Was Desolation's Wake a Good time? | Hunt: Showdown

[@HomeReel]

Let me know your thoughts on Desolation's Wake! 🤠

[@Lieutenant_Dude]

It was alright. I’d say this was better than tide of desolation and tide of corruption, but not as good as tide of shadows, devils moon, or serpents moon. I definitely preferred the weapons this go around to the last two. Dolch, uppercut, and drilling did not feel like they needed variants. The lemat carbine marksman wasn’t good. The katana and baseball bat were so OP they had to overhaul all melee weapons. Scottfield has gotten so many custom ammo types that the Pax has almost no niche, even with the true shot.

[@psydroscopic3700]

Honestly, I agree with ya It was a pretty chill event, with the main stars being the sealed loot system which is a great improvement and hopefully gets some stuff experimented with further in the future also lawful pact and the restoration medkit felt great, anything that helps me and my friends freshen up after a rough fight and keep playing the game is a great addition

[@MrBelanbelos]

I liked it, i just think that we need something big and new. The game is getting stale, for me atleast.

[@nickrowan]

I've got a few thousand hours in Hunt. I've played every event, gotten every event item, own every DLC and I just can't bring myself to get the timepiece. I even bought the first 15 levels because I was going to be away for some of the event and work's been hectic. I dunno man, maybe I'm just burnt out on Hunt or something but it's just... not fun anymore. It doesn't feel like Hunt anymore. I hate missing out on exclusive things but I think it's time I maybe just give it a rest for a year and come back when the new engine is here.

[@alexmercer6306]

My thoughts are: the skins clean gold skins are great. They feel very western like but the bug skins I don’t like. Way better skins overall than in the last event were everything was pirate-like in a western setting which i don’t really understand why. The duration of the event was too long in my opinion i couldn’t play for three weeks and still finished everything with 20 days left so it feels kinda worn out now. A thing which i hate is that every gun gets ever ammo type. Because what‘s the point of playing the springfield with bleed when the centenial also has bleed but is just much more oppressive. Overall the event was cool. Traits were cool and the ability to restore yourself after a fight made leaving mid game less attractive haha. I would agree with your 7/8 rating but there have been so many events lately that i kinda feel burned out from events if that makes sense.

[@houskacmaxkalbovic2159]

I really dont like how the special ammo is handled. When it was introduced it seemed like every weapon had a place. When the weapon was not that good in default state maybe it was a beast with some kind special equipped and other way around. Now it seems like every weapon has almost every ammo type and it just does not feel special a anymore.

[@ToxicPancake88]

Really enjoy the cache system and the “shop” type mechanic allowing you to buy certain goodies and bonuses throughout an actual match. Hoping it sticks around in some way after the event tbh Would definitely be nice to see them on different spots and sizes

[@friendlyplayer92]

Yea agreed. It was unintrusive but provided benefittt

[@dizo-jp2td]

God loves you all

[@glowinthedarkshark9396]

it wont, nothing has ever stuck around the same way it was introduced in an event. The only thing that we got from the last 6 events are burn traits. I dont count guns because I still feel guns shouldnt be content, they should be released and availible. Putting it in the battlepass is toxic af.

[@camerondavis800]

Especially some way to get your bars back

[@II__argo__II]

imagine a shop where you can use hunt dollars found in-raid to ammo, nades, health kits...thatd be interesting

[@NoName......]

This really seem like a "we're gonna put out a small event to hold over the community while we work on the engine upgrade" event.

[@veniiFPS]

It was but I cant lie, the sealed cache was actually nice and having it a static location on all maps made it feel like a POI like in apex or fortnite. I liked it for the most part due to the early pvp and if there was no one on it, Id usually go there on a 2 boss map anyways for master clue. Overall, the only thing I hated was lawful pact being too OP and the stupid ghost map where all I see is my gun and fog.

[@stiner2829]

I kinda thought of it as a "final hurrah" for the last gen consoles so they could get one last event in.

[@cokeweasel1064]

There will be another one

[@WLMaximus]

But honestly, it was the best event in a long time. Good weapons, good pacts and some good mechanics without game breaking shit like the "Haha you can't burn me sucker" thing.

[@-Hiraeth-]

It did seem underwhelming with no really new mechanics. I am wondering if they were also testing to keep the cashe system to include it in vanilla.

[@brucekhamp6859]

Event aside, i sincerely miss when the devs had a sharper sense of balancing. Currently, it seems like every single gun has to have bleeds or FMJ which negates using ‘x’ over ‘y’ like it use to be. Example: if you like running melees there’s not really a reason you should ever pick up machete or saber over a katana now that it doesn’t require a medium slot. When special ammo was first introduced I remember a lot of people were worried, but I remained optimistic and was pleasantly surprised that most of the ammo options were well thought out with their respective gun…now i get the dread. Like the Scottfield for example. This isn’t even really to do with special ammo but just general balancing, but once the Scottfield was introduced there really was no drastic opportunity cost of taking that over Pax-Scottfield easily trumps the Pax in most cases with the general exception that the Pax has better iron sights. Point is i have seen a rather dramatic shift in the game over the course of my many years playing it and it, very unfortunately, seems to want to cater to a more casual audience with each and every update (“event”)

[@cokeweasel1064]

My friends and i feel the same way

[@brucekhamp6859]

@@cokeweasel1064 y'all alright by me then 👌

[@oojollyrabbitoo6704]

The Scottfields cycle time is garbage compared to the pax and the pax has more ammo variants. How is the Scottfield better?

[@HRH49]

Agreed. Imagine talking with Dennis 2/3 yrs ago and saying that you'd be able to retrieve a bounty at a marked location in the middle of the map with no banishing. He'd would say 'no way!'. With the focus on monetisation, I feel everything is eroding, not just balancing but what made they game unique. I find it quite throw away atm. I try to ignore the events.

[@patrickclark9642]

I really liked the streamlined pledge system, which in turn freed up the pledge marks to be spent on boosts to existing mechanics that actually provided more meaningful choices in each match. I also thought the two clearly defined tracks of skins associated with each new legendary hunter were well done. They felt like some of the most coherent design sets we've seen in a Hunt battlepass. Last thought, on the centipede gun skins - I usually favor the cleaner looking skins, but I actually really like the centipede skins. I enjoy a spooky hunter/kit, but I dislike the gun skins that look like they are in extreme disrepair. In general I'd like to see more legendary hunters/weapons that are spooky but clean.

