Big Fat Hunt Thread-----------insert link to dead previous thread here----------big sale on steam for the base game and dlcs>https://store.steampowered.com/app/594650/Hunt_Showdown_1896/Judgement of the Fool live event ongoing until Sept 17thhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HThYAlBxOV8Thundershowers will be returning July 31st (this Thursday) along with a Dev stream and twitch dropshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BcNmrkqpxAhappy hunting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr6G-l5gNWIthe new music is pretty good
I can't wait for the *checks notes* fall event it would be a great closure to the *checks notes* current event
Dev streamhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj_azW2XRuM&pp=ygUOaHVudCBzaG93ZG93biA%3DTwitch dropshttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0zhYxVyN8DE
rainbros how we feeling
Whoa this game is still alive?
I honestly didn't even know rain was coming back until yesterday>t. 3500 hours
KING is taking applications post your best frag vid below
>decide to have a few drinks and play with rain re-added>play like 10 games>not a single one was rainyI don't understand this trend of 're-release thing we removed previously that people really want to return after a year and then barely let you play it'. I'm still always surprised when I get DeSalle
>>1897782Classic crytek they should've adjusted it to 100% kinda like the inferno event
>>1897782REALwaited two months for a new thread lmao
>>1898548shut up gay man
How do I get good at this game
>>1901497try to shoot good and dont take dying too seriouslysomedays i get shit on and others the team and i server wipe hunt is a strange and wonderful beast
I don't know what loadout I should be using
>>1901600whichever one you'll play toi like pushing and shotguns, med cent lets me cover med range very well and do wall penseverything is good as long as you play to it's strengths
>>1901600Romero is still strong and it's a great budget gun
>>1901600Anything but the spectre
>>1901600spam is the meta so ideally a winfield (ideally an Infantry or Frontier Swift) with levering and ideally with iron eyeonly things you should really avoid are bomb lances and a few shotguns, namely the rival because its outclassed by everything else and the slate because it's a more expensive and inferior specter
>>1903765why the hell did I say ideally three fucking times
>>1897251https://www.twitch.tv/miami_ville/clip/StupidEnjoyablePancakeOSsloth-_aPFnqx27qeJsnWvoldie but goldie from my channel
>>1901497Get a shotgun, play actively. Move a lot, take chances like bob-and-weaving in fights.You will be better in the game ina shorter time than bushwookies.
Redpill me on the cheating situation. Is it really as bad as people say it is?I have no choice but to play in the Asia servers btw.
>>1901793>tranny skins>cent sharty instead of dolch p>romero instead of c&k>axe instead of speartell me youre a shitter with no money relying on you're credit card for skins to hide the fact you have no hunt dollars without telling me youre a shitter with no money relying on you're credit card for skins to hide the fact you have no hunt dollars
>>1907154Europe here, I don't really think it's that bad - but I've played over 1000 hours and i can tell very easily if someone is sus or not.More often than not, people don't cheat, they just get a good hold.Of course, the alarms go off when you eat a headshot from 70+m from mid run.
>>1901600two conversions in akimbo modea knifemed packsimple as
>>1907345>playing meta shit
>>1908009>being gaystop it man
>>1901600A railroad hammerA medkitProcure all other equipment on mission
>>1907345>tranny skinsblond haired modest white girl>cent sharty instead of dolch p(with fmj) has better pen than long ammo and the dolch is gay>romero instead of c&kit's called kino>axe instead of spear3 axes v 1 spear. i'd use throwing knives but they don't one tap horses reliably anymore>no money400$ in consumables every gamenot even prestige 100 at 6k hours>relying on you're credit card for skinshe doesn't have thousands of blood bonds from the good old dayssit and spin nerdo, thanks for the guns
>>1908834there u are, go shower and join vc
Haven't played in a year, is the spear still the only viable melee weapon? Does double fire trap still almost burn you completely? Did they fix the UI? Any other change I should be aweare of?
