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I wish I could love this game but the throwables meta, which I suck at, makes it lowkey unplayable for my lizard brain, I have like 40 hours on console and am already 6 star cause I’m a decent shot, and then I run into people who have mastered the audio and map so perfectly that while I’m pie’ing a window I get a perfectly cooked dynamite stick to the face, I want to like this game, but it’s too punishing to play solo
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The point about every hunter having the same amount of health is so crucial. In games like Tarkov or even in battle royales the difference armor makes on balance is enormous. It makes loadout choice at the same time more complicated (since there are more variables to account for) and more restricted (since you have to always assume other players are using high level armor). The level playing field in Hunt results in you always feeling like you had a chance in a fight, no matter what loadout you have. Even if there's a huge skill gap (which unfortunately happens a lot even with SBMM) in the back of your mind you know that if you had gotten a little luckier or just payed a little more attention you could have gotten the kill.
ya. one lucky headshot, or lucky wall pen, or even the inverse, you get lucky and he hits your arm or you get aimpunched into that perfect headshot. ((or your cursed and get the trade on each other)) it only takes 2 to 3 shots to kill anyone afterall.
@@Mostly_Honest_AbeThat's literally what he said bro. He means he prefers Hunt, which you go in and do an objective, more than Tarkov, which you go in and loot. Apparently, you don't know how to read.
Dude you make hands down the best informative gaming content on the planet, I never get excited for anyone’s videos on RUclips, it’s typically filler content whilst on the toilet, I will damn near drop everything to watch your videos, even if it’s on games I could care less about, that says something…keep em coming bro
I had one highlight experience in Hunt: Myself and a random fellow joined together in a pair and went out into a game, I brought a single-shot sawed-off shotgun and a combat axe. We were just going about the map and didn't have any encounters up to this point: We crossed through a corn field and wanted to get into the farmstead that was across the way, seemingly though there was a sniper hiding in a barn that we did not see and they waited until we were at our most vulnerable - ducking through a hole in the fence-line - then opened fire. What followed was a bout of insanity that I have never experienced again in gaming. My companion was shot down, this prompted me to retreat into the cornfield to conceal myself. I sat there stuck in a bind without an idea of what to do, but apparently, neither did the sniper. You see, I had just gotten off a game of Dead by Daylight, and while playing as a survivor my eyes were opened to the potential that a cornfield has to conceal you. After a moment of waiting, the sniper made the rash decision to come out with a lantern to ignite my companion, little did they know, I had manoeuvred a distance down the fence, ducked under a different hole, hid in a bush and was able to shoot him before he managed to finish my companion. I picked my companion up only for him to yelp a warning and get shot back down. Another pair of players came from the direction of the barn gunning for us both, I was on the other side of the fence and made the split decision to put a pile of lumber between them and I, I then managed to shoot one with my gun, headshot instantly downing him, and his partner, expecting me to be reloading my single-shot firearm, pushed me only to run headfirst into my axe. I picked up my companion again and he was promptly shot AGAIN by a pair of players coming down the road on my right, I retreated into the cornfield but apparently the noise generated by the skirmish thus far had lured another pair of players from the road on the left, both teams jumped into the cornfield and they all began shooting at each other with me concealed in-between with the crossfire whizzing over my head. But as was stated before, the poor fools were in my territory. With a cool head, pinpoint focus and calculated movement, one-by-one each team would fall to my axe, gunshots, screams then silence in the fields. Somehow I had soloed seven men. I picked up my companion one last time, he'd been watching me in spectator mode and was flabbergasted. We didn't even bother with the bounties, we looted the bodies and ran, wheezing and giggling from the aftermath. Soon the bodies of these hapless hunters would be dismantled by crows and only the corn was left witness to a slaughter that... If I'm honest, I had no idea how I pulled it off! And I was never able to recreate such a 'clean-house' scenario in that game again. It was awesome, one of a kind. And a testament to how unique Hunt: Showdown is.
Great story, but the scenario you describe with being able to Lazarus your companion repeatedly is why I can’t get into hunt, even though I’m a 19th century gun fanatic. I wish someone would make a straight realistic cowboys (and Indians) multiplayer FPS.
@@cmbaileytstc "Fistful of Frags" comes to mind, it's free to play on steam if you don't already have it. Would recommend it, though it is a bit arcade-y the guns are mostly well-realised.
Honestly I love moments on Hunt like this, it honestly makes you feel like a legend when you pull off some crazy stuff. I had a moment one time when I was duos with a friend and we had just killed a bounty and set up traps, then 3 full teams tried to come for us and we dealt with them all. Two of the teams came at roughly the same time from different sides and didn't even encounter each other, I took on one by myself whilst my friend was on the other side dealing with the other. I managed to deal with the team I was fighting first and went over to help my mate and then before we could even breath, another bloomin team of 3 showed up haha. Thankfully the traps helped a bit with the first two teams though.
In my experience, Hunt: Showdown was always just... Odd. I love the game but everything everyone said about it always felt the opposite of what was said. For the SBMM for example, even after several weeks it never felt like I was put with people around my skill. I always felt like I was put against people leagues above me who just so happened to be put into a hunt with me on their way up the ELO ladder. Pretty much every match went the way of going well right up until either I'd simply die due to a player completely stomping me in an encounter or I'd simply... Die to a player who gave absolutely zero indication they even existed to me outside of the fact they'd just headshot me.
It takes a while to learn everything. There probably was some sign or indication, you just didn't know what to look/listen for... or know that the absence of something was important. For example, last night my buddy and I were about to go into the boss lair when I got a "feeling" that we shouldn't go in just yet. There were no sounds, no distant battles, no AI walking around the lair, no birds or horses... and the boss indicator was pulsing white indicating there were no other hunters in the zone. Something just didn't feel right. I told him to go inside and start working on the boss, that I'd stay outside and watch. Sure enough, about 30 seconds after he got to work a duo comes out of the bush across the field headed straight for us. They had intended to ambush us after we had our ears filled with screaming boss noises. They didn't count on me waiting outside in a counter ambush. I've easily had a hundred situations like that and experienced both sides of it. Hunt is not a game to be picked up quickly, it's absolutely one that needs to be studied and experienced first hand a thousand times before you get a handle on everything. I rarely get wall banged any more, I rarely get sniped from across the canyon, but I still get ambushed and outplayed all the time. I've died to traps set out in the MIDDLE OF NOWHERE. Riloe described it pretty much perfectly. Every single match is a double blind experiment.
@@murdurmuffin7872 Which I know. But when there's dead silence because I'm watching what I believe to be an aftermath of a fight from somewhere hidden and I simply die all of a sudden... It becomes a bit hard to listen for things. Sure there is times like that where I'll admit that it was well planned to use distractions... But there's also an equal, if not increased amount, of times where I simply... Die out of absolutely no where. Like I don't even hear a single bit of hint/info until after I've died sort of "out of no where," including the gunshot that killed me.
@@thatoneguy5856nah they just made that shit up because another game had a "claim" on that name and couldn't put it on steam unless they came up with an alternative, in this case being a acronym.
Yomi is a concept that, outside of the japanese space, is mainly related to fighting games; thats why he used the silhouette of ryu and honda to explain the concept
Wish he posted still (or at least semi-regularly), listening to his calm voice combined with top tier gameplay is still one of my favorite things. He is one of few accounts I am actually subbed to.
9:50 I am no expert on audio-engineering, but my understanding is that it all boils down to delay (and volume) between L-R speakers, and echo or reverb. That's how your brain naturally gives a sound source it's direction in relation to your head.
@@ronaldmcreagann6343 for left/right, the more of a delay between the sounds, the more it is biased to one side. No idea if that can translate to the vertical.
It's about phases. When the left and right channels are perfectly mirrored signals, the sound will appear to be coming from behind you. If the signals are in-phase with each other, the sound is mono.
