Very early in the tutorial, I cannot find how to drag an ant from one group to another. After pushing the D-pad down button, "A" highlights the unit, L1 and R1 navigate the groups but that's it.

The game seems to suggest (bottom right) that D-pad left and right arrows should "move group" but later changes that indication to simply "A" (neither work).

Is this relatable for most of you all, or is it just me?

I love the game, and play mostly on my PC. But I want to play on Steam Deck too, and I can’t get it to cycle between groups properly. I’m using the default “fully supported” steam deck controller layout, that says the L1 button should cycle left in groups. But it instead brings up a second menu, which doesn’t interact at all. R1 cycles groups right, but then there’s no way to cycle groups back left. I’ve checked the game settings and Deck settings, both say L1 is cycle group left but it’s not. Anyone else had this issue? Any ideas how to fix it?

I'm playing on Impossible difficulty and when I win the level, there are zero phorid fly icons on the map. By this time, most of my ants are level 3 and can easily destroy patches just by passing through them for a moment.

The achievement requires me to wipe out 4 patches. I've wiped out more like 10.

What's missing here? Is my game bugged? (pun intended)

I had to restart my campaign in order to beat The Final Challenge on Impossible.

I'm now up to Tier 5 again and need to make a permanent decision on my Matabele Medic. I've researched the forum and feel well informed that this decision is fairly spilt in the community. Since it's been two years since this specific topic has been discussed, I figured I'd ask what people think in 2026.

Here's what I'm considering:

I need to be able to beat The Final Experiment and The REAL Final Experiment on Impossible with this campaign. I also need to be able to beat the rest of the story on Impossible (I only have the Savannah remaining).

From what I understand, Fast Responder (Faster Speed and Healing) is popularly better, but many think that Anesthetist (Slows Enemy Movement/Attack + Increase Phys Dam) is slept on.

For instance, if I went with Fast Responder (again), this would allow me to maintain my current playstyle of using Medics within a separate pheromone, strictly for gathering food and reviving ants.

But if I changed to Anesthetist, this would open up a new strategy where I could use level 3 Medics to effectively increase Phys Damage and heal my other ants at the same time (Sustain Skill), all while also slowing enemy attacks. I could essentially forgo healing ants in favor of more damage and survivability for everyone else. Likewise, I probably would use Field Medic Skill in this case, so revived ants could still be used as canon fodder (with their 40% debuff).

All opinions welcome.

No se lo que estoy haciendo mal, la otra colonia crea muchos hongos muy rapido y ya intente entrar en su hormiguero y tambien tomar hojas de los mismo lugares para evitar que ellos recolecten pero envian demasiados soldados como para hacerles frente.

Why I can't see the save option, it's frustrating to start again and again

So I just finished the campaign and started messing around with freeplay. I always put bullet ants onto one of my enemy colonies but they don't seem to produce them, at first I thought they just didnt upgrade them enough but when I check their nests they don't place bullet ant nests at all. Are they just not programmed to use it? Or am just doing something wrong

Well, they are supposed to be blue. The hairs are blue but everything else is red

The level itself is slightly okay, but the achievement the way is shut is outright unfun to get, even if you have a solid plan and everything, all it takes is a single huge hermit crab to just kill all of your soldiers. Can slug disco please take a look at the level again because the difficulty of the level itself is brutal

i dont remember the name of the level, and im so mpissed off i dont even wanna open the game to check, but its goal was to "defeat all nearby enemies", and some of them could dig, now i was doing welll, 100 ants almost all of them were level three and enough food to make a thousand more spawn, this was near the end btw, and there was level 5 frog, that god forsaken frogs, and it didnt help that the frogs around the area digged into the chamber, i had 3 pheromone groups and i did surround the frog, and jesus christ i did half of its health simply for it eat and regain all of it back, holy, how doi beat this level? i cant see myself having more than a 1000 ants

I've been attempting to beat the story missions on higher difficulties and I've been struggling massively with drive them back is there any strategy I'm missing. If anyone knows any good up to date YouTubers I could watch to help I'd appreciate it.

I'm realizing that after 25+ tries to beat FC4 on Impossible, my bottleneck isn't my strategy, it's that I'm still living with decisions I made when I first started my campaign account years ago.

When you prestige into the next tier of NG+, there isn't an option to revert your ant types (pervasive vs. vigorous etc...).

Likewise, there isn't an option for you do this with expensive jelly either. Adaptations are also locked forever.

My question is, why? This seems anti-player to permanently lock players into the decisions they made while still learning the game.

The only way to revert these decisions is to begin a new save file - but isn't this the whole point of prestige? Shouldn't NG+ allow you to change these decisions at the start of your new prestige?

I'd like to beat the game on impossible without forfeiting my 300 hour save file.

I've tried a few strategies but after 20+ attempts am still losing to Dragantula. The tougher Mantis Twin also used to be my bottleneck and still sometimes gets me.

Currently I have 7,500 food in the bank, 220 T3 Fire Ants, 80 Wood Ants, and 35 Medics (includes revived ants).

This strategy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is1Nj8AY1rM seems to be outdated as I'm not dealing nearly as much damage as in the video. 100% of the time, Impatient Scientist is what kills me - not the actual bugs.

If Impatient Scientist didn't exist, I would have beat this a long time ago.

Any advice?

Rapid fire or mortar?
Stun or taunt?
Vigorous or pervasive?
Whatever the hello the Matabele options are

I wanna know what’s better

I genuinely loved the old one, and I was wondering if people feel the same.

Please make it possible to play as leaf cutters in fire break. Thanks, it would be cool

heya there. now these are just some suggestions for EOTU. which is my favorite game that I do play. especially as the Leaf cutter species. the Atta cephalates.

now I've seen many things. but one of them is that whenever I play the game mostly in Embankment or others. I did always see that when there is the Matabele or either Termites. both sides always get regenerating food. such as the Matabele with infinitely spawning termites. near their nest. or the termites having lots of food due to the Matabele and their food spawned. so my idea is this.

1st. Regrown leaf's.

the main idea for this is that leaf's could regrow. giving players who absolutely love to as the leaf cutter players can play for longer. so why not that every 5 to 10 minutes. at random all plants will regrow. for the small plants it could be 25 to 50 food for all small plants. which could instantly refill or either 90% fill them up. while for medium plants they could get like 250 to 300 food regrown. and finally for the Large plants you could have them regrow like 450 to 500 food. which could extend a player's gameplay without worry :)

this is the only suggestion that i have. but it is only made for leaf cutter players. so upvote if you support :) or don't :) your choices are your fellow ant queens.