hunt-general

[remote moss]

its fucking funny spotting a random crouchwalker with it

so while they fucking greed, you figure out where their possible rotates out are, then camp next to it and wait for them to get tagged and shit. its so easy, its super effective

and nobody fucking uses it cause this playerbase is

💀

[dry hawk]

yeah beetles are not very common

i have been killed by them twice in my some 1000 hours

[remote moss]

costs too much in slots and shit, ye. so nobody actually tests or learns the funny strats, they just rush with it which is funny at least

all i can do is scream about it here fr fr

[dry hawk]

which like, if they arent very common, i dont think they need to be nerfed but i also wont be too beat up about it if they did

[remote moss]

ya

[turbid dock]

They're versatile as hell though, i don't think it makes sense to say they have one purpose

You can block a rotate like you said, scout for info (duh), ping enemy locations to help teammates with wallbangs, or the way i like using it the most, helping a teammate push someone by both scouting and being a heat seeking missile creating pressure with the dmg and bleed at the exact time my teammate engages, without giving up my own position

Can also look for and trigger traps with them

[remote moss]

you right, its a fucking cracked ass tool. im just salty at one of the things people dont know about it cause its so underrated

😭

[turbid dock]

Hah

[remote moss]

dude, it solves the old problem where you'd have to risk your rifle guy suiciding so the shotgun could get the trade when rushing together

[turbid dock]

I love my beetles

[remote moss]

its so sick

[turbid dock]

Yuuup, people say the beetles aren't the anti-camper tool they thought they would be but like

They kinda literally are

[remote moss]

it isnt cause they just drone with it and it dies

and theyre not close enough to even capitalize if it pops

so like bro

anyway, good knowing a brother like you exists again

[turbid dock]

Yeah, you can usually enter a building through some fucked up crack in the roof or whatever to figure out which angles people are holding without the beetle getting insta popped, then time the detonation with a push

My beloved versatile beetles

[ancient cave]

post malone being in the game just helped me realize I'm being stalked, thank you post malone

[remote moss]

hey you got one too?

[past locust]

how do i hide my spotify listening

[lofty sinew]

unlink it from any rich presence stuff like discord..

[past locust]

i don’t even know how i linked it

i like to gatekeep whatever i’m listening to

and my friends bully me for listening to taylor swift

[lofty sinew]

then it might be worth your time to google how to unlink it from stuff I guess

[past locust]

is it normal to smell really bad after not showering for several days

[uneven flax]

taylor swift has a lot of amazing songs

im not really a ts fan but whenever I do wrapped she's always in my top 5

her songs are just naturally good

[past locust]

i like listening to taylor swift sometimes

[uneven flax]

wish chapelle roan release more songs

[patent moon]

yo looking for people to paly with oce

[uneven flax]

https://tenor.com/view/do-it-lady-chit-jay-renshaw-the-groundlings-you-go-girl-gif-1136019268058911468

[past locust]

i do solo versus trios on OCE to pve

my grinding

method

[lavish bear]

Oce💔

[patent moon]

should i try the method

but im kinda trash

[past locust]

OCE is pve servers

go to US west or east asia if u want pvp

[patent moon]

gg

oce is dead

[past locust]

i genuinely refuse to pvp on oce

if i get shot at i run

i don’t even bring a gun

[lavish bear]

Why bro😭

[patent moon]

thats crazy

[past locust]

just a hammer and a stamina shot an a first aid kit

[patent moon]

bro is here to farm money nothing else

i respect it

[past locust]

I try to speed run getting a bounty and leaving

it’s like 1300 hunt dollars

[lavish bear]

We r not real

[past locust]

for xp i also kill anything in the way since it doesn’t meaningfully slow me down, and i can kill meatheads with 3 or 4 hammer swings

[uneven flax]

hunt showdown has incredible handcrafted maps. running around the map is really fun and beautiful

[past locust]

OCE is pve servers

i make friends with random chinese men on there

we share bounties all the time

[atomic dune]

yo guys i have a favor i need done that i will never pay you back for

[past locust]

what if instead of hunt showdown it was called hunt freakdown

[uneven flax]

stay out of the kitchen bro

[lavish bear]

Incredible

Comediannnn

[past locust]

I just saw an image of rotjaw that i do not want to see again

never let me cook again

[lavish bear]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1447969308935196713/1485021187808428203/togif.gif

[past locust]

https://tenor.com/view/wiggle-pibble-gif-2404523175486953003

[lavish bear]

https://giphy.com/gifs/son-n-im-crine-3B81t4WkltNwIDRo8G

[past locust]

sometimes when i’m hunting my showdown i like to pretend like im a cowboy

[green moat]

anyone wanna run some bounty clash drink and chill on them free loadouts

[hot dune]

I killed one of them 3 times in a row. I was their enemy in clash

He kept getting rev'd

[lavish bear]

L larp

[past locust]

i speak spanish like i’m reading advertisements to my teammates sometimes

[fiery grove]

Does anyone know when the circus comes out ? I guess anytime right ?

[lavish bear]

Isnt it every week it changes

[past locust]

the bread is full of microplastics and the circus is ai generated

[lavish bear]

So i’d assume today?

[past locust]

i’m so thought provoking and deep

[lavish bear]

Or im completely wrong idk

[fiery grove]

I guess ?

[past locust]

what if instead of hunt showdown it was called freak showdown

[lavish bear]

Banned

[fiery grove]

First I thought we were getting circus based on the trailer, then we got nest, now I'm so confused

[past locust]

i’m asking the real questions

[lavish bear]

Its bi weekly

[past locust]

the questions that the media is scared to ask

[lavish bear]

@kind pine

Get him.

[past locust]

@john hunt showdown get him

[fiery grove]

Okay so everyone is as clueless as I am ^^

[past locust]

brother i’m about as smart as an orangutan

[fiery grove]

I can see that

They pretty smart tho

So it's ok, you're smarter than the average american

[remote moss]

NA lobbies peak

[past locust]

was killed on the pve server again

[crystal bay]

?

PvE server?

[past locust]

oce is pve server

[ivory scaffold]

NAE just died on me. RIP NAE.

[calm yew]

hmmm ..USWest is down ..?

[wicked fox]

Frequent rubberbanding on US West. 🛜

[upbeat lark]

Oof

[lavish bear]

Nope

[upbeat lark]

My condolences us west residence

Anyway

I love the drilling so much

[lavish bear]

L gun

[upbeat lark]

Not the 2 slot shorty variant tho the sight is way too thick

[upbeat lark]

It's a peak gun

Hollo

For that I wish you step on Legos

[urban fable]

They should add a Hunter that wears a bell

and the bell tolls when you kill someone

(crazy)

[solemn escarp]

they should add sex to hunt

[still totem]

[turbid dock]

the bell constantly rings every time you take a step like a sheep

redshirt 2.0

[past locust]

how interesting

hunt freakdown

[solemn escarp]

hear me out me and post malone just bumping uglys in the middle of Alice Farms

[crystal bay]

I am no longer hearing anyone out from this moment onwards

[solemn escarp]

getting down n dirty in the mud like a couple of piggie

[crystal bay]

Just because of that

[past locust]

bro

what did i just read

i regret my own literacy now

me and my chinese friend were each shot at by a miscreant in the pve server

we scared him off by shouting at him

pve gaming

[still totem]

I havent visited the server in awhile and these are the things I see

[past locust]

i like to keep what im saying pg13

now in the friends servers, there i say some weird stuff

[solemn escarp]

anyone else find the bug bitch lowkey bad? like in the same way as when you see a sexy grandma who yknow had hip surgery so she can take a good dih

[still totem]

https://klipy.com/gifs/stop-it-get-some-help-5

[neon glacier]

Brother what

[solemn escarp]

im a modern van gogh yall just dont understand the vision

[still totem]

I mean look you wanna be a monster diddler that's your business but not everyone wants to know it

[solemn escarp]

kill joy is right

no respect for the arts

[past locust]

bro why are people killing on the pve server

oce is pve server

[light sky]

[lavish bear]

Ban spooky

[light sky]

Nuh huh

[lavish bear]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1209607350915305564/1232895714577874974/IMG_3903.gif?width=1031&height=658

[frigid ibex]

Its a dead server, not pve

[stuck hatch]

What da helllll

[past locust]

it’s pve, i don’t even bring a gun, i’m there for money

[uneven flax]

OCE is dead in ASIA-OCE dead hours. A lot of Asian players play in OCE, but they end up just playing against each other anyway

if you want to farm in OCE, it has to be way past midnight and before morning for both regions

[past locust]

i’m smart

[frigid ibex]

Im full aware its dead, I dont need it explained in detail

[hollow magnet]

Just ran into a fun cheat

dude remotely placed traps at me and my teammate's feet

insta died to 2 beartraps and an alert

dude was across the map in the spectate

we were at the north end of weeping stone and he was at the south side of seven sisters

[lofty sinew]

hopefully you reported? thats an interesting one anyway.

