Hello tamers,

Even in these challenging times, the team has been working hard (although now working from home) and today we bring you a new Temtem update.

This is the first content update we’re releasing after publishing our content roadmap a few weeks ago and it includes most of the features promised for this Spring. We will be pushing the rest of the features (including the chat rework and the club management system) to another content update that will still (hopefully) arrive during this Spring.

What’s new?

The highlight on this patch is, of course, the Ranked Matchmaking. Up until now, players have been forced to organize ladders themselves outside of the game and turn to external tools in order to keep their progress. Not anymore!

We’ve designed a new rating system called TMR (Tamer Matchmaking Rating) which will rate player’s performance and grant you points for winning matches. Players are matched against each other automatically, based on their current TMR. In order to help ne...

• Added Ranked matchmaking. Players will be matched together via their TMR (Tamer Matchmaking Rating) into competitive battles.
  • This is the first iteration of the Ranked battles so it only has the core features for now.
  • Every Temtem is auto-scaled on ranked battles. This means that their level is upped to the current level cap (48) and all their SVs are maxed (50). TVs remain intact.
  • While ranked battles will give pansun rewards, they are currently disabled until the system is fully tested.
• Added the Spectator mode. Players can now spectate others from the Interact menu as long as they’re playing a competitive battle.
  • As with the Ranked matchmaking, this is the first iteration of this feature so it will be improved and worked on in the future.
• Added a new Status condition: Evading. While evading, the Temtem will avoid the next offensive technique directed at it.
• Added a new Status condition: Alerted. While alerted, the Temtem can’t be asleep and after waking up from being aslee...