Beauty renders of weapons in were teased in a previous post. In addition to these inventory screen renders, Brigador Killers will continue the tradition of Brigador's lore entries. That means the return of at least one character from Brigador's intel section: Marvin Beck. MB has been gracious enough to give us his writeup on a few of the firearms from the recent Combat Build, while we have added a note on the inspiration behind each gun's design.
How to make an Obrez: Find a bolt-action rifle and keep chopping down the stock and barrel until you get worried.
How to make a Wildcat Obrez: unsafe your Obrez chamber and ammunition specs until you apologize to God.
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The design of the Wildcat Obrez is based on a sawn-off Karabiner 98k and is one of the first weapons you unlock in the Combat Build. Those of you who have already listened to the Brigador Killers audiobook may recall it as one of the first weapons Team Pilgrim gets their hands on from a dealer in Sady.
Harder to go hungry if you don’t care what you eat. Words I’ve lived by, and the famous Catfish embodies them. Don’t confuse ubiquitous with cheap, though. This is not a cheap or poorly made gun. Just a gun that finds its way into the hands of the needy.
A clever cylinder wall/extractor star design means the Catfish boasts 20-odd 9mm family calibers it’s capable of digesting. Realistically on Mar Nosso, you’ll see 9mm and .22lr. Maybe .357? Still, that’s handy when you’re scrounging.
If you’re bummed about having six (or fewer) shots of .22lr left in a revolver, remember: you can always use little fish to catch bigger ones.
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The design of the Catfish is based on a Smith & Wesson Medusa M47 six-shot revolver and in-game can fire either 9mm or .22lr rounds. Zoom in a little and you may notice a few of the stickers on the gun refer to "CHOB". Chobbers are one of the factions you will encounter in Brigador Killers.
How better to celebrate a timeless design than progressively bolting more and more garbage to it? Despite being about as old as the Mãe Dois and still as dependable, this particular iteration on the father of all .45 ACP pistols is a police duty weapon. Which means it has grown to resemble NOSPOL duty uniform more and more: somehow both cowardly and excessive, a parody of its own heritage, a mockery of what it stands for.
Cut the sight off and it’s still a great pistol, though.
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The Drobac is based off the Colt M1911 and fires .45 ACP. If you've ever played another video game with guns in it, chances are extremely high one of the pistols in it was an M1911. In-game it is the standard issue firearm for the Mar Nosso Police, aka NOSPOL.
They say nothing makes an intruder loosen their bowels faster than the sound of a shotgun pump racking. I don’t get it. That’s the whole reason I’m inside your house at 3am.
The discerningly retentive overwhelmingly prefer the Kriel Tet. Shotguns aren’t hard to make, but they’re hard to make really well, and Kriel’s fit and finish is top notch.
Sure, hand-feeding shells and racking after each shot is a little old world cowboy nonsense, but the secret is that guns aren’t as rational as people want you to think. Sometimes you get something old school for the sense of command it affords you. So go ahead and rack the Tet for a little atavistic thrill.
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The Remington Model 870 is the basis of this shotgun and in BK is often found in the hands of both NOSPOL cops and their SWAT division, so watch out.
A gun so cheap and moronic there’s an exclamation mark in its name. Based on and needlessly modified from an existing disappointment, the Heino9! cannot wait to suggest new and unpredictable places for your 9mm rounds to impact. The very high cyclic rate also throws the hot brass straight down that foregrip ahead of the trigger guard too, so, fair warning.
I’d suggest throwing it away, but it is attached to a decent flashlight. If you’re close enough that the beam is completely within your target’s silhouette, be careful: you might actually kill someone.
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Ignore the flashlight and you may spot a resemblance to the MAC-11 machine pistol, while the gun itself is a nod towards the famous chase scene in Ghost In The Shell.
Deep in the bones and the blood in the soil of Solo Nobre is a history of trying to stay out of things, how to stay left alone. Back on Earth, a devil’s deal for crates and crates of weapons was easy enough for many small countries to make with the reigning superpower states. The bill came later, as it always does.
The expensive option was to do it yourself. In the history of arms and armed conflict there are the super star famous rifles, but then there are the quiet ones, the ones built or purchased at a premium and sometimes at suboptimal performance over the devil’s free guns, in a bid to stay out of it, in a bid to stay left alone.
Solo Nobre didn’t stay left alone, and maybe she never will. The rifle known simply as “The 18” to most loyal sons and daughters was one of the tools that bought independence with blood, and will buy it once again.
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This rifle is based on the ArmaLite AR-18, not to be confused with its Colt AR-15 cousin (AKA the M16). It is unlocked in the player's hideout in the Combat Build after the player exfiltrates with the required weapon box.
Experts agree that main battle rifle calibers are what you want in a serious fight. With the advent of not only sophisticated body armor, tac rigs, power suits and beyond, bullet weight and armor penetration are more important than ever.
While full power rifle cartridges come with serious carry weight and recoil issues, both are considerably dampened with the strength augmentation that come with the very tac rigs you’re going to be fighting. So get suited up and grab an Aleph, they’re great rifles. Experts* agree.
* Citation: many brilliant, pithy summaries ending with “-MB.”
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The Aleph is found on the ground in one of the levels in the Combat Build as a small tease, since no ammo for it is currently available to the player. Its appearance is based on the real world FN FAL.
Simplicity itself. A weapon that resembles a cartoon shotgun—because that’s what it is. Point and shoot: the Thumper is a single tube that launches a 40mm grenade. Intuitive enough that it’s an easy weapon to be accurate with aimed offhand. The trick is keeping your shit together as you cycle: fire, break-open, extract, reload, close, fire: for as long as you’ve still got trouble.
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The Thumper is our spin on the M79 grenade launcher. If the grenade doesn't take out a pack of enemies, switch to an offhand weapon to deal with any stragglers.
The first step is love, the second is mercy.
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The Mercy is an over-and-under double-barreled shotgun that shoots 4ga shells. This weapon will occupy a main slot when playing as regular infantry, but when wearing the Carmine suit, the Mercy can be equipped as a sidearm in the third slot.
An ingenious (desperate) FSG operator on Brezno invented the Cut Fifty configuration. If you chop most of the barrel and make some judicious cuts, a Mãe Dois can serve within the power/weight ratio and recoil control of most suits. What you lose in accuracy you get back in sheer firepower - punching far above your weight in a suit.
Weight is still the limiting factor, though, which means the Cut Fifty has a problem I know a little too well: just when you’re really getting into it, you’re already spent.
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The Cut Fifty will be making it into the build soon. Like the description says - it's a Browning M2 with the barrel cut short, but the weight of it means you will need to be wearing the Carmine suit to handle it effectively.
Players will be able to read these text descriptions and more when the game's UI gets updated.
P.S. We recently launched our 2025 lineup of miniatures - there's lore on each store page too.