Hello keyboard generals! We have a special update for you! Below is a list of the content and features in this spooky update!


-New spooky graveyard swamp map.

-Flash flooding and rain added to weather system.

-Auto cinematic mode finally in! Press 'C' to sit back and watch the battle in procedurally generated cinematic shots that attempt to cover all import angles of the battle with epic photography.

-New witch unit added to 'evil', with new spell casting attack.

-New 'Ball Man' added to heroes. Those red balls are stronger than they look!

-Water shading on terrain improved. Volumetric water now has micro details within terrain shading, including small puddles and streams.

-Removed 'sliding effect' when performing charge attack in possession mode.

-Fixed issues where first person had camera placement issues with unusual characters such as 'Gunman'.

-Improved animation crossfading to reduce twitchiness when rapidly swapping animations.




Happy sugar coma's everyone! Brilliant Game Studios team.

Full release has arrived! Below we will list the new content in this huge update.
PS: Road map will be updated soon, there will be lots of other exciting things in store post 1.0!

-New Map 'Modern City'. A large full scale modern city perfect for your modern day battles!

-New Jungle map. Get those troops nice and sweaty!

-New battle load out feature. Save and load infinite battle load outs!

-New time of day system. Weather and time of day can be chosen for battles, as well time can be "frozen".

-Improved animation systems for possession. Inverse kinematics on weapon holding, hip movement for turning and facing target directions. (Note: not all characters are fully utilizing the new system yet).

-New Hero William Wallace, one of the best tank hero units. (Developed and modelled in house)

-New hero unit Annie Oakley. The sharpest shooter in the west! (Developed and modelled in house)

-New gunman unit. (Developed and modelled in house).

-Water bug fixed where surface would flash and 'z-fight'.

I hope everyone is having a fantastic summer! Thank you all for your amazing support during early access!

Trailer:

We are excited to announce that the full release version 1.0 will drop Friday July 21st! Some of the new content will include, 2 huge new maps, 3 new in house characters, day night cycle, battle load outs and much more! We will update the road map on release to fill you in on what is to come post 1.0.

Youtube Trailer:

Happy Friday! We have some exciting new features and fixes for mod support.

-Custom human and non humanoid animations are now supported.

-Remaining animation fixes characters guns flying off, as well as characters lying down completely fixed.

-Lod bug fixed which caused distant characters to sometimes not render at all.

-Character mod setup script update. Download link here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1whnrBVXZVCKPtF4pXdZwrlDE3vVcDcB1/view?usp=drive_link


Have a fantastic weekend everyone!

Happy Friday everyone. We have another small update here for the new mod systems which include new settings for mod developers as well as fixes in game.

-2 new animation presets added to the character mod setup script for mod developers. Animations include, "Zombie" and "One hand pistol"

-Accuracy added to ranged settings in mod setup for developers.

-Another issue fixed which caused mods to not import. Issue steamed from users subscribing to blank uploaded mods which had no content attached, causing Steam to return a null file location for mod folder.

-Some animation bugs fixed for mods which often caused the characters animation to briefly lie down flat (We are still working through other animation issues).


Here is the new download link for the updated mod tools for developers. The link on the tutorial thread was also update: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-rWDxAvv_IE59LBY2UDHPdNAOe_McnvD/view?usp=drive_link


Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Edit: Some are still reporting mods not showing up. Since we are unable to reproduce this bug, we kindly ask that you send us the output log.

Steps:
-Make sure you have subscribed to mods. Run the game and confirm that none are active(Bottom right corner text says how many mods are active)

-Once you have confirmed this, navigate to the output log. It's usually located as a text file 'output_log' in C:\Users\YourWindowsUsername\AppData\LocalLow\Brilliant Game Studios\UEBS2.

-Email the text file to contact@brilliantgamestudios.com


Our bug squashing continues with this latest patch which attempts to fix both mods not showing up, and unit scaling/stats issues. Both issues are determined to be regional based issues.

-Fixed(hopefully) mods not showing up in game. Issue was due to folder extensions in code not work in languages other than English. We fixed this issue by fetching the folder locations of every installed mod directly through Steams API.

-Fixed unit scaling issues along with other stat based issues that used decimal values. Another regional number parsing issue caused by decimal numbers using ',' instead of '.'.

Let us know if any of these issues still persist. Hope everyone is having a great week.

We created a hotfix in attempt to solve some of the issues users are having.

UPDATE: Since this hotfix we have been working on a new fix Incoming tonight or early tomorrow. We have discovered the cause for strange scaling of mod units as well as other related issues. It appears it is caused by how decimal numbers are handled in different regions. We are also working hard to solve the issue of mods not showing up.


-Some efforts were made to attempt fix the issue where no mods show up. (We were unable to replicate the issues here, so it's all guess work on our end)

-Error messages added to game initialization to help catch issues with mods, or other import issues that may help us debug more potential problems.

-New 'mods active' text added to bottom right of menu, to tell users how many mods were successfully imported.

-Bugs fixed with 'custom unit' mods, where they would not correctly load into the unit customizer.


Hope everyone is having a fantastic week. Let us know if you are having any other issues.

Hotfix Thursday June 1st:

-Issue fixed where some units looked like white squares from far away.
-Animation problems with Ogre fixed.
-Warning added to notify player that mods are not active until the game is restarted when downloading in game.
-Issue fixed where the head sometimes doesn't disappear when in first person.


Hello everyone! Workshop and character mods are finally live. We worked super hard to squash some very nasty and unlucky crash bugs that were happening (Some were Unity engine related), but we are finally there! We really wanted to get the ball rolling so we created 13 mods for you guys to play with! Enjoy!

With that being said, you should know this is the first alpha release for character modding. There are some important things to note.


Known Issues:
-Visual bugs. some character mods have poor LOD transformations, this should improve in upcoming patches.
-Animation bugs. Some character mods are having animation bugs such as weapons falling to the ground, and strange 'faint' effects where the character appears to lie down for a second.
-Performance bugs. Some mods do not perform as well, especially in large battles. We are working to improve this.
-Possible Unknowns issues with customized modded units. We haven't thoroughly tested custom units made from modded characters. However we are currently allowing customizing character mods, but be aware things may break.


Those who want to make mods, we have a quick start tutorial posted. More detail tutorials are coming soon. https://steamproxy.net/workshop/discussions/18446744073709551615/3833172420306495031/?appid=1468720


Note: Character mods are not immediately active if downloaded in game, a restart of the application is required.

Update: Postponed To Next Week!

We apologize for the inconvenience, but a horrible illusive bug appeared last minute which is causing crashes on most maps. The update unfortunately will be postponed to sometime early next week, we will be working hard to identify the bug. It's very difficult since it only happens in finalized builds of the game. Sorry everyone!




Happy weekend everyone! We apologize for our silence, but development of mod support got a little complicated, so we were unable to estimate accurate release dates. Well it's finally in the testing stages and we can confirm that the first mod support update will arrive next week!

This update will include full support for character modding, which has been designed to be the most user friendly and automated system we have made yet! Creating a new character mod can take as little as 5 minutes, so be prepared for loads of user content!

Ps, we are preparing for full release of version 1.0 after this update, so do not expect a great deal of content in this update besides characters, since this coming update is purely focused on alpha testing for mods. Loads of content is on it's way for version 1.0 though, so hold tight! Have a fantastic weekend everyone!

Regards,

Brilliant Game Studios.