[@II__argo__II]

you've summed up my thoughts perfectly. I proudly rock every single one of the event skins, they all look so good; even if some of them arent necessarily my style, I can still appreciate just how well crafted and comprehensive they are.

[@cassianbarker4415]

I definitely appreciated the Old Western feel that it brought. The other events really leaned into the voodoo aspect of Hunt , but I personally find the old western and lovecraftian aspects of Hunt to be more appealing. The new skins were AWESOME though! And I absolutely love the Marathon!

[@PenitusVox]

I think the biggest problem isn't really event specific, it's Challenges as the main component of accumulating event points. The main issue with this is that, since Challenges are by far the main way to earn BBs, if you want to gain BBs the event grind never ends. In the old events, the pumpkins or snakes or whatever would go away when it was done but Challenges never leave. I don't dislike Challenges but I do dislike how important they are for the sort of meta gameplay loop.

[@lor1den627]

I do agree the skins look great, but 2000 bloodbonds for the plague doctors is utterly insane

[@ExTremZero]

they knew that they would sell rather good so they made "2" skins for 1000 each. Every company would have done it the same way

[@MrCrypto137]

@@ExTremZero It should be the reward for lvl 50 Premium Battlepass...They did this the second time now. The best skin is excluded from the event and sold seperately. It´s kinda greedy imho. The Battlepass hunters usually suck and this is on purpose i believe.

[@Dultus]

​@@MrCrypto137 to be fair it's bloodbond-skins. Meaning that you earned some bonds in the event and older players might still have a ton of bloodbonds. Could've been worse and again be paid DLC.

[@dizo-jp2td]

God loves you all

[@Olothur]

​@@Dultus"free" bloodbond flow is nonexistent nowadays. You have just enough bloodbonds from battlepass and weeklies to buy the next battlepass, and that's it.

[@grimusgrubly]

On a seperate note: i read somewhere a suggestion to make a new item thats a voodoo doll that when thrown, makes a death sound. I just thought it was an awesome idea and i wanted to extend its reach

[@Roshambo920]

I don’t think that’s a good direction. With solo and team necro it can be hard enough to gauge how many people are alive or dead plus having the bounty means infinite revives. Adding more stuff like this to the game will take away from people being able to actually finish fights.

[@biocrystals7550]

I love the new mako but god you burn through it’s ammo in a second

[@dizo-jp2td]

God loves you all

[@TheWanderersWit]

Yeah, I took to running the Drilling Hatchet with it so that I could diversify my ammo pools and still have a close range option. Definitely need a backup mid distance option.

[@nou8830]

Which is weird because it has the same ammo as every other multi shot long ammo rifle. I think you just need more patience in fiting.

[@TheWanderersWit]

@@nou8830 Nah, I have the same problem with most long ammo rifles. lol

[@matilozano96]

Honestly, I'm getting a little burnt out of all the events. I bought the BP on a whim, and now I'm pushing myself to finish it just so I don't waste it. I need more time in between events, to be honest.

[@gunhead7159]

Gonna be honest, I'm sick and tired of the specific gun challenges. You only get one reroll a day, so at most you can skip using one gun you dont like. It would be better to promote variety by giving players challenges that only a couple guns are able to complete, but still gives you the option to use other firearms. Something like "deal 600 damage with a 2 slot rifle" so youve got things like the obrez, springfield, drilling, winfield, or centennial. Bit of variety while still narrowing down your choices by a large margin, that way if you dont enjoy the drilling, or the mosin, or the Winfield, you arent forced to use them to finish the challenge. Side point: Getting challenges for things you dont have unlocked should *not* be a thing. All it would take is to have something to take account for what your hunter has unlocked and the problem would be solved.

[@dylangolden30]

Right. I'm a fairly casual player. When I sit down to play, I might want to do the challenges as a special goal for the session or weekend. If I also have to grind out a specific variant or ammo before I can even attempt the challenge, it feels like some pretty tough gatekeeping shutting me out of participating in the event without getting out my debit card. I bought the game already. I'm not spending more money. I just want to play when I have the time and have a chance of picking up some nice rewards.

[@CreeperthanPasta]

What? You dont like using poison ammo everytime you play the game?

[@bostonbignutts]

It's especially limiting if you've recently prestiged

[@greybegood]

I must disagree. I really enjoy having a 'suggested' loadout direction given by the challenge. You are not bound to it but it inspires you to try something new. I believe if you play a fair amount, there is not much struggle to fill the challenges within a week. Admittedly, I had weeks where I finished the challenges within one or two days and others where I did rather at the end of the week. Regarding the PvE challenges, though, some are very spawn luck based which can be limiting progress (specific grunts, purses, envelopes). Those can be a tiny bit frustrating.

[@gunhead7159]

@@greybegood Oh I love making new loadouts, and I love trying combos I normally wouldn't. I just feel like there could be a better way to promote diversity in your loadouts without directly saying "You have to use this specific gun, no if ands or buts"

[@NeonDisciple]

The guns really seem like they were made for their main player base. The ones who don't run dolch every game.

[@Trenchfood]

I don't play the game anymore but I'll still watch all of your vids. Weird innit.

[@heibk-2019]

The event wasnt much worse than the last events(quite the opposite, the skins were awesome). The problem is at this point im just tired of always grinding the same boring challenges.

[@totaltakeovergames7275]

honestly, this event is a 6/10 in the best possible way, to a point it might be my favorite event out of all the ones i've played (tides trilogy + this). I liked the other events a lot but the more laid-back grounded nature of this just felt like a breath of fresh air, and the weapons being fun and having their own niche but not insane was really nice. It also just felt like it played more strongly on the western part of the game that I feel like is at times put slightly aside for the magic and more esoteric lore. also the main theme slaps incredibly hard

[@angelaraya9268]

I got a little bored at level 16, but i liked the new guns. Waiting for a new map or something new

[@upunvo6743]

we are getting a new map and biome/weather this year with the engine update

[@skittennarkotika5448]

@@upunvo6743 bull

[@skittennarkotika5448]

@nohandlefound. cap

[@dizo-jp2td]

God loves you all

[@nou8830]

​@skittennarkotika5448 I mean it's literally planned for the next event

[@troll5262]

Blood Bonds still need a change, not related to the event but they really need to up the guaranteed BB. My suggestion would be to implement a 'blood bag' or such that fill during the week to a cap. If they want to remain hella anti-consumer and limit to 50, sure, I'd suggest 100 or 150 if they feel generous. Would still take a month to get a single skin. To fill said 'blood bag' you can do challenges to get 50 total, or from end-game accolades. Could even reintroduce questlines and have a weekly questline that refreshes with some basic stuff in it to fill the 'blood bag' over playing the game regularly(get clues, banish, deal damage etc).

