Same here the perma unlock for some gun/tool/consumable is what I was pondering about as well I do prestige everytime I can right now and not being able to play with some gun kills me like for example sniper variants / avto / carabine officer those are just guns that I have no been able to play for several months because I just hit lv100 before I enve unlock those variants and that's when I prestige and that repeats If there would be perma unlock token to chose some weapon variant to unlock that It would help a mega ton and I don't even care for the difficulty of the unlock for lets say if you want Avto unlocked thanks to token you would first need to unlock all previous variants before it then you automatically get it (ergo skip unlocking for that one variant) and on top of that lets even say that for you to spend perma unlock token on some weapon you would also need to have its mastery finished too even after all of that it would still come very handy
Thanks Psycho, im new to the game about 70hrs, watching a bunch of ur content for my first 20+ hours now i come back frequently for more in-depth info! thanks :)
@@django_freeman27 I agree. I find it fun to pick different weapons to focus on each prestige but it just seems like I never use any high teir weapons because by the time I get my low Tier weapons fully unlocked and getting bored of them I’m almost to prestige. It seems like I only use mosin and crown and king a few times each prestige
I like the idea of tying weapon variant unlocks to Book of Weapon entries, past Prestige-that way, unlocking the base model with bloodline would be normal, but the variants you have unlocked the book entry for would unlock at the same time.
Mike is literally the only youtuber you should trust with these types of things. He explains everything perfectly and helps out a lot! Thanks Mike, keep up the amazing work!
Mike is my Hunt Newspaper 🗞 The Bayou Tribune if you will. New boss? Come to mike. New map? Come to mike. New Guns? Mikes got that video made and ready 😂
Yes, the prestige mechanics needs a rework. More unique legendaries, permanent unlocks, more money, idk, but something to keep you engaged In the game aside from the game Itself would be welcome.
for me money has pretty much never been an issue in the game tough i plan usually what i do sometimes i just go for exp killing mobs etc and occasional players and get out. Other times i go for the actual boss and towards gunfights. when leveling weapons and hunters i would say best thing is to just hunt meat heads and other ( special ) enemies and then just get out to get your hunters level up fast.
@@watsinurfreezer8789 Mob killing mainly is to level character for achievement and to be competitive. Smacking other hunters aint that hard either :) just tap with sparks and pistol GG.
@@mizuru7235 Ya thats true tough i wasnt really talking about what is fun. I was saying whats simple and easy way to level up characters and grind up main lvl.
They need to make it so that you dont lose weapon progression unlocks when you prestiege. Having to re-earn all of the variants and custom ammo types of a gun is harsh and really pushes me away from prestiege. The way I see it, Titanfall 2 did Prestiege really well. They give you shiny badges and banners for your titlecards but the only things you need to re-unlock are only things tied to your basic level up rewards.
I wouldnt mind having to unlock weapons and stuff again, but losing everything I unlocked whilst using that weapon is just too much. I've spent too much time using almost every weapon (and their variants) in the game in order to max out/complete my books.
Honestly I’ve had quite a bit of fun grinding out guns by using loadouts I usually never use. I feel like it really improved my skills and versatility and it’s pretty rewarding. Although I’ve only prestiged once so I feel like after the second or third time it gets pretty annoying.
thank you, this answers my exact question. trying to unlock everything for every weapon and am getting close. i would be fine with re-unlocking the base versions again to access the variants but this system is no good.
I will never prestige because after nearly 600 hours, loosing everything is just not worth it. I got every skin besides the prestige ones, so there is literally no point for me ^^ If i wanna play a weapon i can just buy it and play, but with prestige i would kill my enjoyment of Hunt in just 2 clicks ^^ Naw man, Gameplay is enough for me, dont need a number i only see either while dead or in lobby. Edit: Would be cool if the Skins from the Contests who didnt make it would be prestige rewards, so everyone gets something :D
Perma unlock all the way especially with the introduction of custom ammo going down some of these trees takes forever. I think they could also add better challenges that would force you to "explore" the game more, making prestiging a bit more fun
I think that every player should prestige at least once. It’s fun going back and playing with old guns and reworking playstyles, rediscovering the fun in lower tier weapons now that you have the skill to use them more effectively. Rediscovered a love of the Vetterli this way via prestiging. The only problem is that you lose so much, have a mountain of more grind, especially now with the ammo unlocks, and you don’t really gain a whole lot from it.
400 hours - no prestige and mainly playing Winfield C / Vetterli / Springfield & Conversion / Pax / Officer, got tired of Mosins and Lebels :D But I just didn't want to re-do the grind cause I like being able to pick what I want depending on my mood :P
Hunt players love legendary hunter skins. Legendary weapon skins people can take them or leave them, but every event we've had has shown that people want those legendary hunter skins. I like the idea of having legendary hunter skins that can only be unlocked via prestige. That would provide a lot more incentive to prestige, and would make those skins much more legendary when you come across them.
I like this token thing, my own idea was that once you unlock variant of the weapon or custom ammo it stays unlocked as long as basic weapon is unlocked. What i mean by that is once you hit bloodline rank for certain weapon(lets say 72 for mossin) you get all variants of that weapon that you've already unlocked. Maybe you could combine this systems together so you would use this unlock tokes for custom ammo and special variants of weapons and whatever you pick it unlocks when you hit bloodline for that weapon. That way you still have only tier 1 items after prestige but you don't have to waste time unlocking everything again durring your bloodline progression.
I agree with your perma unlock idea for the prestige system. Personally, I was imagining something closer to a "creeping perma unlock" where you do not have a choice of what weapon you want to unlock but rather having the low tier stuff slowly but surely getting permanently unlocked so that the more you prestige the more your tech tree comes unlocked for each prestige. That way you still keep the curent unlock system the way it is but thanks to the creeping perma unlock it would get less and less tedious the more you progress. The other benefit of that system would be that any upcoming weapons and tools will be easier to unlock since the tech tree would become smaller for the more experienced players.
I once heard the suggestion, that with every prestige you already have the stuff unlocked up the level that matches your prestige. Ie if you just started prestige 12, everything up to lvl 12 is unlocked from the getgo
On one hand yes but on the other, just stay lvl100 and never prestige for the same effect. Suggested change is only gonna work for those who already push prestige for other reasons but doesn't make much difference to those who don't see the point.
i think you should not lose the ammo and variants when you prestige, when you hit the bloodline rank to acess that weapon/tools you should be able to use all the variants from the get go, same for ammo
thing is, part of the challenge is being forced to use budget weapons and crappy traits if you'd like to use the fancy ones then just don't prestige, or you'll have to loot them yes it's much more convenient to have everything again but it would make prestige that much more pointless
@@FreizeiTjunkY you still required to reach the adequate blood rank to get acess to those, so you are still limited to certain till you get the appropriate blood rank, i think the rewards are fine, the problem is going through the pain of unlocking so much shit again
Or at least give us the option to permanently unlock a weapon, consumable or perk when you hit prestige. Like it used to be in some older CoD games (MW2 for example) That way you get access to more and more gear at lvl 1 the higher your prestige is. So it gets less grindy and tedious in the long run... Edit: Just realised he mentioned this in the video...
Kinda everything you already talk about in the streams :D They could also make, that you can stack your xp boost (up to 5 times or something) so you can press through it faster. But the perma tokens are definitely a good thing to add. Would take out the exhaustion from the prestige.
@@RedRage013 Yeah okay, that would be kinda overkill. Maybe it should stack to 30% and every 5 prestige you get something (100 bloodbonds for example) and then it resets. So you can have 2 prestiges max with 30% xp boost before getting another reward.
I do it for the feeling of progression and I like that it forces me to play loadouts that I wouldn't regularly play. It's fun and rewarding to go into a match with a Crossbow because that's all you have/can afford and walk out with a Mosin and an Uppercut after killing a better-equipped hunter.
