There's a matchmaking rework coming soon, you can toggle an option to enforce that ever person on the server is in your skill bracket.
Add me on steam, but I'm on gmt+2 . Not sure if that works for you?
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HUNT: SHOWDOWN |OT| Hunt Together | Die Alone (Steam, XBOX ONE, PS4)
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There's a matchmaking rework coming soon, you can toggle an option to enforce that ever person on the server is in your skill bracket.
Add me on steam, but I'm on gmt+2 . Not sure if that works for you?
+8 here. Added. Name is different but if you copy paste/see the url you see it is me.
Finally got my Plague Doctor last night, and capped it off with a beautiful clean-up soloing duos.
I don't think they're planning on increasing the frame cap on consoles due to being able to play with last gen players. Perhaps a resolution patch? Not sure though.
I don't agree with it, but I also wouldn't recommend the console version in general if you have a PC that could run the game.
As much as I realize camping isn't something that shouldn't be frowned upon but we weren't even near the boss. The dude didn't even try to save his buddies and only two ways in where he was at the prison.
I feel like a lot of the compound designs encourage camping as well. Especially with some of those with underground components.
I feel like a lot of the compound designs encourage camping as well. Especially with some of those with underground components.
They're looking into it, i'd be shocked if it didn't happen with the new map
Just had a game where me and my partner had to chase the single bounty across the map. My partner ended up getting down and then disconnected, leaving me to take on the two carriers who were close to an extract point. Got one with a Springfield, and then finished the other one, who had a bomblance, with dusters. Think I was the last one left in the match. This game can give you so many matches with lows, but when you get the highs does it feel good!
Only started playing this game, only went to the quick play until I can realize what am I doing lol
Any general advice for a new player? guides or whatnot
Any general advice for a new player? guides or whatnot
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Thank you! Will be checking these
just in case you didn't realize, quickplay is a totally different game mode from the standard game (bounty hunt)
good advice is be quiet, use melee attacks to kill NPCs if possible, be aware of your surroundings including sounds. crank that volume
Kind of looking for a third in NA that doesn't one of the group being in Taiwan. My buddy is in East so we tend to play on US west. Typically play east time wise (excuse me here tryign to convert in my head) 7 PM to 9 PM.
The aforementioned 4FS vids are all you need. He's really thorough and articulate on what does and does not work. Great channel for Hunt tips and coverage.
From my own ~650 hours of play time.
- Always carry a knife and/or dusters for dealing with most NPCs. Wasting bullets is noisy. Don't feel you need to kill everything either.
- Keep moving. You're harder to track, spot, and predict if you're not lingering too long in the one place.
- Stealth crouching is extremely valuable but is often vastly over used. If you're not in an engagement, haven't yet been seen but cited an enemy where an ambush or sneaking has contextual value, feel free to take the sneakier approach. But crouching through the world for no reason just makes you a slow moving easy head shot if you're sighted first.
- Weapons have ballistic velocity speed and damage reduction, but do not have ballistic drop. This makes them a bit easier to control and predict with practice over something like Battlefield, as you just need to get used to the timing of aiming ahead of moving targets rather than also aiming above a target over distance.
- Every sound in the game is generated by a trigger or specific area context. Pay close attention to the audio cues of the environment and match. If you see crows fly or hear dogs/horses going nuts, someone has set them off.
- Don't be afraid of dying. The whole permadeath thing and losing your hunter and their upgrades is super intimidating at first, but in the grand scheme of things wont matter as you get better at the game. A free level 1 hunter with no perks using base gear can still perform admirably against the opposition if you understand the strengths and weaknesses of the weapons and gear. Obviously certain guns/gear benefit some play styles over others, and arguments can be made that some guns are certainly easier to use than others, but within the right range a cheap silenced pistol headshot using basic ammo will instant kill just like any other gun.
I might be reading too much into this, but it looks like there's quite a few hints that they might be bringing in some sort of respawn mechanic.
First of all you have the Witch Doctor resurrecting the Revenant (which could just be a cool story detail, granted):
But you also have the shot of the hunter getting shot and going to some sort of red graveyard underworld where it looks like he has to fight his way back out again.
There's also the Priest character becoming an Immolator. I wonder if they're going to rework the way death works in the game, could be interesting.
Ooh, good eye. Would be interesting, although because of the way being downed and getting revived works already, I never felt like it needed a respawn mechanic. There's also a BOW! which I honestly don't know how it will be balanced to be worthwhile at all. But at this point I did not expect one to ever come.I might be reading too much into this, but it looks like there's quite a few hints that they might be bringing in some sort of respawn mechanic.
First of all you have the Witch Doctor resurrecting the Revenant (which could just be a cool story detail, granted):
But you also have the shot of the hunter getting shot and going to some sort of red graveyard underworld where it looks like he has to fight his way back out again.
There's also the Priest character becoming an Immolator. I wonder if they're going to rework the way death works in the game, could be interesting.
Crossbow is pretty deadly - bow probably will play similarly, but faster and less hard hitting.