[@PenitusVox]

I think they should just add it to the Dark Tribute the way we get those 200 event points for completing the first one. Maybe 10 a day with a cap of 50 or just let it ride at 70. More would be nice, of course, but I'd just like to not have to focus on challenges so much.

[@troll5262]

@@PenitusVox A good idea, would also let them keep adding 'retention incentives' that they are pushing lately.

[@zunjin]

I think it would be enough to just give blood bonds by extracting with bounty

[@bigshawv4497]

We need a battle pass break or a return to old ways of getting event point. I and my brothers who i play the game with are tired of challenges. I want to play whatever i want that is 90 percent of the fun of this damn video game is the versatility and depth of loadout. Let me collect snakes. Smash pumpkins. Friggin anything but these damn challenges. All they do is burn out the fun. The progression style is fine and the battle pass itself is fine. Just remove the challenges. Also sparks aperture when

[@rooster4382]

My thoughts: I overall liked the way the pacts worked in this one and I like sealed caches, lead to some interesting fights. Off of what you were saying , it could be cool to spend one to seal an entrance to a compound and spend another to unseal it. I’m not the best at this game, so I definitely leaned on lawful to keep my health and ammo stocked during fights, love that pact. Berserker with a baseball bat was a close second. Really like the Marathon Swift, super solid. And I’m one of the weirdos who like aperture sights, so that new Mako has quickly become a favorite. I love the brass/gold frame Mako and Marathon, and the color case hardened Mako is beautiful. Please Crytek keep adding more traditional Wild West style skins. I would do morally questionable things for a standard Krag in that style. And legendary hunters too. More cowboy legendaries please

[@blue4fr]

in my opinion normal resupply points are better than sealed cache point. you can actually resupply ammo and tools and you can pledge. most of the time i ignore sealed cache point. same as i ignore event totems. lawful pact is maybe op. you can restore bars and loot ammo with pack mule.

[@dakotabarrett5585]

I finished the event and had no idea how this extra bonus mechanic you mentioned. Wow. Maybe they could make that more apparent.

[@dizo-jp2td]

God loves you all

[@PenitusVox]

Yeah, I always read the patch notes so I must've known it was a thing when the event started but that info was immediately deleted. Felt like new information when he brought it up.

[@sentientcardboarddumpster7900]

​@@dizo-jp2tdgod needs to love itself first

[@kingjames2372]

low effort event paired with an uninteresting battlepass. as always. the new weapons are alright i guess. im just looking forward to the next gen console update that was promised for april 2024, but it looks like thats not gonna happen any time soon...not the first time gamers were let down by devs.

[@vaevictus1221]

Please fix the connection / reconnect issues. Please fix the connection / reconnect issues. Please fix the connection / reconnect issues. Please fix the connection / reconnect issues.

[@cokeweasel1064]

Yes please ffs

[@octanehusky2634]

Bro left, then came back, then left again.

[@honzzz_]

didnt even reinstall for this event, im glad i didnt waste my hard drive space for this

[@Mercurial_Me]

I'm surprised you didn't comment on the new boss vs melee tool meta rework. It has highly improved the viability of all weapon slot melee/melee variants and made the Mako claw a fast favorite of mine (not to mention being able to trade with a katana with one melee click). I do wish that sealed caches would stick around in a more simplified state. The ability to get bars back has really shaken things up and given players better options than just leaving, which translates to longer, more interesting games. Lawbringer was easily the best pact, though not always the most interesting. The amount of times I turned a fight around by looting bars back off of corpses was kind of crazy. Crazy in the kind of way that either nobody should be able to or everybody should be able to. I also ended up leaving a game with bounty as a solo, having been downed 7 times, and I left with full bars. It's a problem, and I DROPPED mmr for it.

[@Sfougwerty]

If i could only ask for one thing it would be the ability to get health bars back from looting while removing the red skull revive. Besides that i enjoyed the new use of pledge marks and the new weapons, the sealed cache after the initial craze felt a bit meh. Also being able to loot bodeis for ammo was nice. Anyway Home it is good to have you back.

[@LasDrakeo360]

So I've also been done with the event for a bit now, and I still pretty much exclusively take death pact. Witness has helped me narrow down if hunters have been in an area due to the remaining dark sight staying longer than the gunt body. Also I take resilience each game and the clutch super fast revive speed can catch people off guard.

[@AndersHerzberg]

I agree with every point you brought up, and i think we're on the same page with just about everything. I would say the Mako needs some tweaks to spread from the hip. Feels too wide for a iron gun. Marks and the boosts you can get in game should stay. If they tie it to PvP and PvE it would reward slower game play. Clear a couple of compounds and have some boosts for the fight over the bounty instead of making a straight line to the boss. Knowing that if I win a fight as a solo as a team I can get health and ammo back if I'm careful and at the cost of some time is great and let's me stay in the match. I'd also like to see play tested but could work as an expansion to the mark bonuses is an uncommon, expensive, but very short Dark Sight boost for pledge marks. 2 seconds max, for 4 marks. With this you'd pretty much have to pick rolling up to a compound fully stocked after a fight or be able to get intel on how many are in the boss compound and their rough location. All in all this was a good event for me, and introduced mechanics that I want to see stay.

[@UnderestimatedEdible]

Marathon is significantly better than the Mako. Not sure what you are on about. The Mako has issues with its animation making swapping weapons just awful. It also has garbage spread with levering, and it gets outclassed by every other long ammo rifle in the game. Marathon has a shitload of bullets with the right loadout. You can just non-stop fire it with FMJ at short to medium range and overpower anyone with volume. Its not even a comparison.

[@gorfgorf]

Was this event good? It made me stop playing the game for 3 months so you tell me. The HUNT battlepA$$ is NOT an event. The free track of the pass was nonexistent. The paid track had nothing good. You can't reclaim all your BB's anymore from finishing the pass. Cosmetic prices are through the roof. Earning BB's through normal gameplay is gone. Challenges suck and they doubled down on them now. They are mandatory for doing the passes. They also increased the grind on them - upping all the amounts you need to complete them. It just feels like a job now and I already have 2 of those. There's now 2000BB cosmetics in the game. They continued to sell a controversial cosmetic skin for 1500BB that they knew they were going to change - then they did and didn't offer a refund to the public. During the event - try hards and cheaters come out. This game kinda sucks now. Devs got greedy and it shows. I play last night for the first time in 3 months and there's totally a stamina bug. I moved on to HD2 and I got a lots of work done and success in my career instead. Ya blew it David.

