#lore-discussion | Hunt: Showdown 1896 Official | Page 61

real cedar May 27, 2025, 3:13 AM

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It doesn't fit the lore too well either for just some guy to be getting recreated over and over by the sculptor

orchid tangle May 27, 2025, 3:27 AM

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I don't want that either

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I want body horror hunter

tiny apex May 27, 2025, 12:53 PM

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real cedar It doesn't fit the lore too well either for just some guy to be getting recreate...

What's the sculptor?

neat juniper May 27, 2025, 1:42 PM

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tiny apex What's the sculptor?

Tldr - eldritch not really a God trying to invade hunter world via medium of spreading infection that turns people into grunts

supple smelt May 27, 2025, 4:45 PM

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I need to be injected with teasers like the fool injected people with his special juice

granite shard May 27, 2025, 4:48 PM

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hm

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can we try that again, a different way

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I'm not a fan of that one

supple smelt May 27, 2025, 5:00 PM

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I’m not sure it’s in the budget

real dove May 27, 2025, 5:05 PM

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Can't wait to see what else is changed/added

granite shard May 27, 2025, 5:07 PM

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bird jail my beloved

real cedar May 27, 2025, 5:10 PM

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So that's why it took 10 months, if layouts are changing that drastically. Entire new buildings and entire new elevated areas

real dove May 27, 2025, 5:10 PM

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Yup. Makes sense

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likely the last map they were working on and if peli is an indication, likely some major changes

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looks like it got a facelift too

supple smelt May 27, 2025, 5:14 PM

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real cedar So that's why it took 10 months, if layouts are changing that drastically. Entir...

Realistically less than that cause they did Stillwater and Lawson first

real cedar May 27, 2025, 5:14 PM

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Hard to say exactly whether work was overlapping on it or sequential

supple smelt May 27, 2025, 5:15 PM

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A bit of both most likely but they’re not doing 3 at once

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Unless their mapping team is way bigger than we all imagine lol

real dove May 27, 2025, 5:15 PM

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yeah, cant be sure but doing all 3 at once seems silly

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dedicate to 1 at a time

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makes more sense to me but ja, who knows

real cedar May 27, 2025, 5:17 PM

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I'd guess that pre-production of other map reworks was overlapping with the level designers actually changing the maps

supple smelt May 27, 2025, 5:18 PM

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I’m not sure much pre production would go into this other than a designer giving notes

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But I’d imagine level designers also do the manual work in most cases

brazen root May 27, 2025, 5:27 PM

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real dove

Holy shit pelican is finally good now??

real dove May 27, 2025, 5:27 PM

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brazen root Holy shit pelican is finally good now??

unknown but it has been changed :3

brazen root May 27, 2025, 5:27 PM

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The lack of cover in the uphill section surrounding it was my number 1 issue with the place

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Thank god

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This looks so good

granite shard May 27, 2025, 5:27 PM

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I love bird jail so much

brazen root May 27, 2025, 5:29 PM

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Looks like there's a massive opening in the side of the main building too

supple smelt May 27, 2025, 5:33 PM

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A million new entrances too

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Wish I still had my group to play with when it comes out

mint wind May 27, 2025, 5:35 PM

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Let's be mindful that this might be the change highlight, we still don't know if other compounds have been improved this drastically.

supple smelt May 27, 2025, 5:36 PM

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even if they haven’t I think this was by far the worst compound to play in

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The only one I think an improvement could be good for would be that one giant barn place

brazen root May 27, 2025, 5:40 PM

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supple smelt even if they haven’t I think this was by far the worst compound to play in

Yuup

brazen root May 27, 2025, 5:41 PM

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mint wind Let's be mindful that this might be the change highlight, we still don't know if...

And yeah I'm assuming that the only other change is the haybales on moses poultry lol, anything more is a pleasant surprise

mint wind May 27, 2025, 5:41 PM

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supple smelt The only one I think an improvement could be good for would be that one giant ba...

Heritage, or Moses ?

mint wind May 27, 2025, 5:42 PM

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brazen root And yeah I'm assuming that the only other change is the haybales on moses poultr...

Nah, at the shipyard you have a ladder and a little access to get inside, not just the side walk.

real cedar May 27, 2025, 5:42 PM

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Ash Creek could use some reworking, other than that I think most of DeSalle's compounds are solid

supple smelt May 27, 2025, 5:42 PM

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Desalle is the most modern map so you’d expect it to take the least tweaking

brazen root May 27, 2025, 5:42 PM

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Ass cheeks lumber as i used to call it

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The exterior area could use some more cover

real cedar May 27, 2025, 5:43 PM

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Most of the Lumber themed compounds are a step down, funny enough

real dove May 27, 2025, 5:44 PM

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supple smelt Desalle is the most modern map so you’d expect it to take the least tweaking

well, judging from the peli rework, they decided it did need some major work

real cedar May 27, 2025, 5:45 PM

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Sometimes you have an idea for a compound that seems legit but then doesn't work out when given to the players, like Gas Works

supple smelt May 27, 2025, 5:45 PM

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I think gas works isn’t too annoying to fight in but often turns into the two towers fighting

real cedar May 27, 2025, 5:47 PM

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That's the main problem, it funnels players into two core options for tackling the compound, the others aren't as viable. Like the underground tunnels might as well not exist

mint wind May 27, 2025, 5:47 PM

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Gasworks is imo a missed opportunity to bring back double lair - compounds.

supple smelt May 27, 2025, 5:47 PM

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My least favourite compound is the new rail yard place

mint wind May 27, 2025, 5:47 PM

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Terminus ?

supple smelt May 27, 2025, 5:47 PM

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ye

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Never had a fun fight there I feel like

mint wind May 27, 2025, 5:48 PM

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Kinda disagree, the lair is open enough to make people willing to fight head on even if there's still the boss.

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The only compound I'm not a huge fan of would be the only farm there, but only because Hunt already has so many farms... Mammon still have the most well-thought compounds in general imo.

noble scarab May 27, 2025, 5:55 PM

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Fingers crossed they did some work inside pelican too, the bottom was a cluster fuck and the top had weird sight lines, only directly across or down to parts of below

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If someone was holding the bottom with a shotgun and you didn’t have a full loadout of explosives there wasn’t much you could do

spiral mica May 27, 2025, 7:34 PM

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DeSalle is going to be peak now

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Prison looks so incredible now

gilded umbra May 27, 2025, 11:23 PM

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Definitely 👍🏼

earnest jungle May 28, 2025, 7:04 AM

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So my library hold for Blood Meridian finally came up and: the first appearance of Judge Holden sure is something else

orchid tangle May 28, 2025, 8:00 AM

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I've been rereading it since I last read it liek freshman year high school

fast rover May 28, 2025, 2:39 PM

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@real dove he's read stuff and needs to know COOL details 😎

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WICKED

tiny apex May 28, 2025, 4:55 PM

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What Hunter has the coolest lore?

granite shard May 28, 2025, 4:56 PM

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it depends. I think for me it's ultimately the witch hunter

real cedar May 28, 2025, 5:01 PM

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GUESS WHO'S BACK

granite shard May 28, 2025, 5:01 PM

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"Something’s out there.
It feels familiar at first glance, but there's something off. The shape. The silence. The way it moves.
Whatever it is, keep your distance."

real cedar May 28, 2025, 5:02 PM

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Since it took this long, surely they've de-circused it?

granite shard May 28, 2025, 5:02 PM

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is it the bear? I don't recognize the shape but that's the only sort of AI I could think of that they added and removed

lucid anvil May 28, 2025, 5:02 PM

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real cedar Since it took this long, surely they've de-circused it?

I really hope so

granite shard May 28, 2025, 5:02 PM

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okay yeah bear. probably decircused

real cedar May 28, 2025, 5:02 PM

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The arm is 1000% the bear

lucid anvil May 28, 2025, 5:02 PM

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Loved the bear, didn’t love that event so much

granite shard May 28, 2025, 5:03 PM

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honestly I liked the non-post malone stuff

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and I liked the gatcha machine I just didn't like the david branding on it lol

lucid anvil May 28, 2025, 5:04 PM

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granite shard and I liked the gatcha machine I just didn't like the david branding on it lol

It’s a bit of a theme, that. The core ideas are cool, but the tacky branding etc glued on just spoils it

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At least it did for me.

earnest jungle May 28, 2025, 5:05 PM

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I’m not sure it’s the bear but wait actually it might be the bear

granite shard May 28, 2025, 5:05 PM

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the bear's really the only big mob they've added and taken away

earnest jungle May 28, 2025, 5:05 PM

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At the end of Blood Meridian there’s a dancing bear that the judge kills after the kid compares him to it unfavorably

real cedar May 28, 2025, 5:06 PM

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Scrawny arm and ropes on the snout, it's definitely Ursa Mortis

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Looks like the head spikes are gone maybe?

earnest jungle May 28, 2025, 5:08 PM

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My other thought was that it was some kind of new exploding/fire mob what with the burning photograph

granite shard May 28, 2025, 5:09 PM

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I'm with rai on it being the bear tbh

loud steeple May 28, 2025, 5:09 PM

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The hand looks too human

granite shard May 28, 2025, 5:09 PM

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eh, look at the leftmost arm

real dove May 28, 2025, 5:18 PM

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MY BABY

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@visual finch we're going bear patting

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I hope

mint wind May 28, 2025, 5:20 PM

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Bearby

real dove May 28, 2025, 5:21 PM

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I have missed my belov

lofty quarry May 28, 2025, 5:25 PM

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real cedar Scrawny arm and ropes on the snout, it's definitely Ursa Mortis

You could say thay "Circus-msized" ursa mortis!

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https://tenor.com/view/hercules-disney-hercules-hades-eh-eh-what-about-it-gif-368380046994699541

Tenor

real cedar May 28, 2025, 5:25 PM

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https://tenor.com/view/bat-man-gif-22909934

Tenor

granite shard May 28, 2025, 5:26 PM

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neat juniper May 28, 2025, 5:31 PM

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https://tenor.com/view/lowtiergod-meme-lowtiergod-mods-moderators-gif-6196590610942002814

Tenor

visual finch May 28, 2025, 5:37 PM

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real dove <@565787918640087051> we're going bear patting

Fuck yeah

supple smelt May 28, 2025, 6:07 PM

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lofty quarry You could say thay "Circus-msized" ursa mortis!

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1285244470971076760/1285248760187846696/caption-4.gif

brazen root May 28, 2025, 6:12 PM

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So have we seen that thing before

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Okay yeah the bear did have funny arms

tulip kindle May 28, 2025, 6:15 PM

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lofty quarry You could say thay "Circus-msized" ursa mortis!

Heh

glossy karma May 28, 2025, 8:09 PM

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Five bucks says bear will be a DeSalle exclusive Wild Target, and they're planning a fourth one for one of the other two maps

real cedar May 28, 2025, 8:14 PM

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It'd be cool to have overlapping wild targets, like Rotjaw could spawn in all the Louisiana maps while some other wild target is DeSalle only or Lawson only

acoustic whale May 28, 2025, 8:45 PM

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do people care about wild targets even?

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i'd rather they spend time on adding a new boss

granite shard May 28, 2025, 8:45 PM

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also do we know if she's gonna be a wild target?

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she was basically meatman tier in the circus

acoustic whale May 28, 2025, 8:46 PM

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she?

granite shard May 28, 2025, 8:46 PM

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the bear

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I think having another meatman tier mob would make more sense, esp since the spear's niche got pushed towards the big AI wrecker category

orchid tangle May 28, 2025, 8:47 PM

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I want her to spawn completely randomly with 0 indication where she is, that'd keep up a scare factor for a decent bit

granite shard May 28, 2025, 8:49 PM

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dude imagine just hitting a bramble bush as you're running through the woods

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and suddenly she's chasing you down

orchid tangle May 28, 2025, 8:50 PM

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I want it because the only time this game has made me jump is when I'm running through water to get distance on an enemy and fucking princess charges out of a bush directly infront of me

spiral mica May 28, 2025, 8:50 PM

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I'd like the idea of the bear being a wild target on all the maps.

noble scarab May 28, 2025, 8:52 PM

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The Bear would’ve been a good exclusive target for Colorado

spiral mica May 28, 2025, 9:08 PM

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Yeah, I agree. I've also said this before, but I wish a lot of the monster appearances changed for Mammon's gulch. Instead of meatheads we'd have meatbears with leeches or something. Hellhounds could've been these really furry looking zombie wolves instead of the Italian mastiff looking hellhounds in the Bayou. Grunts would be wearing warmer clothing for the mountains.

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I think this kind of change to the monsters appearances would've helped the different identity that Mammon's gulch has from the Bayou as a map. It would've solidified the idea that we're definitely in a new and different place from the Bayou.

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It would basically be the Hunt Showdown equivalent of Dorothy Gale from The Wizard of Oz saying "we're not in Kansas anymore."

real cedar May 28, 2025, 9:17 PM

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I could see it happen for the grunts and maybe the hives but the lore doesn't really support non-mastiff hellhounds and animal meatheads

spiral mica May 28, 2025, 9:34 PM

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I mean, I could see a possibility where the Sculptor takes a couple of grizzly bears and fills them with leeches or the incursion affecting a pack of wolves. Really anything that could justify the monsters on Mammon's gulch appearing differently than the monsters seen in the Bayou.

glossy karma May 28, 2025, 9:37 PM

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acoustic whale do people care about wild targets even?

I mean they're effectively just a different style of boss, so why not? I like them

orchid tangle May 28, 2025, 9:37 PM

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whats the reason for non mastiff hounds

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is it like a hive thing where sculptor is just copy and pasting one example

real cedar May 28, 2025, 9:41 PM

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orchid tangle is it like a hive thing where sculptor is just copy and pasting one example

Ye, the sculptor seems to copy a group of hounds over and over rather than it being a shitton of dogs that each individually got corrupted as it (kinda) is for grunts and armoreds

mint wind May 28, 2025, 9:41 PM

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earnest jungle At the end of Blood Meridian there’s a dancing bear that the judge kills after t...

Wasn't it just a ruffian who killed the poor bear ?

granite shard May 28, 2025, 9:42 PM

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real cedar I could see it happen for the grunts and maybe the hives but the lore doesn't re...

Tbf there’s a way to get non mastiff hounds with German shepherds

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Since we have that book of weapons entry where bunny had been referred to as a German shepherd

real cedar May 28, 2025, 9:47 PM

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Maybe that's just an example of an unreliable narrator. I kinda assumed it was Crytek's mistake the way it gets disputed in two other spots but perhaps it's intentional, like Micah Mitchell's journal being the wrong year.
The counterargument of course is how do you get your own dogs breed that wrong, or how do you not know what year it is.