>>1910262Spear got it's speed and damage nerfed, throwing axes now carry 3, knives 8.I usually don't bother with a melee tool, there's no downside to bayonet weapons anymore, talons and trauma variants have more recoil though.Alert trip mines burn 25 HP per trap, UI is still worse compared to pre-1896, but better than launch 1896.All maps are now in the game, and rain is available for Desalle and Gulch. I think it's in a good spot now, if this was how 1896 launched it would have been a huge success.
I fucking love rain!
>>1922044reddit
>>1930735no u
>>1901600Honestly the guns and gear don't matter 1/2 as much as you think they do. >>1901497Don't take each game too seriously, it's meant to be fun. Don't focus on winning the game, just get into as many fights as possible. That'll make you a better player in the long run.>>1907154Not bad, due to the game not being competitive or very popular, there's not much incentive to cheat or design cheats. >>1907345Obvious b8
>>1931299ironically posted gif
>>1932109>Not bad, due to the game not being competitive or very popularobvious b8 or you're below 5 starcrytek has openly admitted 10% of playerbase hacks 6 star lobbies are 2% of playerbase, obviously hackers will be high eloso if you're 5/6 star you're guaranteed hackers every single game>>1930735rain is currently the only saving grace of this fucking game and they're retarded for making it 1/10 games when every other time they bring something out they force it down your throat 100% of games
>>1932680>obvious b8 or you're below 5 starI'm 2800 hours inIt's kind of moot to debate about how many hackers there are. There are people(like me) who obviously don't think there is much of an issue, but I've met people who tell me there is someone hacking in every game we play. In the end, no one really knows.My own experiences with cheating in this game are as follows:I notice people who derender foliage and other objects a few times a week. I've met people who use exploits to see further(up to 30ft) through fog. I've met people who mess with the EQ of the game so much that you wouldn't be able to tell the audio is from hunt showdown, but they can tell when you breathe in to ADS from 40ft away. I've met people who congregate in discords dedicated to selling and sharing cheats. TL;DR hunt has the same amount of cheaters as any online game, probably a little bit on the lower end.
>>1907154The redpill is you should assume a good portion of the people you see complaining about cheaters in any given game are coping and falsely accusing people. It really doesn't take anything special to get some people to accuse you.
>>1932680>crytek has openly admitted 10% of playerbase hacksWhen? Where?
Who do you guys play this game with? What is it like?
>>1935908>who do you play withfriends>what is it likeits terrible but i like them more than i hate this game, fuck bald gnome, regen shots and dual pistols
>>1936405I'm playing with some people I met on hunt official. Been playing with some of the same guys for over a year. I've noticed a lot of players are good at the game, but really bad at playing with team mates.
>>1894206feeling fine
>>1896006It sure is, you been living under a rock?
>>1947677this is like the slowest thread on /vm/i still play and have fun, but there's nothing to optimistically talk aboutdevs are cooked
>>1947690Why didn't anybody tell me how fun medium slot loadouts are? I've never played them until my current prestige and have to say it's a lot of fun. Once I get to medium range I feel very versatile and ready to fight in any situation. >>1947690Been here a while and have realized there's nothing to talk about. I play 75 hours a week, but nothing to post here about. State of the game is good though desu.
>>1948460medium guns are great. currently tho there's gunrunner and you can start with quartermaster so it's not commoni do it anyway just for nostalgia since the event is 3 fucking months long>I play 75 hours a week, but nothing to post here about.turns out actual gamers are too busy gaming to chin wag but that's kinda why all the redditors that don't play the game are who devs listen to
>population declines as event starts to end and normies are all playing silkslop despite never playing hollow knight>drop to 4star from 6 out of nowhere due to pre-mades having MMR all over the place>suspicious headshots all over the place>play some solo to in an attempt to mitigate and change MMR, get the worst possible spawns and situations, kill multiple and don't rank up anyway>play some clash since i figure i can get matches now due to lower MMR>get matched with 6* premades with 3+kd headshotted across the map back to back to backthe game going to absolute ass cancer 1-2 weeks before event ends till next event is one of the most consistent patterns i found in this game, i never really get burned out by the game itself, it just turns to garbage in patterns.
