Expansive Worlds and Avalanche Studios revealed today that a stand-alone expansion for their F2P title, theHunter, is planned for release in a couple of weeks. theHunter: Primal will feature dinosaurs to hunt down, and will be released before Christmas. And yes, you read that right; dinosaurs are coming to theHunter.
The downside here is that while theHunter is a F2P game, theHunter: Primal will actually be a one-off payment product.
Here are some of the game’s key features that will – sooner or later – find their way on theHunter too:
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Revamped high quality player models
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A significant overhaul of the environment audio system
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Improved intra-species communication
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Improved intra-species interaction
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Improved animal behaviour including better attack behaviours
theHunter: Primal will soon be available for purchase on Steam. Until then, enjoy the following screenshots!
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The problem with The Hunter is that it can barely be classed as f2p since everything worth playing the game for is locked behind a pay wall.
Its a shame too because there is no better hunting game out there and I think they would have huge success if they had a fair f2p model similar to games like Warframe and POE and this dinosaur expansion could have been made free to draw in a load of new players.
While I would have agreed with what you said, I found a guide on the Steam forums that basically lets you play for free completely.
Sure it takes time but like WoT or MWO or GRO you have to grind to get what you want. Same thing goes for this game.
Go look yourself, I still haven’t played it but at least someone shows you how to do it without spending money.
Intredasting, I will definitely have a look at that.
Edit: Did you mean this one? http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=302918708
That guide just tells me how to get the most out of the demo.
But it let’s you get the licenses which aside from the guns is kind of the point of the game.
I still think it’s a great guide to let you try the game out without getting frustrated and to get the most out of it with what’s available.
In the end they might as well call it a demo with subscription to play.
S2P
I’d say it being a paid game is actually a good thing in this case. theHunter has one of the most awful ‘free2play’ models.
Yes and no. I myself think WoT has one of the worst grind models out there.
Once you reach T6 everything is out of proportion in time spent to money earned.
There is a guide on the Steam forums that lays out how to play this game without spending a dime. Of course it requires you play it as much as possible or you start from scratch again.
I only know this because i wanted to play it, but the licensing thing and time frame doesn’t allow me to drop in and out when I want. I have too many games to play.
“The downside here is that while theHunter is a F2P game, theHunter: Primal will actually be a one-off payment product.”
thats a good thing to me.
atleast the main game is not F2P
Can’t we get another AAA Single Player, Story driven game about Dinosaurs like Dino Crisis .? Is it too much to ask for .? Seems like I’ll have to make such game myself someday , and other than that there is no way we are going to get another Dino game . May be Jurassic World (Jurassic Park 5) will spark some interest in game developers to make Dinosaurs games again .
Agreed. There is a severe drought of dinosaur games in a sea of monsters, aliens, mutants, fairytale creatures and zombies. I expected some dinosaur DLC after all that incessant teases in Battlefield 3 but instead we get a Cops and Robbers with Military Surplus.
A open-world survival mechanic like the one in State of Decay would make a good dinosaur game. Also let’s throw in Shadow of Mordor’s Nemesis system where the Raptors get stronger and stronger…sorry, my fantasy running wild for bit there.
Although, something tells me that we might see game devs make mobile apps(yeah, more F2Ps) as movie tie-in with JP5 instead. Or perhaps another LEGO game based on JP5. Or another Tell Tale’s JP game.
Jurassic World i think is number 4 in jurassic universe.
Ah , forgot about that . Thanks for correction .
I am glad they are not doing this version as F2P.
After the failure that was “The Stomping Land” I am eager to play a dino game of any sort.
I was a KS backer of TSL and that dev really dropped the ball…
This looks fun even if it might be DLC plagued to keep income flowing.
Could be good, I loved the old school carnivores series.