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Brutal Orchestra

Brutal Orchestra 1.2 "Egg of Incubus"



Art by the incredibly talented Gloom Dude: @ElmanoloC

The time has come and the world expands! New friends and foes reveal themselves in every corner.

Find new party member's such as Burnout a tormented sadist with an endless taste for violence or Fennec a deeply ill man who sprout dangerous spines and quills from his very bones

Challenge a menagerie of new foes, from the Keko worms that swim within the dunes to the squawking and shrieking Scrungies flying high above the mountain tops to the Conductor Music Men, bloated with tumours. Even deep within the Garden leviathans struggle to consume one another.

Complete a quest on the behalf of the Ungod, and fulfill it's request to snuff out an infant usurper that if left unchecked would someday challenge the gods themselves.

If you have been enjoying Brutal Orchestra and want to see more updates make sure to drop us a review on Steam if you are enjoying the game and want to see more updates like this one!

And now the changelog (Spoilers).

New Party Members

  • Added Burnout to The Far Shore in both Normal and Hard Mode.
  • Added Fennec to The Far Shore in both Normal and Hard Mode.
  • Added Mordrake to The Garden.
  • Added Mordrake (Clone).

New Enemies

  • Added Keko to The Far Shore in both Normal and Hard Mode.
  • Added Kekastles to The Far Shore in Hard Mode.
  • Added Ta Ma Goa to The Far Shore in Hard Mode.
  • Added The Unfinished Heir to The Far Shore in Hard Mode.
  • Added Tainted Yolk to The Far Shore in Hard Mode.
  • Added Scrungies to The Orpheum in Normal and Hard Mode.
  • Added Conductors to The Orpheum in Hard Mode.
  • Added One Man Bands to The Orpheum in Hard Mode.
  • Added Silver Suckles to The Orpheum in Hard Mode.
  • Added Gilded Gulpers to The Orpheum in Hard Mode.
  • Added Choir Boy to The Garden.
  • Added Xiphactinus and Gillicus to The Garden.

New Strangers

  • Added Emissary of the Ungod.
  • Expanded Mordrake's quest.

New Status Effects

  • Added Status Effect Scars.

New Passive Effects

  • Added Passive Effect Abomination.
  • Added Passive Effect Masochism.
  • Added Passive Infestation.
  • Added Passive Bone Spurs.

New Treasure Items

  • Added Caretaker Cudgel.
  • Added Gump Ming Goa.
  • Added Convergent Rage.
  • Added Wicker Child.
  • Added Gamified Cephalopod.
  • Added Rotund Amphibian.
  • Added Man Made Ovum.
  • Added Mini Mordrake.
  • Added The Rest of Nowak.
  • Added Lust Pudding.
  • Added Meatre Worm.
  • Added Norris!

New Shop Items

  • Added Demon Core.
  • Added Can o' Worms.
  • Added Conscription Notice.
  • Added Health Insurance.
  • Added Someone Else's Face.
  • Added Box of Medals.
  • Added Counterfeit Medal.

New Extra Items

  • Added Meatre Worm (Eaten).
  • Added Meatre Worm (Fully Eaten).
  • Added Norris...

New Music

  • Added Keko theme (+Kekastle Layer)
  • Added Unfinished Heir Theme
  • Added Scrungie Theme
  • Added Maniskin & Inner Children Theme
  • Added Choir Boy Theme
  • Added Xiphactinus and Gillicus Theme

New Achievements

  • Added The Sadist (Fools).
  • Added The Impaled (Fools).
  • Added Mistake (Fools).
  • Added Health Insurance (Witness).
  • Added Rotund Amphibian (Witness).
  • Added Meatre Worm (Witness).
  • Added A Gift? (Divine).
  • Added Gamified Cephalopod (Divine).
  • Added Norris! (Divine).
  • Added The Ungod's Demand (Stranger).
  • Added Thorough Explorer (Area).
  • Added Every Stone Turned (Area).
  • Added Bloodline Drinker (Comedy).
  • Added Heavyweight Champion (Comedy).
  • Added Deep Pockets (Comedy).
  • Added Human Resources (Comedy).
  • Added Brutality! (Comedy).
  • Added Nary a Finger Lifted (Comedy).
  • Added Worthy Successor (Tragedy).
  • Added The Second coming (Tragedy)

Improvements

  • Improved character selection UI to accommodate more party members.
  • Improved the Tutorial to smoothly transition into the first playthrough.
  • Improved Skinning Homunculus animations.
  • Tweaked Fog's dialogue to be slightly cooler.
  • Changed the Charcarrion's Death hints.
  • Fixed a compression issue with Han's and Leviat's maskless sprites.
  • Improved Woodwind's animations.
  • The Maniskins and Inner Children now use their own battle theme.
  • The passive effect "Leaky" will no longer trigger if the party member or enemy has grey health.

