Brutal Orchestra News

Art by the incredibly talented Gloom Dude: @ElmanoloC

Listen to the sweet sounds of Purgatory... without the bloodshed.

Brutal Orchestra's Purgatory is a place of strange beauty and soul shifting music all composed and curated by the masterfully talented Publio Delgado.

Listen to the sounds of damned souls from far below, the songs of strange blooming instruments and lullaby's whispered by mistakes refusing to be forgotten.

This soundtrack contains 35 tracks from Brutal Orchestra's release and all free content updates!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1880060/Brutal_Orchestra_Soundtrack

Also we are now offering a bundle of Brutal Orchestra and Brutal Orchestra's Soundtrack for those who want to dive in all at once! There has never been a better time to die.

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/24717/The_Bundle_of_Earthly_Delights/

Keep your eyes peeled, Purgatory is expanding behind the scenes...

The worms are waiting for you.

Some small fixes/improvements.

Flavour NPC Changes

• The "Funky Cactus" Flavour NPC can no longer appear in normal mode.
  

Bug Fixes

• Mordrake will now properly give his related achievement at the end of his quest. This achievement should be retroactively awarded to everyone who has already unlocked it.
  
• Fixed the item "Someone Else's Wedding Ring".
  

Art by the incredibly talented Gloom Dude: @ElmanoloC

Don't settle for just killing your enemies, make an example, paint the world red! All bosses now rupture and burst into a baptism of blood upon death.

We have been listening to your feedback and have updated Brutal Orchestra to include better tracking for some of the game's trickier achievements, new tutorials for first time players and unique death messages when dying to bosses that gives some hints on how best to counter them as well as many other changes.

We have a large free content update coming soon! If you have been enjoying Brutal Orchestra and want to see more updates like this and larger content updates in the future make sure to drop us a review on Steam!

And now, the changelog.

Content

• Added Gibs to Roids.
  
• Added Gibs to Hickory (Fire).
  
• Added Gibs to Hickory (Fuel).
  
• Added Gibs to Trigger Fingers.
  
• Added Gibs to Mobius.
  
• Added Gibs to The Charcarrion (Alive).
  
• Added Gibs and a unique death animation to The Charcarrion (Dead).
  
• Added Gibs and a unique death animation to The the Head of the Ouroboros.
  
• Added Gibs and a unique death animation to The the Body of the Ouroboros.
  
• Added Gibs and a unique death animation to The the Corpse of the Ouroboros.
  
• Added Gibs and a unique death animation to The the Tail of the Ouroboros.
  
• Added Gibs to Smoothskin.
  
• Added Gibs to the Mother's Visage.
  
• Added Gibs to the Father's Visage.
  
• Added Gibs to the Sibling's Visage.
  
• Added Gibs to My Own Visage.
  
• Added Gibs to This Pitiful Corpse.
  
• Added Gibs to Osman.
  
• Added Gibs to Sinnoks.
  
• Added a unique death animation to Heaven.
  
• Added Gibs to all Incarnate (Red).
  
• Added Gibs to all Incarnate (Blue)
  
• Added Gibs to all Incarnate (Yellow)
  
• Added Gibs to all Incarnate (Purple)
  
• Added a new tutorial upon getting an item for the first time.
  
• Added a new tutorial upon opening a coin chest for the first time.
  
• Added a new tutorial upon speaking to a flavour NPC for the first time.
  
• Added a new scene after starting a new run after killing This Pitiful Corpse for the first time.
  

Features

• Added a "Slap Tracker" for the achievement "God of Phalanges, Palms and Pain."
  
• Added new death dialogue hints for Roids.
  
• Added new death dialogue hints for Hickory.
  
• Added new death dialogue hints for Trigger Fingers.
  
• Added new death dialogue hints for Mobius.
  
• Added new death dialogue hints for The Charcarrion.
  
• Added new death dialogue hints for The Ouroboros.
  
• Added new death dialogue hints for The Smoothskin.
  
• Added new death dialogue hints for This Pitiful Corpse.
  
• Added new death dialogue hints for Heaven.
  
• Added new death dialogue hints for Osman Sinnoks.
  
• The intro cinematic can now be replayed by replaying the tutorial.
  
