Giving Crytek Feedback - Scorched Earth Event Review - Hunt Podcast

[@PsychoghostGaming]

As mentioned in the intro: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6PNZ2R5rJKmaqs&ab_channel=PsychoghostGaming-Reviews The Survey (will expire soon): www.surveymonkey.com/r/QX22LRZ Enjoy :)

[@lorenzvo5284]

Hi Mike you forgot to put your PC Specs into the Description :D

[@MidnightDemonz]

New PC spec's where?

[@fragglerone2363]

We want Specs!

[@dalius6927]

where PC spec's?

[@unrealone1]

May be Crytek could look at Steam reviews? For feedback ideas?

[@Eassstt]

I'm thrilled to give Crytek all this data, just so they can happily go ahead and draw the completely wrong conclusions from it ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@countdhoun]

You know the gif that shows a paper being printed only to have it fall from the printer directly into the paper shredder? Sometimes it do feel like that.

[@Sylisioh94]

Like always yeah...

[@Tewan.]

Nah, just select one of the lower hours played options like 0-49 or 50-99 since they obviously ignore/disregard veteran player feedback.

[@CaffeinatedFrostbite]

yeah. My responses wont mean much because other people might rate it the same way for a completely different reason.

[@Infinitynova]

@@Tewan.clearly true because why remove elevator roof? Like that was no issue.

[@RazzleTheRed1]

I hope they put the packmule's Lawful effect on vulture, now that anyone can loot dead hunters it's kind of a useless perk. Sure gaining money always is something, but something that could actually have an effect in the match like giving some extra ammo from looting would make the perk worth taking again.

[@kevinicus77]

This is a perfect suggestion, and I hope someone at Crytek sees it.

[@alvarocattani1323]

So going back to early access and loot ammo from hunters

[@MrOrdosan]

when I saw they were removing the rule of 3 I 100% thought they were gonna put the ammo thing on vulture since lawful vulture had ammo on it in the LAST event... making it give money is nice for weaker players...but it does NOTHING for players that already have the money.

[@UskaSermo]

This is actually a really good suggestion. I hope they do this. It's been tested and proven not to be OP while being useful and becomes especially viable with specific loadouts. I'd love to see it added in the game permanently!

[@CptTomGaming]

That would be a good addition, I would still recommend taking vulture though if your in need of some extra cash. I ran it the other night and got close to an extra 700 hunt dollars from looting players. After that match Im always running it now lol

[@Vezrabuto]

i loved the new challenge system just not the actual challenges, just like you said. it was pain seeing the same guns for days on end. make them random again but keep the system of them staying active for the full event

[@CptTomGaming]

Yea I agree, the only nice thing about it is that you and the people you are playing with can collectively work together and complete challenges. An example of how they could fix this though is instead of saying "1500 damage with a krag" changing it to "1500 damage with a rifle" that way maybe everyone want be as likely to run the same gun for a week straight lol.

[@Vezrabuto]

@@CptTomGaming its that or they do something other games do. i play melee Battle royale called naraka whoch also has weeklies. the way they do it is give you a very specific challenge something like "deal 30,000 damage with this character" but then they add a second challenge to the first one thats like "deal 50,000 damage with Musket and/or Katana". so that way you can do either or, you dont like the character they want you to play? then just play with the weapons. In Hunt this could look like "deal 1000 damage with any Krag variant or deal 2000 damage with any pistol"

[@ibrosyndicate]

@@Vezrabuto "Today's challenge, get 1 kill while running the Mosin and Dolch precision"

[@milliontimesunique]

Please do the video on Vanilla Hunt. I'm interested in your perspective and you pull enough weight in the community to remind Crytek not to forget about everyday balance. Tweaking those numbers is important for baseline enjoyment just as much if not more than new features and events are.

[@deman9090]

TRUUUUUUUUUUE

[@maximusest40kwarfare73]

hunt was pretty much vanilla for like 4 years it wont keep the player base or expand it staying vanilla for more than a few weeks at a time, nearly every game out there has seasons or constant events, yes very high mmr players like vanilla but that doesn't account for most the player base, also games need to progress and going back to vanilla just makes people loose interest, games been out almost 7 years things change, all events do is add a middle a few pacts and some stuff to unlock its really not much different. Its base game plus again i think its more higher mmr sweaty lobbies that hate events and again, that's not the main player base, that's my opinion btw. after 7 years i think tweaking has been done to death but i see you point to a degree, just not at the expense of fun events, again just my opinion, the game industry has evolved and hunt just isn't big enough to go go vanilla for months a time like it did after SOOO many years. also they need to bring weather back , its hunt, what hunters cant hunt in actual weather conditions? game has so much variety and atmosphere with them, and make people actually adapt and man, its mixes things up Its a company, they dont make much money of vanilla hunt, they need to get paid too, and the game needs to not stagnate, hope you are well however i do kind of understand some of your concerns, im not here to antagonise, and i play hunt ALOT. But well constructed statement its refreshing to see . ( btw weapon's catch should ALWAYS be on the game as this guy keeps saying, that would help both our point of views to a degree ) Again though i do see some of your concerns, it did go from slow events to fast very quick, but i like it.

[@milliontimesunique]

@@maximusest40kwarfare73 oi, you had a lot to say, and you did, which is absolutely fine. Just wanted to briefly state that I did not and don't speak out against events. What I would like to see addressed is that new and powerful stuff should not serve as a numbing agent for a crumbling basis. And the basis to each and every event is Vanilla Hunt - and it deserves some love from Crytek right now. That's just my humble opinion.

[@Ki115witch]

The question about visual fidelity was about the graphics quality, not visual clarity. At least that's how I understood it.

