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Brigador: Up-Armored Edition — patch notes and updates

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BRIGADOR KILLERS DEMO LIVE NOW2026-05-07The demo for the sequel to Brigador, Brigador Killers, is live on our store page. Go and play it.A Technical Issues subforum is open on the Brigador Killers forum. Please check out these two pinned threads if you have trouble running the game:Brigador Killers Tech SupportNVIDIA Card Owners Please Read
Why Haven't You Listened To All The Brigador Albums Yet?2026-03-23We have uploaded all of the albums of music from Brigador's Deluxe Edition to our YouTube channel, entirely for free. You can purchase the soundtracks at a discount via this bundle on our store page, which is even steeper due to the current Spring Sale.Other ways to buy the albums separately exist through both GOG and Bandcamp if you prefer to support Makeup and Vanity Set directly. Here are all the albums, along with a bit of trivia for each one.Brigador - Vol. IThe first two volumes of music are heard in the game. Volume I is more upbeat and uses a lot of arpeggiation, which is a musical term for when the notes that compose a chord are indi
SPACER MECHS NOW AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE2026-02-17Four new pewter miniature packs featuring vehicles from Brigador: Up-Armored Edition at 1:144 scale are available on the Stellar Jockeys merchandise store. These new packs are:Spacer mech "Zöllig" Spacer light mech "Sleepwalker"Corvid light mech "Eightball"Corvid light tank "Party Van"All packs except the Zöllig contain parts for two models. Here is the price list for the new models:ModelPriceZöllig$27.50Sleepwalker$25.00Eightball$27.50Party Van$32.50Prices vary across each pack due to the different amounts of pewter and labor required. Add any three miniatures to your cart and you will get 15 USD off per trio. Click here if you would like to
A look ahead at 20262026-01-28Stellar Jockeys expects to be very busy this year, so here's a roundup of stuff that has happened or is about to happen.New gameplay footage of Brigador KillersIn December 2025 we released version 0.3 of Brigador Killers aka The Garage Build. You can check out footage and hear a new Makeup and Vanity Set track in this news post Also the Brigador Killers store page was revamped with new images and description - please check it out.Price reductions for Brigador: Up-Armored Edition now in effectAt the start of the year we decreased the price of our first game in the following currencies by varying amounts:GBP (UK)KRW (South Korea)CRC (Costa Rica
THE BETKA IS HERE2025-08-13Five new pewter miniature sets from Brigador at 1:144 scale are available on the merchandise store. These new packs are:Corvid Fatshoe mech Spacer Rounder tank Loyalist Light Tanks (3x Betushka, 1x Antänzer per pack)Corvid Grav-bikes (2x Rope Kid, 2x Skate per pack)Spacer Powersuits (4x Juke, 2x Sledger & 2x Stillwell per pack)As before, these models were made possible by one of our community members, who makes minis as part of their day job.Here's the price list for the new models:ModelPriceFatshoe27.50 USDRounder27.50 USDLoyalist Light Tanks32.50 USDCorvid Grav-bikes30.00 USDSpacer Powersuits32.50 USDPrices vary across each pack due to the
Our next game is called Brigador Killers2025-06-26About 18,000 of you follow this game on Steam, but only 4,800 of you follow Brigador Killers. This may explain why we infrequently get asked something along the lines of "Are you making another game?". Well good news: Stellar Jockeys is making another game and it's a direct sequel to this one.Technically this news broke all the way back in 2019, though due to the attention received from MandaloreGaming in 2020, Stellar Jockeys shifted to adding more content to Brigador: Up-Armored Edition. That's why you ended up with the Blood Anniversary Update and the Grave to the Rave Update. Afterwards, development returned to Brigador Killers mid-2022,
How The Touro Was Concepted2025-06-09Every June we try to mark the launch date of Brigador: Up-Armored Edition. It has been nine whole years since the game went 1.0 on Steam, and we thank you for sticking with us for all that time. Enjoy. Deepest Steam Discount Ever From this point on, anytime the game is on sale on Steam (and elsewhere) it will now be at least 70% off, while the music albums and audiobook will be 75% off. Consider picking up the deluxe bundle, which includes all of the above at an additional discount. The birthday sale starts now and lasts until June 16th. https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/13405/Brigador_Deluxe_Edition/ Brigador Newcomer? Start Here Here is
