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Yea, I'm in the same boat. Bought the game late last night and can't really say I'm feeling it. It's definitely interesting, but I'm afraid this is one of those games that I'll play for a few days only to stop and maybe return in a few months later. Not sure if I want to spent the €23 on it. On the other hand, I don't know if I want to go for a refund.
Right on. My best bud did the same thing. The game loop just didn't grab him like it did me. Sucks but I understand — the game isn't so chill lol
I've had a few of those recently, nothing I'm doing seems to be working. Last night as a duo my teammate and I came took out the assassin and then some other guys showed up, I drilled one of them full in the chest from very close range with the specter shotgun and he just ran off and his mate got me with some Nagine variant in a couple of hits as I reloaded. My teammate scarpered to the extract rather than help and I couldn't blame him, ha.
Genuinely surprised the guy I shot didn't die though, not sure if that was a glitch or a shit gun or whatever but I've hit people from further away with a shotgun, in the same part of the anatomy and they've died in one hit.
Oh well. Looking forward to playing more!
Damn. Players that are camping with the lvl 80 something melee weapon straight from
bloodborne are the worst :P
I'm level 50 on PS4. Absolutely loving the game, especially with friends.When first playing I really disliked the controls but they are not that bad. I hope the game is at least 60 fps on the next gen consoles But for now, not bad at all!
bloodborne are the worst :P
I'm level 50 on PS4. Absolutely loving the game, especially with friends.When first playing I really disliked the controls but they are not that bad. I hope the game is at least 60 fps on the next gen consoles But for now, not bad at all!
Reminder for a couple of things;
- Sound matters. Started a round and obviously had spawned right adjacent to another group as within seconds we could hear them shooting at everything so we sat in wait for a few seconds and ambushed them as they went past banging away at everything.
- You can shoot through certain materials. I'd totally forgotten about this, was lurking in the prison with my team looking to ambush another team who were banishing the spider and we instead got ambushed, I died and spectated my surviving teammate, he missed with his first shot, the enemy ran behind a timber wall so my guy turned 90 degrees and shot through the wall and killed them. What a great shot!
Had a very enjoyable evening, some great tense matches, a few kills, and a few extractions for a change. XP definitely slowing down now though, I'm level 69 (weyyyyy) and it seems to be taking a lot longer.
- Sound matters. Started a round and obviously had spawned right adjacent to another group as within seconds we could hear them shooting at everything so we sat in wait for a few seconds and ambushed them as they went past banging away at everything.
- You can shoot through certain materials. I'd totally forgotten about this, was lurking in the prison with my team looking to ambush another team who were banishing the spider and we instead got ambushed, I died and spectated my surviving teammate, he missed with his first shot, the enemy ran behind a timber wall so my guy turned 90 degrees and shot through the wall and killed them. What a great shot!
Had a very enjoyable evening, some great tense matches, a few kills, and a few extractions for a change. XP definitely slowing down now though, I'm level 69 (weyyyyy) and it seems to be taking a lot longer.
Bomb lance is great! Clumsy, but an amazing anti boss weapon (except assassin) and nailing people with a bolt is endlessly satisfying.
If you don't mind making a bit of noise, fire is your friend. Grab a lantern, run up to the pack at just the right distance to aggro them, and hurl the lantern between you and them. They'll aggro and run through the fire, instantly killing them all. Not ideal obviously given the noise, but also a painless way to clear up a whole pack if you absolutely must go through them. And lanterns breaking don't make as much sound as something like dynamite.
Yeah, it's just those matches. The gamble of not knowing who you're up against. I'm sure I've cleaned up players who felt the same; I always feel kinda bad when I easily eat players who are obviously new to the game. But the game gets revenge on me in the end.
If you don't mind making a bit of noise, fire is your friend. Grab a lantern, run up to the pack at just the right distance to aggro them, and hurl the lantern between you and them. They'll aggro and run through the fire, instantly killing them all. Not ideal obviously given the noise, but also a painless way to clear up a whole pack if you absolutely must go through them. And lanterns breaking don't make as much sound as something like dynamite.
Yeah, it's just those matches. The gamble of not knowing who you're up against. I'm sure I've cleaned up players who felt the same; I always feel kinda bad when I easily eat players who are obviously new to the game. But the game gets revenge on me in the end.