Started playing hunt recently and fell instantly in love. This channel has been amazing and made me realise there is still so much I dont understand in this game....
I prestiged instantly when I got lvl 100 but now I get in teams with prestige 0 lvl 100 (and every other prestige after that. How do you stay in the 1-100 level bracket, eventually you'll reach level 100 and play with more experienced people, right?
I prestiged once and have been playing at that level since. Seems like a lot more fun when you can use most any weapon you want instead of having to grind it out again to get access to it.
I would actually like to see some system where it allows you to put forth a certain amount of Exp. given to you after a prestige that allows you to choose a certain group of your choice to unlock items or weapons faster
This game is criminally underrated, seeing a big RUclipsr uploading videos about the game and talking good about it makes me happy as this way the game reaches more people and gets the fame it deserves. I wish more RUclipsrs could play it
I prestiged once, way back when Hunt still only had 1 map. It didn't feel worth it to prestige back then, and with all the needing to get XP to unlock weapon variations, it makes it feel even less worth it now, for me personally anyway. I don't play enough anymore to be grinding out all the weapon XP again. It's good to see that there are SOME rewards for it now, because back then I don't think there was anything at all- Hope to see it improved on in the years to come ^^ And as always, amazing video, Mike!
I think you should get a perma unlock token everytime you prestige as well as whatever bonus you choose, or make it so whatever legendaries you own make the gun permanently unlocked.
Mike, I actually put a similar suggestion to the unlock token idea in the Discord. My version varied slightly. In short: Every prestige you get an unlock token on top of the reward. You use the unlock tokens to go down the unlock tree. The weapons don't actually unlock until you unlock the base variant (so a freshly prestiged character cannot buy a Mosin out the gate, they need to get to the appropriate BR to unlock the base mosin, but once they do they have all the variants they've purchased unlocked) Certain 'capstones' require multiple tokens (big dynamite bundle for consumables, avto, dolch precision, etc.)
I think a lot of people get burnt out because they don’t prestige. Having to rely on these top tier weapons can really hurt you skill. And who doesn’t love going back to rank one and running around with the Romero gang!
Yeah, if it didn’t cost that much I’ll be Long ammo, Crown&King/Terminus and Nitro all the time, so I think Prestige is a good idea in itself, but we need motivation
I think when you prestige you should keep all legendary items in your possession at the time of prestige. This could be limited to 1 or 2 copies to keep people from hoarding but I hate losing nice legendaries I've picked up from fallen enemies because I prestige.
i remember playing black ops 4 and really enjoying prestiging, because with each unlock token, it felt like i was building my favorite class that i would eventually always have.
As someone who always prestiges (no matter what) I really hope they add the permanent unlock tokens at some point but more exclusive skins (including hunters or the hunter customization once it drops) would also be nice. Usually when I'm at Bloodline Rank 100 I have not unlocked the C&K Slugs, the Uppercut Explosive, or the Avtomat. As much as I would like to try out C&K Slugs, prestiging feels more important for me. Also this stupid "use x items to unlock the next" should be avoided, going into rounds to use up 4 weak stamina shots just to unlock the vitality shot is simply annoying. Having the prestige unlock tokens work just for the Book of Weapons stuff would be entirely sufficient, just to remove annoying unlocks from the prestige loop. I'd say you should always get one permanent unlock token and the 10% XP Boost for each prestige, no matter what. I'd even say the 10% should stack - so a Prestige 5 has a 50% XP boost, but I can see how that would be a bit too much on higher prestiges (1000% on a Prestige 100 lol?) - maybe reduce the XP Boost percentage to 1 or 2% but make them permanent and stackable.
You could also set a limit to the XP-Stack, so you can't go over the 50% but these you'll get all the time and in addition some nice exclusive skins. I personally don't prestige at all because I feel there's nothing that I would really gain from it. The few legendary skins that I want to have are easily unlocked by just playing the game long enough. And I really hate unlocking certain weapons all over again, the perma token is sth we need asap. Then I'd probably reconsider about hitting the prestige button.
@@Necromancer-Noxx I don't use weapons I can't unlock anything with, it's sometimes a bit annoying, but once I unlocked all for the Romero i.e. I stop using it altogether because getting XP with it feels wasted. I really like progression, but some things are just too annoying to unlock again (or are mandatory like Vitality Shots). Who doesn't love throwing 24 Decoys around just to unlock the Decoy Fusees :DDD
I started playing in December and have been chasing that sweet, sweet _Golden_ _Ticket._ A little under 300 bosses slain and I'm starting Prestige 9 tonight.
I can relate - i wanted the golden ticket too back then but after they increased the price of the bornheim i was like - nope and settled with the prestige 5 Sparks :>
dunno if can be another suggestion but......a part from agreeing with the "perma unlock token"........ after going for prestige 4, to try what the experience was with the custom ammo, spoiler it's a nope for me, now there are really too many items, weapons ecc. to be unlocked; but if there were a system of modification which you simply buy the gun and you put on the weapon, after unlock the variant/modification you buy the scope or bayonet or a "pack" with barrel, drum, trigger ecc. to convert a conversion caldwell into an uppercut for example ? working like the custom ammo, buy the mod and put it on/in the gun, but like unlocking a bayonet and you will have bayonet unlocked for all guns that have that bayonet (may apply this for custom ammo, cause i can understand the different calibre with guns but we're also in a game and would be nice to unlock compact fire, poison ammo ecc. and thats it, but also know that could bring to other things to unlock by rank, but maybe there is another solution.........that i'm not seeing) You may ask why this and what has to do with the prestige possible suggestion and......i will start to say that i feel like certain weapon and variants haven't much differences or uniqueness, for me, to choosing them instead of others, so i was thinking about that i will not buy a certain weapon, but only his variant........so MAYBE this could help even with the "prestige perma token" But i still think i'm missing something, so i would really like to hear opinions from Mike and others peoples, so thank you even just for notice the cooment, hope all good for ya'll
I played for awhile before I prestiged. I had some money but my progress was stagnated. I was bringing the same loadouts. Prestiging helped me play other loadouts and i became a better player. Now I feel comfortable bringing almost any guns.
I am P100. A few things I learned that helped. Pick a few specific weapons and run them all the time. I ran winnie variants till I had sparks then sparks iron or scoped. If I was having a good prestige and had money I would then run mosins. Getting used to a few sights and bullet speeds will keep you winning more games. Romeros are great too if you like them, I dont. If you struggle with money start rounds out with a few quickplays so that you have a buffer, some free hunters and guns. I retired every hunter until I was in the 60-70 range. Early on a level 30-50 hunter can jump you almost 7-10 bloodline levels and unlock a bunch of things you need. later on a level 50 only gets you 2-3 bloodline levels. If you double bounty and server wipe on a 50 while you are level 70 though I have jumped 8-10 bloodline levels. Worth the risk to me later on. I think the way to fix the prestige system is this. You should have the number of prestiges subtracted from the blooline for unlocks. Like a P5 would start with the first 5 levels of unlocks available. a P75 would start off with all unlocks to 75 unlocked but need to get to 76 to get the rest. This would allow someone with a thousand hours in the game to start with a lebel or mosin which is fair with that type of investment. Good luck and support region locking!!
Wonderful breakdown, so thorough! I took XP the fist time and then legendary the 4 times after...thank goodness I did that! I wish they would let you keep your hunt dollars at the very least instead of taking away literally EVERYTHING from you lol
More unlocks & Permanent Tokens would make such a huge difference & would also help the new hunters to catch up with the veteran hunters without making them gimp on a constant basis while also still trying to learn the game. - i have been playing since Hunt came out & i have no issues letting new players catch up if it brings in more players to the game. As always Mike good video sir!
Also another note that I've seen another hunt RUclipsr point out but forgot his name: replace the challenges with a challenge tree, because right now you can accidentally do the challenges without even looking at them. His idea was to make it something like in dead by daylight where you have to select personalised challenges. Something like vault through 20 windows etc. And so you advance in the challenge tree where you unlock more skins or perhaps could be free weapons in game for hunt.
