@@SheepUndefined To not have any references to the infiltrator/terminator/freightdog/guywhokicksassatDriver3 would have required inhuman levels of restraint.
God man, I get surprised enough when I run into Gabrial just being in the comment section. Thank you so much for providing so much entertainment through my life.
The systems of this game honestly remind me of Kenshi. Slow grind through dozens of skills, your ass being kicked constantly, actually having skills benefitting from your ass being kicked, moving over a map, surviving off looting from random encounters, being able to lose a limb and having to crawl around. Yeah, that's Kenshi in LatAm
1:49:45 The AI is so genius, it decided the best tactic was to cause psychological harm to you in the form of an anticlimax. It could not win against the quickload, but it could ensure your victory is hollow.
*Gets fucking obliterated by a frag grenade* "It is minor misfortune!" The combat voicelines in this game are a gift. XIII speaking like a female Rolf does not get old.
28:46 "The man's priced like a London flat and he isn't even half as dangerous!" I always loved the sense of humour in your retrospectives, keep em coming :D
I'm convinced Snake is in cahoots with some dark deity who plucks these games from the realm of stillborn virtual media. And whatever flesh/gold/essence he's sacrificing to said deity, he's getting his money's-worth.
Another fun fact is while Ufnarovsky is still working on games, they are still pretty much his hobby projects. Currently he is the CEO of an IT company called Lanit-Tercom which provides software for anything from blockchain and oil and gas sector to education and healthcare. Also it is kind of jarring rediscovering these hidden gems through english-speaking channel, I definetely remember seeing such games on the shelves of the stores in Russia but I never actually gave them a try, because in my childhood my parents didn't allow such "violent" games and when I grew up I mostly disregarded them for being "oh that 2000's jank of ours", so big thanks for reintroducing them to me! Oh, and the correct pronunciation for Ufnarovsky is "Oof-narovsky". Cheers!
@@Tehsnakerer Nah, of course not. And besides, with your signature amount of wordplays and puns any linguistic crime would be easily forgiven in my book :)
After conquering Europe and humilating the Tojo Clan, Snake settles back into old habits (committing jank warcrimes in destabilized third-world countries).
The idea that the enemy ai isn't allowed to know details about you that they wouldn't be able to peice out themselves from the environment reminds me of the enemeis from Fear.
Hearing the Boiling Point soundtrack in the background at some points got me genuinely emotional as that video's a comfort video for me, thanks Snake for the years of great content and unearthing so many of these interesting games!
Sometimes you can just tell that a developer has a made the game specifically for themselves... and I really like that. No trying to reach mass appeal here, just laser focused on what the devs themselves wanted.
"Hoisting many marksmen across multiple stories, all looking to put an end to mine." "Hardly a crack squad, unless Toker's also on the harder stuff..." Absolute immaculate writing on this one Snakerer! Was laughing my ass of
Another dark money system I've seen is in Mars: War Logs, where enemies are normally incapacitated after battles, but you can drain the money (it's a substance) out of them, which finishes them off
So, like the bartering from Pathologic - where you can trade organs harvested from the people you kill to children in order to obtain the only fresh egg left in town so that you don't collapse before you make it to the next person you have to check in on to see if they're dead yet.
The voice actor for XIII has great power and had me standing at attention ready to act. Also, holy hell watching them stab someone to death with their bayonet via shoving the entire gun through them then yelling annihilated is hilarious.
I never finished Brigade E5 but I did finish "7.62mm High Calibre" which is the sequel. While it DOES feature a similar "Final Mission", it's thankfully optional, you have a personal goal in 7.62mm and you have the option to leave the country after completing it or staying to take over the entire map. So at least in that game, you can decide to basically end after doing the main quest instead of the post-game "TAKE OVER EVERYTHING" quest.
From what I understand, there was going to be more to the post game for both factions in 7.26 but thanks to the problems Tehsnakerer brought up it was cut down to what it is. There was a Russian only dlc which takes places after the rebels won
7.62 + Blue Sun Mod was gun nerd's paradise, I only wish it would run on engine at least little less janky and more stable than Bethesda's gamebryo on PS3
My god, the bank robbery section is comedy gold. Between the claymore and the TimeSplitters music, this is great. Genuinely, this is one of my favorite videos of yours. The subject matter of the game in question being exactly the kind of weird shit I'm into and the jokes just give it a chef's kiss.
A little detail i noticed: They kept the empty cartriges expel system exactly as it is in real life for the P90 The P90 is one of the few weapons that expels empty cartriges downard instead of right But after seeing how in depth and in detail how much they have gone with all the weapons and all by modeling even the underbarrel attachments, i'm not surprised...
@@Tehsnakerer Another funny thing is that gyrojet weapons are considered useless today in comparison to any common rifle A single rocket bullet today costs around 200$ to make It was really a fad of the Vietnam war that stopped after everyone noticed how expensive and underperforming it was in comparison with any other rifle because they were inaccurate, difficult to load and prone to jam
From what I can tell, that's just how it goes in Russian games. Casual racism and sexism all over the place. Source: A youtube channel called Warlockracy.
@paulunga Warlockracy would know a thing or two about that, having been a white nationalist previously and a buds with one of the most notable Russian Internet neetsocks who was commonly and mockingly referred to Swineführer (who's somewhat dead after having fallen out of the window whilst high as a kite). He's a massive hypocrite. His previous online identity was Kirill Nesterov aka Nesterman aka ROG PR. His current stint as an anarcho-communist will last as long as it needs to until he moves on to another gig.
@@paulunga I remember playing 7.62 High Caliber (sorta, kinda sequel to this game) and finding a black mercenary in one of the bars. Hired him, went to check his pockets and found 6 bananas.
