Happy Frickbear Friday! Rounding off the FNaF4 characters, this week's spotlight is Nightmare Fredbear!

Returning from Frickbear's 1 and 2, Nightmare Fredbear's mechanic is pretty much the same as it's always been - his jaws will appear if the office's temperature gets too high, and if you don't manage to cool it back down before his teeth fully close in on you, it's game over!

That's...really all there is to it! Nightmare Fredbear is definitely one of the simpler characters on the roster mechanically; How hard he is to deal with pretty much directly correlates with how good you already are at managing the office temperature. The higher his AI level the lower the temperature threshold for him to appear (appearing when the bar is about halfway full at 20), and the faster his teeth will close in on you.

Of course, the simplest way to deal with Nightmare Fredbear is to just turn the fan on whenever he shows up, but there are some alternative strategies to defend against him as well! For one, as shown in this video, you can buy a Snowcone from Mendo's shop and activate it to bring the temperature down to zero instantly. The fan can be risky because of how slowly it cools the office back down, so if you turn it on too late you may end up getting jumpscared anyway. However, the Snowcones work instantaneously, so it's good to keep one in your inventory in case of an emergency!

There's also the Superfan upgrade from Upgrade Cadet's shop - this makes it so the office's minimum temperature is much lower, which means Snowcones are more effective and Nightmare Fredbear will appear less often!

(Fun fact: In previous games, you couldn't actually die from the office overheating unless Nightmare Fredbear was active, which effectively meant that if you didn't end up salvaging him you could completely ignore a major mechanic of the game and leave the office at 99 degrees at all times. This was obviously a pretty big oversight, hence why it's changed so that you can die from the heat alone in this game!)