Unless a bug has come to existance after last update, which was quite a while ago. I remembered when I played, I held the torch and walked into the swarm of flies and then started to wave the torch. Yes, you will suffer a little damage but the flies will be completely disappeared after a few seconds. But, that was way before the pandemic.
I cannot remember exactly when, but the Dev. did join in one of the post and commenting that works were being done to "upgrade" the game to Unreal Engine 5. In other words, the game was completely rewritten. That might have happened sometime in 2020. The software house responsible for Savage Lands had been bought out. Then the after effect of the pandemic, games, being an entertainment product, would be hard hit by lack of investment. As you might have known by now that Tencent had bought 51% of Techlands (responsible for Dying Light 1 & 2), Microsoft bought out Activisions. It doesn't look very promising for Savage Lands.

I just had a update.

I don't think it's an actual update. I see nothing changed, and the dev didn't post anything on it. It was probably a micro update or something, done by Steam. I get those on other games too every so often.

Originally posted by wyldefx:

I don't think it's an actual update. I see nothing changed, and the dev didn't post anything on it. It was probably a micro update or something, done by Steam. I get those on other games too every so often.

304 MB is not micro.

Bug: Fixed a crash on Windows 11 machines using older ATI cards.

Originally posted by Euryidium Last Bastion Studios:

Bug: Fixed a crash on Windows 11 machines using older ATI cards.

Lol. Epic fail.