[@SproutFarms]

Visual Fidelity would be both. Separate fields would have been a bit more clear here.

[@jakubkozelka9928]

I think that how the could balance the burning is by limiting the amount of burned bars to certain consumables. So lets say you burn a body with flare pistol or flares - then the burning body only burns till one healthbar is burned. Some consumables could burn one health bar, some two and some could set the body on fire as normal rn. Some consumables could also deal different amount of burned damage - logically flare will deal less damage than lantern.

[@Spirit_1807]

Or just having 2 different burn speeds: When the body is burning and when the body actually lays in a fire

[@Peagaporto]

​@@Spirit_1807Much better solution

[@M0DIDDLY]

Honestly, Hunt was just fine for the 5+ years before they let flares and fusees burn people. Crytek have made so many changes that have all been based around trying to solve the problem that they caused with solo necromancers. Having to take firebombs or find lanterns used to be a huge part of the game, and now it's just pull out the flare and insta burn.

[@UskaSermo]

​​@@M0DIDDLY I gotta agree with you on this one. I was genuinely perplexed as to why did they go full Pyro on this even though they changed the solo necro. The necro change in general was enough as a standalone fix across the board, putting pressure on the enemy team by burning bodies was never the problem to begin with - and in fact made for a more tactical and engaging gameplay when you needed to work for it a bit - and THAT in itself used to be a mechanic that provided opportunities to break a stalemate when one of the enemies has to go look for a lantern. What the ridiculous burn speed does now, is that most times I just ignore the burn entirely - there’s nothing I can do about it anyway 90% of the time. Chokes are laughable as a counter now. By the time I've repositioned for a new angle after tossing a choke the body is on fire again. Why bother then? I'm way better off not exposing myself and revealing my position by trying something, and try to solo the enemy team while my teammate gets bored to death and leaves the match cause they don’t want to waste 20 minutes of game time suffering that muffled echoy droning sound effect you get after burning out. They might as well use the time to fit a new hunter while I die or leave the match so I can join them for a new game bc that gets us more enjoyable gameplay faster...

[@Pablo-V]

My biggest pet peeves with this event is just two things that you mentioned: 1. All new new equipment got no skins coming together in the battlepass. Why? That's such a big change considering new stuff is logically the stuff that's gonna have no skins at all. 2. Challenges being the same for everybody while being *too* specific just made it so some weeks were just like "okay I need to equip salveskin because everybody is using incendiary long ammo (Krag)". Like sure, it's okay to have challenges that are "deal X damage with Y ammo", that's okay, but having specific weapons show up just "forces" people to not have any variety in their loadouts. We had Krag week, we had Centennial week, we had Mosin week. These are just not fun. Just turn them all into "Kill enemy Hunters with rifles" (or any other weapon type).

[@PsychCow]

You know why... They want to see if by not giving legendary skins for new guns in the battle pass more people buy a skin for them when they drop it later. I suspect they've been disappointed with skin sales on new guns and are blaming the battle pass skins.

[@Pablo-V]

@@PsychCow Oh yeah I 100% can tell it HAS to be because of that, just that it's so scummy IMO when the battlepass already makes you "pay" for stuff

[@yefremjr]

I don't understand the challenge idea at all. How are same challenges for everyone better than random ones we had awhile ago?

[@PsychCow]

@@yefremjr it's nice being able to do them with your friends. It was not nice week 1 trying to kill immodaddy at the same time as everyone else. Overall I think it's more good than bad. Especially letting us do them even after a weeks gone by.

[@yefremjr]

@@PsychCow if you play with friends you can ask each other to help with your "personalized" challenges yeah, challenges staying for weeks is cool, especially for someone who does not play regularly enough, like myself

[@Kaiser0hmega]

Hiya, Psycho! I wanted to chime in for a moment regarding 2:15 and the "Egyptian theme" not fitting in the lore : There's a faction called the 'Sinners' of which there is extremely little information. The origin of these Sinners come from the Middle-East and they renounce every form of possession, even going so far as to reject their very identity. Some examples that refer to this can be found in the Nitro skin Sinner's Prayer, the Twitch-drop skin Sinner's Sinew for the bow and the Serpent Moon legendary Hunter, the Viper. The chapter in which the Viper was introduced also slightly elaborated on the Sinners, but alas those chapters are now lost to history. And the Sinner's Prayer skin has been in the game since Day 1. Hope this little lore-dump brightened your day a bit, just as your streams and vids brighten mine!

[@kazeem6419]

@@Kaiser0hmega Jesus the cope xD

[@Mr_Hoppykwins]

@@kazeem6419 What about this is cope? its literally just the lore of the game.

[@DankyKang396]

the game still has performance issues. stutters, frame drops, certain compounds (Graystone pit) degrades the performance so bad i dont even go there. not to mention how throwing a few fuses or flares destroys everyone's performance. i normally get around 110 fps in hunt (120 fps without performance issues before the relaunch) but going into certain areas drops it all the down to 40 - 50 fps. like, thats a crazy performance dip.

[@neten643]

got the same problem with Grizzly Lodge. It looks stunning and I love the atmosphere of this compound but damn... the ~70 fps drop is unbearable.

[@TheIronpusher]

What we know for fact is that different system configurations got different issues, some no issues at all.

[@Kuson2]

Really wish more people were talking about this, the game runs AWFUL on my system now, so bad in fact that I just gave up playing altogether until something is improved. Getting 145+ FPS with random dips into the 20's sometimes for over a minute at a time is unacceptable.

