[img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38555682/a1742e2663ed00e3779217d4110080ce776c0c47.jpg[/img] Dear Bear Friends, While this is a regular game update news post, I would also like to tell you about the state of us, the Bear crew (especially for those of you that don't follow us on socials where we've already relayed this message): [b]For the past few months we have been tinkering away at Bear and Breakfast, working on the plans we outlined last summer. We've been very lucky to have a small but great team of 3 people able to work on this full time. We've recently learned of some serious health issues that will impact our team which we'd like to share with you. Unfortunately, our art-director Ioana has been diagnosed with Stage 4 Metastatic Breast Cancer. She will focus all of her efforts on treatment and getting better. This also impacts Rares, our game director and Ioana's husband of 12 years. Our lead programmer Andu has been hard at work updating the game, fixing bugs and preparing a port for a new platform. He will keep working on the game as much as he can. Given this information, the upcoming expansion patch for Bear and Breakfast is delayed. We will do our best to keep you updated on a new release window and the team's status. In the meantime, things we've been working on before we got this news such as controller updates, bug fixes and the new port will still be launching (very) soon.[/b] One of Andu's efforts has solidified in today's patch, which aims at vastly improving the controller scheme of our game as well as adding official Brazilian Portuguese. This will impact you the most if you're playing on Steam Deck or using a controller. Here's what this patch contains: [h1]1.8.2 Patch Notes - Bear and Breakfast[/h1] [i]27 NOV 2023[/i] [h2][b]Features & Fixes[/b][/h2] [list] [*] [b]Added Brazilian Portuguese language support[/b] 🇧🇷 [*] Optimized resources and added more compression to reduce package size [*] Slightly improved scenes memory footprint [*] Various localization fixes and dialogue/quest typos [/list] [h2][b]Quality of Life Changes[/b][/h2] [list] [*] Reworked Controller Support Entirely [*] Added Key Rebinding to controllers [*] Added ability to turn off weather effects (in the Options menu) [*] Added Stack Splitting binding in Cooking Panel [*] Added a Cook keybind in Cooking Panel to allow a faster trigger of the action, as opposed to navigating to the button itself [*] Improved Auto Fill Cooking Cards Trinket to progressively add more ingredients to the table each time it is used [/list] For any issues you might encounter, please report them at our support page and we’ll do our best to help you out. ([url=armor.ag/bugbear]armor.ag/bugbear[/url]) [i]As a final note, this is not news we ever imagined we'd be sharing with you, but it's important to us that you know what's going on with the people behind the Bear game. I won't lie, this sucks. Your support has been very important to us and continues to make a big impact as we navigate this extremely difficult period in our lives. We're doing our best to take care of our team and get back to making video games. Thank you for caring about us and our little Bear game.[/i] Thank u, love u -Rares