[@EthanThomas-hk8ee]

Honestly it kinda felt like filler content to me, like they were trying to push back the engine update but didn't want people to be upset. The sealed cache system is pretty cool and I liked how the new traits worked. But overall this felt like one of the weakest events yet. The guns are cool, the skins are great, but I would've preferred a few months of "normal" hunt instead of this event. Ps levering with explosive mako is fun. Bad but super fun!

[@dizo-jp2td]

God loves you all

[@genin8562]

I'm so happy to see another video from you! Overall I think the event was good but i can't stand weekly challenges anymore. I really can't. I played hunt non stop since more than 4 years now but i took a break now because of challanges. Not just for the event, in general... i get that they have to reduce the amount of bloodbonds gained, fair enough... but just put a limit of 50 bloodbonds gained per week playn NORMALLY and not grinding challenges over and over.

[@BBnissanZ]

Being back being able to earn skins and guns for free through hard work. The 1 blood bond per kill was awesome. Took a good amount of time but still allowed you to get skins without dishing money out every 2 seconds. I stoped playing clash of clan because the game just turned into a money pit, too many games are following suit

[@alfonsver2058]

@HomeReel let's call the events by they really what are: Seasons. I mean sure, I played the thing even with the weapon charm myself. But I don't like the frequency with, which the events are coming. It doesn't feel Special anymore. I bet can that a big part the community is fatigued from that many Events in less than a year. I can understand why they devs are doing them. I really do, but the economic decsions are not the greatest at Crytek, with this seasonal event marathon. Feels like milking the cow as hard and often as possible, before it dies. And let's be honest about it. And Event should feel like something special. Something you are looking forward to, and have to play and not like "Yeah it's just another season. I'd really like to see the events come, with more distance in between, than having the feeling of playing a competitive season on a regular Basis. I can only speak for myself, but if I wanted to Play a whole competitive season, I'd go and play a game, that's meant to be Made with a ranked game mode. I mean I bis the skins I wants to have in Hunt anyway, but as you already explained the video, the altars were annoying and giving away your position all the, but before I take 'em, I'll let be as alarm system for myself. Especially around bosslairs. By the way, I like to so see you around more often again. It's been quite a while. Almost didn't expect to see videos from you at all again.

[@RadioactiveLobster]

Here are my thoughts, for what they are worth (which isn't much). Caldwell Marathon: I like it. It's fun to use though it does suffer from the compact ammo problem, both for the user but also for the person getting shot at. Getting back to back aim-punched by compact ammo like a fucking truck hit you is a pain in the ass. I run the Marathon almost exclusively with FMJ as I think it gives it the best chance. Mako Carbine: My favorite gun from the event. I've wanted a long ammo lever gun for a long time. I really enjoy using it but it does have drawbacks and will still lose out to a Mosin. Levering is fun when using explosive ammo on it but know going in that you're going to lose most fights but the meme is fun. As for the special ammos. The Rival with dragons breath is fun when you want to burn someone or meme out but yeah, take buckshot or slugs if you want to win. Flechette on the Clown & Cringe is such a pain in the ass. See it more in higher MMR games. The main issue is the range it can hit you and the aim-punch it causes. You can be 40m away and it aim-punches you like you were 4m away. They really need to do something about the aim-punch in this game. The Dolch is a bad one as well. It needs to be range based or something. As for the sealed caches and unlockable items (resupply, restoration, XP boon, etc...), I really like them. They add some variety but yeah, them being always in the same spots is kinda meh. I could see some features of it coming back after the event and I'd welcome that. Especially things like the 4-Shot and XP boons, maybe the explosive boxes and full resupply boxes. I don't think I'd want the master clue or full restoration to return. I do think there needs to be more ways to get bars back but there also has to be some risk to it and just sitting in a bush until everyone leaves and getting your bars back ain't it. As for the Pact traits, I would like to see Beserker become a normal trait you can just take. Witness should be a secondary effect of Vulture IMO. I've always thought a 2 tier trait system would be cool. Like buy (or obtain) Vulture the normal way but if you find Vulture again in on the map or it drops from a meathead, instead of that being completely useless to you (as it is now) you can use the 2nd trait spur to "upgrade" your current Vulture to now have the Witness ability on it. It does not take up a 2nd trait slot like stacking a burn trait does. There are secondary effects they could add to several traits that would give some variety. Maybe a less used primary trait (like decoy resupply, who ever takes that??) could have really good secondary effects to give people an incentive to take them. I'd also say if you find a 2nd copy of a trait in the world that doesn't have as secondary effect and you already have it, you can still claim the trait points from it. Would let a level 50 who can't get trait points anymore have a method beyond finding a poster to get trait points if they need to buy bars back. Overall I enjoyed the event. I'm glad you could just pledge to a pact without needing a mark and I like the idea of spending those marks on things in the game, such as resupplies and XP boons. However, the most exciting thing about this event being almost over is that this is the last event (hopefully) before the Engine Upgrade and we all know that's what everyone is most excited about.

[@notjinxedyet2479]

That secondary trait idea is cool - love to see that in game hate that I just have to leave traits and I like that you could upgrade them in matches

[@jordanknox5587]

Crytek is kinda doing the bare minimum, and it's not going to hold up over time. Grinding battle passes with dumb loadouts for challenges has gotten old, and to be honest I was never into it. Now it's a straight up chore. Then there's the backend issues. Hit reg issues, shots straight up not landing or headshots registering as body shots. These aren't super frequent but they happen. Cheating seems to be a growing problem, and easy anti cheat isn't going to solve anything. Meaningful updates like new bosses and maps take years. All these elements will come together and smother the game long term. I'd hope they would invest in the game more seriously, but it looks like they just want to coast and not spend the cash. Which is honestly kinda shocking considering how little they have going on. What's going to keep them going, a new low budget Crysis? I doubt it. Go big and gamble on a real future, or you just guarantee a slow death and closure of the studio. Everyone in the industry wants to play it safe at the top, and it's failing for pretty much all of them.

[@CodexF0X]

I really disliked the challenge increase. They really need to give us more reshuffles or be able to change to match a teammates challenges. Getting stuck with a melee or clean sweep is super frustrating. However the middle map resupply was a nice addition that I hope comes back. Playing casually my friends and I fell off around level 30.

