History VideoGame / Brigador

* ExtremelyShortTimespan: It is heavily implied by the fact that most missions take place at either night or dusk, that all events depicted within the game are all taking place in a single night. The fandom has taken to calling the events of the game the "Noite Longa"/Long Night, more on account of the ensuing tension and chaos rather than the actual timespan.

* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The events of the whole game, campaign and freelance, takes place over a single night as the Solo Nobre Concern seek to exploit the chaos surrounding Great Leader's demise. The fandom has taken to calling the events of the game the "Noite Longa"/Long Night, likely more on account of all the tension and chaos than the actual timespan.

* ExtremelyShortTimespan: It is heavily implied by the fact that most missions take place at either night or dusk, that all events depicted within the game are all taking place in a single night.

* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The events of the whole game, campaign and freelance, takes place over a single night as the Solo Nobre Concern seek to exploit the chaos surrounding Great Leader's demise.

* ColonyDrop: Specifically, a Colony ''Ship'' Drop. They held the first settlers to come to Novo Solo (who were fleeing there to escape corporate rule), and underwent a controlled crash-landing in the area that would become the Necropolis district.

* CrewOfOne: Both played straight and averted. Many larger vehicles have additional weapons that fire automatically to represent gunners riding with you, but lighter tanks such as the Betka can be operated single handed. This is explicitly due to the use of a BrainComputerInterface and its noted that not all tanks are equipped with them the way the ones the PlayerCharacter uses are.

* DamageReduction: It's not given much mention, but using the crouch mode on most walkers massively reduces any incoming damage you take. Whilst it does render you immobile (and thus far easier to hit in the first place) it also presents a smaller, tougher target. Mostly useful for the mechs that turn and move slowly but have full torso/turret rotation.

* TokenGoodTeammate: Lovell Archer is this for the Spacer mercs. Mind you, that doesnt mean he's above stabbing people in the back, [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder he's a blue blood spacer, after all]], but as Chatfield mentions in the intel, he's very much a NiceGuy when the situation allows for it. Chatfield's positive regard of him is based on the fact that Archer marches to his own tune and does not concern himself with how he appears to his fellow spacers--and if support missions are on his agenda, he gets them done, much as how Chatfield goes about his own intelligence gathering despite his fellow spacers seeing it as undignified at best.

* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The use of Portuguese for names of people, locations, vehicles and weapons, as well the whole "BananaRepublic" aesthetics makes Solo Nobre one for 70s and 80s Brazil (during the era of the military dictatorship).

* WickedCultured: Spacers as a whole tend to think of themselves as this - known space tends to agree, as they are quite fond of the arts, fine wine, and all the things that come with high-class snobbery, just dressed up in murder.
** Griswold Fick, who loved culture and the arts, and joined the military in hopes of becoming one of its upper-class crust of officers and government officials close to Great Leader, who got to enjoy said culture and the arts in a way the rabble of Solo Nobre could only dream of, a la Mao's cadre dabbling in culture after destroying China's and North Korea's elite. His talent for artistry extended into the battlefield, and the SNC lured him to their cause when it'd take up a significant amount of his life trying to join the upper crust.
** Antero Giian, a legendary warrior-poet who constantly has to keep taking up mercenary contracts due to extravagant spending.
** Cephei Chatfield, the InformationBroker-slash-Brigador, considers himself this - and most of it comes in FantasticRacism posturing of how much more cultured and sentient the Spacers are, compared to the planetbound "groundsdwellers" and "soil vermin".

* TokenGoodTeammate: Lovell Archer is this for the Spacer mercs. Mind you, that doesnt mean he's above stabbing people in the back, [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder he's a blue blood spacer, after all]], but as Chatfield mentions in the intel, he's very much a NiceGuy when the situation allows for it. Chatfield's positive regard of him is based on the fact that Archer marches to his own tune and does not concern himself with how he appears to his fellow spacers--and if support missions are on his agenda, he gets them done.

* TokenGoodTeammate: Lovell Archer is this for the Spacer mercs. Mind you, that doesnt mean he's above stabbing people in the back, [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder he's a blue blood spacer, after all]], but as Chatfield mentions in the intel, he's very much a NiceGuy when the situation allows for it.