I don't think any other game has given me as much joy in skill progression. I used to play competitive halo (H3, H:Reach) and I gave CoD my best efforts up until the SBMM apocalypse. Nothing has been like my journey in Hunt though. Went from a newbie occasionally getting a lucky shot and dying way more than I was comfortable with, to a 5 star ambush nightmare in just under a year. It's been a wild ride. Last night I was playing with a 1* buddy who got me into the game. He ended up getting redskulled due to MY mistake, and I had to go steal a bounty token from a kill greedy solo player across the map... alone. Ended up coercing said solo player to let me navigate his booby trapped lair for the spare token instead of fighting it out. Rescued my partner and he was able to retire his hunter. Felt really good to experience that kind of "can't plan that" story.
I'm so happy people are still talking about this gem of a game. Even with unsavory updates and development decisions, there is no game like Hunt, and likely never will be.
One of the interesting aspects of the game you didn't mention (there's a lot of interesting things to mention - impossible to fit them all in one video!) is the shooting itself. Hunt rejects the high velocity, fully automatic weapons we're so used to from other shooters and instead gives us single-action revolvers and rifles with one shot in the chamber. Every shot counts, because there's going to be a significant delay between them! It forces the player to be more deliberate and considerate with their shooting and to consider other options to gain the advantage in a fight such as traps and laying ambushes. Positioning, listening, and patience are all important qualities to succeed, and I'd even say more important than what particular weapon you're bringing to each round. It also allows firefights to be slow, drawn-out affairs. I've had multiple compound fights last for 10 minutes or more as each group attempts to out-manouver, out-smart, and out-last each other. And I tell you what, they're always more intense and stressful than any fast paced shooter action I get from other FPS games. Great video, by the way!
As a 2-3 star player, this game has some of my favorite gunplay ever. Yes, fights can sometimes take 4 seconds. But sometimes, fights can take 5 or even 10 minutes, which are some of the most fun times I've ever had playing videogames.
Hey man, I've been playing this non-stop since the start of 2020. I have accumulated over 5000 hrs just now, and I can tell you with the utmost certainty that you NAILED it here. You explained the elements that make this game so great by connecting all the right dots in such a well articulated introduction to it (and it isn't even a tutorial), it's an awesome video. I can really tell that you understood the game, and that there are people who have thousands of hours in it and still don't. I'm amazed, keep going because this is honestly one of the best pieces of content I've seen about the game here, and I will definitely show it to newer players or those wanting to get into it.
What I love about Hunt is that every engagement is based almost entirely on pure skill. Aim, map knowledge, tool use, etc... And also the fact that you viably can play non-meta builds.
This is one of the most gripping and exciting games I’ve ever played. One of the few games I never really get upset at dying in. Every game is a learning experience and every team wipe a thrill.
“Sometimes, if you can fool your opponent to not look for it, the dumbest play is the smartest one because of its raw simplicity.” I once worked with someone who was a semi-professional fencer. He told me intermediate players like him were average difficulty, but outside of that, beginners were just as dangerous as experts. The reason being as a semi-pro, everyone was doing the same dance waiting for their opponent to slip. While experts would take advantage of mistakes he didn’t even know he made, beginners were so random with their behavior that the “dance” wasn’t reliable, because as much as he could try to force someone into it, there was no way to tell when they would do something random and stupid and get a strike.
The note about preconceived notions when people hear a name is so true. I've talked to people about Hunt and everything they complain about is a blanket statement about extraction shooters, most of which are Tarkov and Warzone's DMZ. It was quite the frustrating conversation when they talked to me like I was wrong even though I play Hunt quite a bit and they have little to no time on the game. I absolutely LOVE hunt to death and hate when people think its just another extraction shooter.
These points feel similar to reasons why I like Rust and it has short term persistent world (usually 2 week depending on server) and your objectives/goals vary depending on progression of you and other players.
I really like how you explained acting subconsciously. I think if i showed this video to someone who asks "how do you process/play (insert video game here)" and it would explain it perfectly, you just know how to do it, but you don't know that you know. It just happens after hours of experience
I love this game in a way I never did. It makes me happy, it disappoints me, it makes me angry, and all in the middle, but at the end of the day, I go to sleep with a smile on my face.
ya. this is a game that when I get frustrated and just have to...quit for the night before I full tilt, Im happy to come back in and enjoy it. since im usually frustrated with my self more than otehr games were half the stress is your teamates being deadweight,throwing,ignoring OBJ.... Hunt its just me,my one friend I teamate, and pleanty of targets to kill me... also the fact it dosnt feel like I need to be on aderall to play,
You have some of the nicest to listen to reporting, analysis and opinions when it comes to your video/essays on game. Truly, don't be worried all too much about that Hunt is a game that's less played or older - I think this video is fantastic like much of your work. Thank you for the engaging content!
You have alot of good points and I love having people explain things in words I cant. but another thing alot of people dont really talk about is the "down time" with hunt matches being set up that way there is alot of down time were you arnt ACTIVLY shooting someone, and in modern shooters thats like the greatest sin you can commit. but I love that because you dont get combat fatigued, its not just 10-30 mins (or several hours if you can chain matches fast enough) of non stop combat with no chance to breath... its alot of walking,planing,keeping a tense ear out for enemy teams that are also scrambling around...but that calm tenseness ELEVATES the gunfights making them feel all the more intense because the fight is a peak in the match rather than the constant median and 'expected status quo' its like a horror game/movie. if its just non stop jump scare and spook back to back it eventually becomes grating, but if it puts you on edge constantly,teasing you and making you crave something to happen...that when something DOES happen you REALLY feel the scare... its the same idea with the matches of hunt.
I like the downtime in Hunt, same as in EFT. In Hunt it’s pretty constantly satisfying, as you’re always doing SOMETHING, such as stabbing AI in the face :)
I had this game in my library for a while and never played it. After your video I installed it and motivated two of my friends to play it. I've waited to write this comment, I wanted to play and feel that it is described in your vid (40h for the moment). And damn the sound specialisation, the atmosphere and the satisfaction of fights. Never felt that so quickly in a pvp game (1000h on PUBG and 2000h on CS). This afternoon we did 2 grand slams (with 2 teams destroyed), we had all had a slime on our faces for a long time. Because of what ? Satisfaction, we were proud of our games. Hunt is for me one of the best pvp games (despite the bugs and the awful UI). PS: The sensation of hearing someone in your headset and knowing exactly where you're looking is as real as life. Once again, I've never seen anything like it in a game, multiplayer or PvP.
For some reason i thought this video would be about Receiver 2, now that i know it isnt id really love to see a video on it from you Riloe! I think its a game youd find intriguing
Hunt Showdown was one of my favorite PvP games before the "1896" update. It dropped the ball completely in my opinion, and still hasn't done enough to convince me to come back.
in the same boat brother. Taking a break and listening to the news, and it feels like it just keeps going further downhill :/ it's probably my favorite game of all time too. so dang sad.
I'm glad RUclips brought me to this channel few weeks ago. The quality of this content is really good and i take inspiration in the design Riloe create in his montage. I spend a good time here. Great job, your job deserve to be sponsored (ty WOT). see ya
Hunt is my favorite game from the sound design alone. I honestly wish more developers would take sound design as serious as they do. Nothing beats that feeling of the wall bang head shot.
Hunt has always enamored me with its design and cosmetics compared to say Call of Duty or something like Rainbow. The amount of depth they put into the minute details is insane. The game play always has me on edge. I've got a couple hundred hours and played it on and off since the beginning and still I start to shake with adrenaline when I get into a gunfight. Best pvp experiences I have ever had were in this awesome game. Sidnote I miss the old ui
I was so excited when you brought up yomi. I thought you were going to talk about yomi hustle (your only move is hustle) its a turn based fighting game. that very much follows the rule of "yomi" you were actually talking about. never knew that yomi meant that or had a place in game design, and i can only assume it was intentional when used in yomi hustle
Yomi hustle had to (technically) cheange its name to 'your only move is hustle' because Dave Sirlin, the guy who coined the term, used it in the title of one of his own games and is a dick about anyone else using it - although to be fair he is also clearly a talented and insightful game designer.
