Crytek has announced that its competitive first person bounty hunting game with heavy PvE elements, Hunt: Showdown, will be coming to Steam Early Access. In order to celebrate this announcement, Crytek released a new Steam trailer for it, and you can watch it below.
Hunt: Showdown promises to pack the most thrilling moments from survival games. The game will feature a match-based format and will set the action in dark and forgotten corners of the world.
Hunt Producer Fatih Özbayram said:
“We believe strongly that community-driven development is crucial to creating a great online multiplayer experience. An Early Access release will allow us to get Hunt out to players as quickly as possible. To collect feedback, and to work closely with the community to continue to shape the direction of the game.”
Creative Director Magnus Larbrant added:
“We will be adding more gear, more monsters, more Hunters. More game modes, more traits, crafting, and further map variations throughout Early Access. We want to take the time to make Hunt the game we’ve always wanted to play.”
Hunt’s match-based gameplay mixes PvP and PvE elements to create a uniquely tense experience where your life, your character, and your gear are always on the line. At the beginning of each match, teams set out to track their monstrous targets. Once they’ve found and defeated one of these they will receive a bounty—and. As such, they will instantly become a target for every other Hunter left on the map.
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Only me? Because form what i have seen this game will have the fate of evolve and lawbreakers.
….. Wow.
In other news, one month from today marks the 10th anniversary of Crysis. Of course, as Crytek couldn’t possibly find a single f*ck to give in order to commemorate this historical fact, they won’t deign to even mention it to you, lest you ask them why a bankrupt company such as Crytek is wasting their limited remaining resources on jokes like this, instead of just remastering Crysis.
Case in point; just a few days ago was Orange Box’s 10th anniversary, but why mention it? Wouldn’t want people to realise exactly how long it’s been since the last official Half-Life release!
Why would they commemorate Crysis one month in advance?
They wouldn’t. That’s not what I’m saying; I’m predicting that one month from now they won’t say anything about it, just like Valve didn’t with Orange Box’s anniversary a few days ago. I’m not expecting them to say anything about it today, tomorrow, or any other day until November 13, 2017, but I also don’t expect them to actually say anything on November 13, 2017.
Crytek is a good case study of a Developer that p*ssed away opportunities and made bad decisions. What a waste. Shut down studios, couldn’t pay some employees for months at a time. I will not be surprised if/when they close shop for good.
Orange Box’s anniversary makes me sad. I know I should just get over it after a decade with no real sign of a proper conclusion to Gordon Freeman’s story. I guess I enjoyed HL1 and HL2 too much and still play them on occasion.
“Jokes like this”? This game is bringing a lot of different gameplay elements together and from the gameplay it’s shaping up to have some amazing tension and multiplayer experiences.
“Bankrupt company” …..dude. That news is so outdated it’s not even funny. Crytek is on the up right now. They just released a huge engine update, they got more dev’s adopting Cryengine and recent Cryengine games have been well received.
You’re really overestimating how much people want Crysis 4. I don’t even know how that’s possible, the story would make no sense.
As for a remaster, come on man. You complain about companies milking customers and then ask them to make a remaster?? As opposed to a totally new game with a bunch of new concepts?
I’ve heard that before. Either way, we’ll see.
And how much did Crytek make off of those CryEngine licenses? Enough to sustain themselves? If so, for how long? They released a huge engine update, great, yeah, I’m loving it – seriously. However, how are they financing their ongoing development costs? CryEngine being popular again is excellent, no argument there, but unless it’s making them enough money to sustain themselves (they’re a big company, even after the downsizing), then they’re still running out of time. They need a payday & they need it to be big.
After all, money troubles don’t go away. If they took a bank loan, it needs to be repaid. If they have investors, they expect a payout. If HUNT fails, chances are they’re not getting another opportunity.
I don’t care about Crysis 4 & I don’t trust Crytek to do it right, anyway.
What’s so bad about a Crysis remaster? Sure, your average remaster is a joke, they up the textures’ resolution slightly & call it a new game, but by comparison, a Crysis remaster would entail porting Crysis to CryEngine 5. That alone would bring in a ridiculous amount of visual upgrades, not including whatever else they could manually insert into the game afterwards. You don’t think that would actually be worth it (done right), unlike most of the remasters vomited out these days by this industry?
What new concepts? A Battle Royale game is a new concept? It’s just another entry in this ridiculous fad of a sub-genre. Sure, it does some things differently, so what. I’ll be shocked if it has any long-term impact what-so-ever.
Really looking forward to this. Hopefully they will flesh it out with more maps and a few other modes so it doesn’t get dull
Damn it, swore I’d never buy an Early Access game after DayZ, but I really like the look of this.
Yeah I’m thinking it’s going to be worth getting also. PC Gamer made it their PC Game of E3 or something like that.
HUNT HOGA HUNT HOGA HUNT HOGA!
I’ll say that every time an article about this game is posted.
If only it had a single player campaign.
thats hard. Devs dont like hard stuff nowdays which is why they make roguelikes and walking simulators.
“I think this game looks pretty awesome and I definitely prefer it to a remaster of an average game.”
Hey i am not saying crysis is amazing, it has ton of balance issues ai bugs and optimization issues, but average? Meanwhile you think this gmae looks pretty awesome?
I just found it very bland. A safe 7/10 that’s not exactly remembered as a great. I would like to see more devs go down that pseudo-open design though as it’s all but died off since then.
The game looks beautiful. If it plays smooth i expect i’ll be spending some time on this one!
“New game = waste of money
Remaster of old game we’ve all played = great idea”
Not really. How so, if the old game is better than the new game by miles? See, like you yourself said, you think this game looks pretty awesome, but will it in fact be? And even if it is, will it be a financial success for them? Because Crytek really requires a financial success right now in order to get them “out of the black” as the expression goes, but they don’t have that guaranteed with this weird-as-hell thing, whereas a Crysis remaster guarantees income, so long as they just take the time & effort to do it right, because “oh my God, it’s the GPU melter! It’s back for more!”
I think you’re really overestimating the demand for a crysis remaster. That series lost all its cultural cachet years ago. This on the the hand is a fresh, new experience, not a tired old remaster. You call it weird as hell, and I’m glad it is.
A fresh, new experience from a developer that’s been pumping out nothing but jokes for years on end, now. Even if it is a success, it’ll be a minor one.
Perhaps. It could just be another Blade Runner situation wherein the numbers are over-projected based on its record, but I doubt it. If they manage to make a visually stunning Crysis remaster (& improve the buggy gameplay systems?), there’d be plenty of interest by a lot of people. Sure, it wouldn’t be a massive system seller, but it would net them a nice, safe profit.
Cool, enjoy your boring life, I’m off to try out new ideas 🙂
Oh please, I’m all for innovation, but when you’re verging on bankruptcy, it’s irresponsible to try something like this, something that’s actually targeting a group of people that routinely shift from one game to another, as it’s not just a few jobs that are on the time if it fails, but all jobs, as in, the entire company could potentially fail as a result of it.
When ?