Hunt: Showdown

I think it was bichii who said recently said she was addicted to it. Might be worth tagging her (idk how to do it on mobile) for an opinion on this

Are the extra hunters worth it? I'm a bit sad in that respect that I like to have "complete" versions as much as possible, but if I'm genuinely not missing out then yeah, I may get the cheapest.

I shall have a look at that YT person thank you. Quite like a good hardcore experience. Last year around this time we were all about Dead by Daylight, but as he's been obsessed with westerns since playing Red Dead, this might be a good fit for this year.

Is there crossplay?

Also jackfrags does videos occasionally that show the game quite well. (He is the main battlefield YouTuber but occasionally drops a hunt video to try and get everyone to play it).

Solo is still great fun but generally random team mates are helpful.

The tutorial is better than it used to be and there are now trials to do that helps you learn the ropes.

The dlc hunters look cool and some of them are a little harder to see due to their clothing but it's definitely not essential. There isn't any pay to win etc. The extra money you'd spend is just cool looking hunters and weapon skins.

Did you get it? 

I may have played it nearly all day today instead of doing house work. Some rage inducing loses and some epic wins. 

Playing solo puts you with lower ranked players. Playing with a random is similar and if you are pre made in a party it puts you with higher ranked players who aren't pre made. It mostly works pretty well. I deffo do better solo then in a pre made with my son. 

Get 3 clues to find out the boss location
(Unless you stumble across the boss before that)

There's either one or two boss's per map which says in the top left.

On the map if there's two bosses there is a Roman numeral showing you in you are in the first boss or second boss area of the map.

ALWAYS bring a med kit and a knife or duster. (Duster is great for immotators which you'll soon discover you really don't want to stab or shoot)

Generally around the boss lair you can find a large melee weapon like a large axe or hammer. These let you almost silently kill them.

Burning will make you lose health bars (same for being killed and your team mate revives you) you can only get lost bars back by killing and banishing a boss.

People love to camp with shotguns in the boss lair. Use things like dynamite and other tricks etc to make them move.

When your hunter survives you get trait points to upgrade your hunter, some of which make you way more powerful.

So so many more things to say...but...
I've probably said way too much already. Too much info. There's tonnes of great starter videos on YouTube if you both end up enjoying it.

I've wanted to play this since release but always bottled it, mostly due to lack of a co-op partner (I play a lot with my brother but in half hour bursts really these days), seeing a thread and the above messages, tempted to convince him to get it...

I noticed it's generally £10 for the disc (is it disc or disk!?) copy online. Or a cd keys type code is about £15. They want £35 on the Xbox and ps stores which is a bit of a piss take think.

Re clues that just depends of how many. So there's a clue in every "compound". There are two clues in the big central ones like Lawson station and the prison etc.
Then it just depends how the maps split. If it's only one boss everyone just goes for their clues and it narrows down the map or sometimes if players hear an explosion etc they will head to the compound they think it came from. Often if there's loads of noise and or explosions it can mean that is the boss lair and the team are trying to kill the boss quickly.

When the map is split sometimes one area will only have 4 compound so finding the boss is much quicker but the same for the other players spawned that side.

I've rarely found players camping clues but they do sometimes trap them so watch out for that. You can disarm them. If a clue has a hole in the middle it means a player has already been there and taken that clue and is potentially ahead of you. (You can still get that clue though).

Very rarely people can work together but 999/1000 no. Twice lately when I'm solo and already killed some people and I get to the boss late and a solo has picked up the bounty I've got on the mic and offered them the chance to run away and extract or fight me. Both times they ran then messaged me after saying thanks .

The intensity never goes away. After every fight I realise my heart is going way too fast. :/

I've turned off the music in the menu as it's too good and gets stuck in my head all day long. Soundtrack is on Spotify and it's decent. It's a made up band put together by members staff of crytek.

Voice chat has to be activated with down on the d pad I think and it's proximity so occasionally when I have a cheap hunter I run around like a crazy asking them if they want me to blow up the boss for them etc.

Your first 10 ish levels your hunter doesn't die. After that they are gone, all their traits and all weapons etc gone.

Any legendary hunters you unlock you have to buy again for $200 but they automatically come with 3 traits unlike the free hunters.

Under recruitment you'll always have a free hunter that comes with some cheap guns and items. At first you'll mostly use better guns by looting/stealing off dead players. Later you'll have looooads of cash and can bring hunters with all the Gucci weapons and bombs etc.

Also most towers you see have either ammo boxes or a gun in them. Also if you see a horse with a saddle etc on them there's usually a gun you can take and a pouch you can loot a consumables from.

You probably have already noticed but nothing auto reloads for you. So many times I'm caught out as I've changed guns quickly then after I forget to reload that first gun. Gets you killed. 

One last thing. On the map there are random small images of carriages. There are totally random but are supply points. These restock your ammo, has a tool box to loot (bombs etc), and has health kits to heal up.
Pretty important thing to know but also watch out for traps there is small penis people like to booby trap them.

Oh nice..bargain.

I just checked, £75 on xbox. 

This is so fucking tense

Yes, yes it is. 

Have you two managed to kill/banish/extract yet?