This type of "instinctive" gameplay can be achieved in pretty much any game. The difference is how much it is expected and integrated in the gameplay. For example, back when I played Counter Strike way more (mind you I was never that good) I think that I got so used to flanks and dying in specific ways that I started expecting an enemy to come from somewhere. I started to tell myself what the last enemy would do as I spectated my teammates. To this day CS is the only game that has done that to me. Sorry for the rant, just wanted to share my experience with instinct and how I realise what "game feel" actually means.
I love your style of videos a ton and seeing the highlights (especially the old maps and weather conditions) hit me with some potent nostalgia. My biggest concern with where Hunt is going (as someone with an unhealthy amount of hours in the game) is the current situation with bullet penetration. In case you didn’t know, they recently “fixed” a bug since the game initially released that gave weapons decent damage when they penetrated surfaces. Now, even stuff like long ammo and Nitro do negligible damage through most surfaces.
One thing I like about Hunt is that when you lose or die, you rarely ever feel the game is bullshitting you. 'Aw man I shouldn't have peeked that spot again.' 'Aw man maybe I shouldn't have ran into the compound' 'Aw man maybe I could have gotten the last guy with my melee when he was low' Hugo Martin said this when he was working on Doom: Eternal; *"We're fine with frustrating the player so long as they have something to learn."* and I think that applies to Hunt: Showdown as well.
I tried to get into hunt showdown because one of my close friends was (is) really into it. I just couldn’t because I found it too hardcore… Barely any UI, so many things thrown at you from the start, extremely hard to differentiate enemies from the environment and just overall very punishing as a new player. It felt like I could never get the upper hand on others no matter what strategies I tried simply because there was always something I didn’t know or understand. (Keep in mind I have about 80hrs into the game) At its core though I do think it’s a good game and I really like the aesthetics, but yea similar to Dayz, it’s just too punishing for little reward.
Well I'm convinced, I'll give it a try. By the way, this is probably the greatest video I have ever seen on the platform no joke. Everything about it was just masterfully put together, and if you keep this up you could REALLY reach some serious heights. Looking forward to what else you create. :)
I’m new to this game this year, nearly bounced right off it due to the initial difficulty curve. I’m glad I stuck it out at around the 30h mark the game absolutely clicked and now I’m hooked. Hit 100h + recently
I honestly don't know how this guy makes so many high quality videos. With the amount of work that must go into them I'm surprised he doesn't share a release schedule with internet historian.
I've had a hard time getting people into this game but maybe you'd appreciate it for the beauty of a game it is. Receiver 2 A game about how your gun is fully simulated, every action on the gun has it's own key, pulling back the slide, enabling the safety all that and the fact your guns will jam in various ways, this game has never been talked about by someone I know. Not saying a whole video will come out of it but if you got some time to spare check it out.
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Hey there, relatively new hunt player here, been playing since august and have gotten around 250 hours since, I’m consistently a 3* in matchmaking and I find that it can be quite lax with who is put where, I often get queued with prestige 0 level 30’s because their KDA is technically really high from their 2 lucky matches in a row, which can be frustrating when I want to be paired with people around my level.
I have a pair of friends who play Hunt on regular basis, and sometimes I join them. With their 5/6 star rating and my 3 stars we get matched with all sorts of teams. A funny thing is that the 6 star people rarely expect someone having a Romero and a Romero handcannon. Once I shoot and whiff with one they just push and get blasted with the second one. It's my favourite thing to do in the game really
Well well, if it isn't Riloe, posting a video about the greatness of Hunt right after I wrote a comment on your last video about how great Hunt is. Love it!
Apart from the massive amount of bugs (even gamebreaking bugs still in the game, that have been there since beta) and server instability, Hunt is very good.
Hunt is a game I really wanted to like. When the early marketing was going around it caught my attention mostly for the world, lore, and PVE elements. Gothic horror cowboys with occult knowledge hunting demonic monsters corrupting the landscape was cool, and is still an incredibly cool concept. The PvP felt from all the material I saw as a tense possibility, which seemed fine at the time, but it turned out to be the focus of the game and 90% of what you're doing in it; navigating the hordes and monsters to take down the main boss and get out with the bounty is almost a footnote compared to the meat and potatoes of the game. Hunt feels like someone killed and hollowed out a game I would have adored and used the skin to dress up a game I would have ignored.
One thing i do like about hunt is that everyones on a level playing field, health wise at least. In tarkov sometimes i just can't win because of armor, or a simply better gun
I've got like 3000 hours on Hunt, been playing since 0.2. Its in a better place now than maybe ever before. Ive had my ups and downs with it but its so special.
As a low rated player... It can be frustrating. I also lack many friends who play, so my opportunities to try to get better are lacking. But I do quite enjoy the vibe, and when I do pull off a cracked play, god does it feel so rewarding. I'd love to see this game gain more love. It deserves it.
I’ve put a over 1500 hours into the game on both Xbox and PC combined and I’m so glad to see a video about Hunt singing its praises. So many videos recently are just crying about how bad 1896 is. While it may be true that it is an *extremely* flawed update, it’s still a game that I love and I will continue to play for a long time. Thanks for the vid, Riole!
Hunt: Showdown is the only extraction shooter I've ever been tempted to play. I had a brief stint with Tarkov. I felt so far out of the loop I'd need to spend months of my life I didn't have banging myself against the skill gap until it pitied me and let me have fun. It never felt rewarding, only punishing. Hunt: Showdown seems like a different beast that more aligns with my interests, that I'd actually like to spend time on if the itch ever comes around, even if the skill gap is an equally immense ocean of suffering. Maybe I can finally bridge that gap between me and the average player. Thanks Riloe.
I'm a consistent 2-star hunter, so I'm not what you would call good. I've got 200 hours in and I love it. That instinctual stuff you talked about is probably why I keep coming back. I've done pvp in Destiny, and Halo, and a few other shooters in the past and none of them hooked me. But there is something about Hunt. I've gotten some good plays, and I'm usually not just steamrolled. But there is something about the mix of atmosphere, gameplay loop, and the way the firefights feel that just keeps me in the game.
my posse do naked runs (literally just fists and a dream) when we get into a lose streak. and for some reason we always get a win. its the underdog buff, the fuck around and find out perk, and the nowhere but up mentality really does a lot. just shows how balanced this game really feels.
@@bigfoot9405 I played “hardcore” with a team similar to this, where we only allowed ourselves to use things picked up in game. We somehow won a round by killing a team with the in-world axes 😄
Great video. I only have about 40 hours in hunt, and I'm still 3 stars, but my trio is a 5 and 6 star but I've never felt the matchmaking made me want to quit. Yeah there are games where we get demolished, our record time was 45 seconds in a round before getting triple headshotted at the first location, but even with the rank disparity I never felt the game was unfair, just that I could improve. The game does have an incredible ability to give you long range engagements when you bring a shotgun and short range when you bring a rifle. I'll live and die by the Lebel and Sparks though.
I've heard this game described as "human instinct let loose". couldn't agree more. feeling, instinct, gut reaction, these are what make you win at Hunt, not academic knowledge, not spreadsheets, not any meta, just feeling.
I would play the hell out of this game if I had friends that already played it, it is SO hard to get into as a solo newbie though. Talking as someone who hasn't been able to play despite hearing all about it's timeless game design mastery, my point of view on why I haven't played it yet is not [entirely] on its edgy witchhunter theme or its elaborate menu system or its outdated feeling core. As an outsider I feel like this game pushes out anyone who's unwilling to play it lightly. The in-depth competitive PvP balancing of the game is always apparent by anyone even remotely mainstream discussing the game, with such praise, there's no way there wouldn't be such emphasis on it, respect where it's due; However, having experienced both friend groups too 'old' for PvP and groups too 'young' for even barely non-conventional games, none of them would be comfortable with Hunt. It somehow perfectly avoids both extremes of the "Tarkov" and the "Talkov". If the already rare amount of praise going towards exfil shooters was all along about morally-grey interaction between potentially-likely-hostile strangers, most of all in the predecessors of the genre like DayZ n whatnot, even less so in games like Hunt; The "Talkov" of the game only ever arrives after an exceptional amount of time spent learning the game, when in other titles, even hardcore ones like EFT, it can just brew up out of collective inexperience of the vast environment. It may sound unfair to imply that's not the case for other games but I would like to consider this game much faster in comparison which works against that idea. Essentially, these are time-sink games, regardless of how 'derogatory' or 'reductionist' that may sound, it doesn't imply anti-consumer grind mechanics in play; Under this context I'd like to say it plays into exactly what you described, (touching up on terms I cooked up in prior comments again) the game makes use of learning through instinct rather than memorizing through design. I called it a design flaw of Exfil Shooters prior, painting the idea of 'Learning through Design' to be preferable, I still think the same, hence why I think the game's a time-sink. I don't necessarily think it's a bad thing despite being a flaw; it just shows for the game's core being outdated in my view.