[@F3r3wulf]

@@Kuson2 I also experience odd framedrops. But to add on this, it does not matter if i play on low or high settings! So something strange is def. going on with the performance! And as nice as it is that they add upscaling, it makes the game way to blurry. i remedy with the amd driver sharpening, but still it does not look as crisp as i would like.

[@pulsewolf]

My friend with a 4090 was even getting dips when we played last. The update performance is horrible.

[@demonEyeAccidentally]

Bruh I finally got back into the game yesterday, with a welcome screen telling me I missed all the fun :’). That Ui killed it just because my ADHD couldn’t let me re-learn and I fell back onto my old games like Evil Dead:TG, Don’t Starve, ect.

[@HuntShowdownLab]

Steel bolts should pen wood.

[@melontoast2567]

thin plywood perhaps, not sure about posts and fences though. Plus its a larger projectile like a bomblance bolt.

[@HuntShowdownLab]

@@melontoast2567 agreed. Basically in line with compact or medium ammo.

[@limonero8757]

Yeah, same pen as compact ammo

[@trading_shadows]

I love it how the egyptian bow connects with a hunter skin from the pale moon event.

[@jackblack4368]

Pale moon event?

[@JBXXR]

serpent moon?

[@trading_shadows]

@@JBXXR yep, sorry, did not care much on the name.

[@empty5013]

kinda shocked beetles and trap buffs aren't mentioned, they are insanely powerful now and very frustrating to fight against most people don't bring them but a trio with 12 fire beetles and long ammo is the most annoying and frustrating thing I've had to deal with in this game, worse than concertina campers. i wouldn't call it op but it's not healthy and imo people will be doing it more and more over time

[@walmart-vz3lz]

Just get good

[@MentorX14]

Thats a huuge problen in my opinion. Spam and not needing to aim gets way to much pushed currently as neccesary.

[@epicfailscmback1184]

@@MentorX14 youre right hunt maw down is realy a problem :D but i abuse it to.

[@Sulphyrous]

We have a whole perk that can help you see the traps and only costs 1 point. Every hunter you recruit gets spare points, even the free hunters can trade their perk for vigilant if you struggle with traps that much in your games. The solution is there but nobody wants to take it.

[@MentorX14]

@@Sulphyrous And its still a mess even with Vigilant. You dont have the time to go SV mid-fight just to memorize the 12 beartraps the enemy team placed in the lair. Which are 6 possible ways to die. Not to mention the random placed traps on caravans or other points of interest. The game gets faster from update to update and you simply dont have the time or chance to blind yourself with SV while scanning for traps. And this shit even just takes one slot unlike the old Conc/poisen trap combo.. Make it do 70 dmg and its fine

[@HYDRARMOR]

When I saw Egyptian skins in the game, lack of performance improvements, awful balancing decisions I realized that Hunt is no longer for me. Very sad about that I've been playing since alpha. But your videos are fire, Mike! 🌟

[@TheSkynaut]

Keep in mind that the people doing the skins arent the same people that work on performance and balancing. Even if they wouldnt do the skins your other points arent gonna improve from that. Cant expect an artist to build a house :D

[@HYDRARMOR]

@@TheSkynaut I totally understand! I mean the combination of issues all in one moment led me to go away from the title.

[@kazeem6419]

@@TheSkynaut I'm so sick of this cope/excuse. No one who says this is telling the art department to work on bug fixes.... Ultimately what gets worked on is in cryteks hands. Do you think the see comments about performance issues ect... And say "oh jeez we'd love to fix this issue guys but we've employed too many concept artist and not enough programers and coders. Sorry" It's ridiculous

[@Grenthor_The_Mighty]

I feel absolutely butt naked without vigilant anymore. For ONE trait point you can save your team or yourself from dying to a tool slot item

[@WiIza_]

Damn this video was the first time I've been flash bombed in a long while :D

[@Orbis92]

Still better than the Tarkov survey: "Do you like Arena?" and there are four different "Yes" options and a single "No, and I'm not planing to play it"... xD

[@rykeinc2606]

Hey Mike, like always great video. I agree with almost all of your opinions and conclusions, logically not with everything, because I play 90 % with my premates. All in all the event was satisfying and the new map is great, with some exceptions.. And like you said, it´s more like seasons now, no more "Events". And it´s fine for me, because vanilla hunt is no longer attractive at the moment because of some ridiculous fails in balancing by Crytek. And what I think is, that all the events of the last 2 years turned out, that the healthbar restoration is NOT OP during the events.. so f.e. if they wanna hold onto the damn fast burnspeed, just keep the sealed cache for vanilla hunt.. maybe just for the sealed med-kit, would be enough.. or decrease the options for burning hunters, there is enough stuff with lamps and firebombs, maybe trip-mines (because hard to place during fight, and you have to shoot on it, if you dont wanna lose a (small) bar), but no longer with the flare(guns).. and now we have the bear traps, that make it no longer necessary to burn every guy instantly (killed so many solos on their necro with just two beartraps).. and like always, crytek cannot nerf the chokebombs, while buffing the burning speed at the same time - it has to be a fine-tune thing... it happens so often, that you dont have the time/chance, to choke your mate.. and if the chokecloud stops burning, but does not encase your hunter, the next flare burns you 2 seconds later.. it is so frustrating in teams.. LBNL: there are so many trades now in shortrange fights, more than ever before - really dissapointing, like in no other pvp game (ok, it´s another topic, but worth to mention).. As you were! We love you! Great content, great guy, thanks Mike!

[@black.phonix]

Oh no, I missed the survey :( I always wondered, when they would do their survey and thought they would say it on steam somewhere. Now I missed it. I wouldve loved to say them, that I miss the lore including reading a bit in the book of monsters and also some other stuff.. Edit: Just saw they did do a news thing on steam. It was only 5 days ago, why did they already close the survey?!!

