Battle Brothers Pre-Release Thread

[Skittles]

RK47 There's a bro with a background that might help you out with that.

 

[Alienman]

Does Battle Brothers have Bethesda level scaling? I'm 100 days in and I can't find any easy fights anymore. I would love too though, since every fight now seem to take a toll. Even the 1 skull contracts are hard as hell.

 

[Skittles]

It's reputation dependent.

 

[Lhynn]

Is it possible to lose reputation? seems like a nobrainer.
I remember playing a game similar to BB and there was a base reputation, which grew with the name and a member reputation, in which the members of the group made it more reputable and known. When one of the members died, your reputation would take a big hit, when one of the members retired, it would actually increase it.
Also seems a bit inane that easy jobs are no longer available after your reputation reaches a certain point, there should always be easy contracts that you may want to take.

 

[Alienman]

It's reputation dependent.

I see, but does my reputation remove bandit thugs from the map? Seems a bit weird in case it does. Every party I come across now has a lot of badasses.

 

[Kayerts]

There are always cargo delivery contracts, nachzehrer, and direwolf contracts, which are pretty doable even when nothing else is. The ancient undead stay manageable later for under-geared bros than any other faction. (Until you start facing large numbers of legionaries with polearms, basically.) Also, some lairs like the Overgrown Hideout stay weak into the late game; I don't know if this happens because I scouted them out earlier or if they're fixed encounters.

 

[Skittles]

Is it possible to lose reputation? seems like a nobrainer.

I've never watched closely enough to know the exact impact, but losing battles and failing or cancelling contracts seems to have an adverse effect. I don't know if just losing bros does. I'll see if I can't fire up a non-IM campaign and test it out.

 

[Alienman]

This is a fun mechanic!

The amount of shit in his pants at his moment.

R.I.P in literal pieces.

Black Hearts is no more

 

[Reinhardt]

Actually, orkz invasion was pretty stressful. Now i want something easy and relaxing, like Veteran Ironman.

Also Wurmburg, which i protected so valiantly, is no more. It was razed after the victory - i've met some refugees. They had no chance to rebuild their defences.

 

[Thonius]

This is a fun mechanic!

The amount of shit in his pants at his moment.

R.I.P in literal pieces.

Black Hearts is no more

Well try next time to use swords, spears and cleavers against them. Hammers suck against wolfs.

 

[Alienman]

Only one guy had a hammer, and I had no replacement weapons anyway. The company was on the fritz. Was down to 8 men and 300 gold in my purse after a brutal battle.

 

[Severian Silk]

Necrosavant raped my best archer. R.I.P.

Never fought those guys before. They are real big meanies and refuse to die when punished.

Yeah, these are really hard. The way I beat that encounter was to give my archers armored dogs. After you kill most of the zombies, release the hounds behind your lines where the necrosavants probably are too. Your archers will survive a little longer, and the hounds may do a little damage before they are chopped to bits.

I see that people have different 'builds' for different encounters. But changing inventory all the time is tedious IMO. Currently, I use the same build for every encoutner: 5 armored dudes with shields in front, 4 long axe guys in the wings, 3 archers with long axes in the middle back.

 

[Thonius]

Sunshine Brothers join forces with thugs to face undead.

Let's hope this alliance hold.
It's worth notice that every new body will rise as zed.

 

[Reinhardt]

My first veteran. One of the founders.

 

[Thonius]

I think there is some bug with zeds. They never struck down always kill.

 

[Obsequious Approbation]

Is there any form of cavalry in this game? Think I saw some wolf-rider goblins or somesuch somewhere itt (figures are p. small), but it'd be pretty cool for your brothers to have mounts.

 

[Reinhardt]

but it'd be pretty cool for your brothers to have mounts.

And legs, and strongholds, and females. That's all or did i forgot something?

 

[ERYFKRAD]

but it'd be pretty cool for your brothers to have mounts.

And legs, and strongholds, and females. That's all or did i forgot something?

Yeah, life expectancy and job security. Maybe even insurance

 

[Alienman]

Thonius How did the (jagged) alliance work out?

 

[Thonius]

Thonius How did the (jagged) alliance work out?

They all died (except one archer), then rised up to kick me in the arse. Loot was 3 helmets,some pikes and shields.

 

[Agesilaus]

Any word on whether uniques are being rebalanced/redone? The last couple of pics have a disturbing lack of uniques, and my on experience on day 60+ with 0 uniques kind of sucked. I decided to traverse the wilderness and crushed about 6 unique locations, result: 0 uniques. Then my last remaining founder got crippled, so I let him retire (whereupon it upset a bunch of other mercs??) and proceeded to suicide my party so I could start again.

 

[vonAchdorf]

Have the camp NPCs been axed? I remember that they had plans to add friendly NPCs (cook, etc.) to accompany the brothers.

 

[Alienman]

My spider sense is saying that an update will come in a few minutes.

 

[rapsdjff]

Beta Update 0.9.0.22
More balancing changes and some bugfixes.

Please continue to report any issues in the appropriate forum following the instructions there - do not post them as comments here, they'd only get buried and lost, and may miss important Information.

Changelog

Spoiler

• Changed ambitions so that they no longer come with a time limit, but can be aborted by right-clicking the ambition panel, which, after a confirmation prompt, will trigger the previous failure dialog and penalty to mood.
  
• Changed difficulty curve in the mid and late game to be a bit smoother.
  
• Changed contract payment to be higher in the mid and late game.
  
• Changed leveling speed to be slightly higher.
  
• Changed mood to now trend to barely content, as opposed to dissatisfied.
  
• Changed mood to differentiate more between a tactical retreat and a lost battle.
  
• Changed events to occur slightly more frequently.
  
• Changed chance for named item loot in locations to be slightly higher. Requires a new campaign to take effect.
  
• Changed large Nachzehrers to take a full turn to devour anyone, as to allow for more counter play after they get in position (knock back, repel, stun, taunt, etc).
  
  
• Fixed AI not ending its turn in some cases.
  
• Fixed wrong icon for Heraldic Hauberk.
  
• Fixed issue with situations at settlements stacking not as intended, which could result in wrong prices or nothing being sold.
  
• Fixed characters devoured by a Nachzehrer not showing up in the company's obituary if the player retreats from battle.
  
• Fixed 'Release Falcon' skill not marking any enemies discovered as such.
  
• Fixed issue with 'Decisive Battle' contract.
  
• Fixed issue with 'Confront Warlord' contract.
  
• Fixed various minor issues.

 

[vonAchdorf]

Good changes. Definitely adresses some issues / annoyances I had so far.