Hunt Showdown Update 1.7.2 Out Now, Comes With Dark Tribute And New Weapon Variations

Crytek has unleashed the Hunt Showdown update 1.7.2 patch notes for your viewing pleasure, which comes with a wealth of new content such as the Dark Tribute event and a wealth of new weapon variations.

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Dark Tribute

Mr. Orwell Chary is looking into ways to give the AHA advantage in the Hunt and is looking for donations from only the most experienced Hunters. Every day after finishing their missions, players will gain bloodline XP that will make them eligible to give tribute. Once certain thresholds are met, offer blood for Mr. Chary’s Dark Tribute and be reimbursed* with one of many rewards including: Hunt Dollars, Blood Bonds, Hunter slot, Bloodline XP, Equipment, Upgrade points, Legendary item instance, Legendary item unlock, or the exclusive Dark Tribute Hunter Bad Hand: Bad at faro and worse at poker, John Robertson was determined to find glory and gold at a card table. But he was fated to become the Revenant, and he lived as he died – making the best of a bad hand.

There are 4 thresholds of XP that the player needs to reach:

• Players can “offer the blood” after earning 2500 XP
• Players can “offer the blood” after earning 5000 XP
• Players can “offer the blood” after earning 7000 XP
• Players can “offer the blood” after earning 10000 XP or by paying 100 BBs
• Players who do not have enough experience to reach the final threshold may make a deal with Mr. Chary by paying him Blood Bonds but remember: Players can only do the final Tribute after reaching the first 3 thresholds.
• Progression resets every 24h. If the player used and unlocked all attempts, they can’t offer blood until the next day, when clock “resets”.

(*the XP used to offer blood will still be added to your bloodline progression as normal)

First Bounty Extraction bonus

With this update, we are bringing a new feature called “First Bounty Extraction Bonus”. This means that players can earn bonus XP and Hunt dollars for their first successful bounty extraction with each hunter. The bonus applied is as follows:

+15% Hunter XP.

+20% Hunt Dollars.

This bonus is a fixed percentage that will be added to the total XP and Hunt Dollars earned during the first mission where you successfully extract with the bounty.

This reward is not limited to once per day, but once per Hunter each day. Whether it is an existing hunter or a new recruit, the first successful bounty extraction with each hunter in a given day will grant this bonus.

Successfully extracting from a mission with the Bounty at least once per day for 5 days will grant additional rewards. Players will earn 25BB from this 5-day streak. Once completed, the progress will reset, and you can begin your streak again. However, if you miss a day, the progress will reset.

New Weapon Variants

Berthier Mle 92 Deadeye

Like other deadeye variants this weapon has been modified with a side mounted Deadeye scope making it easier to hit those longer-range shots. This new variant can also be paired with the Deadeye Scopesmith trait.

Scottfield Model 3 Spitfire

This innovative design includes an addition to the trigger guard in the form of an extra finger hold. This grip provides an extra point of leverage, making it much easier to cock the hammer of the weapon. The barrel has also been shortened to reduce weight which allows for even better ergonomics while the shooter is charging the weapon.

This means the Rate of Fire is significantly higher than the Base Scottfield Model 3, however the shortened barrel reduces the weight at the front of the weapon which results in higher recoil and a decrease in hip fire accuracy. Since the left hand is used to fan the weapon, the extra finger handle does not affect the rate of fire when fanning this weapon.

Scottfield Model 3 Precision

This version of the Scottfield adds a stock to the pistol grip, making a much more stable platform for shooting. This drastically reduces the recoil and increases the overall accuracy of the weapon. This addition also provides a more comfortable holding position, making it slight easier to prepare, resulting in a decrease in time between shots.

Scottfield Model 3 Swift

The top break action of the Scottfield already provides an increase to reload speeds in comparison to other revolvers in the arsenal. The addition of a speed loader mechanism means that the reload is even faster with the Model 3 Swift. These simple devised allow for all 6 rounds to be pre-loaded into them which are then ready to insert into the chamber and reload all rounds simultaneously.

However, this addition means that you can no longer top off this weapon one bullet at a time as all spare rounds must be kept in the speed loader for the next quick reload. This means any rounds left in the weapon while reloading will be ejected and lost to make room for the next load.

AI

Implemented several dedicated server performance improvements tied to the AI cast.

Audio

Crouch-walking over broken glass/cans is now slightly louder than crouch-walking on other surfaces. This sound is audible at roughly 25m.

Hunter

Friendly Fire

• The damage reduction from explosives to yourself and teammates has been removed.
• This means damage from the following is applied to you and your teammates as normal:

Dynamite (sticks and bundles)

Explosive ammo (including Explosive crossbow bolts)

Red Barrels

Bomb lance splash Damage

Developer note:

Recently, we have seen an increase in players attempting to exploit the friendly-fire damage reduction. Due to this, we have decided to remove friendly fire/self-damage reduction that we had previously introduced to the game. This means that you will need to be far more careful when using explosives near your teammates as they will now take the exact same amount of damage as enemy players.