[left orbit]

so they tk you because you played the game... they deserve a ban indeed

[hollow magnet]

I did yeah

[unique trail]

I went for dusters kill and I died rip

[coarse moss]

cmon. please fix East server.

[pearl meadow]

bro what are you

[hard socket]

Just fell through the map mid clash

[uneven flax]

skill issue

[hard socket]

😵

[stiff radish]

Holy fuck! Look at that kill distance

How do you even get that?

[hollow crescent]

trap kills used to count before devil's trail

you can get it up to like, 1300-1400m

[left orbit]

hi

[stiff radish]

a

[left orbit]

isn’t it that bullets despawn after 500m?

like you can do headshot at "infinite" distance but they dispawn after 500m

[trail cloak]

yo werent lyin in the slightest

it was a bloodbath i stumbled across like 10 unburned bodies

[uneven flax]

vulture is how you make 900-2000 in clash

[left orbit]

ye

this is the way

free hunter, drop the trait, vulture, 100% benefits

[dry hawk]

https://tenor.com/view/jinx-the-cat-jinx-jinx-cat-cat-computer-gif-25786466

[dry hawk]

temporary setback

[left orbit]

teef

[unique saddle]

I'm getting so robbed of easy kills lately.

I was just at a Stillwater fight and threw a frag directly on top of a guy hiding behind a wagon, no kill, so I go to push while he's bleeding with crown&king and he's crouched with haymaker and kills me. I don't even get the trade. Ridiculous man.

[left orbit]

well she shot a bit earlier than you

bleeding and burning statuses can be good baits

i try to get wallbangs if possible against affected players

because of that strat 😄

[unique saddle]

It seemed like we both shot at the same time, but the only thing that makes sense is they shot first or had a better gaming chair I guess

I'm just really getting tired of going so many matches with 0 kills and no improvement

[left orbit]

try staying more under cover and having pen power

compact/medium FMJ or long ammo does the job

pax dum dum and centi/vett fmj does wonders

[unique saddle]

I know all the usual strats, but I'm stuck in that period where nothing I'm running is helping me kill the enemy

[gray aurora]

I had that last week than some told me to use springfield and take cover after every shot and now im in 5 stars

Just remembering take cover has helped a lot

[uneven flax]

even someone with thousands of hours can fail easy kills

i have 550 and play like a 1* sometimes

gonna reinstall KCD2. I wanna run around the map like I do in Hunt

can some other devs just make more open ended cryengine games

i wanna experience more beautiful pixel vistas

cause real life travel is a pain in the ass

[turbid dock]

Do whatever you need to do to lock in i guess?

short break, food, sleep, caffeine, idk, whatever you need to get your brain running

[remote moss]

when your mental goes to shit, you start making small mistakes you dont notice, bad judgment calls and shit, ya

honestly, i just open up minecraft sometimes and dodge hunt for a bit

[uneven flax]

yeah i need palate cleanser for hunt as well

game just requires liters of sweat

[dry hawk]

https://tenor.com/view/this-peak-is-this-peak-so-peak-peak-it's-just-so-peak-gif-1360442599844596686

[wild niche]

mom get the camera

[uneven flax]

hans get za flamenwerfer

[uneven flax]

game's amazing. iirc theyre actually making a third game. But i doubt it's a sequel

[dry hawk]

stalker gamma is my palate cleanser to hunt ironically

[uneven flax]

i need to retry this again. because when i tried it i was just plopped in the middle of bumfuck nowhere with no idea what to do or where to go or how to play the damn game

i got killed by boars 5 times and i uninstalled it

[dry hawk]

u just take jobs from people and it goes off from there

[dry hawk]

warhorse is working on a lotr game at the moment

[uneven flax]

yeah and another kcd

[dry hawk]

a sequel to kcd2 could work if there is a bit of a timeskip

maybe kcd3 wont be released the same year as another game that steals all the game awards

just like the last two

[uneven flax]

After the end of the events of kcd2 Sigismund basically came back right?

like... after a few years

either Sigismund or his descendants / family

IIRC the end of KCD2 was basically the start of Hussite Wars or whatever the fuck

so there's definitely a lot more history to pull from

[dry hawk]

medieval european history is not my forte

but yes the actual greater plot of kcd1-2 is the prelude of the hussite wars

[uneven flax]

it just has no onboarding to speak of

[urban steppe]

suffering using the carbine

for the weekly

[dry hawk]

newer players are intended to play as a lone stalker and spawn at cordon, from there you talk to other peeps and there is even a guy who gives you the games version of the tutorial

if you havent played a bit of stalker anomaly i cant recommend jumping into gamma

[uneven flax]

should i go for gamma or anomaly?

i know gamma is basically a mod pack for anomaly

[uneven flax]

oh u just answered it

iirc i played gamma only

and it was confusing

[dry hawk]

gamma adds so many layers of progression that can be a pain to grind if you're unfamiliar with anomalies base mechanics

[urban steppe]

carbine fmj is <300 mv

💀

dude, people side strafe faster than this

I might have to derank for this challenge

[dry hawk]

like dont get me wrong, anomaly doesnt have much in the way of "onboarding" but it has way less going on than gamma

anomaly also aint too hard to mod, you can get the cool stuff gamma has like the gun/equipment animations without the entire modpack

[uneven flax]

i dont wanna bother modding individually tbf tbh

if gamma has way more cool stuff id take it

modding is a fuckin rabbit hole

and i only have 2 weeks before i start my new job

[dry hawk]

lead ur shots

[dry hawk]

if you were able to get gamma working you could easily get individual mods working

that being said if you wanna jump into gamma, the discord server has a lot of useful information

[uneven flax]

yeah but thats a single series of installation steps.

modding is like.. oh i want this that there those

the modding becomes the gameplay

🤣

[dry hawk]

the main changes to progression in gamma is that finding new weapons and repairing them is a hurdle in of itself
normally in anomaly you can just buy weapons and armor from merchants but in gamma you have to scrounge and craft your way into new gear

[uneven flax]

why is that a thing?

so they removed equipment merchants

[dry hawk]

in order to do that you need to find toolkits, which you find in stashes, which you find from doing jobs for people

[uneven flax]

personal preference?

[dry hawk]

its to make the progression grindier

there is a mod in gamma that does allow traders to sell weapons and armor however, but you get a much smaller selection to choose from

but doing jobs for each faction gives you good boy points and once you have enough they'll sell you better and more stuff

[uneven flax]

so overall anomaly is a better beginner experience

esp since i never played any stalker game

this is my palette cleanser rn

[dry hawk]

its the black market mod, and i run it all the time because i find it a little silly that no one sells weapons in a war-torn eastern european country infested with mutants

[dry hawk]

yes

[uneven flax]

i find it silly there are no weapon merchants in a fucking video game of all things

i think thats ridiculous

[wheat pilot]

I tried gamma with 0 knowledge about stalker and I don't recommend it, I had no idea what Im doing, basically no tutorials, I uninstalled after like an hour or 2 because I was legit completely lost

[uneven flax]

why even mod that in when u can prefer not to engage with the mechanic

[dry hawk]

story-wise it wont really make much sense, but speaking to characters in anomaly will reveal a lot of the lore

[uneven flax]

that is basically what happened to me

[dry hawk]

its not difficult to find weapons, its difficult to find weapons that function properly

its the same in anomaly too, but in that game a guns durability is a bar that goes from 0 to 100

in gamma, guns have components (trigger, reciever, barrel, etc) that all have their own durability, so to repair a broken gun you need to find replacement parts which you can buy or find

[uneven flax]

wat

you need to repair attachments too

and components

thats grindy as hell

in anomaly?

this is why i just wanna play stalker 2 tbh. i dont want such intricate systems

[dry hawk]

in anomaly the gun has a health bar

thats it

u can buy repair kits to make bar go up

but yeah, gamma is a LOT grindier than anomaly, but you can customize the mods to make it less-so

like the early game is the grindiest its gonna be since you're broke and got no tools to craft with, but once you get the ball rolling it becomes less of a grind

sometimes you even get lucky and find a good gun that is mostly in fine condition

[dry hawk]

i cant go back to stalker 2 atp, im too addicted to gamma 😭

the game also just has some issues that i really dislike, mainly bullet-spongey enemies which are also far less intelligent and immersive than the older games

its also bloated to high hell, its like 160gb of a map that is largely empty

[urban steppe]

🥀

we are never making it out of the compound with this one

[empty onyx]