Fun fact: NVG's make night overpowered in real life, too However, it's kind of funny that the gyrojet is treated like a finnicky hard-hitter when in real life what sunk it was the fact that the bullet (which was powered by internal rockets rather than external propellant) only became fast enough to deal damage at the same range it become unstable enough to be horribly inaccurate
There is a method to Rico Reyes, indeed, there's a sensible tactics to his lunacy: He wants to become Big Boss! Palinero his Outer Heaven, a mercenary purgatory-paradise which exports war permanently. Instead of stoking the fires of a conflict that will definitely most likely end, why not become the sovereign of a nation dedicated to the expansion, financialization and export of war? This is only natural! Rico Reyes was the smartest bastard of them all in the end. The one playing the lunatic game of capitalism most effectively, to it's highest degree, that is, imperialism. Rico was not in the smuggling business, he was in the empire building business.
Aww, I read it as BriGAND, not BriGADE. But it's 2 hours of Snake suffering through eurojank, so it's still Christmas in April. Which feels about right given how cold it is.
@@arturmical rusia is a half of europe being right in the middle of the continent there's nothing more europe than moscow european union does not have a monopoly on the continent itself
@@tsartomato Did... Did you fucking look at a map mate? At a globe map? Russia is not half of europe. Russia is less than 1/10 of europe and is half of Asia. Center Europe ends at Poland, everything further is east europe and then Asia. and Belarus (fuck them) and Ukraine (please god help them) have much more european presence than Russia has. Kralovec doesn't count. It's an exclave and it should belong to the Chechia.
@@blackjacka.5097 school is for losers? >>Europe Area 10,180,000 km2 >>European Russia accounts for about 75% of Russia's total population. It covers an area of over 3,969,100 square kilometres, with a population of nearly 110 million-making Russia the largest and most populous country in Europe, surpassing second-place Germany. and those numbers even without pukin's invasion and crimea, i think
Oh you gonna need the stress relief. I did E5 on my channel with mod that makes it 3+ times harder. Love that someone abroad is playing and doing content on one of my favorite games.
@@KoylTrane sorry, it's in Russian, hope you'll get fun from the picture :))) I made an e5 100 days challenge in very beginning of it, like 7-8 months ago. Was learning things like speaking and editing on one of my favorite games :))
Ngl, when I saw the title of the video, I thought it read "Brigand E5". Then, when I saw the intro, I was like "Wow. This series took a sharp turn in gameplay" It wasn't until Snake said the title that I was like "ohhh. That makes more sense" 😂
Putting on chance to hit seems fair. In real life you could communicate to your team when you have a good shot, how confident you are about it, etc. This just makes that directly into a number.
The reason unit orders "lock up" is because this game simulates unit's stress. Your guys can get stunned if they unexpectedly encounter an enemy, encounter a lot of enemies, and so on. You can see that by the icon above them. The system is not perfect as the unit is supposed to stop the orders, get stunned, and then continue. But sometimes they continue and only then get stunned. You can also get stunned by taking damage. So stunlock is a very real thing. I didnt even know the main "visionary" behind the game was Ufnarovsky (ufnv is his nickname), the guy who made an amazing 4X game called Polaris Sector. His first game, Remember Tomorrow, was uploaded by him to the russian torrents for free. And Polaris sector is a way more polished version of that game.
@@chrip8614 Honestly its amazing how my favorite games from around 2017 times are made by the same guy. Its wild. I Keep my own version of 7.62 on my PC simply because of how long it would take to remake the install.
Glad to finally see someone make a video on Brigade. There's a few videos, mostly by Russians, on 7.62 High Caliber but not a lot of native English speakers have been appreciating the great suffering that this series has to offer.
Pretty much. Except it has "on the spectrum" levels of guns. There is High Calibre, the "sequel" which is absolutely insane with how many guns it has... Then there are mods. Some QoL, most are "increasing your spectrum" levels of guns. Basegame has a few fun weapons. Overhauling it results in insane combat, its not unusual to be against enemies whom have anti-material rifles late game; no armor protecrs enough.
Not quite, because RTWP doesn't allow you to give commands during animations or attack and move simultaneously, or even use the environment to give you a tactical edge. It's how those games would play if they were designed to be fun instead of a frustrating slog where the optimal strategy is ultimately to buff the party, send in a melee character to take all the agro and prevent the enemies from moving too close, then have the rest of the characters spam your most powerful magic from a distance whilst standing still and occasionally healing the guy getting his head kicked in with potions.
I think you're getting lost in the reeds here and trying to compare too much. Real time with pause is just that, realtime but you can pause freely. Being able to move and attack or how cover works are completely different and independent mechanics
The white gold driving music brought a smile to my face. And somwewhere out there XIII rides on, still cheerily calling out opponents in the dense jungle, her stone cold hands only twitching for another grain from chronos' hourglass...
9:20 the funny twist of fate of corners being so clunky is that this is somewhat realistic, there are actual combat footage of people repeatedly shooting their own cover because they were under too much stress to realize it (and why height over bore is a thing to worry about). As janky as brigade e5 is, turned out real humans can be even more janky.
The way you describe this game is how I feel about Dwarf Fortress. Janky, weird, big barrier to entry, but also so thoroughly detailed and granular that all sorts of unexpected surprises and stories and twists and strategic moments can happen.
I only played the successor of this game, 7,62 High Calibre and his stand alone mod Hard Life. It is such a shame that nobody makes a modern game with the same systems these games have. Despite the jank, these games are truly amazing.
You unironically have such a way with words. One of my consistently favorite things about your videos is the wordplay and writing, humorous or otherwise.
The tactical pause system reminds me of the UFO after[math/shock/light] games who has a similar system but not nearly the same degree of depth, kind of a super simplified love child of OG XCom and Brigade E5
How timely, I was getting a serious hankering for a new video from you just a couple days ago. I continue to love your quips. The video may have taken an age to cook, but clearly perfection can't be rushed.
