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dustin · Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 3:53 am Post subject: Devil's Brigade Lux

Sillysoft was recently contracted to make a game as part of the pormotion of a new TV mini-series "The Devil's Brigade" which is aring now in Canada.

If you want to get Devil's Brigade Lux you can download it here. It's made up of 1 funky lux map with a scenario.

MissChaos · Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 6:03 am Post subject:

I really like this map, I have played it for an hour now on 'General' and it was really hard. The bot is too tough...grr
The music is great!
Well done!

Mike · Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 8:10 am Post subject:

nice work, what ai is the bot using.

The white armies of the 'dead' bot are interesting. Does that mean that there could be 'neutral' countries in future versions of lux?

Preacherman · Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 10:57 am Post subject:

Nice one Dustin and mbauer - the map is great, it's nice with an almost 3D effect, and the music adds to the ambience. Shame it's just the one mission but it's a great marketing tool nonetheless.

sasquatch · Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 2:15 pm Post subject:

Isn't that the AHL theme? It's a beautiful map, but I think the difficulty level could be more challenging (I easily beat the Nazis on the first try on "General" setting). I see some SHCL members in the credits...
Lincoln Approves!
Very Happy

hoodie · Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 2:31 pm Post subject:

Very nice, I like. I defeat red Uzbek assholes, good times, king in the castle, king in the castle. Very Happy

dustin · Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 5:57 pm Post subject:

The opening music track is from the Devil's Brigade TV show. The second music track is taken from American History Lux. The bots used are Nefarious and EvilPixie on the higher levels. It was meant to be pretty easy, since it's free for all and meant for newb Luxers.

Dominator · The Man Joined: 25 Mar 2006 Posts: 1181

Preacherman · Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 11:10 am Post subject:

Sweet.

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/games/

Dang · Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:06 pm Post subject:

Very Cool map Dustin. A Classic frontal assault on a machine gun nest.

Any chance of it being added to the plugin manager?

Black Pope · Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 1:18 pm Post subject:

wow...what a hoot. Thanks, Dustin.

mbauer · Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 9:04 am Post subject:

All part of the Anti-Holy Church of Lux's plan to keep everyone happily entertained and to spread the gospel of Lux. I don't see the semi-holy cult providing fun and games to you, the masses of luxtopia...hmmmmm...I wonder who has your best interests at heart?

Sic Semper Tyranis
MB

Preacherman · Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 9:08 am Post subject:

If the anti-holy cult's plan is to provide one map missions that can be completed by 3 year olds within a couple of tries even on 'General' level, then we are indeed all most impressed Razz

mbauer · Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 9:26 am Post subject:

Ahhhh..leave it to the semi-holies to reduce themselves and this community to pety insults and name calling, thereby perpetuating a negative atmosphere. We need more of that! Way to go semi-holies!

As Dustin said the map was intended to be easy since the main audience are people who have never played Lux. We want to welcome them into our flock. We don't want them to feel defeated and ridiculed, as the semi-holies would wish.

A much harder game with many more missions will be provided shortly, the anti-holy church assures you of this.

Sic Semper Tyranis!
MB

dustin · Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 7:14 pm Post subject:

el toro · Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 9:51 pm Post subject:

ok st00pid mbauer,
i was just looking at the credits for DBL, and it would seem that there is only one st00pid anti, and 12 semi-holies. so there you big st00pid stinky monkey butt.

PHHHHTTTT!

blackj3sus · Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 2:16 am Post subject:

ok, dang requested it and since i already made it multiplayer to play with my friends... i uploaded the multiplayer version (hope to see it on the pluger) Wink

(it will not ever be hosted or linked by me unless its approved!)

mbauer · Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 9:12 am Post subject:

Todio · Luxer Joined: 12 Dec 2008 Posts: 2

I actually worked on the show as the sound recordist and downloaded the game. I had hours of fun playing with it.

I'm a Lux noob but now have Lux Touch

I recently upgraded my operating system and now it doesn't work and the site it was available from doesn't exist anymore. Since it was free does anyone have a version that works on Mac OS 10.5.5 ? Perhaps mine got corrupted somehow? (and now it's trashed)

Thanks!

Claudiu · Rise of Rome Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Posts: 430

I checked the site, but I see no download for this promotion game. Where is it?

Packman · Loves his dice! Joined: 07 Mar 2006 Posts: 2126

My guess is the promotion is over - the original post is over 2 years old.

Very Happy

dustin · Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 6:49 pm Post subject:

Here is a download of Devil's Brigade for Mac OS X. I don't have a windows installer handy.

Odelay · Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 6:58 pm Post subject:

man this is tough on General.

Here is where I found it for windows.

Nice work btw. Smile

Todio · Luxer Joined: 12 Dec 2008 Posts: 2

Thanks for this, I really missed it. I just got into Lux and remembered I had it on the computer from a few years back and was disappointed that it seemed to have corrupted somehow. Great to be back on Mount Difensa again.

The show, by the way, was a Living History recreation. We took a squad of modern-day special services soldiers from USA and Canada (Green Berets, SEALS, JTF2, Rangers, guys like that) and brought them together in Helena Montana, the site of the original training camp for the 1st Special Service Force (FSSF) from WWII and put them through the original training regimen using WWII techniques and equipment. The idea was to see if the modern soldier, dependant on technology and modern training techniques, could withstand the rigors of the training back then. In essence, are they as tough now as back in the day?

The FSSF was nicknamed "The Devil's Brigade" by the Germans because they used to paint their faces completely black, sneak into enemy camps at night and pull off silent raids of supplies and such, leaving a sticker wherever they went that read (in German) "Das Dicke Ende Kommt Noch!" "The worst is yet to come." It terrified the Germans when they discovered these stickers (because it meant the FSSF had snuck into and out of the camp undetected) and a German officer wrote in his diary "These black devils, they come at night". Another, more gristly, tactic was to silently slip into a barracks and kill every third soldier sleeping in the bunks. The psychological effect was enormous because if you kill every third man everyone who wakes up wakes up next to a dead man and realizes how close he came to death.

After training was completed we travelled to Italy and recreated one of the FSSF's most famous battles, the Assault of Mount Difensa. A 13-hour, near suicidal night climb under cover of darkness, in operational silence to attack a heavily guarded German machine gun nest at the summit.

In the game you see a broad slope up the mountain and a narrow, steep approach up the back side. This is exactly how it was. The Allies tried numerous times to take the mountain by the "Easy Route" only to be repulsed time and time again. The FSSF made the nearly suicidal decision to climb the supposedly unclimbable cliffs on the North Face and flanked the Germans.

Strangely enough (at least on the lower levels) the game plays out much the same as history. You have to keep pounding and reinforcing along a broad front on the main slope to keep the enemy occupied while gently building a force to make a big push up the back side.

Here's a couple of Youtube links to the show

The opening: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cny7ud-tY0&feature=related

The first Act http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9K_Jmr_9sA

I hope you enjoy watching them as much as I enjoyed making it!

3DA · Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 12:23 pm Post subject:

Super strange: I've tried to play three times now, and each time, after I hit fortify, the screen goes blank and I cannot get back to the game. I have to force quit to get the screen back. Any ideas?

Lux Llama · Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 11:44 pm Post subject:

me too

I am playing on a macbook. I had to unplug and take out the battery to reboot.

First time I didn't wait long enough after battery removal and the computer cam on with the same plank screen and music. I couldn't force quit or anything.

Second time I left power off for a few minutes and could reboot.

-kleef