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| 4s | Hello, I'm Dennis Schwartz, design director for Hunt: Showdown. |
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| 6s | Today we are going to talk about our design goals |
| 8s | for some of the subtle and substantial |
| 10s | game mechanics changing with our August launch. |
| 12s | We will be touching on trait changes, reducing stalemates as well as changes |
| 16s | to our gunplay formula. |
| 21s | Let us start easy. |
| 22s | We are bringing back witness |
| 23s | as a regular trait for everyone to equip, and a menu for five upgrade points. |
| 27s | Witness allows you to see nearby dead hunters and recently deceased |
| 30s | monsters in Dark Side. |
| 31s | We are reorganizing the existing trait categories |
| 34s | for a more interesting mix of traits and how players can acquire them. |
| 37s | No longer are there only regular and burn traits instead. |
| 40s | Some traits will get the burn or scarce, attributes or both. |
| 48s | Scarce traits can only be |
| 49s | found in the world and cannot be equipped from the menu with upgrade points. |
| 53s | Shadow and the returning Shadow Leap are both examples of scarce |
| 56s | traits that are not burn traits |
| 57s | remain on your hunter until you defeated or failed to extract safely. |
| 61s | Shadow leap has been adjusted to no longer work for leaping intermediates as a balancing note. |
| 65s | Most of our existing burn traits are now both burn and scarce traits, |
| 69s | keeping them consistent with how they work. |
| 71s | So far, rare to find and short |
| 72s | lived being consumed after a fulfilled and special purpose. |
| 75s | However, we have adjusted some of the stack sizes. |
| 78s | For example, you can now only keep |
| 79s | a single instance of death cheat on your hunter at a time. |
| 82s | While remedy, Relentless and Rampage can still be held up to three times each. |
| 90s | This leads us to |
| 91s | our first newly modified trait necromancer. |
| 94s | Necromancer is now a single use burn trait with a stack size of one, |
| 98s | which costs four upgrade points. |
| 100s | It also no longer drains your health when attempting to revive a downed teammate. |
| 104s | What does this mean for solo hunters? |
| 106s | Solo hunters using necromancer receive a single restoration of all their health |
| 109s | chunks as they get back up, but they can only attempt to get up |
| 112s | a single time as necromancers now burned on use to cooldown for self |
| 116s | revive has been reduced slightly as a balancing step. |
| 123s | Over the last year, we have introduced more ways |
| 125s | for players to get back into the fight after being downed. |
| 127s | These changes have had a positive impact overall, but have also introduced |
| 131s | many points of frustration and contributed to stalemate situations. |
| 134s | Having reflected on your feedback and the available data. |
| 137s | We're making adjustments to burning and revive mechanics to reduce stalemates |
| 140s | and bring more decisive closure to player versus player fights. |
| 143s | The previously mentioned adjustments to necromancer |
| 145s | sit at the heart |
| 146s | of this change in direction, and are complemented |
| 148s | by a much faster burn rate to fully burn out the downed Hunter. |
| 151s | We appreciate and want to emphasize the play |
| 153s | and counterplay of burning and choke effects. |
| 156s | We now have choke bombs, beetles and bolts available for players for tactical use, |
| 160s | but we are limiting the duration of choke allowance to half the previous duration. |
| 164s | This is a deliberate change to reduce the two minutes of |
| 166s | just waiting out the choke load before making the next counter move in the fight. |
| 169s | We are aware of the controversy surrounding everything to do |
| 172s | with reviving, restoring, burning, choking, and generally |
| 175s | stalling out the player versus player fights. |
| 177s | Our core philosophy here is to provide mechanics for capitalizing |
| 180s | on the advantage of taking down 1 or 2 members of an opposing team, |
| 184s | but still have room for clutch counter play and tactics to get your own team |
| 187s | back in the fight without dragging out into overly long waiting games. |
| 192s | As always, we ask you to keep an open mind to the changes and look forward |
| 195s | to seeing how loadouts, tactics, and fight times play out in live environment, |
| 200s | as well as survey opinions collected as we go forward. |
| 206s | Moving onto gameplay topics, we are happy to announce that the center |
| 209s | crosshair will be available as the default setting for new players. |
| 213s | A lower crosshair option |
| 214s | remains available for players who prefer or more accustomed to that position. |
| 217s | The lack of a center crosshair has long been cited as a barrier to entry |
| 221s | for players transitioning from other first person shooters into hunt. |
| 224s | And with the August launch, will now be available for them to consider |
| 227s | trying hand again, as well as to more effectively on board players. |
| 230s | Joining us for the first time. |
| 234s | We are |
| 235s | applying a subtle drop to projectiles at longer distances based on ammo types |
| 239s | and weapon characteristics, such as action type and barrel lengths. |
| 242s | At extreme ranges, players will now require a bit |
| 244s | more skill, judgment, and timing to land those perfect shots. |
| 248s | While it becomes |
| 248s | harder to hit the target range, we are also ensuring that any headshot |
| 252s | will always be lethal at every range, making those kills even more rewarding. |
| 257s | This notable change greatly mixes up weapon balance and the established meta, |
| 261s | and we cannot be more excited for you to try all this out yourselves in August. |
| 264s | While we expect speculation, opinions run rampant with this news can be assured. |
| 269s | Sentiments, data and surveys will always be the key |
| 272s | measures we'll look at when considering the best course of action. |
| 276s | We will be back soon with more topics around our big August launch. |
| 279s | Follow our social channels for new videos and updates. |
| 282s | See you soon! |