Changes and Additions

• Bear Rage mechanics overhauled.
  
  
  
  • Now, when the Bear first enters “Rage”, they will stop and roar, before rolling into a ball very quickly towards their target.
    
  • A Bear in “Rage” can now kill players who aren’t their target. If you see them entering a rage, get out of the way!
    
  • Bears now also Rage to switch targets if a player has been chased for too long.
    
  
  
• Added “Bear Devils” modifier
  
  
  
  • Removes lives, adds new score metre above player UI.
    
  • Players gain points for being within range of the bear (indicated by visual ring).
    
  • First to reach the configured score wins!
    
  
  
• Slammers in Crystal Cargo now destroy rocks.
  
• Powerups no longer spawn if powerups and the Deadly Meteors modifier are all turned off.
  
• New Bear Count Modifier that allows you to control the number of bears that will spawn in a game of Hunt.
  
• Player lives now count player deaths instead, meaning the game is more robust and predictable when changing the Player Lives modifier.
  
• Raging Bears now slow down immediately if they have reached their target.
  

• Cybear Grabbers/Pokers arm damage areas are now more accurately represented by their visuals, especially as they’re extending.
  
• Green Cybears now stop their charge if they hit a wall, instead of bouncing from it.
  
• Green Cybears now have a slightly increased delay before charging.
  
• Grid Lane no longer disables all barriers once a single player has reached the end of the lane.
  
• Players can now Blink past Slammers.
  
• Removed the laser walls from the hard variant of the Grid Lane.
  
• Procedural Gauntlet levels will no longer create darkness in a lane if the lane splits the players up.
  

• Added visual ring indicator for range of Thrill Seeker and Bear Devils modifiers.
  
• Changed text of “SSAO” setting in video options to “Ambient Occlusion”.
  
• Changed text of “HDR” setting in video options to “Bloom”.
  
• Changed text of “End Game” in post-game menu to “Title Menu”.
  

• Significant CPU performance improvements (much less hitching, and a generally higher frame rate for those who are not GPU bound).
  
• Significant game size reduction (approximately 20% smaller)
  

• Finalised art for Frozen Fjord.
  
• Different bears now have a more consistent red glow, primarily to make them more clearly visible in Gloomy Grave.
  
• Improved rain visuals in Gloomy Grave.
  
• Bears now visually face into their turns.
  
• Added crushed crystals onto the conveyor belt in Crystal Cargo.
  
• Added overheat and drilling effects to the drills in Crystal Cargo.
  
• Increased the distance certain props extend to on the edges of Crystal Cargo so you can’t see them disappear when the camera zooms out.
  
• Added a new tunnel type to Crystal Cargo for the trains that move through them, rather than underground.
  
  
  
  • Stopped the train from emitting smoke while it moves through tunnels.
    
  
  
• Added particle effects and movement to the Grinders in Harvest Hell.
  
• Added a particle effect reaction to the Oil Slick powerup when a player moves through it.
  

• A complete overhaul of Gauntlet’s environment art is now at play. What does this mean? We've finished modelling all the different lanes and shapes we'll be using. Now that we’ve got these models in place, we can start to do more with changing their look up throughout and between the different Gauntlet levels through special textures and shaders.
  
  
  
  • Iced lanes in gauntlet now look like a thin layer of ice over their original materials, rather than replacing them with a complete icy look as we did before.
    
  
  
• Gauntlet trains now have a fresh new look
  
  
  
  • They also have warning indicators preceding them. This is especially helpful where their paths were once erratic and unpredictable.
    
  
  
  
• Cybear Chargers/Dashers (The green ones!) have a new finalised look. These bad bears have done away with their need for legs, charging forward on a spiky ball using their back mounted rockets.
  
  
  
  • They also have a new suite of animations for their new abilities, and come stocked with new warning indicators to make their movements more predictable.
    
  
  
  
• Improved Gauntlet Slammers, with a new style to match new Gauntlet art, which includes new art to indicate the Slammer’s movement area.
  
