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Additional Info:

As this update is mainly focused on matchmaking changes we have only one region available (US East) to have the most players in the same region. We will use the telemetry generated by your matchmaking attempts to validate the changes introduced.



Matchmaking Improvements
Skill-based matchmaking

An option “Skill-based” has been added to the lobby screen. When enabled, this option will match you exclusively with players in your assigned skill bracket. Please be aware that selecting this option can result in fewer players in your match.

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We will reward players who play on Test today (26.10) from the update until 23:59 CEST!

• 100 Blood Bonds for 1 Hour of Bounty Hunt played during the above timeframe,
  
• Bloodbonds will be delivered to the players with the Live release.

• Fixed an issue where wrong lobby screen was selected / displayed on game start up.
  
• Fixed an issue where the control scheme got changed from Hunter to Gunslinger for returning users.

~The Hunt Team

Gunplay
Frag Bomb

• Adjusted damage falloff resulting in higher chances of survival towards the range limit.
  
• Shrapnels that reach players behind full cover only apply Intense Bleeding and no actual health damage.

General

• Consecutive shots will now correctly cancel and prevent sprinting for a very short time in order to prevent "run and gun" exploits.
  
• Entering Dark Sight now follows the same rules as switching equipment in order to pre...

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Gunplay

• Overall, weapons should blend nicer again and feel more responsive, as the transitions after swapping weapons have been smoothed out a bit.
  • However, some weapons might still feel a bit clunkier compared to before, as there was zero delay when swapping, and now there will always be a bit at least to ensure the shooting animation, and recoil are not skipped before the swap action is completed.
    
  • Weapons with Marksman and Sniper scopes, as well as powerful weapons in general will be affected by this more noticeably than others.
• Slightly increased the rate of fire for the LeMat Mark II revolver.
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Hunters,

We will reward players who play on Test today (05.10) from the update until 23:59 CEST!

• 100 Blood Bonds for 1 Hour of Bounty Hunt played during the above timeframe,
  
• Bloodbonds will be delivered to the players with the Live release.

• Fixed an issue where players were able to "Run and Gun" using rapid-fire weapons.
  
• First set of improvements made to the Quick Swap changes.
  • Pistol sway now only occurs after a weapon switch.
    
  • Pistol sway duration has been reduced from 3 to 2 seconds after entering ADS.

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New Weapon Variant
Winfield M1873C Vandal Striker

• Variant of the shortened Winfield Vandal.
  
• The knife attached to its barrel can be used for both heavy and light melee attacks.

New Legendary Weapons
Martini Henry Marksman "Oberon's Hound"

• Martini-Henry IC1 Marksman

Description: "Named for a most fearsome and relentless hunter of the wood, in a bygone time this rifle won its renown taking down the prey etched on its receiver: egret, doe, buck, and bear. Now, this Martini-Henry IC1 Marksman sights itself on bigger, deadlier prizes. "

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Store

• Reduce the cost of the Gator Leg trait to 2 Hunter Points.
  
• Reduce the cost of the Heavy Knife to 25 Dollars.

General

• Fixed an issue where Hunters equipped with dual wield weapons had the wrong pose in the menu and weapons were not attached to the model's hands.
  
• Fixed an issue where some Hunters could not be burned.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Dauntless trait would works through walls.

Audio

• Fixed a bug w...

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General

• Fixed an issue where hunters caught on fire too easily after they had recovered from fire damage already.

~The Hunt Team

Spectator Mode

• Enabled the option to spectate other teams in Bounty Hunt missions, after Player's own team had been completely wiped.

Golden Cash Register

• Reduced the chances of the Golden Cash Registers appearing, but increased the amount of Blood Bonds provided by them from 25 to 50.

Performance - Stutter We have been investigating the cause of stutter with some of the community member who has been kindly sending us profiling captures. In the reported cases, we found that the issue was caused by the graphics card video memory, where the card ran out of available VRAM.

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Hunters,

Welcome to the Test Servers for Update 1.4.3!
As always, feel free to reach out to us and tell us how you feel about the upcoming changes.

Please take your time and read the changelog below.



New Weapon Variants

• Winfield M1873C Vandal
  
• Winfield M1873C Vandal Deadeye

The Vandals are shortened Winfield M1873 C variants with 1 less bullet and only medium size. They can still be used for levering.

Developer Notes:
Why Vandal and not Mare's Leg? Mare’s Leg is an anachronistic name for 1895, a name which came into use in 1958. So while we took inspiration from the mo... Read more

Hunters,

We will reward players who play on Sunday (26.07) from 18:00 to 21:00 CEST!

• 100 Blood Bonds for 30 min of Bounty Hunt played during the above timeframe
  
• Bloodbonds will be delivered to the players the following week

We are heavily investigating issues most known as the "ghost bug" meaning that a player is stuck on server side, but can move and in some cases interact with items. We would like to ask players that frequently experienc this on the Live servers to join our test servers.