[@pacifist3651]

I think this event was pretty lazy ngl. Lawful pact = obvious meta didnt even try to avoid it. Challenge grind got increased through some shadow patch where the ydoubled the amount of things u had to do to complete challenges -huge negative. and the sealed cache while a good idea as a concept it needs to be actually useful to ensure players actually risk going there. as time went on no one went to the cache other than to get their bars. 5-6* lobbies. rn crytek has more issues than events to worry about like the rampant cheating is killing the game and the lack of information about the promised engine update is also really hurting everyone's mood. It would be nice to finally get a replay system so player reports for cheating actually have more merit than "he shot me through a wall or this guy is new and is playing like a 6 star. etc. being able to go back and watch a enemy players entire round would be eye opening.

[@trykksverte]

It was certainly an event. Not one I will remember - and one that would have benefited from expectation-management. People where hoping for a new map. For a new engine. It's been wall-to-wall events for a year now, and when everything is special, nothing is.

[@maikschellenberg9957]

I'm honest with the event and the pact traits.. and I might be one of the few with this unpopular opinion, but this constant chunk gets back over a pact trait I don't like it at all. Sealed cache and the possibility of getting health chunks back via other ways is great if you take this risk. But I don't like doing the same thing about Traits.

[@Drippy_dripster]

Marathon needs hv I loved a lot about this event except for it felt like there was a GIANT influx of super sus players, ai is too abundant and the mmr needs to be adjusted back to what it was bc the lobbies have been crazy out of wack lastly there is dum dum on way too many guns

[@Oldboy..]

Well said. Feels like the skill of the average player has increased, or did(?) I dunno. Played berserker a lot. Interesting to blast someone's skull and watch them get revived in a split second and scamper off

[@sirminty8495]

A lot of my gripes with the current event can be said about the last several events, which is very depressing. There are improvements, as each one has made improvements on this event type formula. In my eyes, I have a few gripes with the new weapons. The Marathon's hip fire is way too good. So much that at about 20 or so meters I'm not aiming unless I need a headshot. The Mako is very, bland. It levers and that's its only unique trait as a long ammo weapon but that is so bad it has no purpose outside of explosive memes. It's not that it isn't good, it just, well, the Lebel, Mosin, or Bert are just better options most of the time, and the Krag does better than it with its reload not needing grubber and has a much higher fire rate for long ammo. The skins are great. The ornate ones especially. The bug ones I agree, meh. Not my cup of tea. Overall, the event isn't terrible. It especially isn't plagued by a super massive gamebreaking bug that doesn't get fixed until way after the halfway point like the last several events. Neat. But there's still loads of other bugs still rolling around, not getting fixed. And I know the engine upgrade is coming eventually, but man does waiting for it feel atrocious. And it being "significant" means absolutely bloody nothing to me. There's no communication of what is actually going to be done. What is being fixed and what will change is still a mystery. This lack of communication on the engine upgrade, coupled with the radio silence on issues plaguing the game, coupled with the negativity towards the community regarding those issues makes this whole ordeal much more frustrating as someone who loves the game. A major update is supposedly around the corner, and we know next to nothing about it.

[@RobbeSeolh]

I still like the game but the development feels sluggish, it would be nice if we had 5 maps and 7 different bosses and maybe other new AI mobs now.

[@SqallLionheart]

Given that some friends aren't interested in hunt until the PS5 version, I'm more interest in news about that considering that news were supposed to drop in april and we are a few days short to it's end.

[@truk5161]

New Hunt player so I dont have any comparisons to previous events. One of my fav games overall. Looking forward to next event!

[@fabiopauli420]

I mean Desolate wake itself was ok but for me the event fatique has really started to set in: can i play normal hunt for maybe a month or two crytek? please?

[@boptilyoudrop9449]

It's a shame you didn't delve deeper into crown's new flechette ammo, that thing is really annoying and a bitch to play against

[@troll5262]

I'm so fucking tired of Challenges, I don't want to feel like I need to do them if I want reliable event points(or BB). It's absolutely hampering my enjoyment that it just hovers there. Even if I ignore it I know I could do them to get reliable BB and a monstrous amount of event points per week. Fuck it, remove it, change it, make it different and less strict.

[@KungThulhu]

I just didn't see the need for another event. they are way to long for the little content there really is. i feel like at that length they should put 3 events worth of content together.

[@gambiit08]

you should review Huuge's videos on cheating and how crytek is protecting cheaters in a variety of ways.

[@MrCrypto137]

I´m really tired of the events. New weapons and all of that are cool, but i don´t like the traits that eliminate core mechanics of the game. At least when we are talking about events that last for 2 months and are active like 4-5 times per year nowadays...It was cool when Crytek started with these event traits but now i´m just sick of it cause it feels like a permanent addition to the game. Burning hunters means nothing if one guy escapes somehow. He will just revive his mates, even when they are red skull and heal them back up with just 1 pledge mark. I stopped playing until the event is over and i really hope we won´t get another one right after.

[@olge1355]

the best thing about hunt IMO are the gunfights and mechanics around them. previous events where some could become immune to poison, bleed, fire and stuff were annoying because some fun loadouts weren't playable anymore and it changed the gunfights completely. so yeah I'm a fan of "light" events and really liked this one.

[@regaman101]

When I'm not playing with friends, I play solo. I've been SPOILED by the Primal pact + Beastface. The ability to speed through a map without worrying about animal positions was great for stealthily approaching teams. The doubled melee damage helped make up for the lack of teammates during boss fights as well. When playing with friends I used the Death pact. The quick revive was so useful. I lost count of the amount of times the ability to run over to my teammate in the middle of a gunfight and pick them up ended up winning us the fight. I rarely used the Lawful pact. I used it primarily when I was down chunks and we knew we were going to go to another fight. I would pledge Lawful with hopes of looting someone to get health back.

[@Weckacore]

I think: Best event I've been a part of (for reference, I started with the event the bow came out in) and like most of the things they've done. But if the next big release isn't a map I'll be taking a break.

[@connorgrissett972]

This was the first update that really felt underwhelming to me. I think the event formula is getting stale. I’m perfectly fine with less frequent updates if they are more substantial

[@rogermcbadlad2812]

I loved the ornate skins. I also really liked the Statesman.