Shop Price Changes

  • Czech Hedgehog price reduced to 5 (from 10)
  • Ed's Tags price reduced to 2 (from 5)
  • Extra Stitching price reduced to 5 (from 10)
  • First Aid price reduced to 8 (from 10)
  • Lady Pills price reduced to 8 (from 10)
  • Lucky Helmet price reduced to 4 (from 8)
  • Modern Medicine price reduced to 6 (from 8)
  • Rorschach Test price reduced to 3 (from 6)
  • Spring Trap reduced to 5 (from 7)
  • Surrender reduced to 1 (from 3)

Party Member Balance

  • Reduced the cost of Nowak's ability "Parry" to 1 Yellow Pigment.
  • Reworked Nowak's ability "Wrath" to have small chance to refresh Nowak.
  • Increased Rags Health to 17/18/19/20 per level.
  • Reworked Rag's ability "Connection" to inflict Scars to the opposing enemy.
  • Reworked Rag's ability "Whole Again" to inflict Scars to the opposing enemy.
  • Thype can no longer be found in Normal Mode.
  • Reworked Bimini's ability "Skewer" to inflicts Scars to herself instead of Frail.
  • Reworked Bimini's ability "Expire" to inflicts Scars to herself instead of Frail.
  • Reworked Bimini's ability "Form" to remove Scars to herself instead of Frail.

Item Balance

  • Reworked Fist Full of Ash to reduce incoming direct damage and increase incoming indirect damage.
  • Expanded Fishing Rod's item pool to include new fishy items.
  • Locked the item A Gift? by default.
  • Tondal's Vision's ability, Abject Rejection now deals direct damage.
  • Plaster Cast no longer protects against Divine Protection.

Enemy Balance

  • Rebalanced Zone 01 Normal enemy pools.
  • Rebalanced Zone 02 Normal enemy pools.
  • Rebalanced Zone 01 Hard enemy pools.
  • Rebalanced Zone 02 Hard enemy pools.
  • Rebalanced Zone 03 Hard enemy pools.
  • Slightly reduced the odds of Trigger Fingers performing "Headshot".
  • Slightly reduced Trigger Finger's health.
  • Trigger Finger's "Headshot" ability now adds 2 frail to Trigger Fingers if the ability kills a party member.
  • Trigger Fingers can no longer appear in Normal Mode.
  • Reworked The Charcarrion's ability "Rend the Right" to inflict Scars instead of Frail.
  • Reworked The Charcarrion's ability "Cleave the Left" to inflict Scars instead of Frail.
  • Reworked The Charcarrion's ability "Decomposition" to inflict 3 Scars to the Charcarrion.
  • Reduced self damage dealt by the Charcarrion's ability "Decomposition".
  • Reworked the Charcarrion's ability "Messiah", to remove Scars from the opposing party members.
  • Reworked the Charcarrion's ability "MarrowLust" to no longer remove frail and instead deal 1 indirect damage to all party members.
  • Reworked the Charcarrion's ability "MarrowLust" to no longer reduce maximum health of party members and instead inflicts 1 Scar to the whole party.
  • Reduced likelyhood of the Charcarrion performing "Marrow Lust".
  • The Charcarrion's ability "BodyScream" can no longer inflict "Frail" to the left and right positions.
  • The Charcarrion can no longer appear in Normal Mode.
  • Reworked Heaven's ability "Thousand Tears" to have a 50% chance to inflict 1 Scar to each party member.
  • Reworked Heaven's ability "The Scars Weep" To inflict 1 Scar instead of Curse.
  • Reworked Heaven's ability "Reclaim Conviction" To inflict 1 Scar instead of Curse.
  • Reworked Heaven's ability "Omnipotence" to inflict 1 Scar to each party member.
  • Reduced Osman Sinnoks' Ability "Extrusion" Curse chance to 25%.
  • Reduced Osman Sinnoks' Ability "Intrusion" Curse chance to 25%.
  • Reworked Zeitgeist's ability "Bloodmoans" to have a 50% chance to curse the whole party.
  • Psaltery can no longer increase field effects generated by passives like constricting.