>>1949147You dropped from 6* to 4* star. You made it. Also bounty clash has it's own hidden mmr.Game is like this every event, that's for sure. When event starts the player pool is completely bulked out. Even the most casual players are trying out the new content. Your lobbies are much more evenly filled and the majority of the people playing want to play wild and have some fun. At this point in the event there are a bunch of people who've quit and are taking a break until the next event starts. Everyone's finished the battlepass, bored of the event content, and waiting until crytek do something new before they play the game again.The only people hanging around now and until the next event starts are the no lifers and the sweats. People who play this game like a mil sim, people who sit on random parts of the map and try to snipe people to increase their kd, people who sit outside of scan range until they know they're the last team in the lobby to push. The absolute scum of the earth. There is a chinese bili bili streamer(EU servers btw) with a 5.8kd who I get matched against sometimes. Usually it's not so often, but 4/5 days this week I've spent 4 hours of every morning getting slapped by this guy on repeat. I don't even feel anger when I die to him anymore it's just a sigh of resignation. I'm not sure if he's cheating or just completely cracked out on adderall but there should be at least 4 tiers of cyberpsychos between me and him in the match making.
>>1949118Can't wait until they remove the gunrunner shit from the game. It was fun for a bit but there is not that much creative stuff I've done with it. Most people just take long ammo and a shotgun, and I am sick of pushing long ammo players only to be crowned in the face. In terms of good gun runner loadouts my favorite is drilling+drilling. A lot of players instinctively try to move after they hear two drilling shots: "he's reloading, this is my chance to push/move". You fire your first two drilling shots and switch to your second drilling, often you'll see a guy running in the open or repeaking you from the same angle he's been fighting from. Often even people you tag with one of your first shots will be taking risks because they think it's their time to move. It will take teams quite a while to realize you've got two, and even when they realize the instinct to react to the two drilling rounds being fired is so strong; they've been training this reaction for 1000's of hours. The cadence of a double drilling player seems to be very hard for most players to adapt to. If anyone else's got some creative gun runner loadouts, let me know.
>>1949332my gripe is the matchmaking doesn't matter because it prioritizes full matches over rank and it fucks over people like me who play either randoms or solo with decent skill but no metaslave e-sport tryharding, after 2k+ hours its so obvious the game just has hidden mechanics and calculations based on player metrics to fuck you over. also i rarely find the super obvious hackers that headshot you 150m across walls with dual scottfields but its obvious how high KD players are all using variety of ESP etc even if they aren't aimbotting, its an entire subculture with lame fucking youtube montages and everything, the reshade clan crowd. i wish they would make a new gamemode with souped up PVE, bad weather conditions/night, solo or duo only, restricted loadouts, that you could always load into even if there are no full matches to be made.
>>1949343first match after leaving this post and i get the exact problem, random matchmaking is so fucked and 4* players can be so bad, just now had another ESL turbojeet who sperged in the most comical way when he died as i frantically kept trying to get him to stop hiding and revive our teammate while surrounded by 3 teams. >piece of shit noob gay noob i report you etc etcits funny but all i really want is a good fun match, not tardwrangle 70 iq subhumans who hide their kd and play with sparks silencer incendiary. i either play solo or get this, and i dont like the hyperfocus intensity of solo. people who act like below 5 star is more fun don't understand how unfun random trios are, its like being in special ed in a 3rd world country on EU servers.
>>1949340i play drilling a lot and tried double drilling before, even without gunrunner i'd take the shorty, but it just feels like you spend half the time reloading. also gunrunner doesn't make that much of a difference, the crown shorty is so strong aswell and i see it used more than full gunrunner. anyway i like vetterli silencer or cyclone with a shotgun to play aggressively with.
