Major release

Nesa enters the field

dWars v0.6.003 · 29 September 2026

A living 3D hero, replayable battles, steadier WebGPU loads, and command systems that hold their line.

New

Nesa now stands inside the battle as a cel-shaded 3D hero, with outline ink, ground shadow, team colour, a health ring, facial expressions, banking turns, jets, smoke and muzzle-fire effects.
Hero movement is now click-and-drag: aim dots show the Bezier flight path, a ghost marks the destination, and sharp reversals fly as loops instead of hairpins.
The new Replays scene lets you browse recorded sessions and launch one back into LevelPlay.
Press F in battle to open the in-game bug reporter flow.
Level authors now have tower-defense groundwork: pre-planned battalion commands, team controller selection, and a Map Setup timeline.

Ashfield Park ships from the v4 authoring pass, with updated base positions, rally markers, supply radius and rebalanced battalion loadouts.
Battalion movement paths have smoother rounded joins, and out-of-reach drags now clamp to the furthest reachable point instead of silently failing.
The loading screen now reports shader warmup and route-computation progress in finer detail.
GPU settings now start conservatively, use the trusted GPU lookup when possible, and keep the settings UI aligned with the applied profile.
Replay playback is a spectator seat: you can pan, hover, select and inspect units, while issuing orders stays blocked.

WebGPU builds no longer lose the sim to oversized kernels, invalid storage-buffer layouts, stale readbacks or pathfinding work that never converged.
Mac and browser builds recover from several dead-game cases: missing units at level reveal, frozen live textures, invalid warmup readbacks, and device-loss paths now have better guards.
Muted ambience now stays quiet, including one-shot sounds such as the occasional bark, and audio settings persist more reliably.
Player commands no longer reject themselves on mouse-up, lose their movement line, or replay without the walked path.
Drones use their air flight path again, dead units no longer drift like smoke by accident, and destroyed heroes return to base instead of an old destination.
The in-level GPU settings panel, loading label, startup unit reveal, red-battalion ordering, and WebGPU unit display all have dedicated regressions.

dWars still blocks mobile play with a requirements screen; desktop-class browsers remain the supported route.
A cold WebGPU load can still take time on weaker machines, but it should now explain what it is doing instead of leaving the field silent.
Older replay bundles may fall back to best-effort playback when their recorded context cannot be proven exact against this build.

Nesa says the map is breathing. She is not wrong. — Elle