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But yeah they could easily put the work in to explain huge variants, they just haven't yet and I don't expect em to until Lore is firmly back in their focus

orchid tangle May 28, 2025, 9:50 PM

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I'm still having contrasting emotions about lore
this event feels like... if we're gonna ever get chapters again it'll be here, but they JUST axed a bunch of people idk how that becomes a priority again

real cedar May 28, 2025, 9:53 PM

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orchid tangle I'm still having contrasting emotions about lore this event feels like... if we'...

They axed people, but they also shifted Crysis 4 development onto Hunt, which would include some writers as well as that one narrative lead that sings for Port Sulphur Band. Add in the 5 months to get a story together for this event and it seems very possible.

orchid tangle May 28, 2025, 9:53 PM

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this is true

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I might buy through the pass if they do chapters so I can get a video up of it first day for people

but if I really like the unlocks I might want to grind legit because I'm one of the 12 people who likes working for thigns I already bought

real cedar May 28, 2025, 9:54 PM

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Events are the one time we have some real nice progression in Hunt, it is pretty nice to have stuff to work for

orchid tangle May 28, 2025, 9:55 PM

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I hope you're right in that doc has two skins for one before he goes crazy and one after. Not like they haven't done that before

glossy karma May 28, 2025, 10:00 PM

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Who's a good YouTuber for learning basic Hunt lore (like who/what the heck the sculptor is)?

real cedar May 28, 2025, 10:03 PM

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glossy karma Who's a good YouTuber for learning basic Hunt lore (like who/what the heck the s...

HazmatFTW has the most comprehensive lore videos, though they're more narrative structured rather than focused on being informative.
There's also Liisn, Hunter's Lodge, and a couple of primers by WiseFish

glossy karma May 28, 2025, 10:06 PM

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real cedar HazmatFTW has the most comprehensive lore videos, though they're more narrative ...

🤠👉👉

real dove May 28, 2025, 11:03 PM

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isnt bare dude

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bear

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2 dude

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?>

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i thought they were hes in a description

icy locust May 28, 2025, 11:03 PM

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real dove 2 dude

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yeah, this was before he mutated

real dove May 28, 2025, 11:04 PM

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lollllllllllllll

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do they still jiggle tho

icy locust May 28, 2025, 11:04 PM

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yes

real dove May 28, 2025, 11:04 PM

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vgood

icy locust May 28, 2025, 11:05 PM

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I've got a theory

real dove May 28, 2025, 11:07 PM

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needs more arm

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add arm

icy locust May 28, 2025, 11:07 PM

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yes

real dove May 28, 2025, 11:08 PM

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got foot

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foot not arm tho

real cedar May 28, 2025, 11:36 PM

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real dove i thought they were hes in a description

The names seem like it, Milo and Morggi

real dove May 28, 2025, 11:37 PM

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i swear they called them twin bear brothers

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but maybe crazy

real cedar May 28, 2025, 11:37 PM

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Maybe on the gramophone in the circus?

real dove May 28, 2025, 11:37 PM

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nah it was a post

brazen root May 29, 2025, 7:30 AM

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A post malone?

supple smelt May 29, 2025, 4:53 PM

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any post malones today?

topaz mirage May 29, 2025, 5:07 PM

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I have a theory....

gilded umbra May 29, 2025, 6:29 PM

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HUL

real cedar May 29, 2025, 6:36 PM

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Bah, the new post today is just the bilibili Darin one, and the bilibili one today is just the moses poultry one from a few days ago

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I'm still expecting the event's name to drop this week, maybe it's further away than I thought

granite shard May 29, 2025, 6:44 PM

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surprising that none of the teasers have had like

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any new weapons in them

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usually that feels like what they start with? maybe they're acknowleding that people are kinda tired of the new weapon focus so they're putting eyes on the more interesting part of the update

real cedar May 29, 2025, 6:45 PM

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Might be just another few variants this time and since DeSalle and Ursa are coming back that's much bigger

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Or maybe no new weapons, who knows

gilded umbra May 29, 2025, 6:56 PM

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No, there’s something more to the latest post today. “Something waits in the wreckage” and it ain’t no mouse. 🐁

mint wind May 29, 2025, 7:03 PM

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Squeak

spiral mica May 29, 2025, 7:16 PM

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topaz mirage I have a theory....

I'm assuming your sudden return is because of Desalle? Hoping for the return of the UFO at Kingsnake mine? I'll admit it'll be fun to see all the little references, and Easter eggs on Desalle again.

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I think everyone can agree that they've missed this map.

topaz mirage May 29, 2025, 7:28 PM

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I agree with this, but no comment on the alien stuff

gilded umbra May 29, 2025, 7:29 PM

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spiral mica I'm assuming your sudden return is because of Desalle? Hoping for the return of ...

I found the monolith from a certain science fiction movie….

supple smelt May 29, 2025, 7:33 PM

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spiral mica I think everyone can agree that they've missed this map.

Desalle still felt like a new map lol

spiral mica May 29, 2025, 7:34 PM

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gilded umbra I found the monolith from a certain science fiction movie….

Dracula at church, and Shrek in the swamp.

noble scarab May 29, 2025, 7:53 PM

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The big ass cowboy pumpkin

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And during the inferno, ghost rider

gilded umbra May 29, 2025, 7:54 PM

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I found a big fish wearing a hat. 🎩

mint wind May 29, 2025, 8:08 PM

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iirc the Ghost Rider one is always there.

orchid tangle May 29, 2025, 8:23 PM

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real cedar I'm still expecting the event's name to drop this week, maybe it's further away ...

I was honestlyhing thinking release date this week and then drop in like 2 weeks or something

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starting to doubt...

orchid tangle May 29, 2025, 8:24 PM

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spiral mica I'm assuming your sudden return is because of Desalle? Hoping for the return of ...

oh shit yeah we're gonna have weekly reddit posts of "what is this?" and the screenshot of the monolith again

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and it'll double because newer players

supple smelt May 29, 2025, 8:36 PM

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orchid tangle I was honestlyhing thinking release date this week and then drop in like 2 weeks...

usually a week or two of teasers then drops a week or two after announcement

acoustic whale May 30, 2025, 1:14 AM

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is the new desalle pic in announcements edited in a way?

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looks very high rez

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ingame engine can't be this clear

loud steeple May 30, 2025, 1:35 AM

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All the trailer style pictures with hunters in them are way higher res than is attainable:

rugged harbor May 30, 2025, 1:46 AM

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I think they’re trying to showcase that they’re bringing back more of the other Hunter models

loud steeple May 30, 2025, 2:25 AM

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Oh true didn’t notice that

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I like the evolving hunters

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Gives me something to do

gilded umbra May 30, 2025, 4:51 AM

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loud steeple All the trailer style pictures with hunters in them are way higher res than is a...

My maxed out graphics on PC look just like this. 👀

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And my graphics on PS5 are very close to that because of my HDR settings and 4K TV. 📺

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PC (Max Settings)

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PS5 (Calibrated HDR)

orchid tangle May 30, 2025, 8:44 AM

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idk if this was posted yet but from the CCP

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I'm sure theres some translation weirdness here so idk waht they mean by version?

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like name of the event? name of some new equipment?

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june 6 tho

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I can't imagine they're dropping the event on june 6 cuz no trailer yet and that's not a wednesday so maybe that's when the trailer drops

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game fest is also june 6 soo

supple smelt May 30, 2025, 9:01 AM

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orchid tangle idk if this was posted yet but from the CCP

was just about to post this lmao

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June 6 is just the giveaway I think

mint wind May 30, 2025, 9:53 AM

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The chinese CMs are wild lel.

orchid tangle May 30, 2025, 1:29 PM

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supple smelt June 6 is just the giveaway I think

I think it has to have some sorta announcement with it because you're not gonna give it to the right guesses, essentially confirming their guess, without showing the goods.

real dove May 30, 2025, 5:06 PM

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OOO

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Pearl has changed too

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Pearl my beloved

granite shard May 30, 2025, 5:07 PM

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really love them replacing some of the "generic" structures (white houses/shacks) with more unique ones

real dove May 30, 2025, 5:08 PM

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Agreed

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New upper floor entrance with that flooring break

granite shard May 30, 2025, 5:08 PM

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yeah I like that

mint wind May 30, 2025, 5:29 PM

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It's funny, before I didn't think much of the white shack. Now I'm glad it's gone.

spiral mica May 30, 2025, 6:34 PM

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real dove

Daaaamn Pearl I see you 👀

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I see a new topside entrance from the front there, and the removal of those bushes on the outside of the wall, but it looks like there's going to be additional cover once you actually get into the compound.

noble scarab May 30, 2025, 10:42 PM

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Pearl was already impossible to defend now it’s worse lol

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Somehow I found it both hard to defend and hard to push

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I think it’s my least favorite desalle compound

loud steeple May 30, 2025, 10:45 PM

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Upper Desalle is the correct answer

spiral mica May 30, 2025, 11:24 PM

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noble scarab Pearl was already impossible to defend now it’s worse lol

Not necessarily. We still don't know what the back or sides of Pearl really look like so they could've made some changes there as well.

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Maybe with these new changes they're suggesting the idea of players attacking from the front instead of the usual rotate and strike from behind that most players would do.

green pollen May 31, 2025, 1:16 PM

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noble scarab I think it’s my least favorite desalle compound

personally it's my favorite. Big ass shootout in a plantation house is peak western gameplay

gilded umbra May 31, 2025, 1:41 PM

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Pearl Plantation looks great. I can’t wait to die there. HntBigSad

upbeat kiln May 31, 2025, 6:16 PM

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Was there a story attached to Garden of the Witch?

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I can't seem to find any in the library of the great Rai

granite shard May 31, 2025, 6:16 PM

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Not really

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It was like harvest of ghosts where they had a narrative blurb in the press kit but I wouldn’t say it was a story as much as a justification for the skins

upbeat kiln May 31, 2025, 6:17 PM

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ah I see

granite shard May 31, 2025, 6:17 PM

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It was basically the welders use machinery and technology and the brujas use nature and stuff and they had to work together to fight a new onslaught of corruption

upbeat kiln May 31, 2025, 6:22 PM

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Was there conflict before the cooperation?

granite shard May 31, 2025, 6:24 PM

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It really wasn’t gone into that deeply haha. Here’s all of the blurbs abt the “story” from the different press releases

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It says they were at odds but nothing really specified

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Ultimately it’s why I’m still honestly not expecting a narrative for the upcoming event. These sounded like they could lead into something and we didn’t even get a blog during gotw lol

spiral mica May 31, 2025, 6:33 PM

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So judging by the screenshots they shared so far I'm guessing that Pelican, Moses and Pearl are the compounds they worked on the most.

noble scarab May 31, 2025, 6:40 PM

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I hope the middle-ish fishery one got a bit of a work

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That one was basically a rectangle with walls and not much room to move in or out

earnest jungle May 31, 2025, 7:34 PM

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While this is probably just flavor text I dig how it meshes with the Researcher's Speculations that the torturous human experiments performed by Warden Jabez on the inmates rather than being a symptom of the corruption is what drew the corruption to DeSale in the first place.

gilded umbra May 31, 2025, 8:10 PM

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upbeat kiln Was there conflict before the cooperation?

My favorite Hunt historian. 🤠

earnest jungle May 31, 2025, 8:52 PM

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granite shard It really wasn’t gone into that deeply haha. Here’s all of the blurbs abt the “s...

Part of me wonders if they wanted to do more narrative stuff but just weren't able to get it out in time

granite shard May 31, 2025, 8:57 PM

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I feel like it’s just like harvest of ghosts

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They just had something short to give a narrative justification

noble scarab May 31, 2025, 10:42 PM

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Harvest of ghosts had a narrative justification?

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Or a narrative at all? Lmao

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It had fun ideas tho, at least in regards to the seemingly evil pumpkin entity

loud steeple May 31, 2025, 10:43 PM

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Wasn’t harvest of ghosts when they removed lore

real dove May 31, 2025, 10:43 PM

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Mhm

noble scarab May 31, 2025, 10:43 PM

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Yea it was the first to not have chapters

real dove May 31, 2025, 10:43 PM

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Tho tbf

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The lore in scorched felt like Hellboy lore

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And not really event lore

noble scarab May 31, 2025, 10:44 PM

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It was the hellborns book of monsters chapters

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With some stuff for the backers mixed in

granite shard May 31, 2025, 10:47 PM

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Harvest of ghosts had this whole thing abt pumpkin boy weaponizing darksight

earnest jungle Jun 1, 2025, 1:28 AM

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granite shard Harvest of ghosts had this whole thing abt pumpkin boy weaponizing darksight

Was that ever followed up on or?

granite shard Jun 1, 2025, 1:29 AM

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No, that’s kinda what I’m talking abt lol

earnest jungle Jun 1, 2025, 1:29 AM

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Feels like a wasted opportunity to have introduced more offensive combat traits that used dark sight.

granite shard Jun 1, 2025, 1:29 AM

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These events have had small narrative blurbs in press releases that seem to set up a bigger story

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And then nothing

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Which is my fear for this upcoming event

earnest jungle Jun 1, 2025, 1:29 AM

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Which is fair

real cedar Jun 1, 2025, 2:19 AM

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earnest jungle Feels like a wasted opportunity to have introduced more offensive combat traits ...

Seems like it was a precursor to Shadow Crush and and the other recent dark sight traits

orchid tangle Jun 1, 2025, 2:20 AM

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granite shard Harvest of ghosts had this whole thing abt pumpkin boy weaponizing darksight

pumpkin man weaponizes darksight and a kendo player, girl who thinks she's a wolf, and fortune teller team up to murder him

...now I really wish we got lore just to see how they dealt with that

granite shard Jun 1, 2025, 3:03 PM

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Looks like the next DLC

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OH MY GOD

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AFTER TWO YEARS

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https://x.com/HuntShowdown/status/1929191275342819392

Hunt: Showdown (@HuntShowdown)

The Ghost of Blanchett Graves—coming soon!

When the moonlight hits just right, she moves through Blanchett unseen.
Is she a spirit, a Hunter, or something far worse?

