Developer Update | Prestige System: Rewards & Philosophy | Hunt: Showdown

[@Jonzi310]

Imagine that prestige 100 hunter even had Doug Cockles voice. Skin looks great at least. Might wanna pick up the grind again after stopping at prestige 24 or something.

[@herbg4866]

I did it this year it’s easy once you get into a rhythm It would be amazing if he recorded grunts and death noises

[@ieajackson5518]

Sounds cool, but it would be awful for the game. Imagine being able to tell exactly which player and loadout is out of the fight based on death sound…. No thanks.

[@herbg4866]

@@ieajackson5518 nah you misunderstand. Every hunter has the same “uhhh” and “ahhhh” Gendered of course but having a new grunts wouldn’t give anyone an advantage beyond knowing a different skin is being used If you can’t tell by gunshot noise already you wouldn’t be able to ascertain anything useful by the change

[@PirateR4ptor]

Im at 24 too, but if I prestige, I have to say goodbye to Torborg Torborg.. 😢

[@JoshuaGanoTyraxLightning]

@@PirateR4ptor I have Prestiged to Prestige Level 1, and i've got way too many Hunters i've built to my liking for me to ever be willing to lose them by Prestiging. Building them the first time was damn hard enough. The price for Prestiging is too high for me to ever do it no matter what I would get in exchange. :(

[@majoova]

From seeing 8 loadout slots per screen to 3, what an upgrade! Thanks!

[@immerda4244]

I Hope they Change that again...

[@53darkknight53]

I'm really happy that they are giving more updates frequently but still sceptical about the new UI

[@rumsbums3113]

it turns into COD and CS... just copied basically ... cringe

[@Unknown-zs8ex]

Calm down… they will refine it if needed based on feedback.

[@rumsbums3113]

@@Unknown-zs8ex I am calm and I love the game, but I have eyes bruh

[@speedyprod8237]

all new things take time to adjust

[@armandrabalais6515]

I mean it can't really be worse than it is now. Any changes will be an improvement.

[@TV---]

the "rarity system" is something this game does not need, and i feel the devs will use it to raise the price of certain skins. as if some aren't already absurdly expensive.

[@Jester4460]

Sense the blood bond change I just gave up on some skins

[@tacticguy536]

And lock old skins behind paywalls. This greed is getting absurd and they're just trying to milk every dollar out of the children who want the next coolest thing.

[@Keyboardwarrior1337]

I just don't wanna see it affecting the variety of hunters you see in match. I can see most players limiting themselves to only using mythic hunters coz 'shiney'.

[@corombb]

The rarity system already exists in the game and it doesn't really change any existing functionality, it just makes it more understandable to new players. It's understandable to be concerned, but it's not actually any under the hood change - just UI/UX that is more easily related to other games.

[@Keyboardwarrior1337]

@@corombb what's the rarity system that's already in game?

[@Brodinn]

Please make a PC specific UI. It just doesn't make sense.

[@gentlemangamerec7025]

The new rewards for the Prestige System look really good! I'm down. ALSO WE CAN FINALLY UNLOCK JOHN HUNTSHOWDOWN

[@slomnim]

RISE UP JOHN SHOWDOWN

[@burntheworld1117]

I don't care for the rarity changes and named tier ones and all that but the custom ammo not needing to be unlocked is the most massive of W

[@ajpend]

I agree with both.

[@tacticguy536]

Idk how it's going over people's heads that they're blatantly saying they're locking old free content behind a paywall. This is entirely greed focused and makes it so, unless you pay, you only have access to current game tier 1 hunters and all the hunt dollar bought tier 2+ high level unlockable hunt dollar hunters will be skins bought with bloodbonds.

[@Spiffyo]

@@tacticguy536 From what is said, these hunters are unlocked via bloodline for 10 and 9 for prestiges.

[@johngone1nonly]

@@tacticguy536 Think you might be confused bud

[@HappyBoi-re6no]

@@tacticguy536 huh???

[@CrabQueen]

the new ui has me worried honestly. looks like information density has shrunk significantly

[@Joescotterpuss]

The more I see of it the more it looks like a downgrade for PC players. We'll have to wait and see, but ugh.

[@searchingforthree]

I was thinking the same thing. It looks like a console/mobile design aesthetic and I think it looks gross.

[@speedfreak0023]

not only for PC players...

[@marcesser4218]

na, the current ui ist just a mess. Too much infos, that are not needed for normal playing.

[@mpizarroar]

The new UI looks like my Smart TV menu, i dont like it.

[@NoName......]

YOU FINALLY DONT NEED TO GRIND WITH WEAPONS TO GET CUSTOM AMMO LETS GOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

[@NeFjuS]

I liked the grind to be honest... Now they really need to remove half of the custom ammo from some weapons. ITS geting to the level that weapons are no specialized and you have everything on anything.