Typo

  • Fixed a typo in the item "Violated Pact".
  • Updated Griffins dialogue to make his unlock condition a bit clearer.

Misc

  • Fixed several edge cases with the Music Man dynamic soundtrack.
  • Added a corpse sprite to the Giggling Ministers.


If you scrolled this far we can be friends in the next life.

Brutal Orchestra: EGG of INCUBUS coming May 2nd!



May 2nd Brutal Orchestra is receiving the EGG OF INCUBUS, a massive free content update!

Containing:

  • 2+ New Party Members
  • 10+ New Enemies
  • 20+ New Items
  • 20 New Achievements
  • 5+ New Battle Themes
  • 1 New Quest on behalf of the Ungod
  • And tons of reworks and rebalances!

Somewhere amidst those desert sands, a usurper gestates...
Silence its call.

Brutal Orchestra Soundtrack Out Now!


Art by the incredibly talented Gloom Dude: @ElmanoloC

Listen to the sweet sounds of Purgatory... without the bloodshed.

Brutal Orchestra's Purgatory is a place of strange beauty and soul shifting music all composed and curated by the masterfully talented Publio Delgado.

Listen to the sounds of damned souls from far below, the songs of strange blooming instruments and lullaby's whispered by mistakes refusing to be forgotten.

This soundtrack contains 35 tracks from Brutal Orchestra's release and all free content updates!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1880060/Brutal_Orchestra_Soundtrack

Also we are now offering a bundle of Brutal Orchestra and Brutal Orchestra's Soundtrack for those who want to dive in all at once! There has never been a better time to die.

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/24717/The_Bundle_of_Earthly_Delights/

Keep your eyes peeled, Purgatory is expanding behind the scenes...

The worms are waiting for you.

Brutal Orchestra 1.03.1 Hotfix

Some small fixes/improvements.

Flavour NPC Changes

  • The "Funky Cactus" Flavour NPC can no longer appear in normal mode.

Bug Fixes

  • Mordrake will now properly give his related achievement at the end of his quest. This achievement should be retroactively awarded to everyone who has already unlocked it.
  • Fixed the item "Someone Else's Wedding Ring".

Brutal Orchestra 1.03 "Show Stopper."


Art by the incredibly talented Gloom Dude: @ElmanoloC

Don't settle for just killing your enemies, make an example, paint the world red! All bosses now rupture and burst into a baptism of blood upon death.

We have been listening to your feedback and have updated Brutal Orchestra to include better tracking for some of the game's trickier achievements, new tutorials for first time players and unique death messages when dying to bosses that gives some hints on how best to counter them as well as many other changes.

We have a large free content update coming soon! If you have been enjoying Brutal Orchestra and want to see more updates like this and larger content updates in the future make sure to drop us a review on Steam!

And now, the changelog.

Content

  • Added Gibs to Roids.
  • Added Gibs to Hickory (Fire).
  • Added Gibs to Hickory (Fuel).
  • Added Gibs to Trigger Fingers.
  • Added Gibs to Mobius.
  • Added Gibs to The Charcarrion (Alive).
  • Added Gibs and a unique death animation to The Charcarrion (Dead).
  • Added Gibs and a unique death animation to The the Head of the Ouroboros.
  • Added Gibs and a unique death animation to The the Body of the Ouroboros.
  • Added Gibs and a unique death animation to The the Corpse of the Ouroboros.
  • Added Gibs and a unique death animation to The the Tail of the Ouroboros.
  • Added Gibs to Smoothskin.
  • Added Gibs to the Mother's Visage.
  • Added Gibs to the Father's Visage.
  • Added Gibs to the Sibling's Visage.
  • Added Gibs to My Own Visage.
  • Added Gibs to This Pitiful Corpse.
  • Added Gibs to Osman.
  • Added Gibs to Sinnoks.
  • Added a unique death animation to Heaven.
  • Added Gibs to all Incarnate (Red).
  • Added Gibs to all Incarnate (Blue)
  • Added Gibs to all Incarnate (Yellow)
  • Added Gibs to all Incarnate (Purple)
  • Added a new tutorial upon getting an item for the first time.
  • Added a new tutorial upon opening a coin chest for the first time.
  • Added a new tutorial upon speaking to a flavour NPC for the first time.
  • Added a new scene after starting a new run after killing This Pitiful Corpse for the first time.

