Howdy folks. Just wanted to take a moment to shout out the community discord for players both veteran or new. discord.gg/84a8Ks4kY6 I'm also running a banner contest. Anyone can join, no entry required. I have a placeholder banner for TH-cam right now, but whoever wins the popular vote in our competition at the end of January will get $200 USD from me, and their banner will be the OFFICIAL Hunter's Lodge TH-cam banner. It can be original art, digital design, or even a meme. Whatever wins the popular vote gets the money out of my pocket, and the recognition of their peers. Stay blessed, I hope to see you around the lodge!
Yes. The shredder must stay at this wall at any cost. Please everybody who reads this: help us trapping it. We are going to save the world from this thing.
Hunts ever evolving nature is the reason I still play it, it’s great to hit a new update and have so many new layers and things to learn even as a veteran, keeps the game fresh and interesting. If it stayed the same I’d likely have stopped playing several years ago
@@darklord220 Lowered: 2.50 vertical/horizontal-aim boost strength: .3 aim boost delay 0 Aim Boost Ramp 0 Shoulder aim: 1.40 for horizontal and vertical. Aim boost strength .2 aim boost delay 0 aim boost ramp 0 Aim down sights: 0.95 for horizontal and 0.75 for vertical. 0 for the rest in aim down sights. Steady aim input curve. 0 aim boost threshold(feels like old hunt) vertical aim boost off. No aim assist. And your scopes are your preference honestly
I did not even knew who Post Malone was before this event. And I could not care less. I've figured it out for a while out. We do not miss old games. We miss the memories of that times.
As cheesy as this may sound I really needed to hear this. I've been reminiscing recently about "old" hunt, which for me was only 3 years ago, and I've come to realize that I've changed. The game has changed drastically sure, but so have I. I no longer stalk someone for 20+ minutes just die to an immolator. I no longer wait too long to push cause I'm scared to lose my hunter. I'm 6 stars now, I'm no longer just a baby hunter in a strange new world. And that's okay! Thank you for making this video. And thank you for making me realize I'm not losing my favorite game anymore, it's just changing.
@ you may not know all of us but you certainly built a community:) you have us fellow hunters! I love your content. Keep it up brother! We’ve all got you back as hunters and gamers!
I abuse my pc for gaming since 30 years. I saw a lot of game pop up an disappear. With some i felt sad. Some i forgot. But never was there a game like Hunt. I played it for 2k hours and thats a lot next to having a job and a family. I have my ups and downs like in every relationship. The moment when i have a down is always resulting from a period where i don't change anymore. Last time, before the circus event, when i just played centennial dum dum and officer for months. The game changed and so me. Now i have fun again. I don't only fight my enemies anymore. I play with them. As it is supposed to be when you are playing games with other people. Have nice Christmas 🎄
I genuinely think the game was better in 2021. The only changes since then I've liked are.....Mammon's Gulch and bullet drop. I also think you kind of miss the mark on some of these things. Beetles are stronger for campers.....than aggressive players. Fire rework just makes it so I might as well give up on that team mate and hopefully snag the bounty so I can revive them later. Most of the "solutions" they introduce just make the problem much worse. I should say I love the aesthetic of the circus and it should stay as a unique PoI with a random chance to spawn. Shredder is the dumbest thing ever added to the game though. The amount of teams I wiped with the frag attachment is just ridiculous. The blademancer perk is just stupid. So was solo crouch with no footsteps. I genuinely think most of the events have introduced traits that have made the game MUCH worse. Remember Witness allowing you to revive no matter what? Your team gets wiped? Go run 5 mins away and hide. Come back 15 mins later for a free revive. Death Cheat meaning people had full perk kits 24/7.
Exactly how I feel. I feel the game has betrayed what made it so exciting and unique. Shit like silenced krag and chu ku nu explosive bolts are just unbalanced and it feels like crytek has forgone any attempt at balancing. One of my best examples for how Crytek has lost the plot is revive bolts. The community complained for like 2 years about necro spamming at high levels for solo or trio. So how does crytek nerf necro? They make it a burn trait. Great idea, love that. Then the same update or the very next one they add revive bolts, so solos got shafted and now trios can revive spam easier than ever before. It’s just like Crytek is literally throwing shit against the wall to see if it sticks, there’s no planning and the previous road maps they’ve completely abandoned.
I had tears in my eyes at the end of the videos. I have so much fun with Hunt since 2019. The fact that all living things die, and so will Hunt one day, hit me a little. Great video. Thank you!
I love hunt let me be clear. 90% of what they add is straight fire. However, the addition of spam weapons has reduced the fun of many gun fights. I would have way more fun running basic guns that reward shot placement and accuracy but now I have to play against hunters running fanning, avto, shredder, ect. The crazy action that would occur because one player would have to reload or the space that slower firing weapons left made for artful fights. Now i just point my explo crossbow at an enemy then hit one hip fire tag with my bornhiem. Just really miss the gameplay dynamics that have been erased by balance design :(
^ This IS the reason why Hunt felt better before. I find it hard to belive that this TH-camr did played early versions or he fails to understand how the game could benefit from slower guns even now in 2024. In early Hunt, players were experiencing constant back-and-forth interplays. The Gunfights were much more engaging and your life expectancy was long enough to start making decisions off each others. Now... there's too much one-hit/spam nonsense, so gunfights lack the opportunity for tension buildup, making it harder to create those unforgettable fight memories.
Amnesiac nostalgia, the game used to be way more spammy. The biggest offenders have always been in the game and were far more powerful before nerfs, such as Dolch, Avto, Crown, Winnie, Officer, Bornheim, etc. Fanning, levering, dual wielding and quickswapping were far more accurate on their introductions. Completely false narrative.