• Improved appearance and performance of laser beams.
  
• The visual indicator of your progress in the Gauntlet lanes where you must complete a circle to progress has been smoothed out.
  
• Survive Lane timer display should now correctly show elapsed time.
  
• Re-added the Payload Lane to Cybear Labs.
  
• Improved the look of all disabled Cybears.
  
• New screen border effects:
  
  
  
  • A border flash when any player dies
    
  • A border when all players are dead and all lives are depleted.
    
  
  
• Added missing floor underneath Procedural Gauntlet levels.
  

• Level names now appear in front of their icons in level selection.
  
• Improved rendering of UI to improve its clarity, particularly at lower resolutions.
  
• Updated Hunt level selection icons to represent their new art.
  

Fixes

• Oil now correctly applies to players or Bears that are running immediately behind you.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the bear to spawn inside a wall on Crystal Cargo.
  
• Fixed the collisions in some levels, as they allowed players and bears to leave the level in some extreme situations.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Snake Rocks to stay in the level and not destroy themselves if their owner disconnected.
  
• Fixed performance drop when modifying player lives count while game is running.
  
• Fixed a bug with the Oil Spill modifier that caused a player to always appear oily when they weren’t.
  
• Fixed a frame-rate hitch when digging rocks on Panda Peak.
  

• Blink ability no longer allows a player to teleport out of the level, or through walls.
  
• Stopped Green Cybears from jittering on the spot when stationary.
  
• Green Cybears no longer get stuck sliding against walls.
  
• Fixed slammers initially being stuck in the middle of a lane.
  
• Fixed issues with the “Payload” lane type, so we’ve added it back into the game!
  
• Fixed error loop when disconnecting from Gauntlet while your Time Bubble is active.
  
• Fixed error loop when disconnecting from Gauntlet while players are inside of a mid-lane checkpoint.
  
• Fixed some lanes and checkpoints that were slippery when they shouldn’t be and vice versa.
  
• Fixed slammers that were stuck in the walls.
  
• Fixed bug that caused Cybears to be pushed by Slammers instead of killed.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Cybears to be killed by walking into the side of a Slammer.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused players to be killed by a slammer if they were previously pushed up against the side of the slammer.
  
• The split lane in Gauntlet that forces players apart can now no longer be a dark Firefly lane in Procedural if there’s more than one player.
  
• Lane tips will no longer appear in procedural Gauntlet levels.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the game to behave erratically if a player backed out of the player selection menu in some certain situations.
  

• Changing monitor display in Graphics Settings now works if you’re running at native resolution.
  
• Disconnect indicator no longer gets stuck on if a player disconnects, causing an end of game in Hunt.
  

• Correctly removed Oil effects from players that disconnect while Oil Spill modifier is enabled.
  
• Fixed some incorrect visuals and colours when in the Pause Menu.
  

Changes and Additions

• Tightened up character controls when turning at high speeds.
  
• Updated controls menu to reflect current controls.
  
• Moving platforms now behave more consistently
  
  
  
  • Rocks will no longer dig behind you while sitting still on a moving platform.
    
  • Characters will now leave their rolling animation and go into their idle while standing on a moving platform.
    
  • Snake rocks now remain in the correct relative position.
    
  
  

• New Procedural Gauntlet presets for Easy, Medium and Hard variations.
  
  
  
  • This affects overall Gauntlet length, the difficulty of the lanes that are spawned and what modifiers can be stacked on top of them.
    
  • Allowed all possible lanes in Gauntlet procedural to sometimes be Icy or Dark.
    
  
  
• Added more lane types to the Procedural Gauntlet possibilities.
  
• Altered a Gauntlet train path to be more predictable.
  
• Player graves will now be in camera focus when they die in Gauntlet, causing less erratic camera movement on death and keeping the focus on rescuing your friends.
  
• You can now re-enter the safety of checkpoints after leaving them.
  

• Improved load times for all levels.
  
