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Basticle
Sep 12, 2011


https://streamable.com/xqrss

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Mordja
Apr 26, 2014

Hell Gem
Hunt Five-O is out.

Rysithusiku
Nov 10, 2013

Witness the assless man and despair!
All futures point to a world of filled holes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW_lVp-CHgU

Basticle
Sep 12, 2011


https://streamable.com/5ic7t

Mordja
Apr 26, 2014

Hell Gem
New roadmap's up, looks like we'll be getting a new boss in a month.
https://www.huntshowdown.com/roadmap

Tinfoil Papercut
Jul 27, 2016

by Athanatos
Haven't played in a long while but I hear shotguns are stupid powerful right now and everyone is quitting.

I don't think this nebulous launching of the game is a good thing. I don't even know what phase Hunt is in right now, is it EA? Is it beta? Is it out? I think that a firm launch date with the associated marketing has been a successful thing in the gaming industry and elsewhere, I'm not sure why you would want to steer away from that formula.

Mordja
Apr 26, 2014

Hell Gem

Tinfoil Papercut posted:

Haven't played in a long while but I hear shotguns are stupid powerful right now and everyone is quitting.

I don't think this nebulous launching of the game is a good thing. I don't even know what phase Hunt is in right now, is it EA? Is it beta? Is it out? I think that a firm launch date with the associated marketing has been a successful thing in the gaming industry and elsewhere, I'm not sure why you would want to steer away from that formula.
Numbers are around the same as ever. :shrug:

And the game's still in EA; they were originally going to announce their 1.0 plans alongside this roadmap but now they're planning to do it next version.

Tinfoil Papercut
Jul 27, 2016

by Athanatos

Mordja posted:

Numbers are around the same as ever. :shrug:

And the game's still in EA; they were originally going to announce their 1.0 plans alongside this roadmap but now they're planning to do it next version.

Unless they popped back up, I thought they were down a solid 30% from late last year.

Would be nice to see them actually "launch"

Skyarb
Sep 20, 2018

MMMPH MMMPPHH MPPPH GLUCK GLUCK OH SORRY I DIDNT SEE YOU THERE I WAS JUST CHOKING DOWN THIS BATTLEFIELD COCK DID YOU KNOW BATTLEFIELD IS THE BEST VIDEO GAME EVER NOW IF YOULL EXCUSE ME ILL GO BACK TO THIS BATTLECOCK

Tinfoil Papercut posted:

Unless they popped back up, I thought they were down a solid 30% from late last year.

Would be nice to see them actually "launch"

Yup they are down that much. Its a slow downward trend. A tiny uptick happened when they release new updates but its still an overall trend downward.

https://steamcharts.com/app/594650#1y

Basticle
Sep 12, 2011


Shotguns are in a great place right now, anyone who complains about them being too overpowered is an idiot.

Also the game runs really really well now (as in framerate) since mid January, they desperately need another free weekend on Steam to get more people to try it.

AbsoluteLlama
Aug 15, 2009

By the power vested in me by random musings in tmt... I proclaim you guilty of crustophilia!

Basticle posted:

Shotguns are in a great place right now, anyone who complains about them being too overpowered is an idiot.

Also the game runs really really well now (as in framerate) since mid January, they desperately need another free weekend on Steam to get more people to try it.

Agree on both of these. The gun balance seems almost perfect right now. I've never run across such a wide range of loadouts before, and almost everything except for caldwell small ammo guns is good.

Basticle
Sep 12, 2011


https://steamcommunity.com/games/770720/announcements/detail/1728727246226512714

Rysithusiku
Nov 10, 2013

Witness the assless man and despair!
All futures point to a world of filled holes.
seriously I'm just confused at this point wtf is going through the devs' heads.
'we don't want camping! we're going to put in anti-camp mechanics! oh btw here are trip mines for you.'
also fuckin lol at essentially reverting the changes they made to shotguns last round

Basticle
Sep 12, 2011


Rysithusiku posted:

also fuckin lol at essentially reverting the changes they made to shotguns last round

thats not how I read it at all?

Rysithusiku
Nov 10, 2013

Witness the assless man and despair!
All futures point to a world of filled holes.
they already toned down the accuracy buff from 5.0, and now they're reducing the range buff as well. I'm not gonna say shotguns are back where they were pre-5.0 but closer to there than when they first put 5.0 out for testing

DarkDobe
Jul 11, 2008

Things are looking up...