>>1949343>>1950015You sound like you're burned out of the game and need a break dude. Also try find some mates on the official hunt discord to play with. I used to play there a lot until I found guys I like to play with, now I have regular mates I've been playing with for over a year. >>1950025Yeah the small crown is obnoxious shit. Sorry double drilling didn't work out for you, it's my jam. I've played some cyclone shotgun. Great if you have fire on the cyclone and you can push while they try to put themselves out. It is the normal rifle+shotgun though. I'm watching a trio and one of the guys just played cyclone+explosive crossbow, which seems like a cool combo.
>>1950200i'm not really burned out, all this started happening after i took a break, but i'll probably just play solo a lot more now. btw you should really play cyclone with FMJ, it lets you 2-tap arms up to like 77 meters which is insane, and you can very often get wallbangs with it, always play with an ammo box.
>let me see what 4chan is saying about the tarot cards>nobody is posting anything about itgrimmy
>>1955253well its gonna be a nothingburger or fuck up the whole game again and the teasers never make anything clear so.....
>>1955253there's definitely going to be at least one tarot card that is unfun bullshit
>>1955378its all going to be extremely situational and one-time use redundancy, but one will be something like a random teleport that will be cancer
by the way what is the other teaser of the fossil imprint on the ground and the skull/spine on the t-shirt? it looks like something like a predator or alien crossover.
>>1955575lolno>>1955270every time. they'll probably do some overbalanced bs this time since current event is hugest nothingburgeralso teasing next event during event is sad desperate
>>1955654>also teasing next event during event is sad desperatehard disagree, you're just a jaded fuck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlurPSQjOT0i'm just kind of surprised they're doing a spider event and content when we already have a spider boss, i guess itll just be the hunter and a new event compound, tie it all to tarot cards lorewise like the last 2 events somehow.
>>1956045i would prefer they just run events back to back at this point, also that guy is forgetting this one was the longest one yet, running at 90 days i think.
>>1956301I guess it makes sense The other bosses have their own hunter skins and weps except spider
>2nd bounty team rushes to ambush us while chasing a straggling sniper>counter fragbow spam with lightning fast 5 kill drilling dumdum clutchmost fun gun in the game
Loot from stabbing a scoundrel with a pitchfork
>>1957773man i really need to open my profile comments, i missed out on 2k hours of braindamaged slav rage.
what's your favourite loadout for clash? i've been playing solo lately and i think the 1865 carbine is the perfect clash weapon even if you spent whatever.
>>1958402Romero, and 3 tool slots dedicated to traps
>>1961662running shotgun in clash is shit because 90% of the match does the same
some faggot on reddit posted a video finding a guy blasting johnny rebel on voip and mods deleted the whole post
since it very much seems like the new event will have its new compound be a new AI/boss, what kind of events do you think they'll add to it if anything new at all? besides a bounty token.
reminder; the game uses hidden mechanics based on gambling psychology to keep you chasing dopamine hits from repetitive gameplaythe reddit meme "hunt giveth, hunt taketh" is typical of reddits' lack of self awareness since they clearly feel it but are in denial of the cause>visual handicap maps when you pick a scoped weapon>horrible spawnfights when you are about to level to 50>spawns very far away from the boss as a solo, right next to the other solo(s)it goes further than this, i noticed that as people "settle in" during events 3-4 weeks in, they ramp up gold register spawns, reward legendary hunters and bloodbonds through dark tribute. the game most likely records your performance with loadouts and what you die to, then if you have a winning streak, all of a sudden you spawn right next to the guys in the match with the stuff you statistically die to, with 4 crow and horse spawns in your face. then after having frustrating gameplay, the next day you get "regular" spawns again, ive had this so many times.there is no way you have performance go wildly up and down exactly on alternating days when the game is so heavily based on time-invested gamesense and frequent playing.
>>1964954there's only so much cope a man can produce without endangering himself and his loved ones
>>1965033denying it is the cope, how many hours do you have? all of these are very recognized patterns
>>1965088>n-n-n-no u>how m-m-m-many hours
>>1965102crytek openly collects data on loadout usage and also uses it for random matchmaking, what makes you think they won't use it so you remain a paypig? stop being so naive.