• The skip cinematic button has been added to the intro cinematic.
  

Character Balance

• Reworked "Rebuild" to also heal the caster at all levels.
  
• Reworked "Pressure Point" to consume pigment before dealing damage to enemies.
  
• Hans can now appear as a free fool in the Far Shore.
  
• Boyle can now appear as a free fool in the Far Shore.
  

Enemy Balance

• "Starvation" now has a 50% chance to inflict 2 frail to the Ouroboros to incentivize attacking after Starvation has been performed.
  
• Increased the Likelihood of Heaven performing "Come Home".
  
• "Decompose" now deals 5-20 self damage.
  
• The Charcarrion no longer exhausts the players abilities when "Fatalism" is triggered. Fatalism no longer consumes all overflow.
  

Item Balance

• Rebalanced "Fishing Rods" item pool. (It is still amazing, don't worry.)
  
• Increased "Colon Coins" consume chance to 4%
  
• Decreased "Take a Penny, Leave a Penny"s consume chance to 4%.
  

Quest Balance

• Mordrake can no longer appear until Bimini, Gospel and Leviat have been unlocked.
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where Anton's quest would encounter a critical error if you payed him over 10 coins before we decreased his initial hiring cost.
  
• Fixed an issue where items gained over the inventory cap would not be added correctly.
  
• Upon death enemies no longer display "All Status Removed".
  
• Mordrake no Longer need to be spoken to twice to complete his quest.
  
• "Effigy of the Mettle Mother" Now properly prevents fire from decreasing.
  
• Fixed a layering issue in Thype's overworld room.
  
• Fixed a minor issue with the overworld boss portal sprites that only Maceo would ever care about because it really wasn't a big deal but was just bugging me so badly seriously a bunch of pixels were the wrong colour how did I manage to screw that up.
  
• Improved layering in Smoothskin's boss Arena.
  
• Improved layering in the Garden's combat background.
  
• Improved layering in the Roid's boss Arena.
  
• Improved layering in the Mobius boss Arena.
  
• When attacking an enemy or party member with Divine protection 0 damage will no longer be displayed if the damage is direct.
  

Typo

• Reworded "Come Home" to make its effect more clear.
  
• Reworded "The Scars Weep" to make its effect more clear.
  
• Reworded "Reclaim Conviction" to make its effect more clear.
  
• Reworded Osman Sinnoks' Decay description clearer.
  
• Reworded Body Scream's description to make it more accurate to its function.
  
• Fixed a typo in "Domination".
  
• Fixed a typo in "Marrow Lust".
  
• Fixed a typo in "Body Scream".
  
• Fixed an issue where Bronzo would be referred to as Bronze upon completing his quest.
  
• Fixed a typo is the passive effect "Messiah's" description.
  
• Fixed a typo in "Bloating Coffers" description.
  
• Fixed a typo in "Brigade of Dis" description.
  
• Fixed a typo in "Czech Hedgehog" Description.
  
• Fixed a typo in "The Scars Weep".
  
• Fixed a typo in "Reclaim Conviction".
  
• Fixed a typo in the "Ideal form of Trash" flavour text.
  
• Fixed a typo in "Peg Legs" description.
  

Welcome back!


Art by the incredibly talented Gloom Dude: https://twitter.com/ElmanoloC

Deep within the Garden the Giggling Minister is waiting. This new enemy has some terrifying tricks up his sleeve, but also comes with a fantastic music track that you may recognize from Brutal Orchestra's trailer.

We have been listening to your feedback and have updated Brutal Orchestra to include a new option to skip combat animations and an option to skip Brutal Orchestra's cinematics as well as many other changes.

We have lots more planned so keep an eye out! If you have been enjoying Brutal Orchestra and want to see more updates like this and larger content updates in the future make sure to drop us a review on Steam!

And now, the changelog.

Content

• Added the Giggling Minister, a new enemy found in the Garden.
  
• Added a new music track to accompany the Giggling Minister.
  

Features

• Party side Field Effects now display their duration at all times.
  
• Abilities that change values over time such as "Punch" and "Tears" now display their updated values when hovering over the party member that performs them.
  
• Added Cloud Save functionality.
  
• Added Linux support.
  
