Battle Brothers Pre-Release Thread

[Infinitron]

 

[Luka-boy]

Holy fuck, what? Decapitated Fallen Heroes keep fighting!

 

[Alienman]

I haven't faced the new ancient undead yet, but I keep hearing horror stories. Are they as tough as people say?

 

[Reinhardt]

Right now you can meet legion troops very early. You can see my first encounter with them on previous page.
Heavily(for early game - very)armored, tireless, fearless skellingtons that fights in close formation. Much more dangerous than raiders.

 

[Alienman]

Right now you can meet legion troops very early. You can see my first encounter with them on previous page.
Heavily(for early game - very)armored, tireless, fearless skellingtons that fights in close formation. Much more dangerous than raiders.

Yeah, your update is part of the horror stories

I'm guessing you can't inflict injuries on these guys.

 

[Reinhardt]

Also very resistant to piercing weapons, so even more deadly to low level company dependant on spears.

 

[Alienman]

Sounds terrifying hehe.
I do have some maces and stuff like that though if I ever have to face them. The land around me so far mostly has bandits. I met some ugly ghouls, that's it.

 

[Reinhardt]

Ancient auxilaries provide cheap early game metal helmets. I think, legionaries meant to be mid game enemies, but somehow they invaded early stages.

 

[Thonius]

So I was fighting this new ghouls. Half decent combat. They start running. So long story short fat fucker ate my bro and run away!

 

[Wolfenswan]

What does the star rating of missions scale by? Is it the group's reputation?

 

[Grimgravy]

THE _ GREAT _ ARTIFACT _ HUNT:

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What I have found so far adventuring or just shopping around: see two pics.
I'm looking for named(*) falchions, *noble swords, *arming swords, *fighting spears (Dragonlance re-naming opportunity!!!), *two-handers, *flails, awesome Orcish *Great War Axes, maybe a *berserker chain.. and *bows, *crossbows, which latter two were never found so far. Couldn't modify Masterwork Bow stats, it has all its values modded/hardcoded in-house probably, so expert modder-brain needed for that.

Hellhound's Fang dagger is my favorite. Always wanted to start a Backstabbing Expert Ninja-Thief.

Its exciting to give artifacts to newbie mercs and watch them miss and graze the hairs of enemies in their shiny super-equipment and their powered weaponry and see them hacked to pieces by higher lever raiders, wolf riders, orcs, hehehe.

Expert ironman is most fun. Modding stats ruins the fun: only initiative, fatique and HP are safe to raise if "felt desperately important" by DemiGod character lovers[Marvel fans], since a mercenary modded this way will only last a little longer, but will be able to wield heavy weaponry. Its merely satisfying curiosity: - What if the party found a cache of a retired famous band? And tried to use them.

Not modding money for a play-thru campaign is essential to watch people leave and fight for survival. Most interesting is how even modded and artifact stuffed parties can be vanquished by higher level enemies and prowling too long in enemy territory: suddenly hordes of enemies gang up on the powered party grinding them down with food and repair items quickly running out, loosing people as my soldiers are picked off by suddenly much more skilled Orc warriors and wolf riders, raiders, etc.. :D

I've seen a named bow. It was 17k in a shop, and so way out of my new band's price range. It has since disappeared or I'd have screen shotted it for you.

 

[Drew]

Send a competent leader please

Spoiler

 

[Andnjord]

Finally had a chance to play, day 13 so far and it's been rough brothers.

On day 11 some guards tried to take away my killer on the run merc, one my two best fighter. Of course I gave them the finger but this time, for the first time those pesky guards decided to attack me. Oh boy, 3 dudes in full chainmail, kite shields and arming swords, one billhook and one arbalest against my 10 hobos armed with spears and rags. Long story short we did actually managed to kill them with only two casualties and got their sweet sweet kite shields, swords, billhook and ONE chainmail (bastards, I swear I killed three of them with daggers!).

So there I am, thinking this loot got me ahead of the curve and the next bandit thugs will be easy. Next contract, two skulls bandits, and BAM, six raiders and one freaking bandit Leader! Well, he's dead now and we got his heather shield, couldn't kill him with daggers as a tactical retreat allowed me to surround him alone while the other raiders were still far away so I had to kill him FAST.

