Every kill hits harder now. • Kills pop, and the pitch climbs as your streak runs. A new streak meter on the HUD keeps count. • Leveling up lands: a flash, a stamp, and a chime before the draft opens. • The planet alarm sounds when your mantle crosses a threshold, not on every scratch. • The boss bar gets its own row, clear of the enemy roster. • New planets regenerate the way they were meant to from your first dive. • The Garrison tile shows the rate it actually pays. • The briefing names the enemies you have already met.

THE DRAFT NO LONGER LOCKS A RUN A draft dealt in the quarter-second after a card pick could land on a sheet that was still closing. The cards never arrived, the run could not continue, and surrendering was the only way out. One player hit this immediately after killing the Shard Tyrant. A pick no longer hides a sheet that a new draft has already opened. SOUND SURVIVES A SLEEPING PHONE Audio stopped after the phone slept or the app lost focus, and only muting and unmuting brought it back. iOS deactivates the audio session while an app is in the background, and resuming it is not enough to rebuild the route to the speaker. The game now cycles the session on return, and again on your first touch, so sound comes back on its own. THE BUILD NUMBER IS ON SCREEN The main menu and the end-of-run screen now show the installed version and build, in the form 1.0.5 (17). If something goes wrong, that line names the exact build you were playing.

SOUND IS BACK Swarmfall has been silent on iPhone since launch. All eleven audio clips failed to load inside the app, and because the game looked perfect nothing ever reported a fault. Turret fire, impacts, the monarch's roar and the Last Stand sting all work now. CARDS THAT SAY WHAT THEY DO Thirteen cards described themselves wrong. The seven turret unlock cards quoted damage and reload figures from before a retune. For six of them the damage per second is unchanged — shots simply land bigger and slower than the card implied. The Rime Lattice's card understated its damage outright. Two of those cards also gave bad advice. The Blight Garden promised that bio-aligned leeches resist its rot; they do not, and only The Deep Mother does. The Ember Spitter claimed it was strong against bio when it is strong against plasma. Both lines survived an older naming of the damage families, and both sent you after the wrong counter. Six upgrade cards named a percentage they never applied. Deep Furnace and Storm Capacitor said 12% and give 20%. Masterwork Facets said 20% and gives 35%. No turret changed. Only the words describing them. COLOUR Damage type is how the game teaches counters, and two families had been wearing each other's. The Blight Garden showed plasma's pink on its loadout chip, its stat row and its damage summary, while the Spore Launcher had no colour of its own on any of them and borrowed arc's. Both now read on every surface the way they always did in the bestiary. The NECROBLOOM card is tinted for the Blight Garden it upgrades, not for the Spore Launcher. DRAFTS Cluster Payload, Hoarfrost Bloom and MASTERWORK KEEL each grant a one-time transformation, and each could be offered a second time. The duplicate cost a full draft slot and did nothing. They now appear once. Evolutions require their base turret at level 2 — what all eighteen of them have always said in their own text. A dead condition in the gate let them arrive two upgrades early. Runs are harder for it: about 4% shorter at the median, and the fast starts that leaned on an early evolution lose the most.

The title screen dock no longer squeezes its labels on smaller phones. Each button now stacks its icon above its label, so UPGRADES, DIRECTIVES, RECORDS and BESTIARY all fit cleanly from the smallest iPhone up. First update with a change from our newest contributor. More to come.

Dying finally costs you. Fall with the planet and the deep keeps half of everything you salvaged that run. Walk away through the pause menu before the end and you bank every credit. The death screen now shows exactly what you kept and what the deep took. One decision has always been the heart of Swarmfall: push one more wave, or get out clean. Now it has teeth.

The economy grew up. Progression was letting one strong first session buy nearly everything. The whole arc has been rebuilt so every unlock is something you earned: - Credits are meaningfully rarer, and the biggest upgrades cost what they should - Turret unlocks now pace across your first weeks, not your first evening - The Tide Anchor gate is a real survival test: hold the line to 8:00 - Offline garrison salvage rebalanced to match Runs you have already banked keep everything. The dark just got deeper.