[@williamjames7293]

Finally i can fully get all the the springfield variants without having to unlock the Annoying ammo types

[@Fermentos]

Skill issue

[@EliteGam3r]

​@@NeFjuS nah

[@brucekhamp6859]

@@NeFjuS^this guy gets it. i played 6 matches back-to-back with lobbies full of Centennial dum-dums…getting reeeeal annoying here. Heck, I’m starting to miss the days before special ammos

[@baztaylor8015]

At 2:26 it seems the icon for the regeneration shot is now purple.

[@_claymore]

nice catch. it's a small change but looks nice.

[@tomramecin6995]

It's a nice change, it makes the difference between regen and heal much clearer. It was ok, but his better.

[@E1nsty]

Also it's a cross now which it couldn't have been if it was red like before.

[@wesabila4797]

It's been purple the whole time.. regen is purple and heal is red.

[@E1nsty]

@@wesabila4797 the syringe was always purple but the old icon was the red healing icon with a white clock/time symbol.

[@EmilM-pb2hn]

Don't really know how I feel about Hunter Recruitment, Cosmetic Rarities and Unlocking Hunters. Feels off or weird somehow.

[@TheGuggels]

Would be nice if basic hunters upgrade when they win a few games in their cosmetic looking...

[@pepperkelleher3594]

EXACTLY THIS! It should be something like lvl 1-20 is T1 looking, then 20-40 is Tier2 Looks, then when you reach 40-50 your hunter looks like a Tier 3. So you know that guy has traits and probs a sweaty loadout and perhaps is trying harder than the guy in the blue shirt looking like farmer and bringing romero, nagant.

[@Brooksie997]

Cool idea

[@adamlutchko8251]

Greattttt ppl can use spitzer ammo right off the bat how wonderful

[@midSCREAMs]

Yeah, I wish spitty weapons were it's own weapon variant. Like Dolch having it's own ammo type.

[@leelvan]

I certainly understand everything, but is it possible to give PC users an adequate user interface, and not these huge icons requiring horizontal scrolling, etc.? And the hunter selection menu, why does it cover half of the character model? Crytek, what about hiring competent designers?

[@serhiiskliarov1679]

++++ Design sucks so hard(

[@nonamenoname9079]

It looks like it was made for console

[@serhiiskliarov1679]

@@nonamenoname9079 Even if you want to rate it just for console, i can't say it looks well As for me, looks like old Sony PS2 games. And in some screens details are not even normalised.. I think, people want to see step forward, but now we can only see jump backward and rarity for skeens, wich is totally unneeded in this game.

[@MoonSteppah]

No one with a head on their shoulders actually wants to work for CryKek, just go take a look at their hiring positions.

[@MrMozkoZrout]

Yeah it's kinda funny. Like the freaking screen that you tweak your loadout for the free hunter takes up your whole screen and has so stupidly big boxes. It means you can see only one loadout at a time. While in the current UI u can see all available free hunters and their loudout right under them. This is a straight up downgrade lol

[@Clanmadkids]

Don't feel the new UI is any easier than the existing one,if anything info is lost amongst unnecessary sub menus.. And what's happening with the Book of Weapons/Monsters?

[@goddamndoor]

are you really saying the new one has "unnecessary sub menus"? my god it's obvious you've been used to the old UI for a long time. it's an absolute mess, the definition of unnecessarily complex sub menus.

[@seriousmike90]

the books are gone for now but will come back later (source: last video)

[@tacticguy536]

That doesn't make them money. Duh. This entire update is greed focused, anything to make them more money. They're locking all current non tier 1/free hunters skins behind bloodbonds and "naming them" like legendary hunters, just making them free money from kids for nothing. Disgusting greed.

[@MavByte]

@@tacticguy536 well losing players won't make them money, if they scare people away with wrong decisions.

[@yzbrian]

@@tacticguy536 Saying that a UI focussed update is all about the money is the wildest comment I have ever heard!!

[@ryanwoehrle7928]

so they talk about removing Tier 2, 3 to no longer differentiate between different Hunters. And 10 Seconds later they introduce uncommon and mythical hunters?

[@youngdud9025]

Finally, John "Hunt" Showdown, my beloved

[@maphukkajeezuzpeeze]

I dont like the cosmetics rarity. not only does it look bad with all those colors in the menue, it kinda feels like a reason to charge more for the 'very super awesome' skins which they do already but now it could get worse

[@MrMozkoZrout]

yeah that is all there is to it. Before the BB skins in the game did cost like idk 600 BBs and the newer ones kept costing more and more and DLC hunters became way better deal in comparison. Later they removed for players to earn BBs ingame properly, limiting it to 50 per week through those dumb challenges and they still kept releasing insanely expensive BB hunters. Freaking Corvid costs 2000 BBs. So yeah now they have a system that will justify all of this and will introduce some standardised crazy price categories. Also kinda cute how they are basically selling to us the tier 2 and 3 hunters as skins, very smooth.