@@jesterclownmime Completely false narrative? that's a good one :P username checks! All joke aside, it's really not that hard to see the facts with the game's history... Just take a look at the Bornheim for example, it use to be 3 tap in upper body for a kill and now it's just 2. Spammy or not, it's the fights as whole, the feelings are still true. It's your life expectency back then was longer than it is now and that is just straight up fact.
@@magouil Except that is false, the Bornheim 3 taps to chest. Only the Bornheim Match 2 taps to chest because there were no reasons to use it. It helps if you know what you're talking about before you form an opinion. The Bornheim used to be more powerful because all compact ammo required 3 taps to chest to kill, further proving my point that the game used to be more spammy. Your life expectancy is shorter now because people aren't crouch walking everywhere and even total nimrods have been playing so long they generally have a decent grasp of basic tactics. It is funny watching people try to mimic the hyper aggressive twitchy play styles of streamers yet completely fail to follow through with pay off due to lack of knowledge and reflexes.
i couldnt agree more it has 10k to 20k im getting in matches instantly enjoying new event good performance good gun play and still a inviting community in the discord
i'm a newbie, and joined right before the murder circus was added. I can't help occasionally feeling as if i missed hunt's "glory days". This video helped, and I feel like would hit way harder had I joined in 1.0
Legit I tried hunt in 1.0's fresh launch and felt so unwelcomed by the game that I gave it up for two years lmao Trust me the game is much more welcoming in, 2024, even if the community doesn't feel like it sometimes. Welcome to the Hunt! 🤠
I tend to think that the rocky release of 1896 soured people's perspectives and made them see the game with a clouded mind. Criticizing Crytek more than they used to because they briefly took away something they love and care about. After Hunt got back on it's feet, the well had already been poisoned, and i feel many people are unaware that they are still looking at the current game with that pessimism, whilst looking back at older hunt with rose-tinted glasses, thus deifying the old hunt and villainizing Crytek, feeling the company has completely lost their way. Because of this, a lot of hunt fans have seemingly become blind to the plethora of improvements we've seen and enjoyed. I imagine the effect is similar to how you don't pay as much attention to 9 compliments as much as 1 insult. I personally think Hunt is headed in a great direction, though Crytek needs to be on their A-game and MOST IMPORTANTLY! Be open and transparent with the community. I still trust them, looking at how they've recovered nicely from the buggy mess that 1896 was initially, and believe they are on the right track, but a lot of people are not ready to tolerate more inconsistencies, of which there still are quite a few, which is good to criticize. Another thing is how alienated a big part of the community must have felt - after seeing their game in a sorry state, and then also to have a completely new, more claustrophobic and mainstream look of the menu, - and then ALSO to have all the old maps completely ripped from them - and then ALSO several sections of content removed, seemingly because they were a bit niche?? (trials, weapon and boss progression) - and then AAAALSOOO to get the feeling that the devs of hunt have been entirely overworked to push the product forward instead of being more honest w/ the community (bugs, poorly thought out UI choices, no skins for new weapons in battlepass; seemingly thrown-in skins that don't fit the battlepass/event theme at all, like a bunch of W.I.P. weapons from the backlog that were supposed to be used for DLCs or other things)... You know, I think I'll stop myself there. I think I understand why so many people were sour when hunt introduced Ghostface and Posty. They don't *actually* mind it that much, they've just been scarred, and maybe they can't quite see objectively anymore. Sure, if hunt before 2.0 released a ghostface skin, there'd be some backlash, but just try to imagine the community throwing rotten tomatoes and sticks and stones around 10 months ago if Ghostface came out there. I at least don't think it would have bothered the community much. So many of the people who adore Hunt feel threatened, and view the threat as Crytek, which makes it hard for Crytek to redeem themselves in the eyes of many. I hope to see a more trusting and happy community some time in Hunt's BRIGHT future. Crytek screwed up - like how CD projekt RED fucked up by releasing Cyberpunk in a sorry state, or like how No Man's Sky came out and what they had been promising was no where in sight. But Hello Games just kept working. Grant Duncan received endless amounts of hate and death-threats, but he just sat back down and made No Man's Sky GOOD; got it to where the game was supposed to be, and that's how it's looking for Crytek's unequalled opus. The game we all care for. Awesome video as always, your buttery voice vibrates my bones good sir :P
Nah. Too many bugs with too many changes like buffing dualies,levering, more spam, bullet drop Necro, revive bolt fire changes,pen changes etc. it just isn't Hunt I loved to play anymore. The sentiment was growing long before rerelease hunt 2.0 was just the final nail in the coffin for me.
@@lastnamefirstname850 Valid point. Like this video's title suggests, Hunt IS changing. Some are here for it, others, not so much. I'm not happy with everything they're doing with the game either; a lot of balance changes and implementations contradict each other, and they aren't exactly showing that they fully know what they're doing (don't get me started on revive bolts). They never have, though. Ultimately, and as it should be, hunt is not the same game as it used to be, nor will it be the same game as it is currently in the future, whether that's for better or for worse is decided by the individual, and some players will have a falling out while the game suddenly appeals to new people. Ofc that doesn't mean we shouldn't argue/discuss the game and it's changes, whether viewed in a negative or positive light - I hope we continue to talk about the game. I also hope that people don't look at any news regarding the game in a biased/prejudiced manner, which I kinda fear a good portion of people in the community do. That's just what I think, having been there myself initially. Maybe there's no prejudice leading to biases, I can't say tbh.