I'm going forward and say I'm so old I have a CD ROM of call of priryat 1.0

actually I think it was a DVD rather than a CD, but whatever, I have it in my parents' place

the fact people are still modding that game after so many years it's kinda insane

[dry hawk]

i think its the main reason stalker 2 exists

[empty onyx]

if you ask me S2 was a bit of a let down

yeah sure it's a nice game for its story writing and general lore

but mechanically the looting is something very bare bones, there isn't really that much around that builds a "world" a-là tarkov

[dry hawk]

oh for sure, on its own its a fine game but as a successor to the original games its big disappointment

cant be too surprised though, beyond modern game development being the way it is, and yknow the country the developers are in getting fucking invaded, its honestly a miracle that stalker 2 was released as like a 7/10 game

[uneven flax]

deeper looting system in hunt confirmed

[empty onyx]

it was a miracle already I could have a 4 hours gaming session without a crash, not gonna complain much

[empty onyx]

wish

[turbid dock]

Seems like sequels to really old games have a tendency to not live up to the expectations

I think its the relative standards of the time? The stalker games were so good and unique for their time but many newer games have adopted elements from them and transformed them into new things already, so the standards have been raised

The thief reboot sucked so much

[empty onyx]

you have to consider most of the development teams behind a brand, that release a game years after the first iterations, have long gone

I would be surprised if S2 development team counted more than 10-15 people from the original productions

[urban steppe]

Eg fallout new vegas vs newer titles

developed entirely by a different team

[empty onyx]

different companies entirely, on top of that

[turbid dock]

That's part of it, but i don't believe the people behind successful old games were necessarily geniuses either, just ahead of their peers at the time

[dry hawk]

i cant really agree with that second part, at least not in regards to AI

when i say AI i dont mean the brainrot chatgpt kind i mean the npcs and how they interact with the world/player

[turbid dock]

Yeah ik, a life or whatever the name is

[dry hawk]

ye

[urban steppe]

yeah obsidian vs bethesda

[dry hawk]

i dont really think any game has done something quite like A-Life

[empty onyx]

I do miss a good mass effect

[dry hawk]

https://youtu.be/t1zM3ePkYPo?si=GQfoVkVKwKQGMS6l
this vid is a good comparison between A-life in old stalker and stalker 2. its a bit outdated since S2 has had a few patches improving A-life, but its still not on par with call of pripyat

anomaly also made a lot of improvements to A-life and i still think its the most well-rounded way to play stalker as it was originally intended

gamma is for people who played anomaly and want more

like me 🥀

[turbid dock]

But like, to illustrate my point, imagine the stalker games never happened and shadow of chernobyl released today, in the exact same state it released in 2007. It would probably get completely ignored as clunky, unimpressive, directionless, no? Probably attain some niche praise from very specific audiences, but it wouldn't be bringing anything super impressive to a modern audience, because we're used to a wayyy higher standard

I think the way we perceive the quality of these old games compared to their peers sets our expectations for how good the game series should be, and then we judge the sequels according to our modern sensibilities and they fall flat

[dry hawk]

tbh this is why i think gta 6 is gonna be a flop since i believe a lot of rockstars senior writers and developers left after rdr2

[uneven flax]

because sequels should retain the heart of the original games

See Vampire the Masquerade and Vampire the Masquerade 2: Craplines

Two completely different faken games

The only real progression is coming from Fallout 1/2 -> Fallout 3

FO3 is a clear modernization of the RPG in the franchise.

[urban steppe]

nah, the goofy antics in online will keep it afloat

just like how gta5 online is still rockstar's cash cow

[uneven flax]

I really doubt it. If GTA 6 is anything like GTA 5 but more features and life simulation it'd be received well.

[dry hawk]

for shadow of chernobyl specifically, i would agree to an extent. stalker games have always been pretty niche and didnt get popular until after call of pripyat, which is when A-life was fleshed out

[urban steppe]

the storyline for 6 doesn't matter
once people play through it once or twice it will have out lived its usage

[uneven flax]

Only thing killing GTA 6 is if it runs like hot garbage on 5080s and base PS5s

[urban steppe]

it is moreover what people can do to make their own fun in online

which is more important imo

as that's the only thing that will carry the game post release once the story is out and fully explored

[wheat pilot]

sales wise there is no chance GTA 6 flops

[uneven flax]

Plus GTA 5 story isnt even allat anyway.

People play GTA for the GTA, not for the story

[empty onyx]

GTA originally wasn't about writing, more about simulation and sandbox

the first 3 games were just that

[wise plume]

add tw drops...

[empty onyx]

GTA 3 started to introduce some level of writing, vice city peaked, san andreas redefined entirely the brand expectations

[wheat pilot]

whether it will be a good game is another topic but sales wise me winning a billion dollars in a lottery is more likely to happen than GTA 6 flopping lol

[turbid dock]

Who's gonna win, the infinite budget, talent, and unpaid overtime of all the Rockstar Studios together, or the unstoppable gamer urge to review bomb their favorite games?

[dry hawk]

we'll see, all im saying is that GTA 6 literally has the biggest shoes to fill of any game ever, and rockstar lost a good chunk of its seniority after the crunch that was red dead 2

mayb im just a hater

[empty onyx]

GTA VI is not going to be a flop, not economically for sure, but on a technical level GTA VI can overdeliver on simulation and underdeliver on writing and still be a hell of a game

[dense girder]

I love your name

[dry hawk]

and im sad that we never got undead nightmare 2

😭

[empty onyx]

oh I agree that RDR2 had so much potential but R* just left it there

[wise plume]

if gta 6 going to be poop ill require my money for both and pc specs

[uneven flax]

Yeah. GTA6 needs to release in a 5x worse state on PS5 than Cyberpunk 2077 in PS4 before it flops.

[wise plume]

i renew my stuff for that game

[empty onyx]

either way I ain't gonna play GTA VI at least until march, since I don't own consoles

[uneven flax]

It's gonna be so hard to fuck up GTA6 given the massive budget and time

[dry hawk]

id say the odds are about even tbh

gamers can be a roudy bunch

[wheat pilot]

though I do wonder how bad the microtransactions and GTA+ memberships will get in GTA 6 I expect it to only get worse

[turbid dock]

I'm fairly confident they'll deliver a pretty damn impressive singleplayer. Stupidly technically impressive, decent writing, some boring mission design, basically what we expect from rockstar. They just always deliver on that front

The Online is what I'm unsure about. They found a formula that worked after some updates to GTA5 online, but they already managed to fuck it up once in RDRO, they couldn't turn that one into an infinite money machine or an exciting online mode to play

[uneven flax]

Nintendo keeps releasing garbage games and people gobble it up

no way they dont gobble up GTA6

[dry hawk]

oh my god dont remind me about red dead online

[uneven flax]

unplayability is the only thing going to stop that game

[uneven flax]

i have 100 hours in RDR2. I have 200 in RDO.

RDO is fun as hell but holy

the worst online game ive played in my life

[turbid dock]

Yup

[dry hawk]

how could rockstar have fumbled rdo so bad

[turbid dock]

Could have been so much more

[uneven flax]

the longest loading screens, the most unstable servers ever known to man

the buggiest AAA online game ever to exist in the planet

you couldve told me RDO servers ran on a raspberry pi and id believe you

[wheat pilot]

It's not like gta online is that great either... People play it because it's gta and there is nothing else like it, not because gta online is that great

[turbid dock]

What if i just want to get my friends on to go fishing with them or something? Oh, they have to grind repetitive garbage that pays scraps for 7 hours to unlock the fishing rod?

[wheat pilot]

I dont think I've ever seen as many cheaters in an online game as in GTAO, it's insane

[uneven flax]

RDO had a massive cheater problem. people getting teleported everywhere, cheaters dropping legendary pelts for the entire lobby and R* do not give a diddly fuck

I don't understand why people spend money on Rockstar's online games.

GTAO was its own clusterfuck as well

[dry hawk]

apparently a big chunk of GTAO and RDO are roleplay servers

[turbid dock]

Is*

That game is still super active and just as much of a clusterfuck lol

[dry hawk]

playing some gmod darkrp type shit

[turbid dock]

See, this is the interesting part

Rockstar hired the FiveM devs

What are they gonna do with them? Are they fucking up this one chance to make an interesting online mode?

[uneven flax]

I still don't understand RP

Does RP have its own servers and uses a different GTAV Client?

[turbid dock]

Yesh

Modded client

[uneven flax]

So it's basically like Stalker Anomaly

Uses the base game to make its own game

[dry hawk]

no cheaters

because those servers have actual admins that can kick people

[uneven flax]

They hired FiveM devs for GTA6 online?

[turbid dock]

we just know they've hired them

We don't know what for

[uneven flax]

it had people monitoring each server?