[@Vireca]

I hope adding hunters to the prestige levels won't cut out the skins that we already have each level from 1 to 10

[@robertharris6092]

Oh it will. Theyre gonna keep making it harder and harder to esrn things that cost BBs for free.

[@ZiflockGaming]

It won't at all. There are SO many levels that give you literally nothing, they're gonna add them scattered.

[@tacticguy536]

They've blatantly said that tier 2+ high level hunt dollar bought hunters will now be locked behind bloodbonds and named, they're literally just locking old free reward (being high level and buying a tier 2+ hunter) content behind a paywall, making free money for nothing. Greed.

[@johngone1nonly]

@@tacticguy536 no

[@riegelmaster-privat5865]

Otis Blackwell is new i guess? looks epic i like the rebranding of hunters and the availability of tier II & IIIs

[@MrMozkoZrout]

availability of tier 2 and 3 as bloodbond unlocks ?

[@johngone1nonly]

@@MrMozkoZrout Its bloodbond or progression. Might need a rewatch bud

[@Nerf_Jeez]

Please just keep the recruitment menu as simple as it is right now! Theres really no need for more than 2 clicks to get a hunter! Also I liked the hunter tiers system ;(

[@otandersson]

you have to agree it was all pretty confusing though, especially before getting your hours up on the game. menues should be naturally intuitive and self explaining, and in my opinion they just arent right now.

[@goddamndoor]

@@otandersson agree. everyone is complaining just because it's new, but the old menu was objectively a mess. and it wasn't quick to recruit either, you had to go to recruitment, then go to the category of hunter you want, and if it's a legendary scroll all through them to find it. The recruitment was very far from the equipment menu

[@tomiik5195]

@@otandersson Adding a million of pointless and misleading things with the new UI is even worse.

[@SewerGoblinz]

@@otandersson The current recruitment screen is not confusing at all. I can't believe people like you are allowed to vote.

[@hazzy5714]

The issue is having to recruit in the first place instead of you being able to set a default hunter it buys every time ​@@otandersson

[@blixer8384]

Okay but what's going to happen to the Book of weapons and book of monsters? Are the last five years of narrative just getting swallowed up by the ether?

[@drycattle]

He literally said in the previous video that they will not be included in the new update but will come back later on. Stop panicking.

[@blixer8384]

@@drycattle That's not what he said though, he said the progression system is being reworked and the monster tracking system is being reworked and is not yet ready. The only thing we know is that come August the Book of Weapons and the Book of Monsters will be gone. And given what happened to the Louisiana Scrapbook I think we in the lore community are justified to be worried that history might be repeating itself and five years of narrative are just being unceremoniously dropped.

[@Daminionz]

lore in hunt 😴😴😴😴

[@MigjolVanMjol]

@@blixer8384It’s funny how you repeated @drycattle’s words back to ‘em. If it’s being reworked it’ll probably come back in some shape or form.

[@Thermalfusi0n]

@@blixer8384 bro said "the hunt lore community" LOL

[@panzerfaust127]

having 3k hours into the game on prestige 1 ... finally getting real rewards for prestigeing feels so good to me. damn

[@zsasz21]

As someone who plays soul survivor a lot when I first prestige, that's a huge change that I'm a huge fan of

[@rygzengrho]

And what do you like about it? I imagine having more than full roster locked with soul survivors, and being unable to buy legendary skin when wanted, that is reality for me and a huge L

[@zsasz21]

@@rygzengrho that's what I go for. I usually go and instantly recruit them, dump the loadouts and traits, set the traits I usually go for, and then once I've filled my roster, go and prekit them all with the money I got from fmrunning tons of soul survivor, and then I play bounty hunt Edit: I'll buy the legendary hunters when I go through the entire list of quickplay hunters

[@jimboniusmaximus6018]

As a returning player, this is awesome. Thank you so much!

[@benjaminnapoli1834]

I hate this rarity skin BS, its infecting damn near every game out and all for more money.

[@TheGoobMeista]

Idk if i'm the only one who noticed but 3:33 - 3:36 Look at those graphics! Am i trippin or does the lighting, Textures, Animations, and just overall look of everything!, Super hyped for the new UI, HUD, and over reward system. This update is gonna be absolutely amazing.

[@JustAnotherGamerNL]

What happends to the trial rewards I already unlocked but don't have the prestige level for? Do I lose acces to the skins or do I keep them unlocked?

[@codyd7841]

That's what I when to know as well.

[@marmowedaw4021]

Same. I know 2 people who haven't prestiged but have everything unlocked from trials. As well as myself who's prestige 50.

[@saverx1775]

id assume nothing changes for you. it just devalues your hard work by handing them out as prestige rewards instead.