I think the major issue with this contention is that it assumes that disliking one update/addition means you dislike all change. Not all change is progress, and it's totally fine to tell people they fucked up when we get things like a half-baked UI and new weapons that clearly never saw even a minute of balance testing. I also wouldn't be so sure about the "forever increasing playercount" part, either. We had a boost during the free weekend when 2.0 released, but since then the playercount has dropped down to 2022/2023 numbers the majority of the time. That's pretty damning considering we've had a rerelease/next-gen update, a movie tie-in, and a celebrity crossover in that time period. I don't think all these changes to the game are having the positive effects that their defenders claim they do.
Automatic Assault rifle Automatic Saw Launcher that Auto locks enemies off surfaces. |semi automatic crossbow. yeah nah if they keep this up, there wont be much of a hunt this time next year don't get me started on the Clown ass bugs.
This video completely changed my view and opinion on the direction of hunt.I realize now that if i had my way the game wouldve died long ago.amazing video and perspective.have my subscribe
Love this game and all it has to offer I have not had this much fun with it since it came out on console! Only thing I need is the ability to invite my friends on Xbox to play with me on PS5 I hope that comes soon! But it is absolutely my favorite multiplayer game that I love and think about all the time. Long live Hunt Showdown!
i keep going back and forth on this game. like i really wanna play it, but my understanding is that there's a lotta bs happening behind the scenes with the development company and there's a lotta content missing
It's really not unpleasant at all to play. In fact this newest update added a lot of new stuff and the focus really was just plain fun. A lot of the supposed BS behind the scenes is over exaggerated. Frankly, for newer players none of those issues will affect them anyways now. The performance is great, the only issue you'd run into is server instability at peak population times. If you ever want some help trying to get into hunt, don't be afraid to hop in our community discord sometime. Thanks for commenting. 🤠
Learned mouse and keyboard on hunt this year. 1500hr of fun and a crash out here or there lol ❤but I’ve always been here for the gunfights fights and I’m here to stay.
Nice video. Change is progress! Haters gonna hate - no matter what will happen. Keep on the good work. I hit the subscribe button because of this video. Well done.
Man I just don't want to play against only 6 stars constantly. Since my 5th or 6th game I've been against 6 stars. There's no chill game. Every game I'm against the best of the best and it sucks. I don't want to have to try that damn hard every game. I don't even play bounty hunt anymore. I can't keep up but it won't drop my MMR.
The 2.0 launch number lasted for the 4 days the game was free. Its fine to draw players in, its retaining them that they are struggling to do. They need to improve the performance. It doesn't matter how great the depth of the world is, the biggest change that needs to happen is improve the server performance, do that and the game might grow. I am speaking as a passionate 10k hour player. I am not going anywhere and Hunt is by far the best multiplayer game I have played, and I embrace change, some are good, some are bad (blademaster can go to hell, but poltergiest is amazing fun) but what has largely stayed the same is the poor server performance. Fix that, and the rest will follow.
Server performance will never get better as long as they're with Leaseweb. Also stop adding in scoped weapons, it's Hunt: Showdown not Hunt: Scopedown.
hunt was great before and still is, its just a bit harder for new players to enjoy, because they add and remove new and old things all the time. Hunt created a new audience for content that before was not needed, let's see where this goes. RIP Vanila hunt. Rejoice Hunt 1896.
As much as I dislike adding post Malone to Hunt showdown because it reminds me of what COD did. Or bullet drop and having to learn that. Or nerfing my favorite trait into the ground (levering). I still play hunt. It's fun. And honestly, they keep changing stuff and it hurts that they destroy my "play style". But I play it because it's a quality game and even though I can't be catered to for my wants for the game, the community is listened to. What you said is right and I rue the day Hunt: showdown closes its servers for good. But for now, I will keep hunting in the bayou. And I will try to push past the change, even if I think they made another stupid update.
Games do change, sure. Hunt has and still is changing for the worse, people are fond of the memories they have of the old game because it was objectively better before they added in dumb shit like the Shredder, revive bolts, pen changes, high velocity/spitzer ammo, more scoped weapons, fire changes, dualies buffs, levering buffs, bringing in more spam weapons into the game, the console streaming garbage UI, removing trials, removing black market, padding event passes with lore instead of actual rewards, blade master existing, annoying custom ammo. That is quite a list of stuff that made the game worse in all forms, no matter what way you spin it; people want old Hunt back because there was a methodical nature to it, bringing in an avto was rarity, post-nerf dolch people rarely brought in, the new perk for single shot rifles is actually a nice change for once, There's also still the server performance issues that will NEVER get fixed because they're insistent on using Leaseweb, the worst server provider in all of gaming, Black Desert Online dropped Leaseweb when players complained about how awful the servers were, but Crytek are so far up their own ass that they can smell their colon. Until they decide to purchase servers that are owned by a company that isn't 4 generations behind on their servers, that part will never be fixed. On the topic of performance, they have no idea how their engine works anymore probably because the people who initially made Hunt: Showdown have all quit and moved to different companies, which should've been evident by the fact that they had to spend how many months rewriting code because when they tried to fix the reload bug, they thunderfucked the LeMat into being able to shoot all nine bullets at once.
For those who claim Hunt is becoming more spammy that is purely amnesiac nostalgia, the game used to be way more spammy. The biggest offenders have always been in the game and were far more powerful before nerfs, such as Dolch, Avto, Crown, Winnie, Officer, Bornheim, etc. Fanning, levering, dual wielding and quickswapping were far more accurate on their introductions. Completely false narrative. The game is faster paced in part due to additions like Surefoot or more methods of recovery but mostly because people have been playing for half a decade. Players are more confident in what they should or could be doing moment to moment, they're less afraid of making mistakes because the economy is bountiful even if you fuck up regularly and people have less patience for drawn out matches thousands of hours later.
