Temtem: Swarm News

We’re thrilled to announce that Temtem: Swarm will be featured in TGAGWCAGA 2024—The Game Awards for Games Who Can't Afford the Game Awards! This one-of-a-kind indie showcase is streaming this Friday, December 13th!

TGAGWCAGA highlights incredible indie games that truly deserve more attention while also poking a little fun at the exclusivity of The Game Awards.

Subscribe now to TGAGWCAGA’s YouTube channel so you don’t miss out!

What? TGAGWCAGA 2024

When? Friday, December 13th
5:00 PM UTC / 6:00 PM CET / 12:00 PM ET

Where? Watch the stream here: https://www.youtube.com/@TGAGWCAGA

We’ll also be part of the TGAGWCAGA Steam Event running from December 13th to December 22nd, featuring tons of amazing indie games—including Temtem: Swarm!

Make sure to join us this Friday, tell your friends and play, buy or wishlist your favorite titles!

• We've added a backup system for save games:
  • Up until now, when the game detected a corrupted save game it would completely erase it so the game could be launched again. However, this has lead to players losing their progress completely.
  • From now on, the system will create a copy of your current save game before overwriting it, and if your save game ends up corrupted one way or another, it will offer you to return to that backup.
  • While some progress might still be lost in the process, it will not be all progress like it's happened up until now.
  • Please note that the backup isn't bulletproof. It can get corrupted, in which case the save game will be erased so you can continue playing, or it can have issues saving. That's why we always encourage you to close the game in a safe way (avoid alt+f4 or abrupt turning off of the computer), and to please share with us any crash you might experience. You can do so here.
• We've reworked the in-game status pickups.
  • They now work similar to a Tech in the sense that the playable Temtem is the center of it, and it expands outwards in a circle, applying the status and dealing damage in waves.
• The Temtem portraits are now animated across the board!
  • However, since this can consume more resources, we've added a setting for it in the Settings menu, so you can turn it on or off depending on your specs.
• We've added a summary of dash damage to the end-of-the-run screen!
• We've added a myriad of new, informative notifications for all sort of situations when trying to connect with other players.

 

We're so pumped to team up with our friends at Bolt Blaster Games and bring you the ultimate co-op experiences! Team up with your friends, unleash powerful combos, and survive the onslaught of enemies together in these two online co-op survivor games. We love co-op so much, we decided to co-op for our co-op games. It's co-opception!

Grab Temtem: Swarm and The Spell Brigade at a 10% discount and dive into a world of chaotic, spell-slinging, Tem-blasting action in the Online Co-op Survivors bundle!



Already have both games and love them… enough to want to cuddle them up close? Well, you’re in luck, both of us have plushie campaigns over at Makeship, that you could cuddle up to your heart’s content! Check them out here:

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That’s it for now, we hope you pick up the bundle and enjoy both games!

Until next time…

It’s that time of year again, the 2024 Steam Awards are here and ready for you to nominate your favorites!

We would be absolutely over the Pansun if you nominated Temtem: Swarm for the ‘Better With Friends' Award.

Remember that you have to leave a review for the game before you can nominate it, so if you haven’t already please tell us what you think of Temtem: Swarm!



At Crema we love playing our favorite games with friends and so we focus heavily on that when we develop new experiences. With Temtem: Swarm we wanted to bring the utter chaos of the bullet heaven genre into co-op and so developed the game with that in mind from the very beginning.

Your runs scale in difficulty with more players and being able to complete synergies for your teammates adds a lot of strategic control. Plus, we added Ghost mode so that you can support your teammates even after falling to the swarms and while they come revive you to jump back into the fray.

So, whether you share your experience or love competing for it with your friends, we hope you’ll join us in nominating Temtem: Swarm for the ‘Better With Friends' Award. You can vote here!

We’ve got more exciting updates on the way, with the next one adding 2 new playable Tems and Omninesia as a new map. Don’t forget to check out our Living Roadmap here.

• 👥We've made it so your mouse cursor will be locked to the Swarm screen while playing in full screen. No more accidental cursor escapades!
• We've added a warning when you're about to go over the recommended Skill Tree level for this stage of development.
  • What initially was a 40k Pansuns cap on Skill Trees has now been reconverted to a pop-up warning. The cap was removed altogether.
  • We still want players to know when they're exceeding the intended progression level that would guarantee a fun challenge at this stage of development. The choice is entirely yours!

 

• 👥We've added little "Coming soon!" banners to Skill Tree nodes that are currently not unlockable, the same way Kudos have these banners. This should help clarify what can be achieved now and what cannot.
• We've changed the damage dealt by status conditions from a fixed amount, to a variable amount that scales up with Temtem damage.
  • The more attack your Temtem has, the more the damage inflicted by status conditions will increase.
  • This change also applies to enemies, so likewise: the more damage the Swarm Temtem has, the more damage they'll inflict on your player Temtem by status condition damage.
• 👥We've made it so event spots won't repeat their location during a run after completing them. If you've gotten an event in zone x, you won't get another event in that zone.