[@GamerNesto]

This event felt it was made for people who complained about "another event?!" without necessarily the game feeling like it was on it. No wildcards was the right move, also Crytek experimenting with new POI stuff on the map was cool. However, also felt more like "Oh shiet we are not going to meet the Engine deadline" event so it was more like a filler to buy more time. Skins were actually GOOD compared to past ones, weapons were good additions. I love the Marathon is fun while Mako feels needs some polish. Traits Peacemaker was just too good that make others almost non-existent. No fan of the boss melee changes when it comes removing almost ALL world objects. But other than that overall enjoyable event.

[@TactiSmolKoko]

i like the boss melee changes since it makes the bayonet and talon variants more viable for use

[@baalzamon2267]

@@TactiSmolKoko id agree on that as long as they would have also reduced bulletdammage as well… Rn some teams are just rushing in, blasting the boss with dualis and shotguns in matter of seconds without all the possible atmosphere and tactical point a boss fight should have… I mean, is it just me or does it feel wired hearing distant shooting for like 20 secs like there’s be 5 chaosbombs exploding just to see the boss beeing banished?:)

[@GamerNesto]

@@TactiSmolKoko true but removal of almost all world objects is kinda lame change, I agree with the knuckle knife change though.

[@whoswhoful]

iv got such bad hunt burn out right now. this is the first event i havent finished

[@takubear88]

I really enjoyed it, since it was very close to vanilla but with bar restoration, which is in theory perfect. The fact absolute rat playstyle emerged is not really an issue for me, those kinds of players just always exist, always do the same thing regardless of the game encouraging it or not.

[@ExTremZero]

well its an bigger issue when a 3 man team gets 2 dead + burned out and the last team mate can just slowly get the peacekeeper pact and get his friends back and their healthbars to be 100% in the game again as nothing happened, thats an issue.

[@friendlyplayer92]

​@@ExTremZero just extract with bounty while they do that 😅

[@dizo-jp2td]

God loves you all

[@volatile2702]

Best game ever but it needs something fresh.... map and engine upgrade

[@dizo-jp2td]

God loves you all

[@chon4x]

2month event, twitch drops, repeat Really bored of this cycle

[@GhoulishGourd]

- Weapons were good - I like the idea of the big cache point, but like you said, could do with some different spawn points - The pacts didn't feel as good overall. Not sure if it was a feeling of lack of flavor or what, but I just didn't feel as invested in them. Lawful was the clear winner in terms of overall utility, but I liked Primal the best in terms of actually effects and the secondary effect to Beastface. - The skins were well designed, but not necessarily to my taste. I know a lot of people will enjoy the more ornate options though

[@robinaart72]

I'm def in the 'prob play too much' category atm - prestiged about 3 times during event. I liked the event mostly - altars were good as a solo - I used primal a lot. The main thing that seemed off was that in the many many hours, I only found about 3 red traits. Super rare, and almost non-existent. Maybe thats ok tho.

[@sunkenmonk777]

Not only was it bad, but the surge of cheaters was the cherry on on top of the figurative shit cake

[@Ashen_Night116]

This, cheaters have always been bad, but this event just brought out of the woodworks like vermin, that's the unfortunate issue of using easy anti-cheat, it's easy to cheat in.

[@ExTremZero]

@@Ashen_Night116 nothing to do with EAC, the Cryengine was always easy to cheat on and that undetected. Hope to see updates with the Cryengine update.

[@dizo-jp2td]

God loves you all

[@apuffball5754]

the Marathon suffers from the fact that on reload (bullet grubber style), you will actually LOSE the first bullet you eject and re-insert as it technically drags it over the max ammo supply it can have. it's... sorta dumb, since the Bornheim does the exact same thing but doesn't actually eject the bullet like the Marathon.

[@steezmoney2998]

Can I leave my feedback here? I'm gonna leave my feedback here. First off I fucking love Hunt: Showdown and it's consumed all my playtime recently. Just an excellent game. But in terms of balance, Lawful Pact/Peacemaker felt way too strong. All 3 pacts had cool and interesting directions they could take hunter builds in, but after the shine wears off it's apparent that looting a burnt health bar was way too powerful. So strong in fact it felt like an auto include in every situation. Imagine if Terran was the clear best choice in every StarCraft match, it's bad for the health of the game and overlooks the cool features of the other two options. It's also going to feel bad once it's taken away and will deter stubborn players for a while. Secondly having things to do and loot in raid that aren't just clues/boss/pvp is really nice. More of that please, it's nice to be able to profit from a raid where you get into a tense fight against another duo and barely limp out of there. But not too much so that you can do low risk high profit runs. Finally, I've thought this as long as I've played the game, but you should be able to sell guns you loot in a raid. On top of the cash you get from looting a dead hunter, you can further your profits by selling their gear too. Never made sense why anything other than a free hunter loadout is contraband.

[@GamerTagCaptCluel3ss]

I’ve used Primal 98% of the time so far. I don’t hesitate to prestige, so berserker has been dope for farming variants, & the beastface mod suits my stealthy playstyle

[@robinj8994]

I found both of the added rifles didnt really feel unique or that they filled a niche. I did like the new melee variant of the mako and running it with explosive.

[@dizo-jp2td]

God loves you all

[@Tar-Illir]

I really like the sealed catches and hope they keep them in vanilla games

[@martinnolhaf3151]

Tbh between Helldivers and Friends Not playing Hunt anymore I grinded until i got the Statesman and a little beyond and then Stopped. It was a good Event, the traits were fine and the guns and skins were nice.

[@FOertel]

I really liked it, it felt relativly chill, the Redskullrevive was really the only problem I had with it and the Mako has very much become my favourite LongAmmo-Rifle, even if it isn't the new best :D So... probably a 8 I would say. (And I prefer the more bling-skins over the bugstuff too xD)

[@stephenkamps8925]

What was the event with the fire all over the map? I liked that one.

[@timthebeerman]

I loved the new weapons, I loved the new legendary hunter, loved the skins, and I loved the sealed cache along with being able to buy consumables, cash, etc in a match with pledge marks. I liked all that. Although, I genuinely feel “Desolations Wake” did not need to happen at this time… Collecting spine alters is getting old. This was our 5th event in a row doing this. I’m assuming this was something to give us while we wait for the new map/engine. They could’ve held off on this event for a couple-few months and saved it for the new map/engine, then it would’ve been special I feel. Again, only thing I would change is to get rid of the damn spine alters, please!