I SO much agree on the token system! It has worked on so many other games and why CryTek still has not implimented it is kinda mindblowing! I have actually suggested it myself in their discord channel. I hope CryTek will hear you Mike!
yep agree the perma unlocks would be nice, its why kept prestigeing in Titanfall 2, which extended playability of the game for me. thanks for another a sweet vid mike.
A few different ideas on how to make Prestige better, ranked by how hard it is to implement: Easy: Instead of a flat 2000$ or 10% exp, each prestige gives a permanent and stacking 1% increase to both (so at Prestige 100 you earn double xp and money) Medium: - More Legendary Skins that are exclusive to Prestige (including Legendary Hunters) -Prestige Forge - Starting from Prestige 1 and every 10(could be 5?) levels, the Forge upgrades, giving you a free (but contraband) random weapon every day for each level of the Forge (so if you're prestige 31, you get 4 random free contraband weapons, the weapons also can be higher level than your bloodline before you unlock them (depending on Forge lvl) Hard: -Unlock Offline Singleplayer, story heavy trials that involve tales of the Legendary Hunters and their achievements, also you automatically recruit the Legendary hunter into your roster with the inventory from the trial into your roster for free, the first time you complete it (Lets say for example Prestige 5 unlocks a Legendary Hunter skin along with the Sparks skin we already have, then we also get a Trial where we have a voiceover talking about the story of the Hunter while we have a huge horde of Armoreds approaching us and we have Incendiary ammo and we keep unleashing fiery hell while a voice epicly tells us about this exceptional Hunter's life, then when we finish it, we get that hunter for free with the Sparks with Incendiary)
it´s annoying that you have to unlock all lore entries in the books again after prestige... that schould be a one time unlock sometimes i just want to read them when i'm waiting in the lobby for a match and it wouldn't even affect the gameplay
oh damn i didnt know you loose the book of weapon entries, I kinda wanted to complete some of them to get the full story like the officer one and the romero family one.
I feel like two easy changes that could make prestige more enjoyable, at least for me personally as a casual player, would be to stack the exp. boost (maybe make it 5% instead) and keep your money. Like I have around 20k at the moment so I try to spend all that money before I prestige. I bought the most expensive stuff almost every time and I'm still at 18-20k after dozens of rounds.
My only tip for ppl who are thinking of starting to prestige is, get into the mindset that you're prestiging now. It's not something you just like "hey i wanna prestige once now." And then you play normally to 100 again and just stay. Best is to just get into that mindset and just keep trucking until you hit a good checkpoint where you stop, for example 11 as mentioned by Mike. Or at 25, 50 100. Another tip is, make challenges for yourself during prestige. Like that you'll only play Winfields or only Crossbows or only compact weapons etc. That can make it more interesting to prestige. It also gives opportunity to practice with weapons you normal don't play. So if you're at 100 and don't prestige and you feel the game gets a bit stale or maybe repetitive, prestiging is a very good way to make the game feel fresh again. Hell it kinda caught me off guard just how empty you start at bloodline 1. I had played 500+hrs at prestige 1 until i decided to actually prestige. Now im close to prestige 4 and def pushing for prestige 11 atleast. You only get like health kit, knife, winfield, nagant & small vitality shot when you start anew. Literally nothing else.
Add challenges that carry through prestige levels. Example would be a challenge to get hunter kills. Unlock at prestige 1 and your progress with the challenge carries through to prestige 100. Reward for completing the challenge could be a skin, BBs, or hunt bucks. Iterate the challenge everytime you complete it; so first version is "Get 100 Hunter Kills", next iteration is get "200 hunter kills", etc.
i like the perma unlock token idea thought about it myself a while ago i mean presteging is a lot of work and it isnt a disadvantage for the people who dont prestige since they allready have all items unlocked it just makes presteging a bit more rewarding and more fun
I think something that would be cool that gives players "something to grind for" is a kind of personal missions type system. Give each gun in the game missions to do with it, something like "50 player kills with this weapon" and everytime they complete a mission on it, maybe give the weapon a 5% hunt dollar discount when purchasing it brand new for a new hunter and such. Then after completing say 5 missions that scale up in difficulty each time, the player gets a really nice skin for said weapon and a 25% discount on it just to show its the players favorite weapon. This on top of a perma unlock token could give players incentive to prestige, maybe even dedicating a whole prestige level to a weapon, just so it feels like they do having something to grind for.
One thing I would love for prestige is instead of starting your bloodline rank over it starts over at whatever your prestige level is. Say at prestige 50 you'll start out at rank 50. Because it actually makes that prestige 50 to 100 gap a bit easier.
I am currently at 39, will go up to 50. Then take a break from prestiging and unlock everything. Usually i quickplay the first 30 - 40 levels quickly, then collect lvl 25 hunters and skip the last 15-20 levels by retiring them. Record: 1 Prestige in 8 houers
I prestiged for the first time ever a week ago and chose the legendary skin option. I was thinking ‘there are so many gun skins surely I’ll get something cool’ I got a fucking spyglass.
Some of my notes: if they want to add value to prestige, all they'd have to do is add a couple exclusive hunter skins. Also a benefit to prestige that you missed: it wipes all of your book progression so you can grind those blood bonds again. Not much, but if you value blood bonds, it's a pretty decent method.
The permanent unlock tokens is exactly what I have been saying. Either that or even if you don't permanently unlock you can choose a weapon that you have unlocked and 1 in inventory when you start the new grind.
I always prestige as soon as I can, Idc how much stuff I have or don't have. Why? Simply because it's part of the fun with this game, being "forced" to play different weapons, try out certain things, work for a specific unlock, but also always going back to the beginners struggle without being one, actually quite the contrary, I would rather get bored if I would always be LV. 100 with all the unlocks so I always prestige
I started prestiging this year after I played already 1400h. On the one hand I like it because it forces me to play different Loadouts and P1 an P2 gave me Waldmann and Drowned Rat. On the other hand it is tough for me as a casual playing dad. I often miss ammo types that I need for challenges which are already hardly archived because of my low play time per week. Now they changed the retirement to level 50 which is also really hard to achieve for me. I think I will continue to P11 and then I will wait and see what comes along
My take on "should you prestige?": I personally don't/won't, because I'm a massive gear goblin. It took me ages to unlock the different variants of almost all guns (still lacking the Lebel, because I'm so bad with it), so I don't really feel like resetting all of that hard work, especially now that we got the special ammo update and I had to take those same guns and re-grind for the ammo variants. I would theoretically like to reset the progress, but it would break my heart in the end, so I'm not gonna risk it :D (Now that Mike explained that the killshot of a weapon grants the xp, maybe I'll start grinding the Lebel. I honestly didn't know that, thanks Mike!)
I really like the idea of a perma unlock, if you like a gun in the early ranks then it isn’t that annoying to prestige. However if your like me and you prefer the sparks llr or something up around rank 50 it’s slightly more annoying to prestige and have to unlock that again.
I fall into the personal challenge category for prestiging. I usually pick a them or a weapon type for the next prestige and stick as much to that as possible. Currently doing an explosive prestige run.
Honestly, the simple fact to re-start playing from level 1 is enough for me (but maybe I am weird^^). Nice video Mike, good explanations for the ones who need it, and I think we are numerous ^^
I think a rewarding prestige choice would be a discount option. like for each prestige you can choose a single weapon to have a discount on, maybe something like 10-5%. however make it so that you cannot stack it all on one weapon like the mosin. I think a much higher end idea would be animation unlocks, i know that sounds odd but think about it, as you prestige your hunters become more "professional" and they unlock new things like reload animations that are optional. purely there for style points, of course they can't be faster than normal reloads for balance purposes, maybe make them slower or the exact same speed as a normal reload. idk just a few ideas
Perma unlock is honestly the best idea. That's how titanfall did it. All though there was less weapons. But it made grinding the regeneration (prestige) levels more fun and less of a slag.