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A woman

mint wind Jun 1, 2025, 3:09 PM

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Finally

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Woman.

granite shard Jun 1, 2025, 3:09 PM

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Now it’s time to go two years before the next one

spiral mica Jun 1, 2025, 3:25 PM

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Now the real question is if a mask conceals her face.

supple smelt Jun 1, 2025, 3:25 PM

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it's only been a year and.... 6 DLC

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lmao the last solo female hunter was actually 2 years ago

granite shard Jun 1, 2025, 3:25 PM

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supple smelt it's only been a year and.... 6 DLC

Two years

supple smelt Jun 1, 2025, 3:25 PM

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the only other two were bundled

granite shard Jun 1, 2025, 3:25 PM

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Yeah

supple smelt Jun 1, 2025, 3:26 PM

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before that they had almost 6 female hunters in a row

granite shard Jun 1, 2025, 3:26 PM

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They were still broken up w me tho

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Men*

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Like it was three and then a man

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Iirc

spiral mica Jun 1, 2025, 3:26 PM

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Also, don't the uppercut skins from garden of the witch mention Blanchett graves?

granite shard Jun 1, 2025, 3:26 PM

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Never a streak like this

supple smelt Jun 1, 2025, 3:26 PM

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granite shard Jun 1, 2025, 3:26 PM

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Yeah, three, scaramuccia, and then three

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As opposed to every single DLC for two years containing a man lmao

supple smelt Jun 1, 2025, 3:27 PM

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it is funny, I wonder what that looks like for BB hunters

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or BP ones

granite shard Jun 1, 2025, 3:27 PM

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I know we’ve had a few events where no women were launched

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I put together a doc awhile back of the ratio

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It was pretty bad

spiral mica Jun 1, 2025, 3:27 PM

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supple smelt it is funny, I wonder what that looks like for BB hunters

Definitely more diverse across the board, but when you strictly look at dlc it's been 2 years.

supple smelt Jun 1, 2025, 3:27 PM

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post malone's BP didn't have any, just giggles and the circus lady as BB hunters

spiral mica Jun 1, 2025, 3:28 PM

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Harvest of Ghosts didn't have any either in the BP.

supple smelt Jun 1, 2025, 3:28 PM

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it's funny that there's been such a long streak without any DLC ones cause in-game I feel like it probably is 50/50 male/female

supple smelt Jun 1, 2025, 3:28 PM

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spiral mica Harvest of Ghosts didn't have any either in the BP.

true

supple smelt Jun 1, 2025, 3:29 PM

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supple smelt it's funny that there's been such a long streak without any DLC ones cause in-ga...

in terms of what people use

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and whenever a female skin releases I feel like I see it 10x more often than new male hunter skins

granite shard Jun 1, 2025, 3:30 PM

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Okay this was around the harvest of ghost release that I put this together

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I think right before

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Time frame was after bone mason through probably silver spur’s launch

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The ratio got way skewed towards men lol

supple smelt Jun 1, 2025, 3:31 PM

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I wish we could still see every hunter even ones that can't be obtained anymore in the menu

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I liked going over old event skins

spiral mica Jun 1, 2025, 3:31 PM

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supple smelt and whenever a female skin releases I feel like I see it 10x more often than new...

That's true, but only because it's skins like Bloody red and Desert rose. I think for the entirety of Harvest of ghosts and up until the murder circus the bloody red skins were the most played female hunter. Possibly even the most played hunter skin in general.

spiral mica Jun 1, 2025, 3:32 PM

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supple smelt I wish we could still see every hunter even ones that can't be obtained anymore ...

Yeah, I'd like this for weapon skins too.

granite shard Jun 1, 2025, 3:32 PM

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On a cynical level, them selling better is probably why they’re more often sold as BB hunters— especially ones w multiple versions

spiral mica Jun 1, 2025, 3:32 PM

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Now we just can't see certain things we don't own, and we also can't read the description of hunters we own.

supple smelt Jun 1, 2025, 3:34 PM

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spiral mica That's true, but only because it's skins like Bloody red and Desert rose. I thin...

yep, would definitely see one almost every game during harvest

supple smelt Jun 1, 2025, 3:34 PM

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granite shard On a cynical level, them selling better is probably why they’re more often sold ...

do BB hunters really make them more? I'm aware that in theory they cost more but people can offset the cost with BBs gained from other stuff

granite shard Jun 1, 2025, 3:35 PM

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The BB gain in game is so negligible that you’re likely going to put however much money down into the game

supple smelt Jun 1, 2025, 3:38 PM

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what's the real point of splitting things into DLCs vs bundles atp, they charge more for BB stuff anyways lol

granite shard Jun 1, 2025, 3:38 PM

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Shrug emoji

real cedar Jun 1, 2025, 4:54 PM

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granite shard https://x.com/HuntShowdown/status/1929191275342819392

Now this is an interesting ass DLC.
The Ghost was first referenced in Interview with Fenella Cleve, the Vetterli Marksman mastery
What I mean is, that it was then I noticed the strange things that weren't hunters, or the rot. Did you ever hear the old stories about the Pearl Plantation?

If they're connecting that deep, why not do a second connection? What if it's Fiona, mad with grief over what Lewis DeSalle did to her husband and all those men?

real dove Jun 1, 2025, 5:55 PM

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God don't get my hopes up

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Rn I'm hoping it's a bride

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But callback would be dope

orchid tangle Jun 1, 2025, 8:46 PM

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Damn smalls can finally rest

orchid tangle Jun 1, 2025, 8:47 PM

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real dove Rn I'm hoping it's a bride

If they'd use that concept art design I'd insta buy

granite shard Jun 1, 2025, 8:54 PM

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orchid tangle Damn smalls can finally rest

Tomorrow we get the reveal that she’s bundled with a man and then I will scream for the rest of eternity

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😂😂😂

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Hunt doesn’t really do pride month stuff (shame, I feel like they could at least do subtle pride charms of like bundles of feathers in more natural versions the different flag colors) but this is a pride month release and therefore she should be a lesbian

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In this essay I—

orchid tangle Jun 1, 2025, 9:10 PM

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"The 'The Ghost of Blanchett Graves' DLC has been postponed! We are terribly sorry for the inconvenience but in place of it we'll be releasing our next partnership DLC 'Freddy Fazbear's® Wrath'"

granite shard Jun 1, 2025, 9:11 PM

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Lmfaoooooooo

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William afton went BACK IN TIME and he’s springing a trap on all the hunters

orchid tangle Jun 1, 2025, 9:14 PM

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Can't wait for those dusters I've had the nutcracker for so long

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Wait I switched to knuckle knife what am I talking about

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Why nowwww

granite shard Jun 1, 2025, 9:16 PM

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I’m abt to move back to my beloved dusters with these

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They look fantastic

noble scarab Jun 1, 2025, 9:16 PM

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Yall don’t just abuse the throwing axes?

granite shard Jun 1, 2025, 9:16 PM

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I need something to fuck up immos

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Using the butt of my gun is too stamina intensive pensive_cowboy

noble scarab Jun 1, 2025, 9:18 PM

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I think the only times I’ve been fucked over by it or wishing I had a blunt weapon I’ve been able to use chokes

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It is annoying tho

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But I can’t give up the axe utility

orchid tangle Jun 1, 2025, 9:21 PM

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noble scarab Yall don’t just abuse the throwing axes?

They don't aesthetically go with the hunters I use

noble scarab Jun 1, 2025, 9:21 PM

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Love a good aesthetics load out

granite shard Jun 1, 2025, 9:22 PM

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I also generally keep throwing axes on me

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I have them instead of fusees or a flare gun

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I hate instaburn shit so I avoid it even if it’s objectively the better play

orchid tangle Jun 1, 2025, 9:22 PM

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My fourth tool slot is reserved for derringers

granite shard Jun 1, 2025, 9:23 PM

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King

noble scarab Jun 1, 2025, 9:23 PM

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I go axes, medkit, flares/flaregun, chokes

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Sometimes I sub out for traps

granite shard Jun 1, 2025, 9:34 PM

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I hate traps with my entire being

loud steeple Jun 1, 2025, 9:34 PM

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Valid

noble scarab Jun 1, 2025, 10:24 PM

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I at least don’t trap extracts like some people

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And with my luck I always spawn on the opposite side of the map as the boss and don’t get a chance to set them up

orchid tangle Jun 1, 2025, 10:33 PM

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I don't take traps as I cannot trust my friends

real cedar Jun 1, 2025, 10:34 PM

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noble scarab I at least don’t trap extracts like *some* people

🥺 👉 👈

granite shard Jun 1, 2025, 10:46 PM

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orchid tangle I don't take traps as I cannot trust my friends

I can’t trust myself

orchid tangle Jun 1, 2025, 10:47 PM

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that too

granite shard Jun 1, 2025, 10:47 PM

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If there is a trap I will run into it

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Bc they get put in the areas people like to go

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However

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i am people

orchid tangle Jun 1, 2025, 10:47 PM

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one of my friends loves poison hand crossbow

granite shard Jun 1, 2025, 10:47 PM

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i like to go there

orchid tangle Jun 1, 2025, 10:47 PM

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that was a nightmare when there was that glitch where poison clouds kinda went invisible at certain angles

granite shard Jun 1, 2025, 10:47 PM

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Oh god

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Tho for me I used to always run an antidote shot

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So that wouldn’t be as much of a concern

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Nowadays I bring a milk shot w me so poison is scarier

orchid tangle Jun 1, 2025, 10:48 PM

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I've almost always ran 4 weak vit shots because I'm too lazy to make consumable loadouts
I was too lazy to even make strong vit shot loadouts for later in prestiges

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I should start bringing milk shots though

granite shard Jun 1, 2025, 10:49 PM

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I usually do 2 big regen, 1 stam, and 1 milk

orchid tangle Jun 1, 2025, 10:50 PM

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yep yep always 4 shots and I'll use whatever explosives I find off of corpses

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god I love injecting myself with mystery shots

granite shard Jun 1, 2025, 11:01 PM

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Me w shots

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There’s a reason I’m always broke

orchid tangle Jun 1, 2025, 11:04 PM

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part of me misses random 3 traits for hunters so I could waste all my frest prestige money on private eyes trying to get one without hundred hands

loud steeple Jun 1, 2025, 11:09 PM

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I misss the 3 randoms traits because I would just play what worked with them

earnest jungle Jun 2, 2025, 5:37 AM

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real cedar Now this is an interesting ass DLC. The Ghost was first referenced in Interview ...

I'm lost. Pearl Plantation and Blanchett Graves are two different locations on two different maps owned by two different families. How does this Ghost of Blanchett Graves Connect to the Ghost of Pearl Plantation?

earnest jungle Jun 2, 2025, 5:39 AM

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granite shard Hunt doesn’t really do pride month stuff (shame, I feel like they could at least...

Alison/Jos DLC

earnest jungle Jun 2, 2025, 5:40 AM

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granite shard William afton went BACK IN TIME and he’s springing a trap on all the hunters

Remanent is revealed to be necrophagic energy

real cedar Jun 2, 2025, 5:43 AM

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earnest jungle I'm lost. Pearl Plantation and Blanchett Graves are two different locations on t...

Oh am I stupid and just read the wrong name when I woke up 😂
Well that's disappointing

earnest jungle Jun 2, 2025, 5:51 AM

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I have three theories for who this Ghost of Blanchet Graves is going to be:
Theory One (The boring one): The Ghost is a totally new hunter with no previous connections to the lore
Theory Two (The Cool One): The Ghost is going to be a reference/allusion/expy of an existing character/fanart/concept art/Hunt the Gilded Age
Theory Three (The Really cool one): The Ghost is going to be a lore character: namely the Widow Blanchett or someone connected to her.

spiral mica Jun 2, 2025, 6:13 AM

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Was anyone able to confirm if those uppercut skins from Garden of the witch have anything to do with her?

real cedar Jun 2, 2025, 6:17 AM

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spiral mica Was anyone able to confirm if those uppercut skins from Garden of the witch have...

They're both in a similar black gothic style (though they don't share design elements like Night Tyrant and Ghost Face's kit do) and are both from Blanchett Graves but there's no confirmed connection.

spiral mica Jun 2, 2025, 6:28 AM

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Alright this is good info to know, thanks. I like idea that it could be a bride.

real dove Jun 2, 2025, 4:10 PM

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Don't hold your breath on it

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I just like the idea too

earnest jungle Jun 2, 2025, 6:30 PM

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Discovered some concept art on Art Station for Hunt Showdown that includes unused assets for tarot cards
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/lV4yVo

ArtStation

HUNT: Showdown - Hunt together. Die alone., Ina Koos

Creatures have overrun our world, and their flesh is the hunters bounty in a tense match-based, first person bounty hunt from CRYTEK. In a team of two hunters you have to track and kill creatures. The bounties are high, but so are the risks.

Since the redesign of the game we started developing a symbolic picture language for the traits. That w...

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Presumably these were going to be for the True Deck and it just makese me wonder how that was going to work from a gameplay and story perspective.

supple smelt Jun 2, 2025, 6:32 PM

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Teaser for today?

earnest jungle Jun 2, 2025, 6:32 PM

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Well they're six years old so I doubt that

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The Tarot of the True Deck got scrapped back during Beta

spiral mica Jun 2, 2025, 9:10 PM

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supple smelt Teaser for today?

I thought so too, but I haven't seen anything yet.

tiny apex Jun 2, 2025, 9:10 PM

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So what is the lore of the game and where does it take place? Is there a reason has to be there?

sinful warren Jun 2, 2025, 9:16 PM

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Lore files pinned in the channel.

brazen root Jun 2, 2025, 9:33 PM

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rai about to drop a book

real cedar Jun 2, 2025, 9:34 PM

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tiny apex So what is the lore of the game and where does it take place? Is there a reason ...

There was some early ideas for why it had to be the Louisiana bayou but those ultimately got scrapped.
What remains is that the Sculptor manifests wherever it can, spreading pockets of corruption called Incursions, the two currently are southeast of New Orleans in the bayou and west of Colorado Springs in the mountains.
It's not explained exactly how or why incursions begin, but some theories suggest humans can bring the corruption by tampering with the occult - such as what happened in Colorado with rich people using monster bounties in alchemical experiments - or excessive cruelty. It spreads like an infection, so that's why Hunters are paid well to kill monsters and collect their bounties.

tiny apex Jun 2, 2025, 9:41 PM

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real cedar There was some early ideas for why it had to be the Louisiana bayou but those ul...

Huge thank you

orchid tangle Jun 2, 2025, 11:13 PM

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I need a modern day hunt universe where it's just youtubers making clickbaity stuff about "infinte money strategies" and it's just that lore entry about people farming spider over and over again but now it's a youtuber recommending shitty ammo brands and being sponsored by some company making "ethical" knock off lynch juice

orchid tangle Jun 3, 2025, 5:15 AM

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https://www.crytek.com/news/desalle-returns-in-judgement-of-the-fool

DeSalle Returns to Hunt: Showdown 1896 Alongside Brand New In-Game ...

