Retro Swarm Challenge (2024)

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The Retro Swarm Challenge is Bee Swarm Simulator's custom experience for the 2024 Roblox "The Classic" Event. It was first released on May 23rd, 2024 and hosted a total of 6 collectable Tix and 5 collectable Tokens until May 28th, 2024. The Retro Swarm Challenge is a permanent addition and will be refined over time.

During the event, fifteen user-created experiences, including Bee Swarm Simulator, were chosen to create a custom experience, in which players could earn custom event badges that could be used to claim unlockable prizes. Per experience, players could earn 10 badges for Tix and 5 badges for Tokens.

Contents

  • 1 Event Lobby
  • 2 Gameplay
    • 2.1 Enemies
    • 2.2 Bricks
    • 2.3 Shop
    • 2.4 Rewards
  • 3 Gallery
  • 4 Trivia

Event Lobby[]

Upon entering the portal, the player is teleported to a separate experience: "Retro Swarm Challenge ⚔️ [DEFENSE THE HIVES!!!!] v1.2(fixed)". Players would spawn on a classic-styled island surrounded by smaller islands holding multiple historic models. The main island had five entry cubes, a billboard containing information on how to play the minigame, and a Portal leading back to Bee Swarm SImulator.

Upon entering a cube, a twenty-five-second countdown will start. Each cube can hold a maximum of 4 players. When a cube is full, the timer will decrease rapidly. At zero, players will be teleported to the minigame.

Two Tix could be found by entering the square teleporters scattered around the lobby.

Gameplay[]

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The challenge took place in a long, rectangular box. Players would spawn in front of four claimable hives at the start of the map. Behind the spawn were four different fields (Mixed, Blue, Red, and White), a Shop on the left, and a large cave at the end. On the interface, players could see their Bricks, the current Round, the time remaining in said round, and the HP of the hives below the Honey and Pollen bar. On the right of the screen was a server leaderboard, displaying each player's Brick, Honey, and Damage totals. Players would start with fifty Bricks, and the hives' initial HP was ten. Two more Tix could be found within the challenge itself.

The objective of the Retro Swarm Challenge was to survive as many Rounds as possible while defending the hives from monsters. In order to fight the monsters, players could unlock bees or buy weapons at the Shop to defeat them. Killing enemies dropped Brick Tokens, allowing players to purchase more items.

Players would keep their gear and bees from the main game, which gave players who had already progressed a large advantage. If a player didn't have bees, they could rent bees that could be leveled up for Bricks.

When the HP of the hives reached zero, it was game over.

Enemies[]

There were two types of enemies during the event: Slimes and Zombies. Enemies would gradually level up. Like mobs, if a player's bee is a lower level than the enemy, their accuracy would decrease by 50% per level.

Slimes would move slowly towards the hives. As they increased in levels, they would grow larger, increasing their hitbox and health.

Zombies would also move towards the hives. Unlike Slimes, however, if a Zombie spotted a nearby player, they would attack them instead.

Bricks[]

Bricks could be obtained by killing enemies, through Leaves on the fields, or by destroying Brick Blooms. All Bricks were collected through Tokens.

Brick Blooms were retro-styled flowers that would spawn on any of the four fields. Their behavior is very similar to Puffshrooms. Upon collecting a certain amount of pollen in their radius, Brick Blooms would burst into Brick tokens. The tokens that spawn from Brick Blooms are both local and global; therefore, players would always receive tokens from them regardless of whether they helped destroy it or not. Upon defeating a Brick Bloom, another one would spawn in a random field, one level higher. In higher waves, multiple Brick Blooms could be active at once.

At the shop, Bricks could be used to unlock and level up Bees, as well as buy weapons and boosts that would help defeat the waves of enemies. In addition, players could convert their honey into ten Bricks at a time. Every time a player converted their honey to bricks, the price to convert increased exponentially.

There was a hidden shop located to the left of the cave, where players could have converted their honey into one hundred Bricks at a time.

Shop[]

Players could purchase items and unlock or upgrade Bees for Bricks at the Shop.

