPU rejected, which threw out the whole frame's drawing and stalled levels before the opening reveal.
A fresh browser profile no longer opens on Low quality. Browsers report 128 MB of graphics memory on cards that hold far more, so the hardware lookup runs at every launch.
Starting units are visible while they form. On Marrickville the opening Supply Bots stayed invisible until formed, and the level's reveal timed out waiting for them.
A custom level runs at a count your machine can hold, and the Level Editor shows what it will actually field.
Recordings hit the same targets on every machine when more attackers converge than a target's list can hold.

Structure, upgrade and hero-skill prices remain provisional while the energy economy is tuned.
Nesa's order panel does not yet show skill prices or mark which skills you own.
Recordings made before this release may not replay exactly, following the hero death and structure changes.

You can see the whole suburb now. Look at it before you move. — Elle