Battle Brothers - Dev Blog Update #10

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Overhype Studios has posted the next development blog update for Battle Brothers where the developers give an update on the game's progress.

UI Improvements We've reworked parts of our tactical battle UI to show you more helpful information in your upcoming engagements. The combat event log can be expanded now to show all previous entries, and we show a count of the number of Battle Brothers and opponents left on the field to keep you updated on how the battle as a whole is going. If the player hovers over a target to attack, we now detail all things, positive and negative, that factor into the hitchance - so there's no guessing anymore, and you'll know why you miss those shots and what you can do to improve your hit chances.

Inventory and Character Screen The inventory and character screen is going to be a central hub for equipping and developing your Battle Brothers. The equipping part will also be featured in our upcoming combat demo, and that's what we're working on still. Beyond the demo, every time one of your Battle Brothers levels up, you'll be able to pick a passive skill (also known as a perk or feat, if you prefer) out of several skill trees here in order to shape them the way you want.

Our basic design of the inventory screen looks like this - though, as you can see, it shows placeholder data currently and we now have to fill it with real one from the game.

New Bloodsplatter Effects Medieval battles are brutal affairs, and we want our game to reflect this visually. We want our battlefields to be littered with discarded shields and arrows, and our combatants to really look the part if they've just barely survived a deadly encounter. As you guys know, we already show damaged armor and injuries on the characters. Since last week, we also display blood on weapons that have spilled blood. When characters have spilled lots of it, they'll now even be sprayed with it themselves. It's not over the top and looks reasonably subdued unless the character wears white - but skeletons especially look extra fierce now after they've slaughtered a few men.

New Sound Effects Having a rich scoundscape is really important to us, especially since we can't convey visually all the intensity of a pseudo-medieval battle we'd like to without fully animated combatants. Previously we only had placeholder sounds in the game, so it is a big step forward for us to now have our very own sound effects for most weapons and skills in the game!

We'll continue to add new sound effects and replace placeholder ones along the road, so you can expect steady improvements as we go. Of course, the upcoming combat demo should now also sound quite a bit more engaging!​