All-new discount for Steam Spring Sale 20252025-03-13Our first game Brigador: Up-Armored Edition is 68% off for the Steam Spring Sale 2025. This is an increase from our previous discounts meaning the game is being sold at its lowest ever price on Steam. This discount also extends to the game's bundle which includes all four Makeup And Vanity Set albums (3+ hours of music) and the audiobook version of the game's novelization. https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/13405/Brigador_Deluxe_Edition/ Speaking of the novelization, you can listen to the first half of the sequel to that novel entirely for free. The details are in this post from the Brigador Killers news hub. https://store.steampowered.com
ARE CORVIDS SELL OUTS?2024-11-28https://i.imgur.com/zNb5oYz.png The latest addition to our merchandise store is four new pewter miniature sets from Brigador at 1:144 scale. They are: 1x Arlo A selection of 4x Varlet, 2x Lineman & 2x Roadie Tuk Tuks A selection of 2x Troubadour, 2x Viper & 2x Pantry Boy treadbikes 1x Treehouse These models were made possible by one of our community members, who makes minis as part of their day job at Mindworm Games. Here’s the price list for these models: Price Arlo 22.50 USD Tuk Tuks 25.00 USD Treadbikes 27.50 USD Treehouse 50.00 USD Prices are not the same for the four miniatures due to the different amounts of pewter required. If you add
Brigador Joins 50+ Games In War Child’s Armistice 2024 Steam Sale2024-11-07Brigador: Up-Armored Edition is on sale this week as part of the War Child Armistice 2024 Steam Sale along with several other titles. This year is the 9th Armistice Steam Sale and once again brings together the gaming industry to highlight the importance of protecting, educating, and standing up for the rights of children living in war zones. War Child work in the hardest to reach places to support those who are hardest hit, to protect, educate and stand up for the rights of children, when they need them most. The promotion will run from November 7th until 10:00 PST November 12th and a percentage of each copy sold will go to War Child to fund
Miss Out On The Steam Summer Sale?2024-08-06Brigador: Up-Armored Edition is on sale until August 12, 2024. Though we are no longer in active development of our first game and are currently working on the sequel, we still put up a few posts. In that spirit, the following is a collection of things for both the newcomers and old timers. If You Are New To Brigador Here is a short beginner’s guide to playing the game and becoming accustomed to the various hazards you might encounter in Solo Nobre. https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/274500/view/3226274956656889915 In addition, a lot of first-time players wonder about the difference between Campaign and Freelance, which was explained her
CAMPAIGN VS. FREELANCE - WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?2024-05-13Upon launching the game the two main modes of play available are Campaign and Freelance. https://i.imgur.com/cgUi3DP.png To make up for the lack of something like a printed instruction manual here is a breakdown of each mode. WHY YOU PLAY CAMPAIGN Campaign is our challenge to you as developers but we start you off gently. The first thirteen missions are explicit tutorials that restrict you to just one loadout. https://i.imgur.com/q4n2VHg.png here’s a spotify playlist as an alternate listening experience to Makeup And Vanity Set’s excellent electronic music] Campaign missions are all single-map endeavors that have one of three main objectives:
From The Archives: Early Concept Ideas2024-02-26In a post from last year, we wrote about how Stellar Jockeys began as a company and what eventually led to Brigador. This time let’s look at concepts for a prototype of the game that dates from around late 2013 to early 2014. At this stage in development, the ability to make 2D sprites with dynamic lighting had been established, but the overall gameplay loop and plot had not yet been settled on. An early prototype of Brigador was inspired by the gameplay of a very old game called Choplifter! for the Apple II from 1982. The idea was the player and their units would emerge from a space elevator and attack a central station somewhere on a map. T
