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Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood

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Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood
Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood cover
Developers
Gearbox Software
Publishers
Windows Ubisoft
OS X Feral Interactive
Engines
Unreal Engine 2
Release dates
Windows October 6, 2005
macOS (OS X) 2011
Reception
Metacritic 84
IGDB 73
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, Subscription gaming service
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, FPS, Shooter
Art styles Realistic
Themes World War II
Series Brothers in Arms
Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood on HowLongToBeat
Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood on IGDB
Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood on MobyGames
Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood on Wikipedia
Brothers in Arms
Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 2005
Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood 2005
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway 2008

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
CD key
StarForce 3.6.10.03 DRM[Note 1] disc check
Windows
Retail
DRM details are not known
Double Time. Bundled with Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30.
macOS (OS X)
Amazon.com
DRM details are not known
Double Time. Bundled with Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30.
macOS (OS X)
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Steam
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Not available in Germany.
Windows
Ubisoft Store
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Included with Ubisoft+.
Windows
Mac App Store (unavailable)
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macOS (OS X)
StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).
The Brothers in Arms Collection (released in Europe) is DRM-free and all 3 games have the latest patches integrated.[3]
A free demo version is available from GameFront.

Monetization

Type Notes
One-time game purchase The game requires an upfront purchase to access.
Subscription gaming service Available via Ubisoft+.

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Skirmish maps Added in the latest patch, not included in digital releases.
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

Latest version is 1.03.

Skip intro videos

Instructions[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Media.
  2. Delete or rename LEGAL_EN.lte and Logos.bik.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %APPDATA%\Gearbox Software\Earned In Blood\<user-id>\
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/19800/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %APPDATA%\Gearbox Software\Earned In Blood\<user-id>\
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/19800/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

Video

Field of view (FOV)

Edit User.ini[5]
  1. Go to %APPDATA%\Gearbox Software\Earned In Blood\<user-id>.
  2. Open user.ini.
  3. Define FoV in following lines:
DesiredFOV=63.000000
DefaultFOV=63.000000

Notes

Game could start to randomly reset those values. If so, edit those values in <path-to-game>\system\DefUser.ini too.

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Up to 7.0 output with DirectSound3D restoration software or OpenAL.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
EAX 3.0, EAX 4.0.
Royalty free audio
DefOpenAL32.dll works as DirectSound3D driver which can be used with DSOAL to restore EAX.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Czech
Retail only.
French
German
Hungarian
Fan translation.
Italian
Spanish
Polish
Retail release only. For digital releases use this

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
LAN play
Online play
Versus, Co-op
Includes co-op missions.

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP 40000-43000
UDP 44000, 45000, 45001
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Issues fixed

Missing 1.03 Skirmish Maps

On at least the Steam version, the 1.03 Skirmish maps are missing despite being patched to 1.03.
Manually download and install the map files into the game's folder. https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/2550-brothers-in-arms-earned-in-blood-skirmish-maps/

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio OpenAL


Modifications

  • Rendroc's WarZone - a list of improvements ranging from a command mode similar to Hell's Highway and more effective AI to massive single player bot matches.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2000
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 1.0 GHz
AMD Athlon 1.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3.5 GB
Video card (GPU) 32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX 8.0 compatible
Other 16X CD-ROM
macOS (OS X)
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10.5.8
Processor (CPU) Intel 1.4 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3.5 GB
Video card (GPU) 128 MB of VRAM
Supported Video Cards: ATI Radeon 8500/9000/X, Nvidia GeForce 4/FX/6
Nvidia GeForce 4 MX not supported


Notes

  1. This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows 8.1, Windows 10, or Windows 11.[1][2] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.
  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>/19800/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (19800) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References