Anyone else have Tehsnakerer as their sleep aid? For me the Hooligans, Boiling Point, Xenus 2, Die Hard videos and this are like the perfect videos to fall asleep to for me. (Edit) And the Yakuza series videos also.
Me thinks that the reason Americans don't make "gun porn" games is because they don't see the point, since they have free access to the real deal. Much of the "gun porn" media comes from countries where gun ownership is heavily regulated (Like Japan and Russia)
I think the "bank robberies are constant" thing is a hint? What he meant was "You should be robbing banks all the time and depositing their funds with me!"
Finally, it took me 2 months to finish this, and it's amazing to see such obscure game like this. And all those grenades, the "Opponent" calls, and so forth, I can see the appeal of this game. Ugh, this is what I get for putting this in my 'Watch Later' playlist, and 20% of the videos there are 1+hour endeavors to watch.
Speaking of surprisingly novel Russian tactical games, ever tried Silent Storm? While being turn-based and far less jank, it kind of introduced its own flight-sim mechanics in the form of complex ballistics that allowed you to shoot through walls, have ricochets, as well as destroy walls and floors in a very granular fashion. The engine went on to have a couple games made with it.
Great games, loved 7.62 High Calibre, the sequel to this one. Also, those drugs you mentioned earlier in the video, ie. Morphine, you can use them to reduce your merc's adrenaline levels at low levels, basically doping them up early until they're a bit more battle-hardened. Awesome vid!
49:52, Granted it's not against human opposition, but Project Zomboid can often have moments like this, it has fully tracked bullets/mags and has the same time penalties for where yous tore magazines etc. Lemme tell you I've had some real panic moments hurriedly stuffing mags as a horde approaches (totally not drawn by earlier gunfire)
I remember Polaris Sector. A free version used to be available before it went onto Steam, and I played it for a bit. It definitely has a unique approach to the space 4x genre, and it's still sitting on my wishlist as one of those eternal "maybe" games. True to the dev's approach to tactical games, it has a very interesting take on 4x that I'm quite fond of. It's very ship-based. You outfit your designs with modules that dictate their function. If you want to spy on a planet, you build a spy ship, for instance. And fuel restrictions are heavy, lending a logistic element to the game no space 4x game I've played has. It's entirely possible to build a system defense ship that can't perform FTL travel, but is stacked for combat. Honestly, the steep price point has always kept me from considering purchase, given how it's a janky one man project. But knowing the man behind it has this amount of experience might make me take a second look.
Then I see 1:50:56 and the game crash isn't what made my jaw drop. The behind-the-scenes did, with gigabyte upon gigabyte of video footage and like FIVE DIFFERENT STORAGE DRIVES, PLUS DROPBOX! "Maths and Mechanics BOTHANS" must be awesome.
@@TehsnakererOH! LOL, I thought it was some super nerdy joke about the species from Star Wars lore. Maybe "Boffins" is some kind of British word I'm not familiar with because I'm a 'Murican. Lost in translation goes beyond losing the legendary writing from the dude who worked on JA2 by porting it over to Russia.
I didn't think Sonic Adventure music would go well with an intricate, unreasonably hard RTS from 2006, but hey, the more you know! Also, hearing White Gold's driving music again was beautiful. Once again, I appreciate you shouldering the burden of playing jank no one has heard of
If I had a nickel for every time Snake played a janky game about being a mercenary in a fake latin american country, I’d have… like 4 nickels now? I feel like that should be a genre now.
I remember playing this almost twenty years ago for the first time. It was the best game to scratch that specific itch Jagged Alliance has left. On a side note, I really enjoyed the last act, because defending a sector meant you could mow down all enemies at once and also finally have a use for the mines and remote charges.
I love the thought of having a Door Kickers style combat system dunked into a sandbox. The stop-start combat of this game *definitely* seems like the kind of thing that could keep someone hooked for hours. Also, it's too true that we need way more M&B style games set in modern day times. I want to be the beast that is 'merc who looks like an accountant'
Holy shit, a Brigade E5 video by Snakerer! Did not expect this. I love-hate the sequel, and it's crazy how little content there is for these games on UA-cam. Great video, thank you. I love Jagged Alliance even more and actually had no idea Shaun Lyng worked on this. Lost it at, "The barman says there's been no shooting around here lately and, yeah, that was gunfighting."
1:09:46 *why do the one-liners go so fucking raw* edit: 1:13:50 it's wild seeing callbacks to reviews i watched almost a decade ago now and not only having huge nostalgia, but it also being so funny because it's like getting hit with the world's most delayed punchline
Never expected you to cover this stuff. A pleasant surprise, really. Much love from Russia. Hope to see a lot more slav jank later. Keep up the great work
Mad respect for all the effort you went to to get this video out!!! I'm not generally into strategy games but I will admit this video planted a nugget of interest in my brain...might have to go with something less hardcore though lol
14:02 So, I am working on a game like this for fun and I think the best way is to make it like this. Dying is hard, but being disabled is easy. Like, if you are gutshot, you are out, but it takes a long time to die (generally). If you can save your ally, they will fight again, but not for this fight (unless it is a relatively minor wound and you got painkillers). Armor protects more, but doesn't stop all the pain. Shots to the head is very often fatal instantly, but only if they hit the brain or neck. The biggest danger is bleeding out and the speed of that is based on multiple factors (Where they were hit, if they continue to move, how powerful the attack was) while organ damage can take them out in the long-term. Combat medics becomes less about just keeping your troops in the fight, but making sure that they get back alive if they are hit.
The gun mix is really eclectic. Includes guns that never made it to production (pancor jackhammer), novelty civilian market items like the Calico, discontuned russian prototype rifles, and WW2 surplus like the BAR and Thompson. It looks like a couple of the guns even have multiple models, I'm seeing at least two Thompson variants. I guess if they'll let you have the gyrojet they're less concerned with "what would people actually use" and more with "how many guns can we put in the game?" I'd have to go through in more detail but a few of the descriptions are iffy, like the "carbon" SKS which looks like black polymer furniture and not carbon fiber, but this could be down to translation issues. Or the EOTech at 48:04 describing itself as attaching to weaver rails rather than picatinny (not strictly wrong, but the eotechs were designed for picatinny, they just happen to fit on weaver too). The DNA of grid-based granular gun customization seems to run through a bunch of russian games, the inventory screen isn't really that different in escape from tarkov.