[@JustAnotherGamerNL]

@@saverx1775 as long as I can keep acces to my skins I'm happy

[@angeltheavali]

@@saverx1775 You can finish all the trials in less than a few hours if you're good at the game, or honestly just decent. A single prestige can easily take over 20 hours of playtime, so I'd argue prestiging multiple times is much harder work than finishing a few trials.

[@twistedbrother]

The custom ammo unlocks are what was stopping me from getting all my favorite weapons every prestige: to much grind. Now with this new change I finally will be able to play with lemat variants ever now and then.

[@EmperorKandyKatsuVonKandai]

I don’t want cosmetic rarities!!!! Just keep one rarity there’s no need to milk it so much :(((

[@larykenobi]

As a long time fan who doesn't Prestige, blocking and recycling T3 skins behind a grinding wall was the only thing you could have done to make me quitt.

[@TV---]

this still feels like its entirely made for consoles while pc gets looked at in a sidelight.

[@goddamndoor]

and your reasoning for that: that the UI doesn't require an awful cursor on console. What a dumb complaint, the old UI is a mess even on pc.

[@saverx1775]

Plenty of console players have voiced their concerns for the ui as well. We don't like it either!

[@HemTight]

Nah the new UI is wayyyyyyy better

[@ArchiveAndy]

The rarity system is so unnecessary

[@leroyjenkins9035]

not if you plan to make more expensive skins the standard 😬

[@tacticguy536]

​@leroyjenkins9035 and lock previously free and level based skins behind paywalls, using old content and charging money for it now. This is disgusting greed and entirely puts me off from the game. Guess I'll never buy a premium hunter or contribute to them again yaay.

[@leroyjenkins9035]

@@tacticguy536 i dont think they said they were doing that, i DO think that theyll sell a bunch of new legendary hunters for like 20 bucks though

[@JanBongoO]

Another excuse for monetization. Well, well, well

[@Superevilfurball]

Yeah it’s kinda wasted effort no hunter is rare anyone can get them don’t get me wrong I’d like to actually have a hunter no one else can get that would be nice

[@Silieth]

Tank you for all the updates and transparency!!

[@unemployedingreenland9358]

Rarity system for what though?

[@LordRydag]

Fomo

[@Metha_59]

So they can increase prices. I don’t expect anything less from crytek anymore.

[@johngone1nonly]

@@Metha_59 dramatic

[@mattjennings4921]

@@johngone1nonlyno it’s completely true

[@johngone1nonly]

@@mattjennings4921 no

[@wildphil6113]

I'll be honest (tho I doubt anyone will read after so long) I actually liked the "shared progression" system, where you could share the experience on the weapon your teammate was using, that way you would end up having the most important weapons faster and even other less importants, or if you wanted a less popular one you could grind it yourself

[@blckdrgn21]

So what happens if you have completed all the trials but haven't progressed far enough into prestige to unlock those rewards? Do you lose those items that you have already earned until you grind prestige higher? 😢

[@bluebird2540]

I assume you will just keep the unlocks and get another random legendary unlock at the prestige levels the old trial rewards unlock at.

[@blckdrgn21]

@@bluebird2540 that's what I hope they do!

[@eurghunner]

You miss on a couple of blood bounds I guess but nothing much

[@jakobkremsner]

i guess u keep the unlocks and get nothing instead of the appropriate prestige unlock

[@jackblack4368]

I love everything about this. The prestige and unlock system changes recently have made the game unplayable personally and I’m really looking forward to coming back. Thanks for all the positive changes and clear communication, Crytek. ❤

[@tacticguy536]

Bro they're cutting out old free content like tier 2+ unique looking hunters and locking them behind a paywall. This and the blatant ripoff cod ui design (made to draw in shooter genre players, to make more money). This is greed, unnecessary and annoying. Nothing about this ui is better and takes several more clicks, cuts out information and locks free content behind paywalls. This is gonna be the lowest point in hunt yet. Just gross.

[@rootbeard2294]

if i take under a minute to get a hunter and all the weapons now with this might take 2 mins to be ready for a game

[@Demonwolf-7659]

Rarity doesn't belong in this game at all, it makes people want to use whats considered "Higher Rarity" compared to what they actually like, plus none of the skins are exactly "rare" anyway since you can drop $20 on the game and get anything that's not an event exclusive. (Edit) it seems that a lot of you missed the point of this comment, I was simply stating that a rarity system does not belong in this game and should not be added. To those in the reply section saying "I just use what I like regardless" I want to point out that with this comment I was not speaking of any individual person more as It was to the gaming community, as there are a lot of people who care more about the rarity of a skin rather than if it even looks good.

[@brucekhamp6859]

Agreed heavy 💯

[@swap3813]

Agreed

[@ajpend]

Agreed. These changes are stupid and detrimental.

