Art by the incredibly talented Gloomy Dude: @ElmanoloC
It's time to put your money where your mouth is and pay Bronzo another visit.
Are you a fan of fish? Well get ready to help yourself to more Mung than you know what to do with.
A Master of Dolls from another world materializes in the Orpheum, waiting for you.
Items, riches, and treasures galore have been scattered through the world waiting to be discovered. Familiar friends and foes have been reworked, breathing new life into old bones. There has never been a better time to die.
To celebrate the release of Brutal Orchestra: Exquisite Corpse, both Brutal Orchestra and its Soundtrack are 25% off for the next week. Swallow the Sea and Perfect Vermin's Soundtracks are also 50% off.
If you have been enjoying Brutal Orchestra and want to see more updates like this one, make sure to drop us a review on Steam!
And now the changelog (Heavy Spoiler).
New Party Members
- Added Mung to the Far Shore in Hard Mode.
- Added GallGagger. (Extra party member)
- Added Doll. (Extra party member) (VHS Crossover)
New Enemies and Bosses
- Added Ungod (friendly).
- Added Bananas the "Cat". (Mean)
- Added Bananas the "Cat". (Friendly)
- Added El Dorado.
- Added Bronzo the Bastard.
- Added Bronzo the Toothless.
- Added Bronzo the Bronzo.
- Added Bronzo the Backup.
- Added Bronzo the Enlightened.
- Added Bronzo the Bronzo the Bronzo the Bronzo...
- Added The Plump Platinum Pumper.
New Strangers
- Added Doll Master's quest. (VHS Crossover)
- Expanded Bronzo's quest.
- Expanded Ichor's quest.
New Passive Effects
- Added Status Effect Parasitism.
- Added Status Effect Mutualism.
- Added Passive Untethered Essence.
- Added Passive Red Essence.
- Added Passive Yellow Essence.
- Added Passive Purple Essence.
- Added Passive Construct.
- Added Passive Bronzo's Blessing.
- Added Passive Cash Out.
- Added Passive Financial Hyperinflation.
New Treasure Items
- Added Broken Doll. (VHS Crossover)
- Added Cursed Sword. (VHS Crossover)
- Added Infernal Eye. (VHS Crossover)
- Added Enigma. (VHS Crossover)
- Added Lil Orro.
- Added Egg of Firmament.
- Added Harvest and Plenty
- Added Sacrificial Saint. (Submitted by Eli Arps)
- Added Professional Procrastinator. (Submitted by Aisling Beatty)
- Added Blood Breathing Bomb. (Submitted by Zetderp)
- Added Starving Apples. (Submitted by Krisu)
- Added Bananas.
- Added Bananas.
- Added Bronzo's Stupid Hat.
New Shop Items
- Added Vyacheslav's Last Sip. (VHS Crossover)
- Added The Master's Sickle. (VHS Crossover)
- Added Esoteric Artifact. (VHS Crossover)
- Added Tape Worm Pills.
- Added Faulty Land Mine.
- Added Chain of Command.
- Added Gentlemen's Glove. (Submitted by Diamond Jub)
- Added Baltic Brine. (Submitted by Crysseil)
- Added Homeless Hotline. (Submitted by Max Martin)
- Added Littering Leaflets. (Submitted by Fiddox)
- Added Forgotten Pump. (Submitted by Owen Fitzgerald)
- Added Dum-Dum. (Submitted by Henrique Terron Lavini Crevatin)
- Added Expired Medicine. (Submitted by Tairbaz)
- Added Used Dog Tags. (Submitted by Tairbaz)
- Added War Bond. (Submitted by Tairbaz)
- Added Soap? (Submitted by Michael)
- Added Pharmaceutical Roller Coaster. (Submitted by Rhydork)
- Added Vowbreaker. (Submitted by Mr. Man)
- Added Lil Smiley. (Submitted by Sulfur Cretin)
- Added Counterfeit Coin
- Added Bronzo's 2 Cents.
New Extra Items
- Added A Banana Peel. (Banana Consumed)
- Added Wels Catfish. (Fish Pool)
- Added Left Shoe. (Fish Pool)
New Music
- Added Video Horror Society Theme. (VHS Crossover)
- Added Bronzo's Fun Theme.
- Added Bronzo's Pissed Theme.
New Achievements
- Added The Emotional Disaster (Fools)
- Added The Shyster (Boss)
- Added Wels Catfish (The Witness)
- Added Left Shoe (The Divine)
- Added The Director's Final Frame (Stranger)
- Added Bit off More than You Can Chew. (Comedy)
- Added Somebody Call The Vatican. (Comedy)
- Added Capital is King (Comedy)
- Added War Criminal (Comedy)
- Added Dumb Luck (Comedy)
- Added Notable Skill (Comedy)
- Added Burgeoning Expertise (Comedy)
- Added Total and Absolute Mastery (Comedy)
- Added What the !@#$ Nowak? (Comedy)
- Added Okay Nowak, Seriously Stop! (Comedy)
- Added That's it Nowak! (Comedy)
- Added Time to Die! (Comedy)
- Added Honest Effort (Tragedy)
- Added Swallowed by the Sea (Tragedy)
- Added So Long Liver (Tragedy)
New Boss Intros
- Added Roids' Splash Art and Roar.
- Added Hickory's Splash Art and Roar.
- Added Mobius' Splash Art and Roar.
- Added Trigger Fingers' Splash Art and Roar.