• Improved memory usage for AI path finding.
  

• We’ve updated Unity versions again, this time to fix issues with incorrect colour settings in all our animations. What does this mean for you? Stuff like less weird browns that are supposed to be red! I hope you didn’t like brown.
  

• Work is nearly complete on Harvest Hell- See above gif for comparison.
  
• Frozen Fjord too is almost complete, see below.
  
  
  
  

• Improved the look of the Time Bubble ability again with a change for its textures and intensity, making it more clearly visible in different situations.
  
  
  
  • Added a deactivation animation for when the power ends, rather than just disappearing.
    
  
  

Fixes

• Fixed inconsistent behaviour when both Finders Keepers and Deadly Meteors were active at the same time.
  
• Deadly Meteors will no longer kill you if you disable the modifier while the meteor is falling.
  
• Stopped occasional slowdown from errors while using Snake Rocks modifier.
  
• Stopped occasional error and crash when using “Next Map” option after a game of Hunt.
  
• Stopped error and crash when using both Overload and Finders Keepers and collecting a powerup.
  
• Characters now change their speed immediately if you alter that modifier while playing the game, they would previously wait until respawn.
  
• Raised height of colliders in Frozen Fjord to stop the Rock Barrier powerup from travelling between lanes.
  
• Laser Walls in Gauntlet now slightly push players back from them to stop players from reviving through to the other side.
  
• Camera framing now updates after changing render resolution.
  
• Snake Rocks no longer float in the air if the player jumps.
  

• Changing monitor display in Graphics Settings now works if you’re running at native resolution.
  
• Disconnect indicator no longer gets stuck on if a player disconnects, causing an end of game in Hunt.
  

• Improved look of player Ghosts, making them more easily visible in different environments.
  
• Fixed broken effect, improving the look of Frost Nova, Time Bubble and Level Up.
  
• Stopped Player Ghost smoke trails moving erratically when falling off ledges.
  
• Powerup meteors which have already landed now explode when all powerups are disabled instead of just disappearing.
  
• Removed incorrect in world lane labels in Gauntlet.
  
• Objects on the Harvester in Harvest Hell now stop moving when the game is over.
  
• Fixed issue with terrain in some Hunt levels that would stop certain effects from rendering.
  
• Stopped Time Bubble sound from playing after it has finished.
  
• Stopped Bear spawn indicator from being visible after Bear has spawned.
  
• Stopped player Critters from staying in the air if they died while being knocked up by Shockwave.
  

Changes and Additions

• No more profiles or names displayed
  
• Displaying the 2D Portrait art instead of models, both in game and in
• character selection.
  
• Colours are now locked to specific Critters
  
• Can’t double up on Critters
  

• Added a random map selection as default for Hunt
  
• Shifted the levels for Hunt into two rows to accommodate the layout for all screen aspect ratios.
  
• Gauntlet now has a procedural level, built from an assortment of different lanes and a number of parameters under our control. This is just the start of its feature set and the variety it will enable.
  

• Now when you leave a game back to the menu, the game will remember what characters and controllers were in the game and keep them active for when you choose a new mode.
  
• Players can leave at any time by holding the displayed button on the “Active Players” menu.
  
  
  
  • This will result in the game ending if there are not enough players to continue in your current gamemode.
    
  
  

• Added Modifier Incompatibility, some modifiers will disable other modifiers due to mechanical incompatibilities, such as Hare Trigger and Snake Rocks.
  
• What Powerups are able to spawn can now be toggled from the Modifier menu, with all enabled by default.
  
• Added Powerup Speed modifier to determine how often Powerups are spawned.
  
• Added Throwaway modifier, this will allow you to pick up Powerups when you already have one but it will overwrite what you already have.
  
• Added Energy Refill modifier, this will refill your whole Energy bar used for creating rock walls whenever you pick up a Powerup.
  
• Added Overload modifier, this will kill players that try to collect another Powerup while they already have one.
  