[@MilkshakeGuruTTV]

"it makes people want to use whats considered "Higher Rarity" compared to what they actually like," Sounds like a personal issue. I always just use what I think looks cool lmao

[@tomiik5195]

@@MilkshakeGuruTTV It's just another cash-grab system to make people feel like they're using something expensive only because they paid more money to Crytek. Pathetic.

[@pingufan1239]

Maybe you guys made the rarity system because of something new we haven’t seen yet, but as of now it seemed like a waste of resources, pretty redundant. Otherwise great updates, looking forward to them.

[@amauriherrera6022]

I still feel that its one step forward, two steps back with this whole revamp update. Things just needed polishing not a full overhaul. The nicest thing I noticed is the ability to chose rewards at prestige; because there are rewards and skins I don't really care about and I already have a large collection to the point where things are cluttered in my collection of skins.

[@Lustik1990]

as allways hats down to the devs for keeping us informed

[@IncogLion]

IM SO EXCITED TO PLAY AGAIN. Looking forward to Mid-Late August. Super hyped, but I simply can't allow myself to believe it will be out August 15th on the dot and it doesn't make me upset either. Just make it happen in August Crytek! Thank you for your hard work and continued effort!!

[@animetacoman8577]

thanks for the transparency and the videos!! these changes look great! I mostly worry that there will be a hunter skin like headsman/cain/reptillian, like the cloaked hooded currently t3 hunter, that everyone picks to be harder to see, so please keep an eye on that, overall great video!!

[@deadly2dietv372]

i see loot boxes comming ;D

[@saverx1775]

its only a matter of time, and they will be 1k bb's per box

[@robinaart72]

it wouldn't be so bad if they buried them in the maps - maybe you can find a treasure map in a building, and dig up a chest - blood bonds, game money or skins inside.

[@HemTight]

Not a chance they’re doing loot boxes

[@yumehikkiangel]

@@HemTight there is a big chance of them doing it considering theyre running out of money and desperately tried every single possible method of monetization that wouldnt result in gigantic levels of backlash and the games identity being destroyed. theyre starting to blur that line slowly though

[@Venom_IX]

I love all of the changes, except for the UI. It seems heavily-skewed towards consoles and it doesn't look like it actually solves any problems for PC players, just rearranges them. It still looks like it takes the same amount of clicks and opening new tabs as it did before.

[@NightRye_]

its him, john "hunt" showdown, featuring geralt from the witcher series.

[@itsthefreemind]

very much looking forward

[@TimoteiUA]

Hunter and UI changes are very obvious enshittification.

[@fayteq]

Many Turkish players are experiencing access problems in Hunt. especially in trio games. 1 player in the team definitely cannot participate. Crytek did not make any statement regarding this. And they did not solve the problem for 7-8 months.

[@MirmiX]

But why would I press the prestige button if I have almost half a million hunt dollars and the system gives me 8 thousand hunt dollars to spend when I press it? If it wouldn't take away the hard earned little money I've farmed over the years I'd still be interested, but this way.....thx but no thx.:(

[@shamrockjack3680]

I don't know how I feel about the new UI. We'll just have to wait and see.

[@naothic]

///VERY IMPORTANT/// Many hunters have been robbed of the visual representation of a dress or objects on a belt when viewed in the first person!!! this upsets me terribly!! also, some new hunters lack textures on their stomachs if you look clearly down, it needs to be changed!

[@musicneverd_es]

That massive update is a great effort of all of you! But (at least) that new hunter-related UI has me worried as well. We'll still have to see how everything can be navigated through, but I'm a huge anti-fan of splitting necessary info into more screens / clickable sub panels. Also I would have loved to finally get drag&drop for that kind of menu, but I guess that's too much of a time sink to develop.

[@Djune]

Rarity level idea is very very bad and will hurt the game. Not Cryteks wallet though.

[@Echolaliaxu]

How is it bad? Genuine question, I really don't know how it can be harmful on its own. It just looks like a new form of labelling to me, if anything, it looks beneficial to me to put together the tiers of generic hunters and the legendary ones and allowing us to choose whichever we want

[@sidekickjim9238]

​Its a classic psychological manipulation tactic for monetization. It'll allow them to charge more for skins because they'll come up with arbitrary labels and go "wait guys, this single skin is $40 because its MyThiC WOOOAAAHHH" ​@@Echolaliaxu

[@Yudaja]

please please rethink the shown recruitment screens. its so much better right now to see the equipment of all recruitable hunters

[@TheErazar]

I really dislike the rarity system. We are not an MMO. Also, please leave an ability to recruit non-free hunters with random, non-basic load-outs

[@piewars12345]

don't think I've ever been this excited about a right-click menu lmao

[@kevkas]

Why, why is everything scrollable horizontally? For PC players it's a huge set back in UI navigation, for controller pressing up/down instead of left/right to navigate a menu is no different, so going with horizontally scrollable sub-menus for loadout selection and hunter selection from roster is an unnecessary annoyance, and instead of saving up on clicks we will now have to click even more to get to where we want, not to mention that scrolling vertically with a mouse wheel is x100 times for intuitive for mouse and keyboard.

