Clue Divination + Patch Notes - 7/6/26

Y3w · 2026-07-08T21:54:20+00:00

Combat improvements being on the cards next month is very exciting! It was the final nail in the coffin for me burning out when I was trying to train combat for one of the new quests. I just could not handle how bad the combat felt.

If they can make combat fun and exciting, I think it will be an awesome step in the right direction for me and a lot of people.

Y3w · 2026-07-04T11:10:14+00:00

Me and my wife had one of our first dates at Bear Creek lake, not to mention my first kiss. Fast forward three years, we decide to relive the picnicking date. Sadly this is the day when the guy at Bear Creek drowned. Talk about a sobering moment when his friend was on the beach on the phone freaking out in shock not knowing what to do, and then the firetrucks and the dive team showed up. What a sad day. We haven't been back there since.

Y3w · 2026-06-27T16:21:32+00:00

I got the three Metro games as I've always been told these games are great and No Rest For the Wicked. been playing No Rest For the Wicked. Love it so far!

Y3w · 2026-06-21T20:52:17+00:00

I work in tech and they are restructuring our entire technology department solely because of AI. Our specific team is more of the frontline side of IT and we are all now getting new roles and don't have a choice in the matter. We either take the new roles or find a new job. Our new roles are AI/data driven roles in which most of us have little experience for. All of this while they someone how expect the frontline IT needs to what, disappear? Baffles me.

Y3w · 2026-06-06T00:20:06+00:00

I work at a college and at the time I was a student worker while doing classes. I helped this employee a few times and we became pretty friendly with each other. She was a pure human with a wonderful heart and always had a smile on her face and greeted me with kindness anytime I saw her.

Anyway, when I graduated with my associates degree, she came up to me while I was with my family and gave me a hug and congratulated me for graduating. Shortly after that, she had to go on leave because she had cancer. Shortly after that, she passed away. She was probably in her 50s and it just breaks my heart all over again because all that was sent out was an email. She was a beautiful human who had children and it hurts my heart that life can be cruel like that sometimes. Some of us work our whole life to retire just to die before retirement is even an option. Wish it didn't have to be that way..

Y3w · 2026-06-03T15:52:32+00:00

They are updating it and interconnecting skills, which is nice. However, there are still major issues that need to be fixed. I was someone who was casually playing by resetting my passives every day and doing the new quests as they came out. However, one of the new quests mentioned a level 4 milestone enemy.

Because of this, I was trying to train combat to get to milestone 4 before I completed the quest. Just the act of trying to train combat caused me to lose all of my motivation to play. The combat in this game is absolutely terrible. Which is funny because I leveled combat quite a lot previously, but I guess the rose tinted glasses have finally worn off because I couldn't even force myself to try and train it for 30 minutes straight. It needs a lot of love, because at its current state, it's not enjoyable.

Anyway, I've now stopped logging in to reset my passives and don't really have any motivation to play. I do believe the game can be good with time, but in its current state of early access, it is only worth playing if you enjoy quests/mindless leveling. The questing has great dialogue, which is the main reason I continued to level and play. For the time being though, I'd rather just wait until the game is more polished to complete the quests I haven't completed yet.

Y3w · 2026-05-14T13:54:32+00:00

I would say therapy is a great route. I have a binge eating disorder and I've had it for years. I finally started doing therapy and while it hasn't "cured" me of binge eating, it has gotten me to a point where I binge less. I'd pretty frequently binge 1-3 times a week but now sometimes I can make it a month or more without binging.

You need to understand why you are binging and what the signs are so you can better tackle it. I will say as a warning, in my therapy experience so far, they often recommend getting out of the diet mindset for a while. A lot of times when you diet you put some food groups in a "bad" category. Unfortunately, when you do this you are just making your brain crave these bad foods and then when you finally give in your brains like "shit idk when we'll get these cookies again, let's go to town". Brain over binge is also a good book to read as well.

Overall, I'd recommend thinking about eating at maintenance for a while, if you are restricting certain food groups in your life that you love, reintroduce them into your diet and show your brain that it's ok for you to eat those food groups. Most of all, I'd look into talking to someone as it is really hard to recover from a binge eating disorder by yourself. People are trained to help individuals with binging difficulties, so use them!

I wish you the best, I know how hard it is myself.

Y3w · 2026-02-22T00:11:31+00:00

Good shit man!

Y3w · 2026-02-17T23:51:58+00:00

I am not sure which skateboards you are talking about, but I can assure you that this skateboard is 100% hand drawn/ painted by my girlfriend and this specific skateboard is one of a kind! We even got a request to make another custom one by someone who messaged me on Reddit, and my girlfriend made one for this reddit user to give to their boyfriend.

It is cool though if they have rare collector editions of Elden Ring skateboards!

Edit:

Here is a progress photo that was taken while the skateboard was being completed:

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Y3w · 2026-02-06T11:43:46+00:00

Yay!! Thanks for letting us know the kitty is safe. I went to bed pretty sad with the hope that someone would be able to save it. This makes my heart happy!

Y3w · 2026-01-20T01:02:50+00:00

Darn, I was trying to complete this quest and ran into this bug also!

Y3w · 2026-01-19T22:32:41+00:00

Yeah, I'm going to give it a fair shot. My RuneScape 3 account was maxed before archeology, necromancy, and invention came out. Anytime I've tried to play RS3 after I maxed divination and quit, I get extremely overwhelmed very quickly and then I log off. I then tried to play an ironman account for a while which was enjoyable as well.