As a 3-4 Star who hasn't played recently, Hunt is probably the Extraction/BR game that I play the best. At my MMR, I definitely feel that sound is not only an advantage that players can use to quickly analyze Hunt's depth, but also a weapon. In my first few hundred hours, I've seen many players fail to register an enemy unless they make a noise or are obvious and moving. I even saw this in my friend group that introduced me to Hunt. I've had a lot of fun building a playstyle around using visual and audible stealth, deception through noise, and just general ratting. I still remember my first PVP kill, which consisted of me sitting in a bush between compounds standing up to shoot him when he ran up. My favorite kill was a well-acted "I'm blind!" callout in local to convince them to push into a Slate after flashing. When playing solo, I'm not technically good enough to handle the bosses, so I just play to Hunt teams 1v2 or 1v3. Use the bow to pick them off and, when they come to investigate my bush, a decisive frenzy with a machete to finish the survivors. Hunt: Showdown is a horror game first and a shooter second, and I intend to remind the sweaties whenever they approach with a Yomi 1-3 mindset.
I’m very new to hunt, I bought it last week and I am loving it! I’m really bad at it (especially the solo mode) yet every time I die I quickly realize that most of the time it was my fault. Bad positioning, bad aim, etc.
Hunt showed me that I just don't like extraction shooters. PvPvE (as well as PvP ones) is just an irritating game mode to me. I don't find engagement in spending hours building up a character just to lose it all from a single person camping an objective or extraction point. This type of game is a hot bed of try-hards and I don't really want that as a way to cool down after work. If my job was to play video games, it'd probably be a different story.
@@Why_It It’s definitely a style of game that caters to those who are competitive and seek excitement. Personally, I can’t get much enjoyment from “casual” mp game experiences anymore. Bit of an adrenaline addict I guess you could say! 😅
A friend of mine got me into Hunt, taught me how to play, how to listen. I'm a slot machine when it comes to performance, no matter the game. I've been six stars, I've been three. Throughout it all It's hands down been the most unique and rewarding shooter I've played. The mainstays of fps tie dopamine to quantity, kills in seconds of one another, streaks as high as you can get them. Hunt ties it to quality, the quality of your decision-making, your patience and aim. It has it's 'junk-food' tools, fanning chainpistol, levering terminus, ratting in a bush 120m out with a mosin sniper. But buy and large you're on equal footing, one headshot and you're dead, you can hear everything. You just have to listen hard enough. I'd encourage people to try Hunt but try it knowing you are going to get your head handed to you, that it's at least a passive investment of your time to learn the tells, how to move and how to deal with things. There are players that will abuse every advantage they can but putting an arrow between their eyes after being somewhere other than what they thought is one of the most rewarding experiences in fps.
I was a really consistent 5 star solo hunter a year or two back, I stopped playing because it gets boring playing alone. Few months back I had a friend play with me, he wasn’t the greatest but just having a second teammate was enough to get me to 6 star, we only played for a few days before we lost interest
Hey Riloe. Been a big fan of your content for a bit now. As a fellow 1000+ hour player, I've found less and less desire to play since 2.0. I don't even think it's any one thing, just something feels off about the formula I fell in love with. Curious if you've experienced any of this too. This video definitely made me want to hop back into the bayou though.
Hunt needs more love. Ive played it since alpha and so can't get enough. Although it's currently in a state with a few bugs, the devs are extremely talented and dedicated, superb game. Good lock and have fun to the the players!
As a just started player I cannot thank this game enough for one reason As an Australian playing on us servers with my friends I barely notice my high ping. I don't know what black voodoo magic Crytek pulled but I am so thankful that I can peek a corner and still hit the guy who is holding an angle on me. Also Riloe I would love to see a video on SQUAD at some point please and thank you :3
There was a period where playing Realistic Tanks in War Thunder was similar to how you describe here... then they ruined it and one of the ways they ruined it was messing with the audio which as far as I know is still quite broken to this day. I haven't played for a few years now... being bombed by aircraft, which wasn't always a thing, and not being able to tel how far away an enemy vehicle is gets old pretty quick. Sometimes, other vehicles close to you just get drowned out or make no sound at all...
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don’t think i will but thanks for the banger video
I wish I could love this game but the throwables meta, which I suck at, makes it lowkey unplayable for my lizard brain, I have like 40 hours on console and am already 6 star cause I’m a decent shot, and then I run into people who have mastered the audio and map so perfectly that while I’m pie’ing a window I get a perfectly cooked dynamite stick to the face, I want to like this game, but it’s too punishing to play solo
better play WoWs
Your knowledge of weird tanks made the ad wonderful. :v
It would be so nice if more RUclipsrs talked about stuff like that in their ads.
Admit it Riloe you just made this entire video as an excuse to show us your cracked Hunt clips, i see you
@@TofuRabbit 😭
@@riloegaming It’s okay, I’ll take any reason to watch a video of yours. Finishing up a late breakfast now and about to watch it on the big screen
That’s what I was thinking too lol
😂😂😂
I was going to comment this XD I was like damn he good ;)
World of Tanks is not a game worth getting into in 2024, I am speaking from years of experience, I don't blame you whatsoever for taking the sponsor, you have to make money to stay afloat, however to anyone else reading this, I wouldn't recommend it, it is a frustrating money sink
90% of youtube sponsors are bad, especially when they're for mobile game
WoT is just one letter off WT, so it makes sense that it's a money sink
@@codenope you couldn't be more correct
wot is a game in which if you started playing before circa 3 years, and got in it, cool you are playing it but it's a HELL for new players... so the game is just relying on the old playerbase which is slowly fading away bit by bit
it used to be a fun game years ago but the management really screwed the game up with the unbalanced matchmaking and many other stuff
He keeps doing this. He keeps uploading videos during my breakfast and I, for one, absolutely appreciate that. Keep up the amazing content!
Cool i have his videos after launch.
@@lukasmarek3424 Elon musk? Is that you?
The point about every hunter having the same amount of health is so crucial. In games like Tarkov or even in battle royales the difference armor makes on balance is enormous. It makes loadout choice at the same time more complicated (since there are more variables to account for) and more restricted (since you have to always assume other players are using high level armor).
The level playing field in Hunt results in you always feeling like you had a chance in a fight, no matter what loadout you have. Even if there's a huge skill gap (which unfortunately happens a lot even with SBMM) in the back of your mind you know that if you had gotten a little luckier or just payed a little more attention you could have gotten the kill.
ya. one lucky headshot, or lucky wall pen, or even the inverse, you get lucky and he hits your arm or you get aimpunched into that perfect headshot.
((or your cursed and get the trade on each other))
it only takes 2 to 3 shots to kill anyone afterall.
Hunt showed(own) that I prefer objective-based extraction shooters than loot-based ones
It’s still a completely overlooked and untapped sub-subgenre
@@riloegaming Wait a minute, isn't this genre just MGS5 The Phantom Pain, with all those Fulton Devices and what-not?
play deathloop!
It is also objective based... guess you haven't played it
@@Mostly_Honest_AbeThat's literally what he said bro. He means he prefers Hunt, which you go in and do an objective, more than Tarkov, which you go in and loot. Apparently, you don't know how to read.