[@PsychCow]

Anyone else notice we only got 600 bb back from the battlepass instead of 700?

[@RimHellworth]

On the challenges being the same it’s pretty nice because if you cue with randoms then yall would likely be going for the same challenge making random cue better for challenges

[@picko11123]

I would absolutely love surefoot to be in the game full time but without the solo part. Sprinting while cooking/healing is really fun without being busted. I’d still take it if it cost 6-8 trait points

[@its_thms]

Great point at the end. Hunt was and is my main go to game to play with friends for almost two years now. The changes and the insta burning when a mate or I gets downed is really frustrating at times. As you also mentioned, I don't care about getting burned when playing solo but at the moment it destroys fun evenings with friends which is very sad.

[@UskaSermo]

Crytek is such a bipolar game company. It short-circuits my brain trying to figure out how the hell are they able to bake the single best thing I've ever tasted in my life but make it out of nuclear sewage and asbestos.

[@UskaSermo]

That being said, a rant: I'm happy with the event overall, new map and new boss is enough content for a season by me. I like the carbine and most gun things they did, the xbow and bolts are funny but so niche it's literally whatever. The engine update made the game unplayable for my computer, but luckily I can play with my housemate's setup. I had no performance issues at launch but now after the event the game suddenly became like a car with a transmission jam. I slide and jank all over place, get stuck in assets and sometimes straight up teleport into random direction. Sometimes I can't melee shit even if the AI model is literally blocking my movement, and tools and bullets randomly just fly straight through the models without doing anything. Frame drops at compound borders cost me fights too, and idk if anyone else is miffed about this one, but if I aggro hives up or downstairs from me the swarms often just fly straight through the floor which feels so unfair bc u can't trust solid objects to block them anymore while you might not have access to deal with the hive either. I can’t say how many pvp situations have gotten ruined for me by this thing alone in the past month or so. By 3k+ hrs in the game there's so many skins I don’t even care anymore, I'm only interested in skins for equipment that don’t have any... The burn speed though is absolutely stupidly too much. Its become a mechanic that has basically no viable counters and dictates loadouts, tactics, pvp engagement - everything. You’re just objectively doing things wrong if you're not instaburning everything and what they ever stood for as soon as you get the chance. It was already unacceptably bad when they patched it in and they've just kept adding fuel to the fire (pun very much intended). Same with the rng buffs that only undermine fair skill play. It's a cope that ultimately benefits no one while making the experience worse for everyone. Also agree with you about Gasworks and Terminus and your points about the other compounds in general. Pitching, though... I just straight up leave the match these days if its pitching, even if I would make it there first. It's such an absolute garbage compound I even mentally check out watching streams and sometimes switch to another streamer in hopes of not having to experience another pitching fight. You don’t want to be in the lair, you don't want to leave the lair, you don’t want to push the lair, and if you're not a professional bushwookie or a rat sniper, you don’t want to camp the lair either because nothing happens for you either until the teams leave the compound... The only thing you can really do that doesn't put you at some kind of a boring or stupid disadvantage, is to stay out and hope you can intercept on the way out the poor soul who decides to pick up the bounty, or pull your campers into a yo-yo if you have the misfortune of having the pitching bounty. Somehow nothing works in practice there even if it looks good on paper. And deleting the roof over the elevator is just adding insult to injury... My car won't start so you changed the window wipers? Jesus christ, are you even a mechanic? For all I care they could blow up the entire compound into a big crater and put Immochad there permanently - and that would still make it a better compound. About the spear next: I don't think a single soul disagrees the spear is way OP. There's no reason to ever pick any other tool unless you just want to have some variety once in a while at the objective cost of functionality. Balance wise it feels like crytek has a weird over-the-top kind of kink. It's almost never a reasonable adjustment, instead they either do everything short of deleting the thing or maximize the effect to the point it becomes the only option you can do in the game anymore. Tbh it blows my mind no-one at the company doesn’t push the brakes over these changes during playtest since once it hits the live servers it often is so immediately and egregiously obvious how broken they are. Like, the spear and the burning are perfect examples. The very first time I ever used the spear I instantly though "holy shit, this just made every other melee tool and weapon in the game entirely obsolete - this can’t be intentional, right?" Except apparently it is intentional since they've done next to nothing to address it although it's such a glaring and uniformly agreed upon balance issue. Same with the fire: I believe it's been two patches since they changed it? Even before it launched it was obvious to the majority of the player base this is gonna get out of hand - which it did, more so than anyone could anticipate - and what did Crytek do? Make it progressively more problematic each patch.

[@UskaSermo]

Thank you for your attention, it was nice to blow off some steam. I shall make my exit now. Have a pleasant day!

[@orka5352]

4:00 yeah i think that is why the weekly challenges were AWESOME. I loved that it forced everyone to play the same weapons for a bit but mainly when it was a non meta weapon. If a challenge was do 1000 damage with nagant precisions then I think we would have had funnier and more enjoyable weirder matches. I think the new challenge system is way better and a lot of the challenges were unique like killing water devils with tools was cool. I wish that the weapon damage challenges picked weapons that weren't played very much instead of mosins or krag and maybe picking bomb lances or bow poison arrows. They should pick weirder off meta weapons for those unique challenges (like damage with bug bombs)

[@friendlyplayer92]

Full agree! I dont understand why they picked long ammo guns for "challenges", makes no sense. Its not a challenge lol

[@seanp8815]

Shear foot is why I started playing hunt again. The lighter foot steps finally made it competitive for a solo console player to push or defend boss lair’s.

