Brighter Shores is back with another update, as Andrew Gower and the team behind the game continue their commitment to refining and improving it. This latest patch brings another mix of quality-of-life improvements, balancing tweaks, and bug fixes designed to smooth out gameplay and make our adventures even more enjoyable. So, let us go over everything that is new!
The patch was officially deployed earlier today, on December 3rd, 2024, and is now available for download via Steam. Make sure to update your game to take advantage of the changes!
For a quick preview, the highlights include improved shop and bank interfaces, adjusted XP calculations for profession-based activities, and many bug fixes that address crashes, visual glitches, and gameplay inconsistencies.
Here is the detailed information as written by Andrew Gower:
Quality of Life Improvements
- Add ‘auto’ buttons to the shop and bank interfaces. These automatically buy/withdraw the number of the item we think will be most useful to you. For example, if buying bacon this button will say ’12’ because you will typically want 12 bacon and 12 bread.
- Add ‘buy max’ and ‘sell all’ buttons to the shop interface instead of the ‘buy 5’ and ‘sell 5’ buttons.
- Show the size of stacks on the storage rift deposit interface.
- Allow high-level forensics potions to be purchased in the apothecary shop.
- Change monster loot drops such as ‘mandibles’ and ‘toad’s eyes,’ etc., to draw their name in gray instead of orange so they don’t look like epic item drops.
Balancing
Slightly adjust the XP calculation for activities which use profession equipment, so that the percentage boost from the profession equipment is more precisely what was advertised.
Bug Fixes
- Fix crash that makes it hard to repair the wheel in the quest ‘Mantuban’s Legacy’ if someone else is using the forge.
- Make the automatic movement when auto-retaliating not cancel your existing route.
- Show correct handcuffs when catching thieves.
- Display correct tooltip for acquired discounts.
- Add ‘not acquired’ icon for discounts which have not yet been acquired.
- Display prices on item cards with the same precision as shops.
- Automatically scroll to the top when viewing the overall leaderboards.
- Allow npcs to attack players who are crouching.
- Close the action menu when the player changes room.
- Fix route finding bug which occurs if you teleport and then click to walk just as the teleport happens.
- Fix bug with chat bubbles jumping position when you change room.
- Fix bug with spottable thief info card breaking if you change room.