The Black Pepper Crew — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
|---|---|---|
| New Playable Class: The Builder! | 2026-06-08 | The second official update is here! There are many new additions, updates, and bug fixes, but the most important changes are:1. The BuilderThe Builder is a character that uses Materials to perform special abilities. Currently, there are two special abilities: Punching Bot: Requires 3 materials and spawns a friendly robot with 3 HP. The robot can fly and has a Punch ability with knockback that deals 1 damage. This robot can be spawned as many times as desired and lasts for the entire combat encounter. Patch Up: Requires 2 materials and restores 1 armor to a damaged armor item during combat.But how do I get Materials?Builders have a passive abi |
| First Content Update! | 2026-01-18 | For the past two and a half years, I’ve been working on TBPC since its release in 2023, unable to make the first official update. Progress has been difficult because this is a one-man effort, and I have both a family and a day job, which significantly limits development time.However, I’m committed to finishing this game, and I’ll do my best to provide updates more frequently. There’s still a long road ahead, but I’m excited about the new content I’ll be adding to the game.Sorry for the long delay, and thank you for your patience. Please enjoy the new content! Changelog Bug fixes:The game crashed sometimes in the city generation. This was fixe |
| Hotfix 0.17.3.9 - August 1st, 2023 | 2023-08-01 | > Bug fixes: - Vera's combo chain abilities showed wrong damage on attack foresight when she was buffed. - Fixed game crash when entering the reward screen. |
| Hotfix Patch v0.17.3.8 - July 29th, 2023 | 2023-07-29 | > Bug fixes: - Dragging an item and dropping back in its original location crashed the game. - Swapping items allowed to equip gadgets that are not equipable to certain characters. - Fixed several typos. |
| Hotfix Patch v0.17.3.7 - July 27, 2023 | 2023-07-27 | > Bug fixes: - Consumable and armor items that were spent/utilized remained on the character's equipment. - Empty tooltips used to appear on mission selection. - Fixed several typos. - Completed missions were not appearing on the bounties list. Noew they will appear with a checkmark signaling a completed mission. > Updates: - Added a delete save file to the load screen. - Items can be swapped by dragging them on top of another, or when equipping by pressing the character's equip button. |
| The Hunt is on! The Black Pepper Crew is live on Early Access! | 2023-07-24 | The Black Pepper Crew is finally released on Early Access!!! Take dangerous jobs on this turn based tactics roguelite. Build your party from a cast of colorful characters and take down high profile crime bosses around the city! TBPC EA contains 3 high profile missions, 30 items and 6 different character classes. Important features like Steam Cloud, Controller Support and Achievements will be added on the upcoming updates. Follow development closely on TBPC Discord!! |
| The Black Pepper Crew Available on EA July 24th! | 2023-07-21 | The time has come to prepare your gadgets and start the hunt! The Black Pepper Crew will be released on Early Access July 24th! Check out the release trailer: On the basement of The Black Pepper Jazz Club, a group of bounty hunters meet to plan their next job. Capturing criminals in a city filled with crime and dubious law agencies has become a profitable business. Manage your crew and undertake missions to survive in this concrete jungle. - Build your crew from 6 different character classes: The Boxer, The Thief, The Shinobi, The Tech Wizard, The Gambler and The Ronin. - Combine your characters abilities creatively. Try different combination |
| Dev Stream #2 | 2023-06-19 | The Black Pepper Crew Dev stream. Feel free to ask any questions on chat! |
| Dev Stream #1 | 2023-06-19 | The Black Pepper Crew Dev stream. Feel free to ask any questions on chat! |
| Demo version 0.17.0.0 is packed! | 2023-03-01 | After watching several streamers play the game, lots of bugs and issues were found! This update aims to solve several of those issues. Besides bug fixes, the game has several quality of life improvements and features! What's New? A screen stretch mode setting was added to the settings menu. Two modes are supported: Fit screen will stretch the game viewport to fit the current window size (no black bars) and keep resolution will only stretch when the resolution is maintained ensuring a pixel perfect resolution and filling the empty space with black bars. New icons were added to the health bar and character card on the battle UI to identify the |
| Small Demo update! | 2023-01-02 | This is a quick update that adds important quality of life features to the game. One of the most requested features its an undo button. Although this game is built upon the idea of "living with your mistakes", an undo button that helps avoid undesired miss-clicks or other misunderstandings of the game state definitively improve the experience as it helps the player focus on what matters which is the actual strategy. What's New? Addition: A new UNDO feature has been added! The last move action can be undo-ed by pressing the undo button that appears on the top left of the screen. This button is available only for movement actions and will be go |
| Small Demo hotfix! | 2022-12-19 | This is a hot-fix for a game breaking bug that contains some extra UI updates. There was a bug that crashed the game very time an object (like tables or statues) were possible targets of certain abilities. It has been fixed and now includes some extra features like more textual descriptions and useful tooltips for the abilities and status effects. What's New? Addition: Goo Can item, which reduces an enemies movement range by 2 for 2 turns. Addition: This Changelog archive! Now every new version of the game will have a changelog report on this menu. Changes and Bug fixes Bug fix: Fixed music transitions and polished music on Leo's Mission. Bug |
| New Demo update! | 2022-12-09 | Changelog demo version 0.16.0.0 Quick abilities ranges are shown on character mouse over and abilities buttons mouse over. Removed annoying floating ability tooltip on combat screen in favor of the bottom right ability UI. Removed buggy enemy area range on board in favor of the new quick range UX that appears on mouse over. Added Crowd Control icon to Stomp Attack's ability card. Now enemy attack cards appear by default when selecting an enemy. Added rooms variations to Flavio's mission. Added more background elements and added static trees for certain levels. Added foreground car animations for street rooms. Added room variations to Leo's mi |