The Light Brigade News

Hello Soldiers, today we have a new update with some much-requested changes.

[h3]Critical Fixes[/h3]

• Fixed a critical bug breaking save files when hitting end-run during daily run in some cases
  

[h3]Notable Changes[/h3]

• Added user-customizable iron sights and reticle colors - tweak these in the game settings for your personal preference
  
• Improved red dot sight two have two depth markers, making accurate aiming possible again
  
• Improved sniper inventory layouts - sniper ammo in the middle for easier left or right hand usage, or whether reloading with main or off-hand
  
• Improved pistolier inventory layouts - added extra inventory pouch and extra wand slot, to balance out some of it's weakness compared to other classes
  
• Reduce wobble on 1H pistol aiming - quality of life for pistol class
  
• Reduced rushing behavior of enemies - particularly on harder difficulties the enemies tended to rush far too close, and had too much health to deal with, it should now be more of a close-range firefight than a face rush
  

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Please let us know if you have any issues or feedback, and you can find us on discord, twitter, reddit or just post in the steam forums!

Full changelist and details can be found here: https://funktroniclabs.notion.site/Update-1-1-Extra-Fix-Settings-07a7b9fed1724d7b81e3fda8d3a65437

Quick hotfix for old saves hanging on loading screen. Added additional code to try and catch any loading screen issue and fall back to temple in the worst case.

Hello Soldiers, we've got an enormous amount of feedback since launch and have been hard at work getting everything improved. There are a new graphics settings to have more control for your setup, and a ton of VR settings to customize for your preferences.



The other notable much requested features are redesigning the two-handed to only apply while aiming, trigger to grab the weapon bolt slide, trigger to store ammo, and increased difficulty levels (NG+++).

On top of that, we fixed a ton of bugs, balanced lots of weapons and enemies and upgrades, and improved a lot of things in general - thanks to everyone for the feedback, hopefully this improves the feel of the game for everyone.

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As always, reach out to us through the steam forums, discord (link) or reddit (link) with feedback or suggestions!

These build notes can also be found here: Update Notes

[h3]Full Changelog[/h3]

• v459 -> v461
  
• fixed distant sounds playing on player spawn
  
• tweaked reduce chest sound volume
  
• fixed invisible collider near loadout table
  
• improved volkssturmgewehr grab position
  
• v451 -> v459
  
• improved angle check on teleport node scan
  
• fixed black screen when end run from some scenes
  
• fixed blank or wrong donation items from npcs
  
• fixed off-hand prime charm button issue
  
• fixed entry portal door appsw issue after entering
  
• fixed key in belt unlocking chests but not being taken
  
• fixed visual issues in death scene from obsidian temple
  
• added gun hold yaw offset user setting
  
• increased grab radius on grenade pin
  
• improved boss 2 shot collisions
  
• fixed various culling issues in temple
  
• fixed poison duration clamped incorrectly
  
• improved boss 1 battle area performance on quest
  
• fixed some static chests in necropolis
  
• fixed sewer floor culling incorrectly
  
• fixed wand recharge time inconsistencies
  
• tweaked belt wand collider grab position down slightly
  
• fixed chest not spawning in necropolis
  
• fixed edge fog in some mountain stages
  
• v391 -> v451
  
• added additional NG+ difficulty tier
  
• added ammo auto-store on trigger press
  
• added auto-store ammo on trigger press
  
• added custom turn speed slider
  
• added eye tracked foveated rendering for quest pro
  
• added game version to main window
  
• added graphics setting for mesh quality
  
• added graphics setting for postprocess quality
  
• added graphics setting for shader quality
  
• added grip toggle by default for vive controllers
  
• added headset not found message to game view window
  
• added left and right deadzone for joystick
  
• added legacy mode movement setting
  
• added long-hold to delete save on title screen
  
• added more graphics options
  
• added new aiming-mode movement system (slowdown based on aim, "legacy mode" added in options)
  
• added openxr runtime display to game view window
  
• added secret #1 (heal on interstitial gem)
  