Dude you make hands down the best informative gaming content on the planet, I never get excited for anyone’s videos on RUclips, it’s typically filler content whilst on the toilet, I will damn near drop everything to watch your videos, even if it’s on games I could care less about, that says something…keep em coming bro
Thank you, it really means a lot!
I had one highlight experience in Hunt:
Myself and a random fellow joined together in a pair and went out into a game, I brought a single-shot sawed-off shotgun and a combat axe.
We were just going about the map and didn't have any encounters up to this point: We crossed through a corn field and wanted to get into the farmstead that was across the way, seemingly though there was a sniper hiding in a barn that we did not see and they waited until we were at our most vulnerable - ducking through a hole in the fence-line - then opened fire.
What followed was a bout of insanity that I have never experienced again in gaming. My companion was shot down, this prompted me to retreat into the cornfield to conceal myself. I sat there stuck in a bind without an idea of what to do, but apparently, neither did the sniper. You see, I had just gotten off a game of Dead by Daylight, and while playing as a survivor my eyes were opened to the potential that a cornfield has to conceal you.
After a moment of waiting, the sniper made the rash decision to come out with a lantern to ignite my companion, little did they know, I had manoeuvred a distance down the fence, ducked under a different hole, hid in a bush and was able to shoot him before he managed to finish my companion. I picked my companion up only for him to yelp a warning and get shot back down. Another pair of players came from the direction of the barn gunning for us both, I was on the other side of the fence and made the split decision to put a pile of lumber between them and I, I then managed to shoot one with my gun, headshot instantly downing him, and his partner, expecting me to be reloading my single-shot firearm, pushed me only to run headfirst into my axe.
I picked up my companion again and he was promptly shot AGAIN by a pair of players coming down the road on my right, I retreated into the cornfield but apparently the noise generated by the skirmish thus far had lured another pair of players from the road on the left, both teams jumped into the cornfield and they all began shooting at each other with me concealed in-between with the crossfire whizzing over my head.
But as was stated before, the poor fools were in my territory. With a cool head, pinpoint focus and calculated movement, one-by-one each team would fall to my axe, gunshots, screams then silence in the fields. Somehow I had soloed seven men.
I picked up my companion one last time, he'd been watching me in spectator mode and was flabbergasted. We didn't even bother with the bounties, we looted the bodies and ran, wheezing and giggling from the aftermath. Soon the bodies of these hapless hunters would be dismantled by crows and only the corn was left witness to a slaughter that... If I'm honest, I had no idea how I pulled it off! And I was never able to recreate such a 'clean-house' scenario in that game again.
It was awesome, one of a kind. And a testament to how unique Hunt: Showdown is.
Love this comment ^^
Great story, but the scenario you describe with being able to Lazarus your companion repeatedly is why I can’t get into hunt, even though I’m a 19th century gun fanatic. I wish someone would make a straight realistic cowboys (and Indians) multiplayer FPS.
@@cmbaileytstc "Fistful of Frags" comes to mind, it's free to play on steam if you don't already have it. Would recommend it, though it is a bit arcade-y the guns are mostly well-realised.
Honestly I love moments on Hunt like this, it honestly makes you feel like a legend when you pull off some crazy stuff.
I had a moment one time when I was duos with a friend and we had just killed a bounty and set up traps, then 3 full teams tried to come for us and we dealt with them all. Two of the teams came at roughly the same time from different sides and didn't even encounter each other, I took on one by myself whilst my friend was on the other side dealing with the other. I managed to deal with the team I was fighting first and went over to help my mate and then before we could even breath, another bloomin team of 3 showed up haha. Thankfully the traps helped a bit with the first two teams though.
In my experience, Hunt: Showdown was always just... Odd. I love the game but everything everyone said about it always felt the opposite of what was said.
For the SBMM for example, even after several weeks it never felt like I was put with people around my skill. I always felt like I was put against people leagues above me who just so happened to be put into a hunt with me on their way up the ELO ladder. Pretty much every match went the way of going well right up until either I'd simply die due to a player completely stomping me in an encounter or I'd simply... Die to a player who gave absolutely zero indication they even existed to me outside of the fact they'd just headshot me.
It takes a while to learn everything. There probably was some sign or indication, you just didn't know what to look/listen for... or know that the absence of something was important.
For example, last night my buddy and I were about to go into the boss lair when I got a "feeling" that we shouldn't go in just yet. There were no sounds, no distant battles, no AI walking around the lair, no birds or horses... and the boss indicator was pulsing white indicating there were no other hunters in the zone. Something just didn't feel right. I told him to go inside and start working on the boss, that I'd stay outside and watch. Sure enough, about 30 seconds after he got to work a duo comes out of the bush across the field headed straight for us. They had intended to ambush us after we had our ears filled with screaming boss noises. They didn't count on me waiting outside in a counter ambush.
I've easily had a hundred situations like that and experienced both sides of it. Hunt is not a game to be picked up quickly, it's absolutely one that needs to be studied and experienced first hand a thousand times before you get a handle on everything. I rarely get wall banged any more, I rarely get sniped from across the canyon, but I still get ambushed and outplayed all the time. I've died to traps set out in the MIDDLE OF NOWHERE. Riloe described it pretty much perfectly. Every single match is a double blind experiment.
@@murdurmuffin7872 Which I know.
But when there's dead silence because I'm watching what I believe to be an aftermath of a fight from somewhere hidden and I simply die all of a sudden... It becomes a bit hard to listen for things.
Sure there is times like that where I'll admit that it was well planned to use distractions... But there's also an equal, if not increased amount, of times where I simply... Die out of absolutely no where. Like I don't even hear a single bit of hint/info until after I've died sort of "out of no where," including the gunshot that killed me.
this game is designed for rats, so it is expected to die to rat gameplay
@@AcitoriaVakarianIdunno I dunno what to tell you then. That hasn't happened to me in the last couple hundred hours I've played, can't say I relate.
@@murdurmuffin7872 then you might be the guy that does it to people. It happens, you just only recall it from the other side of the gun.
7:33 SO THATS WHY YOMI HUSTLE IS CALLED THAT
And it stands for “your only move is”
@@thatoneguy5856nah they just made that shit up because another game had a "claim" on that name and couldn't put it on steam unless they came up with an alternative, in this case being a acronym.
@@thatoneguy5856 mostly because some other guy called a trademark on the original name.
DUDE, THAT IS SO COOL, cuz it also means your only move is, GOAT
Yomi is a concept that, outside of the japanese space, is mainly related to fighting games; thats why he used the silhouette of ryu and honda to explain the concept
god yeah, the Lukan shoutout is based. Lukan isn't the first i saw of Hunt, but he's what really made me keep coming back to it
Severely underrated creator, I literally wouldn’t be here without him 🫡
Wish he posted still (or at least semi-regularly), listening to his calm voice combined with top tier gameplay is still one of my favorite things. He is one of few accounts I am actually subbed to.
9:50 I am no expert on audio-engineering, but my understanding is that it all boils down to delay (and volume) between L-R speakers, and echo or reverb. That's how your brain naturally gives a sound source it's direction in relation to your head.
that would make sense, but then how does one incorporate that in game? Coordinates and bearing?
@@ronaldmcreagann6343 a helluva lot of math
@@ronaldmcreagann6343 for left/right, the more of a delay between the sounds, the more it is biased to one side. No idea if that can translate to the vertical.
@@Appletank8 I got that, but thanks.
It's about phases. When the left and right channels are perfectly mirrored signals, the sound will appear to be coming from behind you. If the signals are in-phase with each other, the sound is mono.
I don't think any other game has given me as much joy in skill progression. I used to play competitive halo (H3, H:Reach) and I gave CoD my best efforts up until the SBMM apocalypse. Nothing has been like my journey in Hunt though. Went from a newbie occasionally getting a lucky shot and dying way more than I was comfortable with, to a 5 star ambush nightmare in just under a year. It's been a wild ride.
Last night I was playing with a 1* buddy who got me into the game. He ended up getting redskulled due to MY mistake, and I had to go steal a bounty token from a kill greedy solo player across the map... alone. Ended up coercing said solo player to let me navigate his booby trapped lair for the spare token instead of fighting it out. Rescued my partner and he was able to retire his hunter. Felt really good to experience that kind of "can't plan that" story.