I like seeing people explore games like this, because it's always interesting having somebody else to compare viewpoints on regarding the success and failings of what makes it unique.
I had so much fun back in the day with this game and 7.62. Janky af but the gameplay depth is immense and it was so challenging as well, didnt mind reloading saves for this because almost every failure was a learning experience for me.
Love videos like these. I find such games practically unplayable for me so it is very entertaining and interesting seeing you tackle many weird and unbalanced challenges.
A new Snake video, a new janky-ass forgotten gem I would've never known about. Jokes aside as an Eastern Euro, I remember 1C releasing a ton of underrated classics such as R.C. Cars and Spells of Gold. Hopefully one day you may cover these as well
Kinda funny that as the video went on I got reminded of 7.62 in that "man that seems kinda similar if I remember right. I should play that." Sure enough...
you know Snake its wild to think ive been watching your videos for like 9 years time really has been soring! thanks for making some of my favorite comfy content on this site
I just wanted to say that I love all your videos ever since I saw the EVO one, you are one of my favorite reviewers. I wish you good luck with everything you do!
![Jagged Alliance 3 [from the perspective of a series veteran]](/img/n.gif)
The thing that this game and boiling point taught me is that being a mercenary is all about solid financial management.
Shooting is just what you do inbetween your quarterly reports
@@Tehsnakerer Honestly now I want to see a mercenary financial sim.
I mean, battletech tends to get into that with some depth, but I dont think an outright PMC management game, with no battles has been done.
@@egoalter1276Isn't that Rebel inc. game basically just that?
“ooligans was the ardest game ever made…” Mommy, the very British man is scaring me.
I appreciate the restraint in not having your main character just be Saul Myers again.
To be fair, he calls a random dude Saul Myers in the beginning, lol. To me, that's enough for him to be canonically running around in this world.
@@SheepUndefined To not have any references to the infiltrator/terminator/freightdog/guywhokicksassatDriver3 would have required inhuman levels of restraint.
@@nathanielharris1572 He tried at first but then he reached boiling point.
five seconds in and this main menu spanks and humiliates literally every game in existence.
Wait hang on that’s fucking Krinkels
Hi Krinkels! Didn't know you watched Snake :)
Big fan of Madness Combat.
YOU should've added a shooting range into your main menu! It was so obvious!
Never thought I'd see you Krinkels
God man, I get surprised enough when I run into Gabrial just being in the comment section. Thank you so much for providing so much entertainment through my life.
My dyslexic ass thought this was a new Brigand thing
Glad to know i wasn't the only one
Oh FUCK, its not?
Hopefully one day, there's a prequel in the works and a really cool looking custom campaign called For Want of a Pack of Smokes
This is Brigand: Tactics
I'm not dyslexic, but thought the same thing when I first read the title. (I am really near-sighted, though.)
The systems of this game honestly remind me of Kenshi. Slow grind through dozens of skills, your ass being kicked constantly, actually having skills benefitting from your ass being kicked, moving over a map, surviving off looting from random encounters, being able to lose a limb and having to crawl around. Yeah, that's Kenshi in LatAm
1:49:45 The AI is so genius, it decided the best tactic was to cause psychological harm to you in the form of an anticlimax. It could not win against the quickload, but it could ensure your victory is hollow.
*Gets fucking obliterated by a frag grenade*
"It is minor misfortune!"
The combat voicelines in this game are a gift. XIII speaking like a female Rolf does not get old.
You dare throw grenades at a daughter of a shepherd!?
I think she's saying "It is my own misfortune".
@@Shenaldrac still Rolf-coded
@@Shenaldracat 11:26 there is a dialogue box (very easy to miss, I know) which confirms that she says "It's minor misfortune"
@@alexeyeliseev6322 Oh crap, I'm wrong on the internet! D:
28:46 "The man's priced like a London flat and he isn't even half as dangerous!" I always loved the sense of humour in your retrospectives, keep em coming :D
I'm convinced Snake is in cahoots with some dark deity who plucks these games from the realm of stillborn virtual media. And whatever flesh/gold/essence he's sacrificing to said deity, he's getting his money's-worth.
The idea of him giving flesh could imply he's fucking the deity...
this game was very big and popular on the release
so much so there is a sequel and addons
it's way more popular than alfa
Probably the same deity Ross gets his games from
I remember years ago seeing a guy do a lets play of this that only stopped cus his pc bricked
@@JanJansen985 his PC was so mad it offed itself
Another fun fact is while Ufnarovsky is still working on games, they are still pretty much his hobby projects. Currently he is the CEO of an IT company called Lanit-Tercom which provides software for anything from blockchain and oil and gas sector to education and healthcare.
Also it is kind of jarring rediscovering these hidden gems through english-speaking channel, I definetely remember seeing such games on the shelves of the stores in Russia but I never actually gave them a try, because in my childhood my parents didn't allow such "violent" games and when I grew up I mostly disregarded them for being "oh that 2000's jank of ours", so big thanks for reintroducing them to me!
Oh, and the correct pronunciation for Ufnarovsky is "Oof-narovsky". Cheers!
Glad the videos can do that, I hope the mispronunciation didn't bother you too much!
@@Tehsnakerer Nah, of course not. And besides, with your signature amount of wordplays and puns any linguistic crime would be easily forgiven in my book :)
After conquering Europe and humilating the Tojo Clan, Snake settles back into old habits (committing jank warcrimes in destabilized third-world countries).
Well, you know what they say about old habits...