[@Deadrum]

I friggin love this guy, dude.

[@NicoIvanMedina]

Where's the raining type of map? Was it removed permanently?

[@xDjembex]

That was a weather type for that specific event.

[@sierra1513]

Ignore the previous reply, there's a bug with certain times of day, they will return when it's fixed

[@robertharris6092]

​@@xDjembex it was litersly available between theclast 2 events.

[@NicoIvanMedina]

@@sierra1513 thanks! We just started playing again and we were not seeing that map.

[@atariplayer3686]

Thanks for the update, btw that is one killer beard David 😉

[@denztrojan]

In vain I hoped that for level 100 prestige they would give something truly epic

[@brucekhamp6859]

Prestige 100 should get more, yeah. A unique nameplate would be kinda cool as well

[@Daminionz]

agreed. most of us already got buncha hunters to choose from, and buncha weps to choose from. aint prob never picking that wep/hunter anyway. seems like a bit of a pointless reward. Could've rewarded your most loyal players with like 1k BBs or something at least....

[@eurghunner]

@@Daminionz Especialy given that the Prestige 100 hunter is just a tier 3 redesign

[@RecklessSatyr]

Bro I am mad that everyone just gets the trial skins for free too. As a prestige 100 I did everything the game had to offer. And now I gain a skin from a tutorial which I didn't even play once. It's kinda a slap to the face for every OG that grinded to prestige 100 before easy mode

[@MrMozkoZrout]

Oh i kinda expected them to rework the prestige system like they promised a while ago. Like kinda changing how it works or adding some more features to it to freshen each of your playthroughs, offer some unique customisable content or whatever. But nah they left the prestige the same only stuffed it with rewards from trials and skins of tier 1 hunters lol. good job

[@bigfatgaming5795]

YES! Finally I won't be seeing prestige level 2 anymore lol. Only quit prestiging because wildcard hasn't come back. But with ammo being unlocked immediately I'm gonna prestige for sure.

[@ivanivanov9734]

Я один заметил что они как бы невзначай заспойлерили новую карту ? По крайней мере обозначили биом, я так понял это хвойный лес, что то типа Алан Вейка или Твин Пикс.

[@Robert77robert]

после твоего коммента задумался) на 3:26 особо видно. а может мы это и сами придумали:)

[@ivanivanov9734]

@@Robert77robert Задний фон для охотников и оружия тоже хвойный лес, 3:04

[@Vega_Claymore]

Уже слили скрины Да так оно и есть

[@Verweijmart]

Hooray New hunters are coming!!! I hope they make it possible to unlock the special event Hunters like Lulu and Plague doctor, that would be fantastic!

[@waffle43-ic]

Please let us toggle lower weapon from hold q to press q

[@Daminionz]

this needs many more upvotes. very good suggestion.

[@Metha_59]

Q swaps your weapon though so like in csgo

[@elegant9973]

@@Metha_59 if you have the Gunslinger" aiming style, Q brings down your weapon while in "Hunter" Q switches your main weapons

[@danielp.kwochka]

as someone who doesn't prestige, I am so happy I finished the trials before this change. Imagine not being able to unlock very basic skins (the trial reward skins) without prestiging...

[@DanteX3M]

Rareness? For what? Is is this a mobile game now?

[@tomiik5195]

With their monetization, it certainly does look like it is.

[@ruanclaudio4719]

I don't think the high prestige people would like the idea at all, but I would find it interesting if there was a "wipe" on the prestige levels. Or the option for players to reset their prestige on their own.

[@High_Sea]

Will we be refunded for BB hunters that are already purchased if the price for them goes down?

[@mompfreed.]

Probably not, this is not how Crytek acts on BBs anymore

[@marcesser4218]

I mean, did you get a discount on your car, if the factory drops the prices one year after you bought it?

[@Daminionz]

It'd be nice for them to let everyone know month in advance which will go up/down in pricing.

[@seriousmike90]

@@Daminionz They still have to make money - they are no charity. This would be absolutely stupid

[@High_Sea]

@@marcesser4218 Cars depreciate in value over time, not sure what would make virtual content do the same.

