Light Bearers News

This month's patch brings a few new cosmetics along with a bunch of bug fixes.

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• New victory deco - A tank with a few color schemes
  
• New hats - a few military themed ones
  
• Added in a "Say Thanks" prompt on save.
  
• Shadow tooth no longer has varying collision, he is now less prone to getting stuck under objects.
  
• Fixed a typo with shadow tooth's entrance.
  
• Disable AFK timer checks while on a cannon.
  
• Cannons now give the person firing them points.
  
• Divina's intervention now cleanses cannon bears.
  
• Added additional light pool spawn locations in Ebony Dread.
  
• Reworked hiding exit code, it now should properly place you in a nearby spot.
  
• Fixed collision problems with scourge in Bear Village.
  
• Fixed collision on a skull.
  
• Players should no longer lose points while hiding during Shadow Tooth's ult.
  
• Divina can no longer be spammed.
  
• Other misc fixes.
  
• Started a cryptocurrency called BearBuckaroos
  
• Lied about creating a cryptocurrency
  
• Or did I?
  
• Yes I did.
  

Hey everyone new content time!




Nox
Legion
Mimic
The Squawk

Cthulu'ling - Cute shadow who specializes in stealth.
Shadow Tooth - A shark with an un-satiated hunger!
Scourrrrrge - A sexually frustrated pirate with a fascination of both shooting light bears and cannons!

• 1 New Map
  
• 3 New Shadows
  
• 1 New Victory Deco
  
• 2 New Victory Songs
  
• 5 New Hats
  
• Oculus' ultimate now does 3 waves of shadowbolts.
  
• Disabled shadow casting on Blessing Pads
  
• Fixed Watcher not stopping when you look at him (Sorry everyone!)
  
• Decrease sound falloff for spotted reactions
  
• Removed "crouching stops spiderlings from tracking you" from hints
  
• Divina's Intervention now teleports the user and those saved.
  
• Fixed some text that would over stretch
  
• Added a base concurrency for all sounds, a slight performance increase.
  
• Mimic now shows up on Compass when faking transformation.
  
• Placed a check to prevent users from getting intro locked.
  
• Added customization responses
  
• Lowered camera on Stalker to prevent ceiling penetration
  
• Nerfed all players named Stan
  
• Poured some milk into a bowl, then put cereal in it
  
• Didn't eat the cereal because I got sidetracked
  

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I wanted to rush this one out now since it contains some important optimizations, we have a content patch that will hit before the end of February, I also plan on putting the DLC on sale around then!



Imperator
Oculus Malus
Writhe
Krampus

• Lowered required level to password protect a game to level 5
  
• Re-added the framerate cap, High framerates were leading to some gameplay elements breaking, such as Terror's suck ability being over powered.
  
• Optimized some HUD elements gaining upwards of 30 extra FPS on average, pretty huge gains.
  
• Completely changed the way we handle traversal adjustments. Before modifiers would cancel each other (Mercury's fervor would be interrupted from webs) now we have a stacking system that takes the sum of the changes!
  
• Chat is now set to be a priority for data transfers. It has been working perfectly in all of our test sessions. I want to make sure it's working on the Live Branch now :)
  
• Added a display for buffs/debuffs so that players can visibly see what is affecting them.
  
• Added a compass that will show important markers.
  
• Added FX for most of the blessings.
  
• Added an intro for shadows to display what they loosely have.
  
• Bears spawn with a 2 second invulnerability shield to prevent early corruption.
  
• Shadow's Ultimate starts on cooldown in Light Favored.
  
• Lowered spawn rate of Blessing orbs.
  
• Moved keybindings to top menu of settings for better readability.
  
• Kicked list is now persistent through map changes.
  
• Light Maiden's voice is now properly affected by voice volume changes.
  
• Minerva's Flank now forces movement to bears rather than sweeping locations.
  
• Optimized rain in Black Ramparts.
  
• Increased speed threshold required to initiate falling animation. This will make jumping in Bear Village more enjoyable.
  
• Fixed a bug that showed body unlocks in chat as body color unlocks.
  
• Fixed a key tip
  
• Fixed a bug that would cause score text to stay large
  
• Other small MISC fixes
  
• Levitated for a solid 1 second, no video proof of it though.
  
• Gained the attention of an Indian Prince, he's very interested in giving me millions that he has to hide from his family. I think i'm gonna take the dive.
  

Again this is only part of the stuff we're doing this month, near the end of February we'll be adding 3 Shadows and 1 new Map. Plus a sexy sale ;)

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Nox
Legion
Terror
Squawk (cute little penguin with an attitude!)

This month's cosmetics have this by them

• 1 New Map, Dry Rock, a fun little western town in the middle of the bearvada desert!
  
• 7 New Hats
  
• 1 New Secret Hat (Hint, you're going to need some friends to unlock this one.)
• 4 New Bodies
  
• 2 New Country Flags for capes
  
• 2 New Victory Decos (to be fair they're just requested colors for the power deco)
  
• Uncapped framerate, works fine for us but if it leads to issues down the road we may recap it.
  