Bounty Revive

• Increased the damage dealt when reviving a red-skulled teammate with the bounty from 25 to 50 HP.
• Players performing this revive will not be able to kill themselves accidentally. If you have 50HP or less while performing this revive, it will stop at 1HP but will still finish the revive process.

Developer note:

The bounty revive mechanic was introduced to give an advantage to those that play the objective. We are very pleased with this feature overall, but we must acknowledge that it can potentially create some difficult situations, especially for solo players taking on teams.

Increasing this damage to the size of a big health chunk will ensure that at some point, the reviving player will run out of healing regardless of the health chunk configuration, which results in the reviving player becoming just as vulnerable as the teammate they are reviving. This should give solo players a much better chance to even out the odds during a fight.

We will continue to monitor the feedback around these changes and if need be, will make further adjustments in the future.

Gunplay

Hunting Bow

• Increased the damage dealt when the bow is at minimum draw.

This means that performing a quick shot by tapping the fire button with inflict more damage to enemies.

• Increased the damage multiplier of the Basic Arrow against Grunts and Hellhounds.

This will increase the chances of performing a OHK on these enemies.

Hitting these enemies at center mass from 15m will have a much higher chance of performing a OHK (one hit kill).

Developer note:

While we feel the Bow is in a good position in the current meta, we still want to give it some more general utility so that it remains a viable option in most situations. These adjustments will ensure that it is slightly more versatile for both PvE and PvP encounters.

Dragon Breath Custom Ammo Type

• Increased the damage across all barrel lengths to improve the chance of landing a one hit kill (OHK). The OHK ranges for Dragonbreath are as follows:

Long and medium Barrel: 5-6m

Short Barrel: 3-4m

Developer note:

It’s important to note that a OHK at these ranges is still not a guarantee. A solid hit with the majority of pellets from this shell will still be required to ensure the OHK.

Winfield 1873 Full Metal Jacket ammo

• New Custom ammo type available for the Winfield 1873 and Winfield 1873c:

Similar in function to other FMJ ammo types, this increases wall penetration and the effective range.

Price – $35

Higher Rate of Fire weapon changes (Dual Wield, Levering and Fanning)

• Significantly increased the recoil for all pairs of Dual wield pistols making it harder to reacquire your target for a follow-up shot.
• Dual wielding, fanning, and levering no longer benefit from an accuracy bonus while crouching.

Developer note:

We know that there has been some friction within the community regarding these high rate of fire options, but we are hoping these changes will help to alleviate some of these frustrations. These changes are aimed at ensuring these options require a lot more skill to use. The extra recoil for Dual wielding will ensure players need to use more control and trigger discipline while using them. We feel that these changes will ensure that it is a bit harder for players to fall victim to an ambush from shots from Dual wielding, fanning, and levering.

Explosive Crossbow adjustments

• Significantly reduced the aim-punch that occurs when hit by the blast of an Explosive bolt. This means you will encounter much less screen movement when caught in the area of effect.
• Reduced the spare ammo for Explosive bolts to ¼ (previously 1/6).
• Slightly increased the hip fire spread for Explosives bolts.

Developer note:

We feel that overall, the Explosive crossbow is in a good spot in the meta, however we have seen several exploitive strategies appear (primarily on console) which means some changes are required. Along with the explosive changes mentioned in an earlier dev note, these changes are aimed at reducing some of the pain points that are experience, mostly from our console community. We also hope that by reducing the aim-punch this will give players a chance to reach quicker when caught in the explosion.

Trip Mines

• Poison Trip mines now produce a poison cloud that persists for 30 seconds.
• When triggered, a more intense level of poison will be applied to the player that set it off.
• Alert Trip mines will now deal a small amount of burning damage to players (slight charcoal of your health bar).
• Alert Trip mines can no longer be triggered when placed in water.

Developer note:

These changes are aimed at bringing these trip mines more in line with the Concertina Trip mine in terms of its effectiveness in a defensive role, ensure that all traps have roughly the same level of potential.

Poison Trip Mines will now produce a lasting effect meaning attackers will require a higher level of commitment if they want to push defenders. Triggering these mines is no longer a trivial matter due to these changes. This means defenders can capitalize on the attacker’s mistake, especially if the attacker commits to the fight and remains near the trap instead of retreating to a different location.

Alert Trip mines will now burn a small amount of health when triggered (charcoal effect to a small portion of the first health chunk). Two Alert Trip mines in proximity will be enough to set a Hunter on fire making them a far more effective tool, and not just when used near Red Barrels.

Happy trapping and stay vigilant!

