Stay Safe!

The Fixes!

• Placed in a check to fight against characters teleporting out of the world bounds.
  
• Added an easter egg for all the people we saw streaming on the 23rd of October during our Anniversary update.
  
• Made shadows now taunt during their intro.
  
• Fixed a bunch of glitches/exploits that the ghastly body was causing.
  
• Changed reaps passive to have a 60% chance to proc instead of always occurring.
  
• Fixed a bug that would allow Pestilence to place down two Plaguestones at once.
  
• Increased the prevention radius of Pestilence's Plaguestone deployment.
  
• Increased rate in which Plaguestones are damaged/repaired.
  
• Light Bears can no longer be stood on, shadow bears still can.
  
• Placed a safety to help fight against late infection.
  
• Fixed a bug that would occur when a Light Bear disguised as a prop would hide and have their cooldown not reset.
  

Version 1.337 Anniversary Update

Full Game DLC Adjustment

Lore Wiki

Map Adjustments

Shadow Adjustments

Blessing Adjustment

Body Adjustment

• Chubby : Does not slip on ice. Has an 8% chance to leave ice behind after each step.
  
• Captain : Periodically gives themself and nearby bears of the same alignment a speed boost.
  
• Pawsassin : Can double jump
  
• School! : 25% cooldown reduction
  
• Luchabear : Upon landing after falling from a large height, knockback nearby players.
  
• Dance Fever : Can capture a blessing pad twice as fast.
  
• Genesis : Gain and Lose 15% more points!
  
• Wings : Has a slow fall.
  
• Poncho Bearo : Can stay in hiding places 50% longer.
  
• Doc Bearaday : Upon saving or infecting a bear, you are able to see the other team through walls for a short duration.
  
• Beardito : Can jump 50% higher.
  
• Bearnana : Has a 4% chance to drop a banana peel behind while walking.
  
• Reaps : Saving or Infecting a bear will refresh your abilities.
  
• Ghastly : Can walk through bears and shadow walls!
  
• Glitch : Scoring 200 points gives you a boon, 30% chance for it to be a negative one.
  

• New Body : Reaps (Roll in style in this body fashioned after a player who has the most hours of anyone in Light Bearers!)
  
• New Body : Ghastly (Spooky!)
  
• New Body : Glitch (Why not a body to fit in with all the bugs that seem to be playing their own version of hide and seek!)
  
• New Body Color : Game Breaker (A lot of people asked for it, so here you go!)
  
• New Secret Hat : (It's crazy to think about!)
  
• New Hat : Clownin
  
• New Hat : Party!
  
• New Hat : Tesla
  
• New Hat : Muerte
  
• New Cape : No Cape (another heavily asked for cosmetic!)
  
• New Cape : Smoke Cape
  

General Changes

• Added a new system for kicking, that will auto kick anyone that is able to circumvent the kicked system.
  
• Added a message to indicate a player is not in the current shadow pool (If they are opted into being shadow, they will be placed into the pool once it has been reset)
  
• Added a Shadow Roulette wheel to display the current players that are in the Shadow Pool
  
• Added a subtle gold flash on Hiding places for anyone level 15 or lower
  
• Added Passives for bear bodies (They are only active in Shadow Favored)
  
• Added a subtle effect for when a shadow goes through a nether portal
  
• Added an additional check to make sure cosmetics are loaded
  
• Added the ability to press F1 to see what your current blessing does
  
• Added new functionality to make hiding places cleanse most debuffs
  
• Added a few extra tips.
  
• Added a cumulative timer to hiding places, it resets on round end.
  
• Added a twinkle effect to some stars
  
• Added a character limit to chat of 128 characters
  
• Added a small animation to Wall Spawning
  
• Added a speed buff for Shadow Bears that clear a Blessing Pad
  
• Added collision on a branch in Spooky Cemetery
  
• Added a timer for blessing pads to move them after a set time.
  
• Adjusted Blessing rewards to no longer give you the blessing you currently have
  
• Adjusted Divina to properly go on cooldown on use
  
• Adjusted scoring code to guarantee players receive their points
  
• Adjusted escape code in order to prevent players that escape from being tagged
  
• Adjusted pings to display actual pings, please note that some connections will return as 0 even though they are not the host. This is a visual error caused by firewalls.
  
• Adjusted all buffs/debuffs by moving them server side to assist with anti-cheating and more importantly reliable destruction and creation.
  
• Reworked touch collisions to give more accurate infecting and saving!
  
• Reworked Shadow point gain in order to balance overall match scoring. (Being Shadow no longer guarantees a high placement on the board)
  
• Reworked the leveling system to use a curve instead of milestones, leveling pre 150 is faster and feels more streamlined.
  
• Reworked crouch mechanic for blessing pads. Blessing pads passive gain was reduced to 1/10th of what it was but the gain from crouch spam has been increased 10x effectively making crouching impactful.
  
• Reworked code for blessing pads to make the visual indicator interpolate client side for a cleaner experience
  
• Removed kicking for AFK, now it will just move to spectator and remove points.
  
• Optimized some code in both the UI and Game.
  
• Updated all map preview images that needed an update.
  
• Increased Level Cap to 1000
  
• Fixed a bug where spamming hide would sometimes leave you completely stuck
  
• Fixed a bug where XP would visually not look like its gaining.
  
• Fixed a bug where sometimes late joining a match would show "None is playing (Blank)"
  
• Fixed a nether portal that was broken in Yule Town
  
• Fixed a bug that would cause a player not to be moved after being saved.
  
• Fixed a few outlier sounds that were not being adjusted by the volume controls.
  
• Fixed a bug where Krampus could fall off the edge while charging and retain full control afterwards.
  
• Fixed a few typos
  
• Fixed a bug where some hiding places would not show light bears that someone was in it.
  
• Fixed ultimate spamming from the Shadow
  
• Fixed a few glitchy spots in both Yule Town and Spooky Cemetery
  
• Fixed a shader issue that has yielded an additional 30+ fps in a few maps.
  
• Fixed the camera on a few Shadows that would clip through ceilings
  
• Fixed a bug where old blessing signs would appear randomly
  
• Fixed the font for the thanks prompt
  
• Fixed a giant list of other issues I forgot to write down as i fixed them....
  
• Started a new game
  
• Rearranged the food in my freezer for maximum temperature control
  
• Ate some reallllly spicy mexican food
  
• Dominated Levon in Halo
  

Hey everyone!

• Added South Korean Flag as a cape
  
• Fixed bears not triggering fall animation after Shadowtooth ults
  
• Temporarily removed Divina's Intervention until the spam bug can be solved
  
• Fixed character being stuck in the ground in the customization screen
  
• Fixed Mimic not being able to transform out of light bear form
  
• Fixed a spot players could get stuck in, in hellscape
  
• Fixed Oculus' Shadowbolts not being muted by sound settings
  

Hey Everyone!

First thing, we are going to be slowing down updates on Light Bearers quite a bit. We'll still be here for bugs, however we are going to be moving forward towards a new project. With that being said, we will no longer be doing the free shadow rotation and have instead decided to have a permanent pool of 6 shadows for free users to play from.

Change list

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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.
  

New Shadow Rotation

New Shadows

Changelist

• 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
  

Hey everyone, a new patch!

Shadow Rotation

Changelist

• 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.
  

Hey Everyone!

New Shadow rotation.

Change List!

• 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.
  

If you keep getting disconnected from every server, restart your Steam.

For the first time post release, we have a new shadow! Oh heck let's make it two of them!

The Change-list

• 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.