@@Jvid752 UI needed an update for sure, but why they made such a clunky confusing and largely unpopular UI seems very tone def and feels like they don't know what they are doing. don't get me wrong I am rooting for Hunt. as a long-time player with 4500+ hours playing since early access I have loved almost all their changes and events up until 1896. so I hope they are getting enough info/data to keep crytec going in the right direction but as of the relaunch it feels like Hunt is changing for the worst.
@alcedob.5850 Since we're using grandiose historic examples to talk about Hunt, that's what the people of the Weimar Republic said, too. You can 100% change things for the worse lol.
I don't think this is fair because this video acts like every addition to the game has been a net positive. While new content is welcome, that content has not come without a shit load of game breaking bugs, poor balancing, ham fisted over reactions. And good god the 2.0 was a fucking disaster. The game was utterly unplayable at launch. The UI took a manual to navigate, the game textures were missing for people with AMD cards. We can be critical of hunt without hating it or not wanting to play it. I want them to do better and in many ways they have and I praise the increased communication, and willingness to keep trying. But They do seem to make far more bad decisions than good. This event took 2 weeks to finish addressing bugs introduced from the last event. And at this point I think the negativity caused by cryteks many past failures has to much momentum. Player counts are down not even getting close to the last event. They fumbled the 2.0 launch so hard they probably ensured the game will never see 50k again. Its sad but its entirely their fault.
Yes things change but most of them for the worse and completely tone deaf decisions tbh. I enjoy the perspective but the game isn't that fun anymore. The games used to feel a bit fresher before 1896 and now has recently devolved into people sitting in lair for 40 minutes out of spite more than i saw pre 1896. No one wants to push into lair bow with blademancer, shredder or crown and king. Snipers sit out in bushes for even longer waiting for you to push. The real losers? The non snipers and campers that try to engage in the old way the game used to work where you could actually take a pot shot or two before taking cover. Now its step out of cover and die to levering, fanning, frag shedder or any busted close range option that or live in the bushes for 40 minutes with a sniper and die to bounty timing out in lair. It genuinely has nothing to do with "old memories or friends leaving" all my friends i used to play with, i still play other better games with REGULARLY, and find that nostalgia bait stuff BS. They dont play because the game changed core wise for the worse. Crytek have made extremely poor choices with my biggest example being revive bolts after nerf necro cause they themselves said it was problematic and proceeded to add something 10x better for teams of trios and more busted. Genuinely find it disingenuous to shrug off valid criticism with *things change*.
Good luck with the youtube stuff but after seeing you glaze Crytek like they can do no wrong for weeks now, I'm personally not interested in continuing to watch your videos. I enjoy watching Hunt but when PsychoGhost is saying there's massive issues and questionable changes as A CRYTEK PARTNER, and seeing the leniency you give is pretty laughable honestly. We've so too many games get taken over by better competition because of this leniency to keep paying for mediocre content. Apex and Overwatch had the same thing happen and eventually we got worse games with more MTX.
@@Angeldemonhybrid172 I criticize the game when I feel the need to. My "hey crytek what happened to hunt showdown" video was a big criticism. And in my podcast episodes we're very critical of the game in a lot of our segments. The shorter and easier to digest content is less critical normally so it would make sense that you see those videos more often and believe that I have no wrong to say about Hunt or crytek. I don't blame you for thinking that way under the circumstances. I've gone on the record in my community saying that I'll never accept a crytek partnership if it stifles my voice at all, because I want to still be able to openly criticize the game without breaking a contract. Thank you for commenting. I appreciate you taking the time.
Howdy folks. Just wanted to take a moment to shout out the community discord for players both veteran or new. discord.gg/84a8Ks4kY6
I'm also running a banner contest. Anyone can join, no entry required. I have a placeholder banner for TH-cam right now, but whoever wins the popular vote in our competition at the end of January will get $200 USD from me, and their banner will be the OFFICIAL Hunter's Lodge TH-cam banner. It can be original art, digital design, or even a meme. Whatever wins the popular vote gets the money out of my pocket, and the recognition of their peers.
Stay blessed, I hope to see you around the lodge!
People are hiding bear traps under the rugs in the shredder tent, hunt is still hunt to me.
No we are not. It's fine. Just gonin and grab the shredder
Yes.
The shredder must stay at this wall at any cost.
Please everybody who reads this: help us trapping it.
We are going to save the world from this thing.
ya sry bout that..
tbh the bear trap rework was terrible....
Hunts ever evolving nature is the reason I still play it, it’s great to hit a new update and have so many new layers and things to learn even as a veteran, keeps the game fresh and interesting. If it stayed the same I’d likely have stopped playing several years ago
I definitely feel the same brother. As long as the updates stay transformative I'll still be able to hunt and enjoy it.
Hunt is amazing and always will be. 5 years on PlayStation. 3500 hrs. Many more to come. Ups and downs. But I’m still in the bayou 🖤
And that's on GOD hunter 🤠
@ amazing video man. Very well put 🤠
What are your sensitivity settings
@@darklord220
Lowered: 2.50 vertical/horizontal-aim boost strength: .3 aim boost delay 0 Aim Boost Ramp 0
Shoulder aim: 1.40 for horizontal and vertical. Aim boost strength .2 aim boost delay 0 aim boost ramp 0
Aim down sights: 0.95 for horizontal and 0.75 for vertical. 0 for the rest in aim down sights. Steady aim input curve. 0 aim boost threshold(feels like old hunt) vertical aim boost off. No aim assist. And your scopes are your preference honestly
I did not even knew who Post Malone was before this event. And I could not care less.
I've figured it out for a while out. We do not miss old games. We miss the memories of that times.
Well said hunter.
