Hello wanderers! Even with the donation goal not reaching the target for new levels or items, I still made a new update for Backrooms: The Lore, which brings important bug fixes and numerous quality-of-life features.

Special thanks to Athena and BPS2 for making the community skins for this update! If you want to make skins for Backrooms: The Lore, you can also contact me on Discord. I hope you enjoy this update :D

Here's the full list of changes done for v0.5:

- Upgraded Photon Fusion SDK to v2.0
- The player no longer goes up and then falls when getting out of a vehicle
- The player no longer jumps up when running toward a sidewalk or any small vertical collider
- Character animation no longer wiggles around when you walk backward
- The game is now accessible to the most blocked regions like Iran, Brazil, and Russia without a VPN
- Added a gray Ehsan Motors Longener at The Hub for everyone's use as a public shared car
- Added lock, respawn, kick, and delete buttons for the vehicles accessible via the backpack/inventory
- Added a spawn effect for vehicles
- Added speedometer for vehicles
- Vehicle material emission now also turns on when the lights are on
- Fixed the vehicles' roughness and metallic textures
- Fixed the car wheels flickering
- The player vehicle's back view camera no longer goes into walls
- The car engine sound is now synced for the passengers
- Added new engine, door, shifting gear, and hit sound effects for vehicles
- The player now takes damage when jumping out of a moving vehicle
- Added item preview for vehicles
- Passengers can no longer use a vehicle's horn
- Stamina is now fully refilled when entering a vehicle
- The vehicle camera views are correct while sitting as a passenger in someone else’s vehicle
- Fixed the occlusion culling problem in The Hub
- The double doors in the hub no longer teleport you out of the level
- Added labels on the hub doors
- Flashlights on the top floor of level 1 now have charge values
- Level -0 pause menu webpage now redirects to a Wayback Machine link instead because of the level being removed by Wikidot
- Added motion blur to Levels 0 and -0
- The "collect valuables" alert is removed in levels without any valuables (for example The Hub or Manila Room)
- Upgraded ReadyPlayerMe SDK
- Some avatar materials now show correctly in the game
- Added an option to remove downloaded avatars to clear up storage space
- The avatar placeholder is shown after 1 second of loading instead of instantly
- Added different hit sound effects and a separate set of hit sounds for female avatars
- Added different head movement animations for when walking or running
- Added animations for applying health kit and greasy marshmallows
- Jumping now reduces stamina
- You now start a level with 0 stamina
- Improved the layout of touchscreen buttons
- You can now use the chat button to unlock and show your cursor on PC builds
- Added percentage texts to the status bars
- Added description in the players list for players with special rank
- Added an alert for friendly fire
- Items now fall down when they're in midair
- If the number of chips on the ground is less than 9, you will visually see less than 9 chips
- You can no longer pick up a flashlight if you already have a fully charged flashlight
- When picking up an item with a too large quantity or charge the rest is automatically dropped on the ground
- You can now easily select objects that are inside each other
- Increased collected chips limit to 2K instead of 1K per level
- Limited the spawn count of items that players can drop to 100
- Fixed the duplication bug. You no longer get 4 numbers of an item when you drop 3 numbers of it
- Changed the health kit's cross color to green (Geneva Convention compliance)
- Added more than 40 new skins made by BPS2 and Athena for the knife and flashlight
- Items information is listed on the Esyverse website
- Flashlights emission map now turns on and off with the light source
- You can now preview the turned-on version of the flashlight skin in the main menu
- You now need to hold down LMB to look around in the main menu on the PC versions
- Upgraded 5 Minutes Chat SDK
- Made a new line-based design for the chat
- Added back the quick chat with a cooldown and customizable phrases
- Added a new Ultra quality setting
- You can now request for Esyverse account removal from the settings panel
- Redesigned the rules panel
- You can now read the rules panel again later
- Changed the "Claim VIP" button to a more clear "Be a donor" design
- Donors' usernames are now shown in the credits
- Fixed an issue with Cute Adblocker's Knife skin
- Fixed a bug with the screensaver not disabling when the text field was active on Android
- The stamina boost now works for VIP members
- Screensaver and control settings now apply in levels
- An avatar with an empty URL no longer shows up in the Avatar Showcase
- Avatar showcase now shows the player's rank
- Smiler's collider is removed
- Smilers now disappear after killing a player
- On-screen input can no longer be changed midgame to avoid attack-spam bug
- An item is no longer removed from the inventory when there is no place to drop it
- Your knife no longer turns to default when you change your avatar
- The game now automatically resets the network after a region change (no longer need to restart to apply)
- The hole texture no longer appears like a sticker
- Autologin is now removed. You will need to logout of your account in the account settings if you're playing on a shared device
- Changed the background effect in the login menu
- Added an option to show the password in the password fields
- Removed "guest account"s
- Added an option to suggest a strong password while making an account
- Added an option to suggest a random username while making an account
- You can now only edit your account once per 10 minutes
- Updated English, Persian, German, Russian, and Thai translations