Exact same boat. It seems like a bad game to do solos as well. I don't have any friends who still play multiplayer games, so I can never really enjoy games that require intense teamwork. I successfully got to the Assassion by myself one match and then realized its health bar was balanced for more players and I didn't stand a chance...not great
Played with a very new player last night, they were tagging every AI enemy that moved with R1, the screen was lit up with red triangles all the time, Stop it! You don't need to tag everything! Made me chuckle.
Starting to see a lot more players with prestige now.
Starting to see a lot more players with prestige now.
OP
OP
Anyone that doesn't have IRL friends that game, might want to give discord a try. I found people to play with and I've been having a blast. You'll learn shit, and you won't get wrecked compared to if you were just playing solo or with complete randoms. If you have social anxiety or something I can understand though. It's really easy to find people, and everyone I've encountered so far has been chill. Really enjoying this game.
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I don't know if you play on PC, but the official Hunt Discord is full with people that are actively grouping up. The few games I've played were with a guy that immediately responded to my "newbie lfg" post.
It's more that mobs when you aren't expecting them are a big deal. Dogs suck but I can avoid them if I want. Dogs while I'm in a firefight with another group are fucking tough.
what I wish is for a mode that changes the late game. most of the time when we win, it's because we've either hunted all other players/everyone else has extracted, so we're just doing a victory lap to the boss and back. Sure, sometimes there's a lone player hiding, but it's been rare.
instead, Id love a mode where the longer the match lasts, the tougher the mobs get. So if you want to camp out and wait patiently for thirty minutes, that's fine, but you get more aggro mobs. Maybe even make the bosses tougher.
what I wish is for a mode that changes the late game. most of the time when we win, it's because we've either hunted all other players/everyone else has extracted, so we're just doing a victory lap to the boss and back. Sure, sometimes there's a lone player hiding, but it's been rare.
instead, Id love a mode where the longer the match lasts, the tougher the mobs get. So if you want to camp out and wait patiently for thirty minutes, that's fine, but you get more aggro mobs. Maybe even make the bosses tougher.
It feels like it's got a bit of inertia after the PS4 release. I'm glad it's finally getting some traction.
I've often thought that what would be really fun in Hunt is some sort of very dangerous mob that is attracted to hunters who are staying in one place too long. Maybe it's because you're not corrupt in this very corrupt place, but the basic idea is that you need to keep moving or it's going to start getting a lock on you.
Playing on PC, but I've actually never played with random people or done lfg. I'm usually too scared of having to interact with actual internet people haha. But I might...
xD
I'm slowly getting into it, and considering I have now 3 hours of playtime I can no longer refund ^^'
The games I played yesterday were with a veteran who was very nice and willing to give me a lot of tips. Few games I had today were together with someone else who was also new. Both were found through the Discord, makes grouping up so much easier.
Tensest moment of the evening; my team is killed as we cross a road, I run for it like a big coward, my shooting skills hopelessly outclassed - pursued and badly injured, bullets whizzing past me, then seizing my moment duck behind a tree and into some incredibly dense bushes. And there I cower as footsteps sound all around as my pursuers hunt me. They came so close! I'd love to say I popped up, killed them and saved the day, but I just hid quietly, sweating. One of the guys ran past me close enough to touch. Eventually they left and I revived my teammates.
Finally had my breakthrough games.
Playing with a random we start a game that is a war from the start. Guns popping off everywhere for a few minutes before dying down. As we work our way through the clues we make it to the spiders layer as gun fire picks up again. I was ready to hang back with the gunfire buy my teammate was already working his way into the lair so I had to help. So intense fight the spider while their was clearly a gun fight going off outside the building. Managed to get the boss kill and banish waiting for an attack. Only one hunter must have survived and my teammate dropped them and we booked it for extraction. Made it out ok. First boss kill, first extraction. My heart was pounding the entire time from the start of the boss fight until I saw the words "You live to see another day"
Second game, another random. We quickly gather all the assassin clues but the area sound hot so we start heading towards spider clues and grab one of those. Soon the spider is being banished and it's far off so we head back to the Assassin. Managed to get the kill even though I got put down twice. Banished and grabbed the tokens and used dark sight to see enemies directly above us waiting to strike. My teammate takes off so fuck it I have to too, I throw a bomb I looted from a box. (actually I think it was the fire diffuse) It must have cause enough distraction or another team showed up cause there was a ton of gunfire as I hoofed it into the trees and never looked back. Heart thumping as I catch up to my paRtner and extract.
