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I’m just wondering if they’ll go ahead and make all professions available in every episode eventually. For me, the episodes restricting professions is the biggest hang up with this game. I’d rather have fewer professions if it meant I could use my skills at any point in the game. This is just me, I really appreciate their willingness to bring something fresh with brighter shores but there are a few things I would change. The combat change is much appreciated, especially with the upgrade tree which will make higher level combat characters feel different from one another.

That guy that grinded guard to 500 in the first 3 weeks is going to see his combat level be 50 😂, because he only went up to scout before dedicating the time, although I'm sure he's done everything by now

great stuff tel <3

I enjoyed my 2 week binge of Brighter Shores and will likely come back to try updates as they come out. It feels good to invest time into a game where the devs are doing such good work, down the line maybe I could see myself being a more dedicated player

I will admit, it’s a little bit of a bummer since I’ve been grinding to 500 scout. Still seems like a great update for all though hahah

I'm glad they finally listened. I respect they wanted to do something new and I was willing to give it a chance and was even getting used to it, but it was objectively worse than how most other games did combat and if it didn't change, it probably wasn't going to keep players for long.

I didn't mind the way we have it now but I definitely understand why he has decided to cave in a change it. Looking forward to it 👍 IGWT

When is this going to be happening?

Another amazing and useful guide to the changes ahead. Gotta give this man his flowers for putting a video together so well every time.

I genuinely thought wow Tels is planning to branch out into other languages by this title lol. This update is a huge win. I didn't notice the areas would have different ability trees as well. Cant wait for this to be in game!

I'll give it a try of course, but I'll admit... I think the combat is perfect right now, and everything explained in this video sounds like a drag that I'm not looking forward to. I've always played as a skiller in MMOs because of how much I disliked combat, but I finally gave Brighter Shore's combat a try and was surprised I liked it overall. Every aspect that people have been complaining about, and everything getting "fixed", are the aspects that I actually liked about combat, even more so because it wasn't like every other game. This feels like a step towards being like all of those other games that I didn't enjoy doing combat in.

It's pretty confusing and am unsure if this will workout super well but I think it will at least better than it was and that if it isn't, they will fix it.

Amazing thanks tel! <3

Its essentially a mobile game on steam. Point and click boring grindy no actual challenge.

Too late game is dead already unlucky.

I think people dislike this game merely because they’re trying to compare it to RuneScape. Don’t like it? Go back to OSRS. Simple. I personally am enjoying it because it’s something new to play and it’s different.

Well done, mate! Thank you for your time and efforts.

After my first read through I hated the idea and while I'm still not 100% sold on multiple different skill tree's for each episode plus the character skill tree it's not bad and I'm definitely willing to give it a shot. Your explinations helped alot the news post is ALOT to take in on a first read.

I'm confused about the armor. If I get lvl 500 epic Guard armor in Episode 1, how does that translate to the other episodes?

are there optimal levels to push for in each?

seems like this might mess up people wanting to go forward or backward thru episodes

This is what I subbed for haha, great work Tel!

SHIT GAME

Nothing worse then when devs get caught adding all these if but elses to try and make a feature in a game "work". Just scrap the whole idea and start again, the base idea is trash and no amount of adjustments make it better, it just makes it even more convoluted and hard to understand and less enjoyable.

I really like this change!

I think it's funny because I'm level 500 in guard, 32 in scout and 206 in minefighter but only level 6 in watchperson but have also just not done any skill in crenopolis so it would feel like nothing has changed for me when I finally do try out crenopolis

rip over 500 hrs into this game

not only does this game look horrible visually, it also looks horrible to play

Thanks for the explanation. This was a concise and well-organized video. I'm personally excited about the changes and hope they improve the onboarding experience.

Love a good spreadsheet

So the best gear is still going to be episodic?

Still kinda sounds like ass tbh. Wayyyy too complicated and convoluted.

The main thing I don't understand is, say you take a break from the game or are new and miss multiple episode releases, do you HAVE to level combat in early zones first before you can do anything in the new zones?

Thank you, Tel

NICE

TCDL (too complicated didn’t listen) jk great video I failed algebra twice though and understand nothing from this video, hoping for the best!

Better, but it's a little complicated and causes some friction on the barrier to entry.

Combat change won't do anything. Sadly I lost all hope for this game. I could design a better game in a day. Okay combat got merged, the game has been in development for 9 years. New patch notes yesterday was supposed to center map after teleporting but not even that works. Embarrassing. Good luck on the youtube channel you are the best creator Brighter Shores has but its a sinking ship

Fixed? You mean it's broken?

*cries in 240 scout*

when do you think we will recieve some actual content for the game?

I do wanna like this game, but this doesn't fix the progress problem that is ruining the game..

This game sucks with the episode progression, we need a huge open sandbox game that doesn't use this. Game sucks and wont grow because of this.

This is laughably complicated. I've got almost 200 hours in game, and this update made me cancel my subscription. I just have no idea what they're going for with this game anymore. I thought I had a good idea of the future of the game, and was planning to grind out Bonewright, because I thought once trading gets released, players from other factions would be very interested in high level rare guardian weapons they could use for infusing epics, but now I really can't get a handle on what's going to valuable in the future and what isn't. Feels like a waste of time to be playing the way it is right now. I might come back when it stabilizes a little bit, but I don't know. These changes don't even address the fundamental problems with the combat, so I don't know why they're putting so much energy into this particular change.

"Back in my day we had a different level for each episode!" Can't wait to be able to condescend to newer players!

ngl, I tried to read Andrew's news post first thing in the morning and it brain fried me all day. Luckily we have the world's most advanced AI Tel to sort it out for us. Isn't the future amazing? Like the future of Brighter Shores. Engagement complete.

Honestly, they should bite the bullet now and just make all professions episode-agnostic. Expand the obelisk level idea to be based on your total XP in that episode. Each task can have a profession and obelisk level requirement, meaning you can't just skip to the highest level thing if you haven't done anything else in that episode. Then they could put any task for any skill wherever it makes sense, like fishing could be possible in any episode with water, or woodcutting in any episode with trees, and as future episodes come out there won't need to be like 3+ skills that are all exactly the same. Combat is a good start, but making the other skills follow similar "rules" will make it feel more cohesive and make the world feel more interconnected and cohesive.

Awesome video as usual, just wanted to give my thoughts about gear and crafting. Think about an item far in the future in Episode 13 where the Combat range goes from 460-500. The episode 13 obelisk would go to level 460. That means you would think the best item in that episode would have tuning level 460. But it also needs to have a gear level between 460 and 500. The tuning level won't be limited to under 40 (the gear level and tuning level won't always add up to 500). So the best item in that episode would have gear level 500 and 460 tuning, so a level 960 item. The best gear in a later episode will be better than the best gear in a previous episode. This will be our form of power creep. In the crafting professions, at level 500, we'll be able to craft only up to level 560. We'll be able to craft items with less and less tuning level as the episodes progress until we can't even cover the base gear level. For Hopeport, we can craft a level 30 with tuning 530 but for Hopeforest, we can only craft a level 60 with tuning 500 and so on (Crenopolis we can craft a level 140 with tuning 420). In Episode 13, we'll only be able to craft a level 500 item with 60 tuning. So the current crafting will be less and less impactful as new episodes release unless they increase the cap or release new professions that cover very high level crafting.

This is great work man, thank you!!

Finally a video that explains things and not just reading of the post on the forums