My improvement to the prestige system would be to keep weapon variants/ammo types unlocked after prestige. You would still need to reach the Bloodline level to unlock the base item, but the variants will automatically be unlocked once you do. For example the Conversion pistol is unlocked at rank 22; but if you have unlocked the Uppercut on a previous prestige, it will automatically be unlocked when you unlock the regular Conversion. Perhaps balance it out by requiring players to earn the unlock 10 times previously or by activating this only after prestige 10 (or later), but I think this would go a long way to ease the grind of repeatedly re-unlocking these variants. Especially with the custom ammo types, unlocking a specific variant after prestige can be a huge pain. Personally I wouldn't go for perma-unlock tokens as the value is completely lost once you unlock the item normally, but I do see the appeal.
I love Hunt because of the guns specifically. Prestige takes my option to use any of them for any hunt away. If I want to run a winfield, I can, if I want to run a mosin sniper, I can. It's down to my choice. Skins are nice, but it's perfectly fine to unlock the BB ones over time. I don't feel pressured to get them really. I might change my tune if I get bored, and want to place myself under challenge, but right now it's far too much fun to have my freedom in gun choice. Especially since I adore shotguns and don't want to give them up. However, this has led to a problem in my eyes. I'm too wealthy for anyone's else's good. If I wanted to run Mosin Uppercut every game, I pretty much could. It would take dozens of matches of me failing to get any good money for me to actually not be able to afford the best gear if I wanted. Best way to fix that is to reduce how much money players earn as their wallet increases in size. Or cap the wallet at say 9000 dollars. Right now I have 30K dollars to spend on weapons and gear and every mission I walk in with a full outfit of consumables, quality guns, and equipment. And people around me aren't either. Most of my matches consist of either mosins and lebels fighting and shotguns working around the onslaught of long rifles. But that's another problem.4
Tracking progress between each prestige would be handy. For instance, prestige 1 will have a kda, and it'll reset for prestige 2 and so forth but keep the data stored/displayed somewhere so you can track your progress as well as having a total kda for all of the prestiges.
Hey Mike this video is great and very informative so that I can tell my friends to check out because they like to prestige as I've stopped lately due to when the custom ammo unlocks came in I'm like you with the prestige it's more of a pain than anything but I don't know if Crytek would do my suggestion because it may take a lot of resources but i'll put it here they should make the custom ammo a like a seperate xp chain to unlock but that's just me being lazy for the grind lol Also yay my first vid on the patereon wall! XD
I actually don't mind that prestige comes with very little incentives, but I understand why it bothers some people. Permanent unlock tokens, like you mentioned, would convince me prestige immediately though. I love throwing knives, and don't want to be forced to unlock them again. Not that I absolutely need them to play, they're just my favorite.
I've been thinking for a long while that they should do a forced prestige as soon as you get to rank 100. While I understand that only changing this one thing would have substantial effects on players, I feel like it would add a bit of game balancing to the mix that it would be worth doing. If you're doing so well that you prestige sooner, it sort of gives people that aren't doing so well slightly better loadout options. This has the added bonus that players can't just stick with one type of play style and loadout as easily, forcing them to adapt in other ways and become better players. I do understand that as content creators this would probably be a huge inconvenience, so I'm not 100% saying it should happen. I just think that, in general, the positives of doing this would outweigh the negatives.
Prestige should give you the XP boost automatically, like it's just 10% to reward you for going through with it. Then more legendary skins to unlock, they could use the community made skins, there's some really good ones. And I like the idea of a perma-token, but maybe just have a few of them like say one for your long slot, one for medium slot, one for small slot, one for tool, one for consumable, one for traits. That way you still have to unlock a bunch of stuff, but you can use your favourite things from the start, say you love uppercut, doctor and decoy fuses and use it every single game, you can still have them after the prestige.
Me and my duo partner only prestige in order have that feel of progresion so we don't get bored, we always stay on blood line 100 for a few days and than spend all our money with avtos and nitros :D edited stuff here------->also for the perma unlock I think it would be a bit strong like probaly most of us would take the mosin or something of the high tier rifles so I think what would make it more "balanced" is that when you prestige and go for the token when you choose one item it would only be unlocked until your next prestige and than you would have to choose something else for that prestige
Less painful: doesn't take all you're hunt bucks away. Potential reward: could be any concept art for the maps or monsters that could go into a file like the book filled with info about the monsters or it could give you a randomly chosen weapon like 5x mosin sniper.
Thanks, at the start I Prestiged 3 times. Now I don't bother because loosing everything sucks. And concerning the Legendary Skins, My friend got the "Steel Eye"..... We didn't stop annoying him for it for days. More incentives for clicking the Prestige Buttons would be a good idea and make me, and other people I think, clicking that button more often.
Improving prestige would come handy with reimagining other cosmetic game systems like character customization (exclusive tattoos, haircuts for higher prestige ranks), weapon cosmetic customization (marks, stripes, stars, also exclusive variants of those for prestige hunters), maybe taunts? Idk
I Prestiged once purely call her experience and to get the 10% XP Now I'm grinding to get every gun variant and every ammo unlock As well as grinding for Mastery on every weapon for Book of weapons Pretty much all my friends started prestiging for the grind, but after a few Prestige's they stopped, they now only Prestige if they run out of money
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Perma unlocks is exactly one of the things that me and my brother are dying for to be added so 100% support that notion
It's dangerous to go alone, take this with you.
Same here the perma unlock for some gun/tool/consumable is what I was pondering about as well I do prestige everytime I can right now and not being able to play with some gun kills me like for example sniper variants / avto / carabine officer those are just guns that I have no been able to play for several months because I just hit lv100 before I enve unlock those variants and that's when I prestige and that repeats If there would be perma unlock token to chose some weapon variant to unlock that It would help a mega ton and I don't even care for the difficulty of the unlock for lets say if you want Avto unlocked thanks to token you would first need to unlock all previous variants before it then you automatically get it (ergo skip unlocking for that one variant) and on top of that lets even say that for you to spend perma unlock token on some weapon you would also need to have its mastery finished too
even after all of that it would still come very handy
Yea I fought once every 10 th prestige would be fare and it helps people that are new to the game keep up with the higher level prestiges
Thanks Psycho, im new to the game about 70hrs, watching a bunch of ur content for my first 20+ hours now i come back frequently for more in-depth info! thanks :)
What platform?
@@vBurnedWins Pc :)
4FS gaming is also incredibly helpful for learning the game, I learned from him and Mike here
Welcome to hunt Bro
@@christiangt5550 Thanks guys !
I like to prestige, but crytek realy needs to make it more valuable and attractive. :P
We need to be able to permanently unlock some items, not all but some👍
@@django_freeman27 yes! Exactly!
@@django_freeman27 I agree. I find it fun to pick different weapons to focus on each prestige but it just seems like I never use any high teir weapons because by the time I get my low Tier weapons fully unlocked and getting bored of them I’m almost to prestige. It seems like I only use mosin and crown and king a few times each prestige
@@django_freeman27 it should be like titanfall 2 where you are able to permanently unlock weapons by buying it
I would prestige if it didn’t take away all of my money
I like the idea of tying weapon variant unlocks to Book of Weapon entries, past Prestige-that way, unlocking the base model with bloodline would be normal, but the variants you have unlocked the book entry for would unlock at the same time.
Ryan argues ;).
Mike is literally the only youtuber you should trust with these types of things. He explains everything perfectly and helps out a lot! Thanks Mike, keep up the amazing work!