Features

  • Added a "Slap Tracker" for the achievement "God of Phalanges, Palms and Pain."
  • Added new death dialogue hints for Roids.
  • Added new death dialogue hints for Hickory.
  • Added new death dialogue hints for Trigger Fingers.
  • Added new death dialogue hints for Mobius.
  • Added new death dialogue hints for The Charcarrion.
  • Added new death dialogue hints for The Ouroboros.
  • Added new death dialogue hints for The Smoothskin.
  • Added new death dialogue hints for This Pitiful Corpse.
  • Added new death dialogue hints for Heaven.
  • Added new death dialogue hints for Osman Sinnoks.
  • The intro cinematic can now be replayed by replaying the tutorial.
  • The skip cinematic button has been added to the intro cinematic.

Character Balance

  • Reworked "Rebuild" to also heal the caster at all levels.
  • Reworked "Pressure Point" to consume pigment before dealing damage to enemies.
  • Hans can now appear as a free fool in the Far Shore.
  • Boyle can now appear as a free fool in the Far Shore.

Enemy Balance

  • "Starvation" now has a 50% chance to inflict 2 frail to the Ouroboros to incentivize attacking after Starvation has been performed.
  • Increased the Likelihood of Heaven performing "Come Home".
  • "Decompose" now deals 5-20 self damage.
  • The Charcarrion no longer exhausts the players abilities when "Fatalism" is triggered. Fatalism no longer consumes all overflow.

Item Balance

  • Rebalanced "Fishing Rods" item pool. (It is still amazing, don't worry.)
  • Increased "Colon Coins" consume chance to 4%
  • Decreased "Take a Penny, Leave a Penny"s consume chance to 4%.

Quest Balance

  • Mordrake can no longer appear until Bimini, Gospel and Leviat have been unlocked.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where Anton's quest would encounter a critical error if you payed him over 10 coins before we decreased his initial hiring cost.
  • Fixed an issue where items gained over the inventory cap would not be added correctly.
  • Upon death enemies no longer display "All Status Removed".
  • Mordrake no Longer need to be spoken to twice to complete his quest.
  • "Effigy of the Mettle Mother" Now properly prevents fire from decreasing.
  • Fixed a layering issue in Thype's overworld room.
  • Fixed a minor issue with the overworld boss portal sprites that only Maceo would ever care about because it really wasn't a big deal but was just bugging me so badly seriously a bunch of pixels were the wrong colour how did I manage to screw that up.
  • Improved layering in Smoothskin's boss Arena.
  • Improved layering in the Garden's combat background.
  • Improved layering in the Roid's boss Arena.
  • Improved layering in the Mobius boss Arena.
  • When attacking an enemy or party member with Divine protection 0 damage will no longer be displayed if the damage is direct.

Typo

  • Reworded "Come Home" to make its effect more clear.
  • Reworded "The Scars Weep" to make its effect more clear.
  • Reworded "Reclaim Conviction" to make its effect more clear.
  • Reworded Osman Sinnoks' Decay description clearer.
  • Reworded Body Scream's description to make it more accurate to its function.
  • Fixed a typo in "Domination".
  • Fixed a typo in "Marrow Lust".
  • Fixed a typo in "Body Scream".
  • Fixed an issue where Bronzo would be referred to as Bronze upon completing his quest.
  • Fixed a typo is the passive effect "Messiah's" description.
  • Fixed a typo in "Bloating Coffers" description.
  • Fixed a typo in "Brigade of Dis" description.
  • Fixed a typo in "Czech Hedgehog" Description.
  • Fixed a typo in "The Scars Weep".
  • Fixed a typo in "Reclaim Conviction".
  • Fixed a typo in the "Ideal form of Trash" flavour text.
  • Fixed a typo in "Peg Legs" description.