[@QuiltedRaven]

Great video! I really appreciate you doing this before the event ends, its easier to give fresh feedback. I played a lot when DeSalle came out, but have missed every event since serpents moon. So coming into this event was a little confusing, I felt I had to read reddit and watch youtube guides, in-game I wasn't able to navigate what the pacts were, how to make them, what each pact trait did, etc. I ended up finding a lot of the info in-game after I already knew it from learning out-of-game, which isn't great. For the event itself, I'll echo what you said in the video, lawful was incredibly obnoxious. I play a lot of games with random trios and it's annoying when communication isn't at its best and the third just runs into the woods. I felt like the third running happened a lot, I didn't always meet them back on the map, I'm assuming they extracted many of the times, but it grinds the pacing of the game to a halt when you have a random teammate who either can't or won't communicate with you and is babysitting two bodies burning under concertina miles away from the banishing bounty. Which is another obnoxious element of peacekeeper, you have to bring a bunch of gear slots devoted to burning and burying but no matter what you do if you walk away they can still come back later. It made it so sometimes I wouldn't even ping enemies I saw to teammates, because I don't want to fight far from the boss because if you kill half a team out on the map there's a 40% chance it's a waste of time and giving your position away to the rest of the map and the team you fight can just come back. I like the death cheat mechanic better than the peacekeeper mechanic. And I'll also echo that the growling totems are also tiring. They were fun and added a twist to games for a few weeks, and now they're just obnoxious, because you can't always see them as you're coming up to a compound, and then they go off and alert the team that you're close. My friends didn't like that taking them gave away that you'd been there, which may or not may not be a good thing. They're a little lower MMR, so the already in-game tells aren't as obvious to them maybe. But I will say that the totems make it trivial to tell from even miles away that someone came through that area. And the ones between compounds make that even easier to tell.

[@shakenbacon1592]

i feel bad, you missed the fall from grace

[@bknight3391]

Peacekeeper without the red skull revives would be a great addition to the game, but it'd have to be a pretty expensive trait, maybe on par with Doctor or Quartermaster as far as cost.

[@PenitusVox]

Possibly even the first 10 point trait. Sadly, it'll most likely be a burn trait, if they add it, though.

[@bknight3391]

@@PenitusVox I wonder if they've ever thought about adding traits that can only be found as drops that aren't burn traits. That might still be a bit too powerful for something like this, but I think I'd be happy with it even if it was burn on use.

[@PenitusVox]

@@bknight3391 I'd love more unique stuff found in the matches in general. Skins you can only get from pistol grunts, stuff like that.

[@bluebird2540]

@@bknight3391 Absolutely agree that it would be a great addition to the game without the red skull revives, with peacekeeper you can play aggressive and push fights all game. Even if you lose a few bars in the first fight, you can loot them back and get ready for the next team most of the time. The fact that you aren't punished so hard by playing aggressively and picking fights all game is good. One of my main gripes with Hunt in general over the last 6+ years is that the team doing absolutely nothing all game is often rewarded for doing jack shit. With Peacekeeper there is a very solid chance that you are still at 150HP if a team like that does show up. Sure you can still be missing ammo, meds and consumables, but at least you don't feel like a fish in a barrel that is easily one-tapped by long ammo. I hope it becomes a regular trait instead of a burn trait so people can buy it on demand. Either that or simply making looting a dead body always restore a bar by default, it would be a nice change imo.

[@z3r0x19]

my p. O to the Event Events overall to overloaded; guns coming in and skins are kinda okay costum ammo is also to overloaded some changes they made in general i think are very questionable for me in personal

[@z3r0x19]

Edit: For Overall Balancing Dont know if it is because of the Event or Community swapped but Bounty is most of the rounds completely unrewarding because no one is fighting over it...the people hide somewhere at the other side of the map or do some other stuff instead of getting towards the object same as solo i die and instead of fighting the bounty.they burn and sit on top of your body meanwhile da bounty running out

[@NineConsonants]

There's two main points about the event: I think this was the best event Crytek has done mechanically (outside of big content drops like a new map), but at this point they feel so similar that minor iterations making it better don't feel that exciting. The pledge mark system was far better than previous pact perk systems and the sealed cache was a great addition, and I hope both of these get expanded. Nothing felt too over or underpowered, and the new weapons are interesting (I haven't played them that much since I wait to get Mastery in the gun book). All the skins look great, especially the Winfield Silencer and the Bornheim. I agree with the community that things like all the totems growling and the increased daily challenge amounts are annoying, but they're like a 2/10 annoying to me when the community makes it sound like it's a 8/10 annoying. None of these features got me super hype, but none of them were annoying to where I wanted to not play. The things that actually like the biggest changes to me in the game recently have been small things like changing health/perk respeccing, flares burning hunters, and stuff like that (all of which have been great). The event was just Good Standard Hunt. And Hunt's great, so I like that, but I hope that future events, especially after the engine upgrade and new map, have a significant twist to them. Or, if not the event, I hope the weekend game modes get expanded on beyond just "it's always night" to taking weirder, funnier risks, like restricting hunter loadouts, doing the Soul Survivor thing of finding stuff in map, having all teams set spawn as close as possible and the boss pre-banished at the closest compound, or oops all hellhounds where every AI is a hellhound. I know it's all a mix of what the developers can spend their time on for the return on investment, but I just want some significant gameplay mix ups sometimes instead of an event being "the totems you interact with this time look a little different."

[@babakgeblee3343]

i hope Crytek doesn't pull a "escape from tarkov" on us in near future.

[@lt_dagg]

large explosive ammo with levering has got me the wildest kills

[@TagardMC]

I played maybe 5 hours of this event total and nothing here really kept me as excited as Helldivers 2 has right now. That's really all I can say and I'm honestly curious if anyone else have become Helldivers in the last month or so and is a bit burned out on finding Hunt effigies around the map.

