- Hotfix - 1/20/2026 - 20 January 2026
Hello all,Happy New Year! Some small bug-fixes and stability improvements. Found & fixed a few edge cases through extensive, long-running test sessions where null-refs could appear which could trigger very odd, unpredictable behaviors. Fixed missing recoil on Mas36 Scoped variant - could cause null-references & instability when used; may have been source of various odd bugs as a result.Improved error checking with projectile physics; improves stability.Improved error checking with particle spawning logic; improves stability.Bots should not get stuck in place after respawning when previously manning an emplaced weapon (such as mounted machine gun or artillery).Fixed issue with ragdoll spawning when a bot is killed. This should hopefully, definitively fix the bodies sliding around on the floor. Hopefully this improves gameplay stability for all,Here's to a great 2026...until next time,Hen…
- Winter Sale & Happy New Year! - Bugfixes - 12/30/2025 - 30 December 2025
Hello all,Personal NoteHope everyone's had a great holiday season & has a happy 2026! I don't normally get very personal on these, but 2025 was a very rough year for me. From close family and friends suffering serious illnesses to difficult professional situations, the time and attention I've been able to devote to Brass Brigade has been on the lower side for most of 2025. I sincerely appreciate everyone who has supported the game and hope to continue improving it into 2026. I don't know how much longer I will work on this before moving on to other projects, but I'm not done yet :)Winter SaleNow is a great time to pick up Brass Brigade if you haven't already. It's a whopping 50% off (~$7.49USD)! It's also always a bit surprising when a prominent Youtuber picks up the game. After seeing Mac's great WAB video, I got my butt into gear and tried to address some of the bugs displayed in the…
- Black Friday Sale - 75% Off! BUY NOW! - 27 November 2025
Hello all,To celebrate Thanksgiving, Brass Brigade is going on sale from Nov 27-Dec 1. Now is a great time to grab Brass Brigade at a whopping 75% off! Experience over 20 battles, dozens of weapons, and incredible cartoony military action for less than $4 USD! Don't miss this opportunity to experience one of the greatest indie WW2 games available on Steam at a significantly discounted price. Enjoy the holidays,Henry Kucab
- Hotfix - Security Update - 10/5/2025 - Addresses Unity CVE-2025-59489 - 5 October 2025
Hello all, Pushing an update the fixes a security vulnerability in accordance with Unity's CVE-2025-59489 statement. Read more here: https://unity.com/security/sept-2025-01. Thanks, Henry
- Hotfix - 7/14/2025 - 15 July 2025
Hello, More fixing, this one should hopefully significantly improve the "feel" of the game. Reworked the camera & character controller system to eliminate all jitter when moving & rotating the camera. Moving around and rotating the camera should feel much smoother now and result in virtually no jitter/stuttering of the world around the player. Reworked NPC movement logic so they also appear to move with virtually no jitter relative to the player. Bots should stutter/jitter much less when aiming (still ironing this out) Till next time, Henry
- Hotfix - 6/18/2025 - 18 June 2025
Some more small fixes/improvements... - Camera movement should be a bit smoother now when strafing. - Tanks no longer slowly roll away from their spawn point. Someone forgot to set the parking break *looks around* Til next time, -Henry
- Hotfix - 6/6/2025 - 6 June 2025
Hello all, Hoping to restart some more Brass Brigade bug fixing & get some new content back into production soon. We'll see if life lets me find the time again... I've really wanted to reduce some of the camera & NPC jittering that can be seen in certain situations, so I'm pursuing that. Today's hotfix includes a fix for NPCs seeming to "jitter" if both the player and they were moving. NPCs should appear to walk/run much more smoothly than before. Thanks, Henry
- 50% Off Autumn Sale + Bugfixes - 25 November 2024
Hello all, Brass Brigade has now been released for over 5 years! To celebrate, the game will be 50% off in the upcoming Steam Autumn Sale, so if you haven't yet picked it up, this will be a great opportunity to do so! I have spent some of my holiday time tracking down and fixing bugs that have snuck in over the last few updates: Bugfixes Further tweaked enemy tank, artillery, machine gun AI to be reasonably aggressive at detecting and shooting targets. Fixed infantry anti-tank weapons (Bazooka, PIAT, panzerschreck, etc) being able to one-hit almost any tank. They now take several hits, with perpendicular shots doing the most damage. The more shallow the angle, the less damage done. Player character no longer erroneously omits voice lines intended for bots Player character no longer erroneously exits prone or crouch position when a medic or resupply soldier is approaching him. Thanks Hop…
- Quick Patch (11/6/24) - 6 November 2024
