In our weekly update we included a lot of fixes and changes to the AI behaviours to provide a better animal experience, removing some edge cases. This inadvertently affected how you could sidestep bear attacks, popular tactic.
Hotfixes are disruptive due to downloads
We do apologize for doing the hotfix, as we know it is disruptive with how the downloads work and some users experience long times where Steam has to verify the entire game. Unfortunately we really do need to get this change out, as it is badly impacting some players.
Fixed: Bear-dodge broken
This hotfix restores the intended behavior of bears, while maintaining the changes to our AI behaviors.
We do apologize for the inconvenience for those whose gameplay was affected by very difficult bears, as this was not the intended behaviour. We had balanced the bears for the ability for you to sidestep - so it's disappearance caught us by surprise also.
A big thank you to our team wh...
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