@@HunterJanos They die hard.
Missed a great opportunity with XIII-3 to name her "Lighting Returns" instead
The idea that the enemy ai isn't allowed to know details about you that they wouldn't be able to peice out themselves from the environment reminds me of the enemeis from Fear.
Hearing the Boiling Point soundtrack in the background at some points got me genuinely emotional as that video's a comfort video for me, thanks Snake for the years of great content and unearthing so many of these interesting games!
Sometimes you can just tell that a developer has a made the game specifically for themselves... and I really like that. No trying to reach mass appeal here, just laser focused on what the devs themselves wanted.
"Hoisting many marksmen across multiple stories, all looking to put an end to mine."
"Hardly a crack squad, unless Toker's also on the harder stuff..."
Absolute immaculate writing on this one Snakerer! Was laughing my ass of
Another gem
"It's nice to feel wanted, especially internationally!" (As he raids an UN convoy)
"I'd call you a bell end, but women can't wear helmets"
I feel like a darker money system would have the player use a pair of pliers to yank out gold teeth and fillings from corpses for later sale.
Now there's a sequel idea, trade inventory space to pull teeth
Another dark money system I've seen is in Mars: War Logs, where enemies are normally incapacitated after battles, but you can drain the money (it's a substance) out of them, which finishes them off
So, like the bartering from Pathologic - where you can trade organs harvested from the people you kill to children in order to obtain the only fresh egg left in town so that you don't collapse before you make it to the next person you have to check in on to see if they're dead yet.
@@cdru515 It's water
@@Tehsnakererhave you considered playing cruelty squad?
Snake covering a game with driving mechanics and realising he gets to reuse the White Gold driving theme again.
1:47:11 "The best general weapons are assault rifles. Thes best outright weapon is time travel." - Arthur Aguefort
The voice actor for XIII has great power and had me standing at attention ready to act.
Also, holy hell watching them stab someone to death with their bayonet via shoving the entire gun through them then yelling annihilated is hilarious.
I never finished Brigade E5 but I did finish "7.62mm High Calibre" which is the sequel.
While it DOES feature a similar "Final Mission", it's thankfully optional, you have a personal goal in 7.62mm and you have the option to leave the country after completing it or staying to take over the entire map.
So at least in that game, you can decide to basically end after doing the main quest instead of the post-game "TAKE OVER EVERYTHING" quest.
From what I understand, there was going to be more to the post game for both factions in 7.26 but thanks to the problems Tehsnakerer brought up it was cut down to what it is. There was a Russian only dlc which takes places after the rebels won
@@nolanburke3669 Shame we never got it.
@@samz8691 I have been told that the maps for it are used in the two big mods (That are in english) for 7.26 so there is that at least
7.62 + Blue Sun Mod was gun nerd's paradise, I only wish it would run on engine at least little less janky and more stable than Bethesda's gamebryo on PS3
My god, the bank robbery section is comedy gold. Between the claymore and the TimeSplitters music, this is great.
Genuinely, this is one of my favorite videos of yours. The subject matter of the game in question being exactly the kind of weird shit I'm into and the jokes just give it a chef's kiss.
A little detail i noticed:
They kept the empty cartriges expel system exactly as it is in real life for the P90
The P90 is one of the few weapons that expels empty cartriges downard instead of right
But after seeing how in depth and in detail how much they have gone with all the weapons and all by modeling even the underbarrel attachments, i'm not surprised...
One fun thing as well is the gyrojet doesn't expel casings
@@Tehsnakerer Another funny thing is that gyrojet weapons are considered useless today in comparison to any common rifle
A single rocket bullet today costs around 200$ to make
It was really a fad of the Vietnam war that stopped after everyone noticed how expensive and underperforming it was in comparison with any other rifle because they were inaccurate, difficult to load and prone to jam
29:16 "I don't like narrow-eyed people"
FYI, that's just a literal translation of a slur the guy casually throws out at a potential employer.
From what I can tell, that's just how it goes in Russian games. Casual racism and sexism all over the place.
Source: A youtube channel called Warlockracy.
@@paulunga They inject homophopia, sexism and Racism even into localizations from what I managed to see.
@@paulunga Pretty much our whole East Europe thing really, we dont care what race and sex you are as long as you racist and sexist.
@paulunga Warlockracy would know a thing or two about that, having been a white nationalist previously and a buds with one of the most notable Russian Internet neetsocks who was commonly and mockingly referred to Swineführer (who's somewhat dead after having fallen out of the window whilst high as a kite).
He's a massive hypocrite. His previous online identity was Kirill Nesterov aka Nesterman aka ROG PR. His current stint as an anarcho-communist will last as long as it needs to until he moves on to another gig.
@@paulunga I remember playing 7.62 High Caliber (sorta, kinda sequel to this game) and finding a black mercenary in one of the bars. Hired him, went to check his pockets and found 6 bananas.
The funny thing about adrenaline is that Marauder, with its simplification of the E5/7.62 system, decided to simply ditch the whole adrenaline system
Fun fact: NVG's make night overpowered in real life, too
However, it's kind of funny that the gyrojet is treated like a finnicky hard-hitter when in real life what sunk it was the fact that the bullet (which was powered by internal rockets rather than external propellant) only became fast enough to deal damage at the same range it become unstable enough to be horribly inaccurate
The priest shota joke blindsided me. The deadpan way you deliver jokes is still getting me all these years later.
For me it was Tarantino foot fetish joke - so out of left field, so perfect.
There is a method to Rico Reyes, indeed, there's a sensible tactics to his lunacy: He wants to become Big Boss! Palinero his Outer Heaven, a mercenary purgatory-paradise which exports war permanently. Instead of stoking the fires of a conflict that will definitely most likely end, why not become the sovereign of a nation dedicated to the expansion, financialization and export of war? This is only natural! Rico Reyes was the smartest bastard of them all in the end. The one playing the lunatic game of capitalism most effectively, to it's highest degree, that is, imperialism. Rico was not in the smuggling business, he was in the empire building business.
