The Light Brigade News

Hello Soldiers, today officially marks the 1-year anniversary since we've launched The Light Brigade on Feb 22, 2023. Sheeeesh how time flies. We are celebrating with a 30% off sale!

I can still remember vividly the feeling on launch day. Our development team was gathered in a semi-circle around the monitor with the mouse cursor hovering anxiously above the "Release Now" button on Steamworks. As 9am hit, we collectively took a deep breath and slammed the big green button. Thoughts were racing and heart-a-pounding with anxiety about how people would perceive our game. Will Funktronic succeed, or will we flop?

Thankfully, our game was well-received and we were able to grow an awesome community of folks. This allowed us to continue developing and improving upon the game post-launch. We see The Light Brigade as a canvas/foundation for us to build upon, and we are excited to give yall a sneak peak of the upcoming "roadmap" of what we are schemin' on next:



[h3]Roadmap[/h3]
Since our initial launch, quite a lot has changed and it's been cool to grow our game with the feedback from our community. We've since deployed 10 patches, few major updates, new playable characters, new worlds, new items, etc -- and are excited to continue building upon the game:



[h3]Limited Edition Art Prints[/h3]
To celebrate our 1-year anniversary, we designed made some limited-edition high-quality art prints made by our talented artist Katrina -- available now on 60lb stock high-quality 18x24" poster.

Inspired by old-school Japanese movie posters, these will be shipped in a protective tube. Available to US & Canada only (super sorry international folks).


[h3]Buy poster here:[/h3]
> Limited Edition Anniversary Art Print

Thanks again for such a fantastic year, really could not have achieved any of this without yall. Please stay tuned for more info regarding our upcoming "Shadow Hunter" update. Consider joining our Discord community as well to keep up to date on all the latest developments.

See you on the battlefield.

o7

Hello Soldiers, today we are rolling some improvements and optimizations across from recent changes on the Quest branch of the game. This will help low quality settings in particular, but minor improvements to all quality levels. There are also some bug fixes for common recent issues to round it all out. Full change notes below!

Please Note: the LOD (Level of Detail) distance setting is now separate in the Video Settings menu. Please adjust it for your hardware as needed.

We are working on new content separately so expect to see more of that as we near the next content patch.

o7


Change Notes

• added pure-random loot settings
  
• added seperate lod video settings
  
• fixed bomber enemy not counting for enemy limits
  
• fixed lod inconsistency between platforms
  
• fixed loot pots grab position
  
• fixed many double-rendering objects
  
• fixed many misconfigured lods
  
• fixed praying at own corpse for souls
  
• fixed scout wrong spell name on class table
  
• fixed temple occlusion culling being disabled
  
• fixed trap triggered count issues
  
• fixed wand tier textures
  
• fixed wishing pool sell price being too high
  
• improved animation hit response by body part
  
• improved animation hit response for shadows
  
• improved wolf headshot hitbox
  
• optimized chapel entry meshes
  
• optimized forest entry areas
  
• optimized many rock mesh objects
  
• optimized mountain entry areas
  
• optimized portal door particles for low quality
  

Hello Soldiers,

In response to numerous requests from our Steam community badge enjoyoooors, we've introduced a variety of new collectible badges, trading cards, emoticons, and more to The Light Brigade. These collectibles are now available and will be awarded based on your playtime and crafting activities.

Stay tuned, as we're also diligently working on an upcoming patch to resolve recent issues and fulfill player requests. Plus, keep an eye out for our next content update. ;)

(Collect them all to become a Light Brigade Elite)

(Points Shop)

Have any questions or want to follow our upcoming development?
Join our Discord community.

Dear Valiant Soldiers of The Light Brigade,


We are thrilled to announce that The Light Brigade is a contender for the prestigious "Steam VR Game of the Year 2023" award!

Since our grand debut in February 2023, our journey has been nothing short of remarkable. We've rolled out numerous updates and significant post-launch content, continually enhancing your roguelike gaming experience. Looking ahead, we remain dedicated to enriching the game with even more captivating content and updates, further expanding its playability and deepening its lore.

Your enjoyment and support mean the world to us. If our game has captivated your heart, we humbly request your vote in this esteemed competition (just check the box above). Your support would be immensely appreciated and instrumental in our journey.


With heartfelt thanks,
🙏 The Light Brigade Dev Team



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Hello Soldiers, a small patch to fix some troublesome bugs that showed up in the latest builds.

• critical: fix handling of load failure cases to not lose souls
  
• fix boss 2 triggering boss wrongly on spawn
  
• fix wrong particle playing on scout crit shots
  
• fix drone shot hit playing wrong sound
  

If you see any issues, or these bugs seem to still happen, please let us know!