Mah guide for you Brigands

My guide for Brigand Oaxaca. Which will include many aspects of Brigand along with its dlcs.
The guide was born from voodoo then juice then other random stuff, that i felt you guys might need to get a good start.

Intro:

This guide is thought of to help out both new and old players of Brigand Oaxaca. Giving some general tips i have picks up from my time playing and some more detailed tips, It all started as a guide for Voodoo words and locations but the scope grew and all that jazz

I will update as i go along and fix spelling, formatting and such now and then. This guide is a broken and janky as the game but with just as much love.

Starting Tips:

Few quick tips that contain pretty much no spoilers.
One good way to get ahead early is to invest 10 points into charisma at character creation and pick detect motive and negotiator both will pay them selves back both in points used but also in jink.

Another one is to get at least 5 in software before chapter 2 as you can earn 3 skill points per chapter from hacking so chapter 1 and 2 pays it back since you can rely on companions in the solo chapters. What you do is just hack the medical panels over and over again to get the points then move on with 5 point spend and 3 point per chapter for 10 chapters it is easy to have it pay it self.

Also remember to read the books laying around as 16 of them give a skill point for doing so.
If you can spare the 100jink for the combat armor it is a solid investment before chapter 2 as it will serve you for a good while. Getting your agility to 25 will let you outrun the more annoying enemies early game.

Voodoo:

Here i will list the location of voodoo tombs and the words for them for free and easy (also bring a shovel each time you dig you get a free skill point) The voodoo trainers are: LC can teach you up to 10 Chapter 1, Zac up to 20 chapter 1, Tio up to 40 Chapter 3 and Maria up to 50 chapter 6. Do note you have to kill Zac to get into chapter 2 and the scawuen tribe is hostile at the start so you cant use him after the plantation attack unless you make them non hostile with one of two quests. If you want voodoo tombs free then the fastest way is to go through the Toxic tunnels in chapter 2

Playing Nightmare is great if you like Voodoo as there are some extra Voodoo spells that you can find.

As of one of the updates the words in Nightmare (N) are different from Regular (R) but i will try to list them here. Panama tomes locations and answers will be under the panama sections.

Word of pain = Patience (R) Sufferance (N) (zac's quest or the grave by the fort)

Fearmore = Eminence (R) Excretion (N) (grave by the fort)

Acidic Corrosion = Sacrifice (R) Acrimony (N) (inside the torpo tracks under loose dirt)

Chilling orb = shivery (R) Refrigeration (N) (in the hills south of the plantation under loose dirt)

Parasitic Touch = intestines (R) Membrane (N) (By a body on the cliff to the left of Roland when you enter the freeway from Junkfort)

Bloodvision = Illumination (R) Microwaves (N) (By a corps right inside in the toxic tunnels which zac has the keys to)

Control weather = undiscerning (R) Cumulus (N) (under some loose dirt in the broken tooth pass right by the torpo tracks entrance)

Bone Blast = Marrow (R) Ligament (N) (under some dirt right by where Mungo first talks to a crowd of thugs)

Ghostfire = suffering (R) Martyrdom (N) (Under dirt in the broken tooth pass, though you must the second way into it from the warehouse district)

Choking cloud = atmosphere (R) Pestilential (N) (under some loose dirt in mad dogs gorge but must go through the scumlands to get there)

Incineration = Indigestion (R) Enkindle (N) (Bought from Tio or Maria In regular and free in Nightmare from shrouded cove)

Unliving Weapon = extinction (R) Discharge (N) (only found it in Maria's shop)

Eyes of the Beast = indifference (R) Ferity (N)

Eleggua's Curse= malediction (R) Fulmination (N) (Under some loose dirt inside ancient ruins in chapter 7)

Call lightning = conductivity (R) Ionization (N) (In a hut on the lonely cove, take either the rowboat from loma laga or the southern road exit)

Soul shackle = stockade (R) Phantasm (N)

Abyssal Gate= Nefarious (N) (shaded cove inside the temple. Note only in nightmare mode)

Ally of chaos = Moldering (N) (shaded cove inside the temple. Note only in nightmare mode)

Books that give skill points:

All the books that give you a skill point for reading them.

Mungo's Orders
Zac's Journal
Zoology of Demons
Mutagens and You
Advanced Mutagens
Marvin's Experiments
Excavation Report
History of Texas
History of Pochutla
History of Loma Larga
History of Eleggua
History of ITIC
Jaime's Journal
Dead Man's Note
The Polyphonic
Pantheon of Loa

In Nightmare some enemy mambas carry some other books which gives bonus to Voodoo at midnight or resistance to insanity after they have been read.

