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Brigade E5: New Jagged Union

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Brigade E5: New Jagged Union
Brigade E5: New Jagged Union cover
Developers
Apeiron[1]
Publishers
North America Strategy First[2]
1C Company[3]
Release dates
Windows July 29, 2005[1]
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Brigade E5: New Jagged Union on Wikipedia
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Brigade E5
Brigade E5: New Jagged Union 2005
7.62 High Calibre 2007
7.62: Reloaded 2008
7.62 Hard Life 2014

Key points

While a separate game with a different story line, 7,62 High Calibre is an improved version of Brigade E5 based on the same engine.
Since the game was mostly popular in Russia, most of the community, mods and information about the game is not available in English language.
Native modding support.
Various game bugs remain unsolved without an unofficial patch.

General information

Official website (retrieved)
The Brigade E5 Unofficial Home Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows
GamersGate
DRM-free after installation (requires an internet connection during installation)
Windows
Steam
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Windows
Steam version contains the latest patch 1.13.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Intro videos can be disabled in configuration utility by unchecking Video option in configuration utility. Alternatively you can do that by manually editing the configuration file.

Edit Config.e5c[citation needed]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Open Config.e5c with a text editor.
  3. Find the ShowVideo parameter.
  4. Int the same line change 1 value to 0.

Immortal Badass Mod

Contains unofficial patch, new weapons and changes various game aspects, making game a bit harder.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Config.e5c[Note 1]
<path-to-game>\AutoCamera.cfg[Note 1]
<path-to-game>\keys.cfg[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/296210/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Saves[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/296210/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

External General settings.
External General settings.
External Special settings.
External Special settings.

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Input settings

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Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German
Polish
Retail only.
Russian
Original language of the game.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP unknown
UDP unknown
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Issues fixed

Missing music and characters voiceovers

Enable the following compatibility settings for the E5.exe file: Compatibility mode (Windows XP (Service Pack 3))[4]
The Steam overlay will not work after applying this fix.
  • Locate the E5 executable file. It can be found in <path-to-game>\E5.exe.
  • Use Windows XP (Service Pack 3) compatibility mode. Example for Windows 10:
    • Right-click the E5.exe file icon and choose Properties from the context menu that appears.
    • Click on the Compatibility tab.
    • Select the Run this program in compatibility mode for: checkbox and select Windows XP (Service Pack 3) from the list below.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Console commands

List of console commands and explanations (in Polish) can be found in post [179] and [180] in this thread.
Console commands can be typed in the game by opening the console with ~.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/296210/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (296210) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References