* LargeAndInCharge: NEP ground combat doctrine usually centers around larger mechs acting as command units for smaller vehicle or powersuit teams, for the simple reason that their communications aerials are higher up and can relay orders more reliably under battlefield conditions. This can be seen in the book, which mostly revolves around a team of Mongoose powersuits (and their sergeant in a SuperPrototype Earth-made suit from the original colony ship's security force) lead by a lieutenant piloting a Touro.

** Alternatively, one can also see similarities with post colonial Mozambique and Angola, which all, much like Solo Nobre, won a hard fought independence war, followed by corrupt dictatorships which, as bad as they were, [[CrapsackOnlyByComparison were much preferrable to living in an exploitative hellhole ruled by amoral outlanders]].

** It's not the only hellhole - the Outer Colonies are generally implied to be very third-world, Spacer raids and colonizations on worlds result in the mass torture and destruction of the populace for amusement, and Volta, one of many "efficiency societies" (where efficiency meant using cheap crap like paper plates and pre-made rations and abandoning the workers when they rebelled), slid so far back, its society has become tribal combat over "nutrient pipelines".

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Anyone hit with the Ploughman, Chuffer, Black Hand, Temblor, or AK Pulse experiences this. The Ploughman and Chuffer combine the worst parts of DeadlyGas and HollywoodAcid, the Black Hand gives the target an extreme dose of radiation that's enough to ''liquefy organs'' at close range, the Temblor will reduce your teeth and bones to dust, and the AK Pulse is a sonic boom that crushes anyone in its radius, and anyone outside of its radius (in lore) will suffer from burst eardrums and crushed organs.
** The ''inventor'' of the infamous "Tubarão" element of the chemical warfare cocktail suffers one, in particular; he and his assistants were rounded up by an armed mob and forced to inhale the very substance they'd created. The results were predictably grisly, according to Efi's report on the Chuffer.

* DaylightHorror: The special campaign's end level is set in broad daylight. Naturally, you're free to continue your war crimes there. And with the updated rerelease, ''any'' level can take place in broad daylight depending on the Operation settings. It can be an interesting experience replaying familiar zones with unfamiliar lighting conditions.

* TheDreaded: A gameplay mechanic with Freelance mode pilots. The more expensive pilots you unlock tend to be more well-known - and have higher difficulty modifiers due to their notoriety, affecting the amount of enemies encountered in each district. In exchange, these pilots also have high payout bonuses and multipliers, as the SNC is willing to shell out far more money for their services than low-ranking nobodies and unproven pilots that don't attract nearly as much attention, but work for pennies in comparison.

** Enabling the "Easter Eggs" option allows you to "pilot" a Loyalist infantry and various kamikaze units. The Loyalist infantry is even more fragile than aforementioned Varlet, and kamikaze unit blow themselves up and die when enemies are near.

* CrewOfOne: Both played straight and averted. Many larger vehicles have additional weapons that fire automatically to represent gunners riding with you, but lighter tanks such as the Betka can be operated single handed. This is explicitly due to the use of a BrainComputerInterface and its noted that not tanks are equipped with them the way the ones the PlayerCharacter uses are.

* HideYourChildren: You can kill many civilians in the city if you want to, but there are no child civilians.

* {{BFG}}: Heavy-class weapons. Also, the Orbital Guns.

* CommandAndConquerEconomy: Not in the game itself, as the ones that appear in-game are [[ThoseWereOnlyTheirScouts only scout units operating with minimal support behind enemy lines]] or [[BloodKnight are also independent mercs hoping to get a slice of profit]], but this is apparently how Spacer armies work when deployed in force, bringing their own base-building and resource-extraction equipment to a planet's surface in order to repair and replenish their forces quickly onsite rather than relying on costly transportation to and from their ships in orbit.

* ConvenientlyEmptyBuilding: Averted. When you destroy small buildings like shanty houses or tents, you can see flying red bits aside debris.

** Mother's Love takes the crown with 1000hp, 1000 shield and up to 500 overshield, SIX GUNS(two player-controlled and four automatic), weight that allows her to crush absolutely anything without noticing it and crippled slug-like crawl that makes Killdozer and Lowmill look like rocket-propelled beings of pure speed.

->''"Some mech games could be about the horror and futility of war and how it [[WarIsHell harms innocent civilians]]—the true costs of human life.''

->''In Brigador, if you step on a civilian, [[RewardingVandalism you get 50 bucks]]."''

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