• Added Dream Crusher modifier, this lets the Bear destroy any uncollected Powerup that it touches.
  
• Added Rock Recharge rate modifier, allowing you to speed up or slow down how quickly your rock Energy bar recharges.
  
• Added The Basics modifier for Gauntlet, which disables leveling , locking the players at their base level for the entire game.
  
• Removed Amoebear and Predator Bear modifiers, we weren’t happy with their designs and feel that it’s not worth reworking right now.
  

• Updated controller controls for accessibility
  
  
  
  • Both triggers now work for Accept in Menus, Digging in Hunt or Blinking in Gauntlet
    
  • Both shoulder buttons now work for Back in Menus, Powerups in Hunt or Time Bubble in Gauntlet.
    
  
  

• Removed all abilities aside from Blink and Time Bubble
  
  
  
  • This will allow the team to focus on building well designed levels and mechanics around these abilities.
    
  
  
• When players reach a level up point, the Skill Wheel opens automatically and you must now level up there and then before continuing. There was previously no reason to hold onto the attribute points anyway, and this freed up extra controls for our control revamp.
  
• New “Whiskers” system for the Gauntlet camera.
  
  
  
  • Each character sends out a number of invisible Camera focus targets around them, responding to environment as they move through it.
    
  • This stabilizes the camera and gives players (especially playing Solo) a better view of what’s happening in the lane around them.
    
  
  
• Blink and the preview reticule should now smoothly glance off walls to reach an optimum blinking distance.
  
• Temporarily removed the Payload lane from Gauntlet, and have replaced it with a long lane containing Slammers.
  

• The art for the Critter rocks has been better optimised so more can be spawned at once with less of a performance overhead.
  
• DX11 is now enabled on compatible PC’s, which should allow less of an overhead when rendering more on screen.
  

• Added a Timer in the top left hand corner of the screen in Hunt and Gauntlet to help you learn specific timings.
  
• Combined Change Characters and Change Level buttons in the post game menu, into a single option.
  
• Added a button to switch Game Modes in the post game menu.
  
• Added the 2D character portrait to the player badge in Hunt and Gauntlet.
  

• Decreased the bloom and saturation of eliminated player badges.
  
• Decreased the size of the Bear drop indicator.
  

• Decreased the size of the player respawn indicator.
  
• Shrunk Gauntlet critter Badge size.
  
• The rescuing players tip is no longer visible while all players are dead.
  
• The respawn prompt tip is much smaller.
  

• Paint pools left by killed players will no longer glitch visually, or render while floating in the air.
  
  
  
  • They should also tint correctly to their player colour.
    
  
  

• Much progress has been made on the Harvest Hell environment art, with it nearing completion.
  
• Work has started again on Frozen Fjord, with a concept piece completed and we’re just waiting to wrap up work on Harvest Hell
  

• Added temporary colour schemes to Gauntlet lanes to test our shader, while waiting for the final Gauntlet environment assets to be complete.
  
• New final look for the “Cybear Jabber” hazard, with proper warning states for its arms and modifiable arm length.
  
• Improved the look of the Time Bubble ability with an optimised refraction shader.
  
• Improved clarity for the Blink reticule by making it no longer transparent.
  
• Made the victory Beam effects at the end of Gauntlet disappear shortly after triggering, to not obscure menus.
  

• Allows us to do video playback in the game.
  
• We’ll be upgrading again after the update so we can properly rework the look of some elements such as the Modifier Menu.
  

• DX11 is now the default setting for PC’s capable of using it, should improve performance slightly using mesh instancing.
  

Fixes

• Fixed a problem with pathfinding that was causing the Crystal Cargo train to not properly block Bear AI.
  
• Stopped the Finders Keepers modifier from letting you keep powerups when player is out of lives.
  
• The Wet Paint modifier being applied mid game will now properly apply retroactively to all existing Paint pools.
  
• Changing the Player Lives modifier mid game was only changing the visuals of the hearts, it now actually limits/increases your lives.
  