• added setting for grab bolt slide with trigger
  
• added setting for keeping real world rotation on stage change
  
• added setting for which eye to render in game view
  
• added support for local dimming on quest pro
  
• added toggle to enable logging
  
• added vive-specific custom controller pose
  
• added vive/wmr-specific handling for movement sliding controls
  
• added vive/wmr-specific handling for teleport controls
  
• added WMR openxr plugin
  
• fixed ai soldiers rifle holding pose
  
• fixed ammo description for volkssturmgewehr vg1-5
  
• fixed area clear happening incorrectly
  
• fixed boss 1 dying mid wing attack
  
• fixed boss 2 entry door opening after killing boss
  
• fixed bugs with player dying during certain boss3 phases
  
• fixed chain shot targeting allies
  
• fixed chamber bullet being lost on pistolier reload
  
• fixed deadzone not applying to teleport and turn
  
• fixed end-run not saving rank progress
  
• fixed game view window button issues when headset disconnected
  
• fixed gem positioning on wands
  
• fixed grip toggle setting not actually working
  
• fixed handling bad server responses
  
• fixed hang on loading screen when server is down
  
• fixed haptics issue on bolt slide
  
• fixed ironic sniper achievement issues
  
• fixed issues with SSAO
  
• fixed items in belt being sold in the wishing well
  
• fixed many boss 3 issues
  
• fixed many objects LOD settings
  
• fixed max lives upgrade not working
  
• fixed merchant chat dialogs
  
• fixed multiple boss3 null references
  
• fixed multiple issues handling server being down
  
• fixed navmesh issues around end of boss 2
  
• fixed occlusion issues on chapel
  
• fixed poison and bleed effects on dead enemies
  
• fixed poison incorrectly stacking charm damage
  
• fixed post-processing setting causing no post processing
  
• fixed prayer upgrades not improving cooldown
  
• fixed quest2 space-warp rendering for various guns
  
• fixed red dot, now is actually a red dot
  
• fixed shadow enemy respawning non visible
  
• fixed shadows setting issue causing no shadows
  
• fixed shield enemy shield culling too early
  
• fixed some culling distances on sewer
  
• fixed some loading time issue on combat stages
  
• fixed some quest ASW rendering on sewer gates
  
• fixed soul-less enemy markers showing incorrectly
  
• fixed souls not auto-depositing on game clear
  
• fixed stage with missing exit on daily runs
  
• fixed stg44 ejected bullets using wrong model
  
• fixed tier2 and tier2 colt 1911 sight attachments
  
• fixed turning while praying not working
  
• fixed twilight tarot affecting boss death sequence
  
• fixed ui fading out on bug report window
  
• fixed ui toggle position layout
  
• fixed various bugs with grenade explosion
  
• fixed various bugs with hands when in ghost mode
  
• fixed various freezes on boss 3 death
  
• fixed various occlusion issues in necropolis
  
• fixed various torches and candles cullign issues
  
• fixed volkssturmgewehr vg1-5 showing wrong chambered cartridge
  
• fixed wrong mesh on boss 2 room
  
• improved ashen mountain generation time
  
• improved audio for volksturmgewehr vg1-5 shots
  
• improved clarity on soul auto-deposit on game clear
  
• improved difficulty scaling for bosses
  
• improved inventory belt rotation threshold
  
• improved kar98 bolt grip position
  
• improved kar98k bolt slide grab position
  
• improved load time on forest world
  
• improved localization for spanish, german, italian and japanese
  
• improved performance in chapel stage
  
• improved performance in input handling code
  
• improved performance in necropolis stages
  
• improved quest hand pose
  
• improved quest pistol grip position
  
• improved red dot visuals for clarity
  
• improved shot audio for volkssturmgewehr vg1-5
  
• improved text on tutorial teleport
  
• improved tier 2 scope materials
  
• improved visuals on red dot sight attachment
  
• improved XR settings layout and ordering
  
• increased barrel attachment damage
  
• increased boss difficulty on NG+
  
• increased damage of low tier kar98k
  
• increased deployable dummy health
  
• increased deployable dummy HP from 50->100
  
• increased difficulty on NG+
  
• increased effective range of volkssturmgewehr vg1-5
  
• increased high tier upgrade costs
  
• increased money upgrade values
  
• increased pistolier ammo storage to 12+12
  
• increased poison tick duration
  
• increased poison tick duration
  
• increased priest revive cooldown time
  
• increased recoil on stg-44
  
• increased soul drop rate in NG+
  
• increased wolf run speed 15%
  
• reduced grenade throw boost
  
• reduced priest heal frequency
  

Hello Soldiers, release day is here! We've been working very very hard on this game for nearly 3 years, and excited to finally have everyone play.



If you're new here, The Light Brigade is a challenging roguelike VR shooter with realistic WW1 and WW2 guns, magic, classes and upgrades across a variety of different biomes. You will die a lot, and improve and upgrade between runs - both your game character and personal skill. Each run you will find different gun attachments, scopes and tools, as well as mysterious tarot cards to become more powerful.



We want to give enormous thanks to our beta testers! We fixed a ton of bugs and performance issues, made lots of balance and tweaks, and also added a bunch more VR settings as people were requesting them - thanks to everyone reporting issues and giving us detailed info.

We're going to have lots of updates coming after release with new guns, worlds, enemies, spells, upgrades and items. We'll be running early test builds from discord (discord.gg/funktroniclabs), so please drop by and let us know what things you want to see.

A big thanks from the team, and see you in the Obsidian Depths!

Hello Soldiers, we've uploaded a new gameplay trailer on the storefront main page. It's packed with a ton more gameplay and showing more of the cool stuff you can find in game. Enjoy!

Store Page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1579880/The_Light_Brigade/.



Finally. the PC beta will be ending next week February 13th, so if you want to help out testing please come ping us on discord (discord.gg/funktroniclabs) before then. The game will go live the following week on February 22nd.

UPDATE: Beta testing now closed.