I trust Ractha as well. He is one of the best players in Hunt with an insane amount of hours in the game. I feel like people sleep on him a lot
4FS gaming is also very helpful with a ton of videos
@James Davis haha nah im not
Mike is my Hunt Newspaper 🗞 The Bayou Tribune if you will. New boss? Come to mike. New map? Come to mike. New Guns? Mikes got that video made and ready 😂
u memeing bro there are plenty of great hunt players on YT that deserve more subz, not hating on mike i'm just sayin
Yes, the prestige mechanics needs a rework. More unique legendaries, permanent unlocks, more money, idk, but something to keep you engaged In the game aside from the game Itself would be welcome.
for me money has pretty much never been an issue in the game tough i plan usually what i do sometimes i just go for exp killing mobs etc and occasional players and get out. Other times i go for the actual boss and towards gunfights. when leveling weapons and hunters i would say best thing is to just hunt meat heads and other ( special ) enemies and then just get out to get your hunters level up fast.
@@Wispeks boring player who kills the mobs they arent fun at all fights against hunters is the only fun thing about this game
@@watsinurfreezer8789 Mob killing mainly is to level character for achievement and to be competitive. Smacking other hunters aint that hard either :) just tap with sparks and pistol GG.
@@Wispeks yeah but its still way more funnier than killing npcs
@@mizuru7235 Ya thats true tough i wasnt really talking about what is fun. I was saying whats simple and easy way to level up characters and grind up main lvl.
They need to make it so that you dont lose weapon progression unlocks when you prestiege. Having to re-earn all of the variants and custom ammo types of a gun is harsh and really pushes me away from prestiege. The way I see it, Titanfall 2 did Prestiege really well. They give you shiny badges and banners for your titlecards but the only things you need to re-unlock are only things tied to your basic level up rewards.
Yep...this answers my question. Not prestiging
I wouldnt mind having to unlock weapons and stuff again, but losing everything I unlocked whilst using that weapon is just too much. I've spent too much time using almost every weapon (and their variants) in the game in order to max out/complete my books.
Honestly I’ve had quite a bit of fun grinding out guns by using loadouts I usually never use. I feel like it really improved my skills and versatility and it’s pretty rewarding. Although I’ve only prestiged once so I feel like after the second or third time it gets pretty annoying.
thank you, this answers my exact question. trying to unlock everything for every weapon and am getting close. i would be fine with re-unlocking the base versions again to access the variants but this system is no good.
@@kyletiernan1138 yeah, im currently trying yo max officer and model 3, I don't want to lose it
Basically: Prestige = bling + experience * (depression^repetitive strain injury) - life
Do u have rsi?
I will never prestige because after nearly 600 hours, loosing everything is just not worth it. I got every skin besides the prestige ones, so there is literally no point for me ^^
If i wanna play a weapon i can just buy it and play, but with prestige i would kill my enjoyment of Hunt in just 2 clicks ^^ Naw man, Gameplay is enough for me, dont need a number i only see either while dead or in lobby. Edit: Would be cool if the Skins from the Contests who didnt make it would be prestige rewards, so everyone gets something :D
this!
Perma unlock all the way especially with the introduction of custom ammo going down some of these trees takes forever. I think they could also add better challenges that would force you to "explore" the game more, making prestiging a bit more fun
I think that every player should prestige at least once. It’s fun going back and playing with old guns and reworking playstyles, rediscovering the fun in lower tier weapons now that you have the skill to use them more effectively. Rediscovered a love of the Vetterli this way via prestiging. The only problem is that you lose so much, have a mountain of more grind, especially now with the ammo unlocks, and you don’t really gain a whole lot from it.
400 hours - no prestige and mainly playing Winfield C / Vetterli / Springfield & Conversion / Pax / Officer, got tired of Mosins and Lebels :D But I just didn't want to re-do the grind cause I like being able to pick what I want depending on my mood :P
Hunt players love legendary hunter skins. Legendary weapon skins people can take them or leave them, but every event we've had has shown that people want those legendary hunter skins. I like the idea of having legendary hunter skins that can only be unlocked via prestige. That would provide a lot more incentive to prestige, and would make those skins much more legendary when you come across them.
I like this token thing, my own idea was that once you unlock variant of the weapon or custom ammo it stays unlocked as long as basic weapon is unlocked. What i mean by that is once you hit bloodline rank for certain weapon(lets say 72 for mossin) you get all variants of that weapon that you've already unlocked. Maybe you could combine this systems together so you would use this unlock tokes for custom ammo and special variants of weapons and whatever you pick it unlocks when you hit bloodline for that weapon. That way you still have only tier 1 items after prestige but you don't have to waste time unlocking everything again durring your bloodline progression.
I agree with your perma unlock idea for the prestige system.
Personally, I was imagining something closer to a "creeping perma unlock" where you do not have a choice of what weapon you want to unlock but rather having the low tier stuff slowly but surely getting permanently unlocked so that the more you prestige the more your tech tree comes unlocked for each prestige.
That way you still keep the curent unlock system the way it is but thanks to the creeping perma unlock it would get less and less tedious the more you progress.
The other benefit of that system would be that any upcoming weapons and tools will be easier to unlock since the tech tree would become smaller for the more experienced players.
I once heard the suggestion, that with every prestige you already have the stuff unlocked up the level that matches your prestige. Ie if you just started prestige 12, everything up to lvl 12 is unlocked from the getgo
On one hand yes but on the other, just stay lvl100 and never prestige for the same effect. Suggested change is only gonna work for those who already push prestige for other reasons but doesn't make much difference to those who don't see the point.
@@GUkraine how
@@GUkraine try me
i think you should not lose the ammo and variants when you prestige, when you hit the bloodline rank to acess that weapon/tools you should be able to use all the variants from the get go, same for ammo
Seconded.
thing is, part of the challenge is being forced to use budget weapons and crappy traits
if you'd like to use the fancy ones then just don't prestige, or you'll have to loot them
yes it's much more convenient to have everything again but it would make prestige that much more pointless
@@FreizeiTjunkY you still required to reach the adequate blood rank to get acess to those, so you are still limited to certain till you get the appropriate blood rank, i think the rewards are fine, the problem is going through the pain of unlocking so much shit again
I feel you I say the exact same thing every Time!
Or at least give us the option to permanently unlock a weapon, consumable or perk when you hit prestige. Like it used to be in some older CoD games (MW2 for example)
That way you get access to more and more gear at lvl 1 the higher your prestige is. So it gets less grindy and tedious in the long run...
Edit: Just realised he mentioned this in the video...
It's a sign! Usually after Mike explains things Crytek changes it a few days later.
You’re not wrong there :(
Kinda everything you already talk about in the streams :D They could also make, that you can stack your xp boost (up to 5 times or something) so you can press through it faster. But the perma tokens are definitely a good thing to add. Would take out the exhaustion from the prestige.
I feel like stacking the XP boost would be too much. Even if it's just 5 times. That's a 50% bonus. Leveling 50% faster is a lot.
@@RedRage013 Yeah okay, that would be kinda overkill. Maybe it should stack to 30% and every 5 prestige you get something (100 bloodbonds for example) and then it resets. So you can have 2 prestiges max with 30% xp boost before getting another reward.
I do it for the feeling of progression and I like that it forces me to play loadouts that I wouldn't regularly play. It's fun and rewarding to go into a match with a Crossbow because that's all you have/can afford and walk out with a Mosin and an Uppercut after killing a better-equipped hunter.
Started playing hunt recently and fell instantly in love. This channel has been amazing and made me realise there is still so much I dont understand in this game....
Really good improvements suggestions, that would probably finally make me Prestige
Staying in the 1-100 level bracket is the best, helping players as they enter the bayou is what I love to do 💪🏼
I prestiged instantly when I got lvl 100 but now I get in teams with prestige 0 lvl 100 (and every other prestige after that. How do you stay in the 1-100 level bracket, eventually you'll reach level 100 and play with more experienced people, right?
I prestiged once and have been playing at that level since. Seems like a lot more fun when you can use most any weapon you want instead of having to grind it out again to get access to it.