A bloody retribution, Update 2.4, and fan-favorite map reborn coming this summer!

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waow

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so the ursa return is it's like child?

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I mean it's gonna be a reskin obviously

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but it seems like it's supposed to be different in lore

earnest jungle Jun 3, 2025, 5:22 AM

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orchid tangle https://www.crytek.com/news/desalle-returns-in-judgement-of-the-fool

Woah

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Dorothy Alice has piqued my interest

orchid tangle Jun 3, 2025, 5:25 AM

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I'm so glad they confirmed the fool is body horror and not a mask

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https://tenor.com/view/happy-blingee-dolphin-picmix-gif-12978169509439366364

Tenor

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though my first thought of him being hidden in alice farms is how it's one of the few compounds I never want to defend in because of how many holes it has to look through

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just hide him in one of the bushes to the right of the compound

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ez pz

vocal canopy Jun 3, 2025, 10:49 AM

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there are even users with the F word in theyr name

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what is wrong here ?

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find the error

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i wont say it twice

granite shard Jun 3, 2025, 11:17 AM

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I forget who mentioned the tarot theme but seems intentional—

hazy sage Jun 3, 2025, 11:21 AM

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Lynch as a kid was using Tarot too

granite shard Jun 3, 2025, 11:24 AM

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I am going to assume this is unrelated to lynch for now

noble scarab Jun 3, 2025, 11:32 AM

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They’ve been pushing the tarot theme by way of the last events song and the new focus on the UI that should have an recap using the tarot-style cards

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Plus it’s always been part of the hunt vibe

granite shard Jun 3, 2025, 11:32 AM

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Yeah

hazy sage Jun 3, 2025, 11:45 AM

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The original Meathead was found dead by an amatuer taxidermist, and later revived by the strike of lightning

eternal hazel Jun 3, 2025, 1:14 PM

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Any info on this Ada Ruth Shell

hazy sage Jun 3, 2025, 1:45 PM

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eternal hazel Any info on this Ada Ruth Shell

Seems to be the survivor of the first registered existance of the Hive

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`Interview with Ada Ruth Shell
Interviewer. “AHA member"
Date: Retracted
Typewritten, questions omitted(...), 8.5" x 11"
1/4

Mama always said not to let my mouth hang open, or a spider'd crawl in. Didn't believe her at the time, but after she went, I never forgot it. I was 13 the day it happened. I know because it was my birthday. Nothing to celebrate. Barely any food to speak of. And Mama so sad. Mama'd a babe that'd died that same year, and Papa'd followed it up to Heaven. Her life was hard and getting harder. Seven kids living, four under the ground, and nobody to help keep us in mutton.

We had one room and a leaky roof, all of us sleeping where we could. No happy memories there. Only found out I was pregnant after we'd all been brought in to the asylum. Doctor told me. I told him well then Praise Jesus, cause I'm the Virgin Mary, and he shook his head. But I wasn't lying. I had never had relations. When they cut the baby out of me, I wasn't supposed to see, but I did. It was strange, and hard, and dead, like a piece of old, chewed-up wood. Don't have any living children.
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`Patient Record

Name:
Ada Ruth Shell (female, colored, 13 years)
Edward Shell (male, colored, 9 years)
Henry Shell (male, colored, 9 years)
Grace Shell (female, colored, 8 years)
Samuel Shell (male, colored, 5 years)
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`Admitted: July 19, 8:00

Admittance notes: Five children admitted together. Siblings. Two did not survive incident. Neighbor delivered to Dr. F., reported strange behavior.

Ada Ruth Shell - Will not speak. Crying, but sits quietly. No outward signs of physical injury. 3 months pregnant.

Edward Shell - Restless, pacing. Pupils dilated, vacant gaze. Multiple lacerations on the left arm. Will not speak.

Henry Shell - Restless, in constant motion. Multiple lacerations on the left side of the face. Will not speak.

Grace Shell - Clings to intake nurse. Will not speak but makes shrill noises, as an infant crying. Attempted to suckle though clearly long past the age of weaning. Hair and face caked in blood and possibly feces. Agitated. Refused bath. Given sedative.`

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Okay so appearntly she lost an arm trying to take down her mother too

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iirc, the bugs that make up the Hive swarm forced thier way insde her and were building a nest inside her before she managed to kill her mother, this was later removed surgically

eternal hazel Jun 3, 2025, 1:51 PM

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Sheesh…

supple smelt Jun 3, 2025, 3:57 PM

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Chat this update may be further away than I thought

real cedar Jun 3, 2025, 4:05 PM

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Ha I thought the song might be teasing it

orchid tangle Jun 3, 2025, 4:08 PM

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Damn

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Phone notification showed me this much and cut off

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What a hype scam

real cedar Jun 3, 2025, 4:11 PM

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It's pretty normal for them to announce the name but not annouce the date. If it's anything like previous events, that means it's two weeks away, June 18th. Next week the trailer will drop giving the date.

supple smelt Jun 3, 2025, 4:12 PM

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orchid tangle Phone notification showed me this much and cut off

the judgement of the fool did what??!?

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The Pale Judge – A regular judge in Mammon's Gulch turned fallen lawman, he traded his gavel for a gun and a deck of tarot cards. He dishes out sentences on behalf of fate itself, and he's here to deal the final verdict to The Fool.

real cedar Jun 3, 2025, 4:17 PM

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If he's a Mammon's Gulch judge, why have 1894 on the poster 🤔

granite shard Jun 3, 2025, 4:18 PM

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also redmartin's a desalle guy lol

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guess they just felt forced to continue referencing mammon's gulch

supple smelt Jun 3, 2025, 4:18 PM

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real cedar If he's a Mammon's Gulch judge, why have 1894 on the poster 🤔

wdym?

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Wasn’t that already after he had become a little rogue in theory

real cedar Jun 3, 2025, 4:19 PM

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supple smelt wdym?

The first video teaser where the Judge put a bounty on The Fool has "1894" at the bottom of the poster that Silver Spur holds up.
If it's 1894, what does a Colorado Judge care about a Louisiana crime?

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Mammon's Gulch only turned in 1896

supple smelt Jun 3, 2025, 4:19 PM

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good question actually

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Can’t wait to never find out

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I wonder if they’ll continue with vague allusions to a story or whether it’ll actually be written this time

granite shard Jun 3, 2025, 4:21 PM

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my expectation is that we get the same as harvest of ghosts/garden of the witch

supple smelt Jun 3, 2025, 4:21 PM

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Cause this time it’s actually semi written though

granite shard Jun 3, 2025, 4:21 PM

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my hope is that we get an actual narrative on the site or something

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I don't think we're going to get anything in the BP or in game again unfortunately

supple smelt Jun 3, 2025, 4:21 PM

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Harvest of Ghosts was vaguely “witches vs welders oooooh spoooky rivalry”

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sorry

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Wrong event

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Garden of the witch

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I don’t remember anything even alluding to a story in harvest

real cedar Jun 3, 2025, 4:22 PM

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Garden of the Witch had the backstory of them being auxiliary support Hunters that got corrupted so that was enough to launch a narrative off of

granite shard Jun 3, 2025, 4:22 PM

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harvest was set up as an unlikely trio going against pumpkinhead who was weaponizing darksight

real cedar Jun 3, 2025, 4:25 PM

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Man imagine what a cool narrative there could be if they wanted to go that way. Doc Redmartin narrating in the past what happened to him, the Pale Judge narrating in the present the hunt for the Fool

supple smelt Jun 3, 2025, 4:25 PM

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Could be very cool

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But will likely be nothing other than a few battlepass skins

orchid tangle Jun 3, 2025, 4:31 PM

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granite shard guess they just felt forced to continue referencing mammon's gulch

it's making me scared on the lore :(

granite shard Jun 3, 2025, 4:33 PM

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O

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wow had my hand on the wrong part of the keyboard lol

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I'm not convinced there's going to be an event narrative*

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I could be wrong but idk

real cedar Jun 3, 2025, 4:42 PM

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I'll always dare to hope 💪 I think we're getting lore this time

granite shard Jun 3, 2025, 4:42 PM

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🫡

supple smelt Jun 3, 2025, 4:47 PM

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Lore discussions are built on hope.

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https://tenor.com/view/rebellions-are-built-on-hope-star-wars-andor-bellhop-hotel-rebellion-gif-9714496499535596862

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strange bane Jun 3, 2025, 5:26 PM

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Hope and faith , hope and faith

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I will remain hopeful

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gilded umbra Jun 3, 2025, 5:53 PM

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Judgement Of The Fool 1HuntCheer

zealous yacht Jun 3, 2025, 6:09 PM

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gilded umbra Judgement Of The Fool <:1HuntCheer:842398177709260830>

Judgement of the fool 1HuntCheer HUL

gilded umbra Jun 3, 2025, 6:10 PM

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I hope they bring back Thundershower. 🌧️

zealous yacht Jun 3, 2025, 6:22 PM

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gilded umbra I hope they bring back Thundershower. 🌧️

Yeah i need it back

brazen root Jun 3, 2025, 6:39 PM

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real cedar The first video teaser where the Judge put a bounty on The Fool has "1894" at th...

A travelling snake oil salesman might have caused quite a lot of disfigurement all over the place

granite shard Jun 3, 2025, 6:40 PM

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maybe in 94 he got in trouble in mammon's gulch and then it was only in 96 that the judge tracked him all the way down in desalle?

real cedar Jun 3, 2025, 6:41 PM

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The bounty lists DeSalle specifically, maybe that could be where the poster was printed

granite shard Jun 3, 2025, 6:42 PM

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ugh the perils of marketing vs narrative strike again I guess

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lol

real cedar Jun 3, 2025, 6:43 PM

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If it's just marketing then perhaps 1894 is a typo. Otherwise I'd assume it's narrative

gilded umbra Jun 3, 2025, 7:50 PM

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Is it possible the weather conditions will return with different events? The same way they were initially introduced? They seem to be intertwined with the lore of the previous events.

noble scarab Jun 3, 2025, 8:05 PM

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We don’t know when they’ll be back

gilded umbra Jun 3, 2025, 8:12 PM

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Obviously, but I was speculating. Those weather conditions originally rolled out with events so it seems more than plausible that’s how they will return. And they were part of the lore of the events themselves so I am just wondering if they will return the same way.

real cedar Jun 3, 2025, 8:17 PM

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gilded umbra Is it possible the weather conditions will return with different events? The sam...

Every big update for the last couple years is paired with an event, so yeah chances are they'll come back in some event or another. Though Fog and Dusk I think came back in between big updates so who knows. Can't seem to find it in the patch notes

orchid tangle Jun 3, 2025, 8:29 PM

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they're just gonna rerun tide of shadows

quaint pawn Jun 3, 2025, 9:05 PM

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Probably has been said before but it's way to funny to me that the opening lines of let us prey just straight up had the event name lol

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"The garden of the witch, the judgement of the fool"

granite shard Jun 3, 2025, 9:22 PM

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Ikr

earnest jungle Jun 3, 2025, 9:24 PM

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I look forward to the next Events: "Footstpes on the Path," and "Someone's Following You"

granite shard Jun 3, 2025, 9:24 PM

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It makes me wonder if there’s hints for anything else in there tho

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Maybe something to keep an eye out for with whatever song they make for this event

real dove Jun 3, 2025, 10:06 PM

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I wondered when the name was going to be noticed in the song 👀

orchid tangle Jun 3, 2025, 10:25 PM

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I think smalls was right about the werewolf show crossover then because the line "I'm howling at the moon" in make them bleed

granite shard Jun 3, 2025, 10:30 PM

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teen wolf crossover let's go

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I'll get to play as my beloved chris argent

orchid tangle Jun 3, 2025, 10:34 PM

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I'd honestly kill for some generic monster hunter... uh hunters...

like just a dude in a suit with some wooden stakes in his belt for vampires.

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like the witch hunter I don't think has a single bad outfit looking at her concept arts

granite shard Jun 3, 2025, 10:35 PM

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I feel like the hex breaker hits that monster hunter aesthetic pretty well

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he's basically van helsing lol

orchid tangle Jun 3, 2025, 10:35 PM

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I like hex

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though I will blame his addition for the reason they got the idea for chu ko nu

granite shard Jun 3, 2025, 10:36 PM

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how so?

orchid tangle Jun 3, 2025, 10:37 PM

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I never watched those movies but his character apparently uses a repeating crossbow and people wanted it hard after his addition or took it as a teaser for one coming.

what I'm really saying is I'm just salty we haven't gotten a new pistol family in a long time

granite shard Jun 3, 2025, 10:38 PM

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honestly I think zhuge liu was probably more to blame for the chu ko nu

noble scarab Jun 3, 2025, 10:38 PM

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Van helsings crossbow was different

granite shard Jun 3, 2025, 10:38 PM

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they were probaby looking into stuff for the cn audience and saw that

noble scarab Jun 3, 2025, 10:38 PM

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And not hand cranked like that, nor would it have been compatible with explosive bolts

orchid tangle Jun 3, 2025, 10:40 PM

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noble scarab And not hand cranked like that, nor would it have been compatible with explosive...

right but I still think the talk of the character and his weapon gave them the idea, I don't really think crytek randomly decided a weapon that was designed in the BC years

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supposedly

noble scarab Jun 3, 2025, 10:41 PM

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I would’ve preferred his style of one compared to what we got, or something like the ironside but for the crossbow

orchid tangle Jun 3, 2025, 10:42 PM

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I mean is it a real weapon

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I doubt they'd just take a weapon made from another IP

noble scarab Jun 3, 2025, 10:45 PM

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They take characters from other ips, why not a crossbow

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Plus we could get some more weird guns

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Tho we saw how that could’ve gone with posts sawblade launcher

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So maybe not

orchid tangle Jun 3, 2025, 10:48 PM

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fun world was probably an easier IP to get than a universal studios one

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though I've been liking the real 1800s people additions

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give me general sickles next it fits all the terrible plays I make

smoky anchor Jun 4, 2025, 3:05 AM

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orchid tangle I'd honestly kill for some generic monster hunter... uh hunters... like just a ...

