Brighter Shores lead developer Andrew Gower answered player questions inside the MMORPG itself, using the game's global chat channel rather than the Reddit, Twitch or Discord venues studios normally hold a Q&A on, MassivelyOP reports. The subject of the impromptu session was the sandbox's combat, and what the studio intends to do with it next.
According to a player summary of the chat posted to Reddit, combat is the main development focus going forward, and five combat updates are currently planned. The first of the five is expected to arrive later this month. MassivelyOP frames combat as the sandbox’s main development track from here rather than one workstream among several.
What the five updates are said to cover
The summary lists multi-combat as one of the features being worked on, allowing a team or a solo player to take on several enemies at once, alongside the addition of area-of-effect attacks and other special attacks. It also raises the possibility of wave survival-style encounters, in which resource management would be the deciding factor rather than raw damage.
Other items discussed were less about the fight itself. The account mentions the potential to eat food or other consumables to restore health, rather than relying on the automatic regeneration the game uses today, and loot chests carrying rare cosmetics outside the holiday events that currently gate them. A repeatable boss is described as arriving soon.
Where the details came from
The summary does not map the individual features onto the five planned updates, so which of them ships first is not established, and no schedule has been published for the four that follow.
None of this arrived through a formal patch note or a scheduled developer stream. The account of the session comes from a summary post on Reddit and a video from the community YouTube channel Brighter Shores Central, both of which MassivelyOP cites, so the specifics are second-hand and were given conversationally rather than as a committed roadmap.
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