Juice their effects and cooking them + Plants:

With cook meat and 20 survival you can cook these potions (they can also be bought many places and found as loot from Juicers the effects are temporary) Most demon meat can be cooked into food you eat or either poisons or juices. Yes that means you can make cooked meat from poison sacs for those who need more healing and don't use poison.

Red Juice = +20 to Agility and Strength
Blue Juice = +20 to Stealth and Survival
Yellow Juice = +20 to Pistol and Rifle
Black Juice = 30% to most Resistances
Purple juice = +30 Voodoo and full Meta

Do note with 50 survival (either base or buffed with items) and a queen demon brain you can make some permanent buff potions related to the base juice used. For instance Black juice + brain gives a Glowing Black potion which gives a permanent +4 bonus to vitality

Glowing Red +2 Agility and Strength (Permanenet)
Glowing Blue +2 Stealth and Survival (Permanenet)
Glowing Yellow +2 Pistols and Rifles (Permanenet)
Glowing Purple +2 Willpower and Voodoo (Permanenet)
Glowing Black +4 Vitality (Permanenet)

As for plants there are a few types that give positive bonuses (Double if smoked with a pipe)

These plants are common all over the place (Found most campaigns):

Coca leaf =
Mudleaf =
Bogleaf =

These plants are found in Panama or Nightmare:

Gut petal = +30 to bullet resistance
Dusk flower = +25 stealth and gain invisibility
Mind bloom = +10 to chemestry, medicin, hardware, software and voodoo

Quests help:

*For stealing the recipe for Zac you can jump onto either the bottom plank (that blocks the way to the brewery) or onto the toilet pipe by fluffy and onto the wall or houses then jump into Ricardo's home without having to steal the key from jimmy or break the door down.

*For the ghoul refugee quests you can tell them to wait or guard then just walk your main character past all the enemies to the torpo tracks the ghoul will warp after every loading screen to you.

*For the intel quests you can have Carmen hack them for you (she will go into the tunnels after chapter 2 is over)

Passwords:

Another user made a list of all the passwords so i will send you there for now (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2835107560)
Most passwords you find either close by or you will need software. Early on Carmen can do most things but software is a great skill for the lategame areas where you find yourself alone

Extra stuff:

*If you don't trigger chapter 3 then you can go out of where you are doing chapter 2 and do the other way as well giving more xp and loot. (mind you can only leave the caves if you have not broken the plank yet)

*If you are going for melee then getting intimidate before chapter 2 will let that skill pay it self back.

*Marvin can be taken out of the caves if you jump the plank he can then fix the humwee if you have no one else to fix it, do note this must be done before going to the torpo tracks.

*If you are drunk around Fluffy the white dog then there is a chance it will talk to you and give you a skill point.

*With 15 str you can swing the sledgehammers to break rocks so you don't waste grenades on them after the first level up LC can do it for you.Only the strongest of doors are beyond you (plot armor doors)

*With ladies man you can sell coke to Angela in the main city for 25 jink a pop

*The Glowing Pods are White, Blue, Green, Red both in the caves and the pass

*Small keys are universal to one another so the small key in the toxic tunnels works on the warehouse doors in Pochutla and vice versa.

*If you are playing on nightmare but dont like some of the new textures you can delete them at any time from the folders and the game will use the default textures (that is what i do) I suppose you can do the reverse and put the new textures into you standard brigand folder to get the new ones
On steam the path looks something like this:
\steamapps\common\Brigand\Assets\BRIGAND - NIGHTMARE\Images\Textures

Some bug help:

Sometimes Tio bugs out if you do both paths for chapter 2 if his path finding breaks try to initiate dialog with him before he can do it to you. It mostly happens if you triggered chapter 3 from Leon but also fight Tio in the pass before talking to him in the warehouse.

This has been patched, by the ever watching LC.
In honest if you run into a bug Brian (LC) is quick to fix or offer guidance to you and by now thats part of the Brigand experience.