LOYALIST RANKS INCREASE IN STRENGTH2024-01-31https://i.imgur.com/Kiyt04g.png The latest addition to our merchandise store is four new pewter miniature sets from Brigador at 1:144 scale. They are: 2x Buckmaster 2x Fork A powersuit selection of 4x Mongoose, 2x Dorothy & 2x Pellinore 24x Loyalist Infantry AKA "Daves" These new models were made by one of our community members, who makes minis as part of their day job at Mindworm Games. Like before, the miniatures are being sold at introductory prices for the first month, which are: Introductory price Price after introductory period Buckmasters 22.50 USD 27.50 USD Forks 20.00 USD 25.00 USD Powersuits 27.50 USD 32.50 USD Infantry 22.50 USD 27
Brigador Joins 40+ Games In War Child’s Game Action 2023 Steam Sale2023-08-16Brigador: Up-Armored Edition is on sale this week as part of the War Child Game Action 2023 Steam Sale along with several other titles. This year’s Game Action is once again bringing together the gaming industry to highlight the importance of protecting, educating, and standing up for the rights of children living in war zones. War Child work in the hardest to reach places to support those who are hardest hit, to protect, educate and stand up for the rights of children, when they need them most. The promotion will run until August 23rd and a percentage of each copy sold will go to War Child UK to fund projects in Democratic Republic of Congo,
GET YOUR BRIGADOR PEWTER MINIS NOW2023-06-29https://i.imgur.com/l1oGASk.jpg The latest addition to our merchandise store is three pewter minis of vehicles from Brigador: the Canmore, the Broadsword and the signature Touro at 1:144 scale. They were made by one of our community members, who makes minis as part of their day job at Mindworm Games, and ran us through the creation process that you can read below. As this is a first run, the miniatures are being sold at introductory prices, which are: Introductory price Price after introduction period Touro 22.50 USD 27.50 USD Broadsword 20.00 USD 25.00 USD Canmore 27.50 USD 32.50 USD Prices are not the same for all three miniatures due to th
HOW DID WE GET HERE?2023-04-28Once upon a time Stellar Jockeys’ first game was going to look something like this… https://i.imgur.com/vLNG0BT.png …and not this. https://i.imgur.com/vnqdeBY.png Upon reading that you might be wondering how, so it’s high time we actually made good on a post from June 2012, wherein studio CEO Hugh Monahan wrote the following in a since-dead blog: This isn't the retrospective of some proven developer, full of knowing speeches about their path to success or platitudes of hard work and discipline. We don't have the luxury of hindsight, or the comforting knowledge that everything will work out in the end, at least not yet. ...This is about helpin
BRIGADOR: COMMUNITY SHOUT-OUT EDITION2023-03-16You probably know that each game on Steam has a community hub section where players can post their own artwork. What you probably don’t know is the vast majority of these types of posts for Brigador don’t ever appear on Steam or other spots on the internet like our Twitter account or r/brigador – they're on our discord server and we even have a hall of fame gallery channel dedicated to them called #becks_best. Given just how many there have been over the years, we asked a few of our most frequent contributors recently whether we could showcase their various work on here. What follows is a list of community creations ranging from sketches, wri
Updated Visual C++ Redistributables for 20232023-02-10You may notice a brief download for Brigador: Up-Armored Edition if you are on Windows. This is because we have marked the Visual C++ Redistributable 2022 (also includes 2019, 2017 & 2015) on the backend for download. Previously we marked the Visual C++ Redistributable 2019 (also includes 2017 & 2015) on the backend for download. A redistributable is a library of components required to run Windows applications developed with Microsoft Visual C++, such as the Brigador engine. Assuming Brigador already runs fine on your computer, no action is required on your part. No changes to Brigador: Up-Armored Edition have been made (sorry).
Explaining Brigador's Art Pipeline2023-01-30In this article a number of words are linked to Wikipedia’s glossary of computer graphics so that you can follow along without too much interruption. 👨‍🏫A BRIEF LESSON IN COMPUTER GRAPHICS Often we get feedback from players who wish the camera in Brigador could be moved to see different angles of the various models of the vehicles or buildings seen in the environment. We don't wish to disappoint those players but within the game engine this isn't possible because what you are seeing rendered in the game is not a 3D model that can be rotated along any axis. Instead, what you are seeing are sprites (more specifically, you are looking at 2D qu