I would actually like to see some system where it allows you to put forth a certain amount of Exp. given to you after a prestige that allows you to choose a certain group of your choice to unlock items or weapons faster
This game is criminally underrated, seeing a big RUclipsr uploading videos about the game and talking good about it makes me happy as this way the game reaches more people and gets the fame it deserves. I wish more RUclipsrs could play it
I prestiged once, way back when Hunt still only had 1 map. It didn't feel worth it to prestige back then, and with all the needing to get XP to unlock weapon variations, it makes it feel even less worth it now, for me personally anyway. I don't play enough anymore to be grinding out all the weapon XP again. It's good to see that there are SOME rewards for it now, because back then I don't think there was anything at all-
Hope to see it improved on in the years to come ^^ And as always, amazing video, Mike!
I think you should get a perma unlock token everytime you prestige as well as whatever bonus you choose, or make it so whatever legendaries you own make the gun permanently unlocked.
Avtomat at level 1 😩
@@jonathanbanning9558 Aw hell nah 😭
@@jonathanbanning9558 good luck affording many of them to start lol
Mike, I actually put a similar suggestion to the unlock token idea in the Discord. My version varied slightly. In short:
Every prestige you get an unlock token on top of the reward.
You use the unlock tokens to go down the unlock tree.
The weapons don't actually unlock until you unlock the base variant (so a freshly prestiged character cannot buy a Mosin out the gate, they need to get to the appropriate BR to unlock the base mosin, but once they do they have all the variants they've purchased unlocked)
Certain 'capstones' require multiple tokens (big dynamite bundle for consumables, avto, dolch precision, etc.)
i prestige every time i hit 100 just to force me play new weapon or else i'll stay forever with a mosin XD
I think a lot of people get burnt out because they don’t prestige. Having to rely on these top tier weapons can really hurt you skill. And who doesn’t love going back to rank one and running around with the Romero gang!
Yeah, if it didn’t cost that much I’ll be Long ammo, Crown&King/Terminus and Nitro all the time, so I think Prestige is a good idea in itself, but we need motivation
I think when you prestige you should keep all legendary items in your possession at the time of prestige. This could be limited to 1 or 2 copies to keep people from hoarding but I hate losing nice legendaries I've picked up from fallen enemies because I prestige.
i remember playing black ops 4 and really enjoying prestiging, because with each unlock token, it felt like i was building my favorite class that i would eventually always have.
As someone who always prestiges (no matter what) I really hope they add the permanent unlock tokens at some point but more exclusive skins (including hunters or the hunter customization once it drops) would also be nice. Usually when I'm at Bloodline Rank 100 I have not unlocked the C&K Slugs, the Uppercut Explosive, or the Avtomat. As much as I would like to try out C&K Slugs, prestiging feels more important for me.
Also this stupid "use x items to unlock the next" should be avoided, going into rounds to use up 4 weak stamina shots just to unlock the vitality shot is simply annoying. Having the prestige unlock tokens work just for the Book of Weapons stuff would be entirely sufficient, just to remove annoying unlocks from the prestige loop. I'd say you should always get one permanent unlock token and the 10% XP Boost for each prestige, no matter what. I'd even say the 10% should stack - so a Prestige 5 has a 50% XP boost, but I can see how that would be a bit too much on higher prestiges (1000% on a Prestige 100 lol?) - maybe reduce the XP Boost percentage to 1 or 2% but make them permanent and stackable.
You could also set a limit to the XP-Stack, so you can't go over the 50% but these you'll get all the time and in addition some nice exclusive skins. I personally don't prestige at all because I feel there's nothing that I would really gain from it. The few legendary skins that I want to have are easily unlocked by just playing the game long enough. And I really hate unlocking certain weapons all over again, the perma token is sth we need asap. Then I'd probably reconsider about hitting the prestige button.
@@Necromancer-Noxx I don't use weapons I can't unlock anything with, it's sometimes a bit annoying, but once I unlocked all for the Romero i.e. I stop using it altogether because getting XP with it feels wasted. I really like progression, but some things are just too annoying to unlock again (or are mandatory like Vitality Shots). Who doesn't love throwing 24 Decoys around just to unlock the Decoy Fusees :DDD
I started playing in December and have been chasing that sweet, sweet _Golden_ _Ticket._ A little under 300 bosses slain and I'm starting Prestige 9 tonight.
I can relate - i wanted the golden ticket too back then but after they increased the price of the bornheim i was like - nope and settled with the prestige 5 Sparks :>
@@captainaustria95 I agree that the pricetag seems excessive, all Bornheim variants would probably benefit from having their price halved.
dunno if can be another suggestion but......a part from agreeing with the "perma unlock token"........ after going for prestige 4, to try what the experience was with the custom ammo, spoiler it's a nope for me, now there are really too many items, weapons ecc. to be unlocked;
but if there were a system of modification which you simply buy the gun and you put on the weapon, after unlock the variant/modification you buy the scope or bayonet or a "pack" with barrel, drum, trigger ecc. to convert a conversion caldwell into an uppercut for example ? working like the custom ammo, buy the mod and put it on/in the gun, but like unlocking a bayonet and you will have bayonet unlocked for all guns that have that bayonet (may apply this for custom ammo, cause i can understand the different calibre with guns but we're also in a game and would be nice to unlock compact fire, poison ammo ecc. and thats it, but also know that could bring to other things to unlock by rank, but maybe there is another solution.........that i'm not seeing)
You may ask why this and what has to do with the prestige possible suggestion and......i will start to say that i feel like certain weapon and variants haven't much differences or uniqueness, for me, to choosing them instead of others, so i was thinking about that i will not buy a certain weapon, but only his variant........so MAYBE this could help even with the "prestige perma token"
But i still think i'm missing something, so i would really like to hear opinions from Mike and others peoples, so thank you even just for notice the cooment, hope all good for ya'll
i wish i could design my own hunter.
clothes, visuals and maybe perks and through prestige you unlock more of this stuff for you own custom hunter.
i love it everytime i get home from night shift theres a new vid for me to watch while i blaze before bed!
Those tips actually taught me a few new things, I appreciate the video man 👍 thanks for taking the time to help out us newbies
I played for awhile before I prestiged. I had some money but my progress was stagnated. I was bringing the same loadouts. Prestiging helped me play other loadouts and i became a better player. Now I feel comfortable bringing almost any guns.
I am P100. A few things I learned that helped. Pick a few specific weapons and run them all the time. I ran winnie variants till I had sparks then sparks iron or scoped. If I was having a good prestige and had money I would then run mosins. Getting used to a few sights and bullet speeds will keep you winning more games. Romeros are great too if you like them, I dont. If you struggle with money start rounds out with a few quickplays so that you have a buffer, some free hunters and guns. I retired every hunter until I was in the 60-70 range. Early on a level 30-50 hunter can jump you almost 7-10 bloodline levels and unlock a bunch of things you need. later on a level 50 only gets you 2-3 bloodline levels. If you double bounty and server wipe on a 50 while you are level 70 though I have jumped 8-10 bloodline levels. Worth the risk to me later on. I think the way to fix the prestige system is this. You should have the number of prestiges subtracted from the blooline for unlocks. Like a P5 would start with the first 5 levels of unlocks available. a P75 would start off with all unlocks to 75 unlocked but need to get to 76 to get the rest. This would allow someone with a thousand hours in the game to start with a lebel or mosin which is fair with that type of investment. Good luck and support region locking!!
I'm prestige 10 and I don't feel the need to go any further. Thanks Mike for the informative video. It's nice to hear your opinion.
Wonderful breakdown, so thorough! I took XP the fist time and then legendary the 4 times after...thank goodness I did that! I wish they would let you keep your hunt dollars at the very least instead of taking away literally EVERYTHING from you lol
More unlocks & Permanent Tokens would make such a huge difference & would also help the new hunters to catch up with the veteran hunters without making them gimp on a constant basis while also still trying to learn the game. - i have been playing since Hunt came out & i have no issues letting new players catch up if it brings in more players to the game.