[@IzBruJIN]

So coming from me (I have about 2000-ish hours in the game and jump between 3-5 stars often) Weapons: - I LOVE the marathon. Its such a unique gun that allows low damage but high spam. I'm not good at wall shots at all, but getting that random wall shot with FMJ is dopamine inducing, plus it's cheap. I also had a newer player tell me its easier to use than the Winfield since the firerate is so fast (and closer to modern day shooter firerates). - The Mako is ok? I dont see a reason to lever it since its so inaccurate and has a fairly low magazine size. In truth, the Centennial outshines it in most scenarios, especially with bleed being an option. - For fucks sake please nerf the Centennial. I see 5-6 Centennials a match with bleed ammo applying heavy bleed. It might be just me, but with the new weapon unlock changes, no one uses anything but Centennials or Mosins now, its honestly frustrating. I dont think it should literally outshine a Mako or be so close to it in stats that it doesn't matter. Pacts and Cache: - All of the pacts are fantastic. I do like that Lawful is the perfect "keep me in PvP since that's where most of the fun is", but Witness and Beserker adds a layer of role-making for my teammates in trios. One guy for major PvP, one for boss killing, one for tracking and reviving. Its so very unique. - I love the Cache system so much, its like a store that actually makes me use all my tokens and makes me want to get more, plus it changes the game a lot. Plus extra money with cash registers are nice. The restoration medkit is the best part for me, I didn't see it get abused terribly often. I actually kinda prefer seeing caches being static personally, RNG can lead to frustrating scenarios. Challenges: - Personally, they are extremely annoying, especially for my friends who just got the game for this event. They kept getting challenges for ammo types that they didn't want to use or couldn't even unlock besides grinding their gun (they aren't the biggest FPS gamers, but they try their best). I feel the challenges should come naturally, not so much "force me to get headshots with a Pistol for the 3rd time in a row" Skins and Prices: - Overall the battlepass skins are beautiful. I love ornamental skins and black with gold is a sexy combination. I'd also love to see more skins like Spare Dime, just beautiful clean and sleek. Bug skins are "ok", the ornamental ones just outclassed them, but I dig the feel. Personally I think we shouldn't copy skinlines tho, don't put 3 of the same bug skin on 3 different guns, it just seems a bit lazy. - The prices of the hunters are actually nuts. Dawn and Dusk were cheaper, idk why the Doctors were 20$. I think they are of the same quality and are fantastic.

[@jumblestiltskin1365]

I liked the changes to how the event points are used. The new guns are great, liked them and used then a lot. Felt the pacts were reasonable in terms of balance, lawful pact wasn't much use to me as a solo though and felt very strong for teams. Used death pact most though as a solo with the last one a close second.

[@Mrdestiny17]

Honestly, this was the first event in two years I didnt grind through the entire event. Pretty let down especially since the event traits have been kinda the same for the past 3 events and the new weapons were a let down. Mako is fun, but two new weapons to play with, like 3 new traits, and the caches were not enough to keep me invested. Skins were underwhelming. Idk tho, Hunt was the only game I played for like 2 years as well so idk if I just have burnout at this point. Hoping the next event has more stuff in it and more NEW unique traits

[@LoderryPlaysPVP]

I absolutely love the sealed caches

[@jak582filmweb]

Personally I like the new weapons but I feel like the Marathon is extremely underpriced, I would put the base variant at 125HDs at least, and swift at 150HDs. It's just a better version of winfield in all regards pretty much, and the aim downsight fire rate is insane while still having great ammo reserve - with it two-shotting with FMJ up to a pretty good distance with at least an okay aim and ability to consistly hit bodies you can dominate, just spam people down trying to pierce every tree or wall they run behind and you will never run out of ammo because you have like 20 spare, 40 if stacked with pistol, and regen a lot of it with ammo boxes

[@GudrezBilly]

I BEAT HOMEREEL TO THE TIMEPIECE? WOOOOOOOOOOO! Also 100% agree about the ornate skins. Love 'em!

[@Jonitherat172]

I Love the Mako with explosive ammo and levering. Oh you want to Push me with shotgun or melee me? No we both explode.

[@Gibblegobblegoob]

Can you ask them to look at the 1858 Remington its a civil war classic it featues a cylinder that is quickly swapped out with a pull of a a pin

[@Saccade_HS]

Didn't bother with the battlepass this time around, partially in anticipation for what's next, also not being too keen on the new legendaries, but that's just a style preference. Agree that the sealed cache should not have a fixed location, aside from camping it pulled players away from banishes, undermining that central mechanic as a draw for combat. I like the addition of the Marathon. Having a cheap and forgiving rifle for newer players or just to mess around on a budget run. Also it sounds better than the Winnie XD

[@Albertmars32]

yo HomeReel would you be so kind as to tell the Lead director of Hunt to please implement gyroscope support for ps5 on the upcoming hunt showdown 1896 patch. 🙏

[@misterio3678]

It was pretty standard, nothing crazy. I wish they went a little bit more "overboard" like a bit more extreme events. Also the whole peacekeeper thing just meant people waiting in bushes for you to leave so they can pick up, restore bars, and come back/leave. It encourages passive, ratty gameplay. And I think that crytek has been encouraging this gameplay a LOT in the last events. And it's not the kind of lobbies I enjoy.

[@dizo-jp2td]

God loves you all

[@misterio3678]

@@dizo-jp2td huh?

[@ondrejvasak1054]

I really like this event, maybe the most out of all that we had in this battle pass style. Only thing I don't like is the event medkit. It's just way too easy to restore bars. And you can do it without contesting the objective or playing PvP and repeatedly.

[@collaide]

Personally I didn't play this event a lot. Partially because I was busy and partially because I feel like events aren't that exciting. Pass progress is extremely slow unless you play several hours every day. And additionally, event perks bring randomness. Like people getting revived more than they should be able to or having more HP bars remaining than what should be possible. Other than that I feel like the event was decent. But seriously trading needs to get an update, I'm tired of shooting someone in the face 8m away from me, only for me to die to their melee weapon bc they have 150 ping.

[@nikolasubaric]

I really liked looting bars, honestly felt like a mechanic that should be in the game by default in some form. The ornate skins I absolutely LOVE, while I really dislike the bug skins

[@DarthZombie510]

I also liked event traits not needing pledge marks to be triggered. But it was severely undermined by Peacekeeper being busted + packmule bonus being by far the strongest synergy of the event. Also, a big issue over the past 3 events is the amount of restoration. It's super powerful and won't mind using it, but I don't feel Hunt was designed with it in mind. As for the event progression itself, it's the same and it gets boring. Relying on challenges as the main driver for gaining event points is almost as if someone wanted to justify challenges as something more than a fun distraction. I don't enjoy it, the gameplay itself should be the #1 source of event points. This can be adjusted while keeping time to unlock everything about the same, but I bet Crytek won't change this, just like they won't change the tired totem mechanics

[@TheColoneloftruth]

as a solo main, lawful was easily my LEAST picked. using Peacekeeper was only ever useful if I already had necro, or if I was against a lot of fire damage. Death pact was way more useful for me when scoping out a situation in progress from stealth, esp when paired with a beetle. Primal was nice for getting xp on weapons easily for weapon unlocks, but didn't have enough pvp applications, aside from having a very easy bonus pledge mark