I LOVE it when the mechanics prioritize immersion and atmosphere over player coddling
Cool, new Eurojank!
...2 years to finish?! Holy shit, this is going to be a journey.
Aww, I read it as BriGAND, not BriGADE. But it's 2 hours of Snake suffering through eurojank, so it's still Christmas in April. Which feels about right given how cold it is.
Next weekend weather is fixing where I'm at, sunshine is on my horizon
Gee, comment section and snake are having a pun off to be who's punier
@@LaRubiarubinaI'd always bet on Snake - I'll never forget how he managed to pun Goro Majima's name alongside the Japanese wordplay "Goroawase".
@@Tehsnakerer must be like the eclipse for british people
A new Snake vid and he's playing a weird eurojank game
The balance of the world has been restored
Russian Jank. This is not eurojank ^_-
@@arturmical rusia is a half of europe being right in the middle of the continent
there's nothing more europe than moscow
european union does not have a monopoly on the continent itself
@@tsartomato Did... Did you fucking look at a map mate? At a globe map? Russia is not half of europe. Russia is less than 1/10 of europe and is half of Asia. Center Europe ends at Poland, everything further is east europe and then Asia. and Belarus (fuck them) and Ukraine (please god help them) have much more european presence than Russia has.
Kralovec doesn't count. It's an exclave and it should belong to the Chechia.
@@tsartomatoExaggerating a bit aren't we
@@blackjacka.5097
school is for losers?
>>Europe Area 10,180,000 km2
>>European Russia accounts for about 75% of Russia's total population. It covers an area of over 3,969,100 square kilometres, with a population of nearly 110 million-making Russia the largest and most populous country in Europe, surpassing second-place Germany.
and those numbers even without pukin's invasion and crimea, i think
Oh you gonna need the stress relief.
I did E5 on my channel with mod that makes it 3+ times harder.
Love that someone abroad is playing and doing content on one of my favorite games.
I'm cursing the UA-cam app for not letting me view your channel through the comment. Will check you out wheb i reach my PC
@@KoylTrane sorry, it's in Russian, hope you'll get fun from the picture :))) I made an e5 100 days challenge in very beginning of it, like 7-8 months ago. Was learning things like speaking and editing on one of my favorite games :))
@@KoylTrane but in some episodes combat is tougher then coffin nails
@@yeetrpg you're in luck, because Russian is my native language
@@KoylTrane да ты гонишь... Вот неожиданная неожиданность. Сделал мой день
Ngl, when I saw the title of the video, I thought it read "Brigand E5". Then, when I saw the intro, I was like "Wow. This series took a sharp turn in gameplay" It wasn't until Snake said the title that I was like "ohhh. That makes more sense" 😂
You have no idea how much I'd love a game in Brigand's world with Brigade's gameplay
@@TehsnakererI can't decide which would make it more interesting; being Slavjank or a Lancaster joint.
Putting on chance to hit seems fair. In real life you could communicate to your team when you have a good shot, how confident you are about it, etc. This just makes that directly into a number.
A strategy game that allows you to fake out enemies by throwing a grenade with the pin still attached? That is utter insane genius.
The reason unit orders "lock up" is because this game simulates unit's stress. Your guys can get stunned if they unexpectedly encounter an enemy, encounter a lot of enemies, and so on. You can see that by the icon above them. The system is not perfect as the unit is supposed to stop the orders, get stunned, and then continue. But sometimes they continue and only then get stunned.
You can also get stunned by taking damage. So stunlock is a very real thing.
I didnt even know the main "visionary" behind the game was Ufnarovsky (ufnv is his nickname), the guy who made an amazing 4X game called Polaris Sector. His first game, Remember Tomorrow, was uploaded by him to the russian torrents for free. And Polaris sector is a way more polished version of that game.
He also recently released ICBM (AKA: Defcon but more complex, neat game) and is working on a sequel.
@@chrip8614 Honestly its amazing how my favorite games from around 2017 times are made by the same guy. Its wild.
I Keep my own version of 7.62 on my PC simply because of how long it would take to remake the install.
IIRC can't you counter the buildup of adrenaline with a dose of morphine?
@@TrinSpin Pretty sure you can. Some meds lower adrenaline
That Tarantino joke at 1:25:55 might just be your best pun yet, and that's a high bar.
Glad to finally see someone make a video on Brigade. There's a few videos, mostly by Russians, on 7.62 High Caliber but not a lot of native English speakers have been appreciating the great suffering that this series has to offer.
Saul Meyers after seeing how much carnage there is in this game and how many bodies you can pile up: Let me in, LET ME IIIIIIIIIN!
A three page thesis to say they used real time with pause like every crpg in the early 2000s
Pretty much. Except it has "on the spectrum" levels of guns. There is High Calibre, the "sequel" which is absolutely insane with how many guns it has...
Then there are mods. Some QoL, most are "increasing your spectrum" levels of guns. Basegame has a few fun weapons. Overhauling it results in insane combat, its not unusual to be against enemies whom have anti-material rifles late game; no armor protecrs enough.
Well, CRPGs at the time (or now) didn't have that level of simulations. NWN still used 6 seconds for its rounds, for example
Not quite, because RTWP doesn't allow you to give commands during animations or attack and move simultaneously, or even use the environment to give you a tactical edge.
It's how those games would play if they were designed to be fun instead of a frustrating slog where the optimal strategy is ultimately to buff the party, send in a melee character to take all the agro and prevent the enemies from moving too close, then have the rest of the characters spam your most powerful magic from a distance whilst standing still and occasionally healing the guy getting his head kicked in with potions.
that's like the only reason i'm here yes.
I think you're getting lost in the reeds here and trying to compare too much. Real time with pause is just that, realtime but you can pause freely.