I have fallen out of love with multiplayer games the last few years. Yeah I'm thinking I'm back
HMMMM MMM MMMM
Playing with a random we start a game that is a war from the start. Guns popping off everywhere for a few minutes before dying down. As we work our way through the clues we make it to the spiders layer as gun fire picks up again. I was ready to hang back with the gunfire buy my teammate was already working his way into the lair so I had to help. So intense fight the spider while their was clearly a gun fight going off outside the building. Managed to get the boss kill and banish waiting for an attack. Only one hunter must have survived and my teammate dropped them and we booked it for extraction. Made it out ok. First boss kill, first extraction. My heart was pounding the entire time from the start of the boss fight until I saw the words "You live to see another day"
Second game, another random. We quickly gather all the assassin clues but the area sound hot so we start heading towards spider clues and grab one of those. Soon the spider is being banished and it's far off so we head back to the Assassin. Managed to get the kill even though I got put down twice. Banished and grabbed the tokens and used dark sight to see enemies directly above us waiting to strike. My teammate takes off so fuck it I have to too, I throw a bomb I looted from a box. (actually I think it was the fire diffuse) It must have cause enough distraction or another team showed up cause there was a ton of gunfire as I hoofed it into the trees and never looked back. Heart thumping as I catch up to my paRtner and extract.
I have fallen out of love with multiplayer games the last few years. Yeah I'm thinking I'm back
HMMMM MMM MMMM
would legitimately like this more than how it is now. Could even have the tough monster try and chase the boss tokens.
Sometimes hiding and waiting it out is the 200iq play! You lived and got the revives, sounds like you saved the day to me.
Had a power moment with the shotgun last night - wiped a 3 squad solo who had just killed the boss in the prison. Literally can't unlock Quartermaster fast enough.
Ha, true I suppose, although it was only temporary. About 10 minutes later we all got murdered by a vastly better team.
I can't wait to get Quartermaster so I can rock a shotgun and sniper. I'm liking the Veterlli Deadeye at the moment. My highest level hunter died so that was nice. No more fanning at the moment...
I kind of wish they made aiming with the mouse a little harder (in this and in most shooters on PC). It's too clean which is not reflective of shooting these type of weapons in real life.
I kind of wish they made aiming with the mouse a little harder (in this and in most shooters on PC). It's too clean which is not reflective of shooting these type of weapons in real life.
Related new video from 4FS Gaming :)
Both are great
Hunt Showdown: Sniper Guide
We look at load outs, tactics, strengths and limitations of the sniping play style in Hunt: ShowdownPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/4FSGamingWatch our live ...
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I looooove the prison. I mean I love all the locations, they're all fantastic with their various entrances and exits and tunnels and they're all overflowing with atmosphere, but the prison I particularly enjoy.
Yep. Two nights ago I seen 10.5k when I played with my brother. Usually we had 6.5k to 7k around that time. Matchmaking is fast and worked quite well. In that one match we killed 7 hunters matching our own level and only one below ours. Lots of fights and shootouts. It was awesome.
Still new to the game, tried to play with some randoms and failed, so I went solo. Had a match where I killed 3 hunters and was able to kill/banish/extract a boss. Have not been able to replicate that level of success! haha
Sadly, it used to be harder, and many people think the gunfights were better when it was. The sway on all guns was a good deal higher, and differences between guns with stocks and pistols was more pronounced.
Far less instant headshots back then, and there was a very noticeable increase in headshot kills when they dropped the sway. Since the first sway reduction, they added back a little, but still nowhere near where it used to be.
Speculation was that they lowered sway for consoles, to make it easier to aim on a stick. (The change happened around when the xbox port happened) But who knows, it's been like this a while, so Crytek seems happy with where it's at.
Put me in the camp that misses the original sway, and more difficult headshots.
Didn't realize this either. Interesting. Really they should have differences between game pad and mouse and keyboard. Personally I think it's a little more fun when you have to take time and aim and there are more variables in your aiming. With this kind of game, the aesthetic, and the weapons used it's okay for aiming and shooting to be messy.
man I still don't really like the current unlock system. been pretty consistently using the nagant officer since it unlocked and I have made a point to actively use it and it still took over 20 ranks to get the nagant officer carbine unlocked.
