Empires of the Undergrowth Free Download

Empires of the Undergrowth, In the world of ants, establish your empire by constructing vast nests and overseeing a complex hierarchy in a manner that challenges the real-time strategy genre. Navigate the special dangers and opportunities of the insect kingdom while controlling a variety of warrior ant species in fierce combat, ordering your workers to construct and supply an ever-expanding base, and defending your queen at all costs.

A TINY PROPORTION OF ART

As formic acid artillery fires overhead, hundreds of soldiers engage in a gnashing mandible melee. As night falls, the remaining laborers are racing back underground to provide food to the nest while avoiding bugs. Without more, reinforcements for the ongoing conflict won't be able to hatch from the empty storehouse.

Order your workers to build and optimize your nest,
which consists of an extensive network of storerooms, nurseries, and halls, starting with a central room that houses your queen. Search for food and ward off other underground inhabitants as you make your way through a hex-shaped labyrinth of stone and soil.

With seeds, honey, fungus, other insects, and even amphibians on the menu, there are many options available to you if you venture outside your nest to explore what the world above has to offer. However, each food source has unique strategic tradeoffs and difficulties. Will you go out and fend against the ladybugs that consume and exhaust your supply of replenishable honeydew drips, or are the local nocturnal animals too dangerous for your young colony?

To combat the unique threats of your current biome, control a variety of animals with varying assault patterns, natural weapons, and evolutionary histories. While nighttime raids are sometimes necessary to protect food supplies, unwary ants may become victims of the threats that lurk after sunset. Instead, you will have to compete with other ant colonies in the morning, breaking into opposing nests to attack their queens while protecting your own. There is no one way to dominate, so be ready to manage and coordinate concurrent combat operations across several overground and subsurface areas as your possibilities and threats evolve with every second.

ANT WAR ART

From the surface, workers scramble in. A new wave of warriors emerges from the nurseries, enthusiastically following the scent of pheromones that guide them where to go and what to do along the way. While few have returned, they bring significant food supplies that will assist fortify the front. They were created with the sole intention of holding the line, and they are the colony's last stronghold.

Create, arrange, and assign distinct pheromone groups to each of the nurseries. These pheromone groups will take orders by placing pheromone markers, context, and modifiable rules of interaction. Securing success requires understanding your ants' behaviors as well as the advantages and disadvantages of each species.

The choice can change the outcome of a battle. Each pheromone group can be instructed to specialize on the spot, to only gather food, to engage in combat, or to do both. Will your warrior caste concentrate on acquiring food at the risk of being captured by hostile opponents while traveling in times of need, when the colony is starving and fresh eggs have ceased hatching as a result? Or will your remaining employees be separated into escort groups by the army, guaranteeing their survival at the expense of total productivity elsewhere? To guarantee the longevity of your ant economy, don't forget to keep at least a few workers at the nest to dig, construct, and maintain the egg placement.

On the battlefield, every ant species has unique advantages and disadvantages. Your choice to raise and upgrade one or both of the species will fundamentally alter how you fight in special game types where multiple species can be raised in the same colony. In melee combat, trap-jaw ants occasionally jump back to regain lost hit points. By directing opponent aggressiveness upon themselves, leafcutter majors carry out their innate protective function by providing ally ants with a chance to flank, regroup, or flee. Wood ants can develop the ability to shoot formic acid in a straight line or at long distances. Determine how each species' many inherent advantages and disadvantages might work together, and be ready to defend against them in a conflict.

You will fight a wide range of insect species, amphibians, crabs, and arachnids in addition to other ant colonies. Your foes are as diverse. Only great strategies may defeat these formidable and frequently (comparatively) enormous monsters, which pose a special hazard to an unprepared colony. The adult devil's coach horse beetle's beautiful spray can be avoided by an envelopment maneuver, and hermit crabs can be strategically isolated and overpowered one at a time to kill them before they can hunker down to recover.

A CHANGE IN EXPERIENCES

There will be a victory! Just in time, reinforcement troops show up, unflinching in the face of the terrifying monstrosity in front of them. The colony has adapted well after facing such strange enemies in the past, but today the evil scientist has combined hermit crabs and scorpions to create a horrifying new threat. The terrifying chimera is on the verge of collapsing after a long battle, but a new enemy enters the fray. Some strange creature's hand pierces the skies above, crushing half of the reinforcing troops, and the scientist erupts an evil cackle from the great beyond. Once again, the tide has turned.

A narrative-driven campaign mode is another aspect of Empires of the Undergrowth, in addition to the traditional RTS battles versus the AI and special seasonal challenges. Watch the development of a lab experiment focused on the enigmatic Formica receptor gene-thief ants and a documentary series that examines the different ant species in their native environments. As you put your ants through a variety of cruel tests carried out in the name of "science," you can develop your permanent lab colony and evolve it to fit your preferred playstyle by earning resources through successful documentary missions. However, not everything is as it seems.

System Requirements

Minimum System Requirements:

  • System: Windows 7, 8, or 10.
  • Processor: Intel Core i3-4340 or AMD FX-6300
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM.
  • Graphics: nVidia GeForce GTX 660 2GB/AMD Radeon HD 7850 2GB DirectX version: 11
  • Storage: 2 GB available space.

Empires of the Undergrowth Free Download

This combination of RTS and base-building allows you to command swarms of warriors at a never-before-seen scale of combat. Build elaborate nests, create pheromone-based strategies, and adapt to new challenges as you lead ant colonies against the many terrifying hazards of the insect world.


Empires of the Undergrowth Free Download
Size: 5.57 GB

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