I have clearly missed a lot but going over this patch -

What are red clues? Anti camping of some sort?

I clearly missed that - the gist from what I've googled is that clues change colour if there are other hunters near by?
How does this address the far bigger issue that is people camping bosses and waiting to play clean-up? Or is that part of it?

At least when I played, that was 90% of encounters/deaths - fighting/killing the boss and being interrupted by people that had been waiting, instead of engaging when they got there first.

Basticle
Sep 12, 2011


Clues turn from blue to red if enemy hunters are nearby. I'm 99% sure its just if you can visually see the clue, its not on darksight.

I know a bunch of you think I'm just constantly cheerleading this game and glossing over problems with the game/dev but boss camping isnt really a thing now in my experience. And if someone is camping the boss thats on you for not being more observant before charging in.

Basticle fucked around with this message at 20:03 on Mar 31, 2019

Basticle
Sep 12, 2011


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLWKytqi8cY

DarkDobe
Jul 11, 2008

Things are looking up...

Basticle posted:

Clues turn from blue to red if enemy hunters are nearby. I'm 99% sure its just if you can visually see the clue, its not on darksight.

I know a bunch of you think I'm just constantly cheerleading this game and glossing over problems with the game/dev but boss camping isnt really a thing now in my experience. And if someone is camping the boss thats on you for not being more observant before charging in.

Just going off my experience the last time I played, especially during the solo tourney - where nobody ever engaged first, because they knew they'd just end up getting jumped. Everyone tried waiting to kill on extract instead, or at the least 'third partying' during the fight.

Also 'being more observant' is loving laughable when it's so easy to hide near enough to be a threat once the boss encounter starts. I'm not even opposed to it -it's a viable strategy, and definitely has risks (mainly waiting around gives more people time to arrive) - but dismissing it as 'git good' is pretty pathetic.

Skyarb
Sep 20, 2018

MMMPH MMMPPHH MPPPH GLUCK GLUCK OH SORRY I DIDNT SEE YOU THERE I WAS JUST CHOKING DOWN THIS BATTLEFIELD COCK DID YOU KNOW BATTLEFIELD IS THE BEST VIDEO GAME EVER NOW IF YOULL EXCUSE ME ILL GO BACK TO THIS BATTLECOCK
Game is kinda dead but 6.0 just dropped.

AbsoluteLlama
Aug 15, 2009

By the power vested in me by random musings in tmt... I proclaim you guilty of crustophilia!

Skyarb posted:

Game is kinda dead but 6.0 just dropped.

Not so dead you can't find games usually, but it's small enough that I run into the same people regularly. They really do need to do another free weekend though.

Basticle
Sep 12, 2011




https://steamcommunity.com/games/594650/announcements/detail/1786148775485541802


New boss, new rifle, new revolver, explosive melee weapon, traps and more


Unrelated this is a video of my 2 friends playing yesterday and I can't stop laughing

https://streamable.com/sdzqm

Captain Beans
Aug 5, 2004

Whar be the beans?
Hair Elf
I kind of wish they would come up with some kind of f2p or freemium model for this game. It’s super cool but the community is tiny.

Something like if you buy the game and lose everything your base line dudes at at THIS level (money, rank something). But if you play for free your base line is at THIS level of poo poo (less money or something). Or you just earn money at a lower rate or something. Or maybe free players only get a single hunter slot.

Skyarb
Sep 20, 2018

MMMPH MMMPPHH MPPPH GLUCK GLUCK OH SORRY I DIDNT SEE YOU THERE I WAS JUST CHOKING DOWN THIS BATTLEFIELD COCK DID YOU KNOW BATTLEFIELD IS THE BEST VIDEO GAME EVER NOW IF YOULL EXCUSE ME ILL GO BACK TO THIS BATTLECOCK
They need to do something. Honestly even partner with epic games (lol), just anything to give this game a bigger population, I've never played anything like it and I kinda love it.