[@CptTomGaming]

I'll be honest I wasn't overly impressed with the battle pass. Kind of what you mentioned with the skins not matching with the theme. Like the weapon skins for all the shotguns were like a jungle camo...which didn't really match with the "scorched earth theme" and the Egyptian stuff, although a really cool and detailed skin, what in the world did that have to do with Colorado lol. All the past battle passes seemed to have a theme and follow it. This one just seemed like they were pulling whatever reserve skins they had out of there hat and throwing them together. Just my opinion though

[@kazeem6419]

@@CptTomGaming yes it definitely felt (to me) like they just had some skins laying about and threw them in the battle pass. Honestly that whole engine re-launch was an absolute disaster.

[@ericschalalala4940]

I thought the event was alright however there wasn't really anything new. The only real addition was that you can complete challenges even after their initial week which is good. But similar to you I don't like challenges that involve playing a certain gun such as the Krag because you hardly see anything else that week. I also remember the Romero challenge which drove me nuts and nearly made me uninstall the game because of how unreliable that 1-shot shotgun is. In general I'm not a big fan of locking new weapons behind events because sometimes you have to wait 2-3 weeks before you can play the new stuff. I would much rather prefer an update without an event once in a while which introduces new weapons (spear doesn't count imo). And with the next event already around the corner I fear that event fatigue is starting to set in soon. And also with how few time there is between events there isn't really any time to react to feedback/criticism.

[@M0DIDDLY]

I did the survey, and was actually pretty mad that they didn't ask any actual questions like "How do you feel about the burn changes, flare guns, spear, rule of 2 looting change" ect. Things that are currently keeping me from playing the game. Also Crytek, stop giving every gun every type of special ammo. Honestly at this point, I'd like to see like half of them more limited to only 2 at most.

[@xornedge8204]

I’m all for country representation in Hunt. I’m Brazilian so there will probably never be a Brazilian character in the game(cause Brazil didn’t have an identity separate from Portugal for a long time) but I loved the Bow skin and see no reason to keep the game as just one demographic. Heck, we have Plague Doctors, Native American Indians, Samurai, Zombies and so on. And if you don’t even follow the lore I don’t see why be bothered by it. Its a cool looking skin that isn't pitch black so it can be somewhat easily seen in combat. Its a step in the right direction.

[@xornedge8204]

Also Sure Foot should become base kit. It would take the game and make it less ratty

[@huntermchuntface3904]

Isnt the Biatata a brazilian skin?

[@xornedge8204]

@@huntermchuntface3904 omg I didn’t even hear of that skin before, thank you!

[@herbg4866]

You could easily have a gaucho But I get his problem with the mummy The Chinese hunters are there because of the railroads Lore is what makes the game 1896

[@draxyboy]

As much as I love the Egyptian skins I do feel they are a step or two out of fitting in the world, hunt shines with how consistent it all feels.

[@DarthZombie510]

I have a feeling in some cases the questions push towards the confirmation bias of those who wrote them. Like they ask you how you like Mammon's Gulch right after individual compounds, subtly implying map's just about compounds, which is false. I LOVE the areas between compounds, like the mountain between la Plata and Split River, or the woods around Corn, etc. Very strange we didn't get a question about the tunnels either (i think they're awesome) as well.

[@BlackWing117]

This was the first time I couldn't get the bonus thing from the Battlepass, even though I completed all the weekly tasks and played for 2-3 hours at least every third day. I think the problem is that we were stuck in 3 star lobbies for the first couple weeks. The kind of lobbies where nothing happens and you might have one small fight in 30 minutes. Lobbies are still full, but everyone is passive.

[@zdazzle4748]

Hate to tell you but 6 star lobbies are just as passive since it’s just long ammo sniping and rotations. You gotta rush with shotguns/midrange into the boss lair if you want the action. That’s any star MMR

[@BlackWing117]

@@zdazzle4748 Yeah i know. 3 star is the same as 6 star, minus the headshots and tactics. For me the best lobbies are high 4 or low 5s, because everyone there is moving and fights are fast. (most of the time)

[@friendlyplayer92]

You can still grind bonus points. Always get the middle clue, kill special monsters etc etc. And play every day for the daily first dark tribute, it gives you 200 so 1400 per week alone. Takes like 2 matches

[@walczak9862]

I think its be cool if they did challenges like the early days of fortnite did with their passes by adding cool easter eggs around the maps that we have to go find or maybe a riddle indicating a certain compound. I think a community puzzle would be fun with everyone trying to solve each weeks puzzle or something. The challenges need to be more engaging than “use this gun”

[@christophs.3334]

They had a very unique shooter which was slow paced and the reason most of the community was playing it. But they now turning it into a more and more fast paced shooter like all the others on the market, but they dont realise that this is not the game the community wants. In 2 years they will have converted it into a new CoD and no one cares anymore about the game.

[@baronvongreenback]

They want a new community that's bigger so they can make more money from skins. As long as they grow they don't care who's playing, unfortunately.

[@TheNeoSabre0]

Love the new map just think some of the compounds are a little TOO big and dense, tie in the frame issues within boss lairs and I've essentially not stepped inside a boss lair in weeks.

[@bulbhead3333]

I have had 0 frame issues. It must be a platform optimization thing.

[@TheNeoSabre0]

@@bulbhead3333 on pc with a slightly above average setup

[@elcry1920]

that survey needs a text box at the end to give some feedback. Random circles about random things feels like a waste of time imo.