• Stopped the Snake Rocks modifier rocks from having gaps, adopting other player’s colours and sometimes not being droppable.
  

• Stopped players from being able to control the Post Game menu before it was visible.
  
• Gauntlet revive icons will now disable when the round is over so they do not obscure the menu.
  
• Re-Enabled the missing Tutorial prompts in Twisted Tunnel
  
• Modifier button visuals will now animate while in the Pause menu.
  
• Removed mip-mapping(dynamic texture downressing) from all UI elements, so UI remains clear at low texture settings.
  

• Camera shake works again now, apparently this was broken for a while!
  
• Stopped Green dashing Cybears from jittering while sitting still.
  
• Fixed an error that was causing SFX to not slow down with the game as it was supposed to- eg. on player death.
  
• Added SFX back to the Oil Slick effect.
  
• Fixed a problem with the Bear oil trail not being visible.
  
• The Wet Paint modifier’s oil trail should now tint correctly to the player colour
  
• Stopped Powerup meteors being visible floating in the air while they’re waiting to fall.
  
• Assigned missing Crystal materials to the Train’s cargo in Crystal Cargo
  

BEARZERKERS 0.4.1 Change Log

Additions

• A bunch of new art assets for the Harvest Hell level.
  

Changes

• Pause menu background now fades back into colour when un-pausing.
  
• The Payload lane in Gauntlet now moves faster when more players are in range.
  
• The game now pauses when losing focus (alt-tab)
  
• Disabled Modifier preset buttons, until they are functional.
  

Fixes

• Critters will no longer slowly jitter down slopes.
  
• Particle systems no longer restart when the game unpauses.
  
• Fixed Cybears not being knocked down by slammers.
  
• Fixed Cybears from staying knocked down is slammed against a wall.
  
• Rage indicator above the target player now disappears on round end.
  
• Bear offscreen indicator now rotates on the correct axis.
  
• Bear offscreen indicator now shows correct timing when un-pausing.
  
• Pause menu background no longer disappears when changing graphics settings.
  
• Player selection no longer spams sounds when selecting elements beyond the normal range.
  
• Fixed some offset text in the player selection menu.
  
• Fixed rocks gibs not setting the correct crystal colour.
  

General Notes

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• The rotating barrier in Harvest Hell will now destroy rocks, and not allow bears to pass through
  
• Map selection now occurs on a "draw from a hat" basis, ie. 2 votes for a single map from 4 players will mean a 50% chance of that map being chosen.
  
• Increase time between powerup spawns from 5 seconds to 8 seconds (will decrease with player count in the future)
  
• Bears will now swap targets and rage if they have been chasing the same target for too long (currently 12 seconds).
  
• Raging bears will lock onto their targets for longer after closing the distance
  
• The rage indicator now shows above a player for the entire duration of a bear rage
  
• Reduced number of physics objects created from destroyed rocks
  
• Added sounds to the buttons in the options menu.
  
• Volume mutes are now toggled by pressing accept while on the respective slider
  
• Changed visuals in Harvest Hell to be less bright, swapped out black colliders with fences.
  
• Removed rat swarms.
  

Fixes

• Fixed bears stopping when a player is being raged at
  
• Fixed a number of sounds not being affected by the audio options sliders
  
• Fixed anti-aliasing setting not updating when being changed in the graphics settings menu
  
• Fixed a bug that caused some buttons in the audio menu to be pressed when only hovering over them
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the profile creation menu to not correctly show up (Steam nicknames are no longer the pre-filled name as a result of this change)
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Gauntlet to not correctly complete if players were successful on a try other than their first
  
• Fixed rocks being visually destroyed multiple times
  
• Fixed the Shockwave powerup not destroying rock walls directly in front of the player
  
• Fixed a bug where the player would lose input to the game if the game was paused while they were dead
  
• Fixed a bug where the blink skill and powerup would not function
  
• Fixed a bug where the sparks from levelling up in Gauntlet would appear multiple times if the player died during the animation