BLOOD
Non-mechanical NPCs now meet a more obviously gruesome end
You may find that the first campaign level
Awake On Foreign Shores
will now feel a little different to play (this feature can be toggled on/off in
SETTINGS
).
CRATERS
Several weapons will now leave impact craters on the ground tiles in levels (this feature can be toggled on/off in
SETTINGS
).
But wait there's more
PILOTS
We spoke to our friends at
Fractal Softworks and
Consumer Softproducts, who have informed us that
three new Brigadors
are available for Freelance operations. Spoilers ahead, only click if you want to know before booting up.
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These guest cameo pilots will all exclusively fight wildcard spawnlists if you choose them as your pilot in Freelance mode.
CAMPAIGN
Four optional missions have been added to
Campaign mode
that are powersuit-focused (completion of these missions is not required to progress the campaign).
FREELANCE
All runs in Freelance now have a chance to spawn a "wildcard" list of enemies during play. Previously, the game would pick a faction to spawn and choose a palette of enemy vehicles for that faction, while the difficulty of that palette would be according to both your run progress and pilot choice.
Wildcard spawnlists still pick a faction, but on a particular theme. For example, a Spacer wildcard spawnlist might be a couple of boss vehicles, with a swarm of kamikaze agravs in tow, while a Corvid wildcard spawnlist would be almost all fast vehicles like tread bikes and grav bikes.
With this change we hope to introduce more variety to Freelance runs and keep players on their toes.
VEHICLES
The
Zed Prime
is now available for use in Freelance mode. It is an Ultra-class agrav with twin heavy hardpoints. Please be sure to keep an eye on your ammo count when using double Otomos.
Currently,
eleven more vehicles are now available for play
(we will be adding more playable vehicles to the roster in a follow-up patch later this month). Meanwhile, several vehicles - like the Corvid
Rat King
, the Loyalist
Monarch
and the Spacer
Usul
- now have additional auto-firing turrets.
Auto-firing weapons have a separate ammo count in green and
do not affect your primary and secondary weapon choices
. You can toggle the auto fire function on and off by pressing V on your keyboard, which can be rebound in
SETTINGS
.
LORE
The
SNC Informatics Division
notes the addition of new material, available for perusal in the
INTEL
section of
ACQUISITIONS
, pending the transfer of necessary funds.
LIGHTING
Prior to 2017's Up-Armored Edition, the game had different lighting for Freelance levels. We have included the old lighting data for these levels which you can toggle to via the new USE OLD LIGHTING option in
SETTINGS
.
In order to apply old lighting, you will need to
restart
a level via the pause menu.
CHEATS & EASTER EGGS
You can now activate various cheats via the
SETTINGS
menu. Please note that using these toggles
will
disable achievements. The Easter Eggs toggle you see in the Settings menu will become fully functional later this month in a follow up patch.
ACHIEVEMENTS
Two new achievements have been added, which will be bestowed upon you pending completion of the new campaign missions, as well as unlocking all the new additions to
ACQUISITIONS
. As of time of posting, the new achievements may not yet be fully functional - we are working on addressing this.
⚙STABILITY & PERFORMANCE
We have made some performance improvements to the engine that should hopefully impact lower-end machines. With the assistance of our community, we have also done a more thorough benchmarking of the game's hardware requirements on PC and Linux. The game's
minimum specs
to get an acceptable constant 60 fps at 720p (providing you turn off VSYNC, set NORMAL DETAILS to Low and turn off both POINT SHADOWS and DIRECTIONAL SHADOWS) on Windows are now:
OS: Windows 10
Processor: Dual core CPU with Passmark score of 2900 or more
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: AMD Radeon 5770 / NVIDIA GTX 460 or better
Storage: 1 GB available space
on Linux:
OS: Debian 10 or Ubuntu 20.04
Processor: Dual core CPU with Passmark score of 2900 or more
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: AMD Radeon 5770 / NVIDIA GTX 460 or better
Storage: 1 GB available space
Special thanks to Eschaton, Loki and Hara in particular for running benchmarking tests.
Lastly the game is now a stable 64 bit version for Windows, Mac and Linux.
MODKIT
We warned in our
news post last week that modders should back up their copy of the game if they wished to preserve any changes. If you have not yet done so, the
simplest
way to back up a modded version of the game is to make a copy of your Brigador folder somewhere else on your computer. By default on PC this is usually
C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Brigador
Due to the update we are still in the process of updating the community compilation to work with the new version of the game. In the next few weeks the
Modkit & Map Editor DLC will be updated, along with a new community compilation in it after our follow up patch (many thanks to SCOREGOBLIN and our Discord Modding Experts for their feedback and work).
However, that won't prevent you from modding your copy of Brigador. If you are new to modding,
we have a guide on how to get started (check out Section 4). You will still be able to tinker via the debug panel and change weapon damage values or fool around with other data in the game.
IMPORTANT NOTE TO ALL MAC USERS
This update will be the
last
update for Mac OS platforms. This is for - but not limited to - two big reasons:
Both of these together mark a fundamental change in how Mac machines function. From this point on it is only a matter of time until OpenGL itself disappears from Apple's operating systems, and with it the ability to run Brigador. Though projects like MoltenGL exist, the amount of work that would be required to make Brigador functional on a modern Apple machine will be unjustifiable. That said, we don't expect any
major
updates to Brigador after this update, but from this point on we will no longer continue to support Mac devices. If you are a Mac user reading this in the future,
please contact us✉ about your store purchase.
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We hope you enjoy the update and thank you for reading! If you experience technical difficulties, please:
- Stellar Jockeys
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