Western-monster shooter Hunt: Showdown, developed by Crytek, pits players against each other as they try to find bounty targets in large, hostile maps.
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Despite its server issues, UI problems, and high-rank toxicity, when you look at what it gets right, Hunt: Showdown is a masterpiece.
Never understood the praise for this game. While I'm sure it feels better with mouse and keyboard, on console the controls are clunky and unsatisfying, the gameplay loop is repetitive, and you spend an inordinate amount of time in menus and loading screens. There are also like 3-4 in game currency systems, and the game is loaded with microtransactions (which of course Crytek gets a pass on because they aren't EA or Ubisoft).
The Hunt: Showdown upgrade to CryEngine 5.11 drops this Aug. 15! Players can expect "a mountain of new content" throughout summer of 2024.
Seems like optimizing has always been a year-long process with anything released under cryengine.
That being said, also, I would have been interested in this game, if they would have released it with PVE capability and Co-op,
as originally planned.
but the decision to remove it I think was a very poor short-sighted one, and why it's not doing well, they're not getting the funds to put money into it.
never underestimate the power of Co-op, games that have it sell far and above better than games that don't, when it's something that is suited to it,
and this is suited perfectly to single player and Co-op.
Shame.