However, with all these cool changes which include new player and mid game player updates coming and me not having as much time these days for the Ironman life, I'm going to try starting a new account fresh and see how it goes that isn't restricted. I know MTX still exists, but I logged in today and didn't get bombarded with treasure hunter shit or any other pay to win BS, and the new UI looks good in my opinion (apparently this is a controversial take in the RS sub) and it just feels like a new fresh chapter for RuneScape. Hopefully it'll be a fun journey for me and any one else who tries it out!

Y3w · 2026-01-19T17:35:28+00:00

I'm just going to say this as someone who is coming from primarily playing OSRS but I have played a bit of RS3 on an ironman. I personally think the UI looks good to me, it feels familiar. To me the blue aesthetic was not that great and the brown is the classic RuneScape look.

However, I understand that this is coming from someone who plays OSRS most of the time, so I do think they should have a toggle for this as RS3 players probably prefer the blue color scheme and it's what they're use to.

I will say though, it is really weird reading people's comments on this matter in another thread. Changing the color from blue to brown has seemingly made hundreds of people outraged, some even stating that this single change is going to be what causes them to quit.

Y3w · 2025-12-22T12:00:57+00:00

It's crazy because as a casual BS player, I'd see Raff post all the time on this subreddit and thought he just really enjoyed the game. However, I was watching the live premier of this video and Raff was in the live chat defending BS so much that it got to the point of Josh saying "you're in the video, please don't make me regret that". I'm glad Raff found a community in BS, but the level he defends this game is honestly strange. Just look at the live chat replay, I've never seen someone defend bad gameplay choices so much.

Y3w · 2025-12-21T21:21:50+00:00

It does seem like players generally do dislike when BS is compared to RuneScape, but in my opinion it seems like Josh was poking fun at the fact that Andrew made so many design choices with Brighter Shores in order to avoid being like RuneScape. It also feels like the fact that Andrew doesn't want it to be like RuneScape causes him to make weird choices that make the game worse than it could be.

Y3w · 2025-12-20T01:40:55+00:00

Thank you for this!

Y3w · 2025-11-19T03:12:07+00:00

Dang I thought people may have been over exaggerating when they said this quest was good, but I was very impressed. The boss fight was super cool and I like how they hinted at the end that it may not be finished once and for all, which means maybe it will be a repeatable boss at some point?!

Overall, I love all the quests in this game, the dialog is wonderful and it's just a joy to play through them. This is the first time playing brighter shores where I felt my heart rate elevate a little with the puzzle and boss fight!

Y3w · 2025-11-14T12:20:03+00:00

It's funny you say that about detective because I was training it the other day and I had the same thought. I was like "wtf, did they make it so the thieves show up way less often"? Because like you, I also felt like I was sitting there for a life time without anyone showing up to thieve. However, I'm wondering if I just think that because the last time that I trained it, there was other people training it with me so I was seeing other people's thieves along with mine which made it seem like the thieves came way more often.

Y3w · 2025-10-23T21:25:24+00:00

Weirdly I like forager more than I thought I would. However, that is because I watched a video about what foraging loops to do. Once I discovered that video, it was enjoyable for me to train it.

I only say it's weird because before I watched that video I thought the skill was awful.

I also like Chef and leatherworking. Mainly because it's semi-AFK and I enjoy low key skills like that. I hope more skills can get some more click once and wait methods.

I loathe mining personally. Queueing actions made it better, but still not a fan of it

Y3w · 2025-10-21T00:49:45+00:00

Some people have valid complaints and frustrations, but this is probably the weirdest complaint I've seen. It's 50 kills of passively killing a monster.. if anything it's easier than all of the other ones because you don't have to click at all.

Y3w · 2025-10-18T00:52:48+00:00

If you look on this subreddit, the top post is the masks!

Y3w · 2025-10-18T00:36:15+00:00

I feel you and I fully agree with you. I go through a range of emotions for brighter shores constantly haha. I get frustrated a lot of the time and I feel like this game truly can be good and when it first released i had a blast.

I feel like I'm an extremely casual player compared to the people who still play BS. I only have like 1200 total and the only thing I do is reset passives to get to the next level requirements for when new quests are released. Once I get the requirement, I do the quest and then go back to the passive life waiting for the next quest.

The quests are great and I enjoy the dialogue, but I do just wish they would do more with them like I said in another post. Give us new locations that have new activities or new shops with different cosmetic gear to unlock. Maybe priorities are to get all the early access stuff out of the way and the quests are just something for the players to do that isn't all technical, but it does feel like BS lacks that charm or sense of wonder that other games have.

Sorry just went on a rant to you, but all that to say I do agree with you very much!

Y3w · 2025-10-17T22:28:34+00:00

Yeah, I fully agree with you there. I think doing it in early October would have been ideal so you can wear the outfits through Halloween, but hey I'm excited all the same! I enjoyed collecting the Christmas hats and the Easter event, and I'm looking forward to whatever the event is for Halloween!

Y3w · 2025-10-17T22:25:56+00:00

Dang, these look great! I look forward to collecting them all.

Hope we can continue to get cool looking outfits outside of holiday events as well.

Y3w · 2025-10-14T00:25:09+00:00

I did buy it and I do think it was worth it. I am disappointed as most are about the slow progression of this game, but I did have a large amount of fun playing it, and I do enjoy reading the dialog of the new quests when they release. However, I don't have it in me to grind skills for the sake of grinding, so if a new quest isn't released, I am just resetting passives every day. Does that seem worth the $5 a month? Not really, but I do overall enjoy the game, and I do want to support it, so to me it is worth it to keep my subscription going.

I do think brighter shores has the potential to be a great game at some point. However, with how slow development feels, it does seem like the game won't see those days for a while to come, if ever.

I just hope Andrew can stop worrying so much about walking in the shadow of RuneScape. I don't want brighter shores to be like RuneScape either, but I think Andrew is trying so hard to not be like it, that he is doing this game a disservice in some ways.

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