I've got to say the new resolve mechanics when you surround enemies feels really nice and natural, it encourages you to keep a tight formation and to overwhelm the bad guys when appropriate.

This game is so good

 

[Agesilaus]

Ohhh sure release the full version when I'm in Iceland and don't have a PC.

Seriously thought it looks awesome and I will play this the instant I get home

 

[Thonius]

So apparently to rob a caravan you need to slay donkeys!(the screams!)

 

[Lhynn]

Finally had a chance to play, day 13 so far and it's been rough brothers.

Screenshots or didnt happen.
(i just love this games screenshots)

 

[Drew]

delete this

seriously though when can I start getting real work so that I can afford to feed/clothe my men

rapsdjff would it be possible to get flavor text for the individual renown levels?
I keep reading the tooltip thinking it's changed but it's the same explanatory "this is what renown means", but I still don't really know what it means besides higher=better


second edit since no one else is posting
10 bros
9 injuries
2 Permanent Injuries
7 Light Wounds

someone send me a physician before everyone dies

third edit
day 33, these fools are still following me despite another five casualties since the last time I posted it, bringing the total to 19.

 

[sser]

Are you using shield walls?

 

[Drew]

When I'm in a position to.
Not that it matters, enemy archers seem to have a 75% chance of inflicting an injury on max range, shield walled, +1 height bros.
My own crossbowman has 7 kills in 23 battles.


woah boy
time to start earning money

 

[Trueman]

Steam store 1st page when?

 

[Dr Skeleton]

Is it possible to get two permanent injuries from one fight? Because one of my guys did, I'm 100% sure that was the first time he fell and after the fight he has two (missing ear and missing finger). Coincidentally another one has the exact same two injuries but he got them on different occasions.

Edit: nevermind, it's a different guy, they just have the same look, I need to visit a barber

 

[Drew]

Day 49
For some reason they're happy with my leadership
I guess it's that the casualties have been mostly newcomers who really weren't cut out for it anyway
Like Ivar, who was with us for a whole 6 hours before being killed.

rapsdjff would it at all be possible to fit time of death in the obituary?
7th Dawn
35th Night
49th Afternoon
etc?

 

[Jimmious]

When the obituary needs a scrollbar you know you're having fun

 

[Reinhardt]

Dear game, that was low.

Future looks very bright for Doggy Company.

 

[rapsdjff]

Beta Update 0.9.0.20
Here's a first update to the new beta, fixing many of the things you guys have reported, and making some minor balancing adjustments. Please continue to report any issues in the appropriate forum. Have a nice weekend!

Changelog

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• Added Broken Pike as an additional weapon for Ancient Legionnaires.
  
• Added information about time left to complete an ambition, if there is any time limit, to tooltip.
  
  
• Changed Ancient Dead to have slightly less initiative.
  
• Changed impact of some mood events.
  
• Changed a few things about ambitions.
  
  
• Fixed potential issue with saves being corrupted.
  
• Fixed potential issue with campaigns not loading properly.
  
• Fixed potential crash as settlements get destroyed.
  
• Fixed 'Secure Cemetery' contract not starting in some cases.
  
• Fixed 'Secure Cemetery' contract sometimes having an objective that is too far away.
  
• Fixed player characters dying right before their turn sometimes resulting in the game not continuing properly.
  
• Fixed noble house patrols not spawning properly.
  
• Fixed ambition success/failure events sometimes not triggering properly.
  
• Fixed player not being able to enter settlements while escorting a caravan.
  
• Fixed wrong number of days required for healing light wounds shown in combat result overview.
  
• Fixed turns not ending automatically sometimes.
  
• Fixed some hotkeys working even when they shouldn't.
  
• Fixed ironman saves not being deleted after retirement.
  
• Fixed issue with worldmap AI sometimes being stuck for a few seconds.
  
• Fixed issue with caravan hands AI.
  
• Fixed displayed money not being updated when having an item repaired at a shop.
  
• Fixed player banner being subject to events where it can be lost or destroyed like other items.
  
• Fixed issue with characters that wear surcoats being raised as undead.
  
• Fixed various minor issues.