There’s uhhh…the ummm…The Beast Hunter

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Got spikes n padding on him

orchid tangle Jun 4, 2025, 3:06 AM

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couldn't pay me to use that guy

smoky anchor Jun 4, 2025, 3:06 AM

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OmegaHUL

orchid tangle Jun 4, 2025, 3:06 AM

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they wasted that name on him he's just trying to find his poor lost dog

smoky anchor Jun 4, 2025, 3:09 AM

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orchid tangle couldn't pay me to use that guy

Is it because he’s

orchid tangle Jun 4, 2025, 3:09 AM

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his armor is dumb as hell

smoky anchor Jun 4, 2025, 3:09 AM

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Nahhhh

spiral mica Jun 4, 2025, 3:09 AM

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I thought the Beast hunter's whole story was him trying to weaponize Hellhounds? He also had nightmares about monsters or something too.

smoky anchor Jun 4, 2025, 3:09 AM

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Looks cool af wym

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https://tenor.com/view/angry-cat-smol-small-ragey-gif-26398063

Tenor

spiral mica Jun 4, 2025, 3:10 AM

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Honestly it never made sense why he fell in with the Demented pact if he was actively trying to tame the results of an incursion and had fears about monsters.

earnest jungle Jun 4, 2025, 3:10 AM

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Speaking of Crossovers I have a bunch of ideas for crossovers:
Hunt x Hunger
Hunt x Call of Juarez
Hunt x Undead Nightmare
Hunt x Preist
Hunt x Evil West
Hunt x Hard West
Hunt x Weird West
Hunt x West of Dead
Hunt x Deadlands

Any of which would fit the Tone and aesthetic of Hunt Showdown far more than god damn Ghost Face and Post Malone

orchid tangle Jun 4, 2025, 3:10 AM

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spiral mica I thought the Beast hunter's whole story was him trying to weaponize Hellhounds?...

he wanted to like. Kill the monsters with hell hounds

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and is clearly bad at it

spiral mica Jun 4, 2025, 3:11 AM

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I know a lot of people think his mask makes him look like robocop, but it's actually a real thing called a splatter mask. They were primarily used by tank operators during the first world war. They're basically just a way to protect your eyes from debris and shrapnel getting launched into your face.

granite shard Jun 4, 2025, 3:11 AM

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I think his mission to tame the hellhounds already as a general act of madness

orchid tangle Jun 4, 2025, 3:12 AM

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spiral mica I know a lot of people think his mask makes him look like robocop, but it's actu...

well for me it's just because all the scars around it

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it makes it look... implanted into him

real cedar Jun 4, 2025, 3:12 AM

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spiral mica Honestly it never made sense why he fell in with the Demented pact if he was act...

Guess it's respecting the creator of the thing he wants to master

spiral mica Jun 4, 2025, 3:14 AM

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orchid tangle well for me it's just because all the scars around it

Well, it mainly only guarded your eyes and not your entire face. Some models had these little things of chainmail that dangled from the mask itself to also protect your cheeks, nose and mouth.

earnest jungle Jun 4, 2025, 3:15 AM

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I think these two would make excellent inspirations for hunters

smoky anchor Jun 4, 2025, 3:17 AM

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The one on the right it’s sorta already in the game

spiral mica Jun 4, 2025, 3:17 AM

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I'm not so sure about the second image. Haven't there been discussions in here before about plate armored hunters not really being a good idea in the game?

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I mean, some of the hunters we've got now are a little bit armored especially the recent welder hunters, but I don't think I'd want one wearing an entire plated chest piece like that. It feels out of place for the game.

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The first image reminds me of Kid with the poncho but older and not drowned.

real cedar Jun 4, 2025, 3:19 AM

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If it's just a cuirass it can almost work as an eccentricity, that guy in the pic clearly can rock it, but yeah it doesn't fit quite right with Hunt.
I dare not delve too much into that topic, last time I did it summoned Ghostface 😅

smoky anchor Jun 4, 2025, 3:20 AM

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It think it 100% fits

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Closer to hunt than the welders imo

spiral mica Jun 4, 2025, 3:20 AM

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I recall the Viking hunters being criticized a lot because 1. they look more like cosplayers instead of Vikings and 2. Vikings don't really fit the theme of hunt.

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I feel like a plated hunter would also receive a similar level of criticism.

real cedar Jun 4, 2025, 3:25 AM

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Breastplates were used in the Civil War now and then so it's not out of the question, but tonally it's off as it belongs more to Napoleonic era and earlier
The same way you can say yeah sure a guy with tattoos that styles himself as a warrior of old is not out of the question, but cmon it's a viking larper.

spiral mica Jun 4, 2025, 3:52 AM

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I get breastplates were used during the Civil war and first world war periods, but I'm more so critical of the idea of some kind of knightly themed hunter. I'm fine with all the Ned Kelly stuff, but I just wouldn't want a fully plated hunter that looks like a knight or something too fantasy related.

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Those Viking hunters already give me fantasy character renaissance fair vibes and I do not like it at all.

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The male Viking hunter even has the brand of sacrifice from Berserk on his upper back just below the neck, and although I'm a huge Berserk fan and think the reference is cool it also feels totally out of place in the Hunt setting.

earnest jungle Jun 4, 2025, 4:11 AM

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This is the full skin so like it’s just the old breastplate

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It’s not like a full knight thing

noble scarab Jun 4, 2025, 4:16 AM

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i mean the vikings we got are closer to modern cosplayers than even the 1890s themed cosplayers theyre trying to be

fickle sluice Jun 4, 2025, 7:13 AM

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There's a lot of issues with the hunt vikings. And they are the same issues that most of the modern pseudoviking aesthetic has.

brazen root Jun 4, 2025, 8:41 AM

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Hollywood vikings

fickle sluice Jun 4, 2025, 10:48 AM

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With all the icky connotations and misconceptions

supple smelt Jun 4, 2025, 12:38 PM

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there needs to be a word for vikingaboos

fickle sluice Jun 4, 2025, 2:39 PM

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I have one, but that paints with too broad a brush and is unkind to people who are merely enthusiastic and not politically problematic

granite shard Jun 4, 2025, 2:41 PM

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lmao

supple smelt Jun 4, 2025, 4:25 PM

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fickle sluice I have one, but that paints with too broad a brush and is unkind to people who a...

I feel like I know what it is but also have no clue at the same time

earnest jungle Jun 4, 2025, 4:59 PM

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supple smelt I feel like I know what it is but also have no clue at the same time

They’re alluding to the Völkisch Movement I believe.

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Can’t even say the words lol

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Neo-Pagans who consider themselves to be the inheritors of a certain infamous Mid Century German Nationalist Party responsible for the murder of tens of millions of people in one of the bloodiest global conflicts in human history

real cedar Jun 4, 2025, 5:04 PM

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Interesting, another video teaser but not the trailer

noble scarab Jun 4, 2025, 5:04 PM

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We get to see the judge tho, I like his coat

supple smelt Jun 4, 2025, 5:05 PM

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earnest jungle Neo-Pagans who consider themselves to be the inheritors of a certain infamous Mi...

Yeah I imagined that to be the case

visual finch Jun 4, 2025, 5:05 PM

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First person that came to my mind seeing the judge is Vincent D'Onofrio

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https://tenor.com/view/kingpin-echo-wilson-fisk-fisk-vincent-donofrio-gif-3083728563342421487

Tenor

noble scarab Jun 4, 2025, 5:06 PM

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Not all norse neo pagans fall into that category

real cedar Jun 4, 2025, 5:06 PM

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The head movements at the start, ye

earnest jungle Jun 4, 2025, 5:06 PM

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noble scarab Not all norse neo pagans fall into that category

Obviously not

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But they do exists and they certainly make life difficult for everyone.

noble scarab Jun 4, 2025, 5:07 PM

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But the people you see running around with the 3 triangles and winged othalas certainly do

earnest jungle Jun 4, 2025, 5:08 PM

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A bigger problem within the Neo-Pagan movement is the appropriation of Central Asian, African, Polynesian, and Native American religious practices.

real cedar Jun 4, 2025, 5:09 PM

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhG2WSWpP7s

YouTube

Hunt: Showdown

Judgement | Judgement of The Fool | Hunt: Showdown 1896

“A sad man with funny cards wants to seal my fate. He might as well smash my skull with his gavel.” - The Fool

Get Hunt: Showdown 1896 on Steam: https://tinyurl.com/HuntSteamYouTube

Music by Port Sulphur Band. Listen now on
Spotify https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/artist/3vfSIBYEThPQXe3LX...

▶ Play video

earnest jungle Jun 4, 2025, 5:09 PM

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Especially when drawing from closed ethno-religious groups who genuinely have been persecuted in ways modern Euro-American Neo-Pagans just aren’t

visual finch Jun 4, 2025, 5:10 PM

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earnest jungle A bigger problem within the Neo-Pagan movement is the appropriation of Central A...

For my personal experience, they also tend to make a big nonsensical mix of all the practices and concepts of these culture, and to focus and exagerate some characteristics of these

earnest jungle Jun 4, 2025, 5:12 PM

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visual finch For my personal experience, they also tend to make a big nonsensical mix of all ...

I get why it happens: Germanic/Norse Neo-Paganism is a new Religion seeking to establish itself as a distinct religious practice while also trying to reconstruct an ancient religion that’s been extinct for centuries.

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And there is an inherent clash between those two goals because Christianity is the dominant religion in Europe and Christianity is by its very nature a very syncretic religion

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Not a lot really changed when Germanic and Norse Peoples converted. Certain practices certainly stopped but many were just brought into their new Christian Religion. Temples became Churches; pagan festivals were overlaid on Christian festivals. Like the funny thing about Yule is that Christmas wasn’t so much overlaid on Yule as Yule was overlaid on Christmas. Yule was celebrated in February and at the time Christmas was a very minor religious holiday defined mostly by your land lord/king throwing a big party with lots of booze and meat so you’d be less likely to revolt.

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And much of what we know about Germanic Pagan Religions come from Christian Sources and a lot of those stories appear to have already been Christianized.

noble scarab Jun 4, 2025, 5:21 PM

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The monk that wrote down a lot of the Icelandic Norse stories was going off of long gone material as well

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Or poorly recorded oral traditions, I can’t quite recall

earnest jungle Jun 4, 2025, 5:23 PM

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Like even as a child I noticed there was an odd amount of similarity between the Ragnarok Narrative and the Apocalypse Narrative of the Book of Revelations.

noble scarab Jun 4, 2025, 5:23 PM

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Baldr is Jesus

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More or less

earnest jungle Jun 4, 2025, 5:24 PM

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And while that could have its origins in the Proto-Indo European Religious origins of both faiths; I’m very skeptical of that because the Book of Revelations is very much a story of the time it was written.

supple smelt Jun 4, 2025, 5:24 PM

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The one diehard Norse Pagan I know of is uhhh… let’s just say what you’d expect of one

noble scarab Jun 4, 2025, 5:24 PM

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They got a couple Celtic pantheon members that way too, lugh was jesused and Brigid turned into a saint

earnest jungle Jun 4, 2025, 5:25 PM

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It was a coded message to Christians living in Asia Minor encouraging them to resits Roman Repression and Assimilation.

noble scarab Jun 4, 2025, 5:25 PM

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Revelations was John tripping balls in cave and writing about nero I think

earnest jungle Jun 4, 2025, 5:26 PM

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Basically yeah: using fantastical and apocalyptic language to disguise what is basically a message to Roman Christians to become ungovernable and resist Roman Rule

supple smelt Jun 4, 2025, 5:26 PM

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what’s funny is most religions didn’t tend to be exclusive in the ancient world, it was often the case that people believed in the existence of other pantheon’s gods but that they had no bearing over where they lived

earnest jungle Jun 4, 2025, 5:27 PM

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supple smelt what’s funny is most religions didn’t tend to be exclusive in the ancient world,...

Christianity was this way for a while too

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Then the Roman Emperors figured out that maybe having a centralized religion might be useful to their empire and the rest is history.

supple smelt Jun 4, 2025, 5:28 PM

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noble scarab Revelations was John tripping balls in cave and writing about nero I think

Fun fact: I’m pretty sure almost none of the surviving Bibles (in Greek at this point in time) up to a certain period ever mentioned who authored their verses or chapters. The language in these original texts doesn’t attribute it to anyone and the writer is anonymous and often refers to events they hadn’t seen with their own eyes

earnest jungle Jun 4, 2025, 5:28 PM

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The Catholic Church was basically a creation of the Roman Emperors who figured out that since repression and conversion wasn’t working they should try Rehabilitation and Assimilation.

supple smelt Jun 4, 2025, 5:28 PM

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It’s later editions that attribute them to apostles etc and attribute stories to certain people

earnest jungle Jun 4, 2025, 5:30 PM

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supple smelt It’s later editions that attribute them to apostles etc and attribute stories to...

That’s basically true of the Entire Bible. Surprise Surprise the answer to how Moses knew the parts of the story he wasn’t there for is “because he didn’t write any of it.”

supple smelt Jun 4, 2025, 5:30 PM

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It’s interesting that there is no original Bible or anything to source from, so you can’t truly know whether what’s down on paper is an edited thing or not

earnest jungle Jun 4, 2025, 5:31 PM

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supple smelt It’s interesting that there is no original Bible or anything to source from, so ...

The Bible is a thousand stories by a thousand authors with different perspectives, backgrounds, and intent. We can kind of guess who was written by what by close reading but finding specific authors no chance.

fickle sluice Jun 4, 2025, 5:31 PM

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Certainly not the kind of lore discussion I expected to come back to. But very interesting

supple smelt Jun 4, 2025, 5:32 PM

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earnest jungle The Bible is a thousand stories by a thousand authors with different perspective...

Yes but specifically the attribution of names to verses etc came about in the early medieval (might be earlier or later)

earnest jungle Jun 4, 2025, 5:33 PM

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The Christian Hell is largely a result of translation.

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Three different underworlds merged into one because the Latin Vulgate Bible used the same word of Hades, Gahanna, and Tartarous: Infernus.

supple smelt Jun 4, 2025, 5:34 PM

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My favourite result of translation or reinterpretation is that Goliath is initially just a tall man that eventually turns into a giant titan of a human being

lone maple Jun 4, 2025, 5:34 PM

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Hey gamers, let's avoid discussing religion

earnest jungle Jun 4, 2025, 5:34 PM

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Okay

supple smelt Jun 4, 2025, 5:34 PM

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okay, will the fool be Daredevil?

