FBC: Firebreak has been out for round a month, and Treatment Leisure has revealed the way it plans to attract extra gamers in forward of the sport’s first large replace in September. Whereas Steam solely counts for a portion of the sport’s audience–it’s additionally accessible by the Epic Video games Retailer, in addition to on Xbox Collection X|S and PS5–the numbers have not been too encouraging these days. The sport peaked with 1,992 gamers on launch day, and since then, those numbers have fallen to nicely beneath 100 concurrent gamers on common.
In a blog post, Treatment says that one of many points it seems to be to handle is the opening of the sport, as that essential first hour has develop into a degree of criticism amongst the playerbase. “We have seen many gamers come into the sport and go away throughout the first hour. And that is as a result of our first hour could be irritating; you’re feeling ineffective and confused as to what to do. This must be improved,” Treatment defined.
The firm says that it plans to enhance the narrative onboarding expertise by putting an introductory video into the sport and bettering the tutorial part with higher pop-up suggestions. In impact, this could assist gamers determine “the place they’re, who they’re, and what they’re making an attempt to attain” as members of Firebreak.
By way of gameplay, Treatment defined that it desires to strike a effective steadiness between utilizing old school first-person shooter gunplay and Disaster Equipment instruments to triumph, giving gamers extra management over their development. This may contain including three new heavy weapons, dropping all “generic” upgrades from gear and exchange it with a Mod System that lets gamers tweak how their weapons perform.
Different modifications on the horizon embrace tweaks to the Jobs system and a dynamic sequence of aims to maintain gamers on their toes. “We’re bringing in a brand new handcrafted stage, three Zones, a brand new standing impact, two extra enemies to cope with, and all the remainder you’ve got come to anticipate from a brand new Job,” Treatment added.
The studio harassed that its plans aren’t set in stone and will change over time, however general, it expects the primary Main Update to introduce a big variety of enhancements to FBC: Firebreak. Treatment has been pretty candid with the response to its three-player cooperative shooter, and whereas it did hope for a greater launch, it says that it stays absolutely dedicated to bettering and evolving the sport.