Battle Brothers Pre-Release Thread

[Drew]

Turns out that my 8 Gb of RAM was the bottleneck. Took my machine into the shop today, had diags run on it. Doubled the RAM to 16, and voila ! No copious fan noise during gaming !

Either you're retarded or something is seriously fucked with your rig.

Spoiler

or both

 

[Hoaxmetal]

He shouldn't have installed the Battle Brothers Browser Toolbar, that malware eats a lot of RAM.

 

[Anthony Davis]

Something just occurred to me, a question...

Do dogs/wardogs increase your food consumption rate?

 

[anvi]

Is this the game I want that said full game is due around January? Or the game I want that says full game is due around Summer?

 

[Andnjord]

Well, back from the pile of boredom that is Stellaris and this game is still so damn fun to play. Just finished an undead invasion (the second crisis of my playthrough) and decided to head back into the wilds for some quality man-on-orc time. I've attacked an orc city in the swamps with 10 orc warriors, a warlord and a plethora of younglings.

Luckily my boys were standing on a patch of dry lands, so we managed to clober those greenskins without any serious damage. AND I FINALLY LOOTED A GODDAMN UNIQUE WEAPON, about damn time! The warlord was brandishing a unique cleaver, so needless to say my cleaverbrois now wielding it after personally prying it from the warlord's cold dead hand.

This unique cleaver has awesome stats by the way, 50-80 damage range, 132% armor penetration. Can't wait to try this thing!

 

[RK47]

Something just occurred to me, a question...

Do dogs/wardogs increase your food consumption rate?

No they don't.
They're just equipment.

 

[eric__s]

Is this the game I want that said full game is due around January? Or the game I want that says full game is due around Summer?

Full game's coming out on Friday.

 

[RK47]

Hired a Swordmaster with 3 level-ups.
HP 40
Melee* 82
MeleeDef*** 31 (base)
RangeDef 1
Fatigue* 73

Gave him Nine Lives, Dodge, Shield Mastery.
He nearly died fighting goblins when they throw a net, hit him with 5 arrows and 6 bolas.
Thank Nine Lives.
I put him on the back line after that.

 

[Prime Junta]

Hired a Swordmaster with 3 level-ups.

I don't bother. I just get cheap peasants and give them a good weapon + disposable armour until they level up to 4 or so. It doesn't take long, and if they croak before that they're easy to replace. Spending the dosh on good armour for my vets seems like a better investment.

BTW sometimes this game just isn't fair. I'm around day 44, and took on a simple and pretty cheap village defence job, something to do while looking for a good contract.

I was facing 28 enemies: fallen heroes, lost souls, skeleton archers, necromancers, the lot. 28

It... did not go well.

Fortunately I'm not playing Ironman so I could always roll back to a previous save. Is it possible to renege on a contract that's ongoing by the way? If so, how?

 

[Donkerman]

Click on the cross next to the description of the contract to cancel it. You will take a hit to reputation though.

 

[Reinhardt]

Only one day left.

 

[RK47]

what the fuck these direwolves can team up with ancient undead? WHAT THE FUCK?
Was doing a relic contract. Upon arriving at the place, event pops up as per normal as a pack of wolves were running from my merc. Suddenly when combat initiates, I'm being engaged by 12 wolves and 9 ancient legionnaries.

Wiped out wolves and had to retreat cause the fatigue was too much. The wolves were so hard to hit.

Also, Crispy is ok

 

[thesheeep]

Looking at this thread, this might be the first game I will ever play on easy

 

[Krivol]

Don't ! It gets boring quite fast. If you are a pussy don't play ironman (well, I am a pussy, also I hate missclicks in any ironman), but veteran gives a lot of fun (and good amount of frustration too).

 

[Marten Broadcloak]

A'ight, got some update on my "almost-full-noble-team". Got one bastard, witch-hunter, swordmaster, one apprentice, 3 starter brothers and a miner from an event (other noble died, so I took the poor fella. He's doing fine with military cleaver)

Basicly, getting only nobles hurts early-mid game as they tend to cost 2-5k. Couldn't find any Hedge Knights when I was around so I stopped at nobles and started buying other 2-5k crowns bro's (bastard, swordmaster and witch-hunter)
I still need to change equipment on some of those guys, but for now it looks like this:

De Havilland family is currently steamrolling thru' enemies. Especially Xun. Ulfert is also extra-good. Other guys are doing fine, but my stamina rolls were pretty... Meh(that's the biggest problem of this company right now)
I'm not finished yet (day 78) but my current conclusion is - If I was hiring cheap guys, I'd probably end up around same levels with better stuff and easier early-mid game. I had only 9-10 guys until day 30 so... As you can see, some early rolls were OP (Xun and Xanth, while other guys were pretty mediocre)
I'm thinking about giving Xanth/Xun "fast hands" and perk that gives +25% armor ignore while nothing in offhand so they can swap to daggers when fatigued. Trying many different things on all those lads.

Oh, also - I raided like 10-15 random locations and absolutely zero legendary items. That sucks.

Shouldn't you give a coif to your archer? Its current helmet is bad for vision iirc.

Also, where did you get that coat of plates so early? That must be useful.

In terms of stamina, do you guys improve it sometimes during level up, or do you just leave it as it is?

 

[Krivol]

I usually level up stamina few times on each character - I'm targeting to have at least 60-80 for each (counting armouor penalty) - it gives you a lot of time before they are too tired to move. I usually level up Meele att + meele def and stamina for most of my front liners (+ fixing their week sides sometimes - like improving broken HP, Initiative or courage).

TBH HP looks like dump stat sometimes (after loosing a Bro in 1 hit even if he had 60+ HP... )

 

[anvi]

Is this the game I want that said full game is due around January? Or the game I want that says full game is due around Summer?

Full game's coming out on Friday.

Cool thanks, I need stuff to play.

 

[Prime Junta]

I don't see those green and white happy faces. What gives?

 

[sser]

It's not easy being green.

 

[Kuattro]

I don't see those green and white happy faces. What gives?

Are you sure you are playing the beta version? You need to opt into it from steam's game options.

But if that's the case I would just wait until tomorrow if I were you.

 

[Prime Junta]

Are you sure you are playing the beta version?

Uh... no. Playing the EA version that unlocked with the key. That would explain it...

 

[Kuattro]

Are you sure you are playing the beta version?

Uh... no. Playing the EA version that unlocked with the key. That would explain it...

Well, if it's any consolation, you are definitely not the only one that made that mistake.

If you want to try the beta, try this, but as I said, it's just one more day until release so you might as well just keep playing what you have.

Sadly your current saves will not be compatible once the game is released (the ones made with the beta will, minus anything they add that requires a new campaign), so you will have to start again.

 

[Prime Junta]

I'm a serial re-starter of games. Any excuse to start over is a pro in my book.

 

[SmartCheetah]

Marten Broadcloak - I probably should, yes, but I don't care much as this is a testing company. Archer and crossbowman send 2-3 arrows/bolts and then change to their long axes anyway.
Coat of plates? You mean that lamellar heavy armor (285) or scale armor(300)? I think Coat of plates is 320 IIRC, but I've seen it in shop once. I bought both of them, around 8-10k crowns respectively. Remember that I'm testing these builds on normal.

 

[RK47]

That feeling when it's the last enemy standing, everyone surround him and kept aiming at his head to salvage the armor.

POP HIS MOLE

POP HIS MOLE

POP HIS MOLE

POP HIS MOLE

POP HIS MOLE

Flail's theme song