Thank you so much for playing SWARMFALL! 💛
This update is all about game feel: smoother multiplayer, better-balanced enemies and far more satisfying deaths. Grab your squad and dive in together!

⚡ Performance & netcode
A big optimization pass, most noticeable for the host and during heavy waves:
- 📉 Leaner networking — enemies now cost 12.5% less bandwidth to sync, and swarms are capped + culled off-screen. The result: less lag and desync in co-op.
- 💬 Optimized damage numbers — damage popups are smoothed and sent over a lightweight stream: a big upload win for the host, and no more hitches when everything's getting hit at once.
- 🧮 Streamlined damage math — a single pass over players on the host instead of two, so the CPU breathes during spikes.
- ✅ Fewer stutters — lighter enemy loops and reduced memory pressure for a steadier frame rate.

⚖️ Enemy balancing
A full stat overhaul for clearer, fairer fights:
- 🎯 Recalibrated stats — every enemy is now tuned against a shared reference. The Graveyard skeleton lines up with the Forest one (hard maps stay hard by design, not by inflated stats).
- 🧟 Toned-down Zombie — damage cut from 375 to 110, slightly faster: less punishing but still a threat. Manta, Rusher and Bat recalibrated alongside it.
- 🌊 Healthier waves — enemy density now scales sub-linearly: +10% solo and +25% per player instead of flooding the screen the moment a second player joins.
- 👻 Ghoul fixed — its arc combo hits harder (still a real threat), but it now keeps its distance and no longer walks right on top of you.
- 🩸 Reworked lifesteal — now restores flat HP per kill (5 / 10 / 15 / 20) instead of a percentage of damage: far more predictable and reliable mid-swarm.

💥 New: enemy dismemberment
- 🦴 Spectacular deaths — enemies now burst into chunks on death, flung outward before fading away. It's punchier, more satisfying... and it's free on performance (zero physics, pooled chunks — no FPS loss even on massive AOE).

🔧 Fixes
- Fixed the enemy hit effect that could be missing for some players in multiplayer.
- Various stability and build fixes.

See you on the battlefield — and bring your friends! ⚔️