Hunt: Showdown Dev Tracker

Step into the unknown with Dead Man’s Cut, now available! This DLC introduces a new Hunter and three deadly new Skins:

💀 Crossroads Walker (Hunter)
🔫 Carrion’s Call (Rival 78)
🔗 Grave Filler (Conversion Chain Pistol)
🩸 Taste of Midnight (Antidote Shot)

Get Dead Man’s Cut with 10% launch discount on Steam now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/328... Read more

We’re LIVE with a gameplay live stream of Garden of the Witch!🎥

Join the Community Team as we jump into the new Event, explore Update 2.3, and hang out with chat. Plus, we’ve got giveaways running throughout the stream!

Watch now - https://twitch.tv/crytek

Hunters,

Update 2.3 and the Garden of the Witch event are now live! Below, you'll find all the details about the latest update and the event.

Happy hunting!


Garden of the Witch
Cursed nature and corrupted metal clash as new Hunters join the fray. The Bruja duo have seen their healing plants cursed and their cures fail as Corruption has poisoned the very soil. The Welders feel their minds altered and bent by the blood-soaked metal brought their way. Each fights the Corruption with their own strengths: the Brujas with organic mysticism, the Welders with industrial occult practices and fire.

Event-Exclusive Sealed Scarce Traits
Garden of the Witch introduces Event-exclusive Traits. These are selected from past... Read more

Hunters,

The Live Servers will be taken offline tomorrow, March 26, at 09:00 CET to deploy Update 2.3.

This update will also mark the launch of our latest event, Garden of the Witch!

Estimated downtime: ~3 hours.

Thanks for your patience.

Celebrate Crytek's 25th anniversary with our Steam publisher sale, going on now through April 3rd! 🎉

Get up to 60% off our Crytek Collection Bundle in addition to deep discounts featured on some of your favorite Hunt DLC and Bundles.

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Update 2.3 is almost here, bringing fresh content, balance tweaks, and important fixes!

Curious about what’s coming? Our Design Director, Dennis, walks you through all the details in the latest Developer Update video.

Hunters,

As part of Update 2.3, we’ve made a number of balance changes to equipment, Traits, and more. These changes were based on player feedback and were made to ensure gameplay was more balanced overall and that more diversity among games was encouraged. We’ve touched on the balance changes coming to Hunt in previous blogs, but we wanted to sum everything up so it’s clear what is coming in Update 2.3.

Check out the changes below!

Equipment Balances

• The Krag will now have slightly reduced extra ammo capacity (from 12 to 10) and the cost will increase to 450 Hunt Dollars, which is to encourage more arsenal variety in games. These changes go hand-in-hand with a rebalance of the Berthier and Mosin Obrez and allows slotting the new Mosin Obrez Match and Sharpeye into the Long Ammo category. The Berthier will no...

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Whispers of old magic stir in the bayou and the gulch, where the line between healing and hexing is dangerously thin.

Garden of the Witch is coming. Will you step inside?

Hunters,

As a part of our year of improvements for 2025, we have been exploring ways to better expand direct communication in our key community hubs. You may have noticed an increase in Developer Insights, and we hope that’s been as valuable for you guys as it has been for us.

The community shares a lot of valuable information with us on platforms like Reddit, Discord, Twitter, etc., and looking at how we monitor and respond to that engagement is a focus for us this year. One element of that is real-time game issues and bug reporting.

With that in mind, we are introducing Community Triage, a new initiative designed to improve the way we track and address bug reports across community channels.

Community Triage is a structured system that will help us catalogue, cross-reference, and respond to the bug reports you share, as well as ... Read more

Hunt: Showdown 1896’s big Steam spring sale is here! 🌿

The base game and all DLC are on sale now, with discounts up to 50% off! Whether you’re a veteran looking to expand your collection or a newcomer ready to step into the bayou, now’s the perfect time to jump in.

Don’t miss out - ... Read more

Dead Man’s Cut – wishlist now!

A trickster, a performer, and a master of the unknown—Crossroads Walker steps out of the shadows, bringing his deadly tools to the fight against Corruption.

Add Dead Man’s Cut to your Steam wishlist now and prepare to embrace the darkness.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3282900/Hunt_Showdown_1896__Dead_Mans_Cut/

We are thrilled to unveil Garden of the Witch, the first live in-game Event of 2025 for Hunt: Showdown 1896! The Event comes alongside the highly anticipated Update 2.3, kicking off a year of improvements, fixes, and performance updates for the game.

Step into a world where cursed nature and Corrupted metal collide as the mystical Bruja duo and the industrious Welders wage war against the Corruption, armed with their own unique powers.

The update signals a bold new direction, placing a laser focus on fixes, gameplay improvements, and quality-of-life enhancements to elevate player experience throughout the year. Prepare for a thrilling adventure and a redefined Hunt: Showdown 1896.

Garden of the Witch
Garden of the Witch sees cursed nature and Corrupted metal clash. In the story of the Bruja duo and the Welders, each group fights a... Read more

Hunters,

This weekend we’re celebrating International Women’s Day! It’s a simple fact that Hunt wouldn’t be what it is without our female Partners, players, and staff. As part of our celebrations, we’re taking the opportunity to spotlight some of the women in our community as well as some of our female Hunters.

Our Partners are a huge asset to Hunt. By providing so much visibility, feedback, and support, what they do helps hugely with our efforts to consistently push the game forward. As a thank you to the women in the Partner program, their exclusive codes will get you 50% off selected products in the Crytek store from today until March 9th (10 am CET), with a larger revenue share for your chosen streamer. Whether it’s a DLC you’ve had your eye on, or you want to get a friend into Hunt, there’s something for everyone—and you’ll be supporting the fantastic... Read more

Hunters,

Last week we shared that we had been making adjustments to matchmaking, and today we want to talk more about what those changes were and what our plans will be moving forward.

We saw that high ping players were presenting as an issue for the community regularly, and as a result we began collecting and analyzing player data around ping during matchmaking. Our goal was to investigate potential solutions, and this data allowed us to work on identifying an ideal cutoff point for "high ping" on a per-region basis. This means that we have been able to experiment with refining the matchmaking experience to ensure fairer connections for all players.

To begin with, we investigated region locking for various servers, but we found the system too easy to circumvent using a VPN.

Two weeks ago, we tried introducing a new system that w... Read more