[@codyd7841]

At this point that option is just there whole Facebook

[@twd0997]

I had an idea and i posted it on reddit, idea was for egypt style hunter, but from Mummy 1999. I think OKonnel could fit right in with the hunters. After all, he is a kind of monster hunter himself since he fought a mummy! But they did just mymmy style skin(

[@Tyr4xx]

👍 thanks Mike, yes, additionally: the current burn speed is actually not only annoying, it is more or less "destructive" for the whole gameplay in teams. If you have to ready up a solo it is very nice, but this should definitely the focus of that balance...

[@foncareth7857]

you are so calm and profesional to give feedback holy moly !

[@Samichou3]

The player count is extremely low now. Before some of the big monetization changes, the removal of BB per match and other unpopular changes, concurrent player on steam would be 25-30k at most times. Now, I'll often log in to 6-7k people (at time of writing, 6300k) even at times where people usually play. I think they need a drastic course correction before the game dies. Especially after investing in engine upgrades and a new map. I barely play anymore, and I have close to 3000 hours. I don't see the point if I can't grind BBs. I'll play once or twice a week, put in my weekly missions and logout. They've removed any incentive for hardcore players. Most online games have some way to grind and unlock stuff.

[@friendlyplayer92]

This is very normal since event just ended. Ppl grinded and now take a break before next event.

[@englishcharacters]

@@friendlyplayer92it’s not. Concurrent before this event during a non-event period was 15-17k. This is the lowest average player count since 2021

[@kazeem6419]

@@friendlyplayer92 cope

[@TheSkynaut]

Loved to hear your feedback based on the survery. Would like more in the future.

[@isakjones5836]

Would be great if the crossbow steel bolts had a slower damage drop off so at range they did more damage even if up close they don't.

[@negative6442]

Other problem I have with Split River is the basement area has like no connections to the above area, you have to go out of your way to use it.

[@friendlyplayer92]

Its just a way to rotate safely

[@Heldenausbilder]

You can use the Dark Reader extension for Dark Mode everywhere ;) Good Video!

[@ryllli5149]

The weekly challenges are great for people like me, that dont have a lot o time to play, so when i play with my friends, we all get the same one to complete faster. Great change imo.

[@MrBeardedgelfling]

Pretty much agreed with you... big difference was on the compounds. My guess would be I'm a 3/4 star player (2 if I'm having a bad day lol). So how I play the game and my understanding of it will be different. I think the reason they did have a section to add your opinion in words, is down to the fact they just wouldn't have time to read them all - and it would also be quite hard to quantify all the opinions into an easy good/bad/ok sort of feed back. Also, I feel the Hunt team very much has their view of how they want the game to be and don't really care for your views on it. Like it or not play it or not. Hunt is what it is, and it's there vision - not ours. Of course I think they listen to the community to get feed back but I don't think they care all that much about our opinions beyond good/bad/ok on things they create. I could be wrong but from the dev video's I get a vibe they are making a game they want to make and if we also like it we can come along for the ride.

[@N3TH3RKOALA]

A bit frustrating to not see tools or consumable changes on the poll at all, particularly traps. I don't mind the idea of bear traps as a tool slot particularly much, though I do dislike them being objectively harder to see than the world spawn ones, that's a minor gripe. I do heavily dislike how powerful bear traps are right now. In my mind traps should be something that if you hit them, they put you in a position to be an easier kill, not outright kill you.

[@mpizarroar]

Sadly, Crytek, still don't know what questions to ask (rather what questions we would like them to ask us to give our honest opinion) or rather they avoid asking because they don't want to acknowledge the mistakes they have made. Btw, "challenges" should be namde as "tasks" and should be some kind of balance between the numbers of those tasks like it was before, you have 2 pve and 2 pvp, now if you suck at pvp you may get stuck for a long time on the same "challenge" (i suck at heatdshots, specially with the bullet drop so it take me a lot of matchs to complete)

[@benjaminmaier6682]

Okay I feel I need to defend the Berzerker and Ghoul Perks because when I first started playing the event those two perks in conjunction with Salveskin made the Hellborne trivial to kill. Add in a stam shot and you can get the Hellborne token and sprint out in 5 minutes or less(depending on the extraction location).

[@seapower2109]

I'm actually SO glad the "hidden cache" is gone. As a solo fighting against a trio with the bounty always felt terrible bc one guy without bounty can just run away and restore health bars for everybody which I would have basically no way of knowing it happened. Maybe if the cache actually moved around the map and the restoration was 2 marks instead of 1. I don't like health bar restoration overall bc unless you luckily hear the lighting effect you have no idea the person you downed twice is now back to full. Would be nice that the more times somebody has been down they would get covered in mud/blood, torn clothing, etc.

[@xmor1]

@17:15 the question about performance. When the event first started I was having no issues in US East. Whenever they released the patch though it became almost unplayable. My FPS went down by 25ish and my latency went from 32-42 to 100-108 with no changes to my system at all. As of the last week everything has seemed to be fixed for the msot part though. My latency is back down the only map that my frames dont seem as high is Stillwater but it wasn't by much. Performance on Mammons has been great this week for me though.

[@JokingRuby]

A good idea would be to give a restoration effect (or a "mini restoration effect) to a team when that team succeed in killing a whole other team. That would give credit to that achievment (which is the true difficulty of Hunt, bosses are just excuses to fight^^) AND it would motivate the players to keep on playins on the map. What do you think ?

[@Howjadoo22]

I love the Deadeye Crossbow and find it has some capabilities the standard doesnt. Steel Bolts i enjoy, but definitely use standard way more often.

[@MikiBruh]

18:45 Just wanted to let you know, Mike. Visual fidelity basically means ''how good does the game look''.

