Brimstone Brawlers News

This is another small patch being pushed out while I work on bigger systems and content.

[h2]Titles[/h2]
Players will now be able to assign titles to show off their achievements in Brimstone! These can be found in the player profile menu. Titles can be unlocked via achievements and will be continually added throughout development.

[h2]General[/h2]

• Player portraits have been updated
  
• Minor UI updates
  

[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]

• Paradise: Fixed collisions on stairs
  
• Wraith: Fixed Soul Reaping rotation around character
  
• CPU Wraith will now move while in Apparition
  
• Props and Ultimate pie will now despawn before end match screen
  
• Added leaderboards to target trash lobby
  

This is the first of many updates adding achievements and unlockable content to Brimstone.

• New Achievement: Rookie
  
• New Achievement: Scrapper
  
• New Achievement: Combatant
  
• New Achievement: Ruffian
  
• New Achievement: Bruiser
  
• New Achievement: Slugger
  
• New Achievement: Brawler
  
• New Achievement: “Glove”
  
• New Achievement: Beach Bash
  

• Items can now be toggled on and off in lobbies
  
• Lobbies will now query all connected players for unlocked items
  
• Beach Ball can now be used in all maps
  

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• Winning team in Team Brawl will now display correctly on end screen
  
• All winning team members will now play animations on end screen
  
• Damage-over-time skills will no longer reduce brawlers health below 1 hp (Brawlers require direct damage to be killed)
  
• Cannon Minions will now move to a location in Line-of-sight of target
  

• Witch Hunter will cast Aimed Shot again
  
• Butcher’s CPU team members will now eat floor meat
  
• CPU Players will now throw items faster
  

[h2]Alchemist[/h2]

• Self-target heal from Red Flask increased to 8hp (up from 5hp)
  
• Liquid Momentum speed boost increased to 80% (up from 50%)
  
• Flasks can now be combined via puddles on the ground
  
• Green flasks aoe will now tick 5x faster but will no longer apply debuffs
  

[h2]Battlepriest[/h2]

• Divine Reckoning Projectile now has sound
  

[h2]Boxer[/h2]

• Uppercut’s Knock Up effect increased by 100%
  
• Cross’ Knock Back effect increased by 100%
  
• Side Step’s range increased by 40%
  

[h2]Bomber[/h2]

• Pyrogoo will now shrink over time
  

[h2]Forest[/h2]

• Trees will now bounce when hit
  

• Clients will no longer see “Add Bot” buttons in game lobby
  
• Healthbars will continue to slide towards 0 when a brawler is dead
  

• New shaders and art style
  
• New map “Forest”
  
• New map “Shadowbrook”
  
• UI updates (this is work in progress and there’s a lot more to come)
  
• Added Grappling Hooks back into crates drop table
  
• Fixed bug where shields would stop damage being done to brawlers
  
• Fixed bug where shared screen camera wouldn't load by default on local games
  
• Fixed bug blocking players from entering the Training Gym
  

CPU players will now act as “easy” bots and should destroy new players far less often

• General updates to CPU players
  

[h2]Butcher[/h2]

• Peculiar Haunch new talent “Side of Salad”
  Peculiar Haunch will now explode on hit, AOE healing for 20 hp.
  
• Peculiar Haunch new talent “Floor Meat”
  Peculiar Haunch will stay where it lands for 8 seconds (acts as the existing mechanic)
  

[h2]Plague Doctor[/h2]

• Thwack stun reduced to 0.8s down from 1.5s
  

• Visual improvements across all maps (more to come)
  
• The sheep on Ravine have leveled up significantly (seriously don’t mess with them)
  

[h2]General[/h2]

• Bamball now has a bounce sound.
  
• NPCs react better to knockback abilities.
  
• Shield buffs to increase brawler HP temporarily.
  
• Health bars now display damage stagger.
  
• Updated Single Player menu.
  
• Fixed UI scaling issues.
  
• Updates to damage vfx.
  

[h2]CPU Players[/h2]

• Will no longer walk through lantern fire unless it is their only option.
  
• Will now stay away from ignited barrels.
  
• CPU Witch Hunter now has better behavior when targeting brawlers higher than itself.
  
• CPU players will no longer vote for maps. If the match only contains CPU players, the user is able to select a map.
  
• Added new CPU players menu to character select screen.
  

[h2]Brawlers[/h2]
[h3]Battlepriest [/h3]

• Holy Shield HP increased to 50 (up from 30) and removed 50% damage reduction effect
  

[h3]Plague Doctor[/h3]

• Wax Coat’s shield no longer reduces damage taken by 30% and now has 30 shield hp. The shield is refreshed if an enemy is hit by Wax Coat’s explosion.
  

[h3]Traveller[/h3]

• Fixed item pickup and throw animations while in monster form.
  
• Updated VFX.