Still, been having GREAT matches recently. Lots of PvP encounters and come out of most of them alive! Also surprised I'm sitting at the top of my friends list in terms of K/D (except one friend who refunded it with 1 kill and 1 death), because while I play Hunt the most out of my friends, I am far from the best at shooters out of them. I guess Hunt requires its own unique skillset though!
Still, been having GREAT matches recently. Lots of PvP encounters and come out of most of them alive! Also surprised I'm sitting at the top of my friends list in terms of K/D (except one friend who refunded it with 1 kill and 1 death), because while I play Hunt the most out of my friends, I am far from the best at shooters out of them. I guess Hunt requires its own unique skillset though!
Population seems like it's definitely spiked. The Aussie PC community has always been small; I see a lot of the same names killing me. But tonight's rounds were PACKED. Had a good few solo rounds (so duos max), and then trios, and all of them had a really large assortment of players. Weird for a Tuesday night, when the weekend is usually most active, but very welcome. Exciting shootouts.
Night time matches are so incredibly tense. I was playing a trio game and literally most of the match was just waiting for the enemy players to make their move. We won the match but we never even killed the final team because we couldn't get a bead on them and decided to bail and escape.
It went down at Alain & Son's Fish.
It went down at Alain & Son's Fish.
Got my first double bounty. A group got the Butcher and we ran across them and another team(s) all on the way to the spider. I saw a pack of dogs sneaking up on one guy so I just kind of got his attention and he missed every shot before the dogs swarmed him lol. Then when he was fighting them off I tagged him and that was that. Turns out he had the bounty and his friend was dead a little ways up the hill. There was no one else on the map so we got the Spider and got out. Fun stuff.
The only thing about the game that pisses me of. I get that high skilled aimers should be rewarded, but being rewarded (and punished on the other side as the one being headshot) with an instant kill in a game where death really hurts (time, money, hunter) is too much for my taste. It should be more about positioning, flanking, map awareness. Not saying this doesn't play a role now, it's just the headshot/aim factor is a bit too strong for my taste. At least they could a bullet drop to make it more consistent with the feature of bullet velocity. The game is still intense without the fear of 8 out 10 deaths being by headshots, but it would be much less frustrating. There's nothing you can really learn from being headshot apart from shit happens (pretty often, though...). Being outflanked, outplayed, however, is something else you can capture on video and learn from it.
I feel like melee weapons are OP. I went with the Machete and killed someone before he even got to shoot at me. Feels cheap but hey. Also I feel like killing the bosses first is not worth it. You'll 100% get ambushed before retrieving the tokens so the pressure's on your team. But I had a match where we killed the butcher and I downed two hunters who tried to ambush us by shooting from a window.
I'm not toooooooo fussed with the aiming system as it is. I like the ballistics, I wouldn't change those. But like many others I joined in early access when there was less sway and the headshot ratio definitely spiked as they reduced it. It leads to a lot more quick crackshots right in the head from the most talented players, which is definitely annoying.
To be fair though it seems like they're adding in a hardcore mode, which might make a difference.
Shotgun sprees in Hunt are exhilarating. The dropoff is hard so you're busted at rang, but maaaaaaaaaaaan in close quarters they're just incredible. Very well balanced. Nailing a shotgun round into another hunter just feels so fucking good. A single BOOM and they're down. Clearing a squad, particularly interiors, with a shotgun is very rewarding.
I think they're pretty well balanced, precisely because they are OP if you get the jump. It ties into the game formula well, how if you're out in the open and want to get all shooty shooty you can nail kills over distance with a single headshot but if you want to risk interiors you're going up against melee. I honestly don't think a lot of players realise how damn useful it is. Put away your guns and get out your machete or axe.
To be fair though it seems like they're adding in a hardcore mode, which might make a difference.
Shotgun sprees in Hunt are exhilarating. The dropoff is hard so you're busted at rang, but maaaaaaaaaaaan in close quarters they're just incredible. Very well balanced. Nailing a shotgun round into another hunter just feels so fucking good. A single BOOM and they're down. Clearing a squad, particularly interiors, with a shotgun is very rewarding.
I think they're pretty well balanced, precisely because they are OP if you get the jump. It ties into the game formula well, how if you're out in the open and want to get all shooty shooty you can nail kills over distance with a single headshot but if you want to risk interiors you're going up against melee. I honestly don't think a lot of players realise how damn useful it is. Put away your guns and get out your machete or axe.
Totally agree. I always poke around the area and wait for them