[@RudyTheNinja]

Ammos should of stayed locked, I really like the progression. Unlocking ammo felt like an accomplishment It also stopped them from being spammed. And now it's going to be a requirement to run some sort of custom ammo in every game :/ All you had to do was code so you only get those missions if you have the ammo unlocked. Or just removed those so it doesn't matter how you dealt poison/fire

[@WiseRiley]

Very cool updates, but honestly UI looks even more cluttered now, everything menu is even BIGGER now and still with tons of sub-menus… :(

[@slomnim]

I think they'll be able to edit the menus faster now, I read the old was was coded in some depreciated formatting system

[@swap3813]

Rarity over legendaries, what a shame. Random names is so much better for recruiting hunters, new blood always comes for the hunt, now it’s just same old same old. Some changes are nice but feels more directed toward those who don’t want to experiment with different weapons to unlock ammo variants, why is that? Playing different weapons toward special ammo and variant is part of the hunt experience, why does this update makes it so boring?

[@senecaaurel8050]

I have to say something about the last video regarding the cheater/hacker section because I didn't comment on the video because I only saw the video a few days later. But as someone who comes from rainbow six siege and has years of experience fighting cheaters, I have to say that it's almost impossible to tell that someone is cheating/hacking in hunt showdown. Only with the most obvious cheaters is that possible. Unfortunately, there are many who don't make it obvious. And it's not our responsibility to keep our gaming experience cheat-free. It's your responsibility. Even with replay functions, you have to watch some cheaters for minutes to see that they can see through walls or use soft/hard aimbots. Unfortunately, not all cheaters are obvious and want their account banned. Even if that's almost never the case with even the most obvious cheaters. As someone who loves Hunt Showdown and plays as fairly as possible, even in solo runs I often form a team with another solo player after our gunfight, I don't ignite most of the opponents because I find the feature too frustrating, and I write a "gg wp" on the corpses in the chat because the gunfight was really fun. I think if something is suspicious I report the opponent and hope that YOU DEVELOPER get to the bottom of it to see whether this person is cheating or not.

[@senecaaurel8050]

oh and one more thing. why should I waste my time watching my opponent and checking if he is cheating when you should have people who are paid for it. I just want to have a good time with friends and enemies in a fair game

[@opossums-will-sing]

Respectfully, why do you care? If, as you say, it is difficult to distinguish a cheater from a legitimate skilled player, how does it affect your game? I'd understand if you were encountering spinbots or getting killed at spawn or something, but I think the witch-hunting is silly. I ask this as someone who's never cheated. I have 1.2kd, I'm 4*, I hit very few of my shots. I get called a cheater constantly in-game and have pages upon pages of abuse on my Steam profile. Maybe just play the silly cowboy game?

[@senecaaurel8050]

@@opossums-will-singRespectfully, WOW 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 I'm sorry that you don't understand why people don't want to play with cheaters and call it a witch hunt. It isnt like its not against TOS or immoral or fair play in general 🤡 Sounds like you got a way bigger problem then cheating in a game that you maybe like if you dont understand this 🤡🤡🤡 Wow🤯🤯🤯 I feel very sorry for you . But with this comment you lost all your privileges to talk with me ever again. I still wish you a nice day and I'm shure you will have many of those alone statisitikley, because of this bigger problem you have 😓😫😵💀

[@Lieutenant_Dude]

My man! That’s what I wanted to hear! Retroactive prestige rewards for those of humus who already did a lot of prestiging.

[@ieajackson5518]

I really don’t see the need for having different “rarity levels”…. It’s not Fortnite. Seems silly.

[@sakusaiyan]

Agreed. :P

[@blckdrgn21]

It just allows them to price hunters according to how much work goes into their design. Cheaper for base hunters while more elaborate hunters will be more (not sure what "more" is yet)

[@Dysktm]

So hunter who are less visible can be more expensive, bad change imo

[@DanteX3M]

Yeay! Hunt for kids! :D

[@OGoutbackgames]

@@Dysktmit won’t matter if you hit your shots ;)

[@luskydaaxeman4190]

The presitge system is so close to greatness now. All we need is to be able to choose free random legendary on all levels not currently occupied by a different reward

[@downersun]

where is gameplay?

[@Nobody-dl4tm]

Nice, i like these overall quality of life changes. The individual rookie hunter progression sounds like fun too

[@filiplmao]

Thank you, appreciate the changes❤

[@KornbreadTV]

I like the new direction, BUT.. I’m starting to hate special ammo. It’s cool sometimes, but constantly being set ablaze, poisoned, etc. just gets annoying. I mainly see poison every single game and with the nerf to Antidote Shots it a turn off and I get bored after a couple of games. Hopefully it goes back to skill and not dependent on ammo. Although, with that being said I don’t see an issue with High Velocity or FMJ because you actually have to hit your shots for those to matter. Just my thoughts..