- Added The Charcarrion's Splash Art and Roar.
- Added The Smoothskin's Splash Art and Roar.
- Added The Ouroboros' Splash Art and Roar.
- Added This Pitiful Corpse Splash Art.
- Added Osman Sinnoks' Splash Art.
- Added Heavens Splash Art and Roar.
- Added Bronzo the Bastard's Splash Art and Roar.
Improvements
- Improved party member selection UI to track the unlock requirements of discovered locked party members.
- Reworked the Lucky Blue Pigment system to allow the player to toggle through pigments that have been added by Essence passive effects.
- Reworked party members to be able to have more than 3 abilities.
- Added a turn count at the beginning of each turn.
- Health numbers are now larger in combat.
- The active party UI is now visually brighter.
- Improved party member selection bias.
- Heaven has a more dramatic death effect when killing a party member.
- Arnold no longer appears easy mode once he has been unlocked in hard mode.
- Improved damage modification calculation. Frail and other are now calculated after shield. This indirectly buffs the strength of shield.
Party Member Balance
- Removed Slippery from Longliver.
- Removed Delicate from Longliver
- Increased Longliver's health to 20/25/30/32
- Reworked Symbiosis to allow Longliver to invade the body of the left ally.
- Reworked Eviscerate to allow Longliver to invade the body of the opposing enemy
- Decreased Longliver's unlock chance per cumulative party member death to 1%.
- Reworked Unravel to heal all party members to the Right with a spread of -2 per space.
- Reworked Discipline to damage all party members on the left and right with the spread of -50% per space.
- Increased Buster's odds of decreasing in power.
- Penance now has a lower chance to rupture the player.
- Mordrake's Devour spawn chances have been increased.
- Mordrake's Manipulation and Altered have a refresh chance now.
- Clone Mordrake's abilities now have a different cost.
- Rags' Whole again and Entwined now have split pigment costs at higher levels.
- Smokestacks Fuel cost at high levels have a split pigment cost at high levels.
- Pearls Digestion now has a split pigment cost at high levels.
Enemy Balance
- Blood Moans now has a 30% chance to curse each party member rather than all party members.
- All Spoggles and Jumble Guts can now appear in the Far Shore.
Item Balance
- Wheel of Fortune now causes the party member to perform 2 actions.
- Stolen Gold now adds 1-2 Scars each turn.
- Lucky Helmets activation chance is 35% now.
- Another Duds activation chance is 40% now.
- Momma Nooty now consumes pigment from the Pigment Generator as well as the Bar.
- Prussian Blue no longer damages Party members.
- Fly Paper now gives yellow essence.
- Glue Trap now gives purple essence.
- Spring Trap now gives red essence.
- Someone else's face now has a 50% chance to be consumed at the end of combat.
- Violated pact has been totally reworked.
- Sculptors tools has been totally reworked.
- Crooked die now additionally decreases incoming damage by 1-6.
- Blind Faith now heals 1-3 to each party member per turn.
- Sulfa Powder now Shields 1-4.
- Health Insurance clears status effects on trigger.
- Stillborn Egg will no longer trigger on Nowak.
- Wicker Child will no longer trigger on Nowak.
- Purple heart will no longer trigger on Nowak.
- Recalled Gas mask now costs less in shops.
- Prosthetics now costs less in shops.
- Russki Vampire now deals 2 damage to player and will not trigger if the player cannot heal.
- Ol reliable is more clear about its effect.
- Gilded mirror now more accurately imitates some items.
- Alchemical abomination can no longer trigger debug abilities.
Bugfixes
- Fixed a bug that prevented Linked from spreading damage if the targeted enemy dies.
- Fixed a bug that sometimes caused spawned/transformed enemies to duplicate their abilities.
- Fixed a bug where you could pause on a game over and quit to bug out party member health.
- Fixed a lot of swapping bugs.
- Fixed a bug that involved fleeting not trigger on enemies with Overexert in certain circumstance.
- Made save files less likely to corrupt in the event of a power outage.
- Fixed a softlock where an enemy transforms on the same turn and enemy with confusion dies.
- Fixed a mistake in the Spitfiring Spoggle's sprite.
- Fixed the Flarbs timeline sprites.
- Fixed the Charcarrion's Martyrdom ability using the wrong icon.
- Fixed a visual issue with Choir Boys in the overworld.
- Fixed Mungies animations.
- Fixed Starvations animation.
- Fixed Quills animation.
- Fixed Zanguango's filter during conversation
- Fixed a typo in Fogs' achievement.
- Fixed a issue with the Mungling Mud Lungs over world portal art.
- Fixed a typo in Roid' achievement.
- Fixed a typo in the description of "Persistence of Time".
- Fixed a typo in the Yellow Pigment Generators Glossary entry.
- Fixed a typo in the descriptions of Fatalism.
- Fixed a typo in the description of Immortal.
- Pigment cannot be arbitrarily moved around the pigment bar now.
- Fixed several pigment placement related errors.
- Fixed an issue where dialogue sprites were floating by 2 pixels.
- Fixed an issue where the movement grid would not appear for the Charcarrion.
- Fixed an issue where bosch would speak at the wrong time during the opening tutorial.
- Fixed The Charcarrion's intents.
- Fixed Xiphactinus and Gillicus intents.
- Fixed a bug where the player could predict the outcome of Mind Games.
- Fixed an issue with the Incarnates intents.
- Conscription notice is now a shop item.
This really is the Brutal Orchestra.