>david sir, all of our finances are in the red and our playerbase is dwindling, what shall we do?>...>...sir?>Deploy ze hot goth waifu.>...mein gott....
>>1966543https://www.crytek.com/news/web-of-the-empress-coming-soon
>The Hanged Man: Allows you to spectate the nearest enemy Hunter. The target will be warned afterwards.
>>1966591>including the Empress who claims a maternal bond they do not reciprocate.Frienzoned by some spider abominations KEK
i'm glad they're increasingly doing gameplay mechanics instead of meaningless filler trash. the scarce weapons also don't sound too overboard, i'm going to guess the centennial might be a long ammo one, the extended rival will probably just have romero+ reach and low recoil. however the AOE damage tarot card sounds cancer. >The Tower: Unleashes massive damage to monsters and Targets in a large radius, but sets the user on fire.i imagine a team throwing some dynamites or frags, then activating one and nuking a team effortlessly, or using it in bounty clash in general.. hopefully they simply don't store after a match or something.
>>1966694actually, Target probably means boss targets, my bad.
>>1966591I wonder what "Allows you to spectate the nearest enemy Hunter." means exactly, feels like they would use a different phrase if it's just a dark vision boost thing. Seeing through enemy hunter's eyes, perhaps?
>>1966879i assume it means that, thats how you used to see bosses so maybe they brought it back like that, seems pretty extensive for a throwaway mechanic though.
>>1966591>two new scarce weaponsmite b cool
the spider compound looks amazing for trapping btw
Finally got the achievementThere were 2 Sledgehammer in that compound so there was lots of throwing beforehand
>>1967052Me likey
>>1966879testing for spectate features in future
>>1967797yeah they seem to be constantly testing things during events, i sure hope they buff the rival after this one too, thing fucking sucks.
>>1967831true. it should suck though. when it doesn't i am mad >:l
>>1967839why? its the worst shotgun by far, i would take a romero handcannon over it these days, or a romero hatchet the best gun in the game. even if it gets buffed people will keep using specter and slate and crown that shit all over it.
>>1967844i would do the samei still die to it sometimes and am mad because it sucksretard
>>1967845i cant recall the last time i died to it or even saw it, because nobody uses it because it sucks so bad
>>1967469>romero and katanawhat drives someone to do this? being european?
>>1967898What's wrong with it
>>1967797I hope it leads to a replay systemBecause sometimes I really would like to know how things unfolded after I extracted
>>1966603Crytek would have made them cats, but that would have been too on the nose.
>>1966543It just goes to show that the games industry can pander to feminists bullshit but when the chips are down they know exactly where their bread is buttered.
>>1966543>>1967991they'll just make her a canon lesbian or trans
>>1967898>what drives someone to do this?high testosterone levels
>>1967898i agree, could have taken just a romero hatchet and empty slow.
>>1968259slot*
reminder the 1865 carbine outperforms literally everything within compounds (except for maybe dolchp) at 70 hunt dollars, and streamers have made multiple videos smearing it so people don't use it against them. weapons smeared as memes/shit>bomblance (can use bolt thrower now, improved projectiles, very common free traits now with the bears around)>dual conversions (very accurate up to 20m, wipes trios easily, part of the "counter shotguns" niche like the carbine, wallbang spam)>1865 carbine (140 damage with winfield firerate, very fast reload, high capacity, very clean ironsights, 2 taps arms and legs from like 50m) >bornheim silencer (really spammable and accurate, very fast reload, the silencer actually lets you get away with some extra shots) >rival or terminus levering with dragonbreath (rival DB is better than buckshot 2tap-wise, terminus is the same but has the burning aswell, burns downed hunters to 25health if they get revived at all, extremely good in boss compounds)>sparks pistol (basically the only pocket sniper now, reload speed has been buffed multiple times, does 149 dmg, high drop-range)
>>1968336sorry, 1865 carbine does 145 damage, not 140.
the ''non-event'' season feels more like an event at this pointfucking milking it crytek
>>1968347vanilla hunt feels empty and bleeds players like hell, i prefer having event compounds and spending pledgemarks on cash and traits
>>1968351Yeah, I'm excited for the patch and new event but at the same time simpler Hunt feels refreshing
>>1968355i got sick of events when they had the alarming totems and they were still around while everyone had completed the battlepass, but now i'm just liking the seasonal aspect of hunt, things are less intrusive the past few events. the previous event was basically just a battlepass with a bounty cache aswell.
