DGA Plays: Empires of the Undergrowth - Testing Bullet Ants in Freeplay (SPOILER - THEY'RE HUGE!!!) 

That's good to know, wasn't sure if adjacency had to be the same type or not.

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You should upgrade the fire ants to lvl 3 because they can make 2 ants in one tile​@@DadsGamingAddiction

I'm aware, did that during the final formicarium mission.

Nice! One unique challenge is playing as Gene Thief, but also having one of the enemy colonies being your Gene Thief Formica Ereptor colony as well; essentially fighting yourself. There is also some 2v2 potential on this Imprisoned map, definitely my favorite.

You just have to advance in the campaign story. You get new things as you complete milestone levels. I did not use any mods.

(also fun fact bullets ants are .7 - 1.2 inches long, or 18-30mm long)

They only spawn when you upgrade their tile to level 3.

@@DadsGamingAddiction I know that, but when you buy them in the formicarium menu do they come as level 3? or do you need to unlock the level upgrades?

I haven't played the campaign after finishing it, so I haven't yet added bullet ants to the formicarium. I've only done skirmish / freeplay.

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@@DadsGamingAddiction You forgot a few positives of upgrading in that video. 1. Efficiency of Respawns: Yes, while the upfront cost will likely not be offset by how much you save by having your ants respawn less, it is still a factor and can be important in some cases, especially in cases where ants would be oneshot without upgrades and twoshot with upgrades 2. I’ve noticed that when in tight spaces, some melee ants don’t participate in the fight until some of them that are fighting die. I think (not guaranteed, just based on my observations) that there is an amount of fighting space that each ant takes up and eventually no more can fit, so they just wander around until there is space. In situations like this, upgrading increases the health and damage of the meat wall. Yes, having more ants there to replace the ones that die would make the wall have more bodies to replace the damage, but if you have ants not participating anyway, they can enter upgraded and buy time for more upgraded ants to come back from the nest. 3. Going back to point 1 and ants not getting oneshot, what about the cases where upgrading would let an ant oneshot instead of twoshot? I don’t actually know any cases of this but I’m sure there are some, or at least some that remove one attack from three. 4. There are limited spaces for ants to ride larger creatures (I forget the actual term but whatever the thing is that lets them make other ants attacking the target do more damage). Thus, upgrading the ants that are on the creatures increases the damage that they can deal. This isn’t a big deal in most cases, but when those creatures run away while on low health like the lizards in the medic ant termite missions, it can let them finish it off before it gets too far from the nest and the ones riding it get stranded. 5. It feel good (yes I know you had “you feel like it” as a point but it bears restating)

I don't use mods.

And another thing for lvl3 ants is they increase in size so you get fewer ants to make the bridge and secondly, the extra fire ant from the lvl3 fire ants is that they don't add population

No.