After having the chance to watch everyone play the EA version for a few days, we've noticed the curve of progression wasn't completely balanced. We've noticed Deniz was underpowered, while Arbury was too much of a wall for progressing players.The idea behind these changes is to make Deniz a bit more challenging, and to tone down the challenge on Arbury and Tucma so we can get a smoother progression curve.As for Tems, no playable Temtem was balanced on this patch because there seem to be diverse opinions on all of them, which means they're in a good spot right now and there's no glaring issues to address right now. We'll still be monitoring them, and your feedback, to identify and fix possible issues.

Swarm

• Tateru
  • Base HP has been increased 43 ➜ 44.
  • Base Damage has been increased 32 ➜ 33.
• Mosu
  • Base HP has been decreased 65 ➜ 59.
• Paharo
  • Base HP has been increased 63 ➜ 64.
  • Base Damage has been increased 13 ➜ 14.
• Mudrid
  • Base HP has been decreased 161 ➜ 145.
• Fomu
  • Base HP has been increased 25 ➜ 26.
  • Base Damage has been increased 11 ➜ 12.
  • Base Speed has been increased 2 ➜ 2.1.
•  Orphyll
  • Base HP has been decreased 48 ➜ 43.
  • Waste Area has been decreased from 2.5 ➜ 2.
• Lapinite
  • Base HP has been decreased 47 ➜ 42.
• Azuroc
  • Base HP has been decreased 137 ➜ 125.
• Kaku
  • Base HP has been increased 36 ➜ 37.
  • Base Damage has been increased 11 ➜ 12.
• Saku
  • Base HP has been increased 55 ➜ 56.
  • Base Damage has been increased 20 ➜ 21.
• Valash
  • Base HP has been decreased 66 ➜ 59.
• Towly
  • Base HP has been decreased 50 ➜ 45.
• Occlura
  • Base HP has been decreased 47 ➜ 42.
• Myx
  • Base HP has been decreased 76 ➜ 60.
• Pewki
  • Base HP has been increased 14 ➜ 15.
  • Base Damage has been increased 11 ➜ 12.
• Shaolite
  • Base HP has been decreased 44 ➜ 40.
• Shaolant
  • Base HP has been decreased 59 ➜ 53.
• Hocus
  • Base HP has been decreased 40 ➜ 36.
• Mushi
  • Base HP has been decreased 55 ➜ 50.
• Umishi
  • Base HP has been increased 52 ➜ 53.
  • Base Damage has been increased 11 ➜ 12.
• Mitty
  • Base HP has been increased 37 ➜ 38.
  • Base Damage has been increased 15 ➜ 16.
• Sanbi
  • Base HP has been decreased 95 ➜ 86.
• Toxolotl
  • Base HP has been decreased 65 ➜ 59.
• Noxolotl
  • Base HP has been decreased 84 ➜ 76.
• Blooze
  • Base HP has been decreased 95 ➜ 90.
• Goolder
  • Base HP has been decreased 240 ➜ 220.
• Droply
  • Base HP has been increased 73 ➜ 74.
  • Base Damage has been increased 21 ➜ 22.
• Broccoblin
  • Base HP has been decreased 64 ➜ 58.
• Valiar
  • Base HP has been decreased 64 ➜ 57.
• Adoroboros
  • Base HP has been decreased 125 ➜ 115.
• Minttle
  • Base HP has been decreased 30 ➜ 27.
• Thaiko
  • Base HP has been decreased 53 ➜ 48.
• Monkko
  • Base HP has been decreased 145 ➜ 130.

Mini Bosses

• Granpah
  • Base HP has been increased 780 ➜ 858.
  • Base Damage has been increased 50 ➜ 55.
• Piraniant
  • Base HP has been increased 1950 ➜ 2145.
  • Base Damage has been increased 55 ➜ 61.
• Arachnyte
  • Base HP has been increased 1200 ➜ 1800.
  • Base Damage has been increased 35 ➜ 36.
  • Base Armor has been increased 7.5 ➜ 10.

Final Bosses

• Oceara
  • Base HP has been increased 3800 ➜ 4100.
  • Base Damage has been increased 80 ➜ 88.

Techniques

• Hologram
  • Cooldown at Level 1 has been decreased 15 ➜ 13.
  • Cooldown at Level 2 has been decreased 14 ➜ 12.
  • Cooldown at Level 3 has been decreased 14 ➜ 12.
  • Cooldown at Level 4 has been decreased 13 ➜ 11.
  • Cooldown at Level 5 has been decreased 12 ➜ 10.

 

• Fixed a softlock caused by players leveling up while they were in the Synergies screen.
• Fixed a black screen at start and being unable to play when players had corrupted save games.
• Fixed the chance to get stuck on a particular spot on the Deniz arena.
• We've fixed the issue that was causing damage by status conditioned to not be recognized towards Kudo progression. The techniques affected were Tortenite's Garde and Toxic Waste. You should now see progression in your Kudos after using these Techniques.
• Also fixed Fluid Barrier+ not counting the projectiles it had blocked, causing issues with Kudo Progression. You should now see progression in your Kudos after using this Technique.
• Fixed that Nest events were impossible to complete if one of the co-op players was dead at the time.
• Fixed that some damage-increasing Gears were not applying to some Techniques.

Some fixes, features, and improvements are originally suggested, inspired by, or reported by our community in our Discord server and subreddit.