"...its not only one of the first games i played..." Bruh i feel fucking ancient
…played on PC 😉
@@riloegaming yeah i assumed.
I'm so happy people are still talking about this gem of a game. Even with unsavory updates and development decisions, there is no game like Hunt, and likely never will be.
One of the interesting aspects of the game you didn't mention (there's a lot of interesting things to mention - impossible to fit them all in one video!) is the shooting itself. Hunt rejects the high velocity, fully automatic weapons we're so used to from other shooters and instead gives us single-action revolvers and rifles with one shot in the chamber. Every shot counts, because there's going to be a significant delay between them! It forces the player to be more deliberate and considerate with their shooting and to consider other options to gain the advantage in a fight such as traps and laying ambushes. Positioning, listening, and patience are all important qualities to succeed, and I'd even say more important than what particular weapon you're bringing to each round.
It also allows firefights to be slow, drawn-out affairs. I've had multiple compound fights last for 10 minutes or more as each group attempts to out-manouver, out-smart, and out-last each other. And I tell you what, they're always more intense and stressful than any fast paced shooter action I get from other FPS games.
Great video, by the way!
this is part of the reason i love team fortress 2 - every shot counting makes DM/ 1v1 situations that much more intense and impactful
As a 2-3 star player, this game has some of my favorite gunplay ever. Yes, fights can sometimes take 4 seconds. But sometimes, fights can take 5 or even 10 minutes, which are some of the most fun times I've ever had playing videogames.
Hey man, I've been playing this non-stop since the start of 2020. I have accumulated over 5000 hrs just now, and I can tell you with the utmost certainty that you NAILED it here. You explained the elements that make this game so great by connecting all the right dots in such a well articulated introduction to it (and it isn't even a tutorial), it's an awesome video. I can really tell that you understood the game, and that there are people who have thousands of hours in it and still don't. I'm amazed, keep going because this is honestly one of the best pieces of content I've seen about the game here, and I will definitely show it to newer players or those wanting to get into it.
Hey, thank you!
What I love about Hunt is that every engagement is based almost entirely on pure skill. Aim, map knowledge, tool use, etc... And also the fact that you viably can play non-meta builds.
This is one of the most gripping and exciting games I’ve ever played. One of the few games I never really get upset at dying in. Every game is a learning experience and every team wipe a thrill.
Bro thinks hes going to have a showdown during some kind of hunt or something
“Sometimes, if you can fool your opponent to not look for it, the dumbest play is the smartest one because of its raw simplicity.”
I once worked with someone who was a semi-professional fencer. He told me intermediate players like him were average difficulty, but outside of that, beginners were just as dangerous as experts. The reason being as a semi-pro, everyone was doing the same dance waiting for their opponent to slip. While experts would take advantage of mistakes he didn’t even know he made, beginners were so random with their behavior that the “dance” wasn’t reliable, because as much as he could try to force someone into it, there was no way to tell when they would do something random and stupid and get a strike.
i wont some of my best poker hands at a young age because i had no idea wtf i was doing.
The note about preconceived notions when people hear a name is so true. I've talked to people about Hunt and everything they complain about is a blanket statement about extraction shooters, most of which are Tarkov and Warzone's DMZ. It was quite the frustrating conversation when they talked to me like I was wrong even though I play Hunt quite a bit and they have little to no time on the game. I absolutely LOVE hunt to death and hate when people think its just another extraction shooter.
These points feel similar to reasons why I like Rust and it has short term persistent world (usually 2 week depending on server) and your objectives/goals vary depending on progression of you and other players.
I really like how you explained acting subconsciously. I think if i showed this video to someone who asks "how do you process/play (insert video game here)" and it would explain it perfectly, you just know how to do it, but you don't know that you know. It just happens after hours of experience
I love this game in a way I never did. It makes me happy, it disappoints me, it makes me angry, and all in the middle, but at the end of the day, I go to sleep with a smile on my face.
ya. this is a game that when I get frustrated and just have to...quit for the night before I full tilt, Im happy to come back in and enjoy it. since im usually frustrated with my self more than otehr games were half the stress is your teamates being deadweight,throwing,ignoring OBJ....
Hunt its just me,my one friend I teamate, and pleanty of targets to kill me...
also the fact it dosnt feel like I need to be on aderall to play,
This video is underrated, it deserves millions of views! Great editing and explanation. Here take my sub and like!
You have some of the nicest to listen to reporting, analysis and opinions when it comes to your video/essays on game. Truly, don't be worried all too much about that Hunt is a game that's less played or older - I think this video is fantastic like much of your work.
Thank you for the engaging content!
You have alot of good points and I love having people explain things in words I cant.
but another thing alot of people dont really talk about is the "down time"
with hunt matches being set up that way there is alot of down time were you arnt ACTIVLY shooting someone, and in modern shooters thats like the greatest sin you can commit.
but I love that because you dont get combat fatigued, its not just 10-30 mins (or several hours if you can chain matches fast enough) of non stop combat with no chance to breath... its alot of walking,planing,keeping a tense ear out for enemy teams that are also scrambling around...but that calm tenseness ELEVATES the gunfights making them feel all the more intense because the fight is a peak in the match rather than the constant median and 'expected status quo'
its like a horror game/movie. if its just non stop jump scare and spook back to back it eventually becomes grating, but if it puts you on edge constantly,teasing you and making you crave something to happen...that when something DOES happen you REALLY feel the scare... its the same idea with the matches of hunt.
I like the downtime in Hunt, same as in EFT. In Hunt it’s pretty constantly satisfying, as you’re always doing SOMETHING, such as stabbing AI in the face :)
I hover somewhere between 2 and 3 stars. It's one of my favorite shooters as even on the same couple maps, no two rounds are anything alike.
I had this game in my library for a while and never played it. After your video I installed it and motivated two of my friends to play it.
I've waited to write this comment, I wanted to play and feel that it is described in your vid (40h for the moment).
And damn the sound specialisation, the atmosphere and the satisfaction of fights. Never felt that so quickly in a pvp game (1000h on PUBG and 2000h on CS).
This afternoon we did 2 grand slams (with 2 teams destroyed), we had all had a slime on our faces for a long time. Because of what ? Satisfaction, we were proud of our games.
Hunt is for me one of the best pvp games (despite the bugs and the awful UI).
PS: The sensation of hearing someone in your headset and knowing exactly where you're looking is as real as life. Once again, I've never seen anything like it in a game, multiplayer or PvP.
For some reason i thought this video would be about Receiver 2, now that i know it isnt id really love to see a video on it from you Riloe! I think its a game youd find intriguing
Hunt Showdown was one of my favorite PvP games before the "1896" update. It dropped the ball completely in my opinion, and still hasn't done enough to convince me to come back.
in the same boat brother. Taking a break and listening to the news, and it feels like it just keeps going further downhill :/ it's probably my favorite game of all time too. so dang sad.
I'm glad RUclips brought me to this channel few weeks ago. The quality of this content is really good and i take inspiration in the design Riloe create in his montage. I spend a good time here. Great job, your job deserve to be sponsored (ty WOT). see ya
About god damn time someone mentioned Hunt Showdown
A lot of high profile youtubers and reviewers already praised Hunt to the heavens over the last few years. It's getting mentioned all the time dude
This may be the best video ive seen on the platform recently.
Hunt is my favorite game from the sound design alone. I honestly wish more developers would take sound design as serious as they do. Nothing beats that feeling of the wall bang head shot.
Hunt has always enamored me with its design and cosmetics compared to say Call of Duty or something like Rainbow. The amount of depth they put into the minute details is insane. The game play always has me on edge. I've got a couple hundred hours and played it on and off since the beginning and still I start to shake with adrenaline when I get into a gunfight. Best pvp experiences I have ever had were in this awesome game. Sidnote I miss the old ui
YES! HUNT FINALLY! when i hear that hum of "Rise Up Dead Man" i still get chills. I LOVE THIS GAME
I was so excited when you brought up yomi. I thought you were going to talk about yomi hustle (your only move is hustle) its a turn based fighting game. that very much follows the rule of "yomi" you were actually talking about. never knew that yomi meant that or had a place in game design, and i can only assume it was intentional when used in yomi hustle
Yomi hustle had to (technically) cheange its name to 'your only move is hustle' because Dave Sirlin, the guy who coined the term, used it in the title of one of his own games and is a dick about anyone else using it - although to be fair he is also clearly a talented and insightful game designer.
loved the heist movie style pacing in the beginning of the video!