[dry hawk]

so ive heard

[uneven flax]

no way they can sustain that

[dry hawk]

gtao cheaters are either the chillest mf's on the planet who rain money from the sky or yknow the typical cheaters

[uneven flax]

how much donations they getting

[turbid dock]

Servers are all privately hosted and customized by individuals to work however they want, and usually the playerbase is a close knit group

FiveM doesn't host the servers

[uneven flax]

so like RDO

either killers or robinhoods

[turbid dock]

It's like Minecraft servers, they have admins because they're hosting the entire thing themselves

[uneven flax]

Ah okay gotcha

And anyone can make their own server?

[dry hawk]

probably, never saw any benevolent cheaters in my limited time playing rdo

[turbid dock]

Yup

[uneven flax]

Just create server on the client and you get to host it?

[uneven flax]

You must be stuck in loading screens

[turbid dock]

I think it's slightly more technical than that but yeah

[wheat pilot]

I remember back in like 2023 when rockstar removed all the old cars from sale, I found some cheater who was able to spawn in all the old cars I wanted and add them to my garage

amazing guy

[uneven flax]

Only game worse than Starfield is RDO in terms of loading screens

[dry hawk]

maybe? I was more just underwhelmed by the lack of stuff to do that you didnt need to grind boring challenges for

[turbid dock]

I'm still unbelievably mad that rockstar just removed text chat from gta online enhanced

Yeah lets remove communication from our online game, surely that won't have any bad effects

[dry hawk]

i could be mistaken but how in the world do you make an online cowboy game and dont give people the ability to rob banks or trains

yknow, being an outlaw

[turbid dock]

Because gta online had given them a recipe. The recipe consisted of buying a building, and using said building to make slightly more money than the normal ways of making money

Exciting gameplay isn't a priority, they just want to get people hooked on a grind like they did in gtao

[dry hawk]

the missions are cool enough but it was just boring most of the time

and honestly (i could be and probably am wrong) but RDO seemed a lot more balanced in the pvp department than GTAO

[uneven flax]

RDO had fun PVP for sho

RDO also had specific PvP modes so it's not just getting killed in the open world

and you can also turn off PvP so u become unshootable

outside the terrible netcoding RDO was an incredibly fun sandbox experience

[dry hawk]

in pvp gamemodes i have no comment for gtao

i played a few in rdo but i wasnt half bad at team deathmatch in red dead 1 online

red dead 1 online is pretty barebones compared to rdo but i had way more fun playing that

[turbid dock]

They did make some interesting moves clearly aimed at actually improving the gameplay, like the defensive mode, hiding non-aggressive players on the minimap, etc.

Pvp was fully based around cheese though, using the magical cards to make fucked up builds. You had people using their deadeye to be immortal, or to shoot heat seeking explosive arrows

[dry hawk]

i think all there really was to do in rd1o was pvp modes, gang hideout fights, and messing around in the sandbox

[turbid dock]

Anyways yeah

All of this bs with RDO is the reason I'm so unsure about what they'll do with gta 6 online

They might make another infinite money machine that's gonna hold like 100k concurrent steam players after 13 years

Or they might make another RDO

[dry hawk]

now how do i mod red dead 2 to play like hunt? 🤔

ok gn also @uneven flax play stalker anomaly so i can have someone to yap about it to

[uneven flax]

im playing it rn. jesus its so confusing

im getting killed by a gravitational field

[round marlin]

i wanna do smt funny

double hand crossbow

[round marlin]

is stalker the game with some weird artifacts

and its like tarkov kinda

[uneven flax]

ive never played it

im only trying stalker anomaly

weird af game

[native mountain]

I've had great success with gas hand crossbow with a baseball bat

[round marlin]

i just beat someone to death with a baseball bat

in game

[native mountain]

Good stuff

You cant get caught outside with the loadout else you just kinda die

[round marlin]

i have an idea

what if i bring a 1 slot weapon only

and i take their primary

so they wake up empty handed

1 weapon less

[raven totem]

drringer

[native mountain]

its so funny when you take a meme loadout cause they get to wake up and realize they died to this bullshit when you take their weapons

"this guy had double bomb launcher what the fuck"

[uneven flax]

tapping a guy with hip fire and forgetting u had levering

[remote moss]

bomb launcher is meta, im just saying

some people will respect the ball knowledge and think you gangster for smashing them with it

theyre the only ones that matter, everyone else funny

[round marlin]

i ran double drringer

only the penny shot really worked

the quadringer was like shooting pebbles

[remote moss]

its pretty strong

3 fast pebbles that can kill rifles in close range

not much room for error though

[round marlin]

3 out of 4

[remote moss]

yeah its a pretty fast reload

[round marlin]

to be fair its like 20 coins

[remote moss]

if you can lead it, its a solid secondary. just overshadowed by utility from other options

💀

powercreep ass shit

[round marlin]

i honestly think it needs a rework of some sorts

[remote moss]

problem is theyre more likely to just powercreep it and add a silenced derringer or some funny shit like that

so its just derringer but better and more utility

[round marlin]

it would be funny

[remote moss]

id like a silenced derringer cause id actually use it

[still rampart]

no weapon is meta in hunt.

[remote moss]

i agree, they all have specific use cases and are even affected by a person skill level at the higher levels of the playerbase

my meta is the spear cause i can camp corners with it without needing to play close to the corner like with pennyshot or investing in any shotguns

so strong in a game where the playerbase thinks peeking is how you play hunt

[frigid ibex]

I never took you for a liar

Ok maybe i did

[random viper]

Hey how to solve this issue? Just bought a game on pc and it doesn't work.... Ive done a firewall and antivirus stuff but the problem is still there

[timid shard]

starting my first job ever soon son

ill be able to buy a gaming laptop strong enough to play hunt

[frigid ibex]

I recommend committing to a pc

Laptops always overheat and the supposedly gaming laptops tend to be mediocre at best.

And they cost too much

[wheat elm]

• cant upgrade parts so ur essentially left with ewaste once ur components are outdated

[gusty onyx]

In ur game folder there should be an folder with eac or easyanticheat with a setup.exe

Launch it and reinstall or repair it

[random viper]

Ive done that. Same issue

[fathom shale]

Are you launching the game directly from Steam or through the exe file?

[random viper]

Tried both

[gusty onyx]

Thats weird. Have u tried to uninstalling eac the same way first?

[opal dawn]

I'd delete some files including the .exe and verify files

[random viper]

Ok will tey that

[random viper]

Same issue.... Also ive switched off all the overlays on every app i could find. Didn't help

[random viper]

Same issue.... Also ive switched off all the overlays on every app i could find. Didn't help

[proud sand]

there was all the lobby on me

funny game

unlucky i died

[whole mist]

Italy spotted

[proud sand]

ye

[left orbit]

🤌

[hot dune]

Holy franks dudes. I just clutched a 1v3. Feels good man

They were pushing extract and didnt scan. Downed one with dynamite, the other with hipfire, and the last pushed me and died to my heavy knife 😈

[spark plaza]

amogus

[rocky citrus]

I believe Crytek absolutely needs to remake HUNT with the latest version of Cryengine. This way, they won't need to make minor tweaks to the existing HUNT; instead, they can completely redevelop it with the new engine. This would not only fix a large number of bugs but also completely resolve the poor optimization issues of the original version.

[fathom shale]

[jaunty patio]

They did that two years ago

[dense sleet]

They did use the latest cryenging

What?

You know the whole relaunch of the game?

[spark plaza]

[jaunty patio]

I guess they could rebuild the game's code and mechanics and literally everything (years of work) to be native to 5.11 or 6.0 or whatever rather than upgraded to the new version on the old foundation

[fathom shale]

They mean that Crytek should essentially refactor the game entirely from scratch again on the existing engine version, not that the game needs to be updated to the newest engine version as it's already on it

[uneven snow]

Most unfortunate spawn

[fathom shale]

But that is just so wrong on so many levels

[dense sleet]

Ah yes, let's just make an entire new game essentially

Ue4 to UE5 type shit that games do that totally works out

[fathom shale]

Also I'd be suprised to even see that many things from the "original version"

If anything tbh

[proud sand]

AHHAHA

[dense sleet]

Least they dont aggro on you when you are loading

That was fun back in the fay

[left orbit]

redeveloping is not always the best solution and can cost as much as doing progressively if not more. plus you basically put the entire project on hold until it’s finished.

[fathom shale]

They have had 8 years to refactor so many things along with a whole 2.0 update which required them to go even deeper to port everything on the new version

[proud sand]

So you could just die like that?