Being able to move and attack or how cover works are completely different and independent mechanics
I get so excited every time you upload! Please keep giving us more great videos. Your work is appreciated!
Tehsnakerer covering a janky game set in the tropics is my favorite genre.
The white gold driving music brought a smile to my face.
And somwewhere out there XIII rides on, still cheerily calling out opponents in the dense jungle, her stone cold hands only twitching for another grain from chronos' hourglass...
Well well well our favorite half Irish half English vidia reviewer has returned
Finally someone who knows
9:20 the funny twist of fate of corners being so clunky is that this is somewhat realistic, there are actual combat footage of people repeatedly shooting their own cover because they were under too much stress to realize it (and why height over bore is a thing to worry about). As janky as brigade e5 is, turned out real humans can be even more janky.
The way you describe this game is how I feel about Dwarf Fortress. Janky, weird, big barrier to entry, but also so thoroughly detailed and granular that all sorts of unexpected surprises and stories and twists and strategic moments can happen.
Oh man, new Snake *and* Warlockracy today? It's a good day.
You have excellent taste my good sir
It's a little entertaining that the game is somehow both realistic in how it plays and completely bonkers at the same time. Might pick up this game.
I only played the successor of this game, 7,62 High Calibre and his stand alone mod Hard Life. It is such a shame that nobody makes a modern game with the same systems these games have. Despite the jank, these games are truly amazing.
Gonna look forward to seeing this video tomorrow after a nice 6 hours of sleep.
44:05
Oh boy, now that music is a callback!
Saul Meyers must be out there!
You unironically have such a way with words. One of my consistently favorite things about your videos is the wordplay and writing, humorous or otherwise.
The tactical pause system reminds me of the UFO after[math/shock/light] games who has a similar system but not nearly the same degree of depth, kind of a super simplified love child of OG XCom and Brigade E5
How timely, I was getting a serious hankering for a new video from you just a couple days ago. I continue to love your quips. The video may have taken an age to cook, but clearly perfection can't be rushed.
Anyone else have Tehsnakerer as their sleep aid? For me the Hooligans, Boiling Point, Xenus 2, Die Hard videos and this are like the perfect videos to fall asleep to for me.
(Edit) And the Yakuza series videos also.
Did you try Greedfall?
I was getting ready to use this video for that very purpose when I saw this comment.
The usage of assorted Xenus series music through the video was a nice touch.
As an American, it is a constant shame that the most gun nut games often come in the form of euro-jank. Truly we are letting our proud history down.
Me thinks that the reason Americans don't make "gun porn" games is because they don't see the point, since they have free access to the real deal.
Much of the "gun porn" media comes from countries where gun ownership is heavily regulated (Like Japan and Russia)
Anton Hand is out here keeping up the American end all on his own
If I remember correctly Call Of Duty is an American franchise. That right there accounts for the gun porno that most Americans need daily!
I think the "bank robberies are constant" thing is a hint? What he meant was "You should be robbing banks all the time and depositing their funds with me!"
Finally, it took me 2 months to finish this, and it's amazing to see such obscure game like this. And all those grenades, the "Opponent" calls, and so forth, I can see the appeal of this game.
Ugh, this is what I get for putting this in my 'Watch Later' playlist, and 20% of the videos there are 1+hour endeavors to watch.
Speaking of surprisingly novel Russian tactical games, ever tried Silent Storm? While being turn-based and far less jank, it kind of introduced its own flight-sim mechanics in the form of complex ballistics that allowed you to shoot through walls, have ricochets, as well as destroy walls and floors in a very granular fashion. The engine went on to have a couple games made with it.
I've grabbed them to have a look
Great games, loved 7.62 High Calibre, the sequel to this one.
Also, those drugs you mentioned earlier in the video, ie. Morphine, you can use them to reduce your merc's adrenaline levels at low levels, basically doping them up early until they're a bit more battle-hardened. Awesome vid!
49:52, Granted it's not against human opposition, but Project Zomboid can often have moments like this, it has fully tracked bullets/mags and has the same time penalties for where yous tore magazines etc.
Lemme tell you I've had some real panic moments hurriedly stuffing mags as a horde approaches (totally not drawn by earlier gunfire)
Rewatching this I your comment about aiming and cqc reminds me of a german veteran in ww2 describing CQC: "You shot first and aimed second."
I remember Polaris Sector. A free version used to be available before it went onto Steam, and I played it for a bit. It definitely has a unique approach to the space 4x genre, and it's still sitting on my wishlist as one of those eternal "maybe" games. True to the dev's approach to tactical games, it has a very interesting take on 4x that I'm quite fond of. It's very ship-based. You outfit your designs with modules that dictate their function. If you want to spy on a planet, you build a spy ship, for instance. And fuel restrictions are heavy, lending a logistic element to the game no space 4x game I've played has. It's entirely possible to build a system defense ship that can't perform FTL travel, but is stacked for combat. Honestly, the steep price point has always kept me from considering purchase, given how it's a janky one man project. But knowing the man behind it has this amount of experience might make me take a second look.
'Pulled an about typeface' killed me. Keep it up mr snake
Then I see 1:50:56 and the game crash isn't what made my jaw drop. The behind-the-scenes did, with gigabyte upon gigabyte of video footage and like FIVE DIFFERENT STORAGE DRIVES, PLUS DROPBOX!
"Maths and Mechanics BOTHANS" must be awesome.
Boffins
@@TehsnakererOH! LOL, I thought it was some super nerdy joke about the species from Star Wars lore. Maybe "Boffins" is some kind of British word I'm not familiar with because I'm a 'Murican. Lost in translation goes beyond losing the legendary writing from the dude who worked on JA2 by porting it over to Russia.
I didn't think Sonic Adventure music would go well with an intricate, unreasonably hard RTS from 2006, but hey, the more you know! Also, hearing White Gold's driving music again was beautiful.
