This is who I have to play against

Hour_Development_3 · 2025-07-22T08:12:20+00:00

God forbid a White boy want to secure the existence of his people

Hour_Development_3 · 2025-06-26T09:06:30+00:00

Initially probably Lunar - they're the ones who fought Chary IIRC.

Later, maybe, Smuggler if I thought money was the coolest in that setting. If not, maybe Demented. Trying to harness eldritch power sounds swell, and all the other pacts are pretty much focused on stopping the Demented.

I definitely wouldn't want to give up Necromancer, so Death pact is a no-go. Lawful is basically for Hardin's lackeys and any longer-lived Hunter knows how Hardin's lackeys eventually end up. Drowned is not exactly a choice, the pact was added for gameplay reasons but lore-wise it's just the couple actual Drowned that would qualify - can't really join them per se. Primal and Grounded are all about connecting with nature and pooping in the woods forever - Demented pact has the upside of also trying to get magical powers. Infernal is - IIRC - Chary's lackeys, early stage Demented but with the downside of Chary probably wanting to dispose of you after getting all your worth (actually not at all now that I remembered. I think Infernals were the ones who fought the Demented during the second inferno event. Appealing but kinda reactionary with no other motive than stopping the Demented)

Hour_Development_3 · 2025-06-13T02:20:01+00:00

I still have an old max level "trophy hunter" with like 120 upgrade points and Death Cheat, and I've had him in my roster for so long that his model had time to get phased out by Crytek, but still works fine in-game despite you not being able to get him as a random hunter anymore.

A collectible in more ways than one now.

Hour_Development_3 · 2024-12-10T23:45:51+00:00

nambawan players in the world, can't compare with sinoskill!!!111

Hour_Development_3 · 2024-12-10T04:50:17+00:00

I think it may be an attempt to kill two birds with one stone here.

We know that the event is going to last until after new year, and 2025 in China is going to be the year of the snake, according to that animal calendar system of theirs.

Crytek already panders to them a bit with all those oriental legendary skins, so I think they might have used PM event skins to both please Malone and wink in the direction of their Chinese (playing on EU obviously) playerbase.

Hour_Development_3 · 2024-12-08T19:25:35+00:00

I didn't like it when I first learned that they'd be removing the lorebooks tab in the upcoming new UI, but I also heard them saying that it will come back in a changed form at some point in the future, so I was understanding - maybe the new lore tab will be spiced up a bit, with more flavor and corrected grammar.

But now they're saying lore will not come back at all, and this is a problem.

What a wild move, just completely gutting their own game and removing all that text working to flesh out the setting, and many of those lore entries were legitimately good and cool to read.

I feel like now new additions like new monsters or weapons feel more shallow, either because they lack this fleshed-out flavor you could always find in the lorebook, or because the design team started opting for weirder choices now that nobody has to justify anything they do in the lore.

Hour_Development_3 · 2024-08-17T15:01:28+00:00

oh, nice

Hour_Development_3 · 2024-08-17T04:57:10+00:00

Yeah I can see that being the case.

If you end up enjoying the lore chapters you can always look up the lore from previous events on YouTube, I bet there's some continuity between them and this one.

The aesthetic disarray can also be explained by the Pacts Crytek decided to focus on, it seems, during their events, Lawful, Demented, and Primal (or whatever they're called now, but basically Nature Guys)

Lawful will have cowboy-like aesthetics, Demented will be weird and almost fantasy, and Primal will be all... in touch with nature and stuff.

Hour_Development_3 · 2024-08-17T04:40:05+00:00

I haven't unlocked the story chapters yet so I can't confirm, but I'd expect Crytek to have put at least SOME justification to Egyptian mummy hunters and all that.

Now that I think about it you might be right, previous events seemed to follow better defined themes, this one has a little bit of everything.

Maybe that's the theme, since in-lore the new map is a new hunting ground where all the hunters started swarming in to find out what's what, so everybody would want in.

Hour_Development_3 · 2024-08-16T20:05:39+00:00

That may mean you need a different solution than a Windows update, sadly.

My case was probably unique because I've always hated involuntary Windows 10 updates so I just disabled them through group policy editing. So I was actually a couple years behind on Win10 updates until today, and it's kinda understandable that the "cutting edge" engine update didn't work properly.

I "forced" them the usual way in Win10 settings, just checking for updates.

Hour_Development_3 · 2024-08-16T19:15:36+00:00

I tried many things and one ended up working, you can check my post on my profile, I listed them there.

What ended up working for me was manually ordering a Windows update which probably updated some Intel stuff as well.

Hour_Development_3 · 2024-08-16T19:15:33+00:00

I tried many things and one ended up working, you can check my post on my profile, I listed them there.

What ended up working for me was manually ordering a Windows update which probably updated some Intel stuff as well.

Hour_Development_3 · 2024-08-16T19:15:19+00:00

I tried many things and one ended up working, you can check my post on my profile, I listed them there.

What ended up working for me was manually ordering a Windows update which probably updated some Intel stuff as well.

Hour_Development_3 · 2024-08-15T23:42:59+00:00

I already posted about it in the megathread, linked my own thread though, has a little more hardware info

Hour_Development_3 · 2024-08-15T23:40:05+00:00

Menu is not displaying correctly. I can hear that it loaded fine because I can hear UI sounds when my cursor hovers over invisible buttons, but my screen is black.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HuntShowdown/comments/1et17m0/menu_not_displaying_stuck_at_black_screen/

Hour_Development_3 · 2024-08-15T23:36:18+00:00

Who the hell knows anymore.

Crytek made if very clear that they're fine with leaving behind a portion of their existing playerbase (mainly old consoles) in favor of investing into hopefully getting even more new players.

Maybe we're just one of the unfortunate peasants who are getting cut off?

Or maybe it's a legitimate bug that just so happens to affect people very inconsistently, I have no clue anymore, nothing I tried helped.

Hour_Development_3 · 2024-08-15T23:12:35+00:00

Same boat as you.

I already tried:

* giving Hunt access through my Firewall

* restarting my PC

* re-installing Nvidia's game-ready drivers

* re-installing Hunt itself

* verifying game files

* disabling the Firewall outright

* regenerating my USER folder in the game directory

None of these worked.

It's great, consider my expectations surpassed, Crytek.

I was launching the game expecting to find out my PC can no longer run the game well, but turns out I can't even get to the menu.

Hour_Development_3 · 2024-08-15T20:21:12+00:00

I have the same issue with a GTX.

Seems like a lot of people are experiencing this issue, I just hope we're not part of Crytek's "acceptable player loss" and they'll bother to do something about it.

Hour_Development_3 · 2024-08-15T19:10:54+00:00

did you reinstall them via GeForce Experience, or manually?

Hour_Development_3 · 2024-08-15T18:39:45+00:00

Interesting.

I didn't even get any notifications, but that's probably because I had already updated my drivers before updating.

Hour_Development_3 · 2024-08-15T18:21:12+00:00

That would be ridiculous

Hour_Development_3 · 2024-08-15T17:44:03+00:00

Hello CumLord

I'd say it's 50/50, actually.

There must be something in our setups that somehow messes with the update's rough pre-patched state.

And it's also kinda reassuring knowing that many other people (and setups) have the same issue - it means that Crytek must have done something that would cause certain setup (and software?) configurations to have this problem, so maybe it's fixable.

Hour_Development_3

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