Unfinished: Hunt: Showdown (03/01/18)

Neat, looks promising

@adamwd: Yeah, this seems like a cool evolution of the battle royale concept. I hope it improves and gets more attention and support.

Why do I have a Moba kind of feel for this.

Zombies are your mobs.

The premise of the game is interesting. Will keep an eye on this as it develops

This game is rad. I really loved Evolve all the way through and feared it's downfall might signal the death or hibernation of that PVE/PVP hunting concept, so I'm psyched to see this getting some traction. I'm definitely getting in once some of these rough edges are sanded down (I am, admittedly, flabbergasted that you can seemingly work yourself into a state where you can't get a new recruit? That's just a huge feel-bad if that's the case).

EDIT: You apparently get a level 0 if you can't purchase a new recruit, so that's good!

Something about the movement of this game gives me a headache.

@bluubeetle: people mentioned in chat you get a level 0 if you run out of money.

Been hoping for this!

Seeing the shadow of a foe cast by the eerie blue light was awesome! If the game has more of those kinds of moments to offer, it could be really special.

I'M FAST, I'M AGILE, I'M IMMUNE TO POISON AND I'M 150.

What am I?

As someone who's not a fan of this style of game, I have no desire to play this. But I very much want someone to take that engine and make a first-person Bayou Billy reboot.

"A cross between Evolve and PUBG..."

Ohhh...

Man, this game is just oozing with atmosphere. I hope it turns out well.

Is it just me, or does the movement in this looks really sluggish?

Looks great, and like a game I never, ever want to play because I'll literally die of a heart attack.

@steveurkel: Very nice. I had hoped something like that was in place, that's good to hear, thanks.

I don't think i'd play it, but i'd watch the hell out of the GB crew playing this together!

Man I would not be wading in that water......

Ahhh, I see Brad is maintaining his PUBG strat of being as far away as possible from his team lol

So Chest Rockwell has been rocking too much DOTA 2 to put out a new Handsome Boy Modeling School album. Thanks for the hot tip, Steam overlay pop up.

Detective-vision in The Year of Our Lord 2018. ugh.

I'm sure that if you run out of money, they'll let you pay with CryCoins

Stopped watching after 3 minutes. No idea what this game's like.

@jimmyoct87: I'm trying so hard not to make a similar comment but omg the most obvious deaths at the end had me laughing ... I'll just peek in here and bing lights out

I'm torn between this and deep rock galactic both look very fun cooperative games

@avantegardener:

.... Jeff Gerstmann

This seems kinda similar to Escape from Tarkov. But that's just my impression from watching both games, not playing them.

This seems interesting

Hey @benpack! Just a heads up. You hold shift (or change it to toggle in options) to aim down sights once your gun is up.

It's kind of the dumbest thing about this game, but it should help in the long range firefights.

@bigbosslebowski: Or maybe it's just Ben's movement?

Anyone have any reference for how this runs on a 970?

Am I missing something or is the metagame here fundamentally flawed? In a game where resources are so limited and things are at stake every round isn't this going to have a huge positive feedback loop? Players who win get more money and rank up more (which are not lost if they die) which gives them a better chance of winning next time because they can augment their recruits with better weapons and more healing items.

I wouldn't want to play a game where I'm going up against a guy with a better gun than more and more health potions not because he got lucky looting but because he had an advantage out of the gate. Its the sort of system that would make it very difficult for new players to break in months down the line.

This game seems literally impossible to balance? Like, everything about this loadout stuff feels like a P2W game without the pay as an out.

That motion blur is pretty nauseating as well.

3 minutes in. Oh right, now i remember why i shouldn't watch ql's where Ben is playing a fps.

@hayt: My thoughts exactly after watching this. The overall concept seems like a cool take on this style of game but the idea of better players starting out with the extra advantage of better guns and more healing seems like a recepie for a low player base long term.

I think that one of the big draw cards for the Battle Royale style games is that everyone starts at a level playing field and getting good guns and healing early on is largely based on luck giving less experienced players more of a chance

Ben knows you can hold shift after going into iron sights to zoom in dramatically further on the long gun right........right?

This game has lots of potential. I'm a console guy though, so there would have to be a port incoming. Great expansion on the BR concept.

The environments look incredible, but the whole PvP-ing seems a bit weak..

There's something about the character movement and the sudden kills that I don't like.

Holy mouse sensitivity Batman

@hayt: That sounds like every multiplayer game with a persistent perk system. Matchmaking would take care of that, maybe?

OK. I am going to buy it dammit. This looks fun to play with a great partner. Add me on Steam: adamcboyd. Let's bounty some hunters. Oh, and since I am a stranger, a doll will be shipped to your address should you need them for therapy usage. Purely your call though.

Also if spiders lived to 150 we'd be fuuuuuucked.

@ripelivejam: it is a problem in many games but this looks uniquely bad due to

1. The small teams (you and a friend is it) means that individual power matter much more than in proper team games.

2. The 1 death and your out system means any encounter is unforgiving. You die you're done.

3. The objective in the game is chiefly surviving and this gives players with more money more access to more items that heal you which seems crazytown. I admit I haven't played the game but it looks worrying to me.

@benpack Please turn down your mouse sensitivity duder! I never suffer from motion sickness but both FPS games you've played this week have made me feel it and I'm almost certain it's your absurd mouse sensitivity.

Don't bring poison, bring bullets.

I'd be more interested in this game if the load times weren't so ridiculous.

@hayt: From what I heard in the QL, you don't need to do much to get rewards and you can leave the map at any time. So I guess the strat for new players is to avoid other players like the plague and go in and out of the map a few times for short bursts to level up, before trying to take anyone on.

I dunno if that's viable enough, or particularly fun, but seems like is maybe an option.

@crazybagman: I've got a 970 at home and I was getting 30+ fps on high settings, haven't tried dropping it down to see if I can get closer to 60 yet.

@reasonableman: it is really good, but I don't think its really a play on a Battle Royale game. Yes you can kill other players but the main objective is to kill the bounty and extract with it. Either way I love this game so far.

The sound design seems well done in this.

The economy looks like it needs major tweaking, but the concept is really good. Very tense ending to this QL