• Added an option to skip combat animations, making the game much faster.
  
• Added an option to skip cinematics by moving the mouse over the bottom part of the screen and selecting "Skip".
  
• Size 2 enemies placement in the overworld is now more accurate to their placement in combat.
  

Character Balance

• Changed "Fumes" to cost 1 blue pigment instead of a yellow at levels 3 and 4.
  
• Changed "Maw" to cost an additional purple pigment at levels 2,3 and 4.
  
• Changed "Huff" to cost 1 yellow pigment at all ranks.
  
• Changed "Blow" to cost to 2 red pigments at ranks 3,4.
  

Enemy Balance

• Increased Osman Sinnoks Health to 80. Reduced Osman and Sinnoks health to 60.
  
• Boss "Super Attacks" will skip their animation if the ability misses.
  
• Added two dead Mung at Mobius side to convey his size more clearly.
  

Item Balance

• Changed "Lycanthopes Core's" damage to 7.
  
• Reworked "Shard of Nowak" to work on Immortal party members.
  
• Fixed "Fist Full of Ash".
  
• Fixed "Colon Coins".
  

BugFixes

• Fixed an issue where Bronzo wouldn't actually give the player money at the end of his questline.
  
• Fixed a softlock that would occur when gaining too many items at the end of combat.
  
• Fixed "Spiked Collar" and "Tondal's Vision" having their achievement art reversed in-game.
  
• Fixed "Plot Amour's" achievement being purple instead of orange in-game.
  
• Fixed Garden overworld props sometimes incorrectly facing away from the horizon.
  
• Fixed Cinematic text going offscreen on certain resolution monitors.
  
• Fixed Smoothskin's ambience being too loud.
  
• Fixed Gospel's "Inspire" ability to no longer visually target the right ally.
  
• Fixed attack's like "Vengeance" and "Pressure Guts" so they now play their animations at the correct times.
  
• Fixed "Gulp" not moving the enemy if it failed to consume a pigment.
  
• Fixed some of Trigger Finger's abilities not properly displaying that they will move him.
  
• Fixed strange white pixels appearing behind longliver in the party selection menu.
  

Typo

• Added additional dialogue to make it clear that the lost dog flavour NPC doesn't have an associated quest.
  
• Improved Leviat's "Discipline" and "Unravel" ability descriptions.
  
• Fixed a small typo is Osman's dialogue.
  
• Fixed "Serpent's Head's" description to accurately reflect its chance to trigger.
  
• Fixed a typo in the ability "Oil".
  
• Fixed a speaker reference during Ichor's dialogue.
  
• Fixed "Extrusion" and "Intrusion" being incorrectly specific.
  
• Fixed a typo in Smokestacks "Huff" ability.
  
• Fixed a typo in Arnold's "Punch" ability.
  
• Improved Linked's description to make its effect more clear.
  
• Fixed a typo in "Modern Medicine's" description.
  
• Improved "Head of Scribe's" description to be more accurate to it's function.
  
• Fixed a typo in "Divine Mud's" description.
  
• Fixed a typo in "Blue Bible's" description.
  
• Fixed a typo in "Defaced Scripture's" description.
  
• Fixed a typo in "Defective Rounds'" description.
  
• Fixed a typo in "Grumpy Gump's" description.
  
• Fixed a typo in "Lucky Helmet's" description.
  
• Fixed a typo in "Peg Leg's" description.
  
• Fixed a typo in "RAM's" description.
  
• Fixed a typo in "Shard of Nowak's" description.
  
• Fixed a typo in "Tainted Apple's" description.
  
• Fixed a typo in "the Apple's" description.
  
• Fixed a typo in "The First Born's" description.
  
• Fixed a typo in "Trepanation's" description.
  

Okay here's the setup for Brutal Orchestra: You're dead, someone killed you, and you can't do anything about escaping purgatory but you can definitely set yourself up for revenge when they arrive here too.



Building a party 20 other weird underworld rejects, you're guided across a purgatory landscape inspired by the bizarre paintings of Hieronymous Bosch and Pieter Bruegel, where demons are fish inside a human skinsuit or have trumpets in their butts, and honestly those are the much tamer ideas in here...
Read more.