Once again, I appreciate you shouldering the burden of playing jank no one has heard of
Beautiful. Snakerer wit, in-depth military simulation and obscure, high-investment/high-reward strategy makes for a very well-spent evening.
That escort mission joke is genuinely one of the wittiest ones I've heard in a long time. lmao, I fucking love your writing man
1:16:45 “Death sentence became a paragraph.” Absolute genius! Brilliant world play, sir!!!
Watching you play the start of this with your mates was a delight. Glad you finally got a video out, insane game.
If I had a nickel for every time Snake played a janky game about being a mercenary in a fake latin american country, I’d have… like 4 nickels now?
I feel like that should be a genre now.
Wait, how is it 4? Brigand clearly does not qualify for the locagion being a fake country, and then there are only 2 parts of xenus
I love your videos so much man. It’s an absolute pleasure when you upload. I think about your videos all the time.
I remember playing this almost twenty years ago for the first time. It was the best game to scratch that specific itch Jagged Alliance has left.
On a side note, I really enjoyed the last act, because defending a sector meant you could mow down all enemies at once and also finally have a use for the mines and remote charges.
I love the thought of having a Door Kickers style combat system dunked into a sandbox. The stop-start combat of this game *definitely* seems like the kind of thing that could keep someone hooked for hours.
Also, it's too true that we need way more M&B style games set in modern day times. I want to be the beast that is 'merc who looks like an accountant'
Holy shit, a Brigade E5 video by Snakerer! Did not expect this. I love-hate the sequel, and it's crazy how little content there is for these games on UA-cam. Great video, thank you. I love Jagged Alliance even more and actually had no idea Shaun Lyng worked on this.
Lost it at, "The barman says there's been no shooting around here lately and, yeah, that was gunfighting."
1:09:46 *why do the one-liners go so fucking raw*
edit: 1:13:50 it's wild seeing callbacks to reviews i watched almost a decade ago now and not only having huge nostalgia, but it also being so funny because it's like getting hit with the world's most delayed punchline
I knew that of all the UA-camrs you'd be the one to make a review of this game
Never expected you to cover this stuff. A pleasant surprise, really. Much love from Russia. Hope to see a lot more slav jank later. Keep up the great work
Christmas in April when this channel uploads
It's always fun hearing about games I'd never heard about before, as well as your thoughts on game design and balancing.
Mad respect for all the effort you went to to get this video out!!! I'm not generally into strategy games but I will admit this video planted a nugget of interest in my brain...might have to go with something less hardcore though lol
14:02
So, I am working on a game like this for fun and I think the best way is to make it like this.
Dying is hard, but being disabled is easy.
Like, if you are gutshot, you are out, but it takes a long time to die (generally). If you can save your ally, they will fight again, but not for this fight (unless it is a relatively minor wound and you got painkillers).
Armor protects more, but doesn't stop all the pain. Shots to the head is very often fatal instantly, but only if they hit the brain or neck.
The biggest danger is bleeding out and the speed of that is based on multiple factors (Where they were hit, if they continue to move, how powerful the attack was) while organ damage can take them out in the long-term. Combat medics becomes less about just keeping your troops in the fight, but making sure that they get back alive if they are hit.
The gun mix is really eclectic. Includes guns that never made it to production (pancor jackhammer), novelty civilian market items like the Calico, discontuned russian prototype rifles, and WW2 surplus like the BAR and Thompson. It looks like a couple of the guns even have multiple models, I'm seeing at least two Thompson variants. I guess if they'll let you have the gyrojet they're less concerned with "what would people actually use" and more with "how many guns can we put in the game?"
I'd have to go through in more detail but a few of the descriptions are iffy, like the "carbon" SKS which looks like black polymer furniture and not carbon fiber, but this could be down to translation issues. Or the EOTech at 48:04 describing itself as attaching to weaver rails rather than picatinny (not strictly wrong, but the eotechs were designed for picatinny, they just happen to fit on weaver too).
The DNA of grid-based granular gun customization seems to run through a bunch of russian games, the inventory screen isn't really that different in escape from tarkov.
Russians can rival Americans in how much they love guns
It will always blow my mind how no matter the esoteric nature of the game TehSnakerer is playing, there are people in the comments who've played it.
I like seeing people explore games like this, because it's always interesting having somebody else to compare viewpoints on regarding the success and failings of what makes it unique.
I had so much fun back in the day with this game and 7.62. Janky af but the gameplay depth is immense and it was so challenging as well, didnt mind reloading saves for this because almost every failure was a learning experience for me.
Love videos like these. I find such games practically unplayable for me so it is very entertaining and interesting seeing you tackle many weird and unbalanced challenges.
A new Snake video, a new janky-ass forgotten gem I would've never known about. Jokes aside as an Eastern Euro, I remember 1C releasing a ton of underrated classics such as R.C. Cars and Spells of Gold. Hopefully one day you may cover these as well
Hey, welcome back! Was worried you lost your UA-cam loisence and got arrested
Kinda funny that as the video went on I got reminded of 7.62 in that "man that seems kinda similar if I remember right. I should play that." Sure enough...
You might say the unexpected 2-year journey this game ended up being was... minor misfortune.
you know Snake its wild to think ive been watching your videos for like 9 years time really has been soring! thanks for making some of my favorite comfy content on this site
For some reason i didnt get a notification from the subscriptions but i obviously got a dream letting me know that you have a new video
Eagerly awaiting 7.62/Hard Life with all the figurative and literal minefields that come with it.
I'll be cautious of the minefields
I just wanted to say that I love all your videos ever since I saw the EVO one, you are one of my favorite reviewers.
I wish you good luck with everything you do!
Still waiting on that pure pwmage video snake. We all know its going to be a love letter to the 00's
I really want to get to that soon after Adventure Wrong and that's next on the menu!
I almost bursted out laughing when the Xenus travel theme started playing in the vehicle section.