Hello, Quick patch primarily fixing an issue where AI troops would not properly target enemies when on mounted machine guns, and occasionally when in vehicles. Also tweaked AI aggression when in stationary guns and tanks to be higher. -Henry
- Trucks Rolling In! New Brass Brigade Update! - 27 August 2024
New Vehicles - Trucks Trucks have been added as the last new land vehicle I'm planning to add to Brass Brigade. Positioned between jeeps and halftracks, trucks offer a way for 6 troops to move around the battlefield with a middle amount of speed, maneuverability, and protection. But be careful! There isn't much in the way to shoot back at the enemy from a truck. They're meant to ferry troops between control points, not charge headfirst into a frontline! Allied Truck - G-508 G508 w. canopy The G-508 is the Allied truck joining the ranks of Brass Brigade today. Over 2 million of these trucks saw service during the Second World War so its only fitting they get some time in the fray alongside the M3 Halftrack and Willys GP. You will see a few variants of this truck, ranging from multiple liveries and rear cargo cover configurations. It offers reasonable low end torque and a generous amount…
- Major Update - Halftracks Rollin' In! - 19 June 2024
Hello all, Halftracks The US M3 Halftrack The German Sd.Kfz 251 Halftrack You will come across 2 new vehicles on the battlefields of Brass Brigade after today's update. The US M3 and the German Sd.Kfz 251 Halftracks. These new vehicles offer a middle-ground between tanks and jeeps, offering reasonable protection from most small arms gunfire and middling speed to get around. They each can carry a total of 6 troops into battle - 1 driver, 1 gunner, and 4 passengers. While the gunner position can easily mow down incoming light infantry, it is a high exposed position, so be careful when manning the light-machine gun. If you prefer to ride in the back or drive the vehicle yourself, the bots will prioritize driving the vehicle and manning the gun in your stead. New Vehicles M3 Halftrack in Army Green M3 Halftrack in Desert Tan M3 Halftrack in Soviet Livery Sd.Kfz 251 in Grey Sd.Kfz 251 in Des…
- 1 Day Only - D-Day 80th Anniversary Discount - 6 June 2024
Hello all, In honor of the 80th Anniversary of the D-Day Invasion, Brass Brigade will go on sale at an all-time high discount of 80% off. The sale will start 6/6 at 1PM EST and continue for 24 hours. Fun as video games are, let us not forget the history that these games and other media are based on. Take a moment to remember those who gave so much in the name of freedom 80 years ago. Some great gameplay of the Omaha Beach battle in Brass Brigade, courtesy of DaleyProductions! Thank you, Henry
- Brass Brigade - "Jeeps" Update Hotfix #1 4/2/24 - 2 April 2024
Hello, Thanks for all the love, support, and kind words after the most recent "Jeeps" update. Many thanks to those who submitted bug reports. This update should help resolve some of the more troublesome issues. Fixes include... - Fixed scoreboard not showing the player's name in the list of soldiers - Adjusted spawns of jeeps in some maps so there's more space between them and other nearby vehicles/tanks. - Fixed jeeps being able to drive through invisible walls on maps. They should now collide with invisible walls correctly. - Fixed friendly fire settings with jeeps. Jeeps would previously take damage from friendly fire when the friendly fire setting was "Off". This resulted in jeeps exploding but the occupants were still alive. - Potential fix for rare bug where player would die but not be able to respawn. I haven't been able to reproduce this myself but I've seen a few players experi…
- New Driveable Vehicles Added to Brass Brigade - Jeep & Kubelwagen! - 13 March 2024
Hello all, Transport Vehicles - Jeeps New to the battlefield in this update are some of the most iconic vehicles of the Second World War. The Willys MB/GPW (or what we now refer to as a "jeep") and the Kubelwagen are joining the ever growing fleet of vehicles available to navigate the battlefield with. These transport vehicles are the first examples of vehicles in Brass Brigade that allow for multiple troops to travel together in a vehicle. They're fast, nimble, and lightly armored, making them well suited for darting between capture points. They don't stand up to gunfire very well and offer very little armor, so if you come across a large group of enemies, you best steer clear before it's too late! GP (Jeep) The Jeep is perhaps the single most lasting and enduring road vehicle to have been born out of World War II. With nearly 650,000 produced by the war's end, the Jeep proved to be a…
- New Weapon Recoil Update Packs a Punch - 7 October 2023