Decoys

• Decoys will now produce a “footstep” sound. This sound will vary depending on the surface they hit to keep them in line with the standard footstep audio.
• The sound generated will behave exactly like a footstep of an enemy Hunter.
• Equipping, unequipping and throwing decoys is now less audible to other Hunters

Developer note:

Decoys have struggled to find a solid place in players inventories, especially when compared with the usability of its cousins the Blankfire decoys, Decoy Fuses and Chaos Bomb. Selecting Decoys meant that you have a lot more of them to throw around, but the practical use was rather limited as experienced players would easily notice the attempted deception based on the sound they produced.

We want Decoys to be more useful when enemies are close by, giving you a chance to use them more reliably to create confusion. We have opted to change the impact sound from the generic metallic sound to something that represented the sound of footsteps.

Players can now decide if they want to use them to trigger sound traps (Dogs, birds etc), trigger AI to provide a distraction or by using them to deceive enemy Hunters, especially in those high-tension moments such as approaching or defending a Boss lair.

World

Animal Sound Traps

• Horses are now audible at further ranges bringing them in line with other animal sound traps.

Due to a bug, the Horse audio was only audible at up to 80m which has now been rectified.

Horses will take a longer time to de-escalate from their “aggro” state after they have been alerted.

• Horses will now always be one shot to throwing axes regardless of where you hit the horse, bringing the damage to horses more in line with other powerful “one shot” attacks.

Doors and Windows Rendering Exploit

• Fixed an exploit tied to the rendering of windows and doors. It is no longer possible to tell if others have visited a compound based on whether the doors and windows have rendered or not.

Doors and windows will now only be determined by how close you are to the compound and is no longer impacted by other players visiting a compound first.

Developer note:

This exploit was the result of a bug and was not intended by the team. We have been attempting to track down this bug for quite a while and have now found a good solution to this problem. From now on, it will no longer be possible to draw conclusion about other players and their presence in a nearby compounds based on whether the doors and windows have rendered in or not.

UI

Store

• Added the Berthier Carbine Deadeye variant for $388
• Added the Scottfield Model 3 Spitfire variant for $108
• Added the Scottfield Model 3 Precision variant for $85
• Added the Scottfield Model 3 Swift variant for $95
• Added the Winfield 1873 Full Metal Jacket ammo for $35
• Added the Winfield 1873c Full Metal Jacket ammo for $35
• Slightly reduced the modifier given when selling equipment.

From 80% to 50%.

New Legendary Weapons

Winfield M1873 Musket Bayonet “Patre” for 800 BB.

“In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Unholy spirit, Hunters christen and cleanse the Bayou with the shot of this Winfield M1873 Bayonet. “

Flare Pistol “Death’s Beacon” for 400BB.

“Against a dark sky, this Flare Pistol blazes its foreboding message to Death, marking the next place from which souls need be collected, and graves dug. “

Romero 77 Talon “Maelstrom” for 700BB

“Get caught in the Maelstrom and you will be crushed in the stream of its current – sailor’s curse and Hunter’s dream – a tide of devastating shots.”

Bornheim No. 3 Match “Mockingbird” for 800BB

“It’s a sin to kill a mockingbird, but it’s no sin to kill a monster, and the call from this Bornheim No. 3 Match mimics the torment of its victims with every shrill cry from its deadly barrel. “

Bug Fixes

A full list of Known issues will be posted later. For now we want to highlight the following issues:

In some cases, when reloading, the client will load the bullets into your weapon but after a second or two it will show as if the reload never happened.

Developer notes:

We have managed to isolate the repro steps for this bug and are currently working on a fix. For now, we can share the steps so that you can avoid it and ensure it does not impact your gameplay.

This issue occurs if you perform a reload right after auto switch back to your weapon after using the last consumable in a slot (e.g. If you bring 2 vit shots, use the last one and reload as soon as it switches back to the weapon). To avoid this from happening, we recommend to not instantly reloading after the auto switch or cycle to another weapon first before performing a reload (or just wait a few seconds).

The posture Bug – the team are currently reviewing this bug that was reported to us recently. As this is not just tied to one or two weapons, it requires a pass to be performed on all weapon animations, which the animation team are in the process of doing. When we have more information we will provide it, but for now, rest assured we are working to resolve this as soon as possible.

Cain Visibility – We have seen a lot of feedback around Cain and how he is harder to spot in a match. We have brought these concerns to the art team and have an update for everyone. The team will be making some further changes to Cain which will come with update 1.8. We do not have specific details on what will be changed as the Art team are still working on this plan, but the main goal will be to improve the visibility of Cain in relation to the surrounding environment in Hunt.

In some cases, when a horse dies, there is a chance that it can push throwable objects such as throwing knives and Axes under the terrain. This mainly happens when they are already close to the terrain and if this happens will result in not being able to retrieve. In order to reduce these cases, we have made it so that these items are released from the body upon death. We will continue to investigate this issue and add additonal fixes to make retrieving items more reliable.

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