[@AlwaisGamer]

I think they don't give a place to type, cuz they think people gonna only rage talk to then

[@two_owls]

I think burning time is fine where it is, but would be ok with a slight increase. Nerfing the flare gun (by tying it to tool boxes instead of custom ammo), and buffing chokes by making 3 the default, would also balance things out considerably, imo

[@MrEisenhaupt]

36 min Psychoghost Video and I wear my sunglasses at Night 😎

[@maxtized5422]

wish they had an open field at the end like most surveys do that to catch more data you do not thought of when designing the questionnaire

[@PandaProhibited]

I'd actually like to see Surefoot come back as a regular perk. Obviously without the solo modifier.

[@robertgrad8604]

From what read of Some of the item decryptions, it seemed like the writers are trying to suggest that the plagues that "god set uppon egypt" in the Bible, is actually the same thing that is happening now in the american south. Whichi feel like is actually a pretty cool bit of lore if thats true.

[@TascoSweeney]

Hi Mike, what headphones do you use when playing Hunt?

[@Friday_WasTaken]

[@ExTremZero]

pairing them with the traps we already have makes them even more powerful, place the normal traps as bait so they defuse them but the beartrap can be inside a hunters body or any other shit that lies around on the map without you seeing it, if you dont run with the perk that you see traps in darksight

[@DarthZombie510]

If they buffed the traps, they should have never added it as a consumable. Worse is they're ridiculously easy to camouflage in dark corners, and on night maps they're literally invisible.

[@Friday_WasTaken]

@@DarthZombie510 sry dont understand? Added a s consumable? Assume you mean tool and you just think they shouldn't have been added. And fair enough. But i think traps do add a good variety allows for compounds to have more entrances. But i guess they could have archived same thing with just world traps. I dunno just seems like an odd decision all round.

[@DarthZombie510]

@@Friday_WasTaken yeah meant not being added on the tool slot. The extreme damage buff made sense if they kept being world spawns only.

[@sierra1513]

theres a trait that almost completely mitigates stealth traps

[@edwinlinsonmusic]

I really enjoyed demented with adrenaline. It was really niche, and not very powerful but I played a cracked out caveman with super speed and had a ton of fun.

[@basedlibertyprime]

After the mmr changes I’ve moved up to a 5 star and for some reason when I play with my 6 star friend the match making has a really hard time finding a full lobby but when I was a 3-4 star we found full games super fast.

[@mikee9167]

I think maybe you forgot to put your specs in the video description?

[@0redbishop0]

What are your thoughts on balancing the spear by making it take up 2 tool slots rather than making changes to the stats? I feel it would let the spear lovers still have it unchanged but would push it out of auto include for everyone.

[@OscarHazeGaming]

Visual fidelity is basically how good the graphics are

[@MooseJuiced]

Mike, in regards to trap visibility, vigilant costs 1 trait point. That's all.

[@ppppsssshhhh71]

Vigilant is a must pick trait now. And thats how you know traps are little busted atm.

[@MooseJuiced]

@@ppppsssshhhh71 Traps are not busted, people have short attention spans.

[@CptTomGaming]

Yeah I agree, if vigilant cost 5+ trait points I could see traps being a problem. But for only 1 trait point just run vigilant trap visibility isn't a problem

[@jaybruce6974]

What if you didn’t get to the bear traps in the BP. Will you never get them. Are there other things that are unavailable?

[@Terwilligrrr]

I am a vigilant enjoyer and think that they should make the range double by default. Its too short right now.

[@GabrielScar]

I had some different answers here and there, but that's probably because I can't play it as much as you. 😉 Musical greetings from Belgium, Gunther (singer and lyrics writer of Gabriel Scar)

[@BlueAvi8]

The silent footsteps on surefoot was pretty busted. I only died because of it a couple of times, but when I did it felt really bad. Especially because I barely knew the map, so I was relying even more on audio than usual.

[@MUTANTACADEMYGAMING]

the surveys are meh but im glad you pointed out that the survey is a little rigid and doesn't give room for nuance in answers. it almost defeats the point of a survey.

[@exZell]

The survey was up for just under 3 days. It's already closed. Never got a chance to give my input. Not that it matters. They probably still would have chosen to increase burn rate, or burn bars even for regular revives or something ridiculous.

[@bullwinklefh6819]

Too bad the solo surefoot buff will now be permanently in the game with lightfoot

[@RazzleTheRed1]

Anyone else find it weird that there's no feedback section for the feedback survey? Like having no option to type anything at all just means you can't really leave feedback at all

[@baronvongreenback]

Probably got sick of reading negative replies lol

[@RazzleTheRed1]

@@baronvongreenback True, but what's the point of even having a feedback survey if you can't give feedback at all? It just seems so pointless

[@baronvongreenback]

@@RazzleTheRed1 Empty gesture to placate players. "were listening guys, honest, fill out this survey or whatever lmao"

[@plaguedoctor2160]

I'm probably a unicorn with this but gasworks was my favorite place to fight at. Felt very good to trade shots back and forth. I hated split river though

[@moongrum1]

Nah you aren't alone, I love fighting at Gasworks

[@deman9090]

The only places we really disagreed was gasworks and grizzly lodge I think more or less agree with you good job keep up the good work

[@Sabin_rp1g]

I thought the event was good. As you stated it wasn't anything innovative but with the new map, wild target and return of Stillwater it felt somewhat fresh. I won't be playing vanilla Hunt though because they have not tuned back the burning any and there is no way to recover as a team anymore with the cashe and peacekeeper being gone now. I will wait for the Halloween event to return to the bayou. Hoping that they will do something to fix some of the issues you mentioned before the next event goes live but with the amount of time it takes them to release a patch I am not holding my breath.

[@realisNeo]

Do you think making the spear a two-slot tool would make it balanced?