“WHITE IVERSONNN WHEN I STARTED BALLING I WAS YUNGGGGGGGG”
The only change I really miss.. that's the Trials, it was so fun an souls-like to compete to finally get that LeMatt
I also miss trials. Mostly because it would have been great for content so I could travel around the map easily without getting molly whopped
Im just sick of seeing ppl complain about great games that I love. Everyone is a pro game critic these days.
Everyone is the nostalgia critic
As cheesy as this may sound I really needed to hear this. I've been reminiscing recently about "old" hunt, which for me was only 3 years ago, and I've come to realize that I've changed. The game has changed drastically sure, but so have I. I no longer stalk someone for 20+ minutes just die to an immolator. I no longer wait too long to push cause I'm scared to lose my hunter. I'm 6 stars now, I'm no longer just a baby hunter in a strange new world. And that's okay! Thank you for making this video. And thank you for making me realize I'm not losing my favorite game anymore, it's just changing.
Sometimes we gotta turn around to see how many steps we've taken. You should be proud of the hunter you've become. :)
I love your opinions. You are truly under appreciated. You are a hunter and will always be that, hope everything is going well brother!
Thank you very kindly ❤️ things aren't very great these days but I'm trying to look up.
@ you may not know all of us but you certainly built a community:) you have us fellow hunters! I love your content. Keep it up brother! We’ve all got you back as hunters and gamers!
There is no doubt hunt is loosing its way.
I abuse my pc for gaming since 30 years.
I saw a lot of game pop up an disappear.
With some i felt sad. Some i forgot.
But never was there a game like Hunt.
I played it for 2k hours and thats a lot next to having a job and a family.
I have my ups and downs like in every relationship.
The moment when i have a down is always resulting from a period where i don't change anymore. Last time, before the circus event, when i just played centennial dum dum and officer for months.
The game changed and so me. Now i have fun again. I don't only fight my enemies anymore. I play with them. As it is supposed to be when you are playing games with other people.
Have nice Christmas 🎄
I genuinely think the game was better in 2021. The only changes since then I've liked are.....Mammon's Gulch and bullet drop. I also think you kind of miss the mark on some of these things. Beetles are stronger for campers.....than aggressive players. Fire rework just makes it so I might as well give up on that team mate and hopefully snag the bounty so I can revive them later. Most of the "solutions" they introduce just make the problem much worse.
I should say I love the aesthetic of the circus and it should stay as a unique PoI with a random chance to spawn. Shredder is the dumbest thing ever added to the game though. The amount of teams I wiped with the frag attachment is just ridiculous. The blademancer perk is just stupid. So was solo crouch with no footsteps. I genuinely think most of the events have introduced traits that have made the game MUCH worse. Remember Witness allowing you to revive no matter what? Your team gets wiped? Go run 5 mins away and hide. Come back 15 mins later for a free revive. Death Cheat meaning people had full perk kits 24/7.
Exactly how I feel. I feel the game has betrayed what made it so exciting and unique. Shit like silenced krag and chu ku nu explosive bolts are just unbalanced and it feels like crytek has forgone any attempt at balancing. One of my best examples for how Crytek has lost the plot is revive bolts. The community complained for like 2 years about necro spamming at high levels for solo or trio. So how does crytek nerf necro? They make it a burn trait. Great idea, love that. Then the same update or the very next one they add revive bolts, so solos got shafted and now trios can revive spam easier than ever before. It’s just like Crytek is literally throwing shit against the wall to see if it sticks, there’s no planning and the previous road maps they’ve completely abandoned.
Change can be great, but this is too much and in the wrong direction. The only reason I played at all is because of double event points this weekend
I had tears in my eyes at the end of the videos. I have so much fun with Hunt since 2019. The fact that all living things die, and so will Hunt one day, hit me a little. Great video. Thank you!
Thank you kindly Chris. Thanks for watching 🤠
I love hunt let me be clear. 90% of what they add is straight fire. However, the addition of spam weapons has reduced the fun of many gun fights. I would have way more fun running basic guns that reward shot placement and accuracy but now I have to play against hunters running fanning, avto, shredder, ect. The crazy action that would occur because one player would have to reload or the space that slower firing weapons left made for artful fights. Now i just point my explo crossbow at an enemy then hit one hip fire tag with my bornhiem. Just really miss the gameplay dynamics that have been erased by balance design :(
^ This IS the reason why Hunt felt better before. I find it hard to belive that this TH-camr did played early versions or he fails to understand how the game could benefit from slower guns even now in 2024.
In early Hunt, players were experiencing constant back-and-forth interplays. The Gunfights were much more engaging and your life expectancy was long enough to start making decisions off each others. Now... there's too much one-hit/spam nonsense, so gunfights lack the opportunity for tension buildup, making it harder to create those unforgettable fight memories.
Amnesiac nostalgia, the game used to be way more spammy. The biggest offenders have always been in the game and were far more powerful before nerfs, such as Dolch, Avto, Crown, Winnie, Officer, Bornheim, etc. Fanning, levering, dual wielding and quickswapping were far more accurate on their introductions. Completely false narrative.
@@jesterclownmime Completely false narrative? that's a good one :P username checks!
All joke aside, it's really not that hard to see the facts with the game's history... Just take a look at the Bornheim for example, it use to be 3 tap in upper body for a kill and now it's just 2.
Spammy or not, it's the fights as whole, the feelings are still true. It's your life expectency back then was longer than it is now and that is just straight up fact.