[dense sleet]

Oh yea

Way back in the day

[uneven snow]

they were desynced all to hell though, took like 8 head shots to take it down 🙁

[jaunty patio]

That is a legit answer to some problems, H3VR is doing that to get rid of a bunch of legacy code foundations that was weighing them down now that they've had years to figure out what they want from the game and learned from their mistakes. Of course a tiny dev studio doing an indie game has that luxury compared to a AA online service game

[proud sand]

Just saw your gamma tag

Man of culture

[dense sleet]

And while it can absolutely work in some cases it honestly just nearly always seems like a bad decision to me

[dense sleet]

Peak

I have already gotten bored of the update though, tends to happen though when I have 600 hours in it

[proud sand]

Talking about hunt or?

[dense sleet]

Gamma

[rocky citrus]

Yes, I completely agree with you. This would also solve the technical problems and bugs that have plagued this game for years.

[dense sleet]

I have way more hours in hunt

[proud sand]

I didn't tried it

[dense sleet]

Its good

Imo best FREE single player survival game out there that has lots of replayability

[proud sand]

Yeye, i meant the update

[dense sleet]

plus I just love stalker in general so

[proud sand]

I played it many times

[dense sleet]

OH

Yea the changes were great honestly. CS and Duty being enemies was a welcome change and made South much more fun

[opal dawn]

And way better than the midness that is stalker 2

[dense sleet]

Armor change was goo

[dense sleet]

I hold my grudges on S2

A couple devs literally died while making it

[hot dune]

Ill take fries with that

No soda

[rocky citrus]

Yes, please note that this is not the internal version 5.11 of Cryengine from Crytek, but the community version of Cryengine that has been continuously fixed and improved.
Completely remaking HUNT would allow for a thorough resolution of issues, bugs, and optimization problems left over from the original game, starting from the underlying code.

[hot dune]

Lets go ahead and make hunt showdown 2d while we are at it

[fathom shale]

Idk, if you can't tell how unreasonable of a task that is at this point then I'm not gonna bother entertaining the idea further

[hot dune]

2 dimensional hunt could be a mobile game xD

[dense sleet]

Do i forgive them for charging AAA prices and having a 120$ collector edition. Not really no. But I give them a pass that they were actually in a war time event and still made a playable game. Was it perfect absolutely not and they did lie especially when it came to A-Life. But idk man GSC have clearly been putting their foot forward on the betterment of the game

[opal dawn]

They are improving on it, hoping performance is the next on the list. I understand it takes time to do things when you're making things in a warzone

[dense sleet]

Last i played actually (about 2 months ago)

[jaunty patio]

If they wanted to do that, it would mean leaving Hunt exactly as it currently is for a minimum of 3 years with no gameplay updates or bugfixes, just cosmetics and a promise of "We'll get you Hunt 2 when we're done :)"
It would also require some very wealthy guy to subsidize their work cause Crytek hasn't been doing the best financially compared to where they were when they first started developing Hunt. They had to give up developing Crysis 4 and move their devs almost entirely to maintaining Hunt just to stay profitable.

[dense sleet]

It ran significantly better

[rocky citrus]

The current problem with HUNT is that simply upgrading the engine doesn't solve the poor optimization and numerous bugs, because all of this is based on patching the original code. Therefore, the game's stability is extremely poor, and problems occur frequently. I believe Crytek should take this issue seriously and release a remastered version of HUNT.

[opal dawn]

And modders are putting things out there

[dense sleet]

They just can't afford that

They do that, even if it will make the dev process better and the game better. How would the community take that?

[opal dawn]

Hunt doesn't really have that poor optimization now, it could be better but then again, what couldn't be?

[fathom shale]

I'm still convinced that you are somehow playing on a cursed PC or something whenever I saw your clips of having issues with AI and all that since I have not experienced any of that and the game has been pretty much smooth sailing performance and bugs wise for me and my friends

[dense sleet]

This game is the ONLY thing crytek have

And the game runs phenomenally compared to years and years ago, hell even the release of 2.0 that was quite rocky

[fathom shale]

Like you make it seem like the game is near unplayable and plagued with constant bugs and poor optimization and all that

[rocky citrus]

This is a matter of work efficiency. The remake can proceed slowly, but it's essential to create and finalize the project's initiation and development while HUNT currently has no competitors, attract more players, and release an optimized remake.

[fathom shale]

Meanwhile the game runs great for most considering how much detail there is on the maps and the quality of the lighting, and bugs are pretty rare all things considered

[opal dawn]

I rarely encounter that many bugs tbh

[dense sleet]

I played the game on a 1650 and a 3600 Ryz 3 and was able to maintain 60fps 1080p low to med, which on most games I couldn't do in the slightest

And it still looked alrifht

[opal dawn]

The AI can spazz out at times but not in the way of actually hurting the game

[dense sleet]

now im on a much much better rig but I still get consistent fps with little to no problems and I rarely see game breaking bugs anymore, normal bugs ya ok but they are nothing horrible or even worth mentioning bc they are so minute

[dense sleet]

The issue is behind the curtain. Staffing and funding

[rocky citrus]

Have you considered that simply updating the engine, patching, and maintaining the existing version won't solve the game's legacy issues? Furthermore, over time, the player base might not even grow, as these existing problems will continue to frustrate players, such as optimization issues, numerous bugs, and a practically ineffective anti-cheat system?

[dense sleet]

Crytek aren't a AAA studio with 100s and 100s of people, and its pretty safe to say that like Rai Mentioned, they arent exactly floating by financially

[spark plaza]

Impeccable ragebait my friend

[dense sleet]

They use Easy AC

[fathom shale]

Idk why this is even being still discussed, it's just so unrealistic

[dense sleet]

Out of their reliable control, what they DO however is manually review

[hot dune]

Its a pretty good game imo

[dense sleet]

I hear so much about yhis cheating problem but havent seen someone worth mentioning as a cheater in well over a couple years now

Hmm, wierd

[fathom shale]

And this whole assumption of "legacy systems" is just that, an assumption, as they have refactored plenty of "legacy systems" already when they presented issues like when they fixed issues with pernament poison or with ladders or the issue that lead to the lemat exploit, in all cases they stated the issues were caused by legacy systems and they refactored them, but if there aren't current major issues linked to these legacy systems what would be the point in refactoring them?

[dense sleet]

Unless cheaters are just worse than the normal people I fight everyday when I play

[spark plaza]

[viral fog]

the only thing that annoy me consistently is trading, but it's more of a design choice than a bug. And a bunch of other design choices, but from a technical point the game runs pretty good overall

[dense sleet]

Believe me, it was worse when there wasnt trading and your bullet just despawned

Felt so bad

The 800ms trade window wasnt perfect or even great but now we have a. 075 and its just wonderous

[rocky citrus]

Yes, but without trying to make some changes, the current situation of the company will not get better.

You know

[jaunty patio]

The player base is still growing in response to the work they've put in. They took a dive in 2024 with the buggy 2.0 update and stagnated through half of 2025 as they put the work in to fix it but now we're back to slow increases of peak player counts at the start of each event, more people are tuning in. Crytek isn't going to look at that promising data and decide that they need to abandon their current approach and try something radical and risky. Playing it safe and continuing to deliver incremental improvements is doing them well so far.

[left orbit]

you’re the one talking about redeveloping... and i say it’s also possibly not able to solve anything

[viral fog]

I have 5k+ hours in the game, and I'm not sure about that. It's only fair that the guy with less ping and faster reaction time hits first in my opinion. Especially if I play a shotgun, because 2 trades per building push is not fun imo.

[dense sleet]

7k and played since beta

And trust me

Absolutely

[rocky citrus]

All right

[jaunty patio]

It's quite possible that next event will beat Hunt's all-time peak player count of 44k or so from 2023 (not counting the free weekend 60k cause that's just cheating)

[left orbit]

i’m software dev for 13 years i know what i’m talking about. rewriting the entire thing is just not working most of the time and can just cause as many issues. and it’s a huge cost.

[dense sleet]

Reaction time aside it was just flat out a bad feeling to know you fired but bc he fired half a ms faster your bullet get despawned

[hot dune]

Everyone should just get better internet 😆

[dense sleet]

Doesn't matter if its fair it just never felt good

[dense sleet]

But also you are talking a perfect scenario, which just isnt applicable to most situations

[viral fog]

I have played during the time you describe, and I came from CS: GO, so it's a normal thing to me

[dense sleet]

Most people do NOT play in the great internet area, I know im one i consistently have 90ping in my own servers, and im not looking for special treatment but its shitty to punish me bc of my internet being slightly above average in ping

[rocky citrus]

I encountered quite a few problems while playing HUNT, and some of these issues weren't unique to me. This is also reflected in the Steam reviews. The game has many unfixed bugs and poor optimization, and there are complaints from other Steam users. We should face these existing problems and work to resolve them.

