Brunweiser

Pick a character, grab a blade, and take your friends apart. Literally. Vibe-coded multiplayer melee brawler, mainly a hobby project to see what I can achieve with AI. Fully playable base game, still in progress.

New in 0.3.0

• Official server :  Currently hosting one official server if you are not able to host your own game you can join ours with your friends.
• Loot chests fall from the sky during a match. Open one for a boon, or a curse, and some of them bite.
• Improved weapons from the reliquary: a Flaming sword, a Vorpal axe, a Thunder hammer or a magic crossbow.
• New weapon, the crossbow.

Gameplay

• Mostly melee combat. A sword is fast, an axe is balanced, and a two-handed hammer is slow but kills in two blows. Time your follow-ups, because pressing too early makes you fumble.
• The crossbow: hold RMB to aim, 5 bolts, a reload after each shot. Where a bolt hits matters, and it can take off a limb.
• Stamina system: swings, dodges and throws all cost stamina, so you can’t spam attacks.
• Shields, parries and dodge rolls. A shield soaks damage until it shatters; a well-timed parry leaves the attacker open.
• Dismemberment. Lose an arm and you drop what it held. You can pick up a severed limb and swing it.
• Throw weapons, toss a net, ground-slam, and drink beer to recover.
• Berserk. Fill the Bloodlust bar and grow huge and savage.

Loot chests

• Chests fall from the sky with a whistle and land around the map. Press E by one to open it.
• Four kinds, from common to rare: the brewer’s barrel, the salt chest, the armoury chest and the reliquary.
• 20 boons, like Frog legs, Moon boots, Vampire, Iron skin or Ghost.
• 17 curses, like Reversed controls, Drunk, Big head or Bees. Plague drains you until you pass it on, and Hot potato puts a lit keg on your back.
• Some chests are mimics. A mimic holds whoever opened it and eats them, unless someone hits it in time.
• The admin can turn chests off in the lobby. They never fall in Arena.

Modes and maps

• Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Arena duels and Capture the Flag
• Market Square, Maiden Stone and The Quarry

Features

• Up to 8 players online or over LAN
• A server list on the Join screen, with an official server
• Bots in three difficulties, so you can also play alone. They open chests too.
• Proximity voice and text chat
• End-of-match awards: Headsman, Butcher, Town Drunk and more
• Kick, ban and vote-kick
• F1 hides the HUD for clean screenshots and videos
• Windows and Linux
• Early build, expect bugs. It’s a hobby project made with AI. If you have comments, ideas or find a bug, write them in the comments below.

Running a server

You can also run a dedicated server that stays up without anyone playing on it. You need a public IP for that if hosting on your home network, otherwise any Linux or Windows VPS will work.

• Windows: run data/start-server.bat. Allow Brunweiser through the firewall when Windows asks.
• Linux: run data/start-server.sh. Full instructions, including running it as a service, are in data/README-server.txt.
• It listens on UDP port 7777. To use another port, add it after the script (start-server.bat 7790); players then join address:7790.
• Forward the port on the router, plus the port two above it (7779), which the server list uses to show the server’s status.
• Settings (server name, password, max players, starting mode and map) are in data/server.cfg. Remove the ; in front of a line to use it, then restart the server.
• Who runs the lobby: the first player to join, unless you set admin_password in server.cfg. Then type /admin and the password in the chat to run it.
• Players must run the same version as the server.

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