Brigador Killers

needs a toyota truck I can strap a .50 BMG onto seriously though, game is shaping up really well. if the last game is anything to go by, this game will be a masterpiece in insurgent-like gameplay. though it's gonna take awhile, like at least 2-3 years :p the game is in a really weird state as of now, I agree with that, but I believe that's mainly just because we need to wait for the devs to sort the powerscaling, how you get certain items/weapons, and merchants pricing/inventory so they can re-add the stuff people liked in the demo. I also feel like a third hideout will be coming so we can use very high-tier items and vehicles. I really like the direction of "civillian to government threat" the game has been doing so far. we just need to wait and give honest, constructive feedback concerning bugs and balance/fun. the genuine crying the negative reviews have been doing don't do anything other than stress the devs out. if the game sucks in a couple of years, sure, negative reviews exist for a reason. but the game's been out for THREE DAYS and people expect it to be 80% complete, no jank, endless content. people haven't even given it a chance and I'm seeing posts like "is the game salvageable?". it's just childish. a project like this is going to take a long time to perfect, and with the studio's track record on their previous game, I am genuinely hopeful that they will turn this game into an all-time cult classic. we just need to be helpful and patient instead of hateful. good luck, stellar jockeys!

In good conscience, I cannot recommend this game to anyone at its current state, not even to Brigador fans. For some strange reason, the early access version has less content in it than the demo. A couple of missions have been cut. You can no longer craft containers. You cannot craft a grav tank, a mongoose or a light mech from the demo. You cannot access the big fat vendor that sold basically anything for the credits, making credits kinda useless later on. A bunch of stuff from the Early Access trailer right here on the front page is also not present in the early access version. Garage mode has been integrated into the campaign instead of being a separate mode, which is a strange decision and might backfire alter down the line. Personally, I'd prefer if the sandbox/garage mode were separate. Killers is a little bit too grindy to my tastes and leans into inventory system and itemization that is a strange mix of Diablo 2 and extraction shooters. That is fine and I get it, this game doesn't have to be a Brigador copy but bigger. In many ways BK is its own beast and I like that. I just hope there will be some kind of instant action mode down the line. Arcade fun of jumping into freelance missions with different loadouts is what I loved the most about the first game. Some mechanics from the first game are not present. For example, you cannot destroy power stations and comm towers to prevent alarms. Enemies have a moral system, but all it does is making them run away, then come back a couple of seconds later. Despite your character being more fragile than at any point in the original Brigador, I felt like you are encouraged to be less tactical in Killers. You can also simply grind your way out of missions you're stuck on by repeating salvage missions. The game has cool art direction, great atmosphere and aesthetics, stellar soundtrack and solid foundation to build upon. But in its current state, I'd recommend to just play the demo as it has more content, and wait for more updates for the Early Access version before buying.

The game had a rough launch. A lot of misunderstandings between players and developers made the process of learning the game much rougher than it needed to be. So I played it for a bit, set it down way faster than I had the demo, and looked elsewhere. The game was more tedious than fun, and didn't always feel worth engaging with. I come back to find a giant post explaining all the things they've changed and adjusted based on that feedback. It's exactly what you would hope for from a developer of a game in progress. This is much more in-line with the "insurgency simulator" the developers first pitched, and I can't wait to see more of it. It's great fun to squeak through the reinforcements back to base with a haul of loot that further expands your gameplay options, and it feels infinitely more fair this time when you go down. Still mixed on losing your equipment on death, but you can always alt-f4 at the "you died" screen if you don't like that aspect. Heartily recommended.

I don't see what's the point in losing your gear on death in a single player campaign, especially when it's largely linear and meant to ramp up in difficulty

Adding like 5% more content to only remove 40% of content is a very bizarre choice. Hopefully this won't take 5 years to change. they got the bones just need to add the meat

Finished all current content. I'll go ahead first and say the game just came out and the additions to the first work well, especially for the role play of being in world. The direction the game is taking is spot on, it just isn't worth buying at the moment. Everything is definitely cheesable with current gear so people complaining about difficulty probably aren't going to really jive with what it will likely be when fully finished. You can easily finish every mission, the wave defense levels are easy when you use a 40mm and 5.56 or better. The tank is easy to kill too, the police warehouse has APCs to loot for a body and a panel van can carry it out. Add two bonesaws and simply kill all the inf with an rpg, one shot each. Go behind the tank and reach point blank range, don't let it turn on you, less than two clips and its done. The first game was hard, that's the point. If you play the campaign in the first game there is no difficulty settings, you face the foe and learn to succeed. The freeplay mode allowed different pilots which had their own difficulty modifiers for replaying levels and messing around. Getting snuck up on and killed by someone with a shotgun or grenades is your own failing to choose good positions to fight from and a misunderstanding of when to relocate. As to why I am rating the game low, come on man! This currently has less content than the demo and is misleading as the demo and trailers for this both include mechs and tanks, which aren't currently present. Let me say that again, this doesn't even let you get anything better than an APC even though the demo already had mechs and tanks. Also I'm not a fan of the toning down of difficulty, if this is going to cater to casuals then what is the point of making it. Casuals already have most of the gaming market and always move on in a hurry anyway, they aren't worth bending over backwards for. This should retain the blood of its predecessor. Anyway, first game was good and the books are too so no real concern that it won't live up when it's done, just poorly managed at the moment and not worth the price.

They took a game about committing terrorism with vehicles and mechs, and turned it into a game about committing terrorism as a normal guy on foot, while slowly grinding to unlock vehicles and mechs. The soundtrack is awesome though. The game needs more time in the oven. I may update the review later when more patches come in.

The game isn't bad, but there's not much reason to buy and play this over the demo. While it's improved upon it a bit and done some cool new things (not to mention more world building), it's removed the mechs/tanks from the demo (outside of that one early campaign mission) as well as different armour kits (leaving you with the Loyalist Kit which can struggle a lot). Alongside that some of the new mission design is questionable and losing your stuff on death is kinda annoying and doesn't really work here imo (although you can just alt+F4 when you die and lose nothing). Give it some time and I'm sure it will be great, the foundation is solid and I haven't noticed any bugs, but right now it's a bit of a downgrade from previous versions to be honest which makes it hard to recommend.