Rysithusiku
Nov 10, 2013

Witness the assless man and despair!
All futures point to a world of filled holes.
I pretty much only play with 1 friend anymore and we run across the same 50ish players constantly.
If they want to get players they need to do more than a free weekend. they need to do like a free WEEK. give people the chance to get past the 'god I suck at this game and I die to zombies or a bullet I never saw coming every time' tier of play into actual games.
Honestly, this game has kind of a rough up front appeal and a difficulty curve like hitting a brick wall face first. Once you get in though, that's when you get hooked.

Crappers
Jun 16, 2012
Yeah I had a good run with this and always want to come back for new updates but finding consistent and full games in Aus these days is a pain in the rear end. Shame because the game is loving good and very original. Will stick to Insurgency and Mordhau unless things pick up!

Mordja
Apr 26, 2014

Hell Gem
More people play Hunt than play (either) Insurgency tho...

Basticle
Sep 12, 2011


Mordja posted:

More people play Hunt than play (either) Insurgency tho...

maybe not in Australia?


also holy poo poo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBfZg0dAidc





Basticle fucked around with this message at 16:48 on May 4, 2019

Quicksilver6
Mar 21, 2008



I love this game's atmosphere and weapon designs, but I hate having to play with others. I guess I should play on Australian servers?

Also why, for the love of god, can I not center the crosshair in the center of the screen instead of the stupid Destiny-style "lower third of the screen" position.

Rysithusiku
Nov 10, 2013

Witness the assless man and despair!
All futures point to a world of filled holes.
so you like the visuals, but dislike everything about actually playing the game? good luck with that.

Basticle
Sep 12, 2011


landing a bomb lance dynamite hit is the most satisfying thing in any game ever


sorta related https://streamable.com/xoa0i

Skyarb
Sep 20, 2018

MMMPH MMMPPHH MPPPH GLUCK GLUCK OH SORRY I DIDNT SEE YOU THERE I WAS JUST CHOKING DOWN THIS BATTLEFIELD COCK DID YOU KNOW BATTLEFIELD IS THE BEST VIDEO GAME EVER NOW IF YOULL EXCUSE ME ILL GO BACK TO THIS BATTLECOCK
Next update is 1.0

https://www.huntshowdown.com/roadmap

DarkDobe
Jul 11, 2008

Things are looking up...

I'm having quite too much fun in Quickplay.
It suits my kamikaze sprint-everywhere approach, since I am always the first at the wellspring.
It's also pretty neat to just experiment with odd loadouts and sometimes scraping by the skin of your teeth.
I played 4 rounds tonight and won twice - the first time sniping with an obrez from a rooftop (that thing is way too accurate) - and the second with a silenced Sparks and a Sabre, where the last dude I killed blundered into one of my many, many bear traps and let me ambush him from the ceiling like a ninja vampire.

Basticle
Sep 12, 2011


"Obrez" and "accurate" do not belong in the same sentence.

Rysithusiku
Nov 10, 2013

Witness the assless man and despair!
All futures point to a world of filled holes.
no he's right. I think there was some slight change in the last patch (maybe a hit reg adjustment?). I've been seeing alot of people running around with them the last few days and they're STUPID accurate atm

DarkDobe
Jul 11, 2008

Things are looking up...

Basticle posted:

"Obrez" and "accurate" do not belong in the same sentence.

I pegged a dude 2 for 2 at like 100+ meters when he was closing towards my barn.

Ive never had the obrez 'miss' if the sights are on.

Obrez + Shorty Spectre is the dream combo.

Basticle
Sep 12, 2011


I guess I should clarify. The obrez sights sway around so much that getting a good aim is drat near impossible for me but yeah it'll hit what you're aiming at.

DarkDobe
Jul 11, 2008

Things are looking up...

I harassed this man for a good few minutes, including smacking him with a shotbolt, before he fled to that upper area...


https://giant.gfycat.com/SlightLeanHairstreakbutterfly.webm


___________________

I love the Sparks.
I know there are better guns but god drat it is satisfying putting people down with the clunkiest rifle.

DarkDobe fucked around with this message at 02:35 on May 16, 2019

DarkDobe
Jul 11, 2008

Things are looking up...



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DarkDobe
Jul 11, 2008

Things are looking up...


https://gfycat.com/HealthyActiveAmurminnow

Wherein a man is Beed.


https://gfycat.com/CalmValidGrunion

Wherein men are 'pooned.

DarkDobe fucked around with this message at 18:44 on May 26, 2019

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