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STELLAR JOCKEYS JUNE NEWSLETTER

Welcome to your monthly Stellar Jockeys newsletter for June 2022. We
received feedback on our recent test build of Brigador Killers and areworking on our next one.
Benjamin, Stellar Jockeys

A Brief Look At BKTEST03

Since the end of 2021 we have been putting out a series of early iterativebuilds of Brigador Killers, aspects of which we have written about inprevious newsletters. Our most recent one was BKTEST03 and included
uprezzed versions of fan favorites the Betushka, the Rounder and theArlo.

This recent test was nicknamed internally as the "One Of Everything"build which... it wasn't exactly. The sharp-eyed among you will no doubt
notice the absence of mechs in the above images; much like withBrigador, animations for mech legs are going to take time to do properly,
especially considering the up-rez. However, what this build did prove out
was that the major change of scaling the combat down from vehicles toon-foot meant that encounters with those vehicles have become much
more lethal for players than in Brigador. In terms of gameplay design
alone this means a lot of numbers need to be considered in a large
spreadsheet. It's not just a matter of tweaking damage values to makethings feel "fair" - other things like how much time the AI takes to get abead on the player and re, or what the default camera zoom should beneed to be reevaluated to (broadly speaking) achieve two things:
1. Make the player on foot "feel" like they're on foot (rather than simply
making a mech-but-human), and
2. Make the idea of asymmetrical on foot vs vehicle combat something
players would enjoy doing (unlike coming face-to-face with heavyarmor in the real world)
We think these are entirely achieveable though it will take us time to gureout, but nding out at this stage that BK can inspire this amount of
intimidation is exciting to us and tells us that we're on to something.
With BKTEST03 done, BKTEST04 will have a shorter turnaround and iscoming in July. It won't be as feature-heavy and instead more an iterationof what's been laid out in BKTEST03.
In other BK news, as we noted in a recent news update on Steam,starting July at the end of every month, you will not only get the usual
newsletter, but we will also be posting a longer version of things to ourBrigador Killers news hub on Steam. If you wish to get these news posts
appearing in your Steam library feed, please follow and wishlist our nextgame via our store page.
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In addition, as noted in that news update, for this rst BK news post wewill be answering your questions. Feel free to leave them in thecomments of the news update above, or email us a reply to thisnewsletter.

Enjoy The First Half Of Our First Audiobook

As part of a (very) minor June update to Brigador, we uploaded the initial
eleven chapters of the Brigador audiobook to YouTube completely forfree. The playlist link is here. If you would like to acquire the audio bookin full, it is on sale on Steam until July 7th.

Australia Now Available For Shipping
As of June 22, 2022, we are able to ship physical merchandise again toAustralia thanks to delivery restrictions being lifted for USPS. However, asof time of writing all the other countries we mentioned previously - United
Kingdom, New Zealand, Russia and Ukraine - remain unavailable forshipping. This information changes on a weekly basis and we will informyou when these territories become available again.

Community Spotlight
A couple of new faces this month. First up is a a MIDI cover of Makeup And
Vanity Set's track "Rise" by Enselle on YouTube...

...Big Potato has come up with their own album art for the Brigador
Killers OST...

...and 50Doller has illustrated what an Ed's might look like.

As ever, this is only a smattering of what can be found in our #becks-best
on our Discord server.
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Next MonthBKTEST04 is scheduled for the middle of July, but we've a few shortholidays scheduled so next month's newsletter will likely be shorter thanusual.

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