Panama Trivia night Q&A

Trivia night Q&A

"Which Republic was the late Uncle Bob of UBNS from?" =texas

"What is the name of the current Big Chief of Eleggua Tribe?"=ozee

"Which walled city in Oaxaca was conquered by Eleggua Tribe with help from Baroque agents?" =pochutla

"What kind of demon has a strong exoskeleton and rolls in a ball for locomotion?"=isopod
"What is the common jargon for nitric acid?"=aquafortis

"What is the common jargon for ammonium nitrate?"=boomprill

"What automobile component makes for the best gun silencer?"=muffler

"What is the measurement of the ammo for a Crow pistol?"=10mm

"Who invented the most popular brand of laser weaponry?"=junebug

"What was the only pre-Collapse nation to stage a successful slave revolution? It's an island."=haiti

"Which tribe of ghouls was forced to flee underground in Oaxaca before the war?"=scawuen

"In what year was the Panama Canal first opened?"=1914

"What is the adjective for a chemical with a low PH level?"=acidic

"Which kind of juice can be extrated from the neuro sac of a neuro demon?"=purple

"What is the name of the local flower that gives you mind-enhancing benefits when eaten or smoked?"=mindbloom

"What is the name of the node that you must find to successfully hack into a terminal?"=backdoor

"What kind of wood is about 6 times stronger than steel for use in reinforcement?"=bamboo

"What is the name of the most powerful handheld plasma weapon?"=tsunami

"According to the Voodoo religion, who is the loa of metallurgy, war, and politics? He is said to live under a volcano somewhere in the Pirate Kingdoms."=ogun

"In which year was the Great Collapse?"=2300

"What was the family name of the leader of the Spanish conquistadors who conquered Mexico around a thousand years ago?"=cortez

"What is the most common protein in the human body?"=collagen

"Besides boomprill, what other chemical do you need to produce hexogen?"=formaldehyde

"What was the secret ingredient of UBNS-owned Angry Banana Brew?"=coca leaf

"What is the other main component of a Tesla coil besides the wire coil (or inductor)?"=capacitor

"What is the name of the most powerful handheld plasma weapon?=tsunami

"What material is the Polyphonic airship composed of?"=carbon

Panama Loa Alters And Voodoo tomes location and answers

word of pain=persist On one of the bigger starting islands behind a jump puzzle

acidic corrosion=condemned

fearomone=territory

chilling orb=glacial

parasitic touch=cesspool (Right inside one of the entrences to the temple in the jungle where cherub is)

control weather=humidity (Inside a barrel in the temple in act 4)

blood vision=perception (Right inside another of the entrences to the temple in the jungle where cherub is)

soul shackle=reanimated (Under some dirt in the main alter room in the temple in act 4)

incineration=amusement Deep canal Right side under some dirt

choking cloud=apparatus

unliving weapon=hollowness

call lightning=magneticism

eleggua's curse=anathema (Under some dirt in the main alter room in the temple in act 4)

abyssal gate=cavernous

ally of chaos=behavior

eyes of the beast=occupancy

ghost fire=aftermath Deep canal Left side under some dirt

bone blast=indolence Canal under right side som dirt



Great Loa Altars their riddle and rewards

Altar of Eleggua
The grass through the flesh will pass: A spear (+5 Vitality +10 Willpower +1 skillpoint)

Altar of Kalfu
When half stained, there is no flame: Rum punch (+5 Pistols +5 Rifls +20 Kalfu Rep)

Altar of Ogun
I want to hide, but my head is outside: Nail (+10 Hardware)

Altar of Agwe
Born in a shell and easy to sell: Pearl (+10 Survival)

Altar of Maman
I turn fear into cheer: Adrenal Gland (+10 Voodoo +20 Boox Rep)

List of Extra skill points from the Variable lists

VARIABLES LIST
Brigand: Oaxaca

72 = Extra Detect Motive Point (From Ozee)
85 = Extra Point for Reporting Mungo's Death
131 = Extra Detect Motive Point (From Zac)
132 = Extra Detect Motive Point (From Slender)
136 = Extra Detect Motive Point (From Fingers)
213 = Extra Detect Motive Point (From Gao)
219 = Extra Detect Motive Point (From Ozee)
233 = Extra Detect Motive Point (From Marvin)

255 = Extra Point From Fluffy Trip (You can get max 3 from this)
256 = Extra Points From Catching Fish (5 max)

178 = Extra Intimidation Point (Jimmy)
179 = Extra Intimidation Point (Fingers)
180 = Extra Intimidation Point (Bones)
181 = Extra Intimidation Point (Thug Dealer)

184 = Extra Seduction Point (From Angela)
185 = Extra Seduction Point (From Lilly)
186 = Extra Seduction Point (From Carmen)

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You also get up to 5 points for selling batches of food to Slender. 1 point per digging. 1 point per toilet cleaned, 1 point per pearl sold and 1 point each time you sell cans to Marvin.You get 3 points for hiring the Subz for Uncle Bob but, it costs about 40 jink a point. There's also a note in the sewers that you can use to get some points from Angela

[zf13448]

Nice guide! Really helpful!