Bear Traps

Bear Traps are a custom hazard added by Welcome to Ooblterra. They do not use the default Lethal Company Map Hazard system; they are considered a random outside object, as they spawn outdoors.

Description

Bear Traps are a small, orange growth with a ring of jagged teeth and two small, beady, blue eyes. They are triggered when a player moves over them; they will clamp down and begin damaging the player while massively restricting their movement and jump speed. Bear Traps will not appear on the ship's radar, and they do not currently have a scan node.

Strategy

Bear Traps do not appear immediately, or all at once. Rather, they surface over time in clusters, becoming more common as it gets later in the day (and as 523 Ooblterra's fog gets thicker). Bear Traps can be whacked with melee weapons in order to clear them out for a time. It is recommended that this be done on the routes players commonly travel when bringing scrap from the facility to the ship, to make traversal as easy as possible.

Bear Traps may initially seem easy to avoid, but they become especially perilous if a player is being chased; keeping eyes on the ground during a chase to avoid them is one's best hope, failing clearing them out pre-emptively.

If a player is caught in a Bear Trap, jumping is often far more effective than simply walking to escape. Once the player does escape, the Bear Trap will retract into the ground, as it does when hit by a shovel.