Treatment has introduced plans to repair FBC: Firebreak and restore the nice will of customers after a tough launch earlier this 12 months. Most of the points surrounding the launch had been concerning the onboarding course of, which the corporate acknowledges by saying that "many gamers come into the sport and depart inside the first hour."
Treatment is attempting to make that opening hour extra welcoming to new gamers, so that they don't "really feel ineffective and confused as to what to do." It has already positioned an introductory video within the recreation with a story to elucidate the world and the way it pertains to the developer's hit recreation Management, as FBC: Firebreak is about in the identical universe. Treatment guarantees extra of this sort of "narrative onboarding" will come to the sport later this 12 months.
It's constructing a playable tutorial degree, because the developer acknowledges it wants "to do a greater job" educating new gamers the core mechanics and options. It's additionally taking a web page out of Nintendo's playbook and introducing extra "pop up" ideas that may seem at "related occasions" all through the primary couple of hours.
The forthcoming updates aren't nearly onboarding. Treatment might be including three new heavy weapons to the arsenal and introducing a modding system for weapons. The corporate will share extra about this method "earlier than September." It's additionally introducing "huge modifications to the way in which" gamers entry missions and beefing up the missions themselves.
The developer says it's refining a number of parts to extend the enjoyable issue, occurring to say that it is going to be "hunting down our least enjoyable expertise" and "specializing in our greatest experiences." There’ll even be new recreation modes and missions down the road.
A lot of that is coming within the recreation's first main replace, with a deliberate winter launch. For the uninitiated, FBC: Firebreak is a multiplayer FPS that locations an emphasis on cooperative motion. It's obtainable on Sport Go and PlayStation Plus, so it may technically be "free" to take a look at any progress the dev has made since launch.
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