@@magouil Except that is false, the Bornheim 3 taps to chest. Only the Bornheim Match 2 taps to chest because there were no reasons to use it. It helps if you know what you're talking about before you form an opinion. The Bornheim used to be more powerful because all compact ammo required 3 taps to chest to kill, further proving my point that the game used to be more spammy. Your life expectancy is shorter now because people aren't crouch walking everywhere and even total nimrods have been playing so long they generally have a decent grasp of basic tactics. It is funny watching people try to mimic the hyper aggressive twitchy play styles of streamers yet completely fail to follow through with pay off due to lack of knowledge and reflexes.
as a 61 year old finally got mt first gaming pc starting first game with hunt i think its fantastic
damn bro, I aspire to be like that one day, I hope I will still be gaming in my older days
The bayou is happy to have you, old timer. 🤠
honestly think it’s in the best shape it’s ever been in. no performance issues at all on my pc
The performance is stellar right now!
i couldnt agree more it has 10k to 20k im getting in matches instantly enjoying new event good performance good gun play and still a inviting community in the discord
i'm a newbie, and joined right before the murder circus was added. I can't help occasionally feeling as if i missed hunt's "glory days". This video helped, and I feel like would hit way harder had I joined in 1.0
Legit I tried hunt in 1.0's fresh launch and felt so unwelcomed by the game that I gave it up for two years lmao
Trust me the game is much more welcoming in, 2024, even if the community doesn't feel like it sometimes.
Welcome to the Hunt! 🤠
Dude ……. This is so poetic and so good. Enjoy Life everybody! Love your Selfs and others!
Definitely ♥️🤠
I tend to think that the rocky release of 1896 soured people's perspectives and made them see the game with a clouded mind. Criticizing Crytek more than they used to because they briefly took away something they love and care about. After Hunt got back on it's feet, the well had already been poisoned, and i feel many people are unaware that they are still looking at the current game with that pessimism, whilst looking back at older hunt with rose-tinted glasses, thus deifying the old hunt and villainizing Crytek, feeling the company has completely lost their way.
Because of this, a lot of hunt fans have seemingly become blind to the plethora of improvements we've seen and enjoyed. I imagine the effect is similar to how you don't pay as much attention to 9 compliments as much as 1 insult.
I personally think Hunt is headed in a great direction, though Crytek needs to be on their A-game and MOST IMPORTANTLY! Be open and transparent with the community. I still trust them, looking at how they've recovered nicely from the buggy mess that 1896 was initially, and believe they are on the right track, but a lot of people are not ready to tolerate more inconsistencies, of which there still are quite a few, which is good to criticize.
Another thing is how alienated a big part of the community must have felt - after seeing their game in a sorry state, and then also to have a completely new, more claustrophobic and mainstream look of the menu, - and then ALSO to have all the old maps completely ripped from them - and then ALSO several sections of content removed, seemingly because they were a bit niche?? (trials, weapon and boss progression) - and then AAAALSOOO to get the feeling that the devs of hunt have been entirely overworked to push the product forward instead of being more honest w/ the community (bugs, poorly thought out UI choices, no skins for new weapons in battlepass; seemingly thrown-in skins that don't fit the battlepass/event theme at all, like a bunch of W.I.P. weapons from the backlog that were supposed to be used for DLCs or other things)...
You know, I think I'll stop myself there. I think I understand why so many people were sour when hunt introduced Ghostface and Posty. They don't *actually* mind it that much, they've just been scarred, and maybe they can't quite see objectively anymore.
Sure, if hunt before 2.0 released a ghostface skin, there'd be some backlash, but just try to imagine the community throwing rotten tomatoes and sticks and stones around 10 months ago if Ghostface came out there. I at least don't think it would have bothered the community much. So many of the people who adore Hunt feel threatened, and view the threat as Crytek, which makes it hard for Crytek to redeem themselves in the eyes of many.
I hope to see a more trusting and happy community some time in Hunt's BRIGHT future.
Crytek screwed up - like how CD projekt RED fucked up by releasing Cyberpunk in a sorry state, or like how No Man's Sky came out and what they had been promising was no where in sight. But Hello Games just kept working. Grant Duncan received endless amounts of hate and death-threats, but he just sat back down and made No Man's Sky GOOD; got it to where the game was supposed to be, and that's how it's looking for Crytek's unequalled opus. The game we all care for.
Awesome video as always, your buttery voice vibrates my bones good sir :P
Nah. Too many bugs with too many changes like buffing dualies,levering, more spam, bullet drop Necro, revive bolt fire changes,pen changes etc. it just isn't Hunt I loved to play anymore. The sentiment was growing long before rerelease hunt 2.0 was just the final nail in the coffin for me.
@@lastnamefirstname850 Valid point. Like this video's title suggests, Hunt IS changing. Some are here for it, others, not so much. I'm not happy with everything they're doing with the game either; a lot of balance changes and implementations contradict each other, and they aren't exactly showing that they fully know what they're doing (don't get me started on revive bolts). They never have, though.
Ultimately, and as it should be, hunt is not the same game as it used to be, nor will it be the same game as it is currently in the future, whether that's for better or for worse is decided by the individual, and some players will have a falling out while the game suddenly appeals to new people.
Ofc that doesn't mean we shouldn't argue/discuss the game and it's changes, whether viewed in a negative or positive light - I hope we continue to talk about the game. I also hope that people don't look at any news regarding the game in a biased/prejudiced manner, which I kinda fear a good portion of people in the community do. That's just what I think, having been there myself initially. Maybe there's no prejudice leading to biases, I can't say tbh.
I appreciated this. Im not sure another game could ever replace hunt for me.
I feel much of the same! 🤠
Started playing about a week ago and I love the game it’s so unique 🔥
No other game exactly like it 🤠
What a great video! And i love Hunt!
Thank you kindly ♥️🤠
Had a Commanding Officer who used to have on his office door. “Do not be afraid of change, change is inevitable”.
Unless that change is shit then by all means be afraid of it.
Wise words to live by.
