Hunt: Showdown simply acquired its huge 1896 re-launch–one that overhauls Crytek’s supernatural extraction shooter and updates it for current-gen consoles–and it is doing the numbers on Steam to show it.
Crytek’s shooter has all the time had a constant participant depend of round 20,000-30,000 folks on Steam over the previous couple of years, slowly however certainly cementing its place as among the best extraction shooters out there. The Hunt: Showdown 1896 launch has pushed the sport’s concurrent Steam gamers to new heights, reaching over 55,000 gamers and counting at time of writing, in accordance with SteamDB.
It is a large second for Hunt: Showdown. The 1896 replace overhauls the 2018 shooter’s visuals, with an improve to the most recent model of the CryEngine and all of the improved lighting and audio updates that include it. The modifications are so dramatic that Crytek is ending assist of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One variations of the sport. House owners of the last-gen console variations, nonetheless, will probably be upgraded free of charge to the PS5 and Xbox Sequence X|S variations. It additionally provides the sport’s first new map in years (set within the Colorado Rocky Mountains, which is the primary map set outdoors the swamps of Louisiana), and introduces new enemies, weapons, weapon variants, and cosmetics.
Controversially, it additionally overhauls the sport’s UI, which is incomes Hunt: Showdown 1896 “Mixed” recent reviews on Steam regardless of the sport’s total “Very Optimistic” ranking. A lot of the sport’s latest damaging opinions comment on the UI change, with one damaging evaluation stating the brand new replace “introduced with it a UI that was designed for console gamers” and “barely capabilities,” whereas one other calls the brand new important menu and UI “disgusting.”
There are gameplay modifications too, with main changes to numerous Hunter traits just like the broadly used Necromancer trait, modifications to make it so Hunters burn out sooner when downed and on hearth, diminished length for Choke bombs, improved Lure placement, and reworked bullet physics, together with bullet drop. Headshots will now all the time be an instantaneous kill as properly. The sport’s problem system has additionally been overhauled, with all gamers now having the identical weekly challenges, all of the targets of that are displayed on the in-game map.
For these concerned about seeing what Hunt: Showdown 1896 is all about, the sport is working a free weekend on Steam that ends on August 19, with an Xbox free weekend lasting till August 18. Hunt: Showdown 1896 can be discounted on all platforms by 20% till August 22, out there for $24 as a substitute of its typical $30.