  • Weapons

  • Boost Items

  • Bees/Honey

ImageItemCostDescription
Retro Swarm Challenge (5)Classic Sword10 BricksSwing to deal damage to monsters.

Deals 30 damage.

Retro Swarm Challenge (6)Trowel25 BricksSpend a Brick to build a wall that lasts up to 5 minutes.
Retro Swarm Challenge (7)Slingshot150 BricksShoot to deal damage to monsters from a distance.
Retro Swarm Challenge (8)Firebrand300 BricksSwing to deal heavy damage to monsters.
Retro Swarm Challenge (9)Rocket Launcher750 BricksShoot to deal 250 damage to monsters from a distance.
Retro Swarm Challenge (10)Illumina1500 BricksSwing to deal damage to monsters, always crits!
ImageItemCostDescription
Retro Swarm Challenge (11)Bloxiade100 Bricks
  • +50,000 Capacity
  • +25% Blue Pollen/Red Pollen/White Pollen
  • +5% Critical Chance
  • +1% Super-Crit Chance
  • +1 Bee Attack
Retro Swarm Challenge (12)Bloxy Cola200 Bricks
  • +100,000 Capacity
  • x1.05 Player Movespeed
  • +5% Bee Movespeed
  • +25% Bee Gather Pollen
  • +25% Critical Power
  • +1 Bee Attack
Retro Swarm Challenge (13)Cheezburger300 Bricks
  • +200,000 Capacity
  • +250% Convert Rate
  • +5% Critical Chance
  • +50% White Pollen
  • +10% Bee Attack
Retro Swarm Challenge (14)Pizza500 Bricks
  • +300,000 Capacity
  • +50% Pollen
  • +50% Red Pollen
  • +25% Critical Power
  • +20% Bee Attack
ImageItemCostDescription
Retro Swarm Challenge (15)10 BricksHoneyPrice starts at 637 honey and increases exponentially.
Retro Swarm Challenge (16)Unlock A Bee5 Bricks (+10 after first purchase, +15 after that)Allows players to choose one of three bees from their hives. After running out of bees to unlock, players can choose rental bees. These start at level one.

Players without bees could rent one of three random bees to choose from.

Retro Swarm Challenge (17)Level Up Rental Bees10 Bricks (+10 after first and third purchase, +20 besides that)Increases the level of all rental bees by one.

Cannot be purchased by players who don't have any active rental bees.

Rewards[]

After the Challenge was finished, a stat screen would appear informing the player of their total damage, bricks collected, rounds completed, and their final score. The rewards were listed at the bottom. The score system is similar to that of the Stick Bug Challenge, being based on the rounds completed as well as damage dealt and bricks collected. Better score gave better rewards. Rewards would include 3 or 4 of the following, with some rewards being locked behind a higher score:

  • Tickets
  • Ticket Planter
  • Gumdrops
  • Honeysuckles
  • Whirligigs
  • Micro-Converters
  • Jelly Beans
  • Oils
  • Enzymes
  • Red Extracts
  • Blue Extracts
  • Marshmallow Bees
  • Field Dice
  • Smooth Dice
  • Soft Wax
  • Hard Wax
  • Pink Balloons

Gallery[]

The lobby, used to join challenges.

The 1x1x1x1 reference in the lobby.

The tools & upgrades.

The screen for losing the challenge.

Trivia[]

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  • The Retro Swarm Challenge has many references to classic Roblox content:
  • Aphids can still spawn during the Retro Swarm Challenge, albeit rarely.
  • Some consumables, such as Purple Potions, Stingers, Glitter and Cloud Vials can be used during the event. Others, such as Field Dice or Balloons, are prohibited.
  • Players could not interact with their hive during the challenge.
  • The player could use Codes to obtain buffs during the challenge and buffs obtained prior to entering the challenge would stay.
  • Pollen still in the players bag after losing the challenge would carry over to the main game.
  • When a gifted Digital Bee's Map Corruption ability activated, the server-wide announcement message would still display despite the affected field being inaccessible.
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