A detailed changelog will come with the update to Brigador: Up-Armored Edition itself, but like with our last update in December 2020, the update is going to affect both the game's assets packfile and reset the global.json to the intended state. This will nullify whatever mods you may have set up or other alterations you have made to the game's data. Click below to find out how to back up a copy of the game.

How to Back Up Brigador
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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


If you don't know where your copy of Brigador is on your computer, then:

1. Go to your Library tab in the Steam client
   
2. Right click Brigador
   
3. Click "Properties..."
   
4. Click "Local Files" in the window that appears
   
5. Click the "Browse" button

Steam will then open up the folder on your computer where Brigador is located. Copy and paste this entire folder somewhere else on to your machine and it will remain untouched by the update. The overall file size of the Brigador folder (with the modkit included) is typically under 2 GB in size.
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Nothing to worry about - but maybe check out the game's existing community compilation within the modkit when you're ready? We have a guide on how to get started, how to make maps, and so on.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2464626495
We're looking forward to dropping the update to Brigador: Up-Armored Edition soon.

We’re running a week-long sale on Brigador and all its content from Monday April 19, 2021 to Monday April 26, 2021. Picking up the deluxe edition of Brigador at 57% off will net you:

• 1 x Brigador: Up-Armored Edition by Stellar Jockeys
  
• 1 x audiobook tie-in written by Brad Buckmaster & read by Ryan Cooper
  
• 4 x albums of original music by Makeup & Vanity Set (available as mp3s or FLACs)

If you’re already a long-time player of the game – thank you for your support! In case you’ve exhausted everything you have from the base game experience, here are a few other things you can do that you might not be aware of…

• Start tinkering with Brigador via the debug panel or get serious with the map editor. Here’s documentation to get you started.
  
• Check out our Discord server to find a selection of fan art, uploads by modders, and catch up on the events of the latest Brigador Discord RP (thanks, @Eschaton!).
  
• Support us further by buying merch like an SNC shirt or 3D-Printed 1/6 Scale Model Busts from our shop.
  
• Sing up to our monthly newsletter to see what we’ve been up to and a selection of the best from the community (here's the archive)

We know that we’ve been quiet on the dev front recently – thank you for all your questions. Please enjoy this recent entertaining discussion between Hugh and their friend Jon discussing the rationality behind a hypothetical form of space travel in the Brigador universe via something called “the Fugue”.

Happy holidays, everyone! Just a quick reminder to you all that the Steam Winter Sale ends on January 5th at 10:00 Pacific. As per usual, Brigador: Up-Armored Edition is 55% off, while the game + OSTs + audiobook bundle is even cheaper.

Outside of Steam we have a whole bunch of discounts going on over at our merch store. In no particular order:

• Enter code HOLIDAYS2020 in all caps at checkout for 20% off all products (minimum order value of one patch required). This offer expires January 8th 2021.
  
• New 1/6 Scale Model Busts - check out the first set of Modesto Pires, Ripley Snell and The Auditor 1/6 Scale busts here. Put all three in your basket and we’ll give you 15 USD off your order (N.B. sorry in advance but this discount will not stack with the holiday promotion in one single order).
  
• Low Profile variants are now available for the SNC shirt and patch - and there's also a new corvid patch too.
  
• For the next few days all SNC Skull & Laurel shirt sizes, shapes and colors are available for purchase. That means if you missed out on getting a Medium Red & Charcoal, or maybe you really want a few 3XLs for the winter – now’s your chance.

If you have any merch-related questions, or if you'd like to just email us, you can always reach us at team@stellarjockeys.com

Happy New Year!

- Stellar Jockeys Team

A small user interface update is coming to Brigador: Up-Armored Edition, but we wanted to give you all advance notice, particularly if you have been modding the game recently.

There are no gameplay changes involved with this update. The main change is the addition of a few buttons to the main menu screen that upon clicking will open your computer's default web browser.

IMPORTANT NOTE FOR ALL MODDERS

This update will restore the game's assets packfile to its vanilla state. That means that if you have modded content installed, such as custom pilot profile pictures, then they won't load as before as they will no longer be in the assets packfile. This means you will have to run through the modkit installation process again and make the necessary changes. We strongly recommend that you back up all your modded content and changes made to global.json to avoid losing anything prior to updating the game. Many of our experienced users in our Discord server's modding channel can help you out if you need assistance.

- Stellar Jockeys

Hey everyone! It's sale time once again, which means you can get the full Deluxe Edition bundle of the game + all OSTs + audiobook at 71% off for the duration of Steam's 2020 Halloween Sale.

We've also put together some detailed Brigador Modding Documentation that we hope will be of use to aspiring modders. Please feel free to leave your questions in the Steam forum thread - we will expand on it over time (you can find the google doc version here).


(image credit: Hara)

Hey everyone! We're proud to put Brigador: Up-Armored Edition up for sale again.

Just like previous promotions, the base game is 55% off, but if you want to treat yourself then the deluxe bundle of the game including all four Makeup And Vanity Set music albums and the audiobook by Brad Buckmaster is 71% off until 10:00 PST September 28th.

We'd also like to take a moment to shout out MandaloreGaming on YouTube, who made an incredible video on the game back in June - we're still picking through the thousand or so new reviews since the review boom. If you didn't catch it, check it out and leave Mandalore a like and subscribe!

