I like the idea of using balloons to send crates and loot home, but I don't think bounty tokens should work the same way.

Being able to load the bounty into a balloon and just leave feels too easy. Carrying the bounty is one of the most important parts of Hunt. It creates tension because everyone knows you have it, and getting to extraction is part of the challenge.

It also changes how people approach the match. If another team gets to the boss first, you can normally still hunt them down before they extract. With the balloon, if you arrive a little too late, the bounty could already be loading or gone, making it feel pointless to fight over it.

I think balloons are great for supplies and loot, but the bounty should stay on the hunters until they extract.

and I love it!

Obviously WW1 was a little later and the Hunt trenches aren't large scale, but I am still really enjoying the vibe of Stronghold areas. That trampled muddy ground texture reminds me of playing BF1 and I miss it.

I haven't done the battlepass grind for the end charm in years and I haven't played Hunt since Murder Circus 1, but in the past 4 days I've been able to start the pass and get 5k xp towards the charm. Fully hooked again.

Once I unlock it I'm thinking about installing BF1 for some Operations.

Probably 50 some odd kills since last night... 3/10 headshots.

For me, it's the Rival. it fails me more often than not, but who can truly hate a double barrel shotgun?

We tried to stay as quiet as possible, turned into the quicker in and out I’ve done

Hunt:Showdown is such a fantastic game. All the creatures, enemies and environments are amazing.

But after 2000 hours of play, the enemies and bosses have lost the initial horrific edge and impact of those early hours and I think it would be fantastic if the creatures we had were updated with some new variants to keep us on our toes while we traverse these rotten swamps.

Cultists, hell spawns and cursed beings that really dive into the dark mysterious magic of the Sculpter would be fantastic.

I realize many of these concepts are pretty far into the “fantasy” side of design, but it doesn’t sit right that the Sculpter hasn’t really updated the enemies much after all of these years. Wouldn’t it piss them off that hunters consistently run train on the biggest baddest bosses in the bayou?

Imagine these singly creatures stalking through the trees, or a variant of the butcher with a new weapon or attack.

Sure, anything like that takes a lot of development energy, but it feels like the games in one of the best places it’s been in after a couple years, and it would be great to have new horrific challenges to fear.

This just felt nice in the moment, wanted to share.

I love the gun, I think the concept is awesome but it needs to be cheaper now if no bleeds. It's way too expensive. A mosin or krag is way more bang for your buck right now.

So today I saw (first picture) that one of the stronghold had baloon inflation valve thingy was inside the boat (I almost certain it wasnt like that before)...

I the same match I found boat-like supply point near Alice Farm that certainly wasnt there before! (second picture)

Did you noticed something like that too? What do you the nk they hinting at? 🤔

By togglers i mean people who use cheats maybe once a week when they get angry , toggle wallhacks but kill in a legitimate way.

Is there even a way to catch them if blatant lobby wipers do their own thing for weeks or even create clans on steam groups?

Hi i am asking,

because over the last couple weeks something seems to have changed with my matches. I already checked my systems etc, even called my ISP twice and according to them everything is fine and i am located in central germany playing on EU servers with 22ms ping as a 3 star so it is not like i am sitting on a lone island in the middle of the pacific.

It started with more occurances of rubberbanding and microstutters and sudden input delays which i first did not give much thought but then i even started getting disconnects more frequently. That is when i checked above things.

After that i noticed more russian players or atleast cyrillic player names or just empty squares. Ok maybe player count is low right now whatever. But independed from time whether morning, afternoon, evening, work day or weekend this kept happening so i started to check because the amount of lets call it suspicious behaviour also started to go up.

Then i realized that i am consistently getting paired with russian and chinese players and not like usual once a solo or team every couple of matches or when playing at low pop times but every match up to the point where almost the whole server consisted of players from russia and china according to their steam profiles.

Now the rubberbanding, stuttering and obvious ping related problems when engaging other players got worse as well as did the disconnects and i did stumble upon atleast a lot more smurf accounts or quite possibly cheaters, i mean stuff like a Solo one star against trios clearing 3 star lobby with a Scottfield and Baseball bat levels or hitting just headshots with a Nagant Revolver at 100m+ as a two star. Maybe they got lucky and it was the match of their life but with comparable stuff now happening every second or third match and not once in a blue while this seems kinda ...odd paired with the other problems in every single match.

So i checked my system again and called my ISP which again insisted on everything being fine.

I kept playing with aforementioned stuff and the problems seemed worse when playing solo, in teams with friends, there was also noticeable increase in stutter, non-eu players etc but not as strong.

It is now to a point where it becomes almost unplayable due to the technical problems, the really frustrating high ping players and that i can expect now to run into players which are obvious smurfs or quite possibly cheating on a regular basis. It is just completely killing the enjoyment of the game.

So i am wondering. Does someone has similar stuff happening to them? Did CryTek change something? Am i just on a streak of very bad luck? I don't know. Any insights would be greatly appreciated.

Wasn't this supposed to be "only temporary"? The old system with random skins and random names was much better - there's precious little motivation to even try getting a Soul Survivor out and having the entire lobby composed of the same 4 faces is just silly. A bunch of clones.

As a Crossbow main, here’s a piece of advice that’s helped me so much.

Find a secondary weapon, and get comfortable with it. I had a game where I basically exclusively used my secondary, (Pax Trueshot), due to most of the fights being out of my range, and in a very heavily covered area.

I treat my Crossbow like a special weapon. Very powerful under a specific circumstance. Same deal with Shotguns and snipers. You’ve got a powerhouse of a weapon, (most of the time), that can really only be used within a specific range/scenario.

I hope this helps someone, cause I’ve seen a lot of randoms in my games try to either shotgun someone too far away, or snipe someone literally point blank

Take this list with a grain of salt i guess. It is my opinion. No particular order.

1. simple Loadout reordering
2. "no perks equiped" reminder
3. menu keybinds not configurable
4. bring back secondary keybinds
5. ui scale no longer an option (but still affected)
6. match history (team details) for more than just the last game
7. pinging on map in some way
8. menu fps cap
9. loadout should use contraband even if its not the same skin
10. lobby chat not functional

This is my opinion and there will be different opinions, but most should be in the interest of all Hunters :)
What do you guys think?

New player, sorry if it’s dumb question, but I was curious if they ever had a windy day weather pattern or something to that effect? It’s always very quiet and I’d love to see some tumble weeds blowing around, maybe some of the cans on a string being moved around from the wind. Great game so far though.

is this happening with anyone else? ive been trying to redeem my twitch drops all day and the site wont load for me to connect my accounts