Crytek’s Hunt: Showdown is finally coming out of Early Access. After almost two years, the game will be released as final, on August 20th on Steam.
Few Early Access games make it to final these days. This is the main reason why I am not a supporter of the specific practice model. Even when games make it out, if you are playing the game from the initial EA release, by paying to be a beta tester, chances are you probably had enough of the game already. I will never forget DayZ.
Right now the game has mostly positive reviews on Steam and for an Early Access game is a bit unusual. I did not had the chance to try the game, but from what I hear is actually quite fun.
You can watch the latest developer live stream here:
You can also check out the game’s Roadmap with all the latest updates:
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This game is a very good take on the BR genre. Note that it started in the beginning of the craze. The devs are skilled and really listen to their community.
It’s incredible what they’ve added from people’s demands.
Worth my 30$ back then and still is.
Have over 100hours on this and recommend to any one who like stealth far west style gun play
lets not forget the worst optimisation here
Check the patch notes, it’s improved dramatically.
From day1 of EA it was very bad. Right now it’s much much better and it is a beautiful game imo.
Demanding an “Early Access” game to be “Optimized” as a released game should while still on early access…… faceplam.
Not really face palm at all. I would 100% agree with you if they weren’t charging people to get access to it but when you charge people you should make sure that your game is optimized to be played by everyone, not just the people with powerful PC that can brute force through it.
When you launch into early access you have to adopt a different model of development. Fortunately for me I have a pretty good PC and never had a problem with it. The game has gotten a lot better since launch but I remember the launch window and how brutal it was.
I can agree that they need to have a “playable” product, no some alpha level stuff. But asking for an “Optimized” game from what equates to a Beta at best, that still is in full production is unfair to say the least.
Plus anyone that pays for EA and complains about this is kind of stupid , i mean you pay to be a beta tester, you knew what you were getting into beforehand.
I personally the only real complain i consider acceptable from AE games is when they go to “vapor ware” land or start selling DLC before the dam thing is even complete, everything else is expected imo.
Luckily this was not the case for this one.
Nah man, like I said, if you charge people money you need to give them a product that works well regardless whether or not it’s in EA. Same type of development strategy where “we will optimize at the end” can’t be applied. And guess what? Their first few updates were heavily focused on optimization, because they knew they f*ked up.
Don’t buy EA games then easy as that.
Again, first few updates were heavily focused on optimization, not even the developers agree with you.
Its on Steam. You have 2 hours to decide if your PC isn’t up to par.
its been 2 years and optimisation is still messed up and lags occur in Asiasn Region !
i played the first open beta it was decent and the performance was very bad but now damn everything looks awesome and the developers are really nice to their player base
Glad to hear it. The performance was shoddy at launch but has improved leaps and bounds and it hasn’t even been released yet.
Aside from that, the gameplay is really unique and isn’t your typical battle royale game. I had (and am having) a ton of fun playing it.
Look interesting, but it’s a pass for me without PvE
I don’t understand why people would like to have a PvE mode in a game like this, it makes no sense to me.
Cause the atmosphere and the setting lend themselves to PvE far better than PvP
And what would you do in a PvE mode without challengers? Fun fun fun fun
I would have fun fun fun
Have they implemented Vulkan to their engine yet?
These two year beta tests are great. With this release strategy lazy copycat games can be dead on arrival TWICE.