As always Mike good video sir!
Also another note that I've seen another hunt RUclipsr point out but forgot his name: replace the challenges with a challenge tree, because right now you can accidentally do the challenges without even looking at them. His idea was to make it something like in dead by daylight where you have to select personalised challenges. Something like vault through 20 windows etc. And so you advance in the challenge tree where you unlock more skins or perhaps could be free weapons in game for hunt.
I just hit my 1st prestige, had no idea how far it went! Thanks
I SO much agree on the token system! It has worked on so many other games and why CryTek still has not implimented it is kinda mindblowing! I have actually suggested it myself in their discord channel. I hope CryTek will hear you Mike!
I have not clicked the Prestige button. I don't want to lose my shit.
same i have 120 hours and i haven't prestiged once cause I just don't think its worth loosing my stuff over
Just prestige once so u get tge 10percent xp boost
yep agree the perma unlocks would be nice, its why kept prestigeing in Titanfall 2, which extended playability of the game for me. thanks for another a sweet vid mike.
Great breakdown of prestige. I learned more than i thought
A few different ideas on how to make Prestige better, ranked by how hard it is to implement:
Easy:
Instead of a flat 2000$ or 10% exp, each prestige gives a permanent and stacking 1% increase to both (so at Prestige 100 you earn double xp and money)
Medium:
- More Legendary Skins that are exclusive to Prestige (including Legendary Hunters)
-Prestige Forge - Starting from Prestige 1 and every 10(could be 5?) levels, the Forge upgrades, giving you a free (but contraband) random weapon every day for each level of the Forge (so if you're prestige 31, you get 4 random free contraband weapons, the weapons also can be higher level than your bloodline before you unlock them (depending on Forge lvl)
Hard:
-Unlock Offline Singleplayer, story heavy trials that involve tales of the Legendary Hunters and their achievements, also you automatically recruit the Legendary hunter into your roster with the inventory from the trial into your roster for free, the first time you complete it
(Lets say for example Prestige 5 unlocks a Legendary Hunter skin along with the Sparks skin we already have, then we also get a Trial where we have a voiceover talking about the story of the Hunter while we have a huge horde of Armoreds approaching us and we have Incendiary ammo and we keep unleashing fiery hell while a voice epicly tells us about this exceptional Hunter's life, then when we finish it, we get that hunter for free with the Sparks with Incendiary)
it´s annoying that you have to unlock all lore entries in the books again after prestige...
that schould be a one time unlock
sometimes i just want to read them when i'm waiting in the lobby for a match and it wouldn't even affect the gameplay
Pretty much the reason I haven't prestiged ever. I got 4 more from the new weapons then I have them all and I'm not losing it
oh damn i didnt know you loose the book of weapon entries, I kinda wanted to complete some of them to get the full story like the officer one and the romero family one.
I feel like two easy changes that could make prestige more enjoyable, at least for me personally as a casual player, would be to stack the exp. boost (maybe make it 5% instead) and keep your money. Like I have around 20k at the moment so I try to spend all that money before I prestige. I bought the most expensive stuff almost every time and I'm still at 18-20k after dozens of rounds.
I grinded Hunt with a injured leg 6 month ago and our best in trio was 3 prestige in one day with one hunter per prestige :D
My only tip for ppl who are thinking of starting to prestige is, get into the mindset that you're prestiging now.
It's not something you just like "hey i wanna prestige once now."
And then you play normally to 100 again and just stay.
Best is to just get into that mindset and just keep trucking until you hit a good checkpoint where you stop, for example 11 as mentioned by Mike.
Or at 25, 50 100.
Another tip is, make challenges for yourself during prestige. Like that you'll only play Winfields or only Crossbows or only compact weapons etc.
That can make it more interesting to prestige.
It also gives opportunity to practice with weapons you normal don't play.
So if you're at 100 and don't prestige and you feel the game gets a bit stale or maybe repetitive, prestiging is a very good way to make the game feel fresh again.
Hell it kinda caught me off guard just how empty you start at bloodline 1. I had played 500+hrs at prestige 1 until i decided to actually prestige. Now im close to prestige 4 and def pushing for prestige 11 atleast.
You only get like health kit, knife, winfield, nagant & small vitality shot when you start anew.
Literally nothing else.
I like the sense of progression. Utilizing other weapons each prestige. But mostly I love that grind baby.
Add challenges that carry through prestige levels. Example would be a challenge to get hunter kills. Unlock at prestige 1 and your progress with the challenge carries through to prestige 100. Reward for completing the challenge could be a skin, BBs, or hunt bucks. Iterate the challenge everytime you complete it; so first version is "Get 100 Hunter Kills", next iteration is get "200 hunter kills", etc.
i like the perma unlock token idea
thought about it myself a while ago
i mean presteging is a lot of work
and it isnt a disadvantage for the people who dont prestige since they allready have all items unlocked
it just makes presteging a bit more rewarding and more fun
I absolutely love the prestige improvements
Idk what Prestige does, bout to find out in this vid, i can tell you however, what i do, i tell mike hes the best!!! On day 52 today! Woohoo!
I think something that would be cool that gives players "something to grind for" is a kind of personal missions type system. Give each gun in the game missions to do with it, something like "50 player kills with this weapon" and everytime they complete a mission on it, maybe give the weapon a 5% hunt dollar discount when purchasing it brand new for a new hunter and such. Then after completing say 5 missions that scale up in difficulty each time, the player gets a really nice skin for said weapon and a 25% discount on it just to show its the players favorite weapon. This on top of a perma unlock token could give players incentive to prestige, maybe even dedicating a whole prestige level to a weapon, just so it feels like they do having something to grind for.
One thing I would love for prestige is instead of starting your bloodline rank over it starts over at whatever your prestige level is. Say at prestige 50 you'll start out at rank 50. Because it actually makes that prestige 50 to 100 gap a bit easier.
Great idea, actually
Thank you Mike i knew all of them still watched you are best
I am currently at 39, will go up to 50. Then take a break from prestiging and unlock everything.
Usually i quickplay the first 30 - 40 levels quickly, then collect lvl 25 hunters and skip the last 15-20 levels by retiring them. Record: 1 Prestige in 8 houers
hell yeah, another psycho mike deep dive video about hunt HELLL YEAAH
I could google this but I waited and very glad you made a video about prestiging.
I prestiged for the first time ever a week ago and chose the legendary skin option. I was thinking ‘there are so many gun skins surely I’ll get something cool’
I got a fucking spyglass.
I think I might have been your 100,000th subscriber 😅
Thanks Hunt Showdown 😆
Some of my notes: if they want to add value to prestige, all they'd have to do is add a couple exclusive hunter skins.
Also a benefit to prestige that you missed: it wipes all of your book progression so you can grind those blood bonds again. Not much, but if you value blood bonds, it's a pretty decent method.
The permanent unlock tokens is exactly what I have been saying. Either that or even if you don't permanently unlock you can choose a weapon that you have unlocked and 1 in inventory when you start the new grind.
I always prestige as soon as I can, Idc how much stuff I have or don't have. Why? Simply because it's part of the fun with this game, being "forced" to play different weapons, try out certain things, work for a specific unlock, but also always going back to the beginners struggle without being one, actually quite the contrary, I would rather get bored if I would always be LV. 100 with all the unlocks so I always prestige
I like your "permanent unlock" idea, the way you put it would be perfect!
I started prestiging this year after I played already 1400h.
On the one hand I like it because it forces me to play different Loadouts and P1 an P2 gave me Waldmann and Drowned Rat.
On the other hand it is tough for me as a casual playing dad.
I often miss ammo types that I need for challenges which are already hardly archived because of my low play time per week.
Now they changed the retirement to level 50 which is also really hard to achieve for me.
I think I will continue to P11 and then I will wait and see what comes along
Totally agree with the perma unlock idea!