I think the major issue with this contention is that it assumes that disliking one update/addition means you dislike all change. Not all change is progress, and it's totally fine to tell people they fucked up when we get things like a half-baked UI and new weapons that clearly never saw even a minute of balance testing.
I also wouldn't be so sure about the "forever increasing playercount" part, either. We had a boost during the free weekend when 2.0 released, but since then the playercount has dropped down to 2022/2023 numbers the majority of the time. That's pretty damning considering we've had a rerelease/next-gen update, a movie tie-in, and a celebrity crossover in that time period. I don't think all these changes to the game are having the positive effects that their defenders claim they do.
Automatic Assault rifle
Automatic Saw Launcher that Auto locks enemies off surfaces.
|semi automatic crossbow.
yeah nah if they keep this up, there wont be much of a hunt this time next year
don't get me started on the Clown ass bugs.
Listen but what if we get a derringer beetle
@@HuntersLodgeOfficial very much considering Cheating now, just because of you. and i live in china. hmmmmmmm now i see why they exist.
This video completely changed my view and opinion on the direction of hunt.I realize now that if i had my way the game wouldve died long ago.amazing video and perspective.have my subscribe
Thank you kindly Matt. I appreciate having you here! 🤠
I’m new, few months in and I cannot get off this game. The connection isn’t the greatest but it’s playable still
Happy to see the bayou hooked in another one! 🤠
Love this game and all it has to offer I have not had this much fun with it since it came out on console! Only thing I need is the ability to invite my friends on Xbox to play with me on PS5 I hope that comes soon! But it is absolutely my favorite multiplayer game that I love and think about all the time. Long live Hunt Showdown!
Well said.
Thank you spindogg
i keep going back and forth on this game. like i really wanna play it, but my understanding is that there's a lotta bs happening behind the scenes with the development company and there's a lotta content missing
It's really not unpleasant at all to play. In fact this newest update added a lot of new stuff and the focus really was just plain fun. A lot of the supposed BS behind the scenes is over exaggerated. Frankly, for newer players none of those issues will affect them anyways now. The performance is great, the only issue you'd run into is server instability at peak population times.
If you ever want some help trying to get into hunt, don't be afraid to hop in our community discord sometime. Thanks for commenting. 🤠
@@HuntersLodgeOfficial thanks. another free weekend would be great. not easy getting the meat of a game in under 2 hours.
the missing content is only lore entries and trials (I think that's what they were called) which people didn't exactly play
Learned mouse and keyboard on hunt this year. 1500hr of fun and a crash out here or there lol ❤but I’ve always been here for the gunfights fights and I’m here to stay.
I will always be hunter. All the mad people just seething.
Nice video. Change is progress! Haters gonna hate - no matter what will happen. Keep on the good work. I hit the subscribe button because of this video. Well done.
Man I just don't want to play against only 6 stars constantly. Since my 5th or 6th game I've been against 6 stars. There's no chill game. Every game I'm against the best of the best and it sucks. I don't want to have to try that damn hard every game. I don't even play bounty hunt anymore. I can't keep up but it won't drop my MMR.
The MMR system definitely needs adjustments. I've got some friends that have been in six star for months and they lose most games.
Love the game right now!
Happy to hear it 😁
Next year I'm coming back and final can feel changes on my own skin. (All changes are exaiting for me beside fps crash that 2.0 gived to me)
Based takes
OP dynamite bombs are pretty stupid, especially when guys carry like 8 of them with the Frontiersman traits. It's straight up COD material there.
there is nothing like Hunt, Amazing game
I couldn't agree more!
Clowntek haven't fixed their game for 6 years
The 2.0 launch number lasted for the 4 days the game was free. Its fine to draw players in, its retaining them that they are struggling to do. They need to improve the performance. It doesn't matter how great the depth of the world is, the biggest change that needs to happen is improve the server performance, do that and the game might grow. I am speaking as a passionate 10k hour player. I am not going anywhere and Hunt is by far the best multiplayer game I have played, and I embrace change, some are good, some are bad (blademaster can go to hell, but poltergiest is amazing fun) but what has largely stayed the same is the poor server performance. Fix that, and the rest will follow.
Same. I really really live hunt, but wendont even have some basic things like wtf its so close
Server performance will never get better as long as they're with Leaseweb. Also stop adding in scoped weapons, it's Hunt: Showdown not Hunt: Scopedown.
hunt was great before and still is, its just a bit harder for new players to enjoy, because they add and remove new and old things all the time. Hunt created a new audience for content that before was not needed, let's see where this goes. RIP Vanila hunt. Rejoice Hunt 1896.
As much as I dislike adding post Malone to Hunt showdown because it reminds me of what COD did. Or bullet drop and having to learn that. Or nerfing my favorite trait into the ground (levering). I still play hunt. It's fun. And honestly, they keep changing stuff and it hurts that they destroy my "play style". But I play it because it's a quality game and even though I can't be catered to for my wants for the game, the community is listened to.
What you said is right and I rue the day Hunt: showdown closes its servers for good. But for now, I will keep hunting in the bayou. And I will try to push past the change, even if I think they made another stupid update.
Entering the first stages of grief when most of us are at 3rd or 4th.