[@MrMozkoZrout]

Yeah custom ammo is a bit too prevalent and also kinda mandatory now as it's basically just a straight upgrade in most situations. It also kind doubles the price of some weapons and also everything got more expensive while rewards from games aren't the best. The game had some weird shift in meta and economy for sure

[@KornbreadTV]

@@MrMozkoZrout - I don’t mind it being in the game, but is should be balanced better. I think if special ammo costed a lot more or was only found in raid would be an awesome balancing factor. At least when it comes to Dum Dum and Poison ammo because those two are basically meta at this point. Then again, I stay in 4-5 stars so I don’t know what the 6 Star sweaty boys deal with on a day to day basis..

[@minecraftace123]

Playable John Showdown!

[@SidewaysGts]

Looks great Please please please let us save favorite health bar load outs though. One of the more tedious aspect of setting up a new hunter is always having to change their health bars to the set up i like. Im super glad we can do it for free now, but i feel *most* of us tend to set our health bars up the same way every game- and have to adjust every new hunter we get to what we like. Or at a minimum, lets be real since this is what most people do anyways: Just set it to 4 small bars by default, and let players customize from there.

[@Spaghetti_Yeti_001]

what if youre lvl 100 and have finished all trials as well, will we get random legendary drops instead?

[@BigChimpEnergy]

It appears so. He said all the rewards are retroactive and that there will be ones every 5 levels so if you're P100 you should be getting a legendary for hitting P15, P35, P45, P55, P65, P75, P85 and P95.

[@fourblossoms]

hmm i fear we won't get anything extra other than our own satisfaction that we did the trials

[@FirekingBarong]

@@fourblossoms You basicly get the BB's twice, that should be enough value, considering BB's are expensiv.

[@Daminionz]

@@FirekingBarong Why would you get BB's twice? Trials are getting removed. If you don't do them now for the rewards that's it. There will be no double trial BB reward, where'd you get that from?

[@multeyemeteor]

Most of the updates are great, but I mainly want to know about gameplay. I would love for you guys to tell us about the new engine, the new map, and anything else that is more directly gameplay related (are we getting new AI, a new boss, new game modes, private servers etc.). Cool UI and recruitment system, absolutely. I also love that you guys are messing around with the prestige system, although I honestly miss having to unlock things and having it be a challenge. Nowadays, it seems like there's nothing really to work towards throughout my prestiging, and it seems like that's going to be even more the case, now that we just have all special ammo unlocked. I sort of miss the time, where 80% of the shots you took weren't some sort of "elemental damage". But I digress. Generally, it's mostly lovely... but it's just not what I want to hear about the most right now.

[@liquidsnake.7008]

So far everything thats coming to this game is extremely well good looking! These changes are much needed and will keep the game going! Really looking forward to how the game looks on ps5 with the engine upgrade! Hope it looks and lives to the hype

[@maegnificant]

extremely well for consoles, meh for pc

[@liquidsnake.7008]

@@maegnificant that's what i mean 😉

[@AmazingBreadEdits]

@@maegnificantit will be fine chill

[@django8451]

Finally some anti-aliasing for plebs

[@maegnificant]

@@AmazingBreadEdits it will be better overall, but I really wished they wouldn't go so hard for the console crowd.

[@GordaoSemFuturo]

Also... ALSO! Make skins with appearence for all variations of the same weapon. PLEASE!

[@Revament]

Is it possible to get specific voices to specific skins to give them more character during a match?

[@sammytriesommertree6810]

I think that's not possible. If you hear a death scream it should not be possible knowing which hunter exactly died only if it is male or female so they won't do that. But I for myself would appreciate that, too. 😁

[@Revament]

​@@sammytriesommertree6810 I get your point, it would be crucial in some moments but more fun because of the realism.

[@Revament]

@HopelesslyCritical Cool things usually do :/

[@Revament]

@HopelesslyCritical 😂

[@Frostile]

HOLY! Finally! I can see weapon progression without having to move to a completely different tab! LETS GO!!! Also I think the new way of aquiring hunters and the survivor into veteran system looks amazing!

[@NeFjuS]

The menu now is more fitted to console then to PC imo.

[@ieajackson5518]

And even then, it’s still not good for console either.

[@skycrown7083]

more posts this month from the team then we have seen sense the games inception. gj hunt team.

[@Lukystrike1996]

Please bring the opportunity to play on a private server

[@dancombs5220]

This has been my personal most sought-after feature since well before launch

[@racialconsciousness7169]

Giving out the trial rewards for everybody is really cheap.

[@gambiit08]

ugh the ui looks like its gonna be annoying on PC. it is a carbon copy of call of duty, and looks so console-y

[@draxil9513]

If you've already finished the trials, do the rewards essentially double when they get added to the prestige system?

[@russellbaker7579]

I'd like the ability to "prestige reset" after level 100.

[@messiahmozgus]

Madness

[@kingshakurARG]

@@messiahmozgus nonsense.

[@ChaoticusCosmos]

Lookin Good! Let's keep cookin

[@LeoMaruri]

Dumbing down the game with every update