Somehow the end of the year is already here, and Glenn is taking full control of the Discord channel! As a thank you to our awesome community, we want to extend our Christmas spirit to all of you with the 10 DAYS OF BRIGADE BLESSINGS.

Starting today (December 17th), our Discord activity will be all about you, the player! That means contests, tournaments and yes, giveaways! So, if you’re not yet part of our community of Brigadiers, come say hi and be part of the festivities!

CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR DISCORD[discord.gg]

The remainder of 2024 will look something like this:

• Dec 17: Start of the 10 Days of Brigade Blessings
  
• Dec 18: Update 0.7.1
  
• Dec 19: Winter Sales - Get a 20% Discount!
  
• Dec 25: End of the 10 Days of Brigade Blessings

Some devs would take those final days of December off, but not us! Just kidding, there are some well-deserved breaks planned. But that does not mean that we cannot go out with a bang!

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As part of the Bullet Heaven Festivities, we have partnered with our friends at CremaGames to present to you the Online Co-op Survivors Bundle!

Get them both at a discount, or if you already have one or the other, the discount will still apply to the other one. If you like our game, then you'll love Temtem: Swarm as well. So give it a try!

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/bundle/46487/

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We will be part of this year’s Bullet Heaven Fest, starting tomorrow! We’re still offering a 10% discount during this festival, but that means the 20% discount ends today.

So get it now while the getting’s good. And be sure to check out the festival’s line-up tomorrow, as many more awesome games will be featured. So give them some love!

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STABILITY

🤝 Fixed an issue in the endless mode, where objectives started at incorrect times, making some objective UI overlap in the progress bar.
🤝 Fixed an issue where enemies would get stuck on an obstacle in The Frozen Ancients.

🤝 = changes inspired by community feedback

It’s that time of the year again where we participate in the Steam Awards, and come together to nominate our favorite games to give them the recognition they deserve. It has been another crazy year for indie games, and this is your moment to let your voice be heard!

Be sure to show The Spell Brigade - among the many other awesome games released this year - some love, it means everything to us! Do you think our game is shit? Then you can still nominate others.

VOTE NOW!

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We’re working with Makeship to make an awesome Sun Mage plushie! Voted by our community as the top pick, you can now pledge to this great cause and GET YOUR VERY OWN SUN MAGE[www.makeship.com].

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Watch the devs play the newest version of The Spell Brigade (version 0.7.0).

0.7 is here! We know this one features some highly requested and anticipated features so let’s just get down to it immediately:

We've added 2 new enemies. Our questionable naming skills aside, behold...

THE SNEAKY BUG
Sneaky Bugs roam the Frozen Ancients, only running at you when your back’s turned to them (hence “sneaky”).

THE FLYING MANTA
Flying Mantas - get this - fly around the Pyrestorm Pit. They’ll draw on you quickly so beware! We’re also currently working on more Realm-specific enemies, but more on that later…

The highly requested Friendly Fire toggle and Endless Mode have both been implemented in the form of Modifiers, which we’re calling Covenants. When selecting your Realm and Threat Level, you can now also activate any of the available Covenants to modify the rules of your run.

Activate Harmony Pact to disable Friendly Fire, meaning you can’t hurt yourself or your teammates, and they can’t either. Activate Eternal Bond to enable Endless Mode, allowing you to keep playing after defeating Sol’phish, and starting a new cycle.

We plan to add more Covenants in the future, so we’re very excited to see what this brings to the game. Obviously, balancing an endless experience is very challenging, and we will be constantly improving this mode throughout Early Access to get it just right.

While these new features add a lot of value to the game, we quickly realized that this would also impact the matchmaking, as more choices for your run will also create more scattering of lobbies, making it potentially harder to match with the right players. And while our numbers are definitely growing, our player base is not THAT big to have many matches for each particular run choice.

That’s why we took some more time to not only improve the matchmaking process technically, but also give players some more options when trying to find players.

By accessing the Matchmaking Options, you can now choose to prioritize your own run choices, or match with players in any run setup. We also added a meter for “Wizard Activity”, which essentially gives you a rough estimate of how easily you can find other players.

There are many more tiny fixes and improvements added, you can find those in the patch notes below:

NEW
📜 A new Covenant: Harmony Pact (disables Friendly Fire)
📜 A new Covenant: Eternal Bond (enables Endless Mode)
👻 A new Enemy: Sneaky Bug
👻 A new Enemy: Flying Manta
🌐 Added a menu for Matchmaking Preferences.

IMPROVEMENTS
🤝 Added new player icons that match the player’s equipped Outfit for each Wizard.
✅ Added some very cool trees to the environment of the Verdant Meadows.
🤝 Improved Enemy syncing between clients.
✅ Made Enemy Statues invulnerable to lava in the Pyrestorm Pit.
✅ Optimized texture resolutions for better performance.
✅ Improved the UI for Realm, Threat Level and Covenant selection.
✅ Improved UI readability by adding a blur effect where necessary.
🤝 Added a fancy Roadmap button to the Start Menu.
🤝 Removed time limit for Matchmaking.
✅ Improved Matchmaking by giving priority to fuller Lobbies when searching for Players.

BALANCING
🤝 Magic Missile: increased Range and Range Upgrades with 10%.
🤝 Aether Beam: increased DPS boost to 20% when adding additional projectiles by.
✅ Aether Beam: rebalanced the dividing of Damage over multiple Beams, so the correct amount of Damage is always dealt.
✅ Sulfur Geysers: increased Damage and increased the Cooldown by 30%.
✅ Changed application of Speed Upgrade logic so it’s only applied once. Doubled values for Move Speed increases for standard Upgrades, Relics, Enchantments and Wizard stats to adjust for this fix.

STABILITY
🤝 Fixed an issue where collected Funghi wouldn’t count towards Quest progress for clients.
⚙️ Fixed an issue where Relics couldn’t be picked up immediately.
🤝 Fixed an issue where Sol’phish and the Golden Flesh Crab would spawn outside of the map in the Pyrestorm Pit.
⚙️ Fixed an issue where projectiles would sometimes despawn on the world’s 0 position.
⚙️ Fixed an issue on the Steam Deck where button prompts weren’t shown accurately.
🤝 Fixed an issue where the Falling Star’s Explosion Augmentation would clip through other effects.
⚙️ Fixed an issue where the Main Menu’s Leave button would still be interactable while in the Loading screen, resulting in the game breaking.
🤝 Fixed an issue where some Fire Damage ticks were skipped on high Fire Rates.

🤝 = changes inspired by community feedback


Enjoy the update! We’ve also joined the Autumn Sales and gave the game a 20% discount, so if there’s ever a time to try it out with your friends, it’s now.

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That's right! We're part of the festivities too! So get yourself and your friends a copy and try it out! We're also releasing our fifth update today, and we have a final one planned for the very end of the year.

You can check out the ROADMAP, and join our DISCORD[discord.com] if you have any feedback for us! We're always eager to hear what you think and we've gathered quite a community so far that would love to help you out.

So enjoy the Autumn Sale, and we'll see you soon!

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