All console commands for Brighter Shores

If you have ever accidentally hit that key below the escape key during a game and a large, scary text box has appeared, you have entered a game’s console mode – a command section where typing things in can make things happen – spawn enemies, remove enemies or even make you invincible.

Every game’s console is different of course, not all commands work for all games. Brighter Shores has a console accessed the same way, so let’s check out what we can get at shall we?

Brighter Shores console commands

As of the early access launch, it’s probably fair to say there is not much interest to players in Brighter Shores console. If more gets added we shall update this page but at the moment the majority of these commands are of more use to devs and playtesters than the general playing public. There are a few things you can poke around with such as showing the frame rate metrics. The most useful one we have found so far sounds harsh but it is the Quit command. If you play the game in full-screen mode there doesn’t appear to be a way to quit the game to desktop without either alt-tabbing out or switching it back to windowed mode and hitting the X button. It’s far quicker to bring up the console and type quit and back to your desktop you shall go.

Command	Description
build_string	prints the build string of this client
clear	clears all the text in the console
close	closes the console
fake_lost_context	simulates losing the gpu context
fake_out_of_driver_memory	simulates running out of driver memory
fake_out_of_total_memory	simulates running out of total memory
get	gets the value of a variable
help	shows the available console commands and key presses
quit	quits the client immediately
resize	Tries to resize the window such that the frontbuffer is the specified dimensions
set	sets the value of a variable

Variables

Variable	Valid values	Default value
show-zones	true, false	false
roster-servers	Any string	roster1.fenresearch.com
show-heap-memory	true, false	false
show-read-sync-profiling	true, false	false
show-gpu-memory	true, false	false
show-frame-profiling	true, false	false
show-flute-debug	true, false	false
vsync	true, false	true
fence	true, false	true
show-event-profiling	true, false	false
show-speaker-compressor	true, false	false
debug-portable-events	true, false	false
fake-fluctuating-fps	true, false	false
show-memory	true, false	false
show-batch-profiling	true, false	false
show-fps	true, false	false
show-cache-profiling	true, false	false
show-frame-time	true, false	false
sound	true, false	true
show-allocation-counts	true, false	false
show-frame-metrics	true, false	false
show-latency	true, false	false
show-network-profiling	true, false	false