• Added a Free Roam mode to practice in any level.
  
• Added a Shadow Sandbox mode to try out each shadow in any level.
  
• Added sounds to Stalker's leap and to her spiderlings.
  
• Added a handshake to hopefully alleviate some of the un-sent messages in chat.
  
• Added collision to the star in Yule Town.
  
• Added a transition fx to being that shadow.
  
• Added a clear all check for telegraphing objects.
  
• Added a repeated check to see if a bear is corrupted to fix the "that bear looks like a shadow bear but is actually a light bear"
  
• Added the ability to opt out of playing as Shadow
  
• Added a 4 second invincibility shield at the beginning of the round for bears.
  
• Chat now properly shows up in the "Waiting for Shadow" screen, you can type again!
  
• Reworked art for tutorial.
  
• Changed Watcher's secondary to be a short duration Darkness.
  
• Slowed watcher to 66% of what his speed was, this makes him more controllable.
  
• Changed the way Squawks wall works, now it's segmented to allow for better ceiling detection.
  
• Increased the speed of Jester during ghost walk to around 160% of what it was.
  
• Decreased duration of Jester's ultimate to 4.5 seconds from 6.5 seconds, also adjusted the visual effect for it.
  
• Set a max number of sound cues that can be played on Krampus' ultimate in order to avoid the really loud noise when lots of bears are by each other.
  
• Removed floating arms from Tutorial (spooky)
  
• Changed Minerva's Flank to say "teleport to bear" rather than "save bear"
  
• Changed a ton of Server Ticks to provide less data clutter.
  
• Fixed chat size not staying what the user set it as.
  
• Chat now hides your level if you have "Hide Player Level" enabled.
  
• Set icons for Squawk's and Krampus' abilities.
  
• Fixed a camera bug that would make your camera stay at weird angles after leaving a hiding place.
  
• Writhe can no longer hit you through Vulcan's Shield.
  
• Changed collision channels in Yule Town to prevent Writhe from leaving the Arena.
  
• A bunch of minor bugs are also fixed but I'm terrible at writing fixes down.
  
• Localized Watcher's voice lines into 49 different languages.
  

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Hey everyone, even you Jim! We have a sexy new patch today!

The new shadow rotation (I'm adding an additional shadow to the rotation so that we have a total of 4. I'm doing this so I can wait to do another rotation until we do the January patch.)

Mimic (the reason I have trust issues)
Nox (Classic)
Oculus Malus (He's dropped his contact somewhere)
Writhe (The best high fives in the north)

Krampus (Everyone's favorite evil holiday spirit, don't get cornered by this bad boy)

The Squawk (A penguin with a cool attitude, he enjoys long belly slides and traveling across the Arctic)

Also I found this written on some ancient looking object, what could it mean?
hint the "//" is actually a "//" "Zusv izpe mwqs nysv yztn w qwnjy. Izp fkxx fwvn nz zusv izpe jywn wvg nius NysGeswqseTxssut kvnz nys jywn fkny // kv rezvn zr kn. Assu nykt jzgs nz izpetsxr, izp jewjasg kn wvg tyzpxg bs tsxrkty fkny kn! Qwast kn rpv rze sdseizvs kvdzxdsg!"

• Reworked the blessing system, now there are altars that you can find. Stand on them to charge them up, spamming your crouch will speed it up. Once charged it will award you a random blessing.
  
• 1 New Map (By popular demand, a maze map finally!)
  
• 2 New Shadows
  
• 4 New Hats
  
• 8 New Bear Bodies! (That's right, you can change your body now!)
  
• 4 New Country Flag Capes
  
• 2 New Spray Paints
  
• 5 New Victory Decos
  
• 1 New Victory Song
  
• Rebuilt the settings menu layout.
  
• Added the ability to hide chat.
  
• Added the ability to change chat size.
  
• Added the ability to hide your level (clicking this will show your level between 5-8 (This only affects the levels shown with Tab, chat messages you send will still show your proper level))
  
• Added a check for leaning to prevent intersecting into level geometry.
  
• Added the ability for the Mimic to shrink while in mimic form by holding crouch!
  
• Moved Victory Deco preview into a better spot to be viewed.
  
• Mimic now properly replicates all aspects of the bear it mimics.
  
• Level Cap set to level 200.
  
• Removed XP gain nerf at level 125.
  
• Adjusted audio volumes in all maps.
  
• As a quality of life change, the bears now have a limited distance that they lock the watcher. This prevents the "Where's the bear that is watching me" problem
  
• Camera for bears that are turning now has collision probing.
  
• Fixed a very bad issue that was causing framerates to drop drastically from the in game chat's growth.
  
• Fixed a bug that made the shadow preview stay.
  
• Fixed an issue where the portal would sometimes not let people enter it.
  
• Accidentally joined a cult.... they seem nice.
  
• Used a Ouija board to assist in some bug fixing.
  

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