My take on "should you prestige?": I personally don't/won't, because I'm a massive gear goblin. It took me ages to unlock the different variants of almost all guns (still lacking the Lebel, because I'm so bad with it), so I don't really feel like resetting all of that hard work, especially now that we got the special ammo update and I had to take those same guns and re-grind for the ammo variants. I would theoretically like to reset the progress, but it would break my heart in the end, so I'm not gonna risk it :D
(Now that Mike explained that the killshot of a weapon grants the xp, maybe I'll start grinding the Lebel. I honestly didn't know that, thanks Mike!)
I really like the idea of a perma unlock, if you like a gun in the early ranks then it isn’t that annoying to prestige. However if your like me and you prefer the sparks llr or something up around rank 50 it’s slightly more annoying to prestige and have to unlock that again.
I didn't want to prestige until today. I now have ~90 hrs but I have to say that it is worth it. It's just nice to be able to grind towards something
Love your videos thank you, discovered a few other games because of you as well! Marauders and Cycle so thanks for that as well :)
I fall into the personal challenge category for prestiging. I usually pick a them or a weapon type for the next prestige and stick as much to that as possible. Currently doing an explosive prestige run.
Honestly, the simple fact to re-start playing from level 1 is enough for me (but maybe I am weird^^).
Nice video Mike, good explanations for the ones who need it, and I think we are numerous ^^
Love your deep take on this
I do prestige challanges, I've done shotgun only and single shot only for now, pistol only is next
I think a rewarding prestige choice would be a discount option. like for each prestige you can choose a single weapon to have a discount on, maybe something like 10-5%. however make it so that you cannot stack it all on one weapon like the mosin. I think a much higher end idea would be animation unlocks, i know that sounds odd but think about it, as you prestige your hunters become more "professional" and they unlock new things like reload animations that are optional. purely there for style points, of course they can't be faster than normal reloads for balance purposes, maybe make them slower or the exact same speed as a normal reload. idk just a few ideas
I just got into the game couple of days ago, i really love your videos they helped me a lot
Perma unlock is honestly the best idea. That's how titanfall did it. All though there was less weapons. But it made grinding the regeneration (prestige) levels more fun and less of a slag.
I just prestige every time. Always fun starting over.
My improvement to the prestige system would be to keep weapon variants/ammo types unlocked after prestige. You would still need to reach the Bloodline level to unlock the base item, but the variants will automatically be unlocked once you do. For example the Conversion pistol is unlocked at rank 22; but if you have unlocked the Uppercut on a previous prestige, it will automatically be unlocked when you unlock the regular Conversion.
Perhaps balance it out by requiring players to earn the unlock 10 times previously or by activating this only after prestige 10 (or later), but I think this would go a long way to ease the grind of repeatedly re-unlocking these variants. Especially with the custom ammo types, unlocking a specific variant after prestige can be a huge pain.
Personally I wouldn't go for perma-unlock tokens as the value is completely lost once you unlock the item normally, but I do see the appeal.
I love Hunt because of the guns specifically. Prestige takes my option to use any of them for any hunt away. If I want to run a winfield, I can, if I want to run a mosin sniper, I can. It's down to my choice. Skins are nice, but it's perfectly fine to unlock the BB ones over time. I don't feel pressured to get them really. I might change my tune if I get bored, and want to place myself under challenge, but right now it's far too much fun to have my freedom in gun choice. Especially since I adore shotguns and don't want to give them up.
However, this has led to a problem in my eyes. I'm too wealthy for anyone's else's good. If I wanted to run Mosin Uppercut every game, I pretty much could. It would take dozens of matches of me failing to get any good money for me to actually not be able to afford the best gear if I wanted. Best way to fix that is to reduce how much money players earn as their wallet increases in size. Or cap the wallet at say 9000 dollars. Right now I have 30K dollars to spend on weapons and gear and every mission I walk in with a full outfit of consumables, quality guns, and equipment. And people around me aren't either. Most of my matches consist of either mosins and lebels fighting and shotguns working around the onslaught of long rifles. But that's another problem.4
perm unlock would make me 10x more addicted to the game to be completely honest
Tracking progress between each prestige would be handy.
For instance, prestige 1 will have a kda, and it'll reset for prestige 2 and so forth but keep the data stored/displayed somewhere so you can track your progress as well as having a total kda for all of the prestiges.
Hey Mike this video is great and very informative so that I can tell my friends to check out because they like to prestige as I've stopped lately due to when the custom ammo unlocks came in I'm like you with the prestige it's more of a pain than anything but I don't know if Crytek would do my suggestion because it may take a lot of resources but i'll put it here they should make the custom ammo a like a seperate xp chain to unlock but that's just me being lazy for the grind lol Also yay my first vid on the patereon wall! XD
I think with each prestige price of weapons and hunters can be reduced and xp required to unlock weapons can be reduced around 1% with max 50% limit.
I actually don't mind that prestige comes with very little incentives, but I understand why it bothers some people. Permanent unlock tokens, like you mentioned, would convince me prestige immediately though. I love throwing knives, and don't want to be forced to unlock them again. Not that I absolutely need them to play, they're just my favorite.
I was actually hitting 10% every time because I thought It will stack. Thank you for this! I'll go with the leges from now on 😄.
I've been thinking for a long while that they should do a forced prestige as soon as you get to rank 100. While I understand that only changing this one thing would have substantial effects on players, I feel like it would add a bit of game balancing to the mix that it would be worth doing. If you're doing so well that you prestige sooner, it sort of gives people that aren't doing so well slightly better loadout options.
This has the added bonus that players can't just stick with one type of play style and loadout as easily, forcing them to adapt in other ways and become better players.
I do understand that as content creators this would probably be a huge inconvenience, so I'm not 100% saying it should happen. I just think that, in general, the positives of doing this would outweigh the negatives.
Prestige should give you the XP boost automatically, like it's just 10% to reward you for going through with it.
Then more legendary skins to unlock, they could use the community made skins, there's some really good ones.
And I like the idea of a perma-token, but maybe just have a few of them like say one for your long slot, one for medium slot, one for small slot, one for tool, one for consumable, one for traits. That way you still have to unlock a bunch of stuff, but you can use your favourite things from the start, say you love uppercut, doctor and decoy fuses and use it every single game, you can still have them after the prestige.
Me and my duo partner only prestige in order have that feel of progresion so we don't get bored, we always stay on blood line 100 for a few days and than spend all our money with avtos and nitros :D edited stuff here------->also for the perma unlock I think it would be a bit strong like probaly most of us would take the mosin or something of the high tier rifles so I think what would make it more "balanced" is that when you prestige and go for the token when you choose one item it would only be unlocked until your next prestige and than you would have to choose something else for that prestige
Less painful: doesn't take all you're hunt bucks away.
Potential reward: could be any concept art for the maps or monsters that could go into a file like the book filled with info about the monsters or it could give you a randomly chosen weapon like 5x mosin sniper.
Thanks, at the start I Prestiged 3 times. Now I don't bother because loosing everything sucks. And concerning the Legendary Skins, My friend got the "Steel Eye"..... We didn't stop annoying him for it for days.
More incentives for clicking the Prestige Buttons would be a good idea and make me, and other people I think, clicking that button more often.
Improving prestige would come handy with reimagining other cosmetic game systems like character customization (exclusive tattoos, haircuts for higher prestige ranks), weapon cosmetic customization (marks, stripes, stars, also exclusive variants of those for prestige hunters), maybe taunts? Idk
I look at it as a reason to keep playing the game. Gives you something to work for. Staying at 100 would get boring after while with nothing to unlock
I Prestiged once purely call her experience and to get the 10% XP
Now I'm grinding to get every gun variant and every ammo unlock
As well as grinding for Mastery on every weapon for Book of weapons
Pretty much all my friends started prestiging for the grind, but after a few Prestige's they stopped, they now only Prestige if they run out of money