Games do change, sure. Hunt has and still is changing for the worse, people are fond of the memories they have of the old game because it was objectively better before they added in dumb shit like the Shredder, revive bolts, pen changes, high velocity/spitzer ammo, more scoped weapons, fire changes, dualies buffs, levering buffs, bringing in more spam weapons into the game, the console streaming garbage UI, removing trials, removing black market, padding event passes with lore instead of actual rewards, blade master existing, annoying custom ammo. That is quite a list of stuff that made the game worse in all forms, no matter what way you spin it; people want old Hunt back because there was a methodical nature to it, bringing in an avto was rarity, post-nerf dolch people rarely brought in, the new perk for single shot rifles is actually a nice change for once,
There's also still the server performance issues that will NEVER get fixed because they're insistent on using Leaseweb, the worst server provider in all of gaming, Black Desert Online dropped Leaseweb when players complained about how awful the servers were, but Crytek are so far up their own ass that they can smell their colon. Until they decide to purchase servers that are owned by a company that isn't 4 generations behind on their servers, that part will never be fixed. On the topic of performance, they have no idea how their engine works anymore probably because the people who initially made Hunt: Showdown have all quit and moved to different companies, which should've been evident by the fact that they had to spend how many months rewriting code because when they tried to fix the reload bug, they thunderfucked the LeMat into being able to shoot all nine bullets at once.
Well said, the glory days of quick swap.
Hunt is changing and that is ok, just NOT in the direction they're taking 🤷
For those who claim Hunt is becoming more spammy that is purely amnesiac nostalgia, the game used to be way more spammy. The biggest offenders have always been in the game and were far more powerful before nerfs, such as Dolch, Avto, Crown, Winnie, Officer, Bornheim, etc. Fanning, levering, dual wielding and quickswapping were far more accurate on their introductions. Completely false narrative. The game is faster paced in part due to additions like Surefoot or more methods of recovery but mostly because people have been playing for half a decade. Players are more confident in what they should or could be doing moment to moment, they're less afraid of making mistakes because the economy is bountiful even if you fuck up regularly and people have less patience for drawn out matches thousands of hours later.
The people that refuse to criticize something just because they like it are the same "yes men" that will wonder how it eventually failed
sadly i can only subscribe once
Hopefully they'll update this sometime
I mean, I just disagree. Camping is still a problem, hunters play just as passive as before, and the amount of spammy custom ammo is draining.
change isn't always for the best
being stuck in time is always worse
@@Jvid752 whats the data?
@@Jvid752 UI needed an update for sure, but why they made such a clunky confusing and largely unpopular UI seems very tone def and feels like they don't know what they are doing.
don't get me wrong I am rooting for Hunt. as a long-time player with 4500+ hours playing since early access I have loved almost all their changes and events up until 1896.
so I hope they are getting enough info/data to keep crytec going in the right direction but as of the relaunch it feels like Hunt is changing for the worst.
@@Jvid752stop huffing military grade copium
@alcedob.5850 Since we're using grandiose historic examples to talk about Hunt, that's what the people of the Weimar Republic said, too. You can 100% change things for the worse lol.
I don't think this is fair because this video acts like every addition to the game has been a net positive. While new content is welcome, that content has not come without a shit load of game breaking bugs, poor balancing, ham fisted over reactions. And good god the 2.0 was a fucking disaster. The game was utterly unplayable at launch. The UI took a manual to navigate, the game textures were missing for people with AMD cards. We can be critical of hunt without hating it or not wanting to play it. I want them to do better and in many ways they have and I praise the increased communication, and willingness to keep trying. But They do seem to make far more bad decisions than good. This event took 2 weeks to finish addressing bugs introduced from the last event. And at this point I think the negativity caused by cryteks many past failures has to much momentum. Player counts are down not even getting close to the last event. They fumbled the 2.0 launch so hard they probably ensured the game will never see 50k again. Its sad but its entirely their fault.
Now tell that to a certain glasses wearing Hunt content creator that does nothing but shit on the game and spread negativity within the community.
who?
Yes things change but most of them for the worse and completely tone deaf decisions tbh. I enjoy the perspective but the game isn't that fun anymore. The games used to feel a bit fresher before 1896 and now has recently devolved into people sitting in lair for 40 minutes out of spite more than i saw pre 1896. No one wants to push into lair bow with blademancer, shredder or crown and king. Snipers sit out in bushes for even longer waiting for you to push. The real losers? The non snipers and campers that try to engage in the old way the game used to work where you could actually take a pot shot or two before taking cover. Now its step out of cover and die to levering, fanning, frag shedder or any busted close range option that or live in the bushes for 40 minutes with a sniper and die to bounty timing out in lair. It genuinely has nothing to do with "old memories or friends leaving" all my friends i used to play with, i still play other better games with REGULARLY, and find that nostalgia bait stuff BS. They dont play because the game changed core wise for the worse. Crytek have made extremely poor choices with my biggest example being revive bolts after nerf necro cause they themselves said it was problematic and proceeded to add something 10x better for teams of trios and more busted.
Genuinely find it disingenuous to shrug off valid criticism with *things change*.
Wtf did this make me cry?
cause you're not stable
Good luck with the youtube stuff but after seeing you glaze Crytek like they can do no wrong for weeks now, I'm personally not interested in continuing to watch your videos. I enjoy watching Hunt but when PsychoGhost is saying there's massive issues and questionable changes as A CRYTEK PARTNER, and seeing the leniency you give is pretty laughable honestly. We've so too many games get taken over by better competition because of this leniency to keep paying for mediocre content. Apex and Overwatch had the same thing happen and eventually we got worse games with more MTX.
@@Angeldemonhybrid172 I criticize the game when I feel the need to. My "hey crytek what happened to hunt showdown" video was a big criticism. And in my podcast episodes we're very critical of the game in a lot of our segments. The shorter and easier to digest content is less critical normally so it would make sense that you see those videos more often and believe that I have no wrong to say about Hunt or crytek. I don't blame you for thinking that way under the circumstances. I've gone on the record in my community saying that I'll never accept a crytek partnership if it stifles my voice at all, because I want to still be able to openly criticize the game without breaking a contract.
Thank you for commenting. I appreciate you taking the time.
🥰 o7
I hate the cringe humor the rest is not really a problem tbh and performance sucks and always will :/
cope
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