[dense sleet]

Where is the poor optimization tho

I 100% guarantee, the people struggling with optimization have decade old rigs

And refuse to upgrade

[fathom shale]

Honestly I've given up on taking steam reviews seriously most of the time, also even though Hunt shows "mixed" recent reviews, if we look at the reviews by language, it paints a different picture

[dense sleet]

I recently played with a random who bitched about the poor optimization, and when I asked what rig he had it was a 8 year old cpu and a rx580

Im surprised he even got the game to boot

[rocky citrus]

but, the cost is reduced graphics performance, which is a compromise that games must make to optimize.

[dense sleet]

They reduced the quality od the graphics yes from many years ago because it was too much, so they reduced it and made it playable

[flint jetty]

Oh seraph is ragebaiting again

[dense sleet]

Isn't that optimization?

Hardware at the time just couldnt handle it, nowadays is a different story but they adjusted their game to make it playable

[hot dune]

I think thats a personal issue tbh. If someones too broke for a good console then thats on them

[dense sleet]

Thats a bit much and cynical but ok

[hot dune]

[rocky citrus]

Yes, this is indeed a problem. The most common bug we encounter is that the game frequently fails to launch, displaying an exit message to the menu lobby or requiring a reload to enter the game.
The optimization is indeed quite poor. Many players have reported that the RTX 3060 experiences severe frame drops on the Fire map, only managing to maintain 90 FPS.
My GTX 1070 and i7 10700F setup can barely run the game at low settings, but the game has many bugs and the experience is not good.

[fathom shale]

Uh

Am I wrong for thinking that a lower end 2 generations old gpu maintaining 90 fps is good?

[flint jetty]

Why do I feel like these responses are written with ai

[fathom shale]

As if 90 fps in itself is even bad

[dense girder]

https://tenor.com/view/buzz-lightyear-no-sign-of-intelligent-life-dumb-toy-story-gif-11489315

[hot dune]

Dont worry cait. Im a genuine cowpoke

[flint jetty]

Am I real chat?

[fathom shale]

Like we aren't playing CSGO here, there's quite a bit that is being rendered on your screen, expecting consistent 300 fps as if you were playing some esports title is unrealistic

[rocky citrus]

I saw them saying this is a game optimization issue.

[fathom shale]

Although I have seen people get around 200-300 fps on high end PCs

[dense girder]

Believe he/she is japanese or something and uses a translator

[hot dune]

What even is real. We are all just copies

[fathom shale]

Well, to be honest, I think they are being unreasonable

[proven raptor]

Oh.

[bitter wyvern]

Oh no.

[proven raptor]

It's been a while since we had some actual military themed event.

[rocky citrus]

I'm pretty sure this is a problem with poor game optimization.

[fathom shale]

Then I can't help you

[hot dune]

My game loads fine on both pc and ps5. Never had an issue with anything besides occasional disconnects before the game starts

[fathom shale]

Your expectations are unrealistic and unreasonable

[dense girder]

I love it

[rocky citrus]

Why does an online game require such high PC specifications?

Idk

[fathom shale]

...?

Have you looked at the game?

[abstract arch]

the bot catcher missed that one

[fathom shale]

How does it being online mean anything?

[bitter wyvern]

Short answer, rendering. But also you're playing something made with CryEngine.

[ornate lagoon]

Hoping for some Krag skins and maybe one for the Calvary saber

[flint jetty]

everytime i see them talk its usually about some made up complaint and how other games like fortnite are better

it very good ragebait

[hot dune]

I want a shovel skin

[flint jetty]

we need buyable shovel

[hot dune]

Gimme dat E Shovel the calvary used in 1895

[flint jetty]

make it like the trench shovel

[graceful iris]

We also need cavalry sabre martialist

[radiant karma]

Shovel NEEDS to be a weapon we an buy. Even if it's worse than other melees the sound alone is so fucking nice

[unique trail]

What is the announcement

[hot dune]

https://tenor.com/view/pfsf1968-gif-20073995

[radiant karma]

Probably dlc or story I guess

[dense girder]

Honestly, rather get rid of martialist and start to somewhat balance the melee weapons would better.

[unique trail]

I just bought the legacy chronicle story

[rocky citrus]

If Hunt: Showdown could achieve the same level of optimization as PUBG, I think it would be fantastic. While this is unlikely, as early versions of PUBG were also poorly optimized, years later, even a GTX 1060 graphics card would run it smoothly. That's the difference.
(The above represents only my personal opinion.)

[flint jetty]

i could see it being considered a inbetween of a baseball bat and a hammer

[fathom shale]

"Why does this game only get 90 fps on a lower end gpu that is 2 generations old"

[graceful iris]

It wouldn't be an issue if cavalry sabre could also have it

Like

[slate helm]

indeed lmao

[fathom shale]

Are we comparing this to PUBG now?

I give up

[flint jetty]

just literally doing what i said earlier

[graceful iris]

Why does corvus display on the legendary skin image, a lower half of the cane, but no unsheathe?

[radiant karma]

They want moni

[dense girder]

...it would still be more powercreep. All the other melee weapons are just useless if you compare them to the Katana.

[hot dune]

How can anyone complain when the mud sounds so real

[fathom shale]

I sure wonder why pubg might perform better

[still totem]

They use fake grass

[slow thunder]

dunno what to tell you

[oak elbow]

Anyone know what it means?

[oak elbow]

?

[dense girder]

Event teaser

[still totem]

My poor desert rose... WHAT DID THEY DO TO YOU

[crystal bay]

Next event teaser

[oak elbow]

As in new battle pass?

[shadow vault]

Finally a soldier dlc!!

[crystal bay]

Yeah

[dense girder]

Also, yeah.

New event always has a new BP as well

[oak elbow]

Damn this is fire

[rocky citrus]

RTX 3060 can run at 90-100 FPS, while my GTX 1070 can only reach a maximum of 80 FPS. So what's the point of the RTX 3060?

[dense girder]

...more FPS?

[slow thunder]

https://tenor.com/view/barbarian-dungeon-soup-witch-comfort-it's-okay-now-gif-17783992137799836992

[fathom shale]

Because you are playing a game that does not sacrifice it's visual quality to look like yet another esports slop

Idk what else to tell you

PUBG might perform better because it simply does not look as good

It doesn't have as much vegetation

It's lighting quality is worse

[flint jetty]

pubg just literally looks like a xbox 360 game

[oak elbow]

My 5090 can get 240fps with everything on ultra (dlss balanced)

[flint jetty]

actually like worse

[still totem]

PUBG isnt meant to be a graphics powerhouse either

[oak elbow]

4K

[fathom shale]

And again, rtx 3060 is the second weakest card from 2 GPU generations ago, it getting that kind of performance is good if anything for the visual quality Hunt offers

[hot dune]

PUBG is just Dayz without the fun. I hated PUBG

[still totem]

When it first came out I liked it

[hollow seal]

My GTX 1650 gets that no complaints here FSR comes in clutch tho

[hot dune]

Money is power 😈

[hollow seal]

Can get 120 with performance as well

[flint nest]

Some of the hunters are already in the game as prestige hunters or survivor variants, could be a return of the old 3 tier hunters maybe ?

[severe linden]

Imagine a Tom Hanks 1883 skin

[quaint rock]

Soldier DLC

[noble ledge]

Hi, quick question: if you know, what does a new event mean?

[hollow seal]

I figured 1896 woulda been harder to run but doesn’t seem that way to me

[astral tangle]

winter map

[hot dune]

Call him Tom Shanks and drop a knife and Wilson themed med kit

[rocky citrus]

bro
I understand everything you're saying.

[still totem]

bro

[dense girder]

New event = new Battlepass and also new additions to the game

[flint jetty]

the boys are back in town

[dense girder]

It for sure would be dope

[fathom shale]

My friend is playing on a rtx 2060 super and is able to get something like 80-120 fps IIRC

In a game like Hunt

With the visual quality it offers

[flint jetty]

ooo do yall think their gonna change the fort?!

[fathom shale]

How is that poor optimization

[noble ledge]

@dense girder Okay, cool, does that mean no one-month wait?

[graceful iris]

Not really

[dense girder]

No one can say so really. Usually there's very little down-time inbetween events

[rocky citrus]

Okay, I understand your point of view, but the player who owns that graphics card won't agree with you; they'll just think the game's optimization is extremely poor.

[fathom shale]

Then that is 100% their issue and not the game's

🤷‍♂️

That's just the blunt truth

[rocky citrus]

ok

[flint nest]

These are the 2 I noticed

And a lot of the other prestige / older hunters use US Army uniforms that have been darkened

[still totem]

The hat for Jesse isnt the same, but its kinda close

or am I missing it

[flint nest]

No your right

[flint jetty]

and leons hiding rn win his poncho

is it leon?

