Battle Brothers News

As some of you already discovered, we’ve been working on our next game - called MENACE - for a while now. We’ve been prototyping since after the full release of Battle Brothers in 2017, and have gone into full production after the Blazing Deserts DLC was done. Now we’re finally ready to show what we’ve been working on for all that time.

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Like Battle Brothers, MENACE is a turn-based tactical RPG - with the same type of deep mechanics and replayability you've come to love. Unlike Battle Brothers, MENACE has a sci-fi setting and plays out on a larger scale. You'll lead a strike force of marines sent to the far frontier, answering distress calls across different worlds and taking on threats both human and alien. You'll be in command not just of individual soldiers, but of entire squads, as well as tanks and even mechs.

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Battle Brothers spent two years in Early Access, and all the feedback and bug reports we received from you guys during that time was immensely helpful in building the game that it is today. That’s why for MENACE we’re also aiming for an Early Access release in late 2024. No worries - we’ll of course continue to update Battle Brothers in order to take care of any issues as they come up, and may even add minor content from time to time - such as the new player banner we added just a couple of weeks ago.

Thank you to everyone who has supported us over the years, and we hope you give MENACE a spin as well. Wishlist it now so that you don’t miss anything when it comes out!

This update adds a free new banner to hoist for your mercenary company, inspired by popular German streamer HandOfBlood, who previously covered Battle Brothers in a series of Let's Play videos.



Additionally, you'll find a few fixes accumulated over the last couple of months.

If you have a modded game, update your mods. If you encounter issues, remove your mods.

If you still encounter issues, please report them here following the instructions in the sticky post.

[h3]Changelog for 1.5.0.15[/h3]

• Added a new player banner.
  
• Fixed some post-combat events potentially not triggering as often as intended.
  
• Fixed an incorrect AI consideration regarding the use of the 'Split Shield' skill.
  
• Fixed various smaller issues and typos.
  

A collection of fixes for issues reported over the last couple of months.

If you have a modded game, update your mods. If you encounter issues, remove your mods.

If you still encounter issues, please report them here following the instructions in the sticky post.

[h3]Changelog for 1.5.0.14[/h3]

• Fixed throwable Lindwurm acid applying less damage to head armor than intended.
  
• Fixed "Break Free" skill using an incorrect melee skill value as a base for calculations after an ally tried to break free a character but failed.
  
• Fixed wardogs potentially spawning on top of characters if their owner gets killed and the ground is already covered with corpses.
  
• Fixed Blacksmith not properly increasing repair speed of items in the stash.
  
• Fixed issue with Wiedergangers not dropping some of their pre-damaged gear as they should.
  
• Fixed food counter at the top bar not updating immediately when the player would buy back food that they previously sold.
  
• Fixed small coastal forts counting as the wrong tier size of settlement.
  
• Fixed various smaller issues and typos.
  

For a couple of times over the last few months, the Overhype team has joined the community in the official Discord to chat about Battle Brothers (among other things). These events were very interesting (and fun!), so we promised to do it again every now and then; but for the next one we want to take this a step further.

This Friday (February 3rd) at 3:30 pm CET and will run for about 2 hours,. We’ll have a new Chat with the Devs event at our official Discord server; but this time it will be a live talk on Discord, in a new Stage Channel that will be created for this purpose. To make it easier to follow, we’ll gather your questions in the #general chat room and answer you in the voice channel.

We will broadcast the whole event here on Steam too, for those of you who don’t have a Discord account. And to make it more interesting to watch, our community team will be starting a new playthrough of the game. There is now a poll active on our Discord server to decide the origin of this playthrough and discuss other possible roleplaying rules – join us on Discord and give your two cents, and see you next Friday!

A collection of fixes accumulated over the last couple of months.

If you have a modded game, update your mods. If you encounter issues, remove your mods.

If you still encounter issues, please report them here following the instructions in the sticky post.

[h3]Changelog for 1.5.0.13[/h3]

• Fixed incorrect determination on whether a line of fire is blocked for ranged attacks on very specific angles.
  
• Fixed AI not properly avoiding tiles with negatives effects, such as fire, as it is supposed to in specific cases.
  
• Fixed 'Hook' and 'Repel' skills not applying the 'Overwhelmed' effect on a miss.
  
• Fixed various smaller issues and typos.