Attention soldiers, Weapon Recoil This update brings a whole new dimension to the shooting mechanics in Brass Brigade - recoil. For the entire lifespan of Brass Brigade, weapons have merely fired with a "cone" of accuracy & no actual recoil. Your crosshair always remained stationary when firing. The more accurate a weapon, the tighter the cone of fire would be. The cone was affected by your stance, getting more accurate the lower down you got. This was a pretty simple and effective way of implementing weapon accuracy. This is not an uncommon method of portraying recoil in third person shooter games at all either. In fact, games like Battlefield Heroes (which Brass Brigade has taken inspiration from) and Star Wars Battlefront I & II (the 2004 & 2005 titles, respectively) used a very similar methods of simulating weapon accuracy. It was in this style that Brass Brigade was conceived and f…
- Unity Runtime Install Pricing Fee Awareness - 13 September 2023
Hello everyone, This is not a normal Brass Brigade update announcement, but its an announcement I feel needs to be made as an indie game developer who uses Unity. Yesterday, Unity announced a change to their pricing model that would essentially (for Unity Personal users, like myself) charge developers $0.20 per customer install of their Unity game. This fee would only go into effect if certain revenue and installation count thresholds were met. For Unity Personal users, if your game earns $200,000 in yearly revenue and 200,000 installations over its lifetime, you would be subject to pay this extra installation fee. You can read more about the specifics of their pricing model at this link; its far too nuanced for me to get into any deeper here. While Brass Brigade falls far below these figures and I would not be subject to these newly proposed fees, this change from Unity sets an unaccep…
- Regular Maintenance & AI Behavior Tweaks - 9/10/28 - 10 September 2023
Hello all, More regular maintenance as part of codebase refactoring & clean up. - Bot behavior for entering mountables/vehicles has been rewritten. Bots should hop onto tanks, mounted MGs, and artillery guns much more frequently. - Candidate bots for occupying a vehicle/mountable adjusted to prioritize nearby bots; this should prevent bots from attempting to run across the whole map to occupy a vehicle. Nearby bots will be prioritized and helps keep these guns active and in the battle. Until next time, Henry
- Maintenance Update 8/28/23 - 28 August 2023
Hello all, Change-list for regular quality of life maintenance update: - Adjusted AI obstacles on Maginot map; should prevent Axis bots from getting trapped in their spawn near the mountain to the left of the main road - Additional AI obstacles on Maginot map added; should prevent bots from getting spawned in an area they cannot escape from in the town - Large internal refactor which broke apart map files and gameplay elements; this should have no visible impact on the game to the player. If you notice oddities like artillery guns/tanks/mounted MGs spawning in incorrect positions, please submit a note on the Discord's #bug channel. - Adjusted camera collision layering; should collide less with other NPCs and reduce rapid zooming in/out when near to lots of NPCs. More things in the works. Until next time... Cheers, Henry
- New Map - Crete Invasion & Summer Sale - 30% Off! - 28 June 2023
Hello troopers, Welcome Back It's been a while. I'll keep this short and sweet since enemy troops are incoming. I was a bit burned out after over 3 years of extra content delivery for Brass Brigade. After some much needed rest, I am back to deliver some more content for Brass Brigade. I will be better pacing myself going forward - I hope to deliver both new content and to fix some underlying technical issues around Brass Brigade, both to make additions easier & to (possibly) make a better framework for future games based on my codebase. I look forward to creating more awesome Brass Brigade updates in the future. With that said - on with the briefing... 30% Off for the Steam Summer Sale From June 29th at 10am PT to July 13th, Brass Brigade will be 30% off for the duration of the Steam Summer Sale. Now is a great time to pick up the game if you haven't already! New Map - Crete Invasion ht…
- 3 Years of Brass Brigade: 30% Off Nov 22 - 29 + New Content & Fixes - 21 November 2022
Hello troops, 3rd Anniversary A quick note - Brass Brigade officially turns 3 years old tomorrow, November 22nd. While the game may be 3 years old to you, it took me almost 2 additional years to produce before releasing it. The last half-decade of my life has been (in large part) defined by my work on Brass Brigade. A huge thank you to everyone who purchased & supported the game. It means the world to a small indie dev like me. I may have put development more-or-less to bed on Brass Brigade, but my head swirls with ideas of future games that I hope to pursue soon enough when the time is right. In the meantime, I couldn't let the 3 year anniversary pass without giving you guys at least a small gift, so, right...on to business. To celebrate 3 years of Brass Brigade this Steam Autumn Sale, you can pick it up for 30% off! It's been a while since the last Brass Brigade update. I felt it appr…