[flint nest]

I see the hat flap isn’t up

[flint jetty]

wtf is his name

[dense girder]

...Yes? Katana is the best melee weapon for PVP. It doesn't make "sense" to bring any other weapon. Making another weapon as strong only makes this problem more, as all the other melee weapons are still left to collect dust. If you want melee weapons (Or guns) to be more balanced, buffing more and more weapon doesn't solve the issue. Rather nerfing weapons that are too strong (Katana in melee class, Mosin in long range...), aka. reducing powercreep, will lead to more balance.

[flint nest]

Yeah leon is the new poncho eluder variant from the challenge

[still totem]

Well actually... it';s hard to tell. The way he's standing makes it difficult to see

The right side of the hat blends in with the other hunters standing there

[flint jetty]

i do like the baseball bat but thats just because its blunt and the hammer is rlly good for big enemies

[still totem]

So it could be him

[flint nest]

Regardless it’s super cool, given what the last trailer indicated that the army is coming,
Plus the new army supply
Points it could be a division of the military specifically coming to the incursion zone and it’s utilizing veteran soldiers who turned to hunters after the war

[graceful iris]

All melees are good at different jobs respectively

For pvp

[still totem]

Time to wall jump and power slide across the bayou

huehuehue

[graceful iris]

Katana and cavalry are both the go too

[flint nest]

I L O V E the army themed they brought especially the new Native American scouts

[graceful iris]

Bomb lance also

[dense girder]

For PVP, they all get outclassed by the Katana tho...
I give up...

[still totem]

I need to get back into this game, I stopped like 3 weeks ago cause I played a different game and now i feel out of practice

[graceful iris]

Idk man I've killed a lot of katana users with other melees

[flint nest]

Man hunt is really like that, if you stop for like any amount of time longer than a week it just slaps you down

[graceful iris]

You can also duck martialist btw

[hot dune]

Shotty with an uppercut. Right as rain

[dense girder]

That doesn't prove anything...but okay

[still totem]

Before I stopped, I was using a shotgun with nagant deadeye

Worked pretty well actually

[flint nest]

My favorite load out: sparks, Lemat

[still totem]

Forgot the shotty name, it was a double barreled

[flint nest]

Rival

[still totem]

Yeah might have been that

yeah! Rival Trauma

now I rmember

[flint nest]

Love trauma variants they are so good

[hot dune]

Imagine the double barrel with fletchet rounds

[graceful iris]

I mean it inherently does

Just get good fr

Perringer also solves the issue

[still totem]

Normally I run marksman builds cause I like the range, but i wanted to work on my up close fighitng

[fallow topaz]

The only real discussion around melee is just which swing arcs you prefer.

[flint nest]

Centennial trauma with the horse skull skin is peak vibes

[hot dune]

Might as well run the spear and call it a day

[opal dawn]

Ayyy time to rock the New Army to deal with the army boys!

[fallow topaz]

Spear is a good option. Though the throw is the most consistent player killer

[dense girder]

No

[hot dune]

Darth vader downward swing with the shovel

[fallow topaz]

Hmmm yes. Good engaging point.

[still totem]

Nah i use throwing knives instead of spear. Yeah I know Spear is the almighty of the melee tools and all but when im surrounded by 129730981273 zombies the knives are faster to throw

[lone viper]

is the new announcement a new map? or event? I'm kinda confused

[fallow topaz]

Shovel skin for the railroad Hammer when? XD

[fallow topaz]

Event I think.

[rocky citrus]

His art style improved, leading to better optimization. They even removed many details to achieve near-perfect optimization and decent visuals, allowing the game to run smoothly even on a GTX 1060. While the graphics aren't as aggressive as HUNT, the good visuals, excellent optimization, and robust anti-cheat system have attracted a large player base. At its peak in 2018, it had over 3 million concurrent players. Currently, the game boasts 300,000 to 600,000 daily players.

[dense girder]

Yeah I'm not gonna start arguing against a wall again

[fallow topaz]

Have you tried discussing with a person?

There's no correct answer beyond vibes and maybe numbers

[opal dawn]

Then the numbers don't lie, katana is the best one shotter of hunters and the best reach

[still totem]

The numbers can be FORGED

[fallow topaz]

With or without perks?

[opal dawn]

With maybe the light swing of blance being the best reach

[opal dawn]

Even without perks it's just the better pick

[fallow topaz]

The bomb lance I feel is the most consistent (maybe just because the swing is basically the same)

[rocky citrus]

According to Steam's PC hardware statistics, there are still many players using the GTX 1060.

[fathom shale]

I have yet to see visuals anything close to what Hunt offers from PUBG and Hunt is not going for a hyper optimized esports title like PUBG is, so as I said you expectations are unrealistic and unreasonable

[opal dawn]

Can heavy shot to hands, saber can't do that

[fathom shale]

Hunt is a from a studio that made Crysis, a game that pushed the limits of computer graphics for it's time

[rocky citrus]

All right

[fallow topaz]

But can it play Crysis

[opal dawn]

Railroad hammer can too, but it's got worse reach overall

[still totem]

Why melee when I can simply shoot from far away with my Froniter/Springfield/Lebel marksmans? (shoot because Im gonna miss 300 times before I finally get you)

[dense girder]

Yes, there is. You can compare weapons objectively. If you like other weapons more, that is on you, and is completely fine. But that doesn't change the fact that certain melee weapons are better than others, due to Damage, attack pattern or range.

[fallow topaz]

Yeah isn't it hammer more damage but less reach as the trade off?

[opal dawn]

Ye, but against hunters that doesn't matter, katana still OHK at further distances

Hammer is better against AI, but... So is katana

[dense girder]

And to try to argue against someone who doesn't accept the fact that some weapons are better than another, is useless.

[proud sand]

The only sniper is the mosin

[opal dawn]

Some weapons simply are better than others

[fallow topaz]

See this is more workable than "No"

What do you think would bring some of the other melee into line?

[still totem]

I actually dont really use sniper scope weapons that much anymore, prefer the marksmans or sometimes Deadeyes

[opal dawn]

A lot of weapons are viable, but some are just better

[ornate lagoon]

Not everything has to be as good as the top of the line stuff. What hunt does well is that there aren’t any weapons that are “Useless”

[fallow topaz]

I mean that isn't even the discussion. It's more about how melee, which is inherently a weaker playstyle, doesn't have as much power spread as the other weapon classes.

[dense girder]

Again, to reduce the powercreep by nerfing weapons (Katana in this case), that are too strong and that outshine other weapons too much. Buffing the Sabre like the other dude proposed, would only worsen the powercreep for the other weapons.

[still totem]

Nothing is OP when everything is OP

[fallow topaz]

Do understand, not many people will rewind an entire public discord.

[fallow topaz]

I think id go with changing the range for certain weapons. Like light swings have a touch more range while heavies will one shot most hunters.

Though the machete has me stumped.

[dense girder]

Do understand, if you jump into a discussion, reading up a few messages is wise.

[rocky citrus]

Will HUNT include an esports mode?
This concerns Crytek profits.

[still totem]

no pls

God no

[fallow topaz]

They were talking about PUBG 😛

[still totem]

We dont need ranked Hunt when some matches already feel full of sweats

[fallow topaz]

But I see your point beyond just wanting to fight.

[opal dawn]

PUBG? That's a name I haven't heard in a long while

[ornate lagoon]

Esports only for hammer throwing

[still totem]

Pistols only

[dense girder]

I was reffering to the "discussion" I and the other dude had. Not the whole discord.

[fallow topaz]

Okay, but Clash world weapons only would be funny

[whole mist]

new event teaser?

[dense girder]

Yes

[fallow topaz]

Yeah man. More army folks

[dense girder]

Finally something more military themed again

[still totem]

Maybe Sgt Bridgewater has an old buddy join him in the hunt

Love that hunter

[eager lantern]

Human npc enemies?

[fallow topaz]

Yeah, I'm curious where they take it.

[eager lantern]

or just military themed event

[fallow topaz]

That sounds rough. But if it lets me get free quests on "human enemies"

[dreamy cave]

Buff everything 🙏🏿

[eager lantern]

I doubt they will count the same as hunters tbh

[whole mist]

One can only hope for an offline PvE mode like Escape from Tarkslop

[still totem]

"Long Ammo is now like the AWP from counter strike, if your toe dies you die"

[eager lantern]

just a tinfoil theory btw

[fallow topaz]

What's funny is despite clear outliers, hunt always felt pretty balanced

Like most of the time it's "Who would have guessed the most modern guns that some still see use today, out shoot older guns?"

