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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

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.

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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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

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

The sprawling, eerie lore of Hunt: Showdown 1896 is something we hold near and dear to our larvae-riddled hearts, and we want to assure you that it will not be abandoned. As a part of the greater goal of making past content available to our players again, the first step has been focused on returning all legacy lore to the “Mythos” section of our website. You may have already noticed that the original Book of Monsters has been added, filed under “Corrupted Monsters.”

Check out Mythos on our website[www.huntshowdow... Read more

Hunters,

We rely on your feedback with every update, and the main way we take action on changes based on community response, is through feedback submitted to us via our surveys. A big thanks to those of you that have participated in surveys so far, and for those yet to take part, we encourage you to take the opportunity in future.

Many of you have requested that we discuss the results of those surveys, so today we want to go over the responses that you shared after Update 2.2.

Let’s dive into some of our key findings and the actions we are taking in response to your feedback.

Future Development Survey
We conducted a survey that focused on future developments, and the main message we took from your response was the need to focus on performance and bugs.
While some changes were already in the pipeline, survey results showe... Read more

Hunters,

Update 2.2.2 is live! Check out the full list of changes below.



Weekly Challenges:

• Updated Weekly Challenge sets.

META
The following new weapons, variants, and Custom Ammo have been incorporated into the progression system:

• Rifles
  
  • 1865 Carbine Aperture – 2nd unlock in the 1865 Carbine Family
    
  • Maynard Sniper Silencer – 2nd unlock in the Maynard Sniper Family
    
  • Krag Silencer – 4th unlock in the Krag Family
    
  • Chu Ko Nu – Bloodline Rank 1
...

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Hunters,

The Live Servers will be taken offline at 09:00 CET tomorrow, February 10, to deploy Update 2.2.2. This update will mark the conclusion of the event, introducing new weapons and consumables into the regular progression, along with several bug fixes.

Estimated downtime: ~3 hours.



Weekly Challenges:

• Updated Weekly Challenge sets.

META
The following new weapons, variants, and Custom Ammo have been incorporated into the progression system:

• Rifles
  
  • 1865 Carbine Aperture – 2nd unlock in the 1865 ...

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Hunters,

Last year we had several outstanding issues that we planned to address, but that we weren’t able roll out when we initially wanted. Today, we want to give an update on some topics that players have been expecting, letting you know where they’re at now and potentially when we think you can expect to see the improvements live.

Ping Limits

Ping discrepancies have long been a large topic among players, both within and outside of the dev team. Many of you have pointed out to us that the existing hard limits can be circumvented, leading to games that are frustrating for both parties.

We have been investigating solutions that take ping into account in the matchmaking process. The aim is to create sessions between players on roughly equal footing.

There’s a balance to be struck here, because overcorrecting ca... Read more

The Last Laugh DLC is now available!

This DLC includes everything you need to unleash chaos:

• The Hyena (Hunter)
  
• Lion’s Roar (Centennial)
  
• Banner Shot (Pax Trueshot)
  
• Warm Embrace (Concertina Bomb)

Become The Hyena today! 👉
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3282880/Hunt_Showdown_1896__The_Last_Laugh/

Back in October, we shared details of upcoming hit validation and trade window improvements that went live with Update 2.2. Since the changes have been allowed to play out in a live environment, we wanted to circle back with an overview of the results and improvements observed so far.
To recap, we adjusted the specific time limit for how long a player can still shoot or land a hit after death from 800 to 75 milliseconds. Our goal was to fine tune the system to create a fairer and more consistent ecosystem for everyone, prioritizing player reaction times over external factors like connection speed.

Now to the results:

Kill Trades VS Total Player Kills:



One of the key metrics we’ve been closely monitoring since rolling out the trade window adjustment is the percentage of kills that qualify as "Trade." A kill trade specifically occurs... Read more

It’s the start of the new year, and to celebrate we have another Twitch Drops campaign for you. If you’ve missed out on previous Drops, then now is the time to get those rewards featuring fan-favorite Hunters, such as the Kill Buyer, Billy Story, Lulu and more, as well as Skins and Charms! If you already own the featured items of the day, then we have a chunk of Hunt Dollars available to earn too.

