SwarmFall

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• Patch Notes·5 Jul 2026Official

  SWARMFALL — Major Update

  Thank you so much for playing SWARMFALL! 💛 Our biggest update since launch: a new map, two new heroes, a new camera and smoother multiplayer. Grab your squad and dive into the Abyss! 🌊 New map: The Sunken Sanctuary An ancient sanctuary half-claimed by water, with ruins, ponds and stone bridges. - 👹 4 new enemies to discover in a brand-new swarm. - 🐉 A new mini-boss, the Guardian Dragon — flame breath, meteors, geysers and an underground dive... it comes back 3 times, stronger each time. - 💀 A new final boss, The Horror of the Depths — a 3-phase colossus that keeps getting angrier: meteors, shockwaves, a rain of swords to dodge... the fight escalates all the way to the end. 🦸 Two new heroes (roster: 6) - 🗡️ Kasumi — Assassin: quick daggers, vanishes into mist, and a whirling blade dance that steals life from enemies. - ✨ Liora — Support: our first support hero! Area healing and a Sanctuary that heals and empowers the whole team. 🎥 New camera - Over-the-shoulder (third-person) view: aim where you look — more immersive, more precise. - The classic top-down view stays available: switch between both anytime (mouse wheel / d-pad). 🎯 Boss fights you can actually read - Every boss and mini-boss attack now shows a ground zone matching the exact damage area, filling up as the impact approaches: inside the red you get hit, outside you're safe. - Smoother boss arrivals: cinematic, clean teleport, 3-2-1, FIGHT! ⚡ Performance & netcode - 📉 Leaner networking — less lag and desync in co-op, especially during heavy waves. - ✅ Fewer stutters — host-side optimizations for a steadier frame rate. ⚖️ Balancing - 💪 Enemies gain +10% health — runs get more intense. - 🎯 Recalibrated stats across all maps, toned-down zombie, fixed ghoul, better-paced waves in multiplayer. - 🩸 Reworked lifesteal — flat HP per kill: more predictable and reliable. 💥 New: enemy dismemberment - 🦴 Spectacular deaths — enemies burst into pieces... with zero FPS cost. 🔧 Fixes - Boss arena teleport is now fully relia...
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• Patch Notes·28 Jun 2026Official

  SWARMFALL — Update

  Thank you so much for playing SWARMFALL! 💛 This update is all about game feel: smoother multiplayer, better-balanced enemies and far more satisfying deaths. Grab your squad and dive in together! ⚡ Performance & netcode A big optimization pass, most noticeable for the host and during heavy waves: - 📉 Leaner networking — enemies now cost 12.5% less bandwidth to sync, and swarms are capped + culled off-screen. The result: less lag and desync in co-op. - 💬 Optimized damage numbers — damage popups are smoothed and sent over a lightweight stream: a big upload win for the host, and no more hitches when everything's getting hit at once. - 🧮 Streamlined damage math — a single pass over players on the host instead of two, so the CPU breathes during spikes. - ✅ Fewer stutters — lighter enemy loops and reduced memory pressure for a steadier frame rate. ⚖️ Enemy balancing A full stat overhaul for clearer, fairer fights: - 🎯 Recalibrated stats — every enemy is now tuned against a shared reference. The Graveyard skeleton lines up with the Forest one (hard maps stay hard by design, not by inflated stats). - 🧟 Toned-down Zombie — damage cut from 375 to 110, slightly faster: less punishing but still a threat. Manta, Rusher and Bat recalibrated alongside it. - 🌊 Healthier waves — enemy density now scales sub-linearly: +10% solo and +25% per player instead of flooding the screen the moment a second player joins. - 👻 Ghoul fixed — its arc combo hits harder (still a real threat), but it now keeps its distance and no longer walks right on top of you. - 🩸 Reworked lifesteal — now restores flat HP per kill (5 / 10 / 15 / 20) instead of a percentage of damage: far more predictable and reliable mid-swarm. 💥 New: enemy dismemberment - 🦴 Spectacular deaths — enemies now burst into chunks on death, flung outward before fading away. It's punchier, more satisfying... and it's free on performance (zero physics, pooled chunks — no FPS loss even on massive AOE). 🔧 Fixes - Fixed the enemy hit effect t...
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• Patch Notes·27 May 2026Official

  SwarmFall — a new chapter

  Hi everyone, I'd rather be straight with you. SwarmFall was built entirely on my own, from scratch, using only free assets or art I made myself. It's my first game, and shipping it on Steam will always be something I'm proud of. Today I'm making a clear-eyed call. The market is saturated, and the game is held back by technical limits — chiefly its P2P multiplayer — that I can't realistically fix alone and with no budget. Rather than burn out on it, I'm choosing to focus on a new project, on stronger foundations. But SwarmFall lives on: • The game is taking part in the Ballistics Festival on June 8. • The Founder's Pack and all its cosmetics are now free, for everyone. Nothing left to buy — everything is unlocked for all players. • If the community grows, updates remain possible. For now, my energy goes into the next game.
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• Patch Notes·26 May 2026Official

  🔧 Fixes

  🔧 Fixes - Corpses: dead characters no longer float in the air — the body now drops properly to the ground. - Pause/Options menu: the mouse cursor now shows up correctly in-game — you can adjust sound and settings again. - Starting a new match: you can create or join a lobby again after a game (previously: stuck, no map selectable). - Lobby counter: the number of available games now updates live (every 5s) in the search menu.
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• Patch Notes·26 May 2026Official

  Into the Shadows

  This update puts immersion front and center: a brand-new hero, reworked effects, a richer soundscape, and clearer combat than ever. --- ⚔️ NEW HERO — KASUMI, THE NINJA ASSASSIN A blade from the shadows joins the roster. Kasumi thrives on stealth, a lightning-fast dash, and rapid strikes to fall upon her targets before vanishing without a trace. 🎮 GAME DESIGN & IMMERSION - Several gameplay adjustments for a more immersive experience and punchier combat feel. - New dynamic third-person camera that pulls you right into the action. ✨ VISUAL EFFECTS - Reworked several VFX to deepen immersion. - Mini-boss attack indicators (Ghoul, Tank) now sit flush with the ground and render on top of other effects — you'll always see where to strike… and where to dodge. - End-boss cinematics re-framed for the new camera. 🔊 SOUND DESIGN - Added new sound effects for a livelier, more immersive atmosphere. 🎯 BOSSES - Patched boss hitboxes for fairer, more readable attacks. ⚖️ BALANCE - Pyron: base health increased by +50%. Far too fragile before — he now takes a hit like the fire bruiser he was meant to be. 🚀 PERFORMANCE & NETWORKING - Major CPU and network optimizations: smoother multiplayer and reduced bandwidth. 🛠️ FIXES & POLISH - Upgrade menu: the hero grid now displays and scrolls correctly (4 per row). - Various stability and polish fixes. ▎ Thanks for playing SWARMFALL — see you in the arena! 🔥
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