This type of "instinctive" gameplay can be achieved in pretty much any game. The difference is how much it is expected and integrated in the gameplay. For example, back when I played Counter Strike way more (mind you I was never that good) I think that I got so used to flanks and dying in specific ways that I started expecting an enemy to come from somewhere. I started to tell myself what the last enemy would do as I spectated my teammates. To this day CS is the only game that has done that to me.
Sorry for the rant, just wanted to share my experience with instinct and how I realise what "game feel" actually means.
Yomi is literally just "I outsmarted your outsmarting."
Hunt is actually my favorite pvp game. Great video :)
This is the best ad for the game on youtube. And the elevator kill was just *chefs kiss*.
I love your style of videos a ton and seeing the highlights (especially the old maps and weather conditions) hit me with some potent nostalgia.
My biggest concern with where Hunt is going (as someone with an unhealthy amount of hours in the game) is the current situation with bullet penetration.
In case you didn’t know, they recently “fixed” a bug since the game initially released that gave weapons decent damage when they penetrated surfaces. Now, even stuff like long ammo and Nitro do negligible damage through most surfaces.
One thing I like about Hunt is that when you lose or die, you rarely ever feel the game is bullshitting you.
'Aw man I shouldn't have peeked that spot again.'
'Aw man maybe I shouldn't have ran into the compound'
'Aw man maybe I could have gotten the last guy with my melee when he was low'
Hugo Martin said this when he was working on Doom: Eternal; *"We're fine with frustrating the player so long as they have something to learn."* and I think that applies to Hunt: Showdown as well.
I tried to get into hunt showdown because one of my close friends was (is) really into it.
I just couldn’t because I found it too hardcore… Barely any UI, so many things thrown at you from the start, extremely hard to differentiate enemies from the environment and just overall very punishing as a new player. It felt like I could never get the upper hand on others no matter what strategies I tried simply because there was always something I didn’t know or understand. (Keep in mind I have about 80hrs into the game)
At its core though I do think it’s a good game and I really like the aesthetics, but yea similar to Dayz, it’s just too punishing for little reward.
tis video!!!! i lvoed every second of it! good stuff man!
When that Halo theme kicked in at around 7:15 I knew you were a man of culture.
I had slightly tuned out of the video but the moment I heard that music in the background I immediately regained all focus
Well I'm convinced, I'll give it a try. By the way, this is probably the greatest video I have ever seen on the platform no joke. Everything about it was just masterfully put together, and if you keep this up you could REALLY reach some serious heights. Looking forward to what else you create. :)
I’m new to this game this year, nearly bounced right off it due to the initial difficulty curve. I’m glad I stuck it out at around the 30h mark the game absolutely clicked and now I’m hooked. Hit 100h + recently
Riloe: "Here's a seventeen minute long video on Hunt: Showdown."
RUclips: "Idk man that looks like World of Tanks to me."
1500 hours, great vid, love seeing people talk about hunt, Hunt was also the first game i actively played on computer!
He finally makes a video on my favorite shooter!
1:28 crazy to be talking about what it means for a game to be balanced over footage of st akuma.
I honestly don't know how this guy makes so many high quality videos. With the amount of work that must go into them I'm surprised he doesn't share a release schedule with internet historian.
This game has been on my radar for quite some time. Once I upgrade my PC I'll definitely give it a shot. Thanks for the video!
Hunt giveth, Hunt taketh away
This is my first time seeing your videos and I gotta say they're awesome dude, really made me wanna check this game out!
I've got over 1000 hours in this game and love it so much. Thanks for making this video, I hope it brings more new players!
I've had a hard time getting people into this game but maybe you'd appreciate it for the beauty of a game it is.
Receiver 2
A game about how your gun is fully simulated, every action on the gun has it's own key, pulling back the slide, enabling the safety all that and the fact your guns will jam in various ways, this game has never been talked about by someone I know.
Not saying a whole video will come out of it but if you got some time to spare check it out.
Layer 1 of Receiver 2: "It's a gun simulation roguelike, neato!"
Layer 2 of Receiver 2: "It's a demonstration of the dangers of improper firearms safety, neato!"
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One of my favorite games of all time. Hands down the best audio of any FPS
Another stellar vid. Makes me want to play the game now, even though, I rarely play PVP games.
AS SOON AS I SAW THE GAME TITLE I KNEW IT WAS GONNA BE GOOD, for real, more people need to play Hunt
Damn, you just made me redownload hunt for the first time in years, thanks for reminding me about the game Riloe
Hey there, relatively new hunt player here, been playing since august and have gotten around 250 hours since, I’m consistently a 3* in matchmaking and I find that it can be quite lax with who is put where, I often get queued with prestige 0 level 30’s because their KDA is technically really high from their 2 lucky matches in a row, which can be frustrating when I want to be paired with people around my level.
I have a pair of friends who play Hunt on regular basis, and sometimes I join them. With their 5/6 star rating and my 3 stars we get matched with all sorts of teams. A funny thing is that the 6 star people rarely expect someone having a Romero and a Romero handcannon. Once I shoot and whiff with one they just push and get blasted with the second one. It's my favourite thing to do in the game really
Well well, if it isn't Riloe, posting a video about the greatness of Hunt right after I wrote a comment on your last video about how great Hunt is. Love it!
Its crazy that this guy likes every game I like
Apart from the massive amount of bugs (even gamebreaking bugs still in the game, that have been there since beta) and server instability, Hunt is very good.
I love the editing of your videos and i try to copy it as much i can on the projects i work on..
Hunt is a game I really wanted to like. When the early marketing was going around it caught my attention mostly for the world, lore, and PVE elements. Gothic horror cowboys with occult knowledge hunting demonic monsters corrupting the landscape was cool, and is still an incredibly cool concept. The PvP felt from all the material I saw as a tense possibility, which seemed fine at the time, but it turned out to be the focus of the game and 90% of what you're doing in it; navigating the hordes and monsters to take down the main boss and get out with the bounty is almost a footnote compared to the meat and potatoes of the game. Hunt feels like someone killed and hollowed out a game I would have adored and used the skin to dress up a game I would have ignored.
One thing i do like about hunt is that everyones on a level playing field, health wise at least. In tarkov sometimes i just can't win because of armor, or a simply better gun
I've got like 3000 hours on Hunt, been playing since 0.2. Its in a better place now than maybe ever before. Ive had my ups and downs with it but its so special.
As a low rated player... It can be frustrating. I also lack many friends who play, so my opportunities to try to get better are lacking. But I do quite enjoy the vibe, and when I do pull off a cracked play, god does it feel so rewarding. I'd love to see this game gain more love. It deserves it.
I’ve put a over 1500 hours into the game on both Xbox and PC combined and I’m so glad to see a video about Hunt singing its praises. So many videos recently are just crying about how bad 1896 is. While it may be true that it is an *extremely* flawed update, it’s still a game that I love and I will continue to play for a long time. Thanks for the vid, Riole!
Hunt: Showdown is the only extraction shooter I've ever been tempted to play. I had a brief stint with Tarkov. I felt so far out of the loop I'd need to spend months of my life I didn't have banging myself against the skill gap until it pitied me and let me have fun. It never felt rewarding, only punishing. Hunt: Showdown seems like a different beast that more aligns with my interests, that I'd actually like to spend time on if the itch ever comes around, even if the skill gap is an equally immense ocean of suffering. Maybe I can finally bridge that gap between me and the average player. Thanks Riloe.