Check out the schedule below:

January 23rd (15:00 UTC) - January 24th (15:00 UTC)
Watch any participating Hunt: Showdown 1896 streamer for 240 minutes to unlock Spare Dime (Nagant M1895 Silencer).

If you already own Spare Dime, then one of the following Skins is up for grabs and will be given at random:

• Poseidon's Whisper (Nagant M1895 Silencer)
  
• Mosquito (Nagant M1895 Silencer)
  
• R...

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Hunters,

Patch Notes for Update 2.2.1 can be found below. Happy hunting!

~ The Hunt Team



Gameplay

• Bounty Clash AI update
  
  • Removed Immolator, Hive, Meathead, and Hellhound spawns
    
  • Added Grunt spawns inside compounds
    
  • Reduced overall AI spawn rate
• Reduced the inflicted melee damage when pulling stuck projectiles out of Hunters (from 70 to 14 for upper torso)
  
  • The amount of damage to other body parts differs based on hit location, but is generally even lower
    
  • While much reduced in effectiveness, the Blademancer Trait may still help finish off Hunters that are very low on health
  ...

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Hunters, 
 
The Live Servers will be taken offline tomorrow, January 22nd to deploy Update 2.2.1. This Update brings a number of bug fixes as well as improvements to the VOIP system. See the full list of details below.

Estimated downtime: ~4 hours.



Gameplay

• Bounty Clash AI update
  
  • Removed Immolator, Hive, Meathead, and Hellhound spawns
    
  • Added Grunt spawns inside compounds
    
  • Reduced overall AI spawn rate
• Reduced the inflicted melee damage when pulling stuck projectiles out of Hunters (from 70 to 14 for upper torso)
  
  • The amount of damage to other body parts differs based on hit location, but is gener...

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Happy new year, Hunters!

To kick off 2025, we wanted to share a little more insight into what we have planned for the start of the year. We will be beginning by focusing on quality-of-life improvements and bug fixing as we look to improve the overall gameplay experience of Hunt. New events will be coming, but the core of these updates will center around performance improvements rather than tons of new content.

We have looked at some of the most severe bugs that currently exist, along with some of the most frequently reported, and more. While this is far from an exhaustive list of everything coming, here’s a brief list of just some of key fixes that you can expect for early 2025:

Gameplay Bugs

• Fixed various crashes and freezes that occasionally occurred during gameplay, as well as when loading in and out of a ...

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Surprise! Double Event Points Weekend has arrived!

For one weekend only, the travelling circus ups the ante with Double EP across all game modes so you can grab our most popular ever Battle Pass rewards.

Available from December 20th 7:00 UTC to 22nd 22:59 UTC.

Happy hunting!

Hunters,

Update 2.2.0.1 is live! Check out the full list of changes below.

• Fixed multiple crashes and freezes that occurred rarely and had a very low reproduction rate
  
• Fixed an issue when the party host extracts, other members get disconnected prematurely before the timer runs out
  
• Fixed an issue where the "Hex Breaker" hands did not glow when using the dark sight boost
  
• Fixed an issue where the ear ringing effect remained indefinitely after extraction, only resetting when entering the next mission and firing a weapon
  
• Fixed an issue where using Shadow Leap and dying causes Hunter health to continue draining after being revived
  
• Fixed a...

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Hunters, 
 
The Live Servers will be taken offline Tomorrow, December 19 at 09:00 CET to deploy Update 2.2.0.1. This update includes fixes for bugs that appeared after Update 2.2, as well as balancing changes to the Shredder. You can find the full list of patch notes below.

Thanks for your patience.

Est. Downtime ~3 hours.

• Fixed multiple crashes and freezes that occurred rarely and had a very low reproduction rate
  
• Fixed an issue when the party host extracts, other members get disconnected prematurely before the timer runs out
  
• Fixed an issue where the "Hex Breaker" hands did not glow when using the dark sight boost
  
• Fixed an issue where the ear ringing ...

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