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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]
2005-2018 1C Company[3]
2018-2022 1C Entertainment
2022-present Fulqrum Publishing
Release dates
Windows July 29, 2005[1]
Reception
Metacritic 41
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time, Turn-based
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Multiple select, Point and select
Genres Tactical RPG
Themes Contemporary
Series Brigade E5
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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

Brigade E5: New Jagged Union is a singleplayer bird's-eye view Tactical RPG game in the Brigade E5 series.

Various game bugs remain unsolved without an unofficial patch.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM-free
English release.
Windows
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
StarForce 3 DRM[Note 1] in Russian release.
StarForce 4 DRM[Note 2] in German release.
Windows
Publisher website
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Windows
Amazon.com
DRM details are not known
Windows
GamersGate
DRM-free after installation (requires an internet connection during installation)
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Steam
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Windows
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
Windows
Green Man Gaming (unavailable)
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Windows
StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Uncheck the "Video" option in the configuration utility
Edit configuration file[citation needed]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Open Config.e5c with a text editor.
  3. Find the ShowVideo parameter and set it 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 3]
<path-to-game>\AutoCamera.cfg[Note 3]
<path-to-game>\keys.cfg[Note 3]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/296210/pfx/[Note 4]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Saves[Note 3]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/296210/pfx/[Note 4]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

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

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Only 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x960 and 1600x1200 resolutions are selectable from the in-game,[8] the rest have to chosen from configuration utility.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Only 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x960 and 1600x1200 resolutions are selectable from the in-game,[8] the rest have to chosen from configuration utility.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Game always runs in borderless window.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Game always runs in borderless window.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Key combinations and system buttons are excluded (Print Screen, Scroll Lock, Pause Break, Num Lock and Win, as well as additional and non-standard buttons of various keyboards). Also it is impossible to re-assign mouse buttons or the mouse wheel.[8]
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Sound effects, music, ambient[8]
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German
Retail, Steam and ZOOM Platform only; download for GOG.com version.
Polish
Retail only.
Russian
Original language of the game.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play

Connection types

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

Run E5.exe in compatibility mode for Windows XP SP3.[9]
The Steam overlay will not work after applying this fix.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8
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) 98, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) 1 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) 32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.0 compatible


Notes

  1. This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows Vista or later.[4][5][6][7] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.
  2. This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows 8.1, Windows 10, or Windows 11.[6][7] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 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).
  4. 4.0 4.1 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