Titles

General

• Player portraits have been updated
  
• Minor UI updates
  

Bug Fixes

• Paradise: Fixed collisions on stairs
  
• Wraith: Fixed Soul Reaping rotation around character
  
• CPU Wraith will now move while in Apparition
  
• Props and Ultimate pie will now despawn before end match screen
  
• Added leaderboards to target trash lobby
  

Achievements

• New Achievement: Rookie
  
• New Achievement: Scrapper
  
• New Achievement: Combatant
  
• New Achievement: Ruffian
  
• New Achievement: Bruiser
  
• New Achievement: Slugger
  
• New Achievement: Brawler
  
• New Achievement: “Glove”
  
• New Achievement: Beach Bash
  

Items

• Items can now be toggled on and off in lobbies
  
• Lobbies will now query all connected players for unlocked items
  
• Beach Ball can now be used in all maps
  

General

• Winning team in Team Brawl will now display correctly on end screen
  
• All winning team members will now play animations on end screen
  
• Damage-over-time skills will no longer reduce brawlers health below 1 hp (Brawlers require direct damage to be killed)
  
• Cannon Minions will now move to a location in Line-of-sight of target
  

CPU Players

• Witch Hunter will cast Aimed Shot again
  
• Butcher’s CPU team members will now eat floor meat
  
• CPU Players will now throw items faster
  

Brawlers

Alchemist

• Self-target heal from Red Flask increased to 8hp (up from 5hp)
  
• Liquid Momentum speed boost increased to 80% (up from 50%)
  
• Flasks can now be combined via puddles on the ground
  
• Green flasks aoe will now tick 5x faster but will no longer apply debuffs
  

Battlepriest

• Divine Reckoning Projectile now has sound
  

Boxer

• Uppercut’s Knock Up effect increased by 100%
  
• Cross’ Knock Back effect increased by 100%
  
• Side Step’s range increased by 40%
  

Bomber

• Pyrogoo will now shrink over time
  

Maps

Forest

• Trees will now bounce when hit
  

Bug Fixes

• Clients will no longer see “Add Bot” buttons in game lobby
  
• Healthbars will continue to slide towards 0 when a brawler is dead
  

General

• New shaders and art style
  
• New map “Forest”
  
• New map “Shadowbrook”
  
• UI updates (this is work in progress and there’s a lot more to come)
  
• Added Grappling Hooks back into crates drop table
  
• Fixed bug where shields would stop damage being done to brawlers
  
• Fixed bug where shared screen camera wouldn't load by default on local games
  
• Fixed bug blocking players from entering the Training Gym
  

CPU Players

• General updates to CPU players
  

Brawlers

Butcher

• Peculiar Haunch new talent “Side of Salad”
  Peculiar Haunch will now explode on hit, AOE healing for 20 hp.
  
• Peculiar Haunch new talent “Floor Meat”
  Peculiar Haunch will stay where it lands for 8 seconds (acts as the existing mechanic)
  

Plague Doctor

• Thwack stun reduced to 0.8s down from 1.5s
  

Maps

• Visual improvements across all maps (more to come)
  
• The sheep on Ravine have leveled up significantly (seriously don’t mess with them)
  

General

• Bamball now has a bounce sound.
  
• NPCs react better to knockback abilities.
  
• Shield buffs to increase brawler HP temporarily.
  
• Health bars now display damage stagger.
  
• Updated Single Player menu.
  
• Fixed UI scaling issues.
  
• Updates to damage vfx.
  

CPU Players

• Will no longer walk through lantern fire unless it is their only option.
  
• Will now stay away from ignited barrels.
  
• CPU Witch Hunter now has better behavior when targeting brawlers higher than itself.
  
• CPU players will no longer vote for maps. If the match only contains CPU players, the user is able to select a map.
  
• Added new CPU players menu to character select screen.
  

Brawlers

Battlepriest

• Holy Shield HP increased to 50 (up from 30) and removed 50% damage reduction effect
  

Plague Doctor

• Wax Coat’s shield no longer reduces damage taken by 30% and now has 30 shield hp. The shield is refreshed if an enemy is hit by Wax Coat’s explosion.
  

Traveller

• Fixed item pickup and throw animations while in monster form.
  
• Updated VFX.
  

AI Controlled Player Characters

• The first iteration of Player Bots have been added to Brimstone. These should allow players to add more variety to their local and online games and even give solo players something more challenging to fight (compared to the nothing they could fight before :P).
  
• Bots can be added to any Combat Gamemode via using the “Add Bot” button in the lobby screen.
  
• Bot settings can be updated by clicking the cog next to bot player names in the lobby.
  

General

• Brimstone now uses Unreal Engine 5. Users should now experience enhanced levels of visual fidelity along with performance gains.
  
• Fixed bug where characters would not die if their health was exactly 0.
  
• Fixed bug where gamepad inputs would not map correctly ingame settings menu.
  

General

• Standardised brawler movement speed across brawlers. No brawlers have been made slower, so players will only see movement speed increases.
  
• Increased responsiveness of UI elements in the lobby.
  
• Fixed bug causing characters to not spawn in lobby.
  
• Ultimate pies are back. Removed brimstone meteor and shard mechanics returning to the ultimate pie from earlier in development.
  

Brawlers

Battle Priest

• HP increased to 250, up from 200
  

Boxer

• All melee skills have increased range by 20%
  

Countess

• Fixed bug causing Brambles to be damaged by single hit skills
  
• Brambles life span increased by 30%
  
• Crimson Overgrowth Brambles will now spawn closer to the Countess, creating a dense forest
  

Engineer

• Surgical Strike cast time decreased to 1s (down from 1.5s) and damage decreased to 40 (down from 50). Medium knockback added to surgical strike.
  

General

• Brawler movement speed increased again to previous speed. All brawlers will see a ~ 20% speed boost.
  
• During the sale, the free version of Brimstone Brawlers will randomly roll 5 available brawlers every 15 minutes of in game match time. There's never been a better time to try new brawlers!
  
• Fixed several bugs with playing Brimstone locally with multiple gamepads.
  
• Updated brawler information UI in local gamemodes.
  

General

• Updated main menu.
  
• Updated Death FX.
  
• New Silence mechanic added to game.
  
• Fixed bug where resetting a challenge would require the user to open the in game menu again.
  

Talents

UI

• Nameplate visuals updated.
  
• Ultimate UI Updates.
  
• Updated keybinding visuals.
  
• Added settings menu to entry screen allowing users to adjust sound levels before entering game.
  

Items

• Health Potion visuals updated.
  
• Sprint Potion visuals updated.
  

New Season for Challenges

Maps

Brawlers

BattlePriest

• Divine Favour will no longer interrupt other skills.
  

Boxer

• Animation Bug fixes
  
• Increased Jab range by 20% and updated visual fx
  
• Increased Cross range by 20% and updated visual fx
  
• Increased Uppercut range by 20% and updated visual fx
  
• Increased range on Discombobulate b 25%
  
• Boxer will now have gloves when an Enhanced charge is active.
  
• Sidestep will now reset the cooldown on Jab, Cross and Uppercut.
  

Engineer

• Ultimate VFX updates
  

Wraith

• Soul Rend will no longer get stuck on boxes.
  
• Soul Rend will now correctly damage boxes.
  
• Soul Harvest will now only stack twice.
  

Witch Hunter

• Holy Hand Grenade Visual updates