Yeah I'm actually surprised by how different it looks from the other two maps. Those kind of cliffs and the new POIs will make some very interesting gunfights!
I'm a bit torn though, because, while i like verticality generally, usually the more vertical locations have been some of the worst places to fight. But those are buildings, and not landforms anyway
I would pay $100 to have the game look and feel half that good on consoles
it could easily on the new gen consoles. 60fps+ with maxed out settings
There's about 0 reasons why it shouldn't. At this point i'm convinced they just don't give a fuck about consoles that much. UI been broken two patches in a row and they can't even be assed to uncap the framerate or even bump up the resolution to 4k
It's just Crytek doing Crytek.
Like the UI (which wasn't great) was overhauled to be more controller friendly and it's a hot mess on PC because of it.
I have like 1,500 hours in since the first month of EA, and there's no game I love and hate as much as this. Feels like whatever success it manages to find is in spite of some of the design decisions made by the project leads.
They really tried to make the UI more controller friendly? That didn't work then, its still horrible on console and now terrible on PC too then. I just want loadouts, I'm tired of having to manually pick everything again when I die because I die a lot.
I don't mind not having loadouts. I like searching through my accumulated items and figuring out what to run. I play a lot of Tarkov so it's really simple in Hunt building a kit to run with. Actually it's easy cause you can pre-kit out a bunch of hunters at once to quickly go into another match if you die. Just make sure to kit them fully otherwise you may load in with no heals!
The UI on PC is way better than consoles. It's really clean and I've got used to it. I think the store/unlock progress could be cleaned up a little, but it's really not bad just a little confusing currently. The search bar on PC is the greatest feature to see what traits work with what guns. Just type in trait and it'll filter to what guns it works with. Console is severely lacking this the last time I played. Make sure on console to turn up your cursor speed in the settings, otherwise it moves too slow in the menus at default speed.
Its about as good as my junk drawer. Honestly even without loadouts they could do a better job with the UI and inv. Especially with scrolling and fav filter breaking half the time.
i'm pretty sure the whole reason it looks the way it has since late 2019 is for the console release. it's organized horribly though
it's weird i didn't really think it was a game that would make it to consoles. it seems very much like a pc-centric (or at least mouse/keyboard) game.
It's insane, like they are still on that Crysis 2 console is where the money must be at nonsense so let's hamstring development for it. It's why we will never have things like storm weather and why high skill/precision weapon loadouts have been sidelined by more spammy RNG weapons and mechanics.
oh i'm sure. but the current menu seems to be their attempt to make it navigable with a controller, with the tabs/subtab layout. as poor as it is.
i dunno. i'm not as disenchanted with current hunt as many other older fans seem to be. neither are my buddies. it's largely still the same game to me. i do still wish there were no semi auto weapons though, and that they hadn't nerfed sway/recoil on pc. the gameplay is still uniquely both relatively slow paced yet arcadey which is what i've always liked about hunt.
above all i am excited to explore that new map and shoot some hunters on it!
Pumped as fuck for the new map. Hunt is way up there with my absolute favourite multiplayer games ever, but goddamn the content drought is real. A new boss is nice, but a new map with interesting points of interest makes for a wholly fresh experience. Loving the verticality too.
Yeah for veteran players it's going to be so exciting having a fresh new Hunt location to explore and learn. They've also probably learned a lot from watching us in the previous maps for years so I'm expecting the new compounds to be really fun and engaging to fight in.
I think the skill to know where someone possibly sits and what angles they can cover and how can I approach a compound the safest way is a much underappreciated skill that will be helpful on the new map as well.
Which vertical areas don't you like? I've had some of the best shootouts in the Fort, and the verticality has helped. It creates more space for more teams to get close and engaged. It is my favorite spot of the current maps.
I'm sure the reference there is Prison and all the metal railings.
More verticality can be great if done well, adding more dimensionality to combat spaces is good, but it's a tough thing to get right. Especially if they don't deal with cross region ping abuse, having the high ground and being able to pop out of cover and shoot people before they can even see you is a bad scene.
yeah true, fort is mostly pretty cool. i just hate the prison
Oh you will be sure but if past design is anything, they encourage camping. Also to be fair the region I play is may as well call the game Hunt Clonedown..=S
The game's biggest issue is that it doesn't know how to let new players know what kind of game it is.
It's a PvP shooter with some PvE elements, not some hardcore survival sim that requires you to be so precious and conservative with your playstyle. Player retention (especially after events) would be helped by having a smoother ramp up to the skill floor and not just trying to drop the skill ceiling.
Also I know I sound down on the game but just to be clear it is still my favorite shooter by miles.
It's a PvP shooter with some PvE elements, not some hardcore survival sim that requires you to be so precious and conservative with your playstyle. Player retention (especially after events) would be helped by having a smoother ramp up to the skill floor and not just trying to drop the skill ceiling.
Also I know I sound down on the game but just to be clear it is still my favorite shooter by miles.
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