[@Semmelein]

No questions about the burn speed or the length of the event or something like this? 😢

[@larrycz2803]

Idk why they stopped putting skins on all of the new weapons that released through the battlepass. Like the Vetterli, the new carbine which you reload on the back of the stock, new bear traps etc.

[@Duranous.]

I guess Egyptian is out of left field, the only thing I can think of their being occult and undead themed stories set in Egypt like "Under the Pyramids" by Lovecraft or The Mummy. Idk they already have Hayali and the Concubine. I think maybe they should stick to 5% exotic location hunters otherwise it will get overdone. I'm not even sure how the Egyptian skins tie in with the even. There was one cowboy at least.

[@jumblestiltskin1365]

I like the new system of weekly challenges but would prefer if it wasnt globally the same for everyone as others have said. It works well though as an improvement to the old way.

[@walczak9862]

The game was running weird for me when the event started but then i remembered nvidia released a new driver specifically for the hunt update and idk why more people dont bring that up because as soon as you instal the new driver the game runs perfectly at least it did for me. But i feel like theres a lot of people saying theres performance issues with the game that are most likely due to them not updating their drivers

[@CalamityTuna]

I agree with you on most of it, but I think Gas Works does not deserve so much hate. It is beautiful. I just completely ignore the bridge and the underground entries. I'd rather use the elevator of the north tower to get in. If someone decides to stay in that tower for 30 minutes, I just leave

[@JerrySpringfield1]

Same here with the performance. At the beginning of the event, I'd drop to 50fps in some compounds and hovered around 90fps. The later half of the event I was at a locked 120. Could probably even take the 120 cap off and get more. Idk what they did, but it worked for me.

[@johannesschmitz6370]

Hmm yeah kinda similar experience for me. However, I have to play with FSR balanced and everything low to get 100+ fps. Still I noticed good frame drops to 50 or 60 at certain angles and compounds

[@willbryant3451]

only thing I really disagree with is gasworks. I love that compound and the only "stalemate" i really had was me and a buddy making fun of the other people that were sitting outside the north-east upstairs door to boss building with shotguns refusing to push us knowing we both had single shot rifles.

[@RaidSoft]

I'm guessing that the survey exists to get large numbers of general opinions for statistical gathering reasons then they use other sources to learn specific reasons for why people disliked things, combined they get both without needing to comb through tens of thousands of written comments in each survey answer.

[@pacifist3651]

i did the survey yesterday and practically all of my answers were the same. One of the biggest issues plaguing hunt rn for me is the match making. killing the game. for me bc im bad. and somehow a 6 star. stuck there in ultra sweat lobbies. really felt they left out the "explain why" boxes out due to the community backlash from the UI changes.

[@EK489]

Did the survey before watching the video so as to not be biased towards sharing the same perspective. I suggest others do the same

[@ProChaos916]

I noticed on Xbox since the event ended my game doesn't get frame drops in gun fights anymore

[@riseorfall9518]

Same here brother The game runs perfectly

[@suleimansufianov5702]

Crytek is 403 tbh, the gulch is beautiful, some changes where for the good, but the game general gameplay direction scared me off. And awful hunter visual design decisions. I was you average frag with kd 1.4 since the earliest days. May be, like the first time, the game will attract me in like 2 years?

[@Shaggy-g4w]

I say that Adrenalin with demented pact was realy powerfull, not only I cant count how many times it saved my ass, as it was 20 secs of 2x speed boost, but in adition to this I was getting my health to the last bar at the begining of the match and then going with risky rush constantly getting damage from fall or grunts to get to the boss and quickly kill him and trap the lair. I think for melee enjoyers it was best pact and into this it was very powerful

[@sike3000]

in regards to peformance and visual fidelity. pre-event i was getting 180fps, now i get 80-100 depending on location, my characters constantly feel like they're running on ice and rubber band. shadows flicker and dont render properly, and the colour seems washed out now

[@walczak9862]

I dont get people complaining about stalemates, i think theyre fun and they get me super immersed knowing my team and another team are super close to each other playing a cat and mouse game. Its one of the things i like the most about hunt. Id hate the game if everyone was running around mlg style shooting each other without being slow and thoughtful

[@sotokrais]

I think theres a difference between being slow and thoughtful and a stalemate. I also love sneaking around trying to breach a compound, making distractions, trying to get an angle, because both teams are actually doing something. However, many times in hunt you just get into a situation where two or even more teams are just doing absolutly nothing. And i mean NOTHING. No sneaking, not trying to get an angle, just sittin in a bush and inside the compound waiting for someone else to do something just so they can get an easy kill. I've seen entire servers not take a single step or shot for 15+ minutes. That for me just ruins the match, there should always be multiple ways to breach a compound without putting you in an extreme disadvantage.

[@LgsChris]

Was ist eigentlich mit der Warteschlange los? In Duo finde ich fast nie einen Partner und Trio dauert ebenfalls ziemlich lange. Gibt es weniger Spieler oder was ist da los?

[@cpt.doejohnson]

I did several surveys for different games and every one of them gave the option to write your opinion, like they give you this text form and ask you to write your opinion, describe issues and share some thoughts, give some suggestions... But not the Crytek. I wonder why?...

[@vinnysob6380]

I see in many of your videos there is a damage report when in the death screen. Looks like it may be a beta item, or something that used to be in the game.I am new to the game, so I am not sure if I am just missing something, or if this feature will be introduced to the game in the future. I hope they implement it.

[@Howjadoo22]

You have to switch to it on your death screen. Keep an eye on the bottom of the screen to see what button to press.

[@vinnysob6380]

@@Howjadoo22 thank you.