We are delighted to have been selected for the Indie Mega Booth Going Away (For Now) Sale which runs for one whole week starting today. You can buy Brigador: Up-Armored Edition at 55% off, while the Deluxe Edition Bundle that includes the OSTs and audiobook along with the game is at an even larger discount.

In addition, we'll be streaming live from our Steam page on both Friday 8th and Saturday 9th from 15:00 to 17:00 PST. Join the stream to chat with us as we head into the weekend.

Brigador is part of the "Deliciously Difficulty" category of the IMB sale. All the other categories along with the full list of games in the IMB sale can be seen here on the IMB site.

You can now take part in the Powersuit Mini-Map Contest thanks to the efforts of our Discord community. In this contest your goal is to make a single short traditional campaign-style mission tailored for mog-scale combat on unusually small maps, so make every tile count!

Your four powersuit-sized loadouts are:

• Fick's Dorothy, a mouseholing brawler equipped with an Archie, Temblor, and smoke.
  
• Costa's Fence, a silent, deadly, CQB specialist equipped with a Black Hand, Donkey, and active camo.
  
• Salazar's Rope Kid, a hit-and-run harasser equipped with a Crambo, Carlos, and EMP.
  
• Aein's Paver, a trickster well-versed in the world's deadliest game of hide-and-go-seek, equipped with two fakers and active camo.

• One map submission per participant
  
• Map dimensions may not exceed 60x60 tiles in total
  
• Map must stipulate one objective (captains, garrison or buildings of your choice)
  
• At least one map exit
  
• Map must be completable with all four loadouts
  
• Map must feature some kind of enemy resistance
  
• Title, music, banner, difficulty, enemy faction(s), visual theme etc. are up to mapmaker
  
• Submissions should be sent to @SCOREGOBLIN via Discord on or before May 31st.

To help you get started, here's where to download our map editor tools
https://store.steampowered.com/app/468270/Brigador_Modkit__Map_Editor/
...here's a video tutorial on the map making process in Tiled explained by Jack and Hugh



...need a quick refresher on the four vehicles and weapons? Here's the Brigador wiki.

...and optionally, the community has prepared this powersuitcontest.zip file which contains pre-connected placeholder files using the four loadouts

NB: The pre-connected placeholder files using the four loadouts should be renamed and relinked before submission so that there are no file conflicts in the judge's folders. Submissions should be set up to run out of _modkit rather than the root game file structure. Along with the submission of all required materials (mission file, overmap file, lighting file, etc.), each submission should also have a declared difficulty level (easy, medium, or hard) and, optionally but highly encouraged, a small description of the concept and/or an in-universe mission briefing of appropriate length if the existing engine limit on mission descriptions is too restrictive.

Three judges from our community will give feedback on every map, and then collectively score them to decide the overall winner. The creator of the overall winning map will have their current discord icon added as an emoji in the server. Map submissions will be judged on gameplay, visual design, and uniqueness. Secondary elements, such as music, banner, mission name etc. while not being major criteria, will be considered. Lastly, the submitted maps will then be sequenced into a campaign run (e.g. G1, G2, G3…) to be later released as a downloadable public mission pack.

Got questions? Leave them below, or head over to our community Discord and ask any of the modding experts in the maps-and-modding channel.

Remember: send your submissions to @SCOREGOBLIN via Discord on or before May 31st.

Drop by our booth at PAX East 2020 in Boston, MA, from Thursday February 27th to Sunday March 1st. We'll be personally demoing Brigador Killers as well as talking to fans and showing off prototypes of future merchandise, so come and see us! Our booth is number #30041, and here's where you'll find us.



During PAX East we'll be having a fan meetup in Boston on one of the evenings. Be sure to keep an eye on the community announcements channel on our Discord server for details.

We'll have plenty of news about Brigador Killers later this year, and in case you missed it there's already a Steam store page. Please wishlist it to give us a boost in visibility!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/903930/

See you in Boston!

We have updated the Brigador OST and Audiobook to use Steam Soundtracks! If you owned the Brigador Deluxe DLC, they are now available in your Steam Library under "Soundtracks". As an added bonus, we've also added lossless versions of each of the Makeup and Vanity Set albums, which will be automatically downloaded alongside the MP3s. If you haven't had a chance to pick up the Deluxe DLC, each of the OST albums now has individual entries:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1239510/Brigador__Vol_I/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1239511/Brigador__Vol_II/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1239512/Brigador__Uplink_EP/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1239513/Brigador__UpArmored_EP/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1239514/Brigador__Audiobook/

Current owners of the Deluxe DLC still own all of the above - they have simply changed formats from a type of DLC to a Steam Soundtrack, meaning each album should appear as its own entry directly in your Steam library.

Also now available is a bundle of all of the above with Brigador: Up-Armored Edition. With the launch discount, this complete bundle of the game + albums + audiobook gives you 49% off everything.

To make sure that you'll get the high-quality FLAC versions of the albums, go to Steam > Settings > Music and check the box marked Download high-quality audio files (you may need to restart Steam for it to work).

The 40% launch discount on the albums and audiobook expires February 18th. After this date, the complete bundle of the base game and the albums and audiobook collection will still have a discount of 34%.