BroBattle Updates

v0.5.0: Live Ops!

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Season 1 is here, with challenges that change every day, a Rift Anomaly every week and everything from the store showing up in your game.

Season 1: Downtown Rift! A 100-tier track with titles, banners, weapon finishes, operator skins and Bro Fist effects. The free track's for everyone; the Season Pass adds a reward on every tier. It's all cosmetic: nothing you earn or buy changes how the game plays.
Season XP from every battle you finish, counted on our servers.
Daily challenges (3 a day) and weekly challenges (5 a week) that refresh by themselves.
Rift Anomaly of the week: a featured Battlescape plus a twist like Moonwalk gravity, Double Trouble or Blackout, worth bonus season XP.
Weekend XP events and scheduled events that switch on by themselves.
NEW! badges and a Coming Soon teaser for the next drop.
A season intro flythrough the first time you load into a new season. Skip it anytime.
This What's new window, plus the full history at brobattle.com/updates/ and an RSS feed.

Store items now show up in your game: Nightfall armor, Riftglass BR-7, Founders armor, banner and title, the Legendary Bro Fist, and the Ember Guard accents, banner and victory effect.
Crew packs are for the whole crew: when one of you owns Ember Guard, everyone in the crew gets it.
BroBattle Plus perks are live: a cosmetic drop every month (yours to keep), 5 saved loadout presets per operator, your own permanent private room code, crew colors and emblems, and the Plus banner and title. BRO+ members get all of it too.
Your co-op bros see your operator skin, weapon finish, Bro Fist and victory effects.
Players under 18 never see offers or Season Pass upsells in the game.

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Four new Battlescapes, things to drive and ride, K9 partners, a bigger arsenal, faith and compassion.

Four new Battlescapes: Frontier Farmland, Red Canyon Badlands, Pine Ridge and Coastal Wetlands.
Vehicles! Dirt bikes, quads, a four-seat side-by-side and an armored buggy with a mounted gun, plus trucks, tanks and APCs.
Horses you can whistle for and ride on the open maps.
K9 partners (German Shepherd, Rottweiler, Pit Bull) and wild rift beasts.
A bigger arsenal with a real loadout screen, throwables and landmines.
Airstrikes, enemy aircraft and enemy vehicles.
Faith: Bro Bibles, prayer and your Guardian Angel. Darkness events you can't shoot your way out of.
Compassion and Respect: nudge, help up, patch up and drag your bros to cover. Raiders can surrender, and you can cuff and escort them.
Emotes: high fives, fist bumps, bro hugs, chest bumps, backflips and more. Linked couples (one man, one woman) can embrace and hold hands.
A big PLAY button and a Gear Up! screen: mode, Battlescape, difficulty and loadout in two taps.
Easy, Normal, Hard and Brutal, each with its own leaderboard.

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT

A new website, trailer v2, VR headsets and safer scoreboards.

Play in a VR headset (Meta Quest, Pico, Vision Pro, SteamVR) with a wrist panel, hand-held gun and comfort options.
A redesigned brobattle.com and a new 27-second trailer.

Leaderboards and rooms show your account callsign only, and callsigns can't contain contact info.
Groundwork for linking your bro.com account (switched off until it's ready).

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Free accounts, your account center and the store's shop window.

Free BroBattle accounts with a bot check at signup, your account center, contact form and support tickets.
The store's shop window (checkout opens soon). Everything in it's cosmetic, never pay-to-win.

Friendlier words all over the site, and Genesis 1:27 on the About page and the loading screen.

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT

BroBattle's first playable build: fight through the Downtown Rift solo, with bots or with your bros.

Downtown Rift: three pylons under fire, the Rift Guardian boss and a 45-second extraction hold.
Four operators: Vance, Nova, Doc and Rook.
BroCalls: drone strikes, shield domes, ammo pods, revive beacons and more, delivered through violet Rift folds.
Rift Drop insertion, Rift Anomalies, Bro Sync and the Bro Fist.
Solo, Squad with bots, 4-player co-op, Duo Rifts and private rooms with a share code.
Keyboard and mouse, controller and touch controls. The game updates itself between matches.