[rocky citrus]

I believe Crytek's most important task right now is fixing the HUNT bugs:

1. When entering a game with teammates, a disconnection message appears prompting whether to reload the game or return to the menu to re-match.

2. After a player disconnects and reconnects to the match, the player cannot use the microphone, teammates cannot hear the player, and the player cannot hear teammates' voices at all.

These two fatal bugs are the main culprits currently plaguing players, but according to feedback from some Asian players, the second bug has existed for several years, and Crytek has been unable to fix it.

[still totem]

"Compact ammo slips through all cracks and holes in the walls and fences, you cant hide. Instantly kills you no matter what"

[fallow topaz]

Hunt will finally be as sweaty as people think it is.

[still totem]

"Medium ammo is like the middle child, we forgot it exists. I dunno we gave it like double the velocity or something"

[fallow topaz]

Give it full hitstun. XD

[still totem]

oh God

Your hunter just stops moving when getting hit, I would cry

[fallow topaz]

That would be rough

[red mauve]

Oh boy

THE EVENTS RE JUST PILING ON HELL YEAH

[fallow topaz]

Admittedly this event seemed to be the first of a major story development.

We'll see if it pans out but still.

[rocky citrus]

Will HUNT 1896 be released on the next-generation XBOX or PS6 console?
I'm looking forward to seeing if the HUNT will perform even better with the improved hardware of the new host.🤔
If it performs even better, my can consider purchasing the XBOX or PS6 console version and connecting it with a keyboard and mouse adapter.
The experience will be perfect😋

[tall canopy]

Nobody knows

[dense girder]

And get banned for using M&K on console, yeah...

[rocky citrus]

wtf
What the heck?

Why do other games allow the use of mouse and keyboard adapters, but HUNT prohibits it?

[dense girder]

...because you have an advantage over the other console players who use a controller?

[rocky citrus]

Enabling cross-platform multiplayer in this game will solve this problem.

[dense girder]

It won't

[rocky citrus]

damn

[sick bramble]

just get a pc?

[proud sand]

Pc masterrace

[sick bramble]

always

[rocky citrus]

The host hardware is more powerful, the PC with the same configuration is more expensive, and the PC version generally has optimization issues and cheating behavior.

Playing HUNT on PC is not the best choice.

[sick bramble]

we can agree to disagree

[winter ice]

the game said i could find a partner here in the discord, where do i sign up?

[still totem]

!lfg

[graceful hedge]

Be sure to check out our LFG (looking for group) channels to find a partner:
For PC: #na , #eu , #south-america, #asia , & #oceania
For consoles: #looking-for-group-console
Regional LFG channels: #ru-поиск-игроков & #br-procurando-grupo

[sick bramble]

@winter ice i like ur pfp lol

[fathom shale]

The game won't magically run better on console, it will run worse than with your current PC

The only "improvement" you would get is the reduced amount of cheating, but it's not like it's a massive problem on PC either

[dense girder]

Don't even bother, Diiba, lol

[rocky citrus]

This is an unsolvable problem.
I believe the console version would be the best choice for playing HUNT, but it seems the official version doesn't allow the use of mouse and keyboard adapters... nor does it allow cross-platform multiplayer.
As a player, I cannot understand this behavior.

[sick bramble]

pc isn't infested with cheaters, unlike what many think

[still totem]

It really isnt, ive encountered maybe one cheater in my near 360 hrs and even then I think maybe I just got blasted by someone who somehow knew where I was

[fathom shale]

I recomend askin any console player that has played both on PC and console before coming to any conclusion of console being better

From what I have heard you are going to have a hard time finding anyone sharing your impression

[rocky citrus]

No, no, no, you just haven't encountered many cheaters, but that doesn't mean there aren't many of them.

[fathom shale]

If anything I feel bad for how the console version has been for console players for the longest time

The first big W they got in ages was the lobby codes so xbox and playstation could at least finally properly invite eachother

[polar furnace]

well scum rises to the top, so they mainly populate the 6 star lobbies

[wind jetty]

1 cheater every 10 - 15 games

[fathom shale]

This is also not true btw

Most bans happen around 4-5 star range

And I play 6 star lobbies and at most see like 1-2 genuinely sus players per month when playing actively

[sick bramble]

US west/east + EU, that's not enough?

[polar furnace]

its exaclty true, cheating will get you get you kills quickly and you will quickly rise in elo. people who are smart with cheating toggling on / off and spreading it out between the team will be very hard to detect

[rocky citrus]

Console versions are usually better than PC versions because consoles have closed systems and fixed hardware, but PCs with equivalent specifications are very expensive, making it difficult for the average gamer to upgrade their PC.
Therefore, the console version is currently the best choice.

[opal dawn]

1.2k hours, I've yet to meet a blatant cheater tbh

[wind jetty]

ping abusers- 1 in every 5 games

[fathom shale]

You would literally have worse performance console than your current 3060 setup

[dense girder]

"Ping abusers" 🥀

[opal dawn]

Some sus plays sure but not more than that

[jaunty patio]

Similar to how NAE/NAW has a different gameplay mentality to EU, Asia has their own experiences as well.

[sick bramble]

i never played asia so no idea

[polar furnace]

4k hours and i see my fair share + your share it would seem

[polar furnace]

if you play EU then you play asia

[sick bramble]

no?

[wind jetty]

isnt that sad

[fathom shale]

And here's the star brackets

[rocky citrus]

Then Asia will be your nightmare; you need to raise your MMR to 4-5.💀

[sick bramble]

i have high ping there so can't play

[jaunty patio]

Back when Huuge was hunting cheaters with spectating, he'd get a lot more clear reports when watching Asia vs other regions so if a player from that region says Hunt has a cheater problem I'm inclined to believe

[wind jetty]

I would not go in Asia to play cos i am from EU and you would not hit me if you meet me

[sick bramble]

yeah i get it

[tall canopy]

That is just wrong. U don't gain any big advantages with a high ping. More like disadvantages

[dense girder]

Don't even bother Apashe

[polar furnace]

yes thats right, thats why so many players from asia come to play on EU to show us the disadvantages they get

[wind jetty]

Aquila its a matter of time until this ping abuse is over

[dense girder]

"ping abuse" 🥀

[sick bramble]

dude you really think high ping is better? 😂

[dense girder]

Hunt Copedown

[tall canopy]

[rocky citrus]

It seems you don't take cheaters seriously. If you dare reveal your game ID, cheaters will show you what despair truly means. If you're really brave, come to the Asian server and improve your MMR to 4-5.

[lone viper]

absolutely

[polar furnace]

Better no, but it can and does offer some* advantages

[primal oar]

Anybody know what's the player count is at atm? Since last time I played (few weeks ago), match making seems to really have taken a hit, and I think it's probably due to less players.

[lone viper]

where else can you get cheap game games then on PC

[tall canopy]

Check steamdb

[polar furnace]

there are many times i make it behind solid cover to then die from a shot that could not have penned it

[sick bramble]

get a damn vpn and enjoy playing with 250 ms, see how it's better 💀

[polar furnace]

because on the shooters screen i had not made it there yet

[frigid ibex]

How about you do it yourself, it's so simple, pick the highest ping you can select

No excuses do it right now

[polar furnace]

because I like to play fairly what can i say im a sucker that way

[frigid ibex]

It takes 2 clicks

[fathom shale]

That is not an advantage though, just delay

[opal dawn]

Yeah, show us the great games you get with high ping

[frigid ibex]

I dont care, hop into a game and you'll find out quickly

[wind jetty]

and you open the person profile 150 hours 😄 CHina based

[rocky citrus]

what！
Oh，come on，man，no kidding me

[polar furnace]

it can and does offer SOME* advantages there are ofcourse some serious drawbacks too

[fathom shale]

If anything it lead to a favorable situation for you as without the delay you would have died out of cover

[tall canopy]

wich could lead to an advantage for you cause they killed you when u werent behind cover but ur body might end up behind cover for easy rez

[fathom shale]

Then list said advantages, because there aren't any that are purely in the high ping player's favor

[frigid ibex]

Yeah these drawbacks you clearly choose to ignore

[sick bramble]

drawbacks outweigh the advantages

[fathom shale]

Even peekers advantage, the only thing you could try and make an argument for, goes both ways

[frigid ibex]

[polar furnace]

ok so why do so many players from across the world choose* to play on EU ?

[primal oar]

Not too long ago I had a dude headshot the whole lobby within ten seconds of match start in Clash. But yeah, blatant cheaters are rare. And others are basically impossible to tell, at least in my opinion, with spectate and kill view as unreliable as they are.

[opal dawn]

I'm already 5*, I play EU and sometimes NAE. I get too high ping to Asia, don't think I can even connect