I'm a consistent 2-star hunter, so I'm not what you would call good. I've got 200 hours in and I love it. That instinctual stuff you talked about is probably why I keep coming back. I've done pvp in Destiny, and Halo, and a few other shooters in the past and none of them hooked me. But there is something about Hunt. I've gotten some good plays, and I'm usually not just steamrolled. But there is something about the mix of atmosphere, gameplay loop, and the way the firefights feel that just keeps me in the game.
my posse do naked runs (literally just fists and a dream) when we get into a lose streak. and for some reason we always get a win. its the underdog buff, the fuck around and find out perk, and the nowhere but up mentality really does a lot. just shows how balanced this game really feels.
@@bigfoot9405 I played “hardcore” with a team similar to this, where we only allowed ourselves to use things picked up in game. We somehow won a round by killing a team with the in-world axes 😄
Great video. I only have about 40 hours in hunt, and I'm still 3 stars, but my trio is a 5 and 6 star but I've never felt the matchmaking made me want to quit. Yeah there are games where we get demolished, our record time was 45 seconds in a round before getting triple headshotted at the first location, but even with the rank disparity I never felt the game was unfair, just that I could improve. The game does have an incredible ability to give you long range engagements when you bring a shotgun and short range when you bring a rifle. I'll live and die by the Lebel and Sparks though.
I've heard this game described as "human instinct let loose". couldn't agree more. feeling, instinct, gut reaction, these are what make you win at Hunt, not academic knowledge, not spreadsheets, not any meta, just feeling.
I think it's true, because almost any playstyle, kit or tactic is possible to succeed with, if you have the confidence and skill.
7:42 IS THIS LOSS 💀
LOL
I would play the hell out of this game if I had friends that already played it, it is SO hard to get into as a solo newbie though.
Talking as someone who hasn't been able to play despite hearing all about it's timeless game design mastery, my point of view on why I haven't played it yet is not [entirely] on its edgy witchhunter theme or its elaborate menu system or its outdated feeling core. As an outsider I feel like this game pushes out anyone who's unwilling to play it lightly.
The in-depth competitive PvP balancing of the game is always apparent by anyone even remotely mainstream discussing the game, with such praise, there's no way there wouldn't be such emphasis on it, respect where it's due;
However, having experienced both friend groups too 'old' for PvP and groups too 'young' for even barely non-conventional games, none of them would be comfortable with Hunt. It somehow perfectly avoids both extremes of the "Tarkov" and the "Talkov".
If the already rare amount of praise going towards exfil shooters was all along about morally-grey interaction between potentially-likely-hostile strangers, most of all in the predecessors of the genre like DayZ n whatnot, even less so in games like Hunt;
The "Talkov" of the game only ever arrives after an exceptional amount of time spent learning the game, when in other titles, even hardcore ones like EFT, it can just brew up out of collective inexperience of the vast environment.
It may sound unfair to imply that's not the case for other games but I would like to consider this game much faster in comparison which works against that idea.
Essentially, these are time-sink games, regardless of how 'derogatory' or 'reductionist' that may sound, it doesn't imply anti-consumer grind mechanics in play; Under this context I'd like to say it plays into exactly what you described, (touching up on terms I cooked up in prior comments again) the game makes use of learning through instinct rather than memorizing through design. I called it a design flaw of Exfil Shooters prior, painting the idea of 'Learning through Design' to be preferable, I still think the same, hence why I think the game's a time-sink. I don't necessarily think it's a bad thing despite being a flaw; it just shows for the game's core being outdated in my view.
As a 3-4 Star who hasn't played recently, Hunt is probably the Extraction/BR game that I play the best.
At my MMR, I definitely feel that sound is not only an advantage that players can use to quickly analyze Hunt's depth, but also a weapon.
In my first few hundred hours, I've seen many players fail to register an enemy unless they make a noise or are obvious and moving. I even saw this in my friend group that introduced me to Hunt.
I've had a lot of fun building a playstyle around using visual and audible stealth, deception through noise, and just general ratting. I still remember my first PVP kill, which consisted of me sitting in a bush between compounds standing up to shoot him when he ran up. My favorite kill was a well-acted "I'm blind!" callout in local to convince them to push into a Slate after flashing.
When playing solo, I'm not technically good enough to handle the bosses, so I just play to Hunt teams 1v2 or 1v3. Use the bow to pick them off and, when they come to investigate my bush, a decisive frenzy with a machete to finish the survivors.
Hunt: Showdown is a horror game first and a shooter second, and I intend to remind the sweaties whenever they approach with a Yomi 1-3 mindset.
That transition at 06:18 was Marvelous
Hunt is such a gem of a game I go back to every time I'm sick of other titles
I’m very new to hunt, I bought it last week and I am loving it! I’m really bad at it (especially the solo mode) yet every time I die I quickly realize that most of the time it was my fault. Bad positioning, bad aim, etc.
its so funny when you have to listen to a sponsored segment about something you already use
Hunt showed me that I just don't like extraction shooters. PvPvE (as well as PvP ones) is just an irritating game mode to me. I don't find engagement in spending hours building up a character just to lose it all from a single person camping an objective or extraction point. This type of game is a hot bed of try-hards and I don't really want that as a way to cool down after work. If my job was to play video games, it'd probably be a different story.
@@Why_It It’s definitely a style of game that caters to those who are competitive and seek excitement. Personally, I can’t get much enjoyment from “casual” mp game experiences anymore. Bit of an adrenaline addict I guess you could say! 😅
A friend of mine got me into Hunt, taught me how to play, how to listen. I'm a slot machine when it comes to performance, no matter the game. I've been six stars, I've been three. Throughout it all It's hands down been the most unique and rewarding shooter I've played. The mainstays of fps tie dopamine to quantity, kills in seconds of one another, streaks as high as you can get them. Hunt ties it to quality, the quality of your decision-making, your patience and aim.
It has it's 'junk-food' tools, fanning chainpistol, levering terminus, ratting in a bush 120m out with a mosin sniper. But buy and large you're on equal footing, one headshot and you're dead, you can hear everything. You just have to listen hard enough.
I'd encourage people to try Hunt but try it knowing you are going to get your head handed to you, that it's at least a passive investment of your time to learn the tells, how to move and how to deal with things. There are players that will abuse every advantage they can but putting an arrow between their eyes after being somewhere other than what they thought is one of the most rewarding experiences in fps.
I was a really consistent 5 star solo hunter a year or two back, I stopped playing because it gets boring playing alone. Few months back I had a friend play with me, he wasn’t the greatest but just having a second teammate was enough to get me to 6 star, we only played for a few days before we lost interest
Hey Riloe. Been a big fan of your content for a bit now. As a fellow 1000+ hour player, I've found less and less desire to play since 2.0. I don't even think it's any one thing, just something feels off about the formula I fell in love with. Curious if you've experienced any of this too. This video definitely made me want to hop back into the bayou though.
jesus christ the video essayist is an actual gunslinger.
good shit i really wanna play hunt now
Hunt needs more love. Ive played it since alpha and so can't get enough. Although it's currently in a state with a few bugs, the devs are extremely talented and dedicated, superb game. Good lock and have fun to the the players!
As a just started player I cannot thank this game enough for one reason
As an Australian playing on us servers with my friends I barely notice my high ping. I don't know what black voodoo magic Crytek pulled but I am so thankful that I can peek a corner and still hit the guy who is holding an angle on me.
Also Riloe I would love to see a video on SQUAD at some point please and thank you :3
that would be the absurd 800ms trade window. Which is being brought down to 75ms soon. So enjoy while it lasts.
You just made me re install this masterpiece of a game. I'ma start hunting tmrw
The only hunt player to actually cook chokebombs i tip my hat to you sir.
There was a period where playing Realistic Tanks in War Thunder was similar to how you describe here... then they ruined it and one of the ways they ruined it was messing with the audio which as far as I know is still quite broken to this day. I haven't played for a few years now... being bombed by aircraft, which wasn't always a thing, and not being able to tel how far away an enemy vehicle is gets old pretty quick. Sometimes, other vehicles close to you just get drowned out or make no sound at all...
4:12 you alerted the ducks the cardinal sin of hunt