>>1968359except for the time they gave the 1865 carbine challenge and every match was spamming it at you, that must have been the worst 2 weeks i played hunt.
>>1968257>implying my "cannon" cares about cyteks canon.
Anyone else find the aperture sight on the 1865 useless? Seems to me they set the range too low.Got a shitty view even amongst other aperture guns.
>>1968513i never use aperture sights because they're weird/shitty but its a 60m< gun anyway, its seriously good close range. also the silencer variant is pretty useless since the vetterli silencer exists, which is also really great these days since the fire rate buffs.
>>1968536I guess I just don't get the logic behind it. The 1865 is a beast at close range, but aperture sights are more sharp-shootery but setting the range so low doesn't give you the benefit of making head clicking at range easier only the negetive of a shitier sight profile.The other aperture guns have more headroom in the circle making them better at range.I just don't get Crytek sometimes...
>>1968691just wacky variant fillersame reason the lemat carbine has a marksman variant and centennial a sniper variant
>>1968715The thing is I actually enjoy the "filler" weapons for instance I like the obrez match, but goddamn does crytek implement shit in the worst ways sometimes.
>>1968715what's wrong with centennial sniper?
>>1967959>no effective weapon outside of 10myeah no youre right nothing wrong with it, bet you play traps too, nigger
>>1968336muzzle velocity is abysmal though, especially with fmj; its too inconsistent at moving targets you have to go for hard reads every time.
>>19689193 tool slots were dedicated to traps, thank you very much
>>1968935you don't need FMJ on it, wallpen nerfs has ruined it all anyway. velocity is good enough for its intended range.
>>1968941kys yourself>>1968942qrd me on the wallpen changes i've been in and out since nu engine
>>1968814>obrez match>variant filleri don't think you know what that means>>1968957>qrd me on the wallpen changesthey made it essentially non existent, long ammo was doing like 20dmgthen they unnerfed it and nobody has done an analysis but it still seems pretty shit
>>1969024>obrez match>variant filler>i don't think you know what that meansYou're saying that as if when that weapon was announced there weren't countless "whats the point of this weapon" posts.
>>1969065it was the first medium slot long ammo weapon and only idiots asked that question
>>1969070The obrez match is the carbine mosin its full size.
>>1969073oh yeah i'm dumbwell it's cheap access to long ammo with mild trade off
>>1969086shitter you probably haven't even read 1000 lore entries on cryteks website
how come EU server low 4 stars are basically like US servers' high 6 stars?
>>1968957Vigilant costs 1 (one) perk point, you scrub
>>1969447I have no problem fighting it, im just saying the shoe fits for a scrub playstyle, faggot
>>1969616u mad? u mad
Friendly reminder that the Obrez Drum gets 25 total rounds, the highest of any long ammo gun, and it's only downside compared to full length rifles is more recoil + slightly more sway.
there is no reason not to trap as a solo thoughbeit
>>1969895i love the medium slot loadouts but i notice i just can't hit shit with the high sway compared to fullsized guns.
>>1969619>sucks cock>be told its gay to suck cock>bro u just maduh huh
>>1970497>cock analogy
as soon as the new event starts, i'll be solo camping the spider nest with shotgun, 3 trap slots and frontiersman, perhaps some dark satchels aswell. don't take it personal.i hope it has a lot of grass on the outside.
>>1970729update: i just watched trailer again and i've seen the compound is quite big with multiple entries, and there are patches of grass outside. i will definitely be putting shit inside especially.hopefully they still have catalyst upgrade frontiersman so we can carry 5 killtraps with 8 alert trips or 5 beartraps minus toolboxes.