If the issue occurs during testing, we would like to ask users to reach out to us and send their Game.log file, found in Hunt (Test server)'s ... Read more

New Legendary Content
"LeMonnier's Kit"

• First Aid Kit
  
• Description: "Dr. LeMonnier was fatefully suspicious of Huff’s actions in the asylum, and though this First Aid Kit can stem heavy bleeding, it could not stop the pinprick injection that transformed him into another experiment."

"Steel Eye"

• Spyglass
  
• Description: "The determined pursuit of one’s goals requires a clarity of ambition. Those with a headstrong mentality - said to be steely-eyed - see their targets clearly with this looking glass."

"Rising Sun"

• Flare Pistol
  
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To encourage participation on the Test Server we are going to award 100 Blood Bonds to players. The Blood Bonds will be distributed for playing at least 20 minutes on Wednesday 24/06 between 21:00 and 23:00 CEST (19:00 to 21:00 UTC).

• Balancing pass on some of the Trials challenges.

• Fixed a bug where player got kicked from group with a 0x20007 crylcoud error.
  
• Fixed an issue where ammo box spawns were missing in some cases.
  
• Fixed a bug where the reward text wa...

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To encourage participation on the Test Server we are going to award 100 Blood Bonds to players. The Blood Bonds will be distributed for playing at least 20 minutes on Tuesday 23/06 between 20:00 and 22:00 CEST (18:00 to 20:00 UTC).



Gunplay

• Increased the recoil of the LeMat's secondary shotgun fire mode.

• Fixed an issue that caused the Crossbow to deal less damage than intended.
  
• Fixed several animation issues when using Dual Wielded weapons.
  
• F...

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Dual Wielding – Double the gun, double the fun. This Update brings the long-awaited Dual Wielding feature, available when using two identical handguns.

Trials Mode – You have asked, and we listened! We are happy to introduce the first iteration of our PVE mode – Trials! Explore the maps, complete difficult challenges, and collect Trial Stars for exclusive rewards.

New Legendaries – The update brings three shiny new Legendaries as well as two other exclusively unlockable with the Trials Mode!


Dual Wielding
Dual Wielding Handguns is a new and exciting feature in Hunt:Showdown, allowing players to equip and use two handguns at t... Read more

To encourage participation on the Test Server we are going to award 200 Blood Bonds for players. The Blood Bonds will be distributed as follow:

• 100 Blood Bonds for playing at least 20 minutes (it can be across multiple games) on Saturday between 20:00 and 22:00 CEST (18:00 to 20:00 UTC).
  
• 100 Blood Bonds for playing at least 20 minutes (it can be across multiple games) on Sunday between 20:00 and 22:00 CEST (18:00 to 20:00 UTC).

UI

• Due to a bug the ammo count is removed from the weapon pick up screen.

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Gunplay Frag Bomb

• Reduced damage from 200 to 150.
  
• Now deals Intense Rending Damage (Causes Intense Bleeding).

Developer Note:
This change will slightly increase the chance for players to survive with severe injuries at the edge of the frag bombs explosion radius.


Damage Intensities

• Slightly adjusted and normalized the damage over time received from Bleeding.
  
  • Light Bleeding is now 50% weaker than Medium Bleeding.
    
  • Medium Bleeding is equal to what players are used to from before this Update.
    
  • Intense Bl...

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Different Intensities for Damage Effects – Update 1.4 rewrites everything you know about burning, bleeding or poison, with new rules and intensities for each damage type.

New Equipment – The update brings some new toys to play with. Now you can poison your careless foes using the brand new Poison Trip Mine tool and as for the careful Hunters, the Serpent trait has been added, allowing the interaction with clues, rifts and abandoned bounties from afar when using dark sight.

New Legendaries – We have introduced many new Legendary weapons including the runners up in our 2nd anniversary weapon skin contest as well as a Hunter! Make sure to check them out.

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(Please note: We currently only have US East and Oceania regions available for testing.)



Audio

• Decoy Fuses now play a tiny explosion sound when they explode.

UI Death Screen:

• Improved and added text transition to the Death Screen for an overall smoother transition.
  
• The Detail button is now a toggle, similarly to the Damage history button.

General

• Fixed some client crashes.
  
• Fixed cases when player could get nothing from...

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Audio

• Ear ringing effect is now correctly applied to Legendary weapons as intended.

Gameplay

• The Nitro Express Rifle has been tweaked to be in line with the previously made consistency adjustments, in order to prevent quick scoping like in previous test server update.
  
• Fixed an issue that could prevent players from receiving rewards when using a Item box.

UI New Death Screen Improvements

• Overall improvements made with the removal of several not-needed texts.
  
• The graveyard background has a much grittier look now.
  
• The death screen blends in much smoother and pr...

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