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Hell’s Kitchen map when???

earnest jungle Jun 4, 2025, 5:35 PM

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Lol

lone maple Jun 4, 2025, 5:35 PM

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Feel free to discuss outside the server, if you would like to continue

supple smelt Jun 4, 2025, 5:36 PM

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Something feels not quite right when you pair a hunt model with a voice and animation lol

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Almost looks like an SFM thing sometimes

earnest jungle Jun 4, 2025, 5:37 PM

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I figured we were going on public school rules were we can talk about religion in a historical and anthropological context as it relates to the game but even there we kinda got away from the original topic.

real dove Jun 4, 2025, 5:38 PM

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It usually devolves into stuff we don't want

earnest jungle Jun 4, 2025, 5:38 PM

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So yeah the problem with the Vikings is they’re anachronistic. They look more like what people today imagine vikings looked like and not what people in the 1890s would have looked like

real dove Jun 4, 2025, 5:38 PM

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Better to keep it to dms

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:)

earnest jungle Jun 4, 2025, 5:38 PM

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Fair

real dove Jun 4, 2025, 5:38 PM

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Das all

supple smelt Jun 4, 2025, 5:38 PM

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earnest jungle So yeah the problem with the Vikings is they’re anachronistic. They look more li...

I feel like they have to be modeled after the show lmao

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Imagine american larpers in 1896 in period accurate larpking garb

earnest jungle Jun 4, 2025, 5:39 PM

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And neither is really what Medieval Scandinavians would have likely looked like

supple smelt Jun 4, 2025, 5:39 PM

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Horned helmet larpers would be so funny

real dove Jun 4, 2025, 5:39 PM

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God no

earnest jungle Jun 4, 2025, 5:39 PM

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It would be

real dove Jun 4, 2025, 5:39 PM

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The chick with her mop hair is enough

earnest jungle Jun 4, 2025, 5:39 PM

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Operatic Vikings

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Wagner’s Operas existed in 1895

supple smelt Jun 4, 2025, 5:40 PM

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okay but now it’s both anachronistic to actual Vikings and what people in 1896 thought Vikings looked like based off popular depictions from the period

granite shard Jun 4, 2025, 5:40 PM

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Man I need to watch the new video but I’m fighting w a dumb computer at work fuckedupcat

earnest jungle Jun 4, 2025, 5:40 PM

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Imagine a team of people dressed like this running straight at tou

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supple smelt Jun 4, 2025, 5:41 PM

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earnest jungle Imagine a team of people dressed like this running straight at tou

okay wait I can actually see a skin named Valkyrie or something looking like this

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have her be tied to scaramuccia

earnest jungle Jun 4, 2025, 5:42 PM

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supple smelt Jun 4, 2025, 5:43 PM

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I feel like both Scandinavians being reverent of their Viking past and/or Americans larping as them is a very new cultural thing anyhow

earnest jungle Jun 4, 2025, 5:43 PM

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The image of a hunter in tights and stained dirtied opera costume sprinting through the swamps with a spear just tickles me sideways

earnest jungle Jun 4, 2025, 5:43 PM

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supple smelt I feel like both Scandinavians being reverent of their Viking past and/or Americ...

Oh totally

supple smelt Jun 4, 2025, 5:43 PM

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like I already can’t imagine scandi larpers in the US in the 50s let alone the 1890s

earnest jungle Jun 4, 2025, 5:43 PM

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Actually it wouldn’t be

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Now that I think about it

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The two would be hella eccentric but not necessarily anachronistic

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The Völkisch has its origins in the 19th century.

supple smelt Jun 4, 2025, 5:45 PM

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I wonder how much thought went into their inclusion other than “it’d be cool to have Vikings”

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What’s their lore like

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if there is much

earnest jungle Jun 4, 2025, 5:46 PM

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It’s very dumb

earnest jungle Jun 4, 2025, 5:46 PM

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supple smelt What’s their lore like

Give me a second to check

noble scarab Jun 4, 2025, 5:52 PM

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They’re brother and sister and they’re larping and they fight over their gun as I recall

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But rexli or rai will have the full vision

earnest jungle Jun 4, 2025, 5:54 PM

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Yeah that’s basically it

supple smelt Jun 4, 2025, 5:54 PM

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Incredible larp, can’t believe it will go on to influence all post 90s Vikings

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truly trend setters

earnest jungle Jun 4, 2025, 5:55 PM

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Which to be fair; conceptually a pair of weirdos getting very into pre-christian Norse/Germanic/Celtic religion is not out of place for the time.

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Neo-Paganism as it currently exists has its origins in the 19th century.

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The Unification of Germany inspired a similar revival in the cultural interest of Ancient Germany as the Italian Unification inspired a revival in the cultural interest or Rome.

supple smelt Jun 4, 2025, 5:57 PM

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It’s more the way they larp, they’re literally characters from the show Vikings

earnest jungle Jun 4, 2025, 5:57 PM

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Exactly

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The problem is not that Viking larpers are out of place for the 1890s the problem is the style of larp

supple smelt Jun 4, 2025, 5:58 PM

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earnest jungle The Unification of Germany inspired a similar revival in the cultural interest ...

Also that mostly spawned operas which is where we get the antiquated view of Vikings

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which would be much more of a neat/funny thing to see

earnest jungle Jun 4, 2025, 5:59 PM

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So yeah the Viking twins could have existed in the 1890s… and probably would have had truly reprehensible politics.

noble scarab Jun 4, 2025, 6:00 PM

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I bet most hunters have reprehensible politics

earnest jungle Jun 4, 2025, 6:00 PM

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This revival was inherently tied to German Unification and the desire to create a unified German National Identity and we all know how that ended…

earnest jungle Jun 4, 2025, 6:00 PM

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noble scarab I bet most hunters have reprehensible politics

True

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I would not care to ask Hardin and Statesman their opinions on Civil Rights

real dove Jun 4, 2025, 6:01 PM

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Fam

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Let's not

earnest jungle Jun 4, 2025, 6:01 PM

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Sorry

supple smelt Jun 4, 2025, 6:01 PM

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https://tenor.com/view/cat-greed-gif-14648819629667917844

Tenor

earnest jungle Jun 4, 2025, 6:04 PM

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Like I feel conflicted on this because as a history minor I believe historical fiction and fiction set in a historical setting has some responsibility to not misrepresent the material conditions of the period; but, I also know not everyone wants to have a discussion on “the unfortunate political realities of the 19th century” when Hunt has at best vaguely alluded to them.

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It’s easy for me to get caught up and taken away with my own special interests while forgetting not everyone shares those interests

real dove Jun 4, 2025, 6:05 PM

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supple smelt https://tenor.com/view/cat-greed-gif-14648819629667917844

So you know how you boil a frog...

noble scarab Jun 4, 2025, 6:06 PM

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Hunts kinda got the deadlands thing going on

earnest jungle Jun 4, 2025, 6:06 PM

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For better and worse yeah

supple smelt Jun 4, 2025, 6:06 PM

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real dove So you know how you boil a frog...

what 🥺

real dove Jun 4, 2025, 6:06 PM

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You heat it up slowly

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It's a joke

noble scarab Jun 4, 2025, 6:06 PM

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This kills the frog

real dove Jun 4, 2025, 6:07 PM

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To be fair

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If someone was pouring steaks cooked just right down on me

granite shard Jun 4, 2025, 6:07 PM

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unrelated but I did finally get a chance to watch the little trailer and them casting a VA for the judge does give me more hope that they could do something for a story here

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I'm still not expecting anything

real dove Jun 4, 2025, 6:07 PM

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Agreed

granite shard Jun 4, 2025, 6:07 PM

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but hopefully

real dove Jun 4, 2025, 6:07 PM

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I think maybe a blog post

supple smelt Jun 4, 2025, 6:07 PM

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didn’t Mr hunt down the freeman union guy have a VA

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what’s his name

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Otis?

tulip kindle Jun 4, 2025, 6:08 PM

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real dove So you know how you boil a frog...

The same thing that happens to everything else

noble scarab Jun 4, 2025, 6:08 PM

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All 3 “main” hunters had a VA

supple smelt Jun 4, 2025, 6:08 PM

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noble scarab All 3 “main” hunters had a VA

a voice acted WHAT?!?

noble scarab Jun 4, 2025, 6:09 PM

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Mmm phone autocorrect

real dove Jun 4, 2025, 6:09 PM

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👀

supple smelt Jun 4, 2025, 6:10 PM

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They’ve got to have like 3 voice actors total

noble scarab Jun 4, 2025, 6:11 PM

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They had more or are able to hire them when wanted

supple smelt Jun 4, 2025, 6:11 PM

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Probably freelance yeah

noble scarab Jun 4, 2025, 6:11 PM

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For the acted lore entries and trailers

granite shard Jun 4, 2025, 6:12 PM

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yeah they contract with a casting director to get VAs for these things

noble scarab Jun 4, 2025, 6:12 PM

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I think the guy that did hayali did a post on Reddit or something

glossy karma Jun 4, 2025, 6:15 PM

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Voice acting seems so fun

orchid tangle Jun 4, 2025, 6:24 PM

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Everytime I go on a trail ride hunt teasers drop

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Maybe I need to do it more

noble scarab Jun 4, 2025, 6:30 PM

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https://tenor.com/view/feel-me-think-about-it-meme-gif-7715402

Tenor

fickle sluice Jun 4, 2025, 6:38 PM

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glossy karma Voice acting seems so fun

I'd love to do that some day. Not necessarily as a job, but just for the fun of it.

gilded umbra Jun 4, 2025, 6:47 PM

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That teaser trailer was impressive. 1HuntCheer

cloud ravine Jun 4, 2025, 6:53 PM

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Hey y’all I need to ask something dumb

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So rn we have the courruption contained right

fickle sluice Jun 4, 2025, 6:59 PM

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I mean...

upbeat kiln Jun 4, 2025, 7:01 PM

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cloud ravine So rn we have the courruption contained right

yeah.. about that

cloud ravine Jun 4, 2025, 7:02 PM

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Thanks

orchid tangle Jun 4, 2025, 7:22 PM

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earnest jungle Like I feel conflicted on this because as a history minor I believe historical f...

my only grip with hunt is they have a black guy in confederate uniform as a tier 2 </3

in the butternut color too so unmistakeable from dirty union

fickle sluice Jun 4, 2025, 7:22 PM

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upbeat kiln yeah.. about that

We have a concept of containment

real cedar Jun 4, 2025, 8:16 PM

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orchid tangle my only grip with hunt is they have a black guy in confederate uniform as a tier...

Is the guy old enough to be civil war or is it just a case of surplus?

orchid tangle Jun 4, 2025, 8:17 PM

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most of the tier hunters look old enough to at least be alive during the war

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it's not like he coulda served in uniform anyway

real cedar Jun 4, 2025, 8:18 PM

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Ye I remember you talking about that part, I'm just thinking whether they could actually have any connection or if it's just clothing to them

orchid tangle Jun 4, 2025, 8:18 PM

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I just don't think it's something they should promote at all without at least giving it context, nobody is gonna really think he just decided to wear the coat of his oppressors because he liked it.

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like Jesse is a thief which can put some doubt on his service

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this guys a no face, not like he most tier 2s are in the game anymore anyway though

real cedar Jun 4, 2025, 8:20 PM

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I don't think they're promoting it at all when it seems like you're the only one who's noticed, and most of the time even the people who are looking for it think there's zero confederate stuff anywhere.
Trying to put a lore spin on why that character model exists is just fanwank ultimately

orchid tangle Jun 4, 2025, 8:20 PM

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granite shard Jun 4, 2025, 8:21 PM

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real cedar Is the guy old enough to be civil war or is it just a case of surplus?

since the war was 30 years prior to the game it would probably be more likely to be surplus

orchid tangle Jun 4, 2025, 8:21 PM

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real cedar I don't think they're promoting it at all when it seems like you're the only one...

oh yeah it's not gonna rally people or anything, I just think if you're making war looks like this... please make sure you're not treading into bad territory.

granite shard Jun 4, 2025, 8:21 PM

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and I think that it's not them treading into bad territory but more of this is a game made by europeans

real cedar Jun 4, 2025, 8:22 PM

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Could be a case of pinterest mislabeling a picture of a civil war uniform as the digital artists are searching reference pics

granite shard Jun 4, 2025, 8:22 PM

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yeah

orchid tangle Jun 4, 2025, 8:22 PM

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it 100% wasn't intentional

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I just know CMs have spoken about having history people and I'm tired of these inaccurate things popping up in media

granite shard Jun 4, 2025, 8:24 PM

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they have history people but also sometimes things just slip through the cracks

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esp w a lot of these early tiered hunter designs, that's a lot of stuff at once where they needed to reference american military garb vaguely of the time period but also have all of the hunters look different enough from each other

gilded umbra Jun 4, 2025, 8:29 PM

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orchid tangle oh yeah it's not gonna rally people or anything, I just think if you're making w...

Do you think that is an example of pandering or just some type of sincere intention for inclusion?

orchid tangle Jun 4, 2025, 8:30 PM

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I think they either didn't pay attention to the uniforms they were adding or believe in some lost cause weirdness

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and that doesn't make them bad

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but I do think the hunter was a mistake and I think they should change his design if they readd that one

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OR

gilded umbra Jun 4, 2025, 8:31 PM

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Right of course, but accuracy is important.

orchid tangle Jun 4, 2025, 8:31 PM

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make him a real hunter and say the coat was a trophy from a killed rebel

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I don't think it was pandering or anything

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like smalls says it's not even an american company and the civil war isn't in focus of hunt they just didn't know most likely

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I'm just salty because they've claimed to have history people working on and they've been passive aggressive before about criticism to it

gilded umbra Jun 4, 2025, 8:32 PM

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orchid tangle make him a real hunter and say the coat was a trophy from a killed rebel

This idea makes sense and is very plausible.

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He could even have a stolen confederate bandana tied around his wrist but maybe that would be visually controversial.

spiral mica Jun 4, 2025, 9:03 PM

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visual finch First person that came to my mind seeing the judge is Vincent D'Onofrio

https://tenor.com/view/nebsgoodtakes-kingpin-wilson-fisk-daredevil-daredevil-born-again-gif-8922820012528177063

Tenor

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I wonder if we'll see this Judge person decapitate someone using the door of a horse-drawn carriage.

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https://tenor.com/view/wilson-fisk-daredevil-marvel-gif-9245346

Tenor

visual finch Jun 4, 2025, 9:48 PM

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spiral mica I wonder if we'll see this Judge person decapitate someone using the door of a h...

spiral mica Jun 4, 2025, 9:57 PM

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😂

earnest jungle Jun 4, 2025, 10:44 PM

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orchid tangle most of the tier hunters look old enough to at least be alive during the war

Old enough to have been alive during and old enough to have served in the civil war are very very different. Someone who was old enough to serve in the Civil War would be in their early 50s at youngest in the 1895 at youngest. Occam's razor would indicate that the simplest explanation of these uniforms is that they are of hunters who served more recently in the national guard/armed forces than the civil war

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It also just could have been intended to be a khaki uniform

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It could also be a war trophy he took to show off that he killed a confederate soldier in combat

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Or he may have been an enslave laborer or teamster who was given a uniform sometime during or after the war.

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Or hell he could have been one of the like 200 Black Virginians recruited into the Confederate Army in the last week of the civil war that never saw combat

orchid tangle Jun 5, 2025, 12:24 AM

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earnest jungle It also just could have been intended to be a khaki uniform

the belt he wears is also more southern styled than northern

acoustic whale Jun 5, 2025, 1:31 AM

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we want more post malone lore

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who agrees

real cedar Jun 5, 2025, 1:33 AM

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https://tenor.com/view/batman-stare-villains-joker-bruh-gif-2093672336959753467

Tenor

loud steeple Jun 5, 2025, 1:35 AM

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acoustic whale we want more post malone lore

https://tenor.com/view/wtf-nasty-disgusted-gross-spongebob-squarepants-gif-16884688

Tenor

spiral mica Jun 5, 2025, 2:15 AM

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acoustic whale we want more post malone lore

https://tenor.com/view/skeleton-dance-gif-23861627

Tenor

gilded umbra Jun 5, 2025, 2:53 AM

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noble scarab Jun 5, 2025, 4:56 AM

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https://tenor.com/view/julesmaru-really-gif-20304655

Tenor

modern violet Jun 5, 2025, 7:50 AM

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wouldn't be cool if we get a field/compound boss that is a group of hunters that is challenging to kill?

real cedar Jun 5, 2025, 7:54 AM

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Perhaps if they did something about a botched inoculation causing corruption and only gave them world weapons.
AI that can shoot back are real troublesome for games like this cause even if you code it to avoid aiming for the head a stray bullet can still instakill which is just no fun for anyone

modern violet Jun 5, 2025, 8:02 AM

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Ah I guess you are right

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I am thinking too much about tarkov

brazen root Jun 5, 2025, 8:02 AM

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real cedar Perhaps if they did something about a botched inoculation causing corruption and...

Can easily just make their shots deal less damage, like by being incapable of getting the headshot damage multiplier

gilded umbra Jun 5, 2025, 12:11 PM

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real cedar Perhaps if they did something about a botched inoculation causing corruption and...

I was thinking about that as well a few months ago. AI corrupted enemy hunters, but I figured it would be difficult to code them properly.

small pelican Jun 5, 2025, 1:15 PM

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Question: What is the Lore to Mr. Orwell Chary. Is he dead? Is he alive? Has he been stopped or does he already plan his next move? What happend to him? What happend to the lads that tried to Stop/kill him?

granite shard Jun 5, 2025, 1:17 PM

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he could potentially come back but right now he got dusted after sofia shot the murmurstone and he's in a little hellscape in the land of the dead getting his ass beat by the moon now

noble scarab Jun 5, 2025, 1:59 PM

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Local man fights moon

upbeat kiln Jun 5, 2025, 5:03 PM

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https://www.huntshowdown.com/lore/tagged/monsters/brute

Hunt: Showdown

Hunt: Showdown - Brute

Hunt: Showdown is a competitive first-person PvP bounty hunting game with heavy PvE elements. Set in the darkest corners of the world, Hunt packs the thrill of survival games into a match-based format.

granite shard Jun 5, 2025, 5:04 PM

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oh pog

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it'd be nice if they went back and did this for the hellborn but his lore probably got put into scorched earth

brazen root Jun 5, 2025, 5:09 PM

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actual written book of monsters lore holy

granite shard Jun 5, 2025, 5:14 PM

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lynch moment

lofty quarry Jun 5, 2025, 5:14 PM

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In the most recent teaser, wasn't this one of the breakables during Traitor's moon? What's it doing in Desalle?

granite shard Jun 5, 2025, 5:15 PM

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damn I'm really here for this monster entry

real cedar Jun 5, 2025, 5:17 PM

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upbeat kiln https://www.huntshowdown.com/lore/tagged/monsters/brute

LORE IS BACK BABY

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https://tenor.com/view/wedding-crasher-hro-gif-25636997

Tenor

upbeat kiln Jun 5, 2025, 5:18 PM

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https://tenor.com/view/cowboy-gif-5052395

Tenor

mint wind Jun 5, 2025, 5:18 PM

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Yo that lore is messed up lel.

granite shard Jun 5, 2025, 5:18 PM

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I hope they write new weapon lore

mint wind Jun 5, 2025, 5:19 PM

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||Local hunter sews newbie into bear fur, newbie turns into undead bear, only 1 head but a guy inside||

granite shard Jun 5, 2025, 5:21 PM

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https://tenor.com/view/massqrted-springtrap-fnaf-3-jumpscare-gif-11082715924514205386

Tenor

real cedar Jun 5, 2025, 5:21 PM

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The image itself also seems to show a new Sparks Sniper. Might be from the Ghost of Blanchett Graves DLC by the style of it

granite shard Jun 5, 2025, 5:22 PM

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what's the full image?

real cedar Jun 5, 2025, 5:22 PM

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granite shard Jun 5, 2025, 5:22 PM

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oh pog yeah

real cedar Jun 5, 2025, 5:22 PM

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Oh right there's also an image on the lore

granite shard Jun 5, 2025, 5:23 PM

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also prob the fool's hands

real cedar Jun 5, 2025, 5:23 PM

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supple smelt Jun 5, 2025, 5:26 PM

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real cedar

New skin for the sparks + the fool? (His hand)

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Sparks looks to be in a similar style to the ghostface stuff and uppercut from last event

supple smelt Jun 5, 2025, 5:32 PM

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real cedar https://tenor.com/view/wedding-crasher-hro-gif-25636997

https://tenor.com/view/cheers-gif-19096030

Tenor

upbeat kiln Jun 5, 2025, 5:33 PM

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https://youtu.be/q8Bwt7p_rBE

YouTube

HazmatFTW

The Brute | Hunt: Showdown 1896 Lore

Deep in the cursed swamps of Hunt: Showdown 1896, a new horror emerges. Twisted by cruelty and forged through suffering, the Brute is no ordinary beast. Its flesh, once dead, was stitched and scarred into motion by a veteran Hunter's twisted experiment, one born not of science, but of torment. What began as a boy’s desperate plea for mentorshi...

▶ Play video

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Almost as fast as Crytek

mint wind Jun 5, 2025, 5:37 PM

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Hey guys

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https://tenor.com/view/annihilation-scary-man-bear-pig-gif-14543835

Tenor

real cedar Jun 5, 2025, 5:39 PM

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Oh shit, the stillwater doll easter eggs have lore now

gilded umbra Jun 5, 2025, 5:42 PM

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Who is the hunter shooting at the Brute?

real cedar Jun 5, 2025, 5:42 PM

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Monroe

gilded umbra Jun 5, 2025, 5:44 PM

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I thought it was him. His knife is cool. 🔪

brazen root Jun 5, 2025, 5:46 PM

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upbeat kiln https://youtu.be/q8Bwt7p_rBE

wtf lmao

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thats way too fast

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slow down

real cedar Jun 5, 2025, 5:48 PM

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🤔 Now that's some odd lore. This is the first time we get a direct description of the Sculptor taking action

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It also puts further creedence on the theories that Pelican Island Prison was either the source of the Louisiana corruption, or perhaps at least the source of DeSalle's spreading. Wanton cruelty seems to be what allows the Sculptor in

upbeat kiln Jun 5, 2025, 5:50 PM

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real cedar It also puts further creedence on the theories that Pelican Island Prison was ei...

Yes. I was just about to say that

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I think this is one the most interesting entries we've had in a long time

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We don't have a lot to go by in terms of the Sculptor being active in its corruption of beings or matter, and I think this ties so well into the presumptions we have made over the years

real dove Jun 5, 2025, 5:53 PM

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OH SHIT LORE

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I'm late

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But HELL YEAH PEEPS WERE SO BACK

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I was wondering if mountain man was the guy until he sewed the dude into the skin

gilded umbra Jun 5, 2025, 5:55 PM

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upbeat kiln https://youtu.be/q8Bwt7p_rBE

This was a great story, as usual. 👏🏼

tiny apex Jun 5, 2025, 5:56 PM

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I still don’t understand the lore of hunt, is the Sculptor a necromancer?

earnest jungle Jun 5, 2025, 5:58 PM

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HALLELUJAH

ocean linden Jun 5, 2025, 5:58 PM

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Sculptor is an eldritch entity

real cedar Jun 5, 2025, 5:59 PM

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tiny apex I still don’t understand the lore of hunt, is the Sculptor a necromancer?

More of an eldritch horror. It doesn't have a physical form that anyone really knows of, it's more like an intelligent force that can only work within corrupted areas. Like if magnetism had a will.
The Sculptor takes the souls of those who die, get corrupted, or otherwise interest it, and either reshapes it into something of its liking (Like the Spider and Brute) or just copies its twisted form and remakes it over and over.

earnest jungle Jun 5, 2025, 5:59 PM

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tiny apex I still don’t understand the lore of hunt, is the Sculptor a necromancer?

Trans dimensional entity from beyond the lands of the dead

real cedar Jun 5, 2025, 6:06 PM

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Another interesting thing to note from that story - the Inoculation isn't worth much when you're touched directly by the Sculptor. It might prevent the infection or deterioration but if the Sculptor wants to, it can just take you.

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The Modern Researcher also makes a good point on what attracts the Sculptor. It's not just cruelty, it's creation. The Butcher, the Hellborn, Jabez's experiments with Ego-Dissolution, Scrapbeak, they're all sculpting things already. So even the nastiest people in the Bayou like Glanton and Salter wouldn't be able to catch its attention as they just mutilate and destroy.

earnest jungle Jun 5, 2025, 6:20 PM

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THE LORE LIVES

tiny apex Jun 5, 2025, 6:20 PM

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So what is dark sight? What are the powers hunters have in lore ?

supple smelt Jun 5, 2025, 6:21 PM

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earnest jungle THE LORE LIVES

The tides are changing in our favour

supple smelt Jun 5, 2025, 6:21 PM

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earnest jungle Trans dimensional entity from beyond the lands of the dead

does the sculptor celebrate pride month

real cedar Jun 5, 2025, 6:26 PM

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tiny apex So what is dark sight? What are the powers hunters have in lore ?

Dark Sight is a power gained from the Inoculation, which itself is part science, part ritual magic. Every Hunter is required to take it if they want to survive traveling in the Incursion.
The old inoculation was made from plants including Datura, which was historically used to induce occult visions. The new inoculation is made from the essence of captured eldritch entities that are drawn in using human sacrifice and bound in ropes made of human skin. There might be a third inoculation on the horizon though, we'll see.
Dark Sight lets Hunters see more, connect with the rends in the world, and training with it seems to allow them to manipulate life force and for whatever reason teleport and use telekinesis (This never shows up in lore so maybe it's just gameplay)

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In lore, Dark Sight leads Hunters to rifts (clues) and breaking open those clues let them peer through the hole and see through the eyes of the Target they're hunting.

tiny apex Jun 5, 2025, 6:28 PM

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The infected zombies are what? People without inoculation caught up in the incursion?

real cedar Jun 5, 2025, 6:29 PM

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Yeah, that's why you see prisoner grunts at prisons, miner grunts in the mines, etc. There are some that are unique individuals that the sculptor copies as well, such as the Doctor Grunt.

mint wind Jun 5, 2025, 6:30 PM

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@real dove not too sad that Ursa design is now only for memories ? Since the Brute doesn't have 2 heads...

real cedar Jun 5, 2025, 6:31 PM

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The real sad part is we don't have a name for the Brute

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The whiteshirt inside didn't get identified 😔

spiral mica Jun 5, 2025, 6:38 PM

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Glad the bear looks normal now

noble scarab Jun 5, 2025, 6:38 PM

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Rip unidentified white shirt

plucky lynx Jun 5, 2025, 6:39 PM

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who is Grahm? bru

spiral mica Jun 5, 2025, 6:39 PM

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plucky lynx who is Grahm? <:bru:1113892650194583654>

Burned man?

plucky lynx Jun 5, 2025, 6:40 PM

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my first thought too lmfao

spiral mica Jun 5, 2025, 6:40 PM

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Oh wait

real cedar Jun 5, 2025, 6:40 PM

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plucky lynx who is Grahm? <:bru:1113892650194583654>

The guy in the story is Grahm 🤷‍♂️
He doesn't exist in previous lore

plucky lynx Jun 5, 2025, 6:40 PM

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ahh okay

strange bane Jun 5, 2025, 6:40 PM

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Burned man is shiloh i think

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Jefferson

spiral mica Jun 5, 2025, 6:40 PM

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Is it Ishim?

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The priest skin?

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I can't remember his name

strange bane Jun 5, 2025, 6:40 PM

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Could be wrong

real cedar Jun 5, 2025, 6:40 PM

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Maybe he'll show up somewhere later, in another story or as a skin

spiral mica Jun 5, 2025, 6:41 PM

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Nvm his name is Grid or Gird or something I think

strange bane Jun 5, 2025, 6:41 PM

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Priest is Ibrahim or something yeah

real cedar Jun 5, 2025, 6:41 PM

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spiral mica I can't remember his name

Ishim Gird

spiral mica Jun 5, 2025, 6:41 PM

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real cedar Ishim Gird

Ah yeah so nvm

strange bane Jun 5, 2025, 6:41 PM

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Oh yeh

spiral mica Jun 5, 2025, 6:41 PM

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Maybe it is Joshua then lol

noble scarab Jun 5, 2025, 6:41 PM

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This still gives us some confusing notes, especially about desalle. If someone was cutting up hunters and feeding them to people in the saloon it couldn’t have been fully corrupted like we see in game, at least at that point

spiral mica Jun 5, 2025, 6:41 PM

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1911 in hunt?

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https://tenor.com/view/fallout-new-vegas-joshua-graham-gif-25989158

Tenor

strange bane Jun 5, 2025, 6:41 PM

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Would be busted

spiral mica Jun 5, 2025, 6:41 PM

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strange bane Would be busted

Ohhhh yeah it would

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Thing would get dumdum too

strange bane Jun 5, 2025, 6:42 PM

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Sheeesh

spiral mica Jun 5, 2025, 6:42 PM

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1911 hollow points are very popular

strange bane Jun 5, 2025, 6:42 PM

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Time for dual wielding 1911s , dante style

spiral mica Jun 5, 2025, 6:42 PM

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strange bane Time for dual wielding 1911s , dante style

Lmao

strange bane Jun 5, 2025, 6:43 PM

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The tryhards will quake in fear until they adopt it into their ever present meta

spiral mica Jun 5, 2025, 6:43 PM

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https://tenor.com/view/devil-may-cry-characters-gun-gif-15391646

Tenor

strange bane Jun 5, 2025, 6:43 PM

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Lol

spiral mica Jun 5, 2025, 6:43 PM

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Dante jumpscare

real cedar Jun 5, 2025, 6:43 PM

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noble scarab This still gives us some confusing notes, especially about desalle. If someone w...

Interview with Fenella Cleve indicates it was a slow, quiet descent, and multiple things seem to coincide with the idea that it was "corrupted" before it became an Incursion. the Pelican Island Prison experiments had been going on since 1894, Lewis DeSalle was kidnapping and killing men, someone shot the Fiddler, etc.

strange bane Jun 5, 2025, 6:43 PM

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Nah nero would use the Haymaker

noble scarab Jun 5, 2025, 6:44 PM

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real cedar Interview with Fenella Cleve indicates it was a slow, quiet descent, and multipl...

I’m just stuck on the redneck lore, which I guess is a bit retconned, but Desalle was always “long corrupted”

spiral mica Jun 5, 2025, 6:44 PM

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Going back to the new bear look I'm really happy they've de-circused it. It would've looked really weird and out of place with all the circus junk still hanging from it.

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You can actually see more of the bear itself which is cool. There's details I notice that I didn't notice during the circus event.

real cedar Jun 5, 2025, 6:45 PM

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noble scarab I’m just stuck on the redneck lore, which I guess is a bit retconned, but Desall...

It might be that William Moses was only discovered once it was long corrupted. He is in the ass end of the area after all, away from the city.

spiral mica Jun 5, 2025, 6:45 PM

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Like, it looks like it has even more extra arms than I thought.

prime current Jun 5, 2025, 6:46 PM

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spiral mica You can actually see more of the bear itself which is cool. There's details I no...

It's not the same bear

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Lore wise

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Asset wise probably

noble scarab Jun 5, 2025, 6:46 PM

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real cedar It might be that William Moses was only discovered once it was long corrupted. H...

That would make sense

spiral mica Jun 5, 2025, 6:46 PM

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Yeah, that's what I meant.

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It's the same asset without the circus stuff on it.

prime current Jun 5, 2025, 6:47 PM

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Hm

noble scarab Jun 5, 2025, 6:47 PM

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And missing an (external) head

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It’s still got 2 heads tho

prime current Jun 5, 2025, 6:47 PM

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noble scarab And missing an (external) head

That's what is was I thought I was crazy

noble scarab Jun 5, 2025, 6:49 PM

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I wonder what buddy was going for by putting him in there

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Just cruelty?

real cedar Jun 5, 2025, 6:49 PM

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Just some fun, yeah

elfin spoke Jun 5, 2025, 6:49 PM

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noble scarab I wonder what buddy was going for by putting him in there

private dance show, obviously xD

real cedar Jun 5, 2025, 6:49 PM

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A 6* veteran Rat playing with his food

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Poor whiteshirt didn't realize you can't trust people that trap supply points

elfin spoke Jun 5, 2025, 6:51 PM

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What's interesting to me is that Grahm seems to be quiet the prolific hunter. Was there from the beginning and worked with a couple other famous hunters

noble scarab Jun 5, 2025, 6:51 PM

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That’s what vigilant is for

real cedar Jun 5, 2025, 6:55 PM

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elfin spoke What's interesting to me is that Grahm seems to be quiet the prolific hunter. Wa...

Of course, he might be bullshitting. Salter was a recluse (unless he meant Charlie Salter) and Hannah Kinney disguised herself to all but a few close friends until her death. Lynch was pretty infamous so that one seems possible. That he name drops them all shows he's a veteran at least.

noble scarab Jun 5, 2025, 6:56 PM

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He knew about lynch making skin ropes

real cedar Jun 5, 2025, 6:57 PM

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I did overlook that. While he doesn't directly attribute it to Lynch, it's still an outside source confirming the details of one of Hayden Collins' stories.

elfin spoke Jun 5, 2025, 6:58 PM

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real cedar Of course, he might be bullshitting. Salter was a recluse (unless he meant Charl...

might be. let's hope we get even more lore

earnest jungle Jun 5, 2025, 7:00 PM

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Okay I’ve got a lot to say but it will all have to wait until I get home

cloud ravine Jun 5, 2025, 7:16 PM

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I have a funny lore idea

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A boss with the ban hammer xD

gilded umbra Jun 5, 2025, 7:20 PM

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spiral mica https://tenor.com/view/fallout-new-vegas-joshua-graham-gif-25989158

The M1911 is one of the best handguns in the world.

orchid tangle Jun 5, 2025, 7:56 PM

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this journal is so fucking goosd

warm lagoon Jun 5, 2025, 8:29 PM

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researcher is such a G

neat juniper Jun 5, 2025, 8:31 PM

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warm lagoon researcher is such a G

My beloved

earnest jungle Jun 5, 2025, 8:49 PM

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noble scarab This still gives us some confusing notes, especially about desalle. If someone w...

Gameplay and story segregation. DeSalle died a slow lingering death; as late as 1895 it was still inhabited by a slowly dwindling civilian population.

gilded umbra Jun 5, 2025, 8:59 PM

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I miss that saloon in DeSalle.

earnest jungle Jun 5, 2025, 8:59 PM

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DeSalle and Mammon's Gulch both still have a small dwindling civilian population just based on what we've seen; it's just they don't appear in game because they don't need to.

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If you want a Narrative Explanation; whatever civilian population exists in dead zones actively hides from hunters because they're very justafiably affraid they'll be murdered if found.

gilded umbra Jun 5, 2025, 9:01 PM

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That makes sense. They’re all hiding from us.

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Thank you for that explanation.

earnest jungle Jun 5, 2025, 9:02 PM

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And logically we know there must be some kind of civilian population because we know there are people who are affiliated with but not actual members of the AHA serving as guides to lead people into and out of the deadzones. Avis Wyndham Jr was one such individual.

gilded umbra Jun 5, 2025, 9:04 PM

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I hope there is a spoken word story with the next event. Those were always really cool.

earnest jungle Jun 5, 2025, 9:05 PM

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gilded umbra I hope there is a spoken word story with the next event. Those were always reall...

We won't know for a couple weeks; maybe there will maybe there won't.

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Traditionally the voice acting in event trailers has been taken from the narration of the event storyline; but that hasn't been the case in a while now.

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To return to the Brute however, I have a lot of thoughts to share.

gilded umbra Jun 5, 2025, 9:06 PM

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Please do, the lore is one of the best parts of the game to me.

earnest jungle Jun 5, 2025, 9:15 PM

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The brute was initially speculated to be the offspring of Ursus Mortis; but these entries make me think it was the other way around. Ursus Mortis had been a pair of orphaned bear cubs taken in by the murder Circus. I think the Mother Bear killed by "Graham" and the Whiteshirt was the mother of those orphaned cubs.

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As for this "Graham" figure; I am at a bit of a loss. The Journal paints a vivid picture of a seasoned veteran hunter with a sadistic streak a mile long. He's been around long enough to have known of Hannah Kinnley, The Salter Brothers, and Lynch; was at one point a fur trapper in Colorado; and wears a bear skin coat with a cowl made from it's skull.

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There is off the top of my head one figure who meets the description of all of these descriptions: Thomas Bridger.

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However I have my doubts that "Grham" is a pseudonym for Thomas Bridger

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For starters Bridger doesn't wear a bearskin coat he wears a Bearskin cloak.

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And additionally Graham's sadisim is out of character for Thomas Bridger.

real cedar Jun 5, 2025, 9:29 PM

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Bridger is missing the sadistic streak part, unless he's very very good at acting. The REDACTED Letters paint him as frightened when he was helping sadists, and the Trappers view him as a surrogate father, a helpful person

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It would be quite a twist that he's got some secret hobbies though

earnest jungle Jun 5, 2025, 9:32 PM

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As I said Graham's personality seems at odds with how Thomas Bridger has previously been characterized... but another possibility exists...

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The Flavor text for the legendary Shotgun Eulogy was named in honor of one of Thomas' lovers/rivals-an enemy with benefits if you will-whose name has never been revealed from a life he has long since left behind.

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We were never given a name for this-eventually-deceased lover; but part of me wonders if Graham may have been this man.

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I will admit the evidence is tenuous: they're both trappers who have been to Colorado, wear bearskin clothes, and they're both old enough to be Veternas of the Hunt

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And if my boyfriend stitched some dumb kid into a bearskin for shits and giggles creating some horific monster I too would call him Bastard.

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My final theory is that Graham maybe a pseudonym for another infamous veteran with a massive sadistic streak; who was an associate of Lynch: and that's Danie Glanton.

real cedar Jun 5, 2025, 9:42 PM

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earnest jungle The brute was initially speculated to be the offspring of Ursus Mortis; but thes...

This theory doesn't work out in a few ways. Milo and Morggi seem to be brown bears by their circus artwork, and are depicted as full grown. All the events Grahm mentions happen in 1894-95, so cubs orphaned during the Hunt couldn't have grown to be circus bears soon enough. Even if they were meant to be black bears, it takes 5-8 years for them to reach full size.

earnest jungle Jun 5, 2025, 9:42 PM

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Hunters were known to opperate under false names and identities; Timothy Stone made a career out of selling the papers and identities of dead hunters to living hunters so they could travel freely.

earnest jungle Jun 5, 2025, 9:44 PM

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real cedar This theory doesn't work out in a few ways. Milo and Morggi seem to be brown bea...

Milo and Morggi could have been yearlings, and despite the name Black bears can come in a variety of colors including brown

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I'll see if I can find a picture of Urusus Mortis walking on all fours: that should be able to help us determine whether They're a Blackbear or Grizzly.

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Blackbears and Grizzlies have a different profile: black bears have a higher hind quarters than grizzlies and a prominent shoulder hump. As far as I can tell Ursa Mortis doesn't seem to have a shoulder hump but it's hard to tell in the videos I've found of people fighitng it

real cedar Jun 5, 2025, 9:56 PM

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Claw shape doesn't help either cause a corrupted bear can have long ass spooky claws without it meaning much, hard to be sure especially when the Brute reuses assets.

earnest jungle Jun 5, 2025, 10:02 PM

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A possible explanation is that Ursa Mortis didn't really have a specific species outside of "Demon Bear" when being created. And of course this is a European Game Studio so this could be another "Europeans are not especially familiar with American ecosystems and geography" along with the Mountains of Southern Louisiana

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So far Art Station has turned up nothing for Ursa Mortis but I'll keep digging

warm lagoon Jun 5, 2025, 10:06 PM

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some nat geo stuff going on here

real cedar Jun 5, 2025, 10:08 PM

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Pawprint is the same, seems more black bear on both but idk

earnest jungle Jun 5, 2025, 10:11 PM

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Snout wise The Brute and the Right head of the Ursa Mortis appear to have a straight profile more like a black bear's but the left head looks more dished like a grizzly bear.

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real cedar Jun 5, 2025, 10:12 PM

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Definitely seems like they're the species Ursus daemonium

earnest jungle Jun 5, 2025, 10:15 PM

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Hell maybe Ursa Mortis is a hybrid: though that would only raise further questions given the historic range of the American Brown Bear

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The pointed ears of the poster seem to resemble that of a black bear but if Im being honest the stance of both bears resemble more of a grizzly.

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Perhaps this is a "Mrs. Margaret's Beast Taming Show" scenario where the circus is deliberately trying to trick the audience into believing the bears they're seeing are grizzlies.

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Speaking of which.

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If they bring back the Murder Circus I propse they replace Post Malone with "Mrs. Margaret" from RDR2

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She fits the tone of Hunt a lot better than Postie did I do declare.

noble scarab Jun 5, 2025, 10:45 PM

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Arthur as a hunter when

earnest jungle Jun 5, 2025, 10:49 PM

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lol

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In all seriousness I really wish they'ed give us more explicitly queer hunters now that narrative aspects of the game. The Viper and Gar and Iron Bark are the only explicitly trans/nb hunters we have

real dove Jun 5, 2025, 10:53 PM

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You need lore to flesh that out tho

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I guess we have blurbs

earnest jungle Jun 5, 2025, 10:55 PM

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They could do something with the rookie progression hunters

real dove Jun 5, 2025, 10:56 PM

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Ja. If we get more

granite shard Jun 5, 2025, 10:56 PM

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And Sofia

earnest jungle Jun 5, 2025, 10:56 PM

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Those hunters tend to get longer stories

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Right Sofia is agender; though that never really gets much of a mention in the game.

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Though admittedly neither does Gar’s transness get much attention

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And trans people did exist in the period. One of Custer’s soldiers was married to a Mexican-American Transwoman who worked as an Army nurse named Mrs. Nash.

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And Albert Cashier was a veteran of the US civil War and a Trans Man

real dove Jun 5, 2025, 10:59 PM

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We have multiple trans hunters, not as if they aren't aware

earnest jungle Jun 5, 2025, 10:59 PM

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I know I just want more

real dove Jun 5, 2025, 10:59 PM

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I think we have to get out of an era and see where this new one goes

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Give them time- looking like we might be getting lore back and that's a solid win for now. Who knows what's coming now that things are going in a new direction

earnest jungle Jun 5, 2025, 11:01 PM

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I’ve said it before but I would pay good money for an official Hunt Showdown Book/Comic/Graphic novel

real dove Jun 5, 2025, 11:01 PM

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Agreed

warm lagoon Jun 5, 2025, 11:16 PM

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I would too

tiny apex Jun 5, 2025, 11:26 PM

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Water devils are parasites that’s terrifying

earnest jungle Jun 5, 2025, 11:28 PM

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tiny apex Water devils are parasites that’s terrifying

mmmhmmm

earnest jungle Jun 5, 2025, 11:30 PM

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orchid tangle "The 'The Ghost of Blanchett Graves' DLC has been postponed! We are terribly sor...

Also YOU DID THIS!

orchid tangle Jun 5, 2025, 11:30 PM

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what'd I do

earnest jungle Jun 5, 2025, 11:30 PM

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You made that joke and now suddenly we're getting lore about a living human being stuffed into a bear suit

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You are the reason we got this lore

orchid tangle Jun 5, 2025, 11:31 PM

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uhh uhhhhhh
the new event shall contain a nitro express revolver, a maxim gun, and we are adding body armor

earnest jungle Jun 5, 2025, 11